Price Adinistration raises frozen foods point values
The Office of Price Administration announced August blue stamps good through September 20, overlapping the next month’s stamps by three weeks. Frozen fruit and vegetable point values rose from 2 to 7 per pound. canned tomato juice up one cent per pound. some items like dried beans and corn increased, while others dropped. The change aims to clear space for the 1943 crop and curb rushes before expiration.
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Washington
Office of
Price Adinistration
Augusta
Re-Examined Psychoneurosis Cases Stir Draft Concerns
A House Military Sub-Committee announced a nationwide study of draft board classifications citing feigned symptoms of incapacity to dodge service. Ward officials note eight percent of rejections stem from mental defects and forty percent of those from psychoneurosis, a condition easily feigned, with possible reexaminations of deferred men.
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Washington
House
Dodge Milltary
Tian Fetatoas
Ins Teason
Governors Discuss Interstate Farm Labor Plan
Five Southern governors met in Washington to study a coordinated plan for recruiting migrant farm workers. Proposals include using government agencies to prevent pirate recruiting, designating recruitment areas, and a standard procedure for mobilizing interstate labor through state or federal agencies. The plan targets crops on the Eastern Shore and other Maryland counties with peak needs in August and September.
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Maryland
Herbert HR O Corer
North
Sowh
Alsa
Virgin West
Virgin
O Conor
United States Employment Service
State Extension Service
Governors Office
Anachor
TEC Uil Wei
Conor J
Marylands
Conor
Paul Nystrom
University of Maryland
Dorchester
Caroline Counries
Baltimore
Nestram
Residents offer $2,000 for Prices Distillery to Centerville road
Before the County Commissioners and Roads Engineer Roger H Willard seven residents from Prices Distillery proposed a $2000 contribution to build an improved 2.4 mile road to Centerville. They offered to clear hedge rows and assist with construction as approved by the County Roads Board. Officials said the proposal will be considered next week with a plan to start work this year and finish next year.
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Roger H Willard Tursday
Prices Distillery
Centerville
County Roads Board
Roads Board
Project cost remains undetermined in report
The document notes the total cost of the project was not determined. It lists deletions including Thomas McDonough Ralph Burgee Dorsey Lawson Harry Burdette Charles Murphy Fred Keller and Frank Addison.
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Thomas McDonough
Ralph Burgee
Dorsey Lawson
Harry Burdette
Charles Murphy
Fred Keller
Frank Addison
Baltimore Veteran Voices on Parachute Killings in War
Baltimore veteran Lieut Pulham Burnett discusses German reprisals against Allied airmen who parachuted from destroyed planes. He notes some Germans justify executions while French and Dutch efforts to protect pilots persist. Burnett, decorated with the Flying Cross and Air Medal, teaches pilots in training. Also reported are officeholders and officers elected at a Germantown Missionary Convention and the election of church officials including Mrs Gonso as the first woman presiding officer.
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Baltimore
Pulham Burnett
Baltmottan
Ned
Europe
Ballymore Sun
ofRvereal
Eueye Ba
Burnett
United States
The
Churches of God
Germantown
Gonsons
Clatere
Hagerstown
Lemore Sullivan
Frizzleburg, Md
New Thurnont inducted draftees begin Camp Lee basic training
Three inductees from Thurmont reported to Camp Lee Virginia as part of the Fury quota fulfilled by Frederick County Draft Board No 2. James C Few Jr Sherman Q Lewis Clyde R Boller and Carl Stine Roule 2 Freder ick are shipping out to start basic aim training this week.
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Thurmont
Camp Lee
Frederick County
James C Few Jr
Sherman Q Lewis
Clyde R Boller
Carl Stine
Frederick
Church leader elected Sunday School president in Martinburg
Mrs. Hilda Gonso wife of Rev J H Gonso co-pastor of First Church of God in this city was elected president of the Sunday School Christian Endeavor movement July 27 in Martinburg West Virginia.
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G&olf Martinbourg
W. Va
Hilda Gonso
J. H Gonso
First Church of God
This City
Christian Endeavor
Spellman Leaves Pretoria for Unrevealed Destination
Archbishop Franc J. Spellman of New York departed Pretoria Union of South Africa on July 27 for an undisclosed destination. Premier Jan Christiaan Smuts reportedly met with spellman before his departure.
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Pretoria
Union of South Africa
Franc J. Spellman
New York
Peterson's Ointment Ad Promises Quick Pile Relief
An advertisement touts Peterson's Ointment as a fast relief for pile torture. It urges immediate use with a cooling soothing formula trusted for 30 years and offers a 35 cent box or 60 cent tube with applicator and a money back guarantee.
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Peterson
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