OPS Measures Meat Price Probe Nationwide
The Office of Price Stabilization launched an aggressive nationwide probe into meat prices to check compliance with ceilings. Edward P. Morgan announced enforcement will target packers wholesalers and non slaughtering processors amid complaints of three to five cents per pound above base period prices.
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Washington
Office of Price Stabilization
Edward P. Morgan
OPS
Enforcement
Morgan
Untey
Westminster Granting Absolute Divorce Name Recovered Shipley Case
In Carroll County Circuit Court Ethel V of Westminster was granted an absolute divorce from Theodore Tolly Shipley of Sykesville on February 28. The case titled Ethel V v Shipley concluded with the divorce decree.
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Westminster
Ethel V v. Shipley
Sykesville
Theodore Tolly Shipley
Carroll County
Possible call of two National Guard divisions to service
Washington reports Gen. Lawton Collins says two additional Guard divisions may be called into federal service this year while six divisions are already in active duty. Two units, the 40th California and 45th Oklahoma, will depart next month for Japan. Collins notes no firm plan for more calls, but private discussions with the committee are possible. He backs a 18 year induction option and warns it may rise to 4,000,000 in six months. He praises the National Guard's peacetime strength and pledges no 18 year olds overseas unless necessary.
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Washington
National Guard
Lawton Collins
Army
California
Oklahoma
Japan
Collins
House Armed Service Committee
Rep
Vinson
D-Ga
Senate
Pentagon
National Guard Faces Strain Over Equipment and Policy
Rep Van Zandt questioned claims of Guard raids as trucks and cab planes were shifted to the Army to keep combat units prepared. Maj Gen Milton Reckord accused the Regular Army of trying to destroy the Guard, saying guard officers’ proposals were ignored and Pentagon committees to study Guard issues might be abolished.
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Rep
van Zandt
R-Pa
National Guard
Collins
Reckford
Washington
Milton A. Reckord
Maryland
Adjutant Generals’ Association
J. Lawton Callins
Army
Reckord
Pentagon
Dangers Of Swimming In Storms Highlight Lightning Risk
Swimmers are warned against entering the water during lightning and thunder storms as water can carry a bolt's stray electrical charge. A person could be electrocuted even if the strike is distant from the swimmer.
Veterans Affairs cancels order to close 321 offices
Washington February 2044 Veterans Administrator Carl R Gray announced the cancellation of a plan to close 321 bee one man contact offices on April 1 only 74 offices will close now with no final list. He had said on January 30 that 321 offices with a single contact representative would shut due to budget limits. Gray appealed to the American Legion for help in staffing veterans hospitals noting two new facilities ready last fall remain closed for lack of personnel Beckley West Virginia may open this week and Clarksburg West Virginia within ten days. He opposed building new hospitals.
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Washington
Carl R. Gray
Gray
American Legion
Beckley
W. Va
Clarksburg
Shortage of doctors and nurses halts five VA hospital projects
Gray criticized inaction on five planned VA hospital projects in Washington DC Cleveland San Francisco and Los Angeles. The report notes the Amazon River length at 2900 miles and covers the Monocacy Valley Supervisors meeting at the Francis Scott Key House where Clinton M. Rhoades and Edward O. Storm spoke on life in foreign countries and Russia during the last war.
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Gray
Washington, D. C
Cleveland, O
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Supervisors
Monocacy Vvalley Association
Francis Scott Key House
Clinton M. Rhoades
Edward O. Storm
Russia
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