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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1950
Page
4
Fragmented OCR of a local newspaper header shows subscription rates and postal notices. It mentions Hagerstown, second class mail status, and carrier delivery terms with monthly and yearly prices. The readable elements signal a community paper with standard notices and circulation details.
President Truman keeps Paul Herzog as National Labor Relations Board chair, nominating him for a new five year term. Herzog, 44, has served in public labor relations since 1933 and is praised for impartiality, experience, and his steady leadership through Taft Hartley era.
Readers are told that a Senate committee led by Millard F. Tydings branded Senator Joe McCarthy's smear campaigns a fraud and hoax. Three heavy envelopes of propaganda arrived unsolicited to newspapers, mailed first class at reporters’ expense, highlighting the public burden of funding political messaging.
Washington column highlights John E. Peurifoy’s praised rapport with Congress as he moves from State official to Ambassador to Greece with lucrative pay, alongside light sketches of diplomats and policy notes on peace petitions, UMT revival, anti hoarding, and credit controls amid postwar tensions.
Washington August 7. Marlow explains army pay scales from private to general, detailing flat pay ranges, three service groups, and monthly allowances. Pay varies by rank and length of service, with different provisions for single and married personnel and government food provisions to most ranks.
HAL BOYLE’s dispatch from Korea portrays refugees clogging dusty roads as American troops advance. He paints a grim tableau of mothers carrying belongings, children and elders, a landscape of hunger, fear, and endurance amid artillery and flight. A blind old man becomes a somber emblem of humanity’s suffering and resilience.
A poem about a young boy who performs for family but is shy or resistant around guests. The child’s actions range from tricks to thumb-sucking, with the mother and parson receiving the creative timing for his displays. The piece laments the boy’s quiet singing and the mixed reactions of those present.
An article warns of poison ivy and oak causing severe dermatitis, detailing exposure risks to hands, arms, legs, and face. It describes symptoms, spreading, and home treatment with washing, soaks, and calamine. It notes solvents to remove oils, clothing cleaning, and cautions about lingering plant oils on objects. It also mentions remedies, antiseptics, and cautions about preventative steps and future study.
Jottings from yesteryears recalls a Crawford car manufactured locally among 33 entries in the Munsey Historic Automobile Tour. Williamsport and Waynesboro sportsmen plan to erect a large clubhouse near the culvert by Wines below Williamsport and occupy it at summer’s end, highlighting local clubs and events of the period.
Ten years ago the region faced record heat and severe drought as officials urged residents to avoid lawn watering and conserve water for essential needs. KD County noted the hottest spot in the nation at 108 degrees as pastors prayed for relief while drought hindered moonshine operations. A fire at Hagerstown Dairy damaged the facility and adjacent paint shop, with losses near $22,000.
A local note explains hypertrophic lipping and arthritis are not the same, noting lipping as edge thickening forming a lip like protuberance. Oak Hill Knolls residents petition city officials for police protection in the northwest town section, led by J Christian Monath of the Oak Hill Knolls Improvement Association.
A reader asks if cataracts can be prevented in a misaccepted family line, and another writes about a running ear in a one and a half year old child with nightly drainage and itching, noting infection as a common cause pending examination to identify the source.
A light column pokes fun at an Ohio newlywed who saved 200 love letters with X marks flagging his kissed freedom. It notes women keeping hats on, says children aren’t as well trained as 30 years ago, and jokes about parents dozing and grasshoppers becoming the first pests, wrecking lawns.
Farmers warned of ongoing tomato blight with risk to county crops. University of Maryland plant pathologist G. Weaver will survey the area Wednesday after blight was found near Cavetown. Eastern Shore losses loom if the disease spreads. weekly inspections urged.
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