School Addition Given Approval by County Officials
County Commissioners yesterday approved a school expansion plan for Washington street, enabling the School Board to proceed with the project. Norman Earley bid the Washington street addition at 359,968, with more contracts to follow for wiring, plumbing, and heating. Construction may start after preparations and future contracts for the North Street Colored School become due.
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Board of Education
Washington Street
Eldridge
Fun's
Washington County
Norman Earley
North Street
Newsprint Controls Ended by December Thirty-First
Washington reports newsprint controls will end December 31 with inventory restraints still in place. Civilian Production Administrator John D. Small cites recommendations from newspaper and industry committees and last November’s American Newspaper Publishers Association statement. Government restrictions on newsprint use will be lifted, though stockpile limits remain. Newsprint rationing began January 1, 1943 due to global shortages, capping publishers at a percentage of 1941 usage.
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Washington
John D. Small
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Newspaper Industry “Advisory Committee
Borea’ Congressional Committee
Small
OPA
Ten Local Sailors Released By Navy
Ten local sailors from Hagerstown and Washington County return to civilian life after honorable discharge from the U S Navy at Bainbridge separation center. Names include Ambrose, Swain, Greenfield, Sobotov, Shaw, Moore, Barnes, Snyder, Shifflett, and Zimmerly with ranks and addresses listed.
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Hagerstown
Washington County
United States Navy
Bainbridge
Raymond George Ambrose
West Church Street
Leonard N. Swain
South Potomac Street
William David Greenfield
Locust Street
John Joseph Sobotov
South Walnut Street
Harold H. Shaw
Hancock
Fred Lewis Moore
Cascade
John E. Barnes
Maryland Avenue
John A. Snyder
Mt. Etna Road
Dennis R. Shifflett
John F. Zimmerly
Williamsport
Fairchild Packet Leaves For Alaska
A Fairchild Packet has left this city on the first leg of a trip to Fairbanks Alaska where two cargo planes are to undergo rigid cold weather testing. Another Packet will leave for an Alaskan field where one ship will be tested experimentally while the other undergoes service tests.
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Fairchild
Fairbanks
Alaska
Saved By Kindness and Milk of Human Kindness
Susan Peter Petersen, five months old, daughter of Pfc and Mrs Jack Petersen of Long Beach California, owed her life to human milk provided by sympathetic mothers during a diet ailment that prevented her from digesting animal milk. Doctors used the donated milk to stave starvation.
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Sana Cane
Susan Petersen
Pfc
Jack Petersen
Long Beach
Calif
Public Initiation Planned By Legion
Morris Frock Post of the American Legion schedules a public initiation for up to 500 candidates at the State Armory on January 10 at 8 p m. Fred M. Frasier of Washington as principal speaker, with Department Commander Joseph Cantrel and other officers attending. A degree team led by Howard Mowen and others conducts the ceremony, followed by a dance and refreshments.
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Morris Frock Post
American Legion
State Armory
Fred M. Frasier
Washington
District of Columbia
Joseph Cantrel
Samuel Cohen
Howard Mowen
C. L. Stine
C. L. Mobley
H. M. Garrison
Richard Stonebraker
Oscar Eccard
Struck By Auto Injures Young Girl On Oak Hill Avenue
Nancy Smith aged 10 was struck by a car in an alley off Oak Hill Avenue. Patrolmen Rohrer and Blenard said she jumped from a hedge fence into the vehicle driven by M. J. Stoner of 800 block Hamilton Boulevard. She was taken to the hospital with a possible nose fracture and facial cuts.
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Nancy Smith
Oak Hill Avenue
Rohrer
Blenard
M. J. Stoner
Hamilton Boulevard
Miss Smith
Union Receives Labor Dept Praise in Ford Talks
Detroit December letter from a Labor Department official praised the CIO UAW for its attitude in wage talks with Ford Motor Company. The union seeks a 30 percent raise and a positive national reaction was noted, with the official hoping for a "rabbit out of the hat" in the Ford situation addressed to Richard Leonard, Ford director.
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Detroit
CIO
United Automobile Workers Union
U. S. Department of Labor
Ford Motor Company
Labor Department
Ford
Schwellenbach
Uaw-Cio
Richard T. Leonard
High wire fence blocks bridge risk. man deterred by patrol
In Pasadena a tall fence was erected on the Colorado Street Bridge to avert a personal crisis. A patrolman found a would be jumper at the span's highest point with wire clippers, and the man agreed to go home. The report mentions Mary Queen of Scots and Lord Darnley as contextual history.
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Pasadena
Calif
Colorado Street
Mary Queen of Scots
Lord Darnley
Woman appeals for return of pet dog Waggie
Mrs. William E. Denniss of Orange California asks local draft headquarters to help recover her five year old cocker spaniel Waggie. She says the dog disappeared while she and her husband were away and surfaced at a prisoner of war camp at Romona Fairgrounds. A registrant formerly stationed there is questioned. the dog’s return is urged when final discharge occurs.
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William E. Denniss
Orange, Cal
William A. Tobias
Pennsylvania
More Pork Expected For 1946 Spring Crop Rise
Washington reports the 1946 spring pig crop will be about two percent larger than this year, signaling a better pork supply for next winter. The Agriculture Department issued the forecast amid expectations of healthier market availability. Snowflake patterns are preserved now by a plastic process.
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Ment
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