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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1944
Page
4
Street construction and maintenance in Hagerstown for 1943 totaled 183,598.23 dollars, reported by Street Superintendent Charles W. Stump to the Board of Street Commissioners. The summer program for rebuilding and resurfacing ran 34,210 dollars, per Stump in the annual report. The biggest project followed.
Rebuilding West Washington street between Summit and Summer costs 17096 with patching and resurfacing at 52330 in 1948. Street sweeping 10390 and ice snow removal 2636. 40806 square yards asphalt used. Underway Hamilton Park sewer 2677 feet laid for 16126 and municipal light plant dam at 30706.50. Last year completed Cleveland avenue sewers Maple avenue water line sludge beds storm drains and other items costing 21447.09.
Grason Doornberger and John E. Rohrer were authorized to wear the five year gold wreath on their uniforms by the Board of Street Commissioners after completing five years on the force. The report notes Africa accounts for more than forty percent of the world’s gold production.
A 60 minute pageant titled A White Christmas in the Far North has run 105 times for 1,500 attendees from towns including Boonsboro Sharpsburg Smithsburg Waynesboro Greencastle Hancock Hagerstown and others. Vivid lighting and the display of everyday life scenes with music and a Criterion music box impress visitors as the Christmas story unfolds. The exhibit is expected to close February 1.
A brief health notice urges readers to use Penetro Nose Drops only as directed to relieve head cold symptoms and warns against improper use. The advisory emphasizes following labeling instructions and cautions against self diagnosis.
The Rev. Luther L. Hare invites visitors to view the parsonage each night from 6 to midnight and Sundays 1 to 7 and 9 to midnight. The home is in Clear Spring, one block south of Route 40, adjacent to the Lutheran Church.
The Bennett family in South Orange, New Jersey awaits word on war correspondent Lowell Bennett reported missing after a Flying Fortress raid on Berlin. Officials say he became a prisoner in Germany before an SN story revealed he escaped and is wandering Nazi Europe.
Walter Sondheim Jr., assistant State Director of the War Manpower Commission and Maryland Director of the U S Employment Service, resigns to accept a Naval commission. He will train as a junior grade lieutenant at Fort Schuyler, N Y, as Grafton Lee Brown becomes WMC field supervisor and Miss Lizabeth Mulholland acts as USES director.
Washington dispatch reports Green Stamps K L and M will cover purchasing processed foods from February 1 to March 20, the last such green series. With ration tokens starting February 27, blue stamps will also be valid until March 20, and tokens issued as change aim to reduce confusion. Green stamps retain 8 5 2 and 1 point values while blue stamps use a uniform 10 point value.
Crop experts discount the drought effect on the corn belt noting sub normal rains but urging that the impact would be greater if it hit at a different time. They stress corn and oats are most affected, with winter wheat already in ground and least impacted.
Local Board No. 2 lists inductees for January 14 in Army and Navy programs. Names include Elvin Duvall Betts, Cletus Omer Anderson, Charles William Loveless, George Frederic Happel, Ralph Edward Bowers, Robert Clarence Hareford, Lawrence Mark Boward, Charles Washington Johnson, and others for Army. Navy selections include Joseph Raymond Berkenbaugh, Lewis Jendershot, Howard Chaney, Richard Anderson, Marshall Grant Mellett, Joseph Edward Longnecker, Hollis Elmer Barnes, Irwin Jobo Guth, David Kyd Sanbotwer, Albert John Mikus, Marvin Joseph Herbst.
In Knoxville on a raw winter day attorneys John W. Green near 85 and James A. Fowler near 81 visited a downtown law office and noted they had no business outside. Across the street 88 year old Hu Barton Lindsay stood in the rain and marveled at aging colleagues braving winter. Cuba has produced as much as a million pounds of sugar in one year.
Pat O’Brien and Ruth Warrick star in RKO Radio’s The Iron Major, recounting Frank Cava maugh’s life as a famed World War I football hero, with the film premiering tomorrow at the Maryland Theatre after a run at Henry’s Theatre. Humphrey Bogart shines again following Casablanca in Sahara, closing at Columbia today. Stump Jr heads to the American Road Builders Association convention in Chicago February 1 2 3. Venomous snakes are found within the Arctic Circle.
An advertisement promotes Creomulsion as a potent remedy for chronic bronchitis and acute coughs, claiming it reaches the source of trouble to loosen phlegm and soothe inflamed bronchial membranes. It markets beechwood creosote blend with non narcotic ingredients and offers a money back guarantee if it does not quickly ease the cough and restore sleep.
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