School Heads Hold Wartime Conference On Rationing Effects
College Park Md July conference brings superintendents principals and supervisors to discuss wartime rationing and other problems in high schools and colleges Officials from the Office of Price Administration join sessions at the University of Maryland with lectures by Dr H G Buri Dr Alvin Burich Morris Sanders and Ralph Nugent Topics include school related impacts of rationing materials and methods for wartime consumer education and plans for high school college relations and manpower requirements.
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College Park
Office of Price Administration
University of Maryland
Ofte of Price Administration
H. G. Buri
Alvin Burich
OPA
Morris Sanders
Consumer Products
Ralph Nugent
Consumer Acquirement
James Mandenhall
The
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Civil Aeronautics Authority
Ben B Wood
Columbia University
Joint Advisory Committee On Aviation Education
Bruce Uthus
Assistant Secretary of Commerce
Capt. Gill
Rohl Wilson
National Aeronautics Association
Maryland
Earle T. Hawkins
Earl Bigelow
Teachers Education Commission
Wilford M. Aiken
New York
Progressive Education Association
Association
Harry A. Jager
Division of
Occupational Information and Guidance Service
U. S. Office of Education
Arnold E. Joyal
College of Education
Local Soldiers Begin Army Recruit Drill at Keesler Field
Eleven men from Hagerstown have started training at Keesler Field the Army Air Forces Technical School. The program includes marching target practice and bayonet drills. Names include Geo Virts Robi Forrest Arthur Fiorio Harry Stickler Chas Sweeney Michael Suranno Harry Straur Donald Jackson Brandell Staller Charles Jackson and Elmer Jackson.
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Hagerstown
Keesler Field
Army Air Force
Geo
William Virts
G. M. Virts
South Potomac Street
Robi
E. Forrest
Omar
Forrest
South Cannon Avenue
Arthur C. Fiorio
Camifie Fiorio
West Washington Street
Harry J. Stickler
Howard Stickler
Ross Hill Avenue
Chas. W. Sweeney
William T. Sweeney
Liberty Street
Michael Anthony Suranno
Anthony Suranno
North Locust Street
Harry W. Straur
Straur
New Maryland Penal Farm Prison Near Roxbury Feels Like Small City
The $2,000,000 Maryland State Penal Farm near Roxbury operates as a self contained community with its own power plant and laundry. It houses 300 beds but currently holds 309 to 400 inmates and features a hospital, tuberculosis unit, chapel, auditorium, gym, and classrooms. Inmates run the thousand acre farm providing meat and vegetables, while the facility emphasizes reform and low escape rates.
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Maryland
Roxbury
Washington County
Thousand Acre
Agricultural College
Washington County Hospital
Elmer St. Clairs Maxwell
State Penitentiary
House of Correction
Willis R. Jones
Board of Correction
Houses of Correction
Penal Farm
Robert P. Conrad
Quiet Fourth Observed in Washington County
Washington county observed a unusually quiet Fourth of July with no fireworks and few vehicles due to rationing. Civil defense officials remained alert for possible enemy action as War Department orders restricted large gatherings and displays. Flags lined streets while residents helped with war materials and civil defense duties under a national resolve.
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Washington County
Une
War Department
Novelties At Band Concert Sunday In City Park
The Municipal Band staged a novelty program titled Mythical Radio Movie with Uncle Tom's Cabin as the skit. Conductor Dr Peter Buys led solos by W H Nichols A L Baltzley H Hoch and E M Minnich in Putmans Two Pairs of Slippers. The program opened with Liberty Bell and featured A Festival in Aranjuez and Memories of Stephen Foster among other pieces. Citizens are urged to submit concert suggestions to the conductor as the band remains a central Hagerstown activity.
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Shell
City Park
A.W. Seigman
Eva
Sousa
Aranjuez
Peter Buys
W. H. Nichols
A. L. Baltzley
H. Hoch
E. M. Minnich
Putman
Stephen Foster
Texas
Hagerstown
Buys
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Dawson Horme
Negley Building
Hageratown
New State Penal Farm
Tom Floyd
Army
Navy
Marines
Coast Guard
VOGUE
Rocco Terrone
His Orchestra
Vanderbilt
Vincent Padula
Lee Barton Evans
Medinah Club
Chicago
Bob Geld
Hotel Colonial
Oxfords
Ryton
Casa Amd
Cres
Washington St
de Pree
Eulyues
Are-Waya
Hi-Bowa
Municipal
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Slacks
GU H Mead
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