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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1944
Page
3
The Exhausted Roosters of Hagerstown held their organizational meeting at Hotel Alexander with Hugh George presiding. The group, part of a national Jaycee continuation, will recruit about 35 former local Jaycees past the age limit to plan welfare efforts for the city.
The Cavetown Homemakers Club held its annual picnic Friday evening July 7 on the lawn of Mrs. Joseph Gardenhour in Smithsburg. A 6130 picnic supper followed by games and group singing. Attendees included many local residents and families.
Apply castor oil to tired feet and wear small white cotton socks with drawstrings threaded through the cuffs to hold them in place.
Soldiers receive letters and updates on overseas stations as families share addresses and promotions. Cpl. Montell Burgess earns sergeant rank while Private First Class Vernon Barr and others reach England and France. Affected families seek contact numbers for messages. A five year old, Millicent Kuhn, suffers severe burns from hot ashes at home.
Betty Brainerd counsels Mixed Up a 16 year old to win over her strict father or sacrifice romance with a stranger. She also advises Worried Mind a wife to remain faithful while husband in service and to write to him faithfully. Betty signs off with the Madison Avenue contact.
The Lappans Homemakers Club met at the Parish House with fourteen members and two visitors. The gathering included pledges, singing, a roll call on Allied Leaders, lessons, a skit on Strawberries, and reports on state council sessions and Maryland Farm Family food planning. A picnic plan was made for Cir Park North Pavilion on August 3 with noon dinner.
Fruit growers in Hancock County will meet with Office of Defense Transportation officials next Tuesday evening July 18 in Stanley Fulton’s store Hancock to discuss plans for supplementing local transportation for moving the harvest. County Agent Mark Miller announced the meeting saying good to excellent crops might not reach markets if only regular transport is used due to war demands. Edward R. Gisburne, district ODT manager, will attend and efforts to hire a Philadelphia DDT trucking specialist are underway. One plan would use Pennsylvania trucking during the Washington County emergency in exchange for local equipment going to northern growers later. The meeting, possibly the first of its kind in the county’s history, may be followed by a Smithsburg gathering. All growers urged to attend at 3:15 p.m.
Florence, Italy, a major art and cultural center and eighth largest city, sits on the Arno near Brenner pass, 100 miles from the Po line. Allied bombers target its freight yards while Germans reportedly call the city open, using it as a staging base despite its famed monuments and galleries.
The region stands as Europe’s largest silk industry center, boasting four tre, machine shops, mills, and glass works. Artists there still craft fine wrought iron, gold and silver items, and embossed leather work.
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