Foreign Workers To Arrive Soon At Smithsburg Camp
About 50 farm workers, likely Jamaicans, are due at the Smithsburg labor camp in late June or early July to assist county farmers with fruit and bean harvests. Benjamin Sollidsy, placement agent, says a Smithsburg meeting set plans and estimates. Miss Virginia Shaver of Cavetown will return as camp manager and may also work as a dietitian at the Old Forge Pennsylvania camp.
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Smithsburg
Benjamin Sollidsy
Hancock
Virginia Shaver
Cavetown
Shaver
U. B
Old Forge
Ship Shapeless Ship For Sale
Honolulu feature recalls Smokey Jos, a 240 foot former inter island steamer Kilauea active in wartime service. Surplus sale lists the ship idle prewar, used as supply boat between Canton and Palmyra, famed for eccentricities and comical capers under a crafty captain whose mishaps included a fuel oil fountain during a water break.
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Kathryne
Irvin
Honolulu
Hawaii
Kilauea
Army
Canton
Palmyra
Fanning Island
Smokey Joe
Old Home Week brings surprise reunion in Hamilton
Hamilton Montana. George Wandler fresh from the Army was directing a crew of German prisoners in a sugar beet field when one prisoner stepped forward and asked if he remembered him. The German was one Wandler had captured in France in 1944.
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Hamilton, Mont
George Wandler
Wandler
France
Board To Consider Mary land Funds Request
The State Board of Public Works will meet to study requests from the University of Maryland for 620000 and Morgan College for 56322 to support increased enrollment. Governor O Conor noted the board will examine facilities needs for veterans and other state institutions with a Byrd letter detailing required sums for dormitories classrooms dining hall agricultural building and heating plant upgrades.
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Annapolis
State Board of Public Works
University of Maryland
Morgan College
O'Conor
IL ©. Byrd
Ly. Byrd
Nen
Sharpsburg Visitors Network At Thurs P.M. Happenings
Local note roundup records names of Sharpsburg residents hosting or visiting relatives in nearby towns including Hagerstown Martinsburg Berkeley and Cumberland. Entries list Mrs Leon Young Wil Hamsport Etta Wilson Hagerstown and many others visiting families and attending events. A Brunswick Hospital birth and a cancer drive fundraising result are noted among social visits.
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Leon Young
Wil Hamsport
Etta Wilson
Hagerstown
Harry Hoover
Samuel Martin
C. Miller
Thagerstown
de Launey
William Hebb
Richard Kauffman
Alice Ranthnan
Frank Kaiss
Ralph C. Bair
T. RB. Swain
William Starliper
Haltwig
and Mirs
Lester Bender
Barry Dorsey
Edward Alderton
Berkeley
V. Va
H. P. Stockslager
William Nichols
Fairplay
Alexandria
Ed Mose
Howard Powell
Pearl Viar
Mary Shafer Snyder
Westminster
Cora Shafer
Albert Kerlin
Alfen Poffenberger
Edna Earley
Lloyd Grove
Nortfolk
Philip Grove
Harry Fleiberger
Washington
Stella Heiberger
Frederick
Frank Meiberger
Edward Mose
Clinton R. Cox
William Coolet
Cumberland
Mervin Martin
Brunswick Hospital
Sharpsburg
Pred Remsberg
Edgar Hamlett
Boston
Thamas Hing
Philadelphia
William Crampton
Baltimore
Albert Crampton
Famtil
Allen Poffenberger
F.C. Gross
Esther Gross
W. F. Thomas
Hancock
Rabby
Navy
Dorothy Crampton
Atlantic City
Mark McGiraward
DDT Declared Lethal To All Common Pests
The article proclaims that DDT kills mosquitoes ants flies silverfish cockroaches moths carpet beetles bed bugs and fleas, asserting the new chemical’s broad effectiveness in pest control. It emphasizes its potency across multiple pest species and implies widespread use in public health and agriculture.
Family letter extols love over kinship in marriage guidance
In a moral exhortation the writer discusses Mosaic kinship laws, Christian ideals, and the virtue of love over social prohibition. He defends a marriage as legitimate, condemns gossip, and cites scripture to affirm that as a family unit they embody true godliness and love.
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Moses
Paul
John
God
Dear Mary Haworth Adopting Family Urges Fairness
A reader asks how to respond to town gossip about an adopted daughter now 23 who married. The letter details neighbors’ nosy comments about illegitimacy and pregnancy, and urges guidance grounded in Christian teaching while condemning unkind talk from a friend connected by marriage.
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Mary Haworth
Jane
Mrs. A
D.D
Hunger as Root of Ant Behavior Across Species
Nearly all ants including ones that resemble love, self sacrifice, and bravery, are believed to be driven by hunger. The claim suggests food motivation underlies many observed actions in ant colonies.
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Stan Kenton and His Orchestra
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