Salvage Drive Promotes Waste Fats Collection in Hagerstown
Panghorn Corporation and Warner Brothers Theatres sponsor a salvage drive ending in a June 19 Maryland Theatre movie for boys and girls. Participants must bring one pound of waste fats for admission, with schoolchildren nationwide proving they can aid the war effort. Local effort relies on families to save kitchen greases for pickup and education through community advertising.
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Maryland Theatre
Panghorn Corporation
Warner Brothers Theatres
Hagerstown
Maryland
Thomas W. Pang
Parole Board to Hear Archievd Edwards Case Thursday
Archie Edwards, jailed in Maryland for six years in the House of Correction after a Washington County circuit Court conviction for robbery, is among prisoners whose parole applications will be heard Thursday according to State Parole Director Herman M. Moser.
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Archie Edwards
Washington County
Maryland House & Correction
Herman M. Moser
Publisher Says It's His War Contribution
Princess Anne Md June 3 Editor Rives Matthews publisher of the Somerset News says his newspaper stories about a rate signing case involving State Comptroller J Millard Tawes are his contribution to the war effort He filed with the OPA a charge that Tawes violated the pleasure driving ban by a trip to Georgia in a state owned car.
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Princess Anne
Rives Matthews
J. Millard Tawes
Matthews
Somerset News
OPA
Tawes
Georgia
Tawes Faces New Hearing On Type Of Coupon Used
Tawes faces a new hearing over whether he used a state car for non-essential driving to Georgia for his son's wedding. The Somerset board exonerated him in 12 minutes after a Monday night session, citing official business visits to Raleigh Columbia and Augusta. Publisher Matthews faced grand jury action for criminal libel connected to the case. Governor O Connor asserted state car use policy remains unchanged since wartime rationing and highlighted supervisory steps including a mileage director. There are five times as many bison in the U S now as in 1900.
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Somerset Board
Tawes
Maryland
Georgia
OPA
E. M. Milbourne
Milbourne
John S. Holland
Crisfeld Board
Cornelius P. Mundy
Raleigh
Columbia
Augusta
Atlanta
Rives Matthews
Somerset News
Somerset County Grand Jury
Matthews
Prentiss Evans
Trins
Fred N. Holland
Crisfield
O'Conor
O'Cannor
Andrew T. Conner
No Decision On Nursing Program
After a briefing by the Board of County Commissioners and Dr. W R Willard health officers the plan to hire four additional nurses was put in abeyance. Willard urged postponement until conditions favor reconsideration while urging continued study of local health needs by the County Commissioners and Mayor and Council for a future review.
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Board of County Commissioners
W. R. Willard
Willard
Health Department
Republicans Win Out In Frederick City Election
Republicans swept Frederick city ballots electing mayor Hugh V. Gittinger city register Mehri F. Wachter and four of five aldermen Russell R. McClain Edward Oden Emmett Bowlus Charles B. Staley with Democrat Charles W. Stup. Sunday sports and Sunday movies passed by narrow margins.
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Frederick
City Register
Hugh V. Gittinger
Paul Magaha
Gittinger
Lloyd C. Culler
Mehri F. Wachter
Louis B. Hichelberger
Russell R. McClain
Edward Oden
Emmett Bowlus
Charles B. Staley
Charles W. Stup
McClain
Oden
Bowlus
Stup
Staley
Beall to Speak at Flag Day Exercise in Hagerstown
The Hagerstown Lodge of Elks schedules Flag Day ceremonies at City Park on Sunday June 13 at 7 30 am with an elaborate program and a history pageant. The Hon J Glenn Beall Maryland sixth district congressman will be the principal speaker. Exalted Ruler Charles W Miller and lodge officers will lead post ceremony activities. The full Elks band program will be announced later.
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Hagerstown
Charles W. Miller
Hiks Lodge
The
Elks and the Band
Class Night Cancelled at Clearspring High School
Clearspring High School cancels Class Night planned for Thursday June 10 due to gasoline restrictions. Invitations and programs had been issued listing the event.
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Clearspring High School
Twelve-grade ceremony at Clearspring High School graduates
Twenty two students receive diplomas at Clearspring High School exercises. Seventeen girls and four boys form the class, with Edna D. Sites valedictorian and recipient of the Alumni prize. Mark Shank is salutatorian and Alliene Seibert the orator. The program included glee club and orchestra. Baccalaureate and other ceremonies follow at Hagerstown and Hancock.
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Clearspring High School
Hagerstown High School
Hancock
Clearspring
Ralph Stauffer
Board of Education
Benjamin Willis
Walter W. Peterman
Luther J. Hare
Clearspring Lutheran Church
Wade Huff
State Tin Can Collections Fall Short in Maryland
State salvage officials report Maryland tin can collections at about half expected. C H Herwig of the Maryland Salvage Committee predicts roughly 500 tons will be gathered today in Baltimore City and Baltimore County. May totals show Hagerstown 37 900 pounds Cumberland 27 200 Harford County 44 600.
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Maryland
C. H. Herwig
Maryland Salvage Committee
Herwig
Baltimore City
Baltimore County
Hagerstown
Cumberland
Harford County
Lieut Armstrong Recuperating After Kidney Operation
Lieut Alexander Armstrong U S Navy son of late Alexander Armstrong former Maryland attorney general and Hagerstown resident underwent kidney stone surgery with recovery expected.
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Alexander Armstrong
U. S. Navy
Maryland
Hagerstown
Carter's Little Liver Pills Ad Coast to Coast
An old style adverturial pitch promises to wake your liver bile and aid digestion. It claims the liver should produce about two pints of bile daily and that blockage causes gas and malaise. The copy touts Carter's Little Liver Pills as the remedy with 10 and 15 cent prices.
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Carter
Man Recovers After Operation Near Early May Date
Report states the operation occurred about May 1. Two weeks later he was described as getting along fine, according to friends here.
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Tralia
Survivor Lieut Armstrong of Cruiser Chicago Sinking
Lieut Armstrong survives the sinking of the Cruiser Chicago after being adrift on a raft for a period before rescue.
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Lieut. Armstrong
Chicago
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Nelsary
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Hagerstown Bookbinding & Printing Co
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Hotel Hamilton Corner
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Martha
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