Price cost squeeze drags down profits for some firms
Dawson reports that 25 of 44 offbeat fiscal year firms show lower after tax income in the first half, with a price cost squeeze shrinking sales. Measured gains come from six firms. combined profits total $31,576,048, a 3.9 percent rise from last year, while many sectors including building materials electronics and food see declines.
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An Lace
Sam Dawson
New York
Conart
Bhaya Aun
Sane
Wife blames husband for her excess weight in divorce
Violet Stamper, 26, testified in Superior Court that her 41 year old husband Walter Stamper, a tree surgeon, caused her nervous eating which led to 190 pounds. She said she could not diet while married, and won a divorce after separation.
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Los Angelms
Vane
WEA
Violet Stamper
Colonald Laxative Claim For Quick Constipation Relief
An advertisement promotes COLONALD as a superior laxative that remoistens a dry thrifty colon and provides bulk to stimulate normal bowel function. It claims relief from chronic constipation overnight, safe for pregnancy, with no side effects, and costs 8 cents for a 60 tablet package.
Spanish War Vets Elect Col John L Keefe Speaker
Maryland Spanish American War veterans held a banquet at the Hotel Alexander with 75 veterans and auxiliaries. Col John L Keefe spoke on volunteer service in the Spanish American conflict while Senor Carlos Tornes could not attend. Officers for 1957 58 were elected in separate ballots for the department and auxiliary.
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John L. Keefe
Maryland Military
Alexander
Col. Keefe
Senor
Carlos Tornes
Frank Gambrill
Department Command of
Maryland
Josephf. Kahn
James W. West
Pearl Abbott
August Rassa
George H. Gillian
Auxiliary
Jean Francis
Edna Lease
Erith Blank
Emma Rayner
Rose Tudor
William Miller
George Gillman
George Henry
Grain Prices Keep Falling Across Local Market
Grain prices tumbled over the past week with barley dropping to 72 cents per unit, six cents below last week. Oats fell to 72 cents, wheat declined to 1.74 dollars, and corn remained at 1.26 dollars. Retail feed prices showed varied costs from coarse cracked corn at 65.80 to hog supplement at 89.52, reflecting a broad decline in grains and feeds.
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State Department of Markets
Summer school opening at Shepherd College with speaker
The first assembly of the summer school session at Shepherd College will be June 19. Dr. Timothy T. Mar, author and government employee in Far Eastern affairs, will speak on The Far eastern Situation. Dr. Mar has studied in China, Japan, England, and the United States, giving him international education.
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Shepherd College
Timothy T. Mar
Mar
Dr. Mar
China
Japan
England
United States
FFA Members Prepare For State Convention In Nashville
The United States and Australia pledge relaxed war crime talks as 44 young FFA members near the annual state convention in Nashville Tennessee. Contests include public speaking, treasurer operations, dairy cattle livestock poultry and vegetables judging. Star Farmer and Maryland Farmer degree awards await top performers amid conservation and farm improvement efforts.
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Nashville
Tenn
Farmers of America
Washington County
Okyo
United Annual State Ffa
Lon Arledge
Vanderbilt Observatory
Australia
University of Maryland
Trac
Atledge
Sugamo
United States
Maryland Farmer
FFA
Star Farmer
Bookmobile Runs South in Washington County Weekly Route
The Washington County Free Library bookmobile heads to the southern county towns tomorrow with a timetable for the third Tuesday each month through September. Stops include Eakle’s Cross roads Hakie’s Mill Mt Briar Road McAfee’s house Chesnut Grove and more with multiple time slots from 9:30 a.m. to 4:55 p.m.
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Washington County Free Library
Eakle
Freestaters drum corps win $150 in Shippensburg bi centennial parade
The Freestaters drum and bugle corps of Morris Frock Post No 42, American Legion, won first prize of 150 dollars in a parade competition during Shippensburg Pennsylvania’s bicentennial celebration. They hosted a stag party with Taneytown Westminster and Westernport at the Legion home on Northern Avenue.
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Freestaters
Morris Frock Post No
American Legion
Shippensburg
Northern Avenue
Taneytown
Westminster
Westernport
Purcellville
Focal Corps
Emmitsburg
Married 25 Times Police Report
A new complaint filed against Brig. Gen. Frank Mills, described by police as the greatest marriage banco man, alleges two counts of bigamy and two of grand theft. District attorney aides cite statements from Mills two latest wives, Virginia Dean Mills and Sarah J Schultz, who say he left Mrs Schultz in 1956 to wed again and borrowed $600 never repaid.
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Los Angeles
Frank Mills
Banco
Mills
Bunco
Virginia Dean Mills
Sarah J Schultz
Schultz
FDR Grandson Weds Classmate in Informal Chapel Ceremony
William Donner Roosevelt, 28, grandson of Franklin D Roosevelt, married Karyl Kyle, 23, a Denver college classmate, in a small Warren Methodist Church chapel ceremony. Parents Elliott Roosevelt and Elizabeth Hanser, and Eleanor Roosevelt attended with a few friends.
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Denver
Williamt
Donner Roosevelt
D. Roosevelt
Karyl Kyle
Roosevelt
Elliott Roosevelt
Elizabeth Dowsney Hanser
Palm Beach
Fla
Eleanor Roosevelt
Warren Methodist Church
Thomas Kyle
Deiver
Franklyn Mills Named in Police Records
Police records show Franklyn Mills has served in two prisons and one jail according to official filings.
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Franklyn Mills
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Shepherdstown
iGet
Tennessee
Noah Webster
Ichiro Maida
U.S
Chrysler
Hassacker Motor CO
Beltimore Street
TorqueFiite
Crowl's
Boonsboro, Md
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HFC
America
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Public Square
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