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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1957
Page
6
Dawson reports distributors show rising orders for home laundry products after a weak start to the year. Despite plans for price increases up to 7 percent on fall lines, manufacturers push forward new versions to address fiber variety problems and revive sales after 1956 volume.
Local shrubs especially spruce arborvitae and juniper are under bagworm attack says County Agent Mark Miller. Insect bags form on branches weakening limbs. Treatments include lead arsenate one ounce per gallon of water or malathion two teaspoons per gallon. For small shrubs, removing and burning bags is advised.
Members of the Hagerstown Optimist Club heard NYSE broker John R. Hershey Jr discuss the 1956 cash dividends total of 6.44 billion, urging common sense investing and describing share ownership as part ownership with dividends and voting rights. He promoted risk awareness, cash reserves, and methods like Dollar Cost Averaging and monthly investment plans, noting the broader benefits to democratic capitalism and jobs. A Q A followed. Salvation Army officer Charles Bechter attended, with President William Ecton presiding. Rubber’s name origin noted by Jospeh Priestly.
Ruth M Ausherman of Clearview Head Hagerstown won the grand prize a $500 U S Savings Bond at the Pangborn Employees picnic at Hershey Park drawing among about 2200 attendees. Other prizes included a hi fi set 21 inch TV portable typewriters cameras clock radios and dance prizes with ice cream soft drinks and Hershey Park ride tickets provided.
Suzie Johnson of Virginia Avenue opened the refrigerator yesterday afternoon to give her cat a drink of milk. She searched and called, and about an hour later found the cat inside the fridge, comfortably cool and apparently unharmed.
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