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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1944
Page
6
Governor O Conor said State Game Warden E Lee LeCompte will not retire at 70 next Oct. 15 and will stay in office for the war under a 1943 emergency statute. The decision came after a conference with LeCompte before a meeting with State Forester Joseph F Kaylor on closing Green Ridge State Forest.
Sgt. Richard W. Huntzberry of Frederick and Sgt. Theodore B. Moore, from Clearfield Pennsylvania, earned the Bronze Star for meritorious service in Italy. They crawled under heavy fire on 6 July 1944 near Castellina to reach wounded comrades, later rescuing Pfc Weissman on 8 July 1944 as artillery rained. Huntzberry, wounded in January, enlisted January 1943 and served four months in Africa.
In Italy Fifth Army Headquarters units rely on the 22nd Quartermaster Car Company for passenger transport. Known as battle taxis, drivers face fire while shuttling officials, movie stars, and royalty between forward areas. Since June 1941 the unit has piled up over 500 000 miles with no major injuries and earned the Fifth Army Plaque for meritorious service. An England fighter base awarded S/Sgt. Bradley W. Norris the Army Good Conduct Medal for one year of faithful service. A/C John W. Kaylor, son of Boonsboro residents, graduated from the 2156th AAF Base Unit at Decatur Alabama, a primary flying school for cadet training.
Promotion of William A. Beard, son of Mr and Mrs Allen J Beard Route No 1 Hagerstown to staff sergeant at the RAF Overseas Replacement Depot is announced by Col Weldon W Doe. Beard entered the Army Air Forces in August 1942 and was a Fairchild Aircraft sheet metal worker in civilian life. He is a Hagerstown High School 1940 graduate active in baseball and soccer.
T H King of Waynesboro shot the low score and S H Brown of Hagerstown won the blind handicap in a match played by the Southern Engineering Society at the Waynesboro golf course on Sunday. Arrangements were made by R R Garver and T H King.
The Maryland State Branch of United National Association of Post Office Clerks and Ladies Auxiliary open their eighth annual convention Saturday in Braddock Heights for a two day session. Hobart B. Albaugh of Frederick is general chairman and Samuel D. Crone of Frederick is convention chairman.
A report notes that waste liquor from sulphite only mills can be utilized to produce a high test alcohol. The statement highlights a potential process improving yield from existing pulping byproducts.
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