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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1944
Page
8
A two month membership drive for the Tycees Junior Chamber of Commerce of Hagerstown kicked off at a regular meeting in the Chalet Room of Lee Alexander. The drive chair is John O'Neill with Albert Logsdon, president, underscoring the group’s role as a civic service organization for men aged 21 to 35, aligned with war effort and community leadership.
NEW YORK, Sept 22. The sugar shortage that has appeared in the Middle West, Eastern sections and parts of the South is due to a lack of manpower. Seaboard refineries say domestic cane refineries have been pressed to fill orders. Officials expect the worst of the shortage to pass and an improvement in a month.
The notice promotes dress patterns showing dirndl styles with white collars and cuffs. It lists pattern numbers 3721 and 3722 with fabric yardage and contrasts required, price 15 cents a copy or 10 cents with a pattern, and asks readers to send name, address, and pattern number to Pattern Department at Ha gerstown Daily Mail New York 11 N Y. It urges including size and postal zone and mentions 175 patterns in color.
About 260 representatives from churches in Hagerstown and Washington County attended the twenty seventh Interdenominational School of Missions at St Pauls United Brethren Church. The event featured home and foreign mission study books, a display of Indian relics and costumes, and talks by Miss Marie Staib and Mrs C Newton Kidd.
Rep. Robertson announced that the Office of Price Administration and Economic Stabilization Director Fred Vinson approved continuing the 1944 apple by-product price Schedule of 3.40 to 1.00 per 100 pounds, despite drought and hurricane damage reducing fresh apple supply and raising costs. Appalachian Apple Service noted the large processing area covers VA, WV, PA, and MD, and praised Robertson for sustaining the price program. A closing line notes the Pacific Ocean area size at 63.8 million square miles.
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