Grain Prices Listed Again Show State Quoted Averages
With the new corn crop moving in, the State Department of Markets reports last week’s average quotations for the region. Barley down two cents to 96 cents, wheat at 1.93, oats up one cent to 77 cents. Retail cash prices for feeds include coarse cracked corn 78.33, standard bran 58.00, standard middlings 61.50, meat scrap 88.50, alfalfa meal 66.50, dairy feeds 71.00, 22 percent dairy feed 80.33, laying mash 82.67, coarse scratch feed 80.67, soybean oil meal 77.00, hog feed 78.67, hog supplement 93.33.
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State Department of Markets
English To Head Boy Scout Drive In Morgan County
Burton English of Berkeley Springs has been named chair of the Boy Scout fund drive for the Shenandoah Area Council. The drive starts Oct 11 to raise 1000 dollars in Morgan County, covering three Eastern Panhandle counties with Rock Enon camp in nearby Gore, Virginia, used by troops in summer.
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Burton English
Berkeley Springs
Morgan County
Shenandoah
Panhandle
West Virginia
Virginia
Rock Enon
Gore
English
Lightning Strike Damages Myers Warehouse Fire
Lightning struck the J. W. Myers warehouse on North Prospect Street last night. The fire damaged stock inside after a power lead in cable was involved. Two fire alarms were triggered one from a box and one by a telephone alarm.
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J. W. Myers
North Prospect Street
Relics Located on Battlefield at Antietam Found by Collector
William D. Clipp of Martinsburg reports finding a Union belt buckle and fifty one caliber bullets on newly worked ground in Piper s Cornfield at Antietam Battlefield He is a Fairchild employee with a strong Civil War history interest and the relics were located after more than 90 years of searching
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Antietam
William D. Clipp
Martinsburg
Piper
Fairchild
Symphony Group Grows Inactive in Chambersburg
The Cumberland Valley Symphony, indirect descendant of the Hagerstown orchestra, will not operate this coming season. It has held concerts in Chambersburg with many former members, suspended after World War II, and faces loss of conductor Hugh Alan Gault plus difficulty securing personnel and weak attendance at last spring's concert.
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Cumberland Valley Sym‘phony
Qld Hagerstown Symphony Orchestra
Chambersburg
Hugh Alan Gault
CAP cadets view plane purchase by Junior Falcon Flying Club
CAP members of Hagerstown Fairchild Civil Air Patrol inspect a plane bought by the Junior Falcon Flying Club Inc a CAP cadet organization. The image shows cadets gathered with the aircraft and club members overseeing the acquisition.
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Hagerstown-Fairchild Civil Air Patrol
Junior Falcon Flying Club, Inc
CAP
Just for Kicks Teens Jump From Bus Window
Two teen aged boys leaped from a city bus window as a police patrol car arrived. They claimed to do it for kicks to avoid paying the extra nickel at the end of the ride. Police escorted them to the station for handling.
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Dallas
Notable firm members complete Seattle schooling
Stallknecht William Jack Logan and Fred C. Wright Jr finalize a 30 day course in Seattle. They will not attend this session. Wright calls the opportunity essential for the firm to gain schooling from a major national capital stock fire company founded over thirty years ago and now the fifteenth largest in its field.
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Stallknecht
William
Jack) Logan
Fred C. Wright
Jr. Sitling
David L. Bowen
Clarence S.gardner
J. Arthur Speicher
John Branch Wins Army Commission and Seeks Dual Career
John Branch, a Morgan State College graduate, earned his Army commission in June and plans a 20 year Army career with hopes to blend investigation work with service. He will train at Camp Fuji and Oaklands Army Air Terminal after brief indoctrination in North Carolina, with family support as his younger brother Marshall serves in Japan.
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Mural Club
Fort Knox
Pinkerton National Detective Agency
John
Hagerstown
North Street
Pinkerton Agency
Hagers‘town
Morgan State College
Gilbert Ware
Fort Dix
N. J
Gordon Dowery
Service Corps
Ft. Sam Houston
Texas
Camp Fuji
Japan
Marshall Branch
U. S. Marine Corps
Marshall
States
Martha Brooks
Branch
Southern Pines
N. C
Army Air Terminal
Oakland
Calif
Hopby
John Branch
Mopper Control Strategy For Grasshoppers
It is easier to control grasshoppers when the young are concentrated near where they hatched along field margins, fence rows, and roadsides.
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Myers
Betty Beckley
David G. Lewis
Jim Renner
Thomas Watson
Mark Mason
U.S.A.F
Dan Weller
Jay Brewer
Fred C. Wright, Jr
Wright-Speicher & Gardner Insurance Agency
Hershey
General Insurance Co., of America
John Stanford
R. Allard
H.P
Kew
Ree
Yeerl
Clinton
Hagerstown, Md
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