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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1943
Page
5
Dr Thomas D Masters writes for NEA that preventing eye injuries is vital amid wartime industrial accelera tion. He notes annual eye losses from industry exceed two thousand, urges pre employment eye exams, protective goggles, and education to reduce hazards across occupations, especially where flying particles, molten metals, acids, or intense rays present.
The Office of Price Administration authorized local War Price and Rationing Boards to waive waiting periods for replacements of lost or stolen food ration books in extreme hardship. If needed, boards may issue certificates for temporary access to rationed goods. The text also discusses eye protection safety gear including goggles and lenses, stressing proper fit, ventilation, and reducing condensation to prevent injuries.
Camden New Jersey 600 soldiers from Fort Dix arrive to relieve civilian volunteers and unload trucks. Campbell Soup officials report not a single tomato spoiled as seven hundred trucks line up for miles outside the plant.
An appeal for volunteers to process a bumper tomato crop before spoilage was renewed as hundreds of farmers camped in trucks to secure lines at an understaffed plant receiving area. Fort Dix officials reported no decision on 1,000 soldiers requested to assist, while enlisted sailors took part time plant work in civilian pay. Mayor Brunner urged local businessmen to help as 20,000 acres ripened in Southern New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania.
Sycaway Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Griffith of Conway Court have returned home after a few days with friends in New York. Miss Elsie Potter and Mrs. Raymond Redfield of Euclid Avenue accompanied by Mrs. Garrett Roo veroom of Castleton-on-the-Hudson have gone to Willston VI to be the guest of their sister Mrs. B. T. Goodrich
Sand Lake Aircraft Warning Service launches a week long recruiting drive with a booth at Averill Park Pharmacy staffed by active observers from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily. Volunteers may sign on for steady or occasional assignments with four hour shifts around the clock.
Women Marines visited Troy as the Wake Island recruiting trailer set up at the old City Hall site to answer questions. Lieut Beryl Saffell led the group with Sergt Major Leon Little and Capt N H Sannebecke. the tour travels from Albany toward Utica with visits Mondays at the Rensselaer County Goat House.
A master pressure cooker gauge tester arrived at the Rensselaer County Home Bureau in the Troy Post Office Building and will be available for testing Tuesday and Thursday. Homemakers may bring the entire cover of their cookers for testing. The tester will visit Mrs. O C Greenman in Berlin tomorrow afternoon, Mrs. Mildred Covert in Averill Park tomorrow evening, and will attend meetings in North Hoosick, Potter Hill, and Boyntonville on Thursday for residents to bring covers for testing.
The War Production Board announced 120 percent more hats for women will be produced this fall but they will be smaller with less trimming. Materials use by hatmakers will be substantially below last year though public acceptance of the smaller styled millinery has been good.
West Sand Lake resident Miss Barbara Evans returns to Buffalo after visiting Mr and Mrs James Maxwell in West Sand Lake. Earl Ferguson of Niagara Falls visits his parents Mr and Mrs Arthur Ferguson. Harry Miller of the Navy stationed at Sampson and his wife, formerly Miss Kay Yonker, visit his parents Mr and Mrs Harry Miller Sr. Miss Virginia Kinnon hosts a party at the home of Mr and Mrs Robert Kinnon in honor of Miss Barbara Evans of Buffalo.
The New York State Association of Real Estate Boards urges Congress while members are home on vacation to back a four point program to correct rent control. They seek exemption of real estate salesmen from unemployment tax, mutual war damage insurance, and federal property tax payments. The group cites the Smith Committee findings on OPA excesses and discriminatory practices and backs Hinshaw bill H R 3044 for salesmen tax exemption.
Boston UPI reports Captain Otis F. Bryan of Transcontinental & Western Air argues that the five point policy for postwar international air transport supports worldwide competition without monopolies. He cites the Casablanca trip and says the goal is rights for U.S. operators to bid on world routes and to develop global aviation without geographic limits.
Rationing authorities urge drivers to spend old type B and C gas coupons before September 1 as newer mileage coupons replace them. Local boards in Schenectady and Troy report exchanges trend toward newer books, with the old issues still valid ten days more in Troy.
The speaker notes airplanes crossing the Atlantic from the States fly over this city and recounts a personal calculation showing 1,200 pounds of cargo could be saved by originating flights in Boston rather than New York due to fuel use on longer trips.
About 16 Cuzas-Wright Cadettes from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute harvested roughly 200 bushels of snap beans on Edward Hong’s five acre Airport Farm in East Greenbush. Emergency farm labor officers and Curtis-Wright volunteers coordinated rapid picking to prevent crop loss as war demands tightened.
Officials announce full bus service will return to pre rationing levels this week after an ODT order cut schedules by 20 percent to save fuel. Two Fifth Avenue Bus Co and United Traction Co confirm restoration to normal levels, with some routes already back to within 10 percent.
William Lyon Phelps Yale English professor emeritus author and lecturer died at 78 after a long illness. Known as Yale’s ambassador at large he retired in 1933 but remained active giving lectures writing articles and books. Funeral services set for 2 30 pm at Battell Chapel Yale with burial in Grove Street Cemetery.
New holiday schedule lists a 9 05 a m departure from Hoosick Falls and a 9 10 a m stop at North Hoosick. The bus connects at Cambridge to Salem Granville Rutland and other points including Worth.
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