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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1943
Page
12
Health splints must give comfort to patients. The article outlines recognizing fracture signs, when to splint, and how to immobilize limbs. It stresses applying a splint before moving the patient and the value of gentle, firm support to reduce further damage. The guidance covers spine and skull injuries and X ray confirmation.
Mayor Frank J. Hogan told Troy residents and police to watch for vandals targeting Victory Gardens around Vanderheyden Hall. He urged swift action to apprehend offenders harming residents who have toiled all summer to grow crops.
The Post Office Department urges early Christmas shopping this year to aid mail efficiency. Postmaster General Walker notes many will buy gifts for armed forces overseas and for civilians, offers better selection now before holiday stock runs low, and emphasizes preparing Christmas packages as war demands ease.
Baltimore war plant officials praise music while you work for morale citing a Navy bomber maker and shipyard reports where battle talks increased output. Bethlehem and Bartlet Hayward refuse the idea, calling it hooey while Lehigh Fairfield and Glenn L Martin note positive effects from visiting servicemen.
Army engineers say Hoosick River flood control from Hoosick Falls to North Adams will be a post war project to employ returning servicemen. Harold Libby and Edward Snell visited North Adams to seek local cooperation on rights of way and land damages while plans stay formative.
A critical column charges the federal government with explosive growth of civilian employees and wasteful, unaccountable governance. It argues the OPA rules burden housewives, cites mounting legal staff and costs, and laments a shift from a three-branch system to executive-dominated rule, with rising inefficiency and red tape. The piece notes the ratio of federal employees to citizens and cites high communications costs, calling for scrutiny of wartime administrative expansion.
A June 21 1948 chronicling cites the National Youth Administration spending twenty thousand dollars monthly on long distance calls from November 1940 to October 1941 and highlights hundreds of NYA telegrams. It notes federal savings of over one billion dollars since 1942 from a nonessential expenditures reduction committee and urges continued cost cutting to support the war effort while defending representative government.
The Air Ministry reports four Flying Fortresses lost in the Regensburg raid of August 17 were rescued in the Mediterranean by the airsea rescue service. One launch brought 22 survivors, with only one needing medical attention among 40 airmen reached. Twenty-three bombers were lost.
Washington reports reveal a dramatic shift in wartime labor as women outpace men in new factory hires. Frances Perkins notes the net rise in female workers from 1942 to 1943 dominates overall gains, with women increasingly replacing men in durable goods, aircraft, shipbuilding, and locomotives, rising from 1 to 20 percent in some sectors.
Marietta crowd of 3,000 at harvest festival watched Buckskin Ethel Poole die after 63 year old Ein Cody Poole fired a .22 into chalk pieces placed in her ears. An inquest deemed the act accidental. no charges filed.
The Bayer division of Sterling Drug in Rensselaer joined nine firms approved by WPB to manufacture penicillin. The group will invest over 3 million dollars to expand, with Rensselaer receiving a $50,000 contract. Production is expected to begin within three to six months, though civilian supply will be limited for the duration of the war.
Secretary Harold L. Ickes said the current output of both bituminous and anthracite coal mines is far below needed to meet the year's demand and below pre strike levels. He noted bituminous production for the week ending Aug 21 at 11,920,000 tons vs 12,030,000 the prior week, while anthracite fell to 1,259,000 tons from 1,327,000 tons the week ending Aug 14.
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