Christmas Buying Rush Sets Record in Troy
Christmas shopping in Troy shattered sales records as packages rushed to mail by next Friday. November and early December sales rose 10 to 40 percent, with department stores reporting the era’s biggest business, ample merchandise, and a surge of out of town shoppers amid wartime shortages.
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Troy
Post Office
Mexico
China
New York State
Harold M. Hecht
Buffalo Retail Merchants’ Association
Rochester
Syracuse
Albany
Federal Reserve
Retail Merchants Bureau
Paul Eager
Use Green Stamps For Processed Foods Albany
The Albany District Office of Price Administration warns that some local retailers are accepting blue stamps from War Ration Book 4 for processed foods instead of green stamps. This misuse could cause major confusion when the token plan activates. Consumers should verify stamp types and use green stamps for processed foods as required.
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Albany
Peak 1944 travel year warned by defense officials
Washington reports a record 1944 travel year ahead with U S mileage rising 11 per cent for military and civilian passenger trips and 3 to 6 per cent freight gain on rail. Equipment additions are unlikely beyond locomotives as rubber shortages loom and tires for essential use are prioritized.
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Joseph Lastin
Washington
United States
Office of Defense Transportaton
Germany
Gulf Coast
Panama Canal
Bradley Dewey
United Press
Dewey
Pulunang
Statewide drive to kill rats aims to save feedstuffs
Ithaca New York farmers in forty of fifty five counties launch a rat control campaign to protect stored foods and feed. They plan trapping hunting gas and clubbing rats and have ordered over 30000 cans of zinc phosphide poison. Each rat can cause up to $50 in yearly damage and a single unchallenged pair could swell to 800 rats in a year. County agents urge storing feed in rat proof containers and note rats spread 12 human diseases and threaten structures and wiring.
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Ithaca
New York
Empire Dtate
Schenectady Bus Patrons to Air Grievances Hearing
Residents along the Troy Schenectady Road will air grievances Dec. 20 at a public hearing by the Public Service Commission at the Schenectady County Court House. Verdoy Improvement Association petitioned for an investigation into bus service amid charges of overcrowding poor repairs irregular schedules and uncertain redress. A large turnout is expected.
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Troy-Schenectady
Schenectady
Wives May Join Marines Reserve Discussion Held in Troy
Wives of Marines may enlist in the Women’s Reserve if husbands are below lieutenant in rank. The Marine Recruiting and Induction Station in Albany announced the policy. Troy women can discuss enlistment at the Court House every Monday from 9:30 am to 4 pm in the county building rotunda, with a service representative on duty. Wives of enlisted Marines and warrant officers may join for the first time since February 13 1943. Unmarried enlistees must agree not to marry until after boot camp and early training.
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Marine Corps
Womens Reserve Organization
Marine Recruiting and Induction Station
Federal
Albany
Troy Area
Marine Corps Reserves
Court House
Reserve
Coaches Withdrawn From Active Service This Year
Officials report coaches will be withdrawn from active service during the year and cannot be replaced. ODT anticipates a 3 to 6 percent increase over 1343, the smallest percentage rise of the war, while officials note it comes atop an expected overall 1943 increase of 15 percent in mites and a 35 percent rise since 1939, the war’s first year.
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ODT
U S Shipbuilding Goal Over Top Says Vickery
Rear Admiral Howard L. Vickery says the 2 000 000 deadweight ton target for 1942 42 is surpassed with a month left. He notes 25 284 387 tons delivered and near 2 000 000 more due in December, citing November’s 1 692 700 rate and a score of 164 ships including 18 high speed freighters 19 high speed tankers 23 military and special ships 89 Liberty ships and 17 tankers from Liberty design.
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New York
America
Howard L. Vickery
U7. 5
Maritime Commission
Helen of Troy
Admiral Vickery
University Club
Hitter
Tojo
Helen
Vickery
Pearl Harbor
Maine
Scotland
Driver Picks Up Bear Hitch-Hiker on Oregon Road
Nehalem Oregon farmer Louis Ludtke stopped for a bear by the roadside. The bear climbed into the car and honked the horn. Ludtke drove to town in disbelief. Two soldiers from a nearby camp identified the bear as their missing bruin brother.
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Ore
Ins
Louis Ludtke
Landon Attacks Moscow Pact Endorsement
Former Kansas governor Alfred M. Landon told Republican junior senators that GOP endorsement of the Moscow agreements would be reckless and disastrous for the country. He urged real Democrats to join Republicans in drafting foreign policy legislation and warned against cross party plat form similarities that could push the nation toward one party. He argued the Moscow declarations offered little beyond military arrangements and lacked assurance that Russia agreed with them.
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Washington
LLP
Alfred M. Landon
Kansas
Moscow
Landon
Russia
State Plans More Public Hunting Areas
Conservation Commissioner John A. White outlined a New York plan to increase public hunting grounds by breaking up large non hunting refuges into smaller public areas. He urged farm conservation cooperation, centralized pheasant hatching, reforestation, continued hatchery operations, larger tree planting, and more land purchases using the Pittman Robertson fund. Governor Dewey backs the drive as officials reported wildlife resources and the antlerless deer season.
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Syracuse
John A. White
New York
White
State Conservation Council
Conservation Fund
Federal
Pittman-Robertson Fund
Dewey
Non-aggrandizement principles cited in Atlantic Charter debate
The speaker said there is no evidence that the Russians have yielded ground in Europe and urged Republicans to perform their minority duties of investigation and policy, seeking aid from "real Democrats" in shaping opposition to the party in power.
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Europe
Landon
Repair Farm Tools With Scrap Metal
Tons of steel are saved by New York farmers this year as they convert old angle iron and scrap iron from work farm machines into buck rakes and other parts. Interchangeable parts from wrecked machines help farms assemble complete equipment and reduce new metal needs. Dr. Frank F. Blessing, 78, chief federal probation officer for the Northern New York District, retires after a long career in ministry and social service.
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Ithaca
New York
C. N. Turner
New York State College of Agriculture
Professor Turner
Frank F. Blessing
Albany
Rural Schools Aid Waste Fat Collection in County
Four thousand pamphlets explaining waste fats and the fat salvage drive are being distributed in rural Rensselaer County through school children. County director Lewis V. Griffin arranged with rural superintendents to reach homes, urging homemakers to salvage every ounce after using fats for food. The pamphlets note that discarded fats and greases fuel glycerine production, a key explosive component, and that one pound of waste kitchen fat yields about one and a half pounds of smokeless powder.
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Rensselaer
Lewis V. Griffin
Civ Lan Protection
Far East
Former Solon Dead in New York VP Era
Seymour Mork 63, ex assistant district attorney and former New York State Assembly member, died Saturday of a heart attack. A Democrat, he practiced law 43 years and led the Bronx Rotary Club. He was involved in one of the oldest industries, coal making, carried on by man.
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New York
Seymour Mork
New York State Assembly
Mork
Bronx
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