Ten Months Of Food Price Ceilings Shift Local Ads In Troy
A Year of rationing and ceilings altered local food costs with seven of fifteen items disappearing from ads. Compared March 1943 to March 1942, butter and meat ads declined sharply while margarine and canned goods persisted. Oysters cheese and certain cuts vanished. price listings show large increases and sparse availability across meats dairy and canned goods. A brief Jersey City air raid siren scare caused a false alarm and home blackouts for about thirty minutes.
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Troy
Jersey City
INS
Postwar Planning Progress In Troy Area Highlighted
Chauncey W. Cook reports upstate district well organized for postwar planning with most local and county chairmen named. District executives note rapid C E D progress and a state survey of industries due early February. National committee seeks broad inclusion from all walks of life to aid postwar planning. A clothing training school for 4H leaders in Rensselaer County is set for January 26.
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Chauncey W. Cook
State Committee For Economic Development
Upstate
Cook
Samuel W. McCochrane
National Committee
M. Herbert Eisenhart
Bausch & Lomb Optical Co
Rochester
Walter Fuller
Curtis Publishing Co
Raymond A. Rich
Hudson and
Catskill
Canadian
Troy
Francis E. Gallagher
Albany Chamber of Commerce
Paul Hoffman
Studebaker Corp
Gallagher
McCochrane
Camber of Commerce
Rensselaer County
W. Co
Allied Textile Board to Rule Cotton Needs
The Textile Board of the United States Canada and the United Kingdom plans to meet and allocate cotton textile output to meet UN needs. The expanded program surveys United Nations needs, matches them to production, and allocates shares among the three nations. Representatives include H. L. Bailey US, 5S. C. Dixon Canada, and Col. W. A. Grierson UK.
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Record
Washington
D. C
Troy
United States
Canada
United Kingdom
South
Combined Production and Resource Board
United Nations
H. L. Bailey
Wellington Sears Company
New York
5S. C. Dixon
Courtland’s
OPA Checks Use Of Blue Stamps
District OPA investigators in Troy probe merchants accepting blue stamps from War Ration Book 4 before Feb 27 validity. Eric J. Elliott warns customers lose value as blue stamps carry 10 points each when the series shows eight five two and one. Green stamps from Book 4 should be used until blue coupons become valid. Merchants urged to avoid blue stamps to protect customers.
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District Opa
Troy
Eric J. Elliott
Elliott
Victory Patrol Plans Flamingo Club Opening Night
The Victory Mounted Patrol will stage a sham battle at 12 30 p.m. Sunday January 30 after a drill at headquarters in Rensselaer County. It will convert its HQ into a juvenile night club named Flamingo Club opening Saturday at 7 30 p.m. with soft drinks music and dancing no admission. Tomorrow evening the patrol holds its weekly meeting at 569 Congress Street.
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Victory Mounted Patrol
South Lake Avenue
Rensselaer County Mounted Patrol
Wounded Servicemen Get Special OPA Right
Wounded servicemen may receive special gasoline rations to travel to and from homes or convalescence. The Rensselaer County-Troy City Rationing Board announced the measure after District OPA guidance. Eligibility requires leave papers and a medical officer letter certifying automobile transport aids recovery.
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OPA
Rensselaer County-Troy City Rationing Board
Soldiers Long For Homeland But Not Nurses
Southwest Pacific Allied Headquarters reports American soldiers yearn to return home while most nurses prefer remaining in the field. The divide stems from differing views of home, rationing, and wartime changes, with men seeking the comforts of home and women preferring to stay where the men are.
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Clen Clements
Southwest Pacific Allied Headquarters
Pacific Islands
Australia
Wvax
Continental
United States
States
Constance Bennett Defends Practical War Time Wear
New York actress Constance Bennett urged women to abandon frilly fashion for wartime. She plans to wear durable, seasonable suits with interchangeable accessories and advised spending less on clothes to invest more in War Bonds.
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New York
Constance Bennett
Miss Bennett
Levy Case at OPA Ends After Points Restored
Samuel Levy of the Cohoes Sanitary Market at 145 Remsen Street faced a ration violation hearing at Albany County Court House on a charge of overdrawing about 120 000 meat ration points. Levy claimed the missing points and the OPA stayed his ninety day suspension.
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Samuel Levy
Cohoes
Remsen Street
OPA
Albany County Court House
Levy
Divorce Rate Climbs with Living Costs
State College, Pa. UPI says prices influence social behavior. Dr. M. B. John, rural sociology professor, links higher living costs to more divorces and reduced alcoholism deaths, noting rises from 1914 to 1920 and 1932 to 1935, with declines during 1929. He argues depressions limit affordable divorce and raise marital strain.
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State College
UPI
Pennsylvania State College
M. B. John
John
Metropolitan Receives Bache Art Collection
A group of world famous paintings collected by Jules S. Bache, valued at about 12.5 million dollars, has been donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The 63 masterpieces span Italian, Flemish, Dutch, Spanish, French and English schools and will become public property. They will be stored after postwar building plans are completed and currently remain exhibited at the banker's Fifth Avenue home. Noted works include Raphael Giuliano de Medici, Titan Venus and Adonis, Crivelli Madonna and Child, Botticelli Coronation of the Virgin, and Rembrandt Christ With a Pilgrim's Staff.
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New York
Jules S. Bache
Metropolitan Museum of Art
William Church Osborn
United States
Osborn
Banker
Fifth Avenue
Raphael
Giuliano de Medici
Duke of
Former Draft Board Official Leaps to Death
John Edward Wilson 58 a former draft board official under indictment with brewer heir Gert Hans Von Gontard leaped to his death from a midtown 11 story building. Police said Wilson left four notes including one to his wife and another to a friend. The indictment charged a conspiracy to falsify Von Gontard s fitness for Selective Service and to aid his evasion. Wilson faced possible five years in prison and a 10 000 fine if convicted. He also was alleged to have helped transfer Von Gontard s record from a Los Angeles board. The restaurant owner case involved a separate conspiracy to falsify a man s physical fitness.
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New York UP
John Edward Wilson
Draft Board
Gert Hans von Gontard
Selective Service Act
Draft Board No. 20
Wilson
von Gontard
Adolphus Busch
St. Louis
Arnold A. Hutschnecker
Francis O' Grottano
Michael Mangane
Asst
U. S. Atty. J
Gerard Cregan
Los Angeles
Ration Board Honors Nine Volunteers
Nine volunteers from the Rensselaer County Troy rationing board were awarded bronze pins for 500+ hours of service. Chairman Charles C. Freihofer presented the “Distinguished Service” pins on behalf of Lester W. Herzog, district OPA director, with 16 county area under his jurisdiction.
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Troy Ration Board
OPA
Helen D. Adams
Rensselaer County-Troy City Rationing Board
O. P
Helen E. Gross
Pricilla M. Humphreys
John Sarkis
Juliette
Herzog
Local rationing volunteers to receive service pins
Mr Freihofer praised Troy and Rensselaer County rationing volunteers for over 500 hours of service. The local rationing board will award pins and certificates of merit to volunteers, noting all serve without pay and that certificates will be given to those under 500 hours. Officials conveyed thanks from the District OPA.
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Freihofer
Troy
Rensgelaer County
OPA
Local notices list visits from families and scheduled meetings
Averill Park resident Albert Brasette of Albany and others visit Sherman Feath ers. Guests include Mrs. Kenneth Hollensworth with a Nova Scotia sister, Seaman Eugene Warren of Boston, Mrs. Willis Larkin with Brainard hosts, Mr. and Mrs. James Everett and son from Toledo. Prof. Wesley Miller Jr. of Camp Upton visits his parents. David Dick Jr. of Navy at Camp Sampson visits his parents. The Stephentown Rod and Gun Club plans an 8 pm meeting at the Engine House. Hoag's Carnera Methodist Ladies’ Aid hosts a 2 pm meeting at Mrs. Max Bunger’s home. Good Cheer Class holds monthly Methodist Church meeting Friday at 8 p.m. in charge: Mrs. David Dick Sr, Mrs. Anson Marvin, and Harrison Leay.
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Kenneth Hollensworth
Nova Scotia
Seaman Eugene Warren
Boston
Willis Larkin
Harry Nye
Brainard
James Everett
Charles
Toledo
Ferris
Wesley Miler, Jr
Camp Upton
Wesley Miller
David Dick, Jr
Navy
Camp Sampson
David Dick
Rod and Gun Club
Stephentown
Engine House
Ladies’ Aid Society
the Hoag
Carnera Methodist Church
Max Bunger
Good Cheer
P.m
David Dick, Sr
Anson Marvin
Harrison Leay
Arsenal patrolmen appointments in Watervliet Arsenal
Applications for the position of patrolmen at the Watervliet Arsenal are now being received by the secretary, board of U. S. Civil Service Examiners. Several appointments at an annual salary of $2,043 are expected. A grammar school education is required. No written tests will be given.
West Sand Lake notices and meetings update
Arthur Miller Coast Guard Curtis Bay Maryland and Misa Irene Forrister Huntington joined relatives and friends in the area. An annual congregational meeting, Salem Evangelical prayer gathering, and West Sand Lake Home Bureau events are scheduled with meetings, lunches, and demonstrations planned at local homes and churches.
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Arthur Miller
Coast Guard
Curtis Bay
Misa Irene Forrister
Huntington
L. L
Trinity Lutheran Church Chapel
Salem Evangelical Church
Merrill Zweig
West Sand Lake
Wilson Shillinger
Wynantskill
Shillinger
Longview Home Bureau
West Sand Lake School
Raymond Cipperly
Elton K. Hanks
Mother Sends Eggs to Troops at USO Lounge
A mother left four dozen fresh eggs as a thank you gift at the Troy USO Lounge yesterday. A Johnsonville soldier on 24 hours leave received a hot breakfast before departing, gratefully noting that time is the best gift and urging others to contribute what they can.
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Troy
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Arthur W. Benson
Lenna M. Snyder
Allied Textile Board
Victory Patrol
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Bache
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