Farm Bureau Plans County Crop Increases
The Rensselaer County Farm Bureau executive committee outlined recommended 1944 targets to Reese farmers at Hendrick Hudson, urging higher corn grain production for feed, improved pasture through timely nitrogen, emergency hay crops, and better egg and vegetable outputs. They emphasized dairy hay needs, pasture grazing, and vaccination for poultry, with specific crops including carrots and tomatoes to bolster storage and nutrition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reese
War Foods
Rensgeiser County Farm Bureau
Bureau
Hendrick Hudson
Sudan
Rensselaer County
Navy Repackaging Cuts Air Cargo Weight For War Effort
Navy repackaging of vital war materials aims to speed delivery by air. Training at Forest Products Lab in Madison, the program reduces weight and bulk across four air cargo stations in New York Miami San Francisco and Seattle. Average cost savings about 1.50 per pound totaling roughly two million dollars annually.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Courtenay
Naval Air Transport Service
Bureau of Supples and Accounts
New York
Miami
Fla
Sanbrangisco
Navy
Forests Products Laboratory
Madison
Wis
County Farm Bureau outlines 1944 production focus
The Brunswick county Farm Bureau meeting urged experienced growers to expand vegetable plantings and increase potato acreage where possible. Those unable to expand should raise yields via more fertilizer and blight control. Fruit quality would improve with pruning and thorough spraying. The plan aims for a nucleus of activity to maximize county food yield in 1944.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State War Board
Samuel Miller
Brunswick
Farm Bureau
Farm Bureau Group
Wine Company Stock Bought By Germans
The Alien Property Custodian disclosed that 52 percent of the American Wine Co stock was owned by distinctly un American interests. The 150 006 shares to be auctioned in Chicago will be sold to American citizens only. Von Ribbentrop and Karl Henkell linked holdings tied to Vinco Co were examined to determine German ownership of the stake. The American Wine Co founded by Isaac Cook and famed for Cook's Imperial champagne faced a shifting control path through Vinco, Combine Investment Co and Dutch capital just before and during wartime, with government supervision and eventual release of control by the Treasury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emilie Basel
St. Louis
Joachim von Ribbentrop
American Wine Co
Chicago
Hay
Leo T. Crowley
Ahen
Karl Henkell
von Ribbentrop
Vinco Co
Isaac Cook
Cook
Henkell
Knight
Henkells
Koeln- Dusseldorf Steamship Co
Rone
Knicht
Henkel
Reich
de Gerenan
Winco Co
Omoine Investment Co
Dela- Ware
New York
Federal
Combine Investment Co
Germany
Low Country
Henkell and von Ribbentrop
Combine
Foreign Funds Control Office
St Louis Federal Reserve Bank
U. S. Treasury Department
Treasury
Harry H. Knight
Ration ban on canned vegetables may be eased
The Office of Price Administration may suspend canned vegetable rationing soon as canners push for action. Officials remain unconvinced, while proposals include a stamp bonus similar to pork and a drastic cut in February point values. A pantry survey shows high home canning stocks, with 80 of 100 homes storing vegetables versus a normal 25. Distributors report overstock except in the Southeast, and consumer purchases at 52 percent of prewar levels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Record Newspapers
Washington, D. C
Office of Price Administration
OPA
National Canners’ Association
Cammers
Southeast
Green stamps valid Feb to Mar for processed foods
Green K L M stamps will be valid Feb 1 to Mar 20 for processed foods as the last green series. From Feb 27 blue tokens begin, both types valid until Mar 20. tokens will be given as change for green stamps to ease use. green values remain 15 5 2 1 points, blue 10 points.
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Rensselaer County
Troy City
OPA
General Electric War Training Schools Produce Thousands
General Electric issued a stockholders statement noting that several thousand service men are graduates of the firm’s war training schools with hundreds more in short courses at G E plants. The company reports its “university of war” trains in electronics turbo supercharges aircraft armament and Navy schools covering destroyer escort propulsion submarines minesweepers maritime service naval gun control searchlights and floating drydocks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Electric Co
University of War
Tank Arrives to Serve as Bond Sale Office in City
A tank arrived at the New York Power & Light Corp offices on Second Street to operate as a War Bond sales office for three weeks. Mayor John J. Ahern and officials attended the unveiling. Women from various groups will staff the office, with arrangements organized by George Matthews, the resident manager.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Power & Light Corp
Second Street
John J. Ahern
George Matthews
State urges early orders of fertilizer amid shortages
New York state residents are urged to order fertilizer now to ensure supply for 1944 crops. Austin Carpenter of the Emergency Food Commission says deliveries will be limited due to transport and labor bottlenecks, advising farmers to estimate needs, take immediate delivery, and store bags in dry, elevated places with hay for moisture protection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York State
Austin W. Carpenter
New York
Carpenter
Oeffler Promoted to First Class Petty Officer
Frederick L. Oeffler of 2370 Sixth Avenue receives word of his promotion to first class petty officer in the Seabees. He has been overseas for a year and is on leave visiting his wife and sons Edward and Fred Oeffler Jr. He is son of Mr and Mrs John Oeffler of 660 Fourth Avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick L. Oeffler
Sixth Avenue
Seabees
Oeffler
Edward
Fred Oeffler
Jjohn Oeffler
Fourth Avenue
OPA Establishes New Fish Ceilings for six counties
The Albany District Office of Price Administration set new retail fish ceilings for Albany Rensselaer Schenectady Greene Columbia and Ulster counties effective tomorrow. The ceilings aim to cut retail prices to align with wholesale and fishermen’s reductions and differ for group three and four chain stores based on volume. If larger stores pay cost plus the regulation markup and that yields a lower price, the lower price applies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
Albany Rensselaer
Schenectady
Greene
Columbia
Ulster
OPA
Hoowever
OPA Reverses Token Plan to Include Green Stamps
The OPA will modify its ration token plan to allow green stamps to be used as change blues. Green stamps of K L M remain valid for processed foods February 1 to March 20, while blue stamps keep a ten point value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OPA
OPA Probes Oil Dealers for Interfering With Rationes
The OPA criticized oil companies for telling consumers they have ample supply if they seek hard to obtain it. Aimed at preventing ration board manipulation, the warning notes scarce fuel oil reserves in the Troy area and warns that overuse could trigger coupon cuts. The gesture warns of punitive effects on prudent buyers if shortages worsen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OPA
Rensselaer County
Troy City
Troy
State Tax Plan Would Benefit Troy
Rensselaer County and the City of Troy would gain from a plan dubbed temporary financial relief. The State Committee on Municipal Finance proposed that cities receive all mortgage recording tax revenue and utility tax receipts be distributed by population. Assembly Ways and Means released the county and city estimates.
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Rensselaer County
Troy
State Committee On
Municipal Finance
Ways and Means Committee
Assembly
Dewey
Frank C. Moore
Two Children Die in Duchess County Fire
In Dutchess County a Penny’s Corners farm garage and living quarters were destroyed by fire around 10 am. Gertrude Jones 3 and John Jones 7 months, children of Charles and Clara Jones, tenants, per State Police. Firemen arrived after flames had spread. police investigate cause.
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Pawling GP
Smail
Ralph Gwinn
Penny’s Corners
Birch Hill Road
Dutchess County
Gertrude Jones
John Jones
Charles
Clara Jones
Explosive gargle urged to curb influenza attacks
London based correspondent reports E Pickworth Farrow of Spalding England suggests an "explosive" gargle as a cure for colds. He describes using a saline or weak antiseptic gargle, tilting the head back, coughing to create an “explosion” that disperses liquid through throat and nasal surfaces, then repeating every two hours. He claims it aborts a cold within a day or day and a half, superior to ordinary gargling or nasal sprays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Percival A. Jordan
International News Service
London
INS
E. Pickeworth Farrow
Spalding
Lincolnshire
England
Lancet
Farrow
Ten Die in Freak Army Planes Crash Near Farmerville
Ten Selman Field airmen were killed when two navigation training planes, a Lockheed Lodestar and a Speachcraft AT-7, collided in mid air five miles northwest of Farmerville, Louisiana, then exploded on impact. Identified dead include Second Lieut. Thomas O. Metz and Aviation Cadets Jack H. Oughstree and Winsor Naugler.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe
INS
Selman Field
Farmerville
Arader
Thomas O. Metz
Absecon
N. J
Jack H. Oughstree
Woodmere
Winsor Naugler
Gooch Street
Melrose
Mass
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Red Cross
First Baptist Church
Frank Murphy
C. R. Sherwood
Ford Plant Management
General Electric
Rensselaer
Albany County
Cohoes
Watervilet
Saratosa County
Mechanicville
Schenectady County
Duchess County
R. C. Williams & Company, Inc
New York, N. Y
Since Tay
Mann
Fulton Street
Fourth St. Troy
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