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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1944
Page
4
Samuel B. Dorrance of the 44 Club Agent urges potato growers in Rensselaer County to spray weekly with Bordeaux mixture through the season to combat late blight. He cites reports of blight in potatoes and tomatoes, describes disease signs, spread under moist weather, and notes copper fungicides as a control measure.
Bastille Day 1944 notes describe damp rot and wet rot in potatoes. Infection starts on surface sprouts and spreads through tubers, causing sunken, discolored flesh and eventual soft rot if storage or soil conditions stay warm and wet. Upper tubers near surface are most at risk. disease can spread across fields via spores carried by wind and rain. Copper-based fungicides, including Bordeaux mix, are advised during growth, with copper lime dust showing effectiveness.
Cambridge notes Mary Scaglione and Helen McInerney attending a Girls Store event at Skidmore College in Saratoga this week.
Walter Callahan a former Hoosick Falls native and Piusfield Massachusetts resident died Wednesday in the station hospital at Wright Field Dayton after several days of treatment following an airplane accident He was a member of the Army Air Force son of the late Timothy and Mary Mahoney Callahan He worked for General Electric Pitts Jungle before enlisting two years ago and married Helen Noon of Pitts- while the people walk through a field The narrative text is damaged and partially unreadable.
The waste paper drive is lagging in Troy as mills with key war contracts exhaust supplies and some shut down. National and local efforts urge renewed vigor since waste paper is critical to war production, with 62 percent of usable paper from industry and 39 percent from homes and farms.
Homer Sikworth of Greenwich is elected Washington County Commander of the American Legion. Edward Walsh of Fort Edward becomes first vice commander. Thomas Skerin of Greenwich as adjutant treasurer. Rev. Thomas A. Aveitke of Whitehall as chaplain. Harrys Lee from Hudson Falls as service officer.
The Rensselaer board of education, following guidance from the State Department of Education, splits the combined position within the school system. The army is planning salvage efforts in North Africa and the Southeast theater as part of ongoing operations.
The article reports Kenneth MacFarland, superintendent of schools, presiding over Van Rensselaer Junior High School activities. It outlines measures and improvements in district schools and highlights leadership efforts across the school system.
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