Victory Gardeners See Wartime Food Gains In Troy
Dr S Mac Naughton notes labor by Troy Victory Gardeners is paying off with mature crops. Tomatoes and potatoes show strong progress across city projects, aided by careful staking and neat plots. Visitors Paul Young Samuel Dorrance and Elton Hanks tour Lans ingburg gardens and praise many first timers.
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S. Mac Naughton
Troy Victory
Victory
Victory Garden
Paul
Young
Rensselaer County Victory Garden Council
Samuel B. Dorrance
Elton K. Hanks
Agri
Victory Garden thrives with diverse crops at Gurley Avenue
Read in the community garden notes that a garden plot at Gurley Avenue hosts a potato section and a variety of crops including cabbage beans beets carrots turnips squash cucumbers lettuce kale kohl rabi endive peppers corn cauliflower and even watermelon. Despite some tomato crowding and beetle challenges gardeners show strong enthusiasm planning bigger plots next year. most popular crop is tomatoes for home canning.
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Ingburg Boy's Club
Gurley Avenue
Victory
Department of Agriculture
WPB
War Food Administration
OCD
OPA
Atlantic
Pacific
WPB Sets 100 Percent Safety Pin Production Quota
Washington reports that WPB will order a 100 percent boost in safety pin output for the third quarter as plants run at only 35 percent of prewar quotas. Civilians will gain access to carded and bundled pins over the counter, with hospitals already supplied despite shortages. A separate note mentions a tomato surplus forecast by Department of Agriculture specialists.
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Betty Macdonwald
Essential and Expanded Draft Deferment Rules Updated
The Selective Service System in Washington added more occupations to the essential list guiding deferments. New entries include Federal Reserve banks, mining and paper products, carbon black, gypsum mining, and several manufacturing and repair sectors. Deferment rules for students in scientific fields were tightened to limit freshmen deferments and two year graduation completion rules for certain courses.
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Washington
Federal Reserve
Selective Service
Wave of Strikes Hit Lisbon Shipyards in Portugal
Virtual military rule spread from Lisbon and across Portugal as thousands of workers led by families demanded better food distribution. Strikes hit Lisbon’s Tagus shipyards. some workers returned to posts today while authorities, led by Major Botelho Moniz, mobilized workers and key industries.
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Lisbon
INL
Portugal
Vaz
Italy
Tagus
Botelho Moniz
Three Troy Boys Enter Marine Service in South
Three Troy youths from Troy have enlisted in the U S Marine Corps and left the Albany recruit and induction station on July 28 to begin training at Parris Island. The three are John Edward Martin of 99 Fifth Avenue, Arthur F Vascherault of 286 Ninth Street, and Richard Joseph Dooley.
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Troy
U. S. Marine Corps
Alnany
Parris Island
D. C
John Edward Martin
Henry J. Martin
Fifth Avenue
Arthur F. Vascherault
Arthur Vascherault
Ninth Street
Richard Joseph Dooley
Dooley Son of Local Residents Planned Marine Corps Service
Private Martin Dooley, son of Mr and Mrs Bernard Dooley of 69 Glen Avenue, left for Marine Corps service after working at Super 4A P Market and A P Tea Co. He is a graduate of Catholic Central High and La Salle Institute. A Presbyterian Church Missionary Society picnic in Green Island, postponed from yesterday, will be held at Mrs Bertha Lawlor's home in Latham today.
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Bernard Dooley
Glen Avenue
Marine Corps
Martin
Catholic Central
Dooley
A. & P. Tea Co
la Salle Institute
The
Missionary Society of the Presbyyerian Church of
Green Island
Bertha Lawlor
Latham
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Hanks
Gardner
Lans
Rotes Cay
TDMAC
RAMS
George B. Lee, Inc
Seventh Avenue
Rendova
Rendova Island
Munda
New Georgia
O.P.A
Isis Hosiery
Lowlee Hosiery
Syncrest
Sheers
Rayon Rayon
Tc Toe
U. S
Europe
Virginio Gayda
Rome
Giornale d'Italia
Mussolini
South
Nabisco
National Biscuit Company
Ere
Riera
W.H. Bumstead, Inc
Congress ST
Sixth Ave
Packard
Twe
Packard Marine
REHP
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