Victory Garden Melon and Bean Advice for Early Summer Planting
Garden guidance notes that musk melons and watermelons should not be started from seed now. Ventilate hotcaps, then reinforce with careful later removal. Other vine crops cucumbers squash and pumpkins can still be planted before mid June. Protect young plants with cucumber dust to deter pests and disease. Bean blight and anthracnose threaten yields in wet weather. remove diseased plants promptly and avoid work when plants are wet.
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Victory Garden
Bean Seed Disease Control Advised for Gardeners
Gardeners are urged to prevent disease spread by watering only when plants are dry and avoiding cultivation along wet conditions. Insects visiting diseased plants can transfer pathogens, so controlling pests helps protect healthy beans. Western brown seed free of disease is recommended for late plantings.
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Tate
Volunteers Sought for Surgical Dressings at Red Cross
Volunteers are needed to make surgical dressings at the Red Cross room located in Manufacturers Bank at Fourth and Grand Streets. The rooms are open Mondays from 9 30 a m to 9 p m and Wednesdays and Fridays from 9 30 a m to 4 p m.
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Red Cross
Manufacturers Bank
Fourth and
Grand Streets
Albany Soldier Wounded in North Africa
Pvt. Douglas A. Gillespie Jr., son of Maj. Douglas A. Gillespie and grandson of Harry Gillespie of the Albany Bureau of Streets, is reported wounded in North Africa. He has earned several citations and the Purple Heart presented by Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt. His brothers include Francis H., a flying cadet at Randolph Field, Tex., and Henry A., who plans Army service after graduation from George Washington High School in New York City.
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Pvt
Douglas A. Gillespie, Jr
Douglas A. Gillespie
Harry Gillespie
Albany Bureau of Streets
North Africa
Gillespie
Theodore Roosevelt
Francis H
Randolph Field
Tex
Henry A
Army
Geo .On High School
New York City
Education of War Workers Proposed
Lawrence A. Appley War Manpower commissioner executive director urges industry run a nationwide on the job education campaign for war production workers. He argues most workers lack understanding of their role in industrial production and calls for plant or community level morale building without taxpayer funded publicity.
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Lawrence A. Appley
Appley
Socony Vacuum
American Management Association
War Department
Army
Local residents attend college graduation and naval returns
Whitehall Richard Duffy of the U S Navy returns to duty after visiting his parents Mr and Mrs Daniel Duffy Capt Albert Lacasse of the U S Army who had been on leave with his wife and son also returns to duty He has served 16 years Mrs Alva Jennette and daughter Constance attended Mount Assumption College Plattsburg graduation with Donald LaPierre a recent graduate who will enter the Navy tomorrow Public schools eighth grade commencement was held in the high school auditorium Anne Pilcher led the welcome address A group of graduates performed a choral reading The class sang Your Land and My Land Anne Baccalaureate services were held in the high school auditorium Rev James A Brownlee delivered the invocation Rev Joseph Pelletier gave the baccalaureate address Prayers were offered for the armed forces and the benediction was given by Rev Stephen Cunliffe The high school orchestra played the processional and recessional under Miss Catherine Closson’s direction.
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Richard Duffy
U. S. Navy
Daniel Duffy
Albert Lacasse
U. S. Army
Alva Jennette
Constance
Mount Assumption College
Plattsburg
Donald LaPierre
James A. Brownlee
Methodist Church
Russell Moore
Holy City
Catherine Closson
Joseph Pelletier
Notre Dame Des Victoires Church
Edward A. Dougher
Stephen Cunliffe
Draft Board Burned Up Too Burned Up Too
New York reports Jacob Finkel, 38, posted bail of 2060 dollars after claiming a sunburn prevented him from reporting for induction. He had been notified four days before his 38th birthday and received a five day suspension for reporting with the sunburn and then claimed to be 38 or average when contacting the draft board. Commissioner Garrett W. Cotter ordered bail pending grand jury action on evading the Selective Service Act.
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New York
LNL
Jacob Finkel
Finkel
Draft Board
Garrett W. Cotter
Girl Graduate Drowns in Pool
Funeral services were planned today for Lot tie Migon, 14, who drowned in the salt pool at Onondaga Lake Parkway Monday, a few hours after she graduated from the eighth grade. The pool had not opened for the season due to a lack of lifeguards.
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Syracuse
U.P
Lottie Migon
Onondaga Lake
Farkway
Stillwater Graduation Exercises for 1943 Class
Graduation exercises at Stillwater High School opened Monday in the auditorium with a full program. Students presented a processional, band music, invocations, salutatory by Dorothy Gorsky, and several patriotic songs and addresses. The class included Ruth Collamer, Stella Stockwicz, Thomas Osmond, and others. Class officers named with Osmond as president, and the event featured diplomas, a presentation of the class, and the national anthem. Personal furloughs, hospital returns, and a farewell party for Howard C. Akin were noted, with community members and relatives listed as attendees.
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Lyman A. Talman
Schoonmaker Memorial Presbyterian Church
Dorothy Gorsky
America
Raymond Nelson
Thomas Osmond
William Fordham
Stella Stockwicz
Albert Bartelt
Loig Walsh
Nelson ‘Aarmlin
Arthur H. Vinett
Board of Education
John C. Elliot
Methodist Church
Ruth Collamer
Dorothy Gora Bessie Parry
Francis Peacock
Mary Stewart
Frances Tanner
Edith Wagoner
Albert Barholt
Francis Benson
Walter Hewitt
Richard Moore
Raymond
Post Song Wanted at Fort Devens Mass
Fort Devens Massachusetts invites WAAC song writers to submit manuscripts for a post song. The call seeks new music and lyrics appropriate for the post, with hopeful prospects for publication and performance by service members.
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Fort Devens
Mass
Ins
WAAC
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