New York Markets See Varied Gains AcrossIndustrials
Stocks showed mixed advances with several major issues trading higher while others drifted. U S Steel Bethlehem General Motors DuPont Montgomery Ward and others rose, while Great Western Sugar fell after a dividend cut. overall cautious investing kept leaders near peak prices for the year.
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New York
Patt
Great Western
Geesion
U.S. Steel
Bethlehem
Youngstown Sheet & Tube
General Motors
Chr
du Pont
Montgomery Ward
Douglas Azcraft
York Central
Southerm Pacite
New York Wholesale Food Prices and Poultry Rates
Daily market report lists steady prices for flour rye cornmeal and buckwheat with OPA price limits. Butter cheese eggs dressed poultry and live fowl prices are given by weight and grade, with notes on cartons scores and premiums for creamery butter and current wholesale egg quotes.
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York
Mer
Sofale Elle
New York
Ascot
Zita
Sodhibs
SRI
Walter Patrick Granted Guardianship for Litigation
Walter T. Patrick of 393 Tenth Street was named guardian for his minor son to allow a suit against Beastrice Coghit of Cropseyville for injuries from an April 17 car crash on Tenth Street. Mackrell and Ranney represent the guardian.
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Walter T. Patrick
Tenth Street
Supreme Court
Francis
K Beastrice Coghit Cropseyville
Cropeesville
Mackrell & Ranney
Guardian
New Stamp Offered for Sale May 22
A three cent stamp commemorating the 125th anniversary of the SS Savannah sailing will be issued and sold after May 22 National Maritime Day in Savannah Georgia and Kings Point New York. It features the SS Savannah voyage from Savannah to Liverpool and includes denomination marks and dates with a philatelic release through the Philadelphia agency.
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Savannah
Atliantic
Froy
Frank Mr ‘Collins
National Maritime
Savenesh
Kings Point
N.Y
OS Sy
Merchant Marine Academy
Atty
Mah Wrick
Savannan Oe
Liversool
Ergiend
Cormer
Great Nee
Hings Point
Casa
Philatelic Agency
Post Office Department
Washington
B. C
O'Connell Sworn as Treasury General Counsel in Washington
Joseph J. O'Connell of Sarsnas Lake North Carolina was sworn in yesterday as general counsel of the Treasury succeeding Randolph Paul. At age 32 he becomes one of the youngest in Treasury history. Swearing in was done by Frank Birgfeld with high Treasury officials present including Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr.
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lAtegheny Ludina
Baty i
Fas Chalmers
St of Jam Car & Fey SiAm Loco i
Abe Sorel
Amt Steel F
Charmour
ALS T&s
Bendixn Aviation
Boeing Air
Borden
Credis
Com & So
Con Edison
Satstruss
Det & Had Ag
Douglas
Ty Electric Best
Gen Foods Corp
Geo Motors
Govevich
Goodyear
Homestoke
Kennecott
Go’ Connell
Kresger
Nat Dairy
Nat Distillers
Central
North Asset
Ats
Lotis
Ohio Oil
Las We Packard Motors
Pan-Amer Corp
Pennsylvania
Pepsi-Cola
Red Phillips Petal
Public Service
Pullman Co
X Radio Corp
Ae I
Repab Steel
Reynolds
Schenney Boel
Sears-Roebuck
I Sinclair Oi
Socony Vacuum
Southern Pacific
SBE
Southern Rr
I da Pi
Sperry Corp
Stand. Brends
Cal. Bis
Banc Oi Ny
Iss
I Texas
Bu Union Carbide
Union
Unit Air Corps
United Fruit
United Gas Imp
Steel
War. R Se, Bros
Union of
West Ir Brake & M
West EL
Overland
Woolworth
Washington
Joseph J. O'Connell
Sarsnac Lake
N. C
The
Treasury
Randolph Paul
O'Connell
Frank 4. Birgfeld
Henry Morgenthay, Jr
Postwar Jobs Forecast For Troy Area From CED Report
The CED chaired by Francis E. Gallagher with Prof. W. Spafford reports 2000 new postwar jobs in the Troy area shortly after the war, with manufacturing gains offset by declines in war plants. The study uses 1940 census data and recruited surveys to project labor shifts, noting wives and students returning workers, and plans for peacetime industries.
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Francis E. Gallagher
CED
W. Spafford
Gener Helles
Troy
Committee For Economic Development
Gallagher
Spafford
Rensselaer’ Polytechnic Institute
U. S
Politia
Studenta
Manufacturion
Green Island to Host Annual Com munior Breakfast
Green Island Council K of C plans the junior breakfast on May 23 aiming for 250 attendees. A prominent attorney will speak, with his name to be announced. The council seeks military addresses of veterans in service.
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Green Island Council
K of C
Tooms
Special Village Meeting to Set Next Year’s Tax Rate
A village special meeting will be held Monday evening at the corporation salt to fix the coming year’s tax rate. Two sailors, Walter J. Kane and John McCarthy, recently home on liberty from Sampson, are named. Taxes due tomorrow. Mrs. Catharine Sullivan, tax collector, will take payments at 37 Arch Street from 7 to 9 pm today and tomorrow. County taxes payable in Albany after tomorrow with a 2.5 percent penalty. Erie item notes plan to replace carriers with women due to drafts.
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Sampson
Navy
Liberty
Walter J. Kane
Hudson Avenue
John McCarthy
Paine Street
Catherine Sullivan
Sullivan
Arch Street
Albany
Bartlett's winter laying chickens praised as hardy breed
Wheatland Wyoming breeder Albert B Bartlett claims a chicken that lays year round. His Bartlett hens, a strain of Leghorns, won U S egg laying contests in 1982 and 325 eggs by one hen in a year. His hatcheries now produce about 40 000 chicks and 20 000 market eggs annually with Farm Security Administration support.
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Wheatland
Wyo
Albert B. Bartlett
Bartlett
Wyoming
Bartlhett
Farm Security Administration
Bartlett Hatcheries
Shrub Cultivation Tips for Healthier Hedgerows
The text advises applying two to three inches of mature sewage sludge or peatmoss around shrub roots for soil benefit and emphasizes keeping shrubs cultivated during the first two to three years to prevent weed competition. It recommends shallow cultivation of one to two inches and favors hedges with topslope cutting to ensure sunlight reaches all branch tips.
Victory Garry Trim Shrubbery and Hedges For Sunlight
Written for NEA guidance on shrub placement and trimming. Proper spacing reduces future work. prune only dead wood and excess growth at attachment points. Use sharp pruning shears not hedge shears. Fertilize per shrub with two to three pounds every two years, adjusting for soil type and plant health.
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Henry Spree
NEA
Reminder on stamp dates and red stamp validity
District housewives were reminded by the Office of Price Administration that the latest rationing order changes red stamp validity. Only certain red stamps become usable again on June 3, and weekly point totals are reduced from sixty to ten or fewer points in a four week period. Red stamps AG through Q3 remain valid with no expiration.
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Trey
Office of Price Administration
Albany
Scrap Paper Routes Listed for Saturday
Scrap paper routes for Saturday cover Hoosick Street from city line to Burdett Avenue and surrounding blocks. Boy Scouts Troop 31 will collect all day in uniform, tying paper in bundles and leaving on front porches or inside homes. Mayor John J. Ahern will mark the stations and wagons for collection.
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Hoosick
Burdett Avenue
Burtlett
Titsbita Avenue
Fifteenth Street
Witteenth
College Avenue
College
Eighth Street
Boyz Scouts of
Inick
John J. Ahern
Five Star Mothers Sought by Red Cross
Red Cross seeks mothers with sons or daughters in service to register with the Rensselaer County Chapter at the Proctor Building. Gold Star mothers in Troy also to receive decorations at a May 22 ceremony in Music Hall. names due by Monday.
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Rensselaer County
Red Cross
Proctor
Troy
Barrier plant choices for hedges and sieving rot issues
The text notes barrier plants like barberry and unsheared barriers reduce maintenance costs and resist cross traffic damage. It suggests hedges with screens, allowing growth, and lists Amur River Privet Five leaf Avalia Hawthorn Burkthorn as suitable varieties for hedge planting.
Price Updates In Albany OPA List For Fresh Produce
The Albany District OPA releases a new ceiling price list for Troy Schenectady Green Island Cohoes Watervliet Albany and Rensselaer showing orange prices up three to five cents per dozen depending on size lemons up five to six cents per dozen grapefruit fourteen to sixteen ounces up one cent and other changes cucumbers down one cent per pound eggplant up one cent per pound white potatoes up two cents on five pound bags and six cents on twelve pound Kraft bags carrots pricing by weight or bunch with ten cents per pound for under one pound and ten cents per bunch for one pound or more.
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Albany
OPA
Troy
Schenectady
Green Island
Cohoes
Watervliet
Rensselaer
Florida
Iceland Likes Yanks Says Icelandic Church Leader
Bishop Sigueger Sigurdason, head of the National Church of Iceland, told Mayor LaGuardia that Icelanders favor American soldiers. He said many soldiers plan to bring families to Iceland after the war for visits and some may choose to live there.
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Iceland
New York
Ins
Sigueger Sigurdason
National Church of Iceland
A. LaGuardia
Tseland
Gas Ration Board Says Vacations Do Not Require Permits
Charles J. Prethofer, chair of Reeseemer County Troy City Rationing Board, announced that no special vacation permit is needed for summer driving using A gasration coupons. He warned that A coupons must not be used for pleasure trips and explained annual allowances, noting 24 gallons for three months and typical miles per gallon.
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Troy District
Charles Jc. _ Presboter
Reeseemer County
Troy City
Originator of Poppy Day Dies in Georgia
Miss Moina Michael of Athens Georgia who originated Poppy Day in 1918 died after months of illness. She helped launch the memorial for war dead and sailors who died at sea and inspired poppy use in the United States and Britain. She taught at the University of Georgia for 25 years and was honored with a state statue.
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Athens
Moina Michael
Savannah
Annapolis
Roosevelt
Michael
University of Georgia
Georgia
State Capitol
American Legion
British Legion
Miss. Michael
United States Naval Academy
Miss Michael
Flanders Field Memorial
Col
John McCrea
Flanders Field
States of the Union
Great Britain
British Empire
Communications in the United States Reach Vast Wire Network
The article notes extensive U S communications infrastructure with more than 88 million miles of telephone wires 2.3 million miles of telegraph and cable lines and 300 thousand miles of power wires. It emphasizes the scale of national wiring and its role in connectivity.
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U.S
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Foster
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Walter Patrick
New York Central Railroad
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Farmers’ Market
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Amer Gas & Et We
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Essarole
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Glen Aiden
Niage & Hudson
Pennroad Corp
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Regis Papalis
Republic Aire
Adnilcotor
Home Front
Troy Area
Tee
Erie
Charles HL. Schloss
Albers Bartlett
Victory Garry
Peta
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