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Big Victory Paradeis Staged in City(Continued from Page 1)iliary, William D. Byron Post Number 1936, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and auxiliary, all had I’aj-ge numbers in line.Girl and Boy Scouts, several Negro organizations, junior police, and niany other bodies were represented by large or small groups.Two local industries that have played a major part in the war effort—Pangborn Corporation and Fairchild Aircraft—and many otherPlocal factories or busineBses had floats or their entire body of employees in line. Pangborn Corporation employees carried flags of the Allied nations, and a piece of their sand-blasting equipment was transported oh a truck as a float. Fairchild presented an elaborately decorated, large float whose central motif was the C-82 Cargo plane. The Hagerstown Shoe and Legging employees marched as a body. C. P. Telephone Company local employees were in line, the telephone girls with their headsets in place and preceded by an operatorwith switchboard mounted on atruck. Other firms were represented by their gaily decorated trucks.Humor found its way into the parade at many places. The Funks-town firemen v?ere busy strangling a huge Japanese dummy, and a hula-hula dance was in progress on another truck.IThe Mason and Dixon Kennel Club had several of their members’ finest purebred dogs on a float,while several horses calmly sharedin the procession. At the very end, thousands of individuals joined in the line of march to accompany the parade to the Fairgrounds.More than an hour before the scheduled start of the parade, dozens of persons were already waiting along the line of march or in the gaily decorated Public Square, Civil Air Patrol planes flew overhead an hour before starting time. Bursting of aerial bombs marked the beginning of the parade itself, which began moving at 8 p. m. sharp, under the capable direction of the Alsatians.mean some local shortages for a while, but predicted the supply agencies would be able to take care of these trouble spots quickly.Bowles also announced the removal of price control on a large number of minor Items, and the suspension of price control on so-called luxury furs and fur garments.Included in the items removedfrom price control are many items of jewelry, sports equipment, toys selling at 25 cents or less, cigarette lighters, pipes, some photographic apparatus, clothes-pins and notions,* • # « Censorship Ended:Statement GivenWashington, Aug. 15 —VoluntaryYouth Is InjuredWhen Hit By AutoTen-year-old Paul Albert Castle, Keedysville, Rt, 1, was seriouslyinjured at 6;.40 p. m. Tuesday when knocked from his bicycle by a car driven by Ernest Merflll Ferguson, also of Keedysville, Rt- 1.Ferguson, a soldier borne from overseas, told Deputy Bruce Spick-ler that as he turned a bend in the Keedyaville-Mt Briar road he rancensorship ended at 3:35 p. m. (EWT) today and Censorship Director Byron Price told editors and broadcasters they had contributadgreatly to the glorious victory.”Publications and radio stations now are free to print or publish almost any facts they pick up. But censorship still applies to correspondents assigned to military and naval forces in the field, who had to sign pledges to submit stories or photographs to military censors before transmission.President Truman directed abolition of voluntary censorship on Price’s recommendation.Price, who had recommended the Presidential action to end the voluntary censorship under which the domestic press and radio have operated, promptly issued the following:“Note to editors and broadcasters:‘Tt gives me great pleasure to inform you that effective at once, voluntary censorship is ended and the code and its attendant caustions entirely cancelled.“During the long trying years since Pearl Harbor you have written a bright page in the history of free enterprise. No one will dare question hereafter that your patriotism and patient cooperation have lontributed greatly to the glorious victory,V •You deserve, and you have, the thanks and appreciation of your government And my own grati* tude and that of my colleagues inthe unpleasant task of administering censorship is beyond words or limit/*Voluntar' domestic censorship was entirely distinct from military censorship under which war correspondents operated in the field. Such correspondents were pledged to submit copy and photographs for censorship by military officials.The Army and Navy have announced no change in this system which normally is a matter for determination by top field commanders.
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Hagerstown Morning Herald
Hagerstown, Maryland, US
Thu, Aug 16, 1945
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