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iteonWneusca-iedigiice..byor a iwo*aay session.Camp to Operate 'on Partial Basis Into 1946,en-billtaxieroldinEs306ameicont:yearTImention’virti- Ui sentWar Dep't Says seeltheContrary to a multitude of re evet ports circulating in Hagerstown 'p over the wek-end-, a high-ranking pric Army officer declared -last night | buil that Camp Ritchie would continue 0tht1 * Ito. operate. ern.)I .Rumors were ■ current. that the Till;I 9 ~ % #1hat camp would he abandoned, except to ; ess for small maintenance detach- she: ments, October li. horrap. Col. M. A. Walter, commanding A;Uts officer, told the Morning «Herald reel uce last night the camp would continue woi ar. to operate, but added that along \ F ible with general Army demobilizing, thower damp Ritchie would naturally de- Cotear crease its personnel.‘ He said some six changes are being made but did notelaborate. * iuc- The War Department in Wash-£ tO 1868 ihol, lug-rta-clubtoington said yesterday Camp Ritchie would be continued on a partial basis into 1946, but is being partially closed down.The Veterans Administration is said to he interested in the site for a large veterans’hospital.ofChiingasfc“arevepezIthitheteizeim c
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Hagerstown Morning Herald
Hagerstown, Maryland, US
Tue, Oct 16, 1945
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