Timely sprays curb apple maggot in New York orchards
A Gen Eva New York State College bulletin notes arsenical sprays, including lead arsenate and calcium arsenate, can control the apple maggot in New York apple regions and in plum orchards. It cites timing, with emergence peaking mid July, and advises two applications starting about a week after emergence begins.
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New York
Ment
Gen
Eva
N. Y
P. J. Chapman
Bulletin
Orchard Pest Control Practices in Small Plantings
The text notes yearly issues with apple trees and peat in small orchards near woods and buildings. It mentions removing four apple trees and a 15 to 150 yard range of commercial plantings and argues that pest control is difficult but can be aided by thorough spraying in average commercial plantings.
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Apa
Wren
Eler
Improvements Surge in Home and Business Work
Improvements to homes and businesses have surged with almost $60,000 spent since last December. FHA lending limits are cited, while overall building permits through June total $135,850, about four and a half times last year. The post office expansion project accounts for $40,500 of the total.
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Persens
FHA
City Post Office
Pri
Unemployment Down in Winchester and Frederick Counties
Several heavy jobs are under way in the city with two road projects Millwood avenue and Valley Pike entrance to the city. The local National Reemployment Service reports improved employment and rising business across hardware and farm implement sectors as county properties undergo repairs and paint, while new construction remains limited.
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Millwood Avenue
Valley Pike
National
Winchester
Frederick County
Pratt vows to free air from objectionable programs
COLORADO SPRINGS Colo July 9 Anning S Pratt chairman of the Communications Commission served notice of the commissioner's intention to free the air of objectionable programs. In a speech before the 13th annual NAB convention he cited commercial medical and children's programs lacking good taste.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
Anning
Pratt
The
Communications Commission
National Association of Broadcasters
Virginia Sees tourist boom with 1935 rise in visitors
Thousands visit Virginia for vacations as hotel figures rise over 1934. The State Commission on Conservation and Development, via its tourist bureau, distributed over 170000 literature pieces in spring. Fall ad program planned to boost the Skyline Drive Williamsburg resorts attracting more visitors to the state.
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Old Dominion
Virginia
State Commission On Conservation and Development
Washington
Williamsburg
Navy seeks enlistments in Martinsburg station posting
Vr. G. Parker, petty officer in charge of enlistments for the United States Navy, states the navy is accepting applications. Anyone seeking information on benefits should apply in person or write to the navy recruiting station, post office building, Martinsburg, West Virginia.
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Vr. G. Parker
United States Navy
Navy
Martinsburg
W. Va
Cedar Rust Gaining In Panhandle Apple Belt
Growers across eastern West Virginia report heavy cedar rust damage in the Panhandle apple belt. A Hampshire grower with 200 acres says a whole part of his orchard was eaten by the rust fungi. The West Virginia Horticulture Society asks Governor McLaughlin to authorize cedar cutting as a relief project or under state law to remove red cedars within three miles of commercial orchards, funded by county levies.
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Virginia Panhandle
County
Jefferson
Hampshire
West Virginia
State Department of Agriculture
Malaria Checks in Three Days After Colds First Day
A brief report notes malaria checks scheduled three days after an incident described as the cold's first day. Medical staff emphasize testing windows and follow up.
Pact Scrapped By West Virginia Rhodes Declares
Virginia moves to require West Virginia trucks to buy licenses as cross border truce ends. Commissioner John Q. Rhodes notes arrests since July 1 but withholds WV violator counts and says no dispute with Maryland. The WV law voided reciprocity on July 1 as announced.
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West Virginia
Rhodes
Virginia
John Q. Rhodes
Maryland
Capital Combed For Archives of U. S. Government
Nine historian detectives begin a broad search for 3.5 million cubic feet of official documents stored in about 150 buildings across Washington DC. They aim to assemble the mass of letters orders rules files and statistics for the first time in the new archives building for study by students and writers. Archivist R D W Connor estimates the treasure spans the District.
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Washington
White House
United States of America
District of Columbia
R. D. W. Connor
Flashes of Life and Odd Encounters Across Regions
AP report from Asheville details F W McCaw Sr and son fishing all day with no catch until a large trout leaped into their boat. In Mound Ridge Kansas a rabbit dodges a dog by entering a wheat binder and emerges wrapped in straw before escaping.
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Asheville
N. C
F. W. McCawless, Sr
French Broad River
Mound Ridge
Kas
D. O. Rupp
Orient émigré hunts ancient egg in city mix up
Dr. Frederic Nelson Foes arrives from the Orient and Isley frantically searches for a very old egg said to be laid by a pterodactyl some 50,000,000 years ago, mislaid during disembarking.
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San Francisco
Frederic Nelson Foes
Orient
Isley
Buckie the Deer Returns Home in Townsend Montana
Jack Reynolds reunites with his long lost pet Buckie a three year old deer after spotting the animal on a hiking trip Buckie followed Reynolds home and rested on the kitchen floor The deer was found as a fawn in 1932 and later returned to its owner in Townsend Montana
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Buckie
Townsend
Mont
Jack Reynolds
Reynolds
Parachute Jumper Hauls Out By Irritated Farmer
An angry farmer accuses parachute jumper Herman Salmon of being a public nuisance after pulling him from a cabbage patch near an airport during an exhibition jump. The jumpers missed the field by a mile.
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Milwaukee
Herman Salmon
Stork Delivers 12-Pound Boy En Route to Hospital
In Chicago two policemen assisted Mrs Celia Waser 25 as the stork outran them to a hospital a 12 pound boy was born on the way with Officer Herman Stirke present and Officer Frank McInerney driving. Woodstock sheriff Henry Nulle said he arrested four men in a back to nature counterfeit gang raiding a hob o jungle near the city. They allegedly made 25 cent pieces from stolen silverware using clay for a mold and a ladle fashioned from a food bottle top.
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Chicago
Celia Waser
Herman Stirke
Frank McInerney
Woodstock
Ill
Henry Nulle
McHenry County
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John W. Rosenberger & CO
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