The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-01-18
Items of Interest
From Entire State

January 4 marked the sixth year
Governor O'Conor has served as
Maryland's governor-the longest
continuous service of any chief ex-
ecutive in the nation.
The University of Maryland Ex-
tension Service will hold 20 feeding
schools in 16 counties throughout
the state, covering dairying, crops,
animal husbandry or combinations
of these subjects, during the months
Of January and February.
Because "the factory is SO loaded
with war work of a pressing nature
that manpower for civilian items
has been unavailable" Montgomery
County dog tags for 1915 will not be
available until February l.
Cancellation of orders for Is cars
of phosphate fertilizer for Maryland
farmers in 1914 was announced last
week because transportation facili-
ties were not available to make de-
iveries before December 81 which
was the deadline agreed upon.
The January term of the Mary
land Court of Appeals, its first UNI
der the reorganization provided in
constitutional amendment approx
ed by voters last November, conven-
ed in Annapolis, Tuesday, Jan. 9th.
! The first 1945 rush of Baltimore
income taxpayers begun last week,
with a special force of IS deputies
assisting the steady stream of those
filing their 1914 amended returns
before the deadline on January is.
There were 446 cases of polio re-
ported in Maryland in 1914, which
surpassed the number of cases in
the last seven years, all of which
were classified as epidemic years Of
the disease in the state.
The Mayor and City Council Of
Cumberland went on record as ia
voring home rule and authorized
Charles z. Heskett, city attorney
! to prepare a resolution to be sub
nlitted to the Legislature.
A sale of personal property OF
Mrs S. L. Walters near Funkstown
attracted such crowds that attend
ants said it resembled a small fair
Items including purebred and
grade cattle, horses, mules, ma
chinery, dairy equipment and feed
brought a total of approximately
$4,000.
Two members of the train crew
were killed when the engine of a
troop train on the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad blew up about five
miles west of Buck lodge, Montgom-
cry County. None of the troops
who were enroute to western
camp, were injured.
An infant girl and an unidentified
man were burned to death and eight
other persons were injured in a fire
which destroyed a residence on
Myrtle avenue, Baltimore, trapping
the occupants in their bedrooms.
AS a reward for purchasing more
than $250,000 worth of bonds during
the Sixth War Loan, Amicable
Lodge No. Is of the Masonic order
will be permitted to name a Liberia
tor bomber, the cost of which was
covered by the purchase which to-
tailed $780, $50, in Baltimore.
A resolution asking the State
Legislature to finance a field 1abora-
tory in Western Maryland for carry
ing out research on fruit tree pests
and diseases was passed at recent
meeting of the Maryland Horticul-
tural Society in Hagerstown.
Dr. T. B. Symons in an address
at the annual meetings of the Mary
land Farm Bureau, the Maryland
Agriculture Socictl and affiliated
organizations held recently in Balti-
more declared that Maryland farm
ers "Must duplicate in 1915 their
amazing record production oil 1944''
because "1945 will be more critical
for the country than 1914, in almost
every aspect of the war;"
Twelve combat veterans, one a
Navy nurse, oil with varied exper-
fence on the battle front, were well
coined by Mayor McKeldin before
beginning tour of % war plants
in Baltimore and nearby in Fire
power for Eisenhower" week, which
U. S. Army engineers from Balti-
more and Columbia, Pa, blasted an
ice jam in the Susquehanna river
south of Columbia last week where
backed-up water menaced property.
was observed last week.
The aircraft warning center of the
Baltimore Committee on Civilian
Defense, stated by women volun-
teers since December. q, 1871, has
closed and city police have been