The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-08-09

$50 lOI the SIX uloIlInS eIlullS JUNE
80, 1945.
j. d. Coleman, director of Mary
land Blue Cross disqualification
Plan, has announced an enrolment
of 320,623 members.
Two babies have been named
Aberdeen" after the Aberdeen
Army Post. Both babies were born
at the station hospital.
More than $50 engineers of the
Glenn L. Martin Company complet-
ed an intensive 20-week course in
Detail Aircraft Structural Analysis.
Plans are under way for the Cum
berland Fair, to be opened on Tues
day, Aug. IA, and run through Fri
day, Aug. II. w. c. Weber of Cum
berland, will be judge of the poultry,
pigeons and pets.
Governor Herbert r. O'Conor has
announced appointment of state
wide committee, whose duty will be
to consider changes of state legisla-
ton governing the adoption of chill
dren.
Glenn L. Martin, Baltimore plane
manufacturer, has eliminated HIM
self as a possible Republican nomi-
nee for senator or governor. MIR.
Martin has made the statement, II
am not running for any public
Office"
A 15-year-old Harve de Grace
boy was held for a hearing in the
Juvenile curt, accused of attempt
ing to wreck Pennsylvania Rail
road passenger train by placing
crossties across the tracks.
Goodeuse is being made of foreign
labor in getting crops gathered in
Baltimore County. Jamaicans are
said to be especially good at picking
beans and tomatoes, while prisoners
of war prefer to do grain and hay
harvesting and other general farm
work.
Many restaurants and grocery
stores in Baltimore are closing
periods from one week to one month,
to give employees a vacation. Many
are taking advantage of this time
for interior decorating or other i'm
provements which they can not do
while serving the public.
DR.. Ernest N. Cory Professor of
Entomology at the University of
Maryland, has been re-appointed as
member of the Department of Re-
search and Education of the Board
of Natural Resources. The term will
be for five years.
An urgent appeal has been made
for volunteer workers for Red Cross
duty in the military hospitals of
our country. Three thousand wo-
men are needed, and Governor
O'Conor urges that all who can lend
their services to this noble work, do
so promptly.
A permit to establish a girls
school at Brooklandville Md, on the
property owned by DR.. Walter
Wickes, and his daughter, Mrs. w.
F. Cochran, Jr., was granted the
owners, and the estate of approx
mately 100 acres will be sold to an
undisclosed order of Catholic nuns.
Officials of the Kelly Springfield
Tire Co., plant in Cumberland, have
announced that approximately 3d.
VVU,OOUs lids DCGI spent OuTLlS The
last two years for the replacement
of modern equipment, to make pro-
duction of tires and tubes easier, and
also to be prepared for full produc-
ton after the war.
In connection with the third an
niversary of the organizing of the
WAVES, Mayor McKelden, of Balti-
more, urged the women to consider
the call of 10000 more WAVES for
the Navy. He paid deserving trib-
ute to the women of Baltimore now
serving, and urged others to heed
the call, so that by their service in
the Navy, victory in the Pacific may
be speeded.
A large number of retired teachers
who receive pensions under the
teachers retirement system, will be