The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-10-04


seventeen-year-old girl who is re-
ceiving treatment at Baltimore
City Hospital.
Mrs. Lucille Pennington, permit
clerk of the Circuit Courts office in
Rockville, reported 1900 hunting
licenses have been issued in five
days. The squirrel hunting season
continues through October Is
Michael Keller, a fifteen-year-o
Hyattsville lad, is still missing aft
er he disappeared two weeks ago
upon leaving a friend in Hyatts-
vile theatre. A description of the
boy has been sent to Police in all
Eastern states.
Paul Bryant, the new football
coach at the University of Maryland,
declared his charges were rounding
into top condition, and were ready
for Doc Newton's North Carolinians
with which team they opened the
season last Friday evening.
Twenty of Maryland's war plants
are on the "for sale" list. One of the
Glenn L. Martin Companies is list
ed, one of the Fairchild Divisions,
Hagerstown, and a vegetable deny
dration plant at Fruitland. All of
the others, including three Bendix
Aviation plants are in the Baltimore
area.
Officials of the Crown Cork and.
Seal Company, Baltimore, have
announced recently their intentions
and plans for building or buying
$1,250,000 machine division plant
within the city limits to replace the
present shop, which is far too small.
The State College at Towson
announces an encouraging increase
over the number of students hereto
fore enrolled, which marks the be-
ginning of an upward trend in the
enrolment of teacher recruits. There
are 126 new students entered this
year.
Mrs. William Kincaid, Silver
Spring, was the recipient of lovely
orchid flown all the way from
Hawaii by her husband, who is
Navy Lieutenant and stationed in
Hawaii for five months. The gift
arrived on Mrs Kincaid's birthday,
September Z.
President Truman and a party, of
rs picnic bound Democrats spent the
weekend of September % at the
Jefferson Island Club They left the
Naval Academy docks on the S. S.
Maryland, a converted Coast Guard
cutter now used as a pilot boat for
the eighteen-mile trip.
Governor O'Conor announced last
week that condemnation proceedings
to acquire Ingleside, a 100-acre
estate at Gainesville, as a site for
the new Cheltenham School for
Negro boys, will begin A fund Of
$1,500,000 has been set aside for its
construction.
Leo H. Mccormick, Maryland
OPA director, has announced the
resignation of the State mileage ra-
tioning officer, j. Allison Ballinger
Mr.. Ballinger has accepted a posi-
ton with a Baltimore automobile
distributor. He has been with the
OPA since its establishment in 1912.
Douglas P. Falconer, executive di-
rector of the United Seaman's Serv-
ice, made the announcement of the
closing OF the Bay Ridge rest center
for merchant seamen. The center
since its opening has provided homes
for 1886 skilled seamen convalescing
from war-incurred injuries and ILL
ness. Injuries suffered by the men
ranged from amputation cases to
frost bite.
Governor Herbert R. O'Conor re-
Gently named Major General Francis
Petrott, Adjutant General of Mary
land and a resident of Frederick, to
succeed Ambrose j. Kennedy as a
member of the Unemployment
Board of Maryland, $4,000 a year
post. Major General Petrott is an
attorney and World War I vet