Home Repairs Over $5 Mil
Herald of July 21, 1949
Repair expenditures on Blair County’s non-farm homes will total an estimated $5,243,000 during 1949 and will serve as an important factor in keeping both labor and business activity at high levels, according to a report just released by the Title Council of America.
One of the outstanding features of the Altoona Centennial two-day Air Show to be held Saturday and Sunday, August 13 and August 14 at the Blair County Airport, Martinsburg, will be the presence of Air Force and Navy Fighting Planes.
The Blue Mountain Cannery at Martinsburg is preparing to can a bumper crop of corn–with yields expected to reach 110 percent of normal–beginning about Monday, August 8.
Farmers recently have been getting less than half of each dollar spent by consumers for farm food products, reports the United States Department of Agriculture through the office of the Pennsylvania Production and Marketing Committee in Harrisburg.
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