Shock Kills Man Atop Power Pole
A 26 year old Rural Electric Association lineman Melvin L Morris of Woodland was killed by an electric shock while working 30 feet above Route 314 near Whiteleysburg on the Maryland Delaware border. He reportedly touched metal tools to live wires causing grounding to the pole. Morris leaves a wife Georgiana Green and two children Frank and Melvin Jr plus his parents two brothers and a sister. Services were held at Watson Funeral Home in Seaford with burial in Odd Fellows Cemetery.
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Electric Company
Whiteleysburg
Here
Maryland-Delaware
Melvin L. Morris
Woodland
Morris
Rural Electric Association
Georgiana Green
Franklin Wayne Morris
Melvin Morris, Jr
Silas Morris
Henry
Granville E. Morris
Bernice
Seaford
Watson
Odd Fellows Cemetery
Inquest Rules Milford Woman for Murder
Sussex County coroner's jury finds Grover Cleveland Marvel Jr. died from a gunshot fired by Elizabeth Mary Savage on September 20 in Milford. Savage, a 25 year old Milford resident employed at Milford Chronicle, is held without bail at Georgetown County Jail and did not attend the inquest led by Coroner William S. Marvel II.
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Sussex County
Del
Grover Cleveland Marvel, Jr
Elizabeth Mary Savage
Milford
Marvil
Southeast
Second Street
William S. Marvel
ITI
Milford Chronicle
Georgetown
Refugee's Rape Trial Delayed By Mental Evaluation
Marian Goral a 27 year old refugee from Poland faces continued trial in Kent County Superior Court as psychiatrists report not yet completed. Defense motions to suppress evidence wait ruling. Goral is charged with breaking into Mrs Davidson’s home near Wyoming last February and raping her in her bedroom.
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Marian Goral
Poland
Kent County
Scout News Commomunity Club Sponsors Two New Girl Scout Troops
The Denton Community Club voted to sponsor two new Girl Scout troops this year and to allow four troops to hold meetings in the Club House. Leaders include Mrs. Hamilton Hallowell, Mrs. Walter Turner, Mrs. Quentin Walsh, Mrs. Charles Merrick, Mrs. Clifford Stafford, and Mrs. Walter Kerslake. A Brownie troop needs volunteers led by Mrs. William Addington. Meetings are set for early October on Monday and Tuesday afternoons.
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Denton Community Club
Community Club
Denton
Hamilton Hallowell
Walter Turner
Quentin
Jeaders
Rita Hayworth in Affairs In Trinidad at Dentonia Theatre
Rita Hayworth stars in Affairs In Trinidad at the Dentonia Theatre showing Monday and Tuesday October 13 14. The engagement features the famous actress in a new drama with local patrons urged to catch the performance.
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Rita Hayworth
Trinidad
Dentonia Theatre
Maryland Sales Taxes Collected In 1951 Reach 3.157 Million
The Department of Information reports Maryland collected 3 157 000 dollars in sales taxes during 1951. This figure reflects state revenue from consumer purchases across Maryland.
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Maryland
Department of Information
Maryland Ranked Fifteenth in Per Capita Income
The Department of Information reports Maryland ranks fifteenth among the states in per capita income reflecting comparative economic standing across the nation.
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Maryland
Department of Information
Ground Broken For Million Dollar Center On Kent Island
Ground breaking announced for a million dollar shopping center by David M. Nichols & Co. on Queen Anne's County Kent Island between Stevensville and Chester. The 11.85 acre site on Route 30 will include eight stores twelve offices a Standard Oil filling station a 50 unit motel and an administration building with a restaurant. Nichols a Roads Commission member notes the project aims at modern development in a sparsely populated but fast growing area. Continued on page 12.
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Queen Anne’s
David M. Nichols & Co
Chesapeake Bay Bridge
Stevensville
Chester
Nichols
Kent Island
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Ilona Massey
Newton Center
Mass
Atlanta
Nebuchadnezzar
New York State
Sauquoit Valley
Shock
Man
Fred J. Wright
Alton Billmeier
C. Elsie Billmeier
Optometrists
The
Journal Today
Scout News
Commomunity Club
House Paints
Unico
Theat New
Southern States Farmers’ Supply Cooperative, Inc
H. A. Plummer
Mr. Plummer
Stewart-Warner Television
4Th & Market Sts
APD
Denton, Maryland
Dover
Easton
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