Tests To Measure Truck Damage On Route 301
Baltimore April 7 tests will determine highway damage from trucks on a 24 foot concrete section of U S Route 301 in Charles County near Bel Alton. Ten states plus Maryland fund and oversee the study with Federal aid and a four section test area using trucks up to 44 800 pounds axle load. Regular traffic will be detoured while only test vehicles use the section.
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Baltimore
Maryland
National Highway Research Board
Maryland Roads Commission
Charles County
Bel Alton
Highway Research Board
Connecticut
Delaware
Ilinois
Kentucky
Michigan
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Virginia
Wisconsin
Interregional Council On Highway Transport
Columbus
Fred Burggraf
Gordon T. J. Kauer
Ohio Department of Highways
H. S&s
Truman Ready For Coast To Coast Drive
President Truman prepares for a nationwide campaign swing in the 950 election contest. He weighs several pounds more than five years ago but shows progress toward his goal as aides refine speech lines for the Northwest trip in May. He will return to Washington on Monday for cabinet and party strategy before a May 15 Democratic jamboree in Chicago. He plans to fly back to Florida April 21 with stops at Fort Benning and Eglin Field for military and air force demonstrations.
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Key West
Fla
Wallace H. Graham
Bors
Truman
Washington
Cabinet
Congressional
National Committee
Grand Coulee Dam
Washington State
Chicago
Florida
Fort Benning
Miltary
Eglin Field
Air Force
Montgomery County Land Burned In Multiple Blazes
A series of wildfires burned 70 to 100 acres in Montgomery County on Friday afternoon before Hyatts town and Gaithersburg fire crews contained them. Fires started near Thompson's Corner by two women burning trash spread to farms owned by Stanley Whipp William Thompson and Calvin Burdette. About 25 acres burned near Slidell between Chick's Corner and Boyd's Station on land owned by Ralph Mease after bark burning by his 13 year old son. Twenty two acres burned near Seven Locks Road and eight near Cedar Grove. Upper Montgomery County and Hyattstown volunteer departments assisted in suppression.
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Montgomery County
Hyattstown
Gaithersburg
Thompson's Corner
Stanley Whipp
William Thompson
Calvin Burdette
Slidell
Chick's Corner
Boyd's Station
Ralph T. Messe
IGOP Convenes On Governor Nominee In Maryland
Four Republican candidates from Frederick, Baltimore, Montgomery, and Charles counties meet in Baltimore to discuss a single gubernatorial nominee. Party leaders weigh uniting behind one candidate before the April 15 central committee decision and contend two main obstacles: potential frontrunners McKeldin and Phoebus plus funding and internal party factions.
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Baltimore
D. John Markey
Frederick County
Royden A. Blunt
Howard County
Roy Tasco Davis
Montgomery County
Thomas B. R. Mudd
Charles County
Republican State Central Committee
Sheraton-Belvedere Hotel
Stanford Hoff
Carroll County
Central Committee
France
Jacob France
Maryland
Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin
Harry T. Phoebus
Somerset County
McKeldin
Stair
Annapolis
Phoebus
de Pot
Roscoe C. Rowe
Harry
Rowe
Owe
Zai
Fugitive And Wife In House Trailer Seized
Dassona Beach Florida April 7 FBI hailed capture of Jap leep Emory Downs 44 and his wife Pat Gia 25 two of the nations most wanted fugitives as they were found in a house trailer at Woolly Hill Downs. They face charges of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution for a June 1948 burglary in San Jose California. Inside the trailer agents found six rifles three pistols and 3600 in cash. Downs is linked to Walter Lennos who died resisting arrest near Mojave California after an automobile pursuit. A new tempering process briefly heats metal from room temp to 1600 degrees and back in under five seconds.
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Dassona Beach
Fla
Japleep Emory Downs
PBI
Wolly Hill Downs
San Jose
Calif
Pat Gia
FBI
Washington
Downs
Walter Lennos
Mojave
California Highway Patrol
Lennon
Changes In Grading Meat To Be Tried By Dept. Of Agriculture
Washington April 7 The Agriculture Department will publish proposed changes to federal beef grades. Consumers will have 60 days to submit views. The new system would merge prime and choice into prime, redefine good, and keep utility and cutter grades. Current distributions: prime under 1%, choice under 6%, good about 50%, commercial about 28%, utility and cutter 16%.
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Dept. of Agriculture
Washington
Agriculture Department
Chicken Found Wearing Ring After 19 Years
In Steelton Pennsylvania a chicken found by resident Charles Valuntair wore a wedding band around its beak, reuniting Mrs. Earl F. Crook with her ring lost 19 years earlier in a canal behind her home. The ring slipped off as ice was tossed into the canal, and searches ended with ashes filling the bed.
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Steelton
Earl F. Crook
Pennsylvania Canal
Charles Valuntair
Hickenlooper and Tydings Clash Over Lattimore Case
Senator Hickenlooper publicly rejects Senator Tydings claim that FBI records clear Owen Lattimore of Communist spy charges. He says the conclusion is unwarranted and calls for full examination of the investigative file before any final judgment. Tydings and others had cited FBI summaries as clearing Lattimore.
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Washington
Hickenlooper
Iowa
Tydings
D-Md
FBI
Owen Lattimore
McCarthy
Wis
Lattimore
Russia
United States
Senate
J. Edgar Hoover
Hoover
McGrath
Hickenrooper
Justice Department
PBS
Dr. Lattimore
Subcommittee
Former Brunswick Man Injured in Navy Helicopter Accident
Charles Dolan, son of Mr and Mrs D M Dolan formerly of Brunswick and now living in Washington since last October, was among Navy personnel injured when a helicopter aboard the carrier Wright broke from deck lashings during maneuvers. Two officers were killed outright off Quonset Point R I and a third died later at Portsmouth Naval Hospital. The Dolan family had moved from Brunswick last year.
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Charles Dolan
D. M. Dolan
Brunswick
Washington
Navy
Wright
Dolan
R. 1
Portsmouth Naval Hospital
Assessments Increase in Montgomery County Districts
Montgomery county assessors report Poolesville Barnesville and Washington Grove gains adding over a million dollars to the tax base. Poolesville up 619,120 to 2,462,710 Barnesville up 373,070 to 1,893,230 Washington Grove up 85,680 to 316,540. Total rise 1,077,970. at 1.90 per hundred, about 31,000 more revenue next year. New assessments effective July 1. A Frederick firm wins state roads contract for Route 40 seeding from Martin crossing to Aberdeen. Woodbine Nurseries to seed 21.008 miles at cost 19,327.
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Rockville
Poolesville
Barnesville
Washington Grove
Montgomery County
Wilton T. Allen
Allen
Frederick County
Baltimore
Harford Counties
State Roads Commission
Woodbine Nurseries
Woodbine
Martin
Aberdeen
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