Fair Ends Best Season at Montgomery Fair
The Montgomery Fair closed its seventh and best season Saturday night with a record paid attendance of 61,600. More than 15,000 visited Saturday, boosting total attendance 30 percent above last year. Exhibitors began moving out, and fair officials expect ongoing expansion on the 65 acre Gaithersburg site. A Nassau vacation prize awaited winner George L. Collins and his wife after his Purple Cow entry Princess Montgomery Pyuri lived. 4H champions and Grand Champions across Jersey, Ayrshire, Guernsey, Holstein, and Angus were announced, with multiple exhibitors from Gaithersburg, Bethesda, Olney, Sandy Spring, and others highlighted.
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Montgomery
Edwin D. Fry
Agricultural Center
Gaithersburg
Nassau
Baltimore
Princess Montgomery Pyuri
Prince George Hotel
George L. Collins
Louis Gulis
Bethesda
Charles Lethbridge
Ashton
Frank Krieker
Sandy Spring
Nina Vann
Carol Milis
Jersey
Richard
Noel Janney
Brookeville
Ayrshire
David Butts
Nancy
Timonium Fair Opens for 73rd Maryland State Fair
Timonium Md Aug 29 Farm folk from across Maryland arrive for the 73rd Maryland State Fair. The fair runs Wednesday through Sept 11 with 4 H and Future Farmers of America judging and a Labor Day crowd forecast of 60 000 to 70 000. Miss Mary Charlotte Gough of Chaptico was named State Farm Queen and will be crowned after a 4 H Club parade.
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Timonium
Maryland
Patricia Ann Toms
Sandy Spring
Montgomery County
Ramona Maucy
Flintstone
Allegany County
Joeanne Jackson
Queen Anne
Queen Annes County
Helen
Ann Owens
Lothian
Anne Arundel County
Miss Gough
Farmers of America
Grange and Homemakers Day Farm Bureau
Family Day
Timomum
Democrats Promise Rigid Price Supports
Democrats from 15 Midwestern states rally farmers with a pledge to reestablish high rigid price supports abandoned by the Eisenhower administration. The conference lists 3 dozen nominees for Senate and House, with Stevenson delivering a nuanced stance on a permanent solution, while many leaders advocate 90 percent parity. The session notes the current 1955- coverage of parity ranges and the debate over flexible supports amid farm concerns. The piece closes with a stray line about Pluto’s orbit.
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Sioux Falls
Senate
House
Adlai Stevenson
Eisenhower
Stevenson
U.S
Sens Humphrey
Minnesota
Gillette
Iowa
George McGill
Kansas
Claude R. Wickard
Charles F. Brannan
Rice speaks on Christian Growth Through Service
Edward S Rice spoke to 11 Members of Cab inary Methodist Leaders Bible class in the chapel Sunday morning. President Delbert S Null presided and William Gosnell gave the opening prayer with a responsive lesson led by Walter Worthington. The August missionary offering reached 9205 dollars. Joseph Moore joined the class as a new member. Next Sunday the speaker will be P Luther Rice. Say you saw it in The News.
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Imr. Rice
Edward S Rice
Leaders Bible
Cabinary
Ban Lifted on 650 Commodities
The Commerce Department announced removal of 650 commodities from its list of goods barred from Soviet bloc countries. China and North Korea remain excluded. The FDA reduced its list of goods Allied nations receiving U S aid must not send into Iron Curtain areas. Items added to the forbidden list take effect Sept 7 and include steam engines coal tar products industrial machinery and certain chemicals. Dr G Lane Taneyhill Jr prominent Baltimore psychiatrist dies at 74 after heart ailment treatment since June. He earned his medical degree at Johns Hopkins in 1904 and taught neurology and psychiatry there. He helped found the American Psychiatric Association.
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Washington
Commerce Department
China
North Korea
Foreign Operations Administration
U.S
Paris
Secretary of Commerce
Weeks
FDA
Harold Stassen
Baltimore
G. Lane Taneyhill, Jr
Springfield State Hospital
Taneyhill
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
American Psychiatric Assn
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York Road
Modern Lighting CO
N. Market St
General Electric
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Seiberling Boo
Melvin M. Engler
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