Wire severed by bullet disrupts AT T and telephone lines
Maryland State Police join AT and T and Chesapeake and Potomac to locate a shooter after a bullet damaged five circuits of a Lewistown back cable. Officials say juveniles may have aimed at a bird and hit the wire, with risks to government messages. Police assign Trooper Brows to the probe as ATT and local schools push a film about the damage.
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Maryland
American Telephone and Telegraph Co
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co
Iry
Lewistown
Robert L. Simis
Washington
AT & T
Walter K. May
Barrack “B
H. J. Brows
Simig
Frederick
Hagerstown
Simis
Farm Values Set Record
The Federal Reserve reports 1955 saw farm assets reach a record 171 billion dollars and farm debt rise to about 19 billion. Net farm income declined over 5 percent as production costs edged up, while assets grew mainly from higher real estate values and inventories.
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Washington
Federal Reserve System
Highway Marker Program In Doubt
Maryland faces funding doubt for the historical highway marker program as the State Roads Commission suspends allotments after September. New SRC chairman Robert Bonnell confirms only one fourth of the annual funds are available this year, with prior practice of a full July 1 allotment having changed since 1953. Historical markers, erected since 1990, involve cooperation with the Maryland Historical Society and have funded plaques and replacements across the state.
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Baltimore
Maryland
State Roads Commission
J. Alexis Shriver
Harford County
Maryland Historical Society
Commission
Secion
Stevenson Charges Eisenhower With Inaction On Nuclear Arms
Adlai Stevenson toured Knoxville with Tennessee Democrats promising to press for peacetime nuclear energy and criticizing Eisenhower's leadership. He urged faster progress, lambasted private industry, and challenged Kefauver for the vice presidency as he spoke at the municipal airport and visited Oak Ridge and Norris Dam.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Jae E. Stevenson
Eisenhower
Tace
David Garrison
Tennessee
Estes Kefauver
Stevenson
Frank JG. Clement
Tlo Kefauver
United States
Thim
Sen
Kefauver
Tennessee Valley Authority
Norris Dam
Oak ‘Ridge
California
Indusiry
TVA
Nixon
Dixon
Record-Setting Qualifying at Darlington Shoe Stock Car Race
Darlington N C August 4 e Buck Baker from Charlotte top the late model qualifying with 119 659 mph cream colored Chrysler team mate Speedy Thompson took pole at 118 68 mph Baker earns third row start in the $45000 world series event with five more drivers to qualify Friday Frank Mundy Ralph Moody Joe Eubanks and Bill Widenhouse among others posting readiness for Saturday qualifiers on the banked mile and three eighths oval
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Darlington
N. C
Buck Baker
Charlotte
Darlington International Raceway
Baker
Speedy Thompson
Monroe
N.C
Bill Widen House
Midland
Lehigh Boosts Prices At Six Of Plants
Lehigh Portland Cement Co announced a 15 cent per barrel price increase at six of its fourteen plants effective October 1. The rise, 42 to 5 percent, affects three Pennsylvania Lehigh Valley plants and sites at Hudson River New York Union Bridge Maryland and Fordwick Virginia. President Joseph Young cited higher gypsum coal fuel oil steel repairs and freight costs as drivers for the hike.
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Allentown
Lehigh Portland Cement Co
Oday
Lehigh Portland
Pennsylvania
Lehigh Valley
Hudson River
Union Bridge
Fordwick
Joseph
Young
Budget Time Again City Hall Note Leads 1957 Budget Talk
A city note previews the 1957 budget process as Mayor John Derr orders agencies and department heads to submit budgets by October. The piece also mentions the Maryland bass investigation, clock chimes at Baker Park, and a safety petition urging protection for schoolchildren crossing Market and Ninth streets.
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John Derr
Register of Wills
Philadelphia
U.S Attorney
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Hall
Baker Park
Westminster
Frederick
Uuagale
City Hall Annex, Frederick Police HQ Move Planned
Frederick officials announce the City Hall Annex at 81 North Market Street will become CITY HALL ANNEX and house the Frederick Police Department. The former Marshall Aries homestead will serve as the headquarters and be ready for occupancy in about six weeks.
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City Hall
North Market Street
Marshall Aries
Frederick
Timeframe for equipment needs in shared power scenarios
A discussion outlines the question of when to set people’s nar ious consideration and adds the problem from the viewpoint of additional equipment and oman power, examining implications for resource allocation.
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Wmiy
Oman Power
Auto Deaths At New High Prompt Traffic Warning
Chicago reports 3,570 traffic deaths in July the highest monthly total. The seven month toll to July 31 hits 21,730, a 9 percent rise from 1937 with July marking the 17th straight monthly increase.
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New High
Ned H. Dearborn
Council
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Harry D. Radcliff
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Dealer Farmers Supply CO
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Dial
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Blue Ridge News Agency
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Keane Furniture
South Market St. Monument
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Slim Ferards
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