R Paul Smith Power Plant Dedicated in Williamsport
The Potomac Edison Company dedicated the enlarged $10,000,000 Williamsport power plant as the R. Paul Smith Power Plant, honoring a long-time leader who rose from a Frederick County farm boy to head an organization with 2,000 employees serving four states. A Hagerstown dinner praised his civic work and commitment to Hood College, inviting continued service and success for years to come.
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Potoma Edison Company
Williamsport
R. Paul Smith
R Paul Smith
Frederick County
Hagerstown
Horatio Alger
Mr. Smith
Hagers Town
Hood College
Maer
Major Woodward to Speak at Hood College Science Club
Major Theodore E. Woodward of Westminster will address Hood College Science Club on Thursday December 1 at 7 PM in the Y hut. He will discuss Typhus Fever in World War II and is noted as one of ten recipients of the United States Typhus Commission medal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maj. Woodward
Theodore E. Woodward
Westminster
Hood College
Y Hut
Woodward
United States
L. K. Woodward
Grace Neidig
Frederick
College
Hand Bidding Cues Show Distribution of Strength in Card Play
Peter Leventritt sits East as the partner holds the deck. West uses two and four heart cue bids to pressure East and reveal four diamonds. South’s three heart bid prompts another cue bid, leading to a seven club contract by partnership.
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NEA
America
South
West
East
Peter Leventritt
Doctor Warns of Cancer Signs and Early Action
A doctor outlines American Cancer Society danger signals including sore that won’t heal lump or thickening changes in a wart or mole persistent hoarseness cough indigestion or difficulty swallowing unusual bleeding change in bowel habits and notes cancer often has no early symptoms urging prompt medical care. Hair tonics lack value beyond scalp massage. Santa Claus visits Hood College YWCA parties highlight charitable outreach to underprivileged children.
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American Cancer Society
Santa Claus
Hood College
Gene Sutherland
St. Holyoke
Mass
Fifty Years Ago Local Items From The Columns Of The News
Local items from the December 10 1897 issue note a vacant two story brick tenant house near the reservoir destroyed by fire boys keep watch on a dilapidated building used by tramps J Heisley Keller buys and will reopen the drug store at 165 North Market Street a runaway on North Market features four horses from the Stull farm near Bethel a bold escape by two sons of Mr Stull HACER OF THE BUF buys game birds for holiday use Harry J McKenney son of Rev W T McKenney completes studies at Columbia University and plans to study law with Judge Jean A Lynch’s former chamber and prepare for practice
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Lewis H. Steiner
J. Heisely Keller
North Market Street
J. J. Remsberg
Mahion Stull
Bethel
Stull
Hacer
BUF
Harry J. McKenney
W. T. McKenney
M. E. Church
Columbia University
Washington
Jean A. Lynch
Twenty Years Ago Of The News December 10 1977
Approximately 150 farmers attended the Frederick County Farm Bureau annual meeting at the Francis Sez Key hotel in Tow a. The first band concert by high school authors of numbers by the C G Center of Baltimore was a spot to William W Brish. West Patrick Street salesman for George K Birely and Sons leather manufacturers narrowly escaped serious injury when his coupe was struck by a Western Maryland Railway locomotive at a grade crossing in Gettysburg. The Salvation Army campaign has rolled up 8800 in the city and county, 1200 short of the goal. The Harvey Smith property on West Fifth street, purchased for 7250, is already occupied.
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Frederick County Farm Bureau
Francis Sez + Key
Towa
C. G. Center
Baltimore
William W. Brish
West Patrick Treet
George K. Birely
Salvation Army
Harvey Smith
West Fifth Street
Washington Daybook on shipping subsidies and relief aid
Washington Daybook reports a push to require more relief cargoes carried on American ships amid Senate debate. Magnuson urges a shipping percentage, while White argues the aim is feeding Europe, not protecting the merchant marine. The piece notes lobbyists face a new foreign aid agency and mentions political maneuvering around other figures.
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Tris Coffin
Washington
Senate
Warren Magnuson
Maggie’ Magnuson
State Department
United States
U. S
American Merchant Marine
Maggie
Arthur Vandenberg
Magnuson
Wallace White
Maine
White
Europe
Fatal Drug In Peppermint Leaves Packed For Distribution
The Pure Foods and Drug Administration warned that 500 ounce peppermint leaf packages from Allaire Woodward and Co of Peoria may contain bella donna mixed with the leaves. District official S Pruitt said two tablespoons in water could be fatal, with packages bearing serials 33444 and S80L46 found in several states. A few packages have been recovered.
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St Louis
Der
Pure Foods and Jig Administration
Peoria
Ror S. Pruitt
Allaire, Woodward and Company
Pruitt
Wisconsin
Ohio
Kentucky
Indiana
Timois
Missouri
Kansas
New York
Pennsylvania
Work Shortage Cited as Inflation Cause in Congress Call
Washington December 10 Congress to be asked to adopt a program to cure the work shortage cited as a basic cause of inflation. Debate centers on re examining the wage and hour law adopted in 1937 to curb longer hours but now criticized for rigid limits and overtime penalties. Proponents argue flexibility with modest shifts in hours and possible higher overtime rules.
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Washington
Congress
Truman
Akron
Ohio
Gala Christmas Celebration Planned in Emmitsburg
Community Christmas celebration set for December 7 24 in Emmitsburg with free children’s movie at Gem theater, free lunch at Firemen’s Hall, magic show at American Legion Hall, Santa parade and gift distribution, square dance, and Christmas services. Two $10 prizes for best decorations announced at 9 30 p.m. on Christmas Eve.
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Emmitsburg
Gem Theater
Harry T. Bollinger
Firemens Hall
American Legion Hall
Robert Wormsley
Bulgarian Regime Resigns From Office
Bulgarian Premier Georgi Dimitrov submits the resignation of his government to Parliament in Sofia amid reports of potential Yugoslav Bulgaria federation hints. The move follows approval of a new Bulgarian constitution while rumors of Cominform leadership and a southern Slav federation circulate.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Georgi Dimitrov
Dimitrov
Istanbul
Turkey
Yugoslavia
Marshal Tito
Communist International Information Bureau
Cominform
Little Christmas Organ Program at Hood College
William Sprigg, Hood College organist, will present the annual Little Christmas program in Beedbeck Hall on Friday at 8 p m with Miss Anna Marie Budde assisting. The recital spans late seventeenth to contemporary works including Bach chorale preludes and festive pieces by Dagues, Reger, Schubert, Yon, Handel, and a final Hallelujah Chorus arrangement for organ.
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William Sprigg
Hood College
Beedbeck Hall
Anna Marie Budde
Ar. Sprigg
Noel
Claude Louis D'Aguin
Johann Sebastian Bach
Bethlehem
Jesus
Miss Budde
Max Reger
Franz Schubert
Mr. Sprigg
Sicily
Pietro Yonse
George Frederic Handel
Hallelujah Chorus
Employers' Income Tax Forms Easier
Annapolis December 9 17 The new simplified forms streamline reporting to the State income tax division. Form 509 records employer name social security number total salary and marital status while Form 508A covers interest annuity income rents ground rents dividends and other payments. Both forms must be filed by February 15 and are available on request for employee notice purposes.
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Annapolis
State Income Tax Division
Income Tax Division
Weather data snippet from December 1936
The report lists 24 hour precipitation ending at 1 am none. December to date 0.27 inches, normal December 3.06 inches. December 1936 shows high 32, low 17 with past values 69 and 38 respectively. Sun sets at 4.47 pm, tomorrow rises 7:21 am. Moon rises tomorrow 6.31 am.
Suggested Holiday Readings For Yale Season
A playful, year end list of suggested books and titles paired with famous names, spoofing gift choices and tongue in cheek humor. The humor targets politicians actors royals and public figures with whimsical, fictional reading picks and quips.
Weapons Will Be Better Than Atom Bomb, Says Detroit
General George C. Kenney warned of future war weapons more efficient and cheaper than the atom bomb. He described a theoretical attack on Detroit, noted jets and obsolete air force guns, and urged faster rate of fire and higher muzzle velocity for tomorrow’s aircraft armament. A Methodist class meeting in Urbana reported officers and a chicken dinner after. Clarence Smith transferred to Frederick Memorial Hospital for treatment.
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Detroit
George C. Kenney
Strategic Air Command
Michigan
Army Ordnnance Association
Crecy
Clarence Smith
Walkersville
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Barton
Dear Dorothy Dix on marriage flirtation and class
Dorothy Dix warns that a wife who flirts harms marriage and will face divorce. a wealthy suitor requires caution about age and social fit. A worried girl asks if she should marry into money. Dix urges considering the fiancé’s maturity and the family’s expectations and warns against mismatched class.
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Dorothy Dix
Bor
Taneytown merchants elect officers and set Christmas hours
The Taneytown Merchants Association named Edward Reid as president Curtis C Bowers as vice president Thomas Albsugh as secretary Harry Manger as treasurer and several others as directors. They voted to close all stores on December 24 at 6 p m and to stay open until 10 p m on weekdays from December 12 to December 23 then close all day on New Year’s Day.
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Taneytown
Taneytown Merchants’ Association
Edward Reid
Curtis C. Bowers
Thomas Albsugh
Harry Manger
Harvey Co. Dauggherty
Harry Reinsdollar
David Smith
M. S. Ohler
J. Ho Ommerty
Taneytown Kiwanis Club
Taney Inn
Samuel E. Breth
Wallace Yingling
Krwanis Education
Robert W. Smith
Miles S. Reifsnider
Agriculture Committee
Charles H. Cluts
Harry Feeser
Pythian Sisters
Taneytown Temple
Ethel Garber
Andrey Six
Eth’Garber
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the News
Washington Daybook
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Pittsburgh
Western
Francis Russell
Office of Public Affairs
Russell
Aladar Szegedy-Maszak
Hungary
GOP High Command
Washington Contact
Sam Rayburn
Texas
John Rankins
Mississippi
Daeper Sever Styles Bridges
New Hampshire
Bridges
By David Lawrence
United Furniture Workers of America J Local 472
International Office
Colonial Hardwood Flooring Co, Inc
Yale
Mal Boyle
Doris Duke
Rita Hayworth
Orson Welles
Andrei Vishinsky
Marshal
the Mowerman
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Elizabeth
Tommy Manville
Richard
Stalin
Attlee
Bob Hannegan
John L. Lewis
Joppnagle
Hirohito
Admiral Halsey
Mayor Curley
Dwight Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Margaret O'Brien
Fort Knox
Thomas E. Dewey
College of Surgeons
D. S.A
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Taft
Harold Stassen
Winston Churchill
Shirley Temple
J. Parnell Thomas
Gypsy Rose
Les
Jimmy Petrilo
James A. Farley
Green
Trygve Lie
Frank Sinatra
Marshal Tite
Urbana Methodist Church
Peter Giesler
Nancy Cup
Margie Stup
Elsie Lee Young
Dolly Lawson
Peggy Geisler
Miss Dix
Vo Agh
M. G. Seath
Chester
American Guernsey Club
Rich Acres Farm
Adamstown
Viewsite Farm
Peam
Robert Stewart
Peterboro
N. FH
Arthur L. Mulford
Maryland Guernsey Breeders Association
C. C. C. Thomas
William A. Fouche
Rich Acres
Howard A. Quinn
Viewsite
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Pass Noble Grands Association of Samaritan Rebekah Lodge
Esther Miller
Jessie Webster
Reine Bowers
Ruth Cronise
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Frederick Coykendall
James T. Marsh
Carroll County
University Hospital, Baltimore
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