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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1948
Page
6
City officials approved a ten cent per hour wage increase for all hourly municipal employees. The action, taken in a special session led by the Mayor and Aldermen, aligns Frederick’s rates with prevailing scales. Budget deadlines loom as the measure aims to ease payroll costs.
The News reports officials consider pay readjustment if costs fall and acknowledge mounting municipal demand for more money. Departments seek increased funds as the tax rate debate looms, with no clear estimate for the 1999 rate. Sewers remain a focus, while water projects and other budget issues are being reviewed.
Eight Republican electors gathered at Maryland's State House in Annapolis to cast the state's eight electoral votes for Thomas E. Dewey. Secretary of State Bertram L Boone noted this marked Maryland's first GOP tilt since 1923 and first electoral support for a Republican presidential candidate since 1908.
Maryland electors formally declared the winner and recorded their votes in a century-old volume of electoral minutes. The volume preserves proceedings of state electoral college meetings since 1789, when Maryland cast six votes for George Washington and six for Robert Harrison.
Baltimore December 13 The Legislative Council hopes to finish work of preparing bills for the 1949 General Assembly session this week. The interim committee has meetings scheduled for tomorrow and Thursday and many controversial measures are due for consideration. Proposals would revamp state prison administration and parole systems and implement the Commission on higher education report. Attorney General Hall Hammond called on the council today to consider sponsoring a bill on motor vehicle regulation for continued driving after revocation.
Under current law a driver ordered by the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles to surrender his license may continue driving while his court appeal is pending. The provision allows continued operation until the appeal resolves, affecting enforcement and driver responsibilities during the appeal period.
Washington report says Representative George H Failon of Maryland plans to introduce a bill to repeal the color tax on groceries when Congress convenes in January. Falcon previously backed a similar measure that failed in the 80th Congress, noting the pigment costs eight months a year. The issue centers on a $609 license and a tax of 30 cents per pound on artificially colored eggs.
A congressional subcommittee was told today that operating the Los Alamos Atomic Energy Denami cost about 14 060 000 dollars last year. The town has a population near 3 000.
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad announces a two week unpaid holiday for 2755 shop employees across five states due to a freight revenue slump. Officials cited weak traffic after Thanksgiving and a report showing 61 746 cars of revenue freight last week versus the prior year.
Effective December 20 and continuing to January 3, most affected workers are in locomotive repair shops and car maintenance plants. The breakdown lists workers by location: Baltimore Mount Clare shops 930, Cumberland 630, Duboi Pa 325, Glenwood Pa 260, Washington Ind 175, Lorain O 100, Cincinnati Tiverydale shops 109, Keyser W Va 100, Chilliethe OQ 73. Firemen say water on a scrubbed floor seeped into a floor plug causing a brief spark from a short circuit.
Three fire companies including Unneds Independents and Cure responded to a fire alarm sounded at 315 East Second Street around 2:07 p.m. Monday. No injuries or cause details provided in readable text.
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