Picture Improves For Farmer
Washington AP report on 1961 farm economy notes a modest gain as Kennedy policies expand farm aid. Net income expected about $1 billion higher than 1960, aided by higher price supports and a large feed grain program despite weaker conditions in poultry eggs beef and potatoes and a drought in the northern Great Plains.
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Ovid Martin Washington
Agriculture Department
Kennedy
Eisenhower
Great Plains
Congress
Can Farm Bureau Federation
UN Assembly Rejects Seat for Communists in China
The United Nations General Assembly defeated a Soviet bid to seat Chinese Communists, 48 to 36, reinforcing Nationalist China’s rights. A two-thirds vote was required to change representation, and the Australia Colombia Italy Japan and United States resolution passed 61 to 34 with seven abstentions.
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United Nations
N.Y
General Assembly
China
U.N
United States
Mao Tze-tune
Chiang Kai-shek
Republic of China
Formosa
Red China
U.S
Adlai E. Stevenson
Cambodia
Ceylon
Indonesia
Australia
Colombia
Italy
Japan
Assembly
Convicted of Kidnapping Amid Baltimore Club Slayings
Alfred Pittore was found guilty of kidnapping Earl Fifer in Baltimore on May 9 by an Anne Arundel County Circuit Court jury after 78 minutes of deliberation. No mercy recommendation. maximum sentence could be death or life in prison. In Baltimore, 31-year-old carnival worker William Clarence Crofoot faces murder charges in Sands Pittore’s slaying at the Boston Democratic Club. Crofoot allegedly killed following a personal dispute. Louis Pittore was shot four times. Judge Benjamin Michaelson withheld sentencing pending a possible new-trial motion.
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Annapolis
Alfred Pittore
Anne Arundel County
Pittore
Baltimore
William Clarence Crofoot
Sands
Louis
Boston Democratic Club
Alfred
Earl Fifer
Benjamin Michaelson
Coca Cola honors at Key Hotel as pins awarded
At the Coca Cola Christmas party in the Francis Scott Key Hotel ballroom local serving and families were honored with service pins. The event followed courtroom drama as Pittore faced a previous kidnapping conviction and a new trial request by Fred Kolodner. Sheriff Alten and deputies staffed the tense Friday session while officers witnessed a courtroom outburst and crowd control.
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Francis Scott Key Hotel
Sense
Fred Kolodner
Pittore
Dale K. Guyer
Anne Arundel
Charles J. Yeagley Jr
Michaelson
Yeagley
Anne Arundel County
Joseph W. Alten
Alten
Mathias speaks at Mount Saint Marys on student politics
Rep. Charles McC. Mathias Jr. of Maryland address Mount Saint Marys College Emmitsburg on December 11 on the role of the college student in politics. He outlined his political history and the traits needed by politicians, with focus on issues likely to arise in the next session. The event, under Mount Saint Marys Business Society, was arranged by Raymond A. DuFour Jr. from Kenwood. The agricultural report notes final year wheat production at 1,234,705,000 bushels and corn for grain at 3,624,313,000 bushels, with the wheat estimate revised upward.
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Charles McC. Mathias Jr
Maryland
Mount Saint Mary's College
Emmitsburg
Rep
Mathias
Mount Saint Mary's
Washington
Agriculture Department
Public Meet For Route 70 Public Hearing Planned
Washington County lawmakers and State Roads Commission officials agreed to hold a public hearing before choosing Interstate 70’s route through Hagerstown. Five routes remain under study between South Mountain and Ridge Road, with a preferred cost and grade analysis showing a 29.57 mile southern path from Alternate U. S. 40 toward U. S. 40 and I-81.
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Baltimore
Washington County
State Roads Commission
Hagerstown
SRC
South Mountain
Ridge Road
Conococheague Creek
Frederick
Hagertown
Maryland
Hancock
Baltimore nurse improver indicted for unlawful practice
An indictment charged Ada Verne Regina DeHart with unlawfully posing as a graduate and registered nurse. The Baltimore hospital supervisor allegedly used an old friend’s name and claimed two years of college training but no formal nursing credentials. The case arose when the real nurse she used declined to continue.
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Mposter
Baltimore
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