Snow and ice close Frederick County schools and roads
Snow and freezing rain crippled Frederick County with several inches of accumulation. State Police advised motorists to stay off icy main highways as freezing rain and sleet threatened worsening conditions. Airports reported freezing rain in nearby areas and forecasts warned of dangerous driving. eight county roads remained closed by deep drifts while graders planned to reopen them.
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Frederick County
Hey
Quick Return Home If Armistice Comes
The U S Eighth Army said allied prisoners will be freed only after an armistice is signed and exchange terms are unsettled. First freed prisoners go to Korea reception centers for ID, medical checks, and clothing before transport to Japan for interrogation. No timeline given for return to homelands.
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Seoul
Korea
U. S. Eighth Army
Japan
Former Pastor In County Dies In Washington
Rev Dr Ariel Nathaniel W Warner, former Walkersville Methodist pastor and long time missionary to India, died Wednesday night in Washington. Survived by wife Gertrude and four children Harold, Robert, John, and a daughter in Shepherdstown. Funeral at Mt Vernon Place Church on Saturday at noon with interment in Hamilton, Virginia.
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Ariel Nathaniel W. Warner
Walkersville
Washington
Warner
Gertrude Warner
India
Lewistown
Mt. Pleasant
Mt. Zion
Mt. Vernon Place
Potomac Heights
Georgia
The
Methodist Church
Baltimore
Marvin
Lovettsville
Henry Aldis
Shepherdstown
W. Va
Harold Warner
Philadelphia
Robert Warner
Durham
N. C
John Warner
Mt. Vernon Place Methodist Church
Hamilton
Transfer of Fr Chylinski to Sacred Heart of Mary Graystone Park
Fr Stephen J Chylinski leaves St Peters Parish Libertytown after five and a half years to serve at Sacred Heart of Mary Graystone Park Baltimore Archdiocese announces his transfer He led church improvements including construction painting and rectory refurbishments Parishioners honored him with a Hamilton wrist watch Rev John Mountain succeeds him from Jessups parish New York stocks tilt upward with oils and rails as favorites
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St. Peters
Libertytown
Stephen J. Chylinski
Sacred Heart of Mary
Grayson Park
Baltimore
Keough
John Mountain
Father Chylinski
Liberty Church
Fr. Mountain
Jessups
Liberty
Hamilton
City Looks To Yuletide Holiday
Frederick industries plan Christmas vacations from two to four days with banks, court house, and city offices observing the Christmas Eve holiday. Plants like Everedy and Price Electric schedule partial days and closures through January 2, while many stores and the post office adjust hours and counts, December 26 holiday decisions loom. Cancellations top 100,000 yesterday as mail volume shifts for the season.
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Frederick
Court House
City Hall
Everedy Company
Price Electric Corporation
M. J. Grove Lime Company
Frederick Tailoring Company
Muse Tailoring Company
Ox Fibre Brush Company
Frederick Jran and Steel Company
Union Manufacturing Company
Chamber of Commerce
Spite Case Decree Filed In Equity Court Marriage Voided
Associate Judge Patrick M. Schnauffer signed an order in Equity Court annulling the marriage of William L. Tritappe of Knoxville and Mrs. Charlotte J. Lightner of 105 West Patrick Street after she testified she still loved her first husband and the union was a spite marriage. The couple wed in Jefferson on September 14. she had divorced James J. Lightner on March 13, 1951. Tritappe testified he courted her March 30 to the date of the wedding and they'd lived 16 days in a Burkittsville home. the marriage was not consummated. Mrs Lightner said she married to spite her first husband, who had remarried after their divorce. She later said there was no use trying to make it work. Tritappe was required to pay costs. Edwin F. Nikirk and Wilbur F. Sheffield Jr. represented the parties.
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Patrick M. Schnauffer
Equity
William L. Tritappe
Knoxville
Charlotte J. Lightner
West Patrick Street
Tritapoe
Tritappe
State Police Issue Bulletin On Weather
Waterloo report shows heavy snowfall across the area with very slippery roads and poor visibility. Police urge motorists to stay off highways unless travel is essential as road crews work and hills remain treacherous.
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Waterloo
State Police
Emergency landing near Lake Ontario ends without injuries
A transcontinental passenger plane of an unscheduled airline, unable to land at its intended destination, made an emergency landing today a half mile from the icy shores of Lake Ontario in Cobourg Ontario. All 47 aboard escaped unharmed.
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Cobourg
Ont
Lake Ontario
U S congressmen lash Soviet spy charges at UN
Two U S representatives led a counterattack against Soviet spy charges in Paris. Mike Mansfield called the Soviet rally a spy mania and accused Anrei Vishinsky of venom. John Vorys mocked Vishinsky and praised UN moves toward disarmament and free elections in Germany.
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Paris
U. S
Andrei ¥. Vishinsky
Mike Mansfield
D-Mont
United Nations
Hungary
Vishinsky
John M. Vorys
R-Ohija
Vorys
Verys
Mansfield
Horse Foreign Affairs Committee
U. N General Assembly
Vishnngsky
U. N
Germany
Missing 27 as Danish motor ship burns near Astoria
Coast Guard reports 27 of 108 aboard the Danish motor ship Erica unaccounted for as fire rages near Tongue Point. Some passengers and crew escaped by lifeboats or were picked up by Coast Guard vessels. An eyewitness from E L Blyth says two children and an elderly man may be missing but could have been rescued by fishing boats.
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Astoria
Ore
Coast Guard
V. A. Johnson
Tongue Point Coast Guard
Johnson
Portland
San Francisco
Gulf Coast Guard
E. L. Blyth
Blyth
Make Safe Landings Tac Awrem e 1
Marine Corps transport plane and a TWA airliner made safe landings yesterday after mechanical difficulties caused anxiety aboard both aircraft with 93 passengers aboard.
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Marine Corps
TWA
Man Severed Leg In Ice Fall In Washington Yard
Edward H. Atkinson, 49, a Baltimore car inspector for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, lost both legs below the knee after slipping on ice and falling in front of an engine in the Washington railroad yards today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Edward H. Atkinson
Baltimore
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Fever cases among U N troops in Korea fall in number
Hemorrhagic fever cases among United Nations troops in Korea are decreasing in both count and severity according to allied medical authorities. The report notes fewer cases and less intensive illness as of today, reflecting an improving health trend amid ongoing hostilities.
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Tokyo
U. N
Korea
Warned Not To Cut Another's Evergreens
ANNAPOLIS December 20 The Department of Information reminded Marylanders of a law on removing trees and shrubs from private lands including holly and 640 Each violator faces fine and imprisonment Police are instructed to enforce the rule and a public notice from the Department of Forests and Parks issued.
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Annapolis
Department of Information
Partnership Dissolution Sought Over Quaker City Cleaners
Laurens E Phebus petitions Equity Court for dissolution of the Quaker City Cleaners and Dyers partnership with Harry C Lawson alleging failure to account for 1949 50 51 records misapplication of partnership assets and diversion of customers to a second shop on West Patrick Street. He seeks court dissolution an accounting and an injunction blocking Lawson from the West Fifth Street operation until final disposition.
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Equity Court
Quaker City Cleaners and Dyers
Frederick Clothes
Laurens E Phebus
Frederick
Harry C. Lawson
Quaker City
Phebus
Wilbur F Sheffield
Jro
Lawson
East Pilth Street
Phobus
West Patrick Street
Victory Cleaners
East Fifth Street
New Propaganda Stockings From Chinese Reds in Korea
In Korea on December 20 the U S Eighth Army reports Chinese Reds using Christmas stockings as propaganda. Stockings contain cards, small gifts, and a safe conduct pass urging surrender. They aim to sway allied troops with contrasts of life in the United States and war in Korea.
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Seoul
Korea
U. S. Eighth Army
United States
Florida
Hungnam
Eighth Army
Winter Storm Delivers New Knockout Across Nation
The nation faced heavy snow and brutal cold as a fresh storm moved east from the Pacific Northwest. Sub zero readings dotted the map from Montana to New England with 226 to 228 deaths attributed to a week of severe weather. Schools and businesses closed as drifting snow and ice disrupted travel from Colorado to Iowa and the Mississippi Valley.
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Associated Press
Kansas City
Rocky Mountains
New England
Pacific Northwest
Rocky Mountain
Plains States
Mississippi Valley
Great Lakes
Midwest
New York State
U. S. Weather Bureau
Chicago
Colorado
Kansas
Havre
Mont
Sheridan
Wyo
Burlington
Albany
N. C
Ohio Valley
Georgia
Deep South
Valentine, Neb
Denver
Electricity Rate Increase Requested in Baltimore Area
The Consolidated Gas and Electric Company of Baltimore seeks a 10.9 percent rate hike for electricity and steam. About 425,000 electrical customers in Baltimore city and nearby counties along with 1,115 steam users would face higher bills, due to higher labor, materials costs and taxes. If approved for next year, the move should raise annual gross revenue by about 6.4 million dollars.
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Baltimore
Consolidated Gas and Electric Company of
Baltimore City
Public Service Commission
Grain Production May Match Needs
Washington December 20 1951 The governments first crop report for 1952 raises hopes that grain production may again meet national needs The Agriculture Department wheat crop forecast indicates the third largest crop on record A crop of this size would exceed the production goal of 1 165 000 000 bushels and allow an addition of about 100 million bushels to a reserve that has declined from 427 million to about 35 million bushels in two years due to lagging production.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
Snow and sleet forecast across mid-Atlantic states
The Weather Bureau warns of snow sleet and freezing rain today across Virginia Maryland western Pennsylvania and most of West Virginia and Ohio. Driving conditions will be hazardous this afternoon and tonight with improvement expected Friday as temperatures rise above freezing. Rain expected to continue in the area Friday.
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Wastington
Weather Bureau
Virginia
Maryland
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Ohio
Supervision Talks Move Armistice Deadlock Forward
In Munsan Korea, Dee 20 staff officers met at Paunmunjom for a two hour session to break the long stalemate over supervising the Korean armistice. No report of progress was issued. Earlier the Communists proposed concessions including airfields and neutral inspections, while the Allies prepared to call in staff officers if needed. Skirmishes continued with cold weather and small arms fire around Panmunjom. a three hour engagement near the central front was followed by a Reds withdrawal.
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Munsan
Korea
Dee
Paunmunjom
U. N
U.N
Panmunjom
U. S
Eighth Army
United Nations
Greece Wins Council Seat in UN Election
Greece won a United Nations Security Council seat in Paris on the 19th ballot, defeating White Russia by 39 votes to 16. The election required a two thirds majority of present and voting members, and the deadlock marked the longest U N balloting in UN history.
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Paris
Greece
United Nations Security Council
Russia
U. N
General Assembly
Youth Hurt In Diving Gets 333000 Award At Huntington Beach
An Orange County jury awarded 19 year old Richard Ferris 333000 against Huntington Beach for injuries from a dive off the city pier on Sept 10, 1950. He sought 400000 plus medical costs. His mother received 25000 for care through his 21st birthday. The city cited warnings and an ordinance. The trial lasted a month. The judgment was among Orange County's largest.
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Santa Ana
Calif
Orange County
Richard Ferris
Huntington Beach
Ferris
Madelene Ferris Madson
Rosemead
California
Man Killed In Ice Road Crash On Laurel Ft Meade Route
Laurel December 20 Sergeant James B Keith age 22 died when an auto skidded and overturned on the icy Laurel Fort Meade road. Three other servicemen were injured in the crash reported early today.
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Laurel
James B. Keith
Laurel-Ft. Meade
Maryland Snow and Ice Hit Western Maryland Counties
A winter storm swept Maryland with Garrett County reporting three inches of snow before turning sleet near Cumberland. Allegany County had two inches by noon and the system moved east, causing hazardous highways statewide west of the Chesapeake Bay. State police and forecasters warned roads would worsen. plows and trucks operated in the western counties as crews worked around the clock since last Friday. Forecasters predicted continued snow and ice with temperatures dipping to near zero in western areas and single digits to the east.
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Associated Press
Maryland
Garrett County
Allegany County
Cumberland
Chesspeake Bay
State Roads Commission
G. Bates Chaires
Almast
Uhaires
Bry
Frederick
Benson
Conowingo
Towson
Randallstown
Waterloo
Pikesville
Waldorf
Rockville
Easton
Salisbury
Canowingo
Howard
Harford
Baltimore
Carroll
Montgomery
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