Frederick County Farm Bureau Meeting Debates Driver Training
At Frederick High School the Frederick County Farm Bureau adopted six resolutions opposing driver training in high schools and urging county roads board appointments. The meeting elected Shirley Bohn and Cecil Holter as nominates for president, with directors chosen from five groups. A seventh resolution urged not placing driver training in the tenth grade and advocated cost efficiencies via state police or motor vehicle office experts.
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Frederick County
Frederick County Roads Board
Frederickounty Farm Bureau
Frederick High School
Shirley Bohn
Johnsville
Ecil K. Holter
Jefferson
Benjam B. Rosenstock
Tobias E. Zimmerman
Zimmeran
Weelieve
Maryland State Police
Commissioner of Motor Vehicles
Department of Oter
Roads Board
Rosenstock
Farm Bureau
Frederick
Board of Education
Maryand Farm Bureau, Inc
State Farm Bureau
County Farm Bureau
State Farmureau
Solutions Committee
T. West Claggell, Jr
Ay H. Smith
L. Roy Remsburg
Jude B. Ahalt
Harry A. Zentz
Ay EH. Baker
Geil L. Cutshall
Edl
EK. Holter
Lester F
330 Traffic Deaths Seen on New Year Holiday
Chicago December 28 The National Safety Council estimates the three day New Year holiday weekend will claim 330 lives in traffic crashes. The forecast covers 1 p m Friday to midnight Monday following a deadly Christmas period: 545 fatalities. Council president Ned H Dearborn urges safer driving and public transport, advises leaving the car idle if drinking, allowing space for others, not riding with a drinking driver, and doubling caution in bad weather to save lives in 1941.
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Chicago
vPi
National Safety Council
Ned H. Dearborn
Council
Midwest Eases From Extreme Cold As Warmfront Arrives
The Associated Press reports a thaw in the central United States as south and southwest winds lift temperatures from subzero readings in Wisconsin and Ohio toward zero and above. Readings in the Plains near 40s to 50s emerge while Georgia Alabama and parts of Tennessee stay cold. Utilities cut gas to 171 central Ohio companies and 700 Cleveland plants. Fires from the cold wave injure five firefighters and destroy nine residences plus other structures in western Pennsylvania.
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Miami
Steve Rimmer
Kosciusko
Miss
Didn't Keep Eye On Road Auto Hits Pole
Miriam Clinkscales sues Eugene Snyder for about 20000 in injuries claiming he grabbed her and failed to keep his eye on the road, causing a crash into a utility pole. The suit cites broken teeth and other harms. Also mentions a U.S. instruction to Italy to proceed with arms plans for next year.
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Atlanta
Miriam Clinkscales
Eugene Snyder
Miss Clinkscales
Snyder
Severe cold grips city as power outage disrupts service
Overnight temperatures plunged to 4 above zero with unofficial subzero readings elsewhere. A downed iron pole and sagging wires caused a wide-area outage in western Frederick, delaying traffic for hours while crews worked in subfreezing conditions. Ponds froze, rivers iced, and skating was limited on snow crusted Culler Lake. Forecast calls for mixed precip with highs near 25 and possible snow or rain, a 1959 cold record tied at 4 degrees.
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Unis
Frederick
Rosemont Avenue
Hood College
Rosemont
Polnt
Trafic
Weather Bureau
Unionville
Culler Lake
Norfolk
Taneytown elementary school inspection pleases county board
Carroll County Commissioners visited the new Taneytown elementary school during an inspection to inform contracts for a Woodsboro school and Walkersville addition. The 190000 project includes 12 classrooms a library a multipurpose room and office. The board praised the price and building quality after seeing a photo in The News Post. New York stock market opens with brisk selling but mild gains at start as traders push thousands of shares onto the market.
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Board of County Commissioners
Taneytown
Carroll County
Woodsboro
Walkersville
News-Post
A. Grant Hooper
Samuel H. Young
Robert R. Rhoderick
New York
Rice heiress Glenalce McCarthy secretly weds cobbler's son
Glenalce McCarthy, 17, daughter of Texas oilman Glenn McCarthy valued around 200 million, is said to have married George Pontikes, 19, a Rice Institute sophomore football player, in a secret ceremony on December second. The McCarthy fortune and Pontikes's poor-boy origins echo a similar elopement story from two decades earlier.
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NEA
Rice and Old Shoes
Glenalce McCarthy
Texas
Glenn McCarthy
Dee
George Pontikes
Rice Institute
Ich McCarthy
Am Oil
Almonds Handout Reveals Hungnam Evacuation Details
Hitherto unpublished details of the Hungnam sea evacuation of the 105,000 man US 10th Corps were disclosed. General Almond said the enemy knew the when and where, and described three withdrawal phases from Dec 15 to the final Sunday, with naval gunfire and daylight interdiction shaping defense.
Snow or Rain Due Tonight in Maryland and Nearby Areas
Maryland forecasters expect mixed precipitation tonight into tomorrow as a winter storm spreads from Virginia toward the state. Snow and sleet possible along Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic, with rain anticipated if temperatures rise from subfreezing. Coldest readings near town hills and Cumberland, many spots well below freezing. roads mostly clear though chains advised west of Frostburg on Route 40. Upper Chesapeake Bay iced over with ships navigating a three-inch crust.
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Baltimore
Maryland
Weather Bureau
Virginia
Chesapeake Bay
Atlantic Ocean
Town Hill
Cumberland
Oakland
Hagerstown
Frostburg
War Casualties Rise to 38325 in Korean Conflict Report
Washington reports total casualties through December 22 reach 38 325 with 6 432 deaths and 27 012 wounded 5 571 missing 705 of whom have since returned to U S control or become POWs The figures reflect only notifications sent to next of kin and not all losses. A deed recorded in Burkittsville district transfers 127 5 acres from John W Mentzer to John T Mentzer of Jefferson County West Virginia for 12090 dollars.
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Washington
Department of Defense
U. S
Burkittsville
John W. Mentzer
John T. Mentzer
Jefferson County
W. Va
Army Draft Call 80 000 For Mareh
The Army issued a draft call for 80,000 draftees in March to lift total requests to 450,000 since the Korean war began. Navy Air Force and Marines do not plan March calls. The buildup aims for 24 divisions by next July, with vestimental combat teams matching full division strength. At present the Army has 1 regular division, four National Guard divisions, and two guard combat teams. two more guard divisions will be federalized next month. An additional regular division, likely armored, will form late spring or next summer. only the Snd armored division exists locally at Camp Hood, Texas.
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Washington
Army
Mareh
Defense Department
Navy
Air Force
Marines
Germany
United States
Wind Airborne
Mionti
Snd
Camp Hood
Tex
Trade By Allies With Enemies To Be Probed
Senator O Connors subcommittee will broaden a probe into trade between allied nations and iron curtain states. He aims to prevent enemies from obtaining essential materials and notes large shipments from Marshall aid countries to curtain nations in the past 30 days. The hearings may resume in early January as part of a wider inquiry.
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Washington
Aton
O'Conor
Senate
Repor
Exacted Pledge of Loyalty to Communism in Trial
New York reporters note Ann Moos Remington testified at the perjury trial of former government economist William W. Remington. She said she required him to remain a Communist and participate in party activities before agreeing to marry on November 23, 1928. The couple, married then divorced after years apart, had details of the divorce not disclosed. She said she quit the party in 1846.
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New York
William W. Remington
Ann Moos Remington
Remington
Communist Party
Tree Lights Start Meyersdale Fire
Fire apparently started by Christmas tree lights destroyed a four apartment frame house in Meyersdale Pennsylvania leaving 14 people homeless but unhurt. Firemen battled the blaze for four hours in subzero weather as water pumps froze and the Bowser Hotel building was said to be a total loss.
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Meyersdale
Bowser Hotel
New Government Order Bans Hoarding 55 Defense Materials
Washington on December 28 reports the National Production Authority bans hoarding of 55 scarce materials essential to defense and civil production. The order prohibits excess accumulation by businesses consumers or households and bans resale above market prices to curb black marketing. Included items cover cement softwood lumber plywood paper and board cast iron soil pipe and various metals and chemicals.
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Washington
Na Honal
Ilegal
Quadriplegic Case Arrives At Walter Reed
Washington December 28 The mother of a MQ year old soldier and the best quadruple amputee of the Korean war visits her son Yoday Pfe Robert Smith of Middleburg Pennsylvania arrived by plane at Walter Reed Hospital on a stretcher He is reported to have smiled when told his mother would visit and said It s a great surprise He lost both legs and both hands to frostbite during fighting around Chosin Reservoir on November 27 He was carried from his plane by ambulance after being flown from the West Coast News photographers refrained from taking pictures as his blanket wrapped stretcher was moved Smith one of the only quadruple amputees in the Korean conflict had flight nurses Captain Eleanor Govanelle and Lt Bernadette Jahrenkopf accompanying him to Walter Reed Captain Govanelle noted he slept after medication and did not wish to talk during the flight A fellow quadruple amputee James Wollimmyt Wilson of Stark Florida who later contacted Smith said encouragement from peers with similar injuries is vital Wilson, now a student at the University of Colorado Law School, was also a freezing cold survivor of amputation.
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Washington
Pfe
Robert Smith
Middleburg
Walter Reed Hospital
Clara Smith
Worea
Smith
Chosin Reservoir
Smyth
Eleanor A. Govanelle
St. Mary's
Govanelle
Westover Air Force Base
Mass
Bernadette Jahrenkopf
Westover
West Coast
James Wollimmyt Wilson
Boulder
Colo
Tat
Wilson
University of Colorado Law School
Cnld
Stark, Fla
Second Army Calls 659 Reserve Officers and 283 Doctors
Fort Meade reports the Second Army will require about 659 reserve lieutenants and captains to duty by March, plus 283 doctors and dentists in February and March. Letters will order reservists to report for physicals, with at least 30 days to report. All reporting for two months in camps by March 28. Maryland totals show 15 captains and 65 lieutenants among others.
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Fort Meade
Second Army
Columbia
Army
Maryland
Scientist Warns of Twenty-Year War Tension in U S
Cleveland December 28 Atomic Energy Commissioner Henry 2 Smyth called for a national scientific service corps and a student science corps to mobilize expertise for a potential twenty year period of tension. He warned wars could erupt anytime and urged full use of resources, stating scientists are essential war assets and tools for preserving freedom.
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Cleveland
Atomic Energy
Henry 2. Smyth
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Smyth
U N Forces Brace for New Attack Across Korea
U N troops along a 150 mile defense line in central Korea brace for a massed Chinese Red attack in the next two weeks. MacArthur warns up to 190000 Chinese troops may strike as war budgets rise in Peiping. Soviet made MiGs clash with U S jets as patrols probe lines near Seoul.
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United Nations
Korea
MacArthur
U. N
China
Peiping
Taipei
Seoul
U.S Eighth Army
Fiver
Lothe Xroumed
Far East
Fifth Ai Force
North Korea
Radio Voice Doing Harm in China Editorial Critique
The Manchester Guardian called the Voice of America a danger to U S aims in China arguing funds should not largely fund propaganda If the American record is studied the paper says it inspires but misleads audiences It notes the Voice strengthens Chiang Kai-shek’s image and pushes capitalism in Asia while urging restraint and balanced voices Another item reports John Johnson dying at 63 from burns after failed rescue efforts by his sister and son in Baltimore on December 28.
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Manchester Guardian
Radio Voice of America
United States
China
America
Voice of America
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Asia
Baltimore
John Johnson
Shim
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