Two Teens Admit Setting Fires North of Rocky Ridge
Charles Bollinger and Paul Creager, both 19, pleaded guilty to malicious burning of barns on Roy Valentine farm two miles north of Rocky Ridge on Matters Station Road. They were released on $1500 bond each and face charges tied to two fires on November 29 and December 16 causing about $15,000 in damage.
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Frederick County
Roy Franklin Valentine
Rocky Ridge
Matters Station Road
Charles Henry Bollinger
Paul Edward Creager
Route 2
Emmitsburg
Bollinger
Creager
Harold L. Basore
D. A. Tucker
H. J. Brown
Valentine
Basore
Valentines
Bollingers
Nine Die in Air Force C119 Crash in Alabama
An Air Force courier plane crashed near New Hope Alabama during bad weather killing nine aboard and injuring two others who parachuted to safety. The survivors were Airmen Michael P. Kinnane and Robert Johnson, both 22, from Seekonk Massachusetts and Cumberland City Tennessee respectively. The aircraft was a C119 Flying Boxcar on a Sewart AFB Tennessee to Brookley AFB Alabama route. The crash site was Shin Hook Ridge Grassy Mountain about five miles southeast of New Hope. An investigation has begun at Redstone Arsenal Huntsville.
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New Hope
Ala
Air Force
Foster Haley
Redstone Arsenal
Fice
Weather Bureau
Birmingham
North Alabama
Ft. Payne
Sewart Air Force Base
Smyrna
Tenn
Brookley Ai Force Base
Mobile
Shin Hook
Grassy Mountain
Alabama
Huntsville
Michael P. Kinnane
Seekonk
Mass
Robert Johnson
Cumberland City
Kinnane
Johnson
Haley
Fatal crash claims local airmen in Tennessee
Stewart officials identified several victims from a crash at about 730 am CST. Among the dead were Capt Leslie D Ferguson pilot An ioch Tennessee 2nd Lt Charles Hawkins Nashville and Airman 2C Richard W Miller Murfreesboro. Will Mickle Huntsville Times reporter said six bodies remained in wreckage upon arrival. Some victims were burned beyond recognition and identified only through billfolds as heat hindered removal for two hours.
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Stewart
Leslie D. Ferguson
Anioch
Mickle
Clerk Justified In Killing Holdup Man
A coroner's jury ruled the shooting of George William Cockerill, a 31 year old from Herndon, Virginia, by liquor store clerk Milton Kaminsky justifiable homicide. Cockerill, who entered the store with a hand in a jacket pocket, demanded money and appeared armed, but investigators found no weapon on him and his hand was in a plaster cast. Kaminsky fired after obeying the robber's demand and starting toward a back room.
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Washington
Tadar
George William Cocken
Herndon
Milton Kaminsky
Kaminsky
Cockerill
Child, 8 Is Struck By Car In City
Eight year old Betty Lou Shafer of Middletown was struck by a passing automobile while visiting relatives on North Bentz street Frederick. She was admitted to Frederick Memorial Hospital about 3 15 p m with head injuries. Her father Emory W Shafer said she ran into the street. Wilbur Ford Sr. transported her to the hospital. A preliminary exam showed an alteration behind the right ear, hematoma on the left head and cerebral concussion.
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Betty Lou Shafer
RFD
Middletown
Frederick Memorial Hospitals
Frederick
Emory W. Shafer
Forecast sees return to full employment in 1955
The Commerce Department forecast in the Economic Outlook predicts a return to full employment in 1955 despite a moderate fall 1954 pickup. It cites consumer spending as the key to growth, notes auto and related industries lead upturn, and warns that sustained gains depend on higher spending with smaller government outlays and continued business investment decline.
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Washington
Siip Father
Wheat Reaches Hungary Relief Aid Arrives in Budapest
Ninety four carloads of wheat, part of a $2,800,000 American relief shipment for Hungary flood victims, arrived in Budapest from the United States via Stettin. Distribution will begin next week. Sacks bear a red cross and read Gift of the American People.
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Hungary
Budapest
United States
Stettin
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Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury
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Mich
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George Welch
Kehne Furn. CO
South Market St
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Pade
Loah
West Patrick St
Ib Maytag Enarta
Better Homes Equip. Co
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East Patrick St
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Telere
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Economy Oil CO
NCETM
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Toni
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SPIN
Tonette
Williamson's Drug Store
N. Market St
Brand
Sacsmati
Capr
Allo
Full Fidelity
William S. Hood, Inc
William S. Hood
Francis Scott Key
Frederick Tropical Aquarium
Elizabeth Arden
Beauty
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Anak
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Warner & Nemo
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