$3 Millions For Schools On Feb 14 Meeting
A public meeting is set for Monday February 14 at 8 p.m. in Frederick High School to discuss a school building program estimated at least three million dollars. Sponsored by the Board of Education and the Board of County Commissioners, the plan includes Yellow Springs and vocational shops at Thurmont and Frederick, with phased funding through 1953 and possibly 1958.
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Frederick High School
Frederick County Board of Education
Board of County Commissioners
Board of Education
Edward F. Holter
Commissioner Board
Ths
Yellow Springs
Thurmont
Frederick
Duval W. Sneadner
Christiaas
Harry McDonald
Garrett
Montgomery
Middletown High School
Pruitt
FHS Voag
Bulding
State Superintendent of Schools
Lewiston
Holly Frederik
IV Jstown
Walkersville
Elm Street
Parkway School
Frederick High School Teaches Mary J Shuff Retires
Miss Mary J Shuff longtime English teacher at Frederick High School retires from the Frederick county school system this week and is succeeded by Mrs Isabella E H Welsh. Shuff, a graduate of Emmitsburg High School, Hood College and Columbia University, taught at Emmitsburg schools and the old Girls' High School Frederick before joining Frederick High in 1925. Superintendent Eugene W Prustt lauds her contributions to English curriculum and county workshops. An informal birthday party was held for her at the high school before Christmas.
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New Jersey
Emmitsburg
Sme
Old Girls’ High School
Frederick
Shuff
Eugene W. Prustt
Miss Shuff
Elm Street
Lincoln
Howard W. Bussard
Caloctin Furnace
Willam McP
McGll
Philip's Delight
Bussard
Thurmont High School
Western Maryland College
Hood College
Johns Hopkins University
University of Maryland
Blue Mountain
Cafoclin Furnace
Mars
Isabela E. Welsh
Smith College
Mary J. Shuff
Frederick High School
News Today
Robert Leather
Robert Forkner
Middletown High School
William Rodman Cadle
W. R. Cadle
Marvin Spencer
Thurmont School
Spencer
Armed Services
Doris Simpson Felton
Middletown High
Madeline B. Smith
Marsha Weinstein
Bell unveils jet powered VTOL aircraft may revolutionize aviation
Bell Aircraft Corp unveils a jet powered vertical takeoff and landing craft designed for field use without runways. Created by Bell engineers at over half a million dollars, the craft uses swiveling engines and a compressed air control system for stable takeoffs and landings. test flights have exceeded 20 trials. potential impact spans military and air transport sectors with possible application to high speed jet fighters.
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Niagara Falls
Bell Aircraft Corp
Lawrence D. Bell
Wright Brothers
Bell
Bell Test
David W. Howe
Love
Bel
Integration Resolution Is Offered by PTA Council
Representatives of the Frederick County Council of Parent-Teacher Associations submitted a resolution to the Board of Education asking for a lay advisory council representing white and Negro groups to study and plan for racial integration. The board took no action. The resolution cited the Supreme Court ruling against segregation and urged local control for desegregation. The committee said PTAs should provide information and guidance and foster frank discussion while cooperating with local boards and authorities.
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Frederick County Council of Parent-Teacher Associations
Frederick County Board of Education
A. D. Pollack
Urbana
PTA Council
Paul Wise
Lewistown
Airs
L. R. Schoolman
Braddock Heights
Board of Education
Ptas
10 CHU Welab Alle Wal Lie Didte
Boards of Education
Supreme Court
New Thurmont School
American Seating Company
Grand Rapids
Mich
James T. Vernay and Sons Company
Baltimore
Rass
Sub-Zero Temperatures Hit County Wide Morning Thaw
Cold snap grips the county with subzero readings and icy roads. Gambrill State Park dipped to 9 below, Lisganore 4 below, Emmitsburg and Lewistown near 4 below, Unionville 2 below, with state roads and police shops showing similar lows. Officials expect a colder night and warn of slick secondary roads despite 20 cinder trucks and salting efforts. Snow depth around a foot lingered yesterday, with lake ice rough and limited melting. February record lows tie or exceed past decades.
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Gambrill State Park
High Knob
Lisganore
Emmitsburg
Lewistown
Unionville
State Roads Commission
Thurmont
State Police
Roads Commission
Commission
County Roads Board
Market
Patinals
Alan
Anea
Culler Lake
Adams County Man Killed in Head-On Crash Near Hanover
A 67-year-old Adams County man, Ellis J. Breard of New Oxford, died after a head-on collision on the Carlisle Highway two miles north of Hanover. Passenger Frank L. Zinna, 47, suffered a skull and knee fracture. Police said Breard died en route to Hanover Hospital. the accident also involved updates on local school staffing and community events.
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Hanover
Adams County
Carlisle
James Brady
Ellis J. Breard
New Oxford
R.D. I
Hanover Hospital
Frank L. Zinna
Bream
East Held In Winters Toy Churches
A cold Arctic air mass swept across the nation from the Mississippi Valley to the Atlantic, bringing the coldest weather of the season to eastern cities. New York City logged record zero temperatures with flurries and 3.7 inches of snow, while Beekmantown reported an unofficial low of 38 below.
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New York City
Associated Press
Mississippi Valley
Atlantic Coast
Beekmantown
New York
Newark
N.J
Boston
Kentucky
New England
New York State
Gulf States
Gulf Coast
Great Lakes
Great Plain
Rocky Mountains
Emmitsburg Youth Fined After Stop Sign Incident
An Emmitsburg area youth Ronald Sappington faced Magistrate Wilbur BE Sheffield on a stop sign violation near Maryland 75 and U S 40. He claimed he stopped but paid $3 and costs after being found in violation. Other local court items included nonsupport, intoxication fines, dismissals for lack of witness, and motor vehicle charges settled by the State's Attorney.
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Emmitsburg
Wilbur BE
Sheffield
Peoples Court
Ronald Sappington
RID 2
Maryland 75
U.S. 40
Paul Kline Sai
Laplington
Maryland
Sappington
Dorothy McKenzie
Donald A. McKenzie
Ball Road
Waymon Gibson
Monrovia
Ellis Carty
South Market Street
Lawrence Thomas Wilkerson
North Bentz Street
James Johnson
North Market Street
Samuel W. Barrick
George M. Diedeman
Chestertown
Joseph Delozier
Frederick
Diedeman
Pleasant
Delozier
Robert C. Dishong
Charles W. Branch
Richmond
Samuel H. Lehner
New
Governor to honor 300 state employees for long service
Governor McKeldin will present awards to about 300 state employees with 30 or more years of service in a ceremony at Eastern High School Auditorium tonight. An irregular movement in the stock market affected early trading in New York today.
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Baltimore
McKeldin
Eastern High School
New York
New Storm Heading East May Bring Snow Saturday
Frigid conditions followed by a developing eastward storm may bring a light snow event Saturday across Maryland and Delaware. Temperatures will dip to 5 above in mountains and near zero in low areas with 3 to 6 inches of snow expected in western Maryland mountains. State Police warn caution as roads remain slick from Wednesday’s snow and ice.
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Associated Press
Maryland
Delaware
Weather Bureau
Stillere
Prince Georges County
Washington
Rocky Mountains
Largest Frederick housing project to heat 311 homes
Jada Construction Co to build 311 homes in College Estates Frederick Inc on the former Young farm north of West Seventh street pike. Weil Brothers Inc to provide plumbing and heating costing over 300000 dollars. Foundations reportedly excavated for two model homes as the project advances along extensions of Eighth through Fifteenth streets and Wilson, Taney and Biggs avenues.
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College Estates
Frederick, Inc
Young Farm
Seventh Street Pike
Jada Construction Company
Washington
Weil Brothers, Inc
Henry Tuller
Irving Weil
Jada Company
Imade
Taney Avenue
Biggs Avenue
Seventh Street
Soviet 1955 defense budget rises 32 percent
Moscow announced a 1955 defense budget about 32 percent higher than last year, totaling 412 billion rubles. Finance Minister Arseny G. Gv orev told a joint session that no improvement in the international situation justified lowering the figure.
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Moscow
Supreme Soviet
Almister Arseny G. ‘Gverey
Kremlin
Tax expert killed by railroad train in Ridgewood New Jersey
John Scott Stella, a 41 year old tax expert accused by the government of failing to file income tax returns for 1951 to 1953, was struck and killed by an Erie Railroad train near Ridgewood. Stella had served as an instructor in Federal taxation at Columbia University's School of Finance. In a separate matter, petitions seeking immediate trials on charges of sodomy were filed in Frederick, naming Julius Morton and Terrence James McLane as defendants.
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Ridgewood
Erie
John Scott Stella
Stella
Columbia University
School of Finance
Julius Morton
Terrence James McLane
Frederick
Samuel W. Bar- 7Tivk
Chiang Balks At Peace Move In Far East
In Formosa reports from Taipei and London say Red China may accept an unwritten cease fire in the Formosa area in exchange for evacuating the Tachens and related islands. Chiang Kai-shek’s officials fear concessions to the Reds will repeat past patterns while U S Washington talks influence a wider agreement. Some Nationalists oppose any deal but face pressure to cease fire as tensions rise over Matsu Quemoy Tachens and JingYikiangshan events.
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Taipeh
Formosa
London
Red China
Matsu
Quemoy
Tachens
Chiang Kai-shek
Jing Yikiangshan
United States
China
Chiang
Ucleng Wielsu
wWuemoy
Washington
Peiping
Determined To Make War Declared By China Over Taiwan
Peiping official media quotes People's Daily denouncing US war provocations and ceasefire plots. The broadcast vows no intimidation or blackmail will deter China from liberating Taiwan Formosa, promising "disastrous blows" if Washington persists.
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Tokyo
Red China Today
United States
Taiwan
Formosa
Rachid Peiping
People’s Daily
Red Radio
China
United Nations
New Zealand
Chou Enlai Rejects UN Formosa Cease-Fire Debate Invite
Premier Chou Enlai said Communist China would attend only if Nationalist China remained excluded from the Security Council. He rejected the United Nations invitation dated January 31 to send a delegation to debate a New Zealand cease-fire resolution for Formosa.
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London
Chou En- Lai
China
United Nations
Formosa
Security Council
Chou
New Zealand
Cumberland County Board of Education Offers Salary Increase
The Alleghany County Board of Education informed teachers it will boost salaries by 300 next year and 100 the following year, far below the requested 500 and 200 annually for five years. Teachers warned they may appeal to the county commissioners if the higher figures are rejected.
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Cumberland
Gany County
Bombing On Wide Front Carried Out
Formosa to East China Sea front unleashed heavy bombing by Nationalist air and naval forces on Chinese Communist targets. No Communist counteractions reported. U.S. General Partridge met Chiang Kai-Shek as tensions over Taiwan’s Quemoy and Matsu islands and the Tachen question mounted amid American assurances and reluctance.
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Taipem
Formosa
Formosa Strait
East ‘China Sea
Chiang Kai-Shek
Tachen
UL S
Quemoy
Olatsu
Earle E. Partridge
U.S
Far East
United States
Matsu
Exaggerated unemployment and hunger claims in Garrett County
Jamratt Pnnntr Aen officials in Oakland Maryland say reports of unemployment and need for food are greatly exaggerated. Contractor George F. Mahoney distributed potatoes and flour to hard-hit families after Marylanders were shocked by media reports. Legion posts in Oakland and Grantsville deny severe conditions while Mountain District head Arthur G. Norris plans welfare contacts to determine exact needs.
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Agra
George FP
Mahoney
Baltimore
Maryland
American Legion
Proctor “Kildow
Oakland
Grantsville
Arthur G. Norris
Frostburg
State Legion’s
Mountain District
Garrett
Allegany
Rothenhoefer Named Special Attorney to Maryland Roads
Robert Rothenhoefer of Frederick is appointed by Attorney General Ferdinand Sybert as a Special Attorney to the Maryland State Roads Commission. A life long Frederick county resident, he attended local schools, the University of Maryland, and its law school, served as a First Lieutenant in World War I, was admitted to the bar in 1952, and is active in the Frederick County Bar Association Kiwanis Club and the Young Democratic Club.
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C. Ferdinand Sybert
Robert §. Rothenhoefer
Frederick
Maryland
State Roads Commission
Rothenhoefer
Frederick County
University of Maryland At College Park
University of Maryland School of Law
Two Die In North Hanover House Fire
An 86 year old mother Mary Resh and her 56 year old daughter Florence Greenholtz perished in a two story frame house fire about three miles north of Hanover. Neighbor Lester Doyle saw flames and could not rescue them. cause of blaze undetermined.
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Hanover
Mary Resh
Florence Greenholtz
Lester Doyle
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Atomic Laboratories
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Chatines
Edward Seligmann
Citizens Committee For Better Schools
Prufit
Seltzmann
Robert H. Palgram
Detrick
John Mitchell
North Frederick
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Weil Brothers
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Chiang Balks
Taipei
Oakland, Md
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Sybert
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