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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1955
Page
7
A jeweler sued the track for $20,000 claiming slander and assault after questioning ticket stubs linked to the horse Blue Danube. A federal jury under Judge W. Calvin Chesnut returned a verdict for the track. The attorney for the track said tickets remained valid and the jeweler could collect winnings by sending them to the track.
United Nations secretary general Dag Hammarskjold appointed Homi J. Bhabha of India as conference president with powers to curb off topic remarks and Welter G. Whitman of the United States as secretary general with broad organizing authority for the first world conference on peaceful uses of the atom to open in Geneva August 8. The roster includes six vice presidents from a scientific advisory panel with representatives from the United States India Britain France Canada Brazil and Soviet Russia. Red China is not invited to participate.
In Baltimore on February 2 a Washington jeweler failed to obtain a $20,000 damage verdict over torn race tickets but is poised to collect his $42 winnings. Evidence showed pasteboard stubs lay discarded on a Washington street half a day before being recovered by Abraham Sures. The tickets had been tossed as worthless near Laurel Race Track.
Martinsburg West Virginia February report says W Z O Stephens hunted a two year old Aberdeen Angus cow that hopped the tailgate on West King Street during transport to Charles Town. The cow eluded police, was later seen by 10 year old Joe Pugh and then disappeared again near an orchard about a mile outside town with no further word as of today.
The Agriculture Department sold 31,800 pounds to the Philippines and 12,616 pounds to Haiti under a new export bid. Butter grade B fetched 36.17 cents a pound in Duluth stores, with costs about 57 cents to the department. Officials doubt selling the remaining ten million pounds offered. Current butter stocks total about 260 million pounds. Dr Frank W Ballou, 76, longtime District of Columbia schools superintendent, died after a stroke at home.
Miss Barbara Bright of International Harvester demonstrated a raspberry ice cream pie to Rotary members during a noon meeting. She explained freezer use, packaging, peak-nutrition processing, and storage tips for meats vegetables and prepared dishes.
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