Unspent Fund May Be Used To Cut Taxes
In Annapolis a group of independent Democratic Senators pushes to use leftover state funds to cut income taxes. Senator Melnicove accuses officials of underestimating reversions, proposing nearly $3 million be used for tax relief rather than a surplus. The move risks party divisions and potential deals with Republicans over Della's Senate leadership.
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Annapolis
Sen
Melnicove
D-Balto
Rennie
Baltimore
McKeldin
Della
Senate
Delia
Taneytown Garage Destroyed By Fire
A Taneytown private garage owned by Earl Bowers was gutted by a blaze of undetermined origin on East Baltimore Street. Firemen with three plug streams battled the three-car frame barn for an hour, saving two autos. The loss was about $2,000 with 250 gallons of kerosene stored nearby. No injuries were reported.
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Baltimore Street
Taneytown
Charles D. Baker
Baker
Ridgway Denies Plans To Quit Command In Europe
Supreme Headquarters in Europe reports Gen Matthew B Ridgway denies rumors he plans to resign as allied commander in Europe. He states he has not considered leaving the post and does not know the source of speculation echoed by Paris newspapers. Possible successors named include Gen Alfred Gruenther and Gen Mark Clark.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Powers
Europe
Matthew B. Ridgway
Supreme Aled Comander
Ridgway
Eisenhower
Paris
Ridzaay
Alfred Gruenther
Mark Clark
Far East
Birthday party for Billy Buhrman near Wolfsville
A Sunday gathering at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Victor W. Buhrman near Wolfsville celebrated their son Billy’s eleventh birthday. Attending were W. W. Buhrman family, Lester Bittner family, Sheridan Gladhil family, Victor P. Buhrman from Hagerstown, and Leavenduski family from Wolfsville, with refreshments served.
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Victor W. Buhrman
Wolfsville
Billy
W. W. Buhrman
Andrea
Charlotte
Lester Bittner
Mary Jane
Sheridan Gladhil
Lee
Sabillasville
Victor P. Buhrman
Hagerstown
George Leavenduski
Georgia Ann and
Paula Kay
Former Local Woman And Husband Shot
In Concord New Hampshire Feb 1 former state legislator George A Myhaver shot his wife Ruth Howard and then himself outside friends home. Both were hospitalized with non life threatening wounds. Myhaver a Lima Ohio resident previously owned Granite Stages and worked for Superior Coach Co. He and Ruth Howard wed Dec 27 in Reno Nevada.
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Concord
N. H
Atlee Zelless
New Hampshire
Friends
George A. Myhayer
Lima
Superior Coach Co
Concord Hospital
Ruth Howard
Frederick
Zellers
Harold Barnard
Barnards
Reno
Nev
Myhaver
The
Granite Stages
Keene
West
New Unity Plan Is Pushed In Europe
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles arrived in Paris to listen and learn from French leaders about European unity efforts. He urged France to back the Schuman and Pleven plans and sign the European defense community. Dulles and Stassen tour Atlantic Pact capitals, meeting French officials and U.S. ambassadors as they press for swift European integration and German rearmament assurances. In another note, a local man in Yellow Springs fell from a roof while installing a television antenna, fracturing his ankle and wrist but later listed in satisfactory condition.
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Paris
John Foster Dulles
France
Schuman
Pleven
Dulles
Harold Stassen
U. S
Rome
Italy
Ellsworth Bunker
Samuel Reber
Germany
William Draper Jr
Europe
Dunn
Matthew B. Ridgway
Alfred Gruenther
Lauris Norstad
U.S
Tomotrew
Cent Auriel
Rene Mayer
Georges 3Idant
Berlin
Konrad Adenauer
West Germany
Assembly
Pariament
Yellow Springs
Harry FE Main
West Patrick Street
Earl Roelke
Frederick Memorial Hospital
M. R. Etchison
New England To Australia Jet Sets Speed Record
Darwin Australia Jan 3 Britain's Canberra jet bomber set a new England to Australia mark arriving at 4 07 p m local time 22 hours 01 minutes after leaving London The unofficial tying time was 19 hours 01 minutes and the record halves the previous 45 hours 35 minutes set by a four engine Lancaster in August 1946
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Darwin
Australia
Britain
England
London
British
Air Ministry
Spread of flu under control
The Associated Press reports a nationwide spot survey shows flu like illnesses waning in at least 16 states with only three showing a sizable rise. Most illnesses last three to five days and few deaths occurred. Notable cases include President Eisenhower and Lily Pons. Several states report declines while Kentucky Alabama and North Dakota show slight gains.
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Texas
Arkansas
Tennessee
Minnesota
Eisenhower
William B. Umstead
North Carolina
Lily Pons
Neva Jane Langley
Dennis J. Roberts
Rhode Island
Walter Wolfner
Chicago Cardinals
Roy Feenster
Massachusetts
Kentucky
Alabama
North Dakota
Kentucky State Health Department
R. O. Saxvic
D. C. Gill
University of Minnesota
Georgia
Atlanta
State Board of Health
W. J. Murphy
Ohio
Franklin
Greenfield
District of Columbia Health Department
Colorado
Illinois
Wisconsin
Kansas
Missouri
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
South Dakota
Wyoming
Fruit Growers Elect Hagerstown Officers at Meeting
Frank W. Richardson of Dover Del was reelected president of the East Central Fruit Growers Production Credit Association at its annual meeting here today. About 65 members from Pennsylvania Delaware Virginia West Virginia and Maryland attended. Also reelected were Hiram Hershey of Hamburg Pa vice president and Walter Bromley of Smithsburg secretary.
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Hagerstown
Dan
Frank W. Richardson
Dover
Del
East Central Fruit Growers Production Credit Association
Paul Hawkins
Martinsburg
W. Va
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Virginia
West Virginia
Maryland
Hiram Hershey
Hamburg
Walter Bromley
Smithsburg
Don Cossacks to Perform in Frederick Feb 26
The world famous Platoff Don Cossack Chorus and Dancers will appear February 26 at Frederick High School auditorium for the benefit of Hospital Aid Inc. The Junior Chamber of Commerce sponsors the appearance with ticket sales starting today. All profits go to Hospital Aid Inc. The troupe, now American citizens, began touring in October and will wrap up with an Easter concert in New York. Their first concert was 22 years ago in Prague. Tickets were distributed to Jaycee members at the meeting held at C and P Telephone Company.
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Platoff Don Cossack
Frederick
Frederick High School
Hospital Aid, Inc
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Robert Davis
Jaycee
Benefit of Hospital Aid, Inc
New York City
Prague
Czechoslovakia
Don River
Nicholas Kostrakoff
Russia
C. and P. Telephone Company
Lloyd Hoover
Crusade For Freedom
Safety Committee
H. Reese Shoemaker, Jr
Hoover
Frederick City
Two Air Force Pilots Missing in Wisconsin Search
Madison Wis Feb 1 rescuers braved five below zero temperatures in a search for two missing Air Force jet pilots Captain Hamton Boggs of Harris Oklahoma and First Lieutenant Donald Van Ellis of Milwaukee. Earlier two other F 86 pilots Major Otto Kemp and Lieutenant Kenneth Holker bailed out and were found with minor injuries.
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Madison
Wis
Air Force
Hamton Boggs
Harris
Okla
Donald van Ellis
Milwaukee_ Boggs
van Ellis
Truax Air Field
Otto Kemp
Kenneth Holker
Selfridge Feld
Mich
National Guard
Kemp
Holker
Milwaukee
Losses in Korean War reach over one thousand planes
Tokyo Feb 2 The Navy and Marine Corps report 1033 aircraft losses in the first 30 months of the Korean War while air and ground operations continued. FEAF tallies 100000 Communist casualties since June 25, 1950 with 4586 inflicted by Air Force forces.
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Tokyo
Navy
Marine Corps
Far East Naval Headquarters
Far East
Korea
Miss Florence Cecil Celebrates 88th Birthday
Miss Florence Cecil once of Dublin marked her eighty eighth birthday Monday at the home of Mrs. Della Herbst 14 East Fourth Street where she will reside. Cecil was moved to her new home in the thirty Saturday amid the ambulance of G C Barton.
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Florence Cecil
Dublin
Della Herbst
East Fourth St
Miss Cecil
G. C. Barton
Cecil K Holter Elected New President of Holstein Group
Cecil K Holter Jefferson becomes president as Maryland Holstein-Friesian Association elects officers at its tenth annual meeting in Baltimore on January 23. Nearly 100 breeders attend the one day session with Ralph Wacker, Howard C Barker, M C Donnell and R N Wills named to key posts. Certificates awarded for 25 cows producing 100000 pounds milk. 85 cows produced 2000 pounds fat in 1952. 130 cows total owned by various breeders including Holter.
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Frederick Countlans
Maryland Holstein-Friesian Association
Baltimore
Cecil K. Holter Jefferson
Ralph Waxer
Gaithersburg
Howard C. Barker
Frederick
M. C. Donnell
Breathersville
R. N. Wills
McDonagh
Walker
J. Homer Remsberg
Middletown
Richard H Richardson
Westminster
F Bennett Carter
Eastern Shore
W. D. Knox
Heard's Dairyman
Thomas B. Bentley
National Association
Holstein-Friesian Association
Tra D Ifert
Maryland House of Correction
Jessups
Newton White
Mitchellville
McKendree Walker and Sons
Maryland
Maryland State Reformatory For Males. Breathersville: H. B. Millhauser
Reisterstown
Springfield State Hospital
Sykesville
Frank G. Remsberg
Gamma globulin uses outlined for Kiwanis Club
Stuart E Yeakel of the Baltimore Defense Blood Center outlined gamma globulin and its role in the expanded Red Cross program for 1955. He explained its antibody-rich fraction from blood, its use in polio protection, and how serum albumin and other fractions enable two life-saving applications from one pint of blood. The talk covered costs, funding, and the ODM’s plan to designate an agency to allocate and distribute gamma globulin.
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Red Cross
Stuart E. Yeakes
Baltimore Defense Blood Center
Francis Scott *Key Hotel
Yeakel
Provo
Utah
Houston
Texas
Sioux City
Defense Center
Office of Defense Mobilization
Yeake
ODM
Washington
Paul Willard
Frederick County
Hebert Heston
Milton Brunk
Carleton Molesworth
Kiwanis
Arthur Hutton
Flandreau
S. D
Maurice Davison
Washington D.C
Harold Keats
Frederick
Hood Faculty Members To Give Recital On Feb 6
Hood College announces a public recital by two music faculty, Dr. Earie Blakeslee tenor and Dr. John D. Ramaley violinist, performing works by Purcell Paradis Arne Schumann Ravel and Grieg in Brodbeck Hall at eight. Open admission. Blakeslee has extensive conducting and singing credentials and Ramaley authored a music theory work.
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Hood College Music Department
Earie Blakeslee
John D. Ramaley
Purcell
Paradis
Arne
Schumann
Ravel
Grieg
Brodbeck Hall
Blakeslee
Hood
Rome
Carnegie Hall
Juilliard Chorus
Robert Shaw
Ramaiy
Frederick
Catherine Williams
Adams State College
Colorado
Northwestern Universite Evanston
Ramaley
The
Fitzsimmons Company
Meat Stolen From Woodsboro Burgess
Meat market owner Lawrence A. Dorsey reports a break in thefts in Woodsboro after 20 pounds of pork sausage and other meat were stolen from the Woodsboro Burgess meat market on a Saturday morning. Previous burglaries included Murray's store in January with cash and merchandise taken. The Hut tavern also reported entry but no items listed. Dorsey is investigating further robberies and attempted thefts.
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Woodsboro
Lawrence A. Dorsey
Murray
Burgess Dorsey
Stassen Confirmed as Chief of Foreign Aid Post
Washington January 27 The Senate confirmed Harold E Stassen as head of the foreign aid program despite Sen Morse critique calling him fuzzy minded. The vote was by voice with no recorded opposition Stassen succeeds W Averell Harriman and is a former Minnesota governor and ex Penn president. The chamber also swiftly approved other nominations including Roger M Kyes for deputy secretary of defense and Don Lourie named to a new under secretary post in the State Department.
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Washington
Senate
Harold E. Stassen
Sen
Morse
Ind-ore
Stassen
W. Averell Harriman
Minnesota
University of Pennsylvania
Chamber
Eisenhower
Roger M. Kyes
General Motors
Defense
State Department
Donald B. Lourie
Quaker Oats Company
Chicago
Kyes
Charles E. Wilson
G. M
Wilson
Harold E. Talbott
Air Force
Robert T. B. Stevens
Army
Robert B. Anderson
Navy
Night Club Owners Offer Job To Truman
The newly formed Theater Restaurant Owners Association of America offered former President Truman a five year 375000 contract as executive director plus an expense account and a 75000 yearly salary. Lou Walters said the offer was wired yesterday after TROA’s two day meeting. no reply yet. Walters said TROA groups 40 cities in the United States and Canada and will act as a trade information chamber and employment and artist relations clearinghouse. The committee plans talks with the American Guild of Variety Artists on industry wide arrangements.
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New York
Theater
Truman
Walters
TROA
United States
Canada
Chamber of Commerce
Alrready
American Guild of Variety Artlists
Far East 4500 Russian Planes Raise Alarm
TOKYO FEB 20 Gen. O P Weyland said Russia has about 4500 war planes based in the Far East plus 2500 more Reds planes, with American jets greatly outnumbered but able to strike hard. He warned of a potential all-out attack if Korea operations continue and urged rapid reinforcement from the United States.
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Tokyo
O. P. Weyland
Far East
Manchuria
Red China
U. S. Far East
Russia
Weyland
Japan
FEAF
United States
Siberia
Sakhalin Islands
Kuriles
U. S
Sakhalin
Hokkaido
Pacific Ocean
Philippine Sea
Auto Crosses Dual Road And Two Die
An early morning crash on U S Route 40 near Havre de Grace sent a northbound Greyhound into the path of a car, killing two teenage girls and an Army private. Lillian Wicks of Havre de Grace and Mary Jo Shupe of Aberdeen died. Pvt. Robert Charlton, of Cleveland, also perished. Four others were hurt, including the bus driver and two passengers. The 1941 car carried Cpl. James G. Smith, who suffered a fractured skull and other injuries. Bus passenger Amos Dirby and Bessie Mayo were treated for injuries at Havre de Grace and New York City addresses are listed for victims and witnesses.
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Havre de Grace
U. S
White Plains
N. Y
Mary Jo Ann Shupe
Aberdeen
Robert Keith Charlton
Aberdeen Proving Ground
Cleveland
James G. Smith
Charles Kellogg
Runnemede
N. J
Amos Dirby
Negro
Portsmouth
Bessie Mayo
New York
Baltimore Police Aid In Cumberland Probe
Baltimore police say they have been asked to search for two men believed connected to the slaying of Odessa Meister, a 35 year old Cumberland textile mill worker who disappeared December 20 and was found dead January 16 on a hill at Cumberland's east edge. One man was jailed briefly for questioning but released with no arrest.
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Baltimore
Cumberland
Odessa Frances Meister
Meisier
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Walter B. Coblentz
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C. Lester Dudrow
Josephus Huffer
Frank Hull
J. Witmer
Ira D Kert
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W. I. King
Henry D. Lakin
Allie Messer
C. A. Pumphrey
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