Utilities Tax Bill Report Is Adopted
In Annapolis the House gave preliminary approval to a plan taxing capital shares of public utilities, routing revenues to most counties but reducing Baltimore City funds. The bill, amended, becomes effective in 1957 after budget adjustments. debate highlighted fairness and timing. Senate rejected a separate referendum on lowering voting age from 21 to 18.
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Annapolis
House of Delegates
del. Whitworth
Allegany
Baltimore City
Wicomico
Frederick
Garrett
Senate
Chamber
Talbot and Harford
Princess Anne
Whitworth
Baltimore
Baltimore County
del. Thompson
Dorchester
del. Robinson
D-Balto
Robinson
House
U.S
Washington
Montgomery
Maryland
Easter Sale Campaign aids Maryland crippled children
Paen Donoho a Baltimore attorney and vice president of Strayer's Business College will head the 1954 Easter Sale Campaign from March 18 to April 18. Funds will support the Maryland Society for Crippled Children and Adults and affiliates, funding workshops, treatments, and educational programs for about 75,000 handicapped residents. The goal is $125,000 with 91 percent kept in state.
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Paen Donoho
Baltimore
Strayer’s Business College
Maryland Society For Crippled : Children
Maryland
Gonoho
Maryland Society For Crippled Children
Baltimore ‘League For Crippled Children
Donoho
Iwo Jima Salvage Work by Japanese Workers Declares Recovery
Japanese workmen salvaging wreckage on Iwo Jima nine years after the battle operate under a U S military Japanese firm agreement. They cut metal from wrecks including a sunk landing ship and a damaged Zero, bale scrap into compacted metal, and transport materials to small Japanese steamers offshore as U S forces maintain a coastal salvage operation on the sulphonated island.
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Iwo Jima
SS. Marines
U. S
U.S
Mt. Surabachi
Ines
Maj
Harry MM. J Edwards
Laensen
Tenn
Air Force
Japan
Surabachi
5Th Marines
Amphitheater
Death Valley
U. S. Coast Guard
W. L. Rich
NBC
Navy Construction Battalion
Junk Yard
Iwo Oma
SS General Goes On Trial In Paris
Former SS chief of occupied France Karl Oberz stands trial before a military court in Paris accused of mass executions and racial arrests. Adjutant Helmuth Knochen is named co defendant as authorities cite nearly 1,000 hostages killed, 80,000 deported, and 114,000 arrests. The court rejected a defense delay. Oberz fled after Allied advances and was captured in 1945.
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Paris
Karl Oberz
France
Ober
Austrian
Tyrol
Defense ODM approves tax benefits for 57 companies
The Office of Defense Mobilization issued certificates allowing 57 firms federal tax benefits for defense expansion projects totaling about 91.68 million dollars. Western Maryland Railway Co of Baltimore leads with 6.113 million for diesel locomotives and freight cars, with 70 percent write-off on a 4.975 million portion and 55 percent on a 1.138 million portion. The article notes historical use of the term beaver for hat dating back to Chaucer.
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Washington
Office of Defense Mobilization
ODM
Western Maryland Railway Co
Baltimore
Chaucer
Soviets Mark Army and Navy Day Amid Cheers and Claims
Moscow radio broadcast the Army and Navy Day with speeches and mass events as Soviet power was touted to have risen and to be capable of delivering a crushing blow. Mao Zedong sent congratulations to Malenkov amid a chorus of national celebration.
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London
China
Mao Tze-tung
Georgi Malenkov
Moscow
Soviet Union
Moscow Radio
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Mmeasure
Savannah
Hunter Air Force Base
Motorola
Emerson
Westinghouse
Capehart
Admiral
Dumont
Bendix
Gaver’s
Middletown
F. Gaver
RCA
Evangelical Lutheran Church
Nicholas Yinger
Glenn E. Biehl
Sesson
Lawson
Charles A. Lawson
BTC
Baltimore Transit Co. Today
Qelicle
Aeledseu Lluither
Burall’s Cycle Shop
C. C. Carty’s
Pat
L. H. MacKenzie
Monument
Frederick Tropical Aquarium
Market ST
America
Cline
Frank Keefer
Coffman
Hood College
Andrew G. Truxal
Otaling
Wi. L
Sumule
Frederick, Md
Dotton Damas Dann
E. Patrick St
Idelegate
Del
Doin J. Nowakowski
Statehouse
Aone Arundel ‘General Hospital
Nowakowski
Capitol
John C. Luber
Ann
Thomas D'Alesandro
Dauro
Walter Snow
Optometrist
North Market St
Sam Miller
South Market Street
Jack
Jug Bridge
Bartonsville Road
Philco
Motorola T.V
Sunbeam
Melvin M. Englen
Carroll Sr
Service Modern Pharmacy
Pearre’s Drug Store
Marlow’s
Bentz
Ovens Economy Oil CO
Kick St
Ph. MO
Kehne
Furn. CO
C. E. Cline & Son
East Patrick St
Hendrickson’s
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