Cost Of Producing Food Has Doubled
Capital costs for Maryland farming have doubled since 1940, with equipment nearly doubling, operating capital rising 75 percent, and real estate costs more than doubling. The Maryland Bankers Association report cites higher inputs, larger farm sizes, and shifts to mechanization as drivers, noting debt levels and increased capital needs across farming sectors.
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Maryland
Banking News
Maryland Bankers Association
Committee For Conservation Now
Sfar
Grand Jury Clears Prosecutor of Charges in Salisbury
In Salisbury on February 24, the Wicomico County Grand Jury found no substance to charges that State's Attorney Hamilton P. Fox Jr. violated gambling laws. Joe Edward Waller, who made the allegations, apologized to Fox and the Grand Jury. Waller and his father were fined $5,000 previously after a raid on the William Penn Club.
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Salisbury
WA — A
Wicomico County
Grand Jury Today
Hamilton P. Fox Jr
Joe Edward Wailer
Fox Waller
Wiliam Penn Club
Waller
Approves Wage Boost For Federal Workers
President Eisenhower endorses a nine point plan to raise wages for 2,250,000 federal civilians, costing about 350 million dollars annually. The Civil Service Commission chair outlines the package to the Senate Civil Service Committee, with raises including 3-4% for about one million workers and reclassification for postal employees. A voluntary contributory group life insurance program would cost the government about 25 million dollars, with employee premiums around 50 cents per month per 1,000 dollars of salary.
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Washington
Eisenhower
White House
Philip Young
Civil Service Commission
Senate Civil Service Committee
Young
Americans Cross Yalu To Red China
Twenty one U S soldiers and one Briton who remained with the Communists crossed the Yalu River into Red China. Peiping radio claimed the former prisoners welcomed by Chinese officials and noted two Belgian soldiers who had joined the Communist side earlier. Richard G Corden spoke for the group, praising the arrival, while Clarence Adams, a Black man, thanked Chinese soldiers for racial equality seen in China.
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Toryo
U.S
Yalu
Red China
Peiping
China
Chinese Red Cross
China Peace Committee
Antung
Manchurian
Perping
Richard G Corden
East Pressfenre RT
Clarence Adams
Korea
Disturbance case heard in People's Night Court
A man accused of disturbing the peace near Taney apartments was found guilty and given a generally-suspended sentence after alleged obscenities toward children and police. The hearing revealed a tense scene as a jury and witnesses described the disruptive conduct, with the defendant ordered to move by the magistrate.
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Chidren
Nmse
Vachstrater Reese Shoemaker
George Audes
Taney
Audas
Dorsey Saumed
Starrant
Auday
People’s Night Court
Audey
Shoemaker
Phaimaly
Lis
John “Mc Fisher
McKeesport
Clarence P
Handley
St Frederick
Sergi Denver Shook
Officer Dorsey
Wedihel Lvnie
Emory & Stainer, Jr
Baltimore
Earl D Pollard
Leesburg
Uhiam Thomas Haines
Boonsboro
Eduard D. Wachter
Frederick
Sheep field day drawn by Maryland College of Agriculture
About 125 Maryland sheep rafters are expected at the annual sheep field day Saturday at the University of Maryland College Park. Officers Bare and Dorsey created museum style works in Sheep Field Bay area. Paul Thomas Doody and Keith Ro Shipley are named in scattered notes from Uniontown and Frederick Route 3.
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Paul Thomas Doody
Frederick
Keith Ro Shipley
Uniontown
Charles Bare
Nathan Dorsey
College Park
College of Agriculture
Maryland
University of Maryland
Decree Granted for Mrs Stella Smith Brunswick Divorce
In Equity Court a decree grants Stella Smith Brunswick an absolute divorce from Kenneth E. Smith. The defendant must pay the costs. E Austin James represented the complainant. The article notes nearly four million births in the United States in 1953.
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Equity Court
Stella Smith
Brunswick
Kenneth E. Smith
Frederick
E. Austin James
United States
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