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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1951
Page
3
A delegation met at Frederick High School to consider controls on heavy trucking runs. A suggestion was to curtail speed to reduce fetal accident reports involving trucking equipment. The senator and delegates did not express their feelings on the matters.
Frederick County theater representatives urged the General Assembly to permit Sunday showings from 1 p.m. to midnight, citing conflict with church hours and seeking support for a school program, roadside stand control, permanent voter registration, elected official on the County School Board, and stronger truck safety. A drive from the Frederick County Teachers Association backed the school plan with raises for teachers, while the Chamber of Commerce pressed for roadside stand location controls overseen by the State Police. Hazel Lewis pushed for a permanent registration system and closer cooperation between County Commissioners and the School Board to improve home government and school administration.
The hen reputed to lay the nation’s biggest egg, measuring 10 inches around and eight and a half inches at the middle, died after delivering the egg at Dr. Henry F Dearborn’s poultry farm in Lawrence Massachusetts. Farm Superintendent Carl McGowan reported the bird’s death.
Magistrate Alton Y. Bennett ordered fines of 10.75 dollars for Lee M Harbaugh and companions on reckless driving and dead tags charges, with recommendations to suspend driving licenses. Harbaugh pleaded guilty, refused to testify. Officer Twentey testified to borderline DUI. Witness Ralphard K. Weedy and a pedestrian linked Harbaugh to erratic driving and a nonheavy traffic scene. A separate case saw a wife seek redress for her husband’s driving another woman, plus damage to a rear door glass. George Crummitt received 20 days for drunkenness after a prior 40 days served. Crummitt’s two traffic collaterals were forfeited. John Henry Smith, cited Aug 2 1950 for reckless driving, forfeited 1645 dollars on the citation via proxy.
In the week, Leonard F. Reeder of 434 West South Street forfeited $26.48 on a reckless driving charge noted by Officer Shook. City collateral forfeited by William KE Whitesell amounted to $580, with additional intoxication charges against June Bowens, Webster Luby, Jesse Franklin Harris, and James Edward Dorsey at $10.80 each. Arrests were made by Officers Twentey, Trump, McKeldin, Burras, and John Boone with Lieut. Dorsey involved.
A field fire burned over three acres behind the Catoctin Furnace school house on Monday afternoon. Independent Hose Co. and Thurmont Guardian Hose Company volunteers were dispatched, arriving at 7:15 pm to find the blaze under control. The fire scorched both sides of a county road before being subdued. Two small mammals, the water shrew and long tailed shrew, were found in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee, a first south of West Virginia.
Washington February 26 The St Lawrence seaway and power project if built now would cost about six million dollars more than in 1948 Maj Gen Lewis A Pick chief of Army Engineers testified to the House Public Works Committee today The United States share would be about 566 794 000 and Canada 251 269 000 The 1948 figures were 573 000 000 for the U S and 225 000 000 for Canada Pick did not explain why the U S share fell about 7 000 000 and Canada rose about 22 000 000 He said the committee is weighing authorization legislation for the project.
A speaker states the seaway is essential to national strength and security. He argues the project will approach solving basic problems more than any other resource development feasible now.
A Sunday dinner honored Mrs. Fannie Dudrear on her 88th birthday at the home of her son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs R E Thomas 1300 Scheeler avenue Baltimore. The room was decorated and cards and mitts from friends and neighbors were displayed A bouquet of American beauty roses from her son in Pittsburgh marked the center of the table Gifts from Mrs Mary Castle Mr and Mrs John Biser near Jefferson and Miss Josie Monte were among the offerings.
John and Luther Baumgardner of Frederick Miss Effie Chambers of Washington and Mrs Ernest Schildt of York Pa are named in a listed record.
Baltimore reports 48 traffic fatalities in January, up 43 percent from 1950, with 1,895 accidents and 551 injuries. More than half the deaths occurred at night. Baltimore County leads with 163 accidents. The Traffic Safety Commission released the figures.
The report notes the Washington D. C. metro park system, including surrounding areas, as the largest in the world. It lists fatalities and injuries by county, with Prince Georges leading casualties at two deaths and 88 injuries, followed by Montgomery with 47 and Anne Arundel with 37.
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