Will Award School Work Contracts
Frederick County commissioners authorized the Board of Education to award contracts for a Woodsboro elementary school and Walkersville addition. Total around 270000 dollars. Woodsboro bids include General by Frederick Construction Company at 98000 with plumbing 17525 HVAC 22339 and electrical 12799.35. Walkersville adds north and south wings, auditorium, new heating plant, complete rewiring with bids around 120022 total. Superintendent Eugene Pruitt said work to start soon as documents are signed.
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Board of Education
Woodsboro
Walkersville
Frederick Construction Company
B. C. Grabill and Son
Libertytown
A. E. Fisher
Frederick
Conway Valley Electric
State Health Department
P. R. Souder
DaMascus
George L. Harner
Taneytown
Grabill
Conway
Eugene W. Pruitt
Carroll County
Pilot Performs Dramatic Forced Landing Saving 48
Pilot Marvin Staddon skillfully landed a C-46 after takeoff from Midway. All 48 aboard escaped before flames engulfed the plane, with three minor injuries and a 10 month old baby carried out by a passenger. Monarch Air Service chartered to Newark. the incident praised by passengers and Civil Aeronautics Administration officials.
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Chicago
Marvin Staddon
Monarch
Staddon
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Charles E. Smith
CAA
Howard Kastel
Harvard University
Kastel
Glencoe
County sets 1951 budget totals and school funds
County Commissioners approve a total 1,814,096.03 budget for 1951 up from last year with a 134,817 rise over the prior tag budget. The current expense for the Board of Education is about 826,820, roughly 89,149 above 1950 but less than the requested 896,820. The county plans 200,000 for capital outlay to aid school construction at Walkersville and Woodsboro, with state loans and aid reducing the net debt. The plan continues a pay-as-you-go policy, detailing school funding from state motor vehicle taxes and local appropriations, and noting a projected unexpended balance near 200,000. Welfare and CAS budgets rise, health and hospital budgets set, and debt remains low.
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Board of Education
Board of Educcation
Walkersville
Woodsboro
Thurmont
Liberty School
Liberty
Frederick
Emmitsburg
Middletown
Brunswick
Thurmain
School For the
Court House
Winchester Hall
Commissiners
Welfare Board
Children’s Aid Society
CAS
Health Department
Montevue and Emergency Hospital
Man Is Held Up In Cathedral Vestibule
Baltimore reported police sought a bandit who held up a Catholic cathedral vestibule. The robber forcefully demanded the wallet from a worshipper, then fled after ordering the victim back and prompting brief alarm inside the basilica of the Assumption. John G. Iago, 53, described the victim, aided police by reporting the scene.
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Baltimore
John G. Iago
Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Iago
Taga
Homemakers Board Meet On Tuesday
The first 1931 Frederick Council of Homemakers clubs meeting will be held Tuesday at 10 a m in the Extension Service offices 1145 East Church Street. Miss Beatrice Fehr announces presidents from 32 clubs, past presidents, committee chairs and five officers will attend. An agenda item is a proposed constitutional change affecting officer elections. A training school for club directors follows at 1 p m with a panel on director duties and responsibilities.
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Frederick Council of Homemakers Clubs
Extension Service
East Church Street
Beatrice Fehr
Homemakers
John A. Summers
Homemakers Club
Adamstown
Arthur Fouche
Ballenger
Monroe Stup
Braddock
George Krantz
Brunswick
Oliver Myers
Buckerystown
William H. Zimmerman
Camp Detrick
Carlton Brown
Charlesville
Charles W. Putman
Emmitsburg
J. Laurence Orendorff
Frederick City
Roy Walter
Gambrill Park
John Harris
Harmony Grove
Clarence Eaves
Jamesville
H. C. Suomley
Jefferson
Luther W. Remsburg
Johnsville
Carroll E. Harp
Iug Bridge
F. Russell Young
Lewistown
R. Paul Buhrman
Libertytown
Oscar Jay
Merryland Tract
George Chick
Middletown
Edward F. Holter
Mid-Valley
Desmond Dean
Pleasant
Earl L. Kelly
Myersville
Alice Moser
New Market
William H. Browning
Pleasant Grove
Huber V. Biser
Proenect
James van Sant
Rosedale
Thomas E. Molesworth
Thurmont
Warren Grushon
Unionville
Stanley Bury
Urbana
Charles Collins
Walkersville
G. Edgar Roderuck
Woodhore
Gail Catshall
Yellow Springs
H. Albert Dean
Truman Says U N Won't Bomb China Without UN Sanction
President Truman stated at a news conference that U S forces will not bomb China without United Nations approval. He expressed hope to avoid a third world war this year and said Congress would be consulted only if war declaration time arrives. He defended UN Korea actions and said the U S would negotiate, while avoiding comment on Korea’s military progress and the idea of bombing China without UN consent.
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Washington
Truman
United States
China
United Nations
Congress
Korea
Acheson
Pentagon
Marshall
U. N
Bridges
Spain
May Extend Draft Time
Congress will be asked to extend from 27 to 27 months the time to be served by draftees. Vinson said hearings will begin Jan 18 as the Defense Department prepares a universal military service measure. Discussion includes lowering the draft age and raising the top age, with veterans excluded from calls.
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Washington
Congress
Vinson
D-Ga
House Armed Services Committee
Department of Defense
Pentagon
Defense Department
Truman Signals Broad Price and Wage Controls Soon
President Truman said across the board price and wage controls will be used where needed and possible as soon as feasible. He noted legislation may be required to extend controls to farm products and hinted at addressing food price limits in his upcoming State of the Union address.
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Washington
Truman
Senate
House
Congress
Korea
Tuberculosis survey locates 12 cases in Frederick area
Twelve tuberculosis cases were found among 10 000 people x rayed in a mass survey funded by Christmas seal sales in Frederick City and County. Dr Edwin H Sponseller said the survey was the largest of its kind in the area with 450 re examinations advised.
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Frederick City
Edwin H. Sponseller
Frederick County
TB and Public Health Association
Maryland State Department of Health
Janet Kerchner
TB Association
Mack Shorrow
Retail prices rise for beef and pork items in new year
The Associated Press reports higher retail prices for many beef and pork items and most bag packed coffees in the first week of the year. Eggs and several vegetables eased while beef cuts rose one to six cents a pound and loin chops and popular pork items surged up to ten cents.
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Associated Press
Virginia
Texas
Commodity Credit Corp
Thousands Executed In Red Purge In Communist China
Hongkong reports indicate that in the last two months thousands have been executed in the mainland under a sweeping anti infiltration and anti espionage purge. Camps for reeducation are spreading, mainly in South China’s dissident areas, with further executions claimed in Hankow and Kwangsi province.
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Hongkong
China
South
Kwangsi
Hankow
Wongkong Standard
Res
Carroll 4-H Clubs Top Prize Winners
Three Maryland 4-H clubs will be honored for 1990 work at the Maryland State Council in Baltimore next Monday. Sams Creek Girls' 4-H of Carroll County receives best community service. Greenhurst 4-H of Cecil near Rising Sun earns boys club award. Taneytown 4-H wins best work by a combined club. Dr T B Symons to speak at Farm Bureau events. Also, about 300 Bell Telephone accounting division workers in Pittsburgh struck for higher wages.
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College Park
Maryland
Kimpo Field Abandoned Hurriedly by U S Marines
Kimpo airfield in southern Japan was abandoned under orders at noon after a night-long airlift. The base, recaptured September 1950, saw thousands of dollars in gear left behind as MARINE and Air Force units faced heavy smoke and burning facilities. Col. J W Wellian led the exit.
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Stan Swinton
Japan
Kimpo
U. S
Seoul
U. & Air Force
Kinpo
J. W. Wellian
Rowlesburg
W. Valt
U.S
Inchon
Inchon- Seoul
Impo
Korea
Chinese Plan to Drive UN Army at Inchon
Chinese forces aimed to cut off UN troops in Inchon and Seoul as Reds crossed the Han River, trapping allied units west of the capital. American and British units conducted orderly withdrawals under heavy naval and air support, with Seoul evacuated and ferried to safety toward Pusan. The strategic Red pincers threatened Wonju and the main supply route to the Pusan beachhead, prompting a ready fleet off the west coast for possible evacuation.
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Inchon
Korea
Fan
United Nations
Seoul
Han River
Yellow Sea
U.S. Eighth Army
Strongih
Han
Aixliuoy
MacArthur
Segul
U. N
Stan Swinton
Fifth Air Force
U. S. Eighth Army
Wonju
Pusan
Adm
L. A. Thackery
Hungnam
Thackery
Inchan
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E. J. Lanigan
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der Abend
East Germany
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Rancor
Thomas Doyle
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CCC
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Dun & Bradstreet
SGOI
N48
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Bell Telephone Company
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Australia
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Pine Peak Island
Great Barrier Reef
Mackay
Queenslane
F. R. Spurr
Man
Tarpy
Manchester Hotel
Tom Condos
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