Legislature Opens With Brief Adjournment In Maryland
Maryland lawmakers met for a brief initialization of the 1943 session. Senate and House leaders adjourned after more than 200 bills were introduced, planning to reconvene Monday night. committees were named including Finance and Judicial in the Senate and Ways and Means Rules Judiciary and Insurance in the House. Governor O’Conor urged prompt action on national peril laws, while debates over a 40 mph highway limit and a building and loan regulation bill signaled early contentious issues.
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Emmapelis
Senate
House
O'Conor
Iowa
Weis
Legislative Council
Ways and Means
Arthur H. Brice
D.-Kent
Thomas E Conlon
D.-Balto
John §. White
Prince George's
Conlon
Roosevelt
J. Milton Dick
R.allegany
Tnland Fish Commission
Maryland Senate considers broad election and tax reform measures
The Senate advanced bills creating an Ave-m e mber commission appointed by the Governor and repealing the Declarations of Intentions Act requiring newcomers to declare intent a year before voting. Other proposals set up a state wide tax sales law, replace almshouses with chronic disease facilities, and add county wide weights and measures and continuous property assessments. J Howard Johnson Winicomo urged free passage on toll bridges for armed forces pedestrians, but White urged referral to Ways and Means to weigh costs and legality.
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Senate
Maryland
Baltimore City
Fari
Baltimore
Frederick County
State Tax Commission
J. Howard Johnson
Wicomico
House
State Roads Commission
White
Ways and Means Committee
Roads Commission
Four Army Bomber Crewmen Die In Myrtle Beach Crash
Four airmen killed when an Army medium bomber crashed on the Myrtle Beach gunner range near Greenville Army Air Base during a routine training flight. The victims are Sgt Gordon J. Cairns 28 Sgt Thomas J. Cannalong 21 Sgt Everett E Dubois 20 and Sgt Cecil Finnes 24, hailing from Silver Spring Watertown Beaumont and Evansville. The war effort noted as four and a quarter billion dollars worth of aircraft leaving factories in the first year.
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Greenville
5. C
Greenville Army Air Base
Myrtle Beach
Gordon J. Cairns
Anna Cairns
Silver Spring
Thomas J. Cannalong
Elizabeth Cannalong
Watertown
Mass
Ski
Everett E Dubois
iMrs
Eula Lee Dubois
Beaumont
Texas
Ski Cecil Finnes
Pearl T. Finney
Evansville
Ind
More Representation Granted To Minority
The House Republican minority gains seats on key committees in a compromise with Speaker Rayburn and leaders. Republicans win three new seats on the Appropriations Committee and gain one seat on most other panels, while Ways and Means remains 15 Democrats to 10 Republicans.
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Washington
House
Rayburn
D-Tex
McCormack
D-Mass
Martin
Appropriations Committee
Means Committee
Potomac River Bridge Piers to Complete Next Month
The State Road Commission reports the piers and abutments for the new Potomac River bridge at Sandy Hook will be finished within the next month. No further work will occur due to a shortage of steel.
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Hagerstown
State Road Commission
Potomac River
Sandy Hook
Frederick County Farmers Urged to Lift Food Production in 1943
County officials and 55 community committeemen outlined wartime goals for Frederick County, proposing increases in crops such as soybeans, beans, peas, tomatoes and potatoes. Wheat and barley quotas were set below last year, while corn, oats, milk, beef cattle and poultry targets rose. shortages of machinery, fuel and fertilizer were noted as key difficulties for 1943 mobilization.
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Frederick County
County Agricultural Conservation Association
Henry R Shoemaker
Hamilton Linthigum
Agricultural Adjustment Agency
A M. Pitzer
Ronald Ehling
Frank A. Gardner
Mr. Linthicum
Shoemaker
State War Board For Conservation
Frederick
African landee Mount advised on deferment forms
Pvt. Mount son of Mr and Mrs Monroe Mount of Kemptown reports being landee in Algeria and well. He warns his parents to fill draft forms carefully noting stock and harvest figures as they may aid deferment requests or securing rationed materials for crop maturity.
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Pvt. Mount
Monroe Mount
Kemptown
Landee
Algeria
Africa
Mc Linthicum
Phone Co s Emergency Effort Highlighted at Club Meeting
Lions Club members heard J E Trible of Hagerstown discuss the telephone industry role in the emergency. Alfred Bole presented a film Mines Above The Ground detailing industrial thrift and salvage efforts by researchers to conserve materials for telephone service. Niemann Brunk presided at the meeting.
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Hotel
Frederick
Lions’ Club
J. E. Trible
Hagerstown
Alfred Bole
Fle
Mineia
Niemann Brunk
Veteran Delegate Barnes Sees War Era Drive in 105th Legislature
Annapolis veteran delegate C Ray Barnes of Carroll County a Republican and Maryland House member since 1927 reflects on the war era push for solid hard work in the 105th session. He has led his ticket and earned a seat on Ways and Means while balancing farming a 165 acre fruit and dairy operation near Mt. Airy. His peaches prize orchard and a son in service frame his life alongside bank directorships and farm groups.
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Annapolis
C. Ray Barnes
Carroll County
Maryland
House of Delegates
Barnes
Anar Thie Field
Carroll Countians
Assembly
House
Ways and Means
Carroll
Midway
Frederick
Baltimore
Lfe
First National Bank
Mt. Airy
Building and Loan Association
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