Heaps Keynoted Maryland Farm Bureau Convention
Maryland Farm Bureau President Wilson A Heaps opened the annual convention in Baltimore addressing delegates from across the state. He urged less reliance on government, more program execution, and highlighted issues from taxation to education while stressing higher productivity and technical know how for farming's future.
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Street
Farm Bureau
C. E Wise
American Farm Bureau
Maryland
Heaps
Farm Bureauv
Onuy
Gangsters Shot Reuther Case Tied to UAW Control
Wayne County Prosecutor Gerald K. O'Brien said gangsters aimed to seize control of the CIO United Auto Workers and were responsible for the 1948 attempt on CIO president Walter Reuther. He said gamblers were not the main target and that racketeers nearly controlled the union before Reuther’s 1947 election.
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Detroit
Wayne County
Gerald K. O'Brien
CIO
United Auto Workers
Walter Reuther
O'Brien
Reuther
UAW
Citizenship plan sparks split amid criticism
President Eisenhower proposed to deprive future Communist conspirators of U S citizenship, described as half baked by Sen. McCarran who chairs the Judiciary Committee. Senators Langer Jenner and other lawmakers questioned the measure, noting existing rights and lack of added legal effect.
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Washington
Eisenhower
U. S
Sen. McCarran
D- Nev
McCarran
Senate Judiciary Committee
Sen. Langer
R-Nd
Judiciary Committee
Sen
Jenner Ir-Ind
One Dead and 12 Sick in Measles Outbreak at Miner Family
In Huntington West Virginia a disabled coal miner Thurston Tabor faces a measles outbreak at his home. Eight-month-old Clifford died from measles and pneumonia, twin Clinton is gravely ill, and 12 other Tabor children plus the mother are affected. The family lives in a four room house with the father unable to work.
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Huntington
Thurston Tabor
Clifford
Clinton
Carl
Charles
Paul Thurston Jr
Christine
Mary
Alice
Carrie
Virginia
Lilly
Janice
Tabor
Mt Airy Fire Dept Halts Banquet For Alarm
Mt Airy volunteers aided by expert assistance as a fire alarm interrupted the Carroll County firemen’s annual banquet. An 11 02 p m alarm from Robert Younger’s residence sparked three Mt Airy engines and visiting chiefs to respond, keeping damage to 300 dollars mainly from smoke and water.
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Mt. Airy
Carroll County
Robert J. Younger
Route 7
Ridge Road
State Firemen’s Association
Montgomery County
Harold Hirst
Takoma Park
Naval Ordnance Laboratorie Fire Department
Younger
Herman Davis
H. 5. Beck
Oscar Baker
Ralph Williar
Aubrey King
Travis Norwood
Howard Norwood
Kenneth Burdette
Joseph H. Gosnell
Davis
Paul E. Beall
Roeland Welsh
W. DeWitt Dickey
W. B. Culwell
Frederick County
Howard County
Baltimore County
Mi. Airy Rescue Ambulance
Baltimore City
Mt. Airy Fire Hall
Weather Outlook: Rain or Snow in Maryland This Weekend
The weather man forecasts rain or snow for Maryland this Saturday and Sunday with temperatures in the 20s tonight. Light precipitation should start in the west Saturday, moving east, ending early Sunday as the area turns partly cloudy and cold with wind. The forecast calls for ongoing cold through next Wednesday and more rain or snow around Tuesday.
It's A Joke Son Chicago Heist Hits South Side Home
Lois Pivar ski Jr opens door to three masked men who force entry at gunpoint. They herd Louis, his parents Louis Sr and Mary, and his grandmother to a rear room then loot $1000 in cash and 3600 in checks from the home.
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Chicago
Lois Pivarski
South Side
Louis
Mary
Free World Hails Ike Message From Ike
Eisenhower's State of the Union address won broad support in the free world for freer trade and sharing atomic knowledge with allies. Japanese leaders criticized plans to maintain Okinawa, while Britain and Europe praised the call for a freer system and strength against Communists. News outlets in London and Berlin framed the speech as a security and economic boon amid global tension.
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Eisenhower
United States
Okinawa
Tokyo
Sydney
Australia
Europe
Moscow
Britain
West Germany
Times
America
Daily
Telegraph
Congress
Atlantic
Hepatitis Reemerges Across County Area Is Warned
Infectious hepatitis, once severe in Thurmont, has reappeared in scattered county and city areas. Experts report twenty new cases in six weeks, but call it not alarming. Public Health Service notes a nationwide rise. gamma globulin immunizations continue for exposed individuals and family contacts. Doctor Sheldon Kravitz may visit to study current outbreak. Meanwhile Union Bridge Banking elected ten directors for the coming term. Lord Geddes, former British ambassador to the United States, dies in Chichester at 74.
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Thurmont
Forbes Burgess
WU. S. Public Health Service
State Department of Health
Red Cross
Sheldon Kravitz
USPHS
Frederick County
Burgess
Truman denies ever calling the red herring in Hiss case
Former president Harry Truman defends his anti communist actions and says he never used the term red herring to describe the Alger Hiss inquiry. An official transcript notes a press conference moment when the question arose and Truman’s subsequent clarification.
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Washington
Harry Truman
Truman
Drew Pearson
Ancment
Alger Hiss
State Department
House Un-American Activities Committee
Communist Party
Hiss
Reds
Pearson
Un-American Activities Committee
Capitol Hill
Cobra venom extract May combat polio
In Birmingham the cobra venom extract showed potential against polio in monkeys infected with the virus. Dr. Murray Sanders of the University of Miami reported that treated monkeys survived or avoided paralysis when given the extract five days after viral injection, though human effectiveness remains unproven.
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Birmingham
England
Murray Sanders
University of Miami
Sanders
Pathological Society of
Great Britain
Ireland
Imc
Manuel Gonzalez-Soret
Benjamin A. Akin
Microbiology
Valley FFA Chapters Tie For Top Maryland Award
Baltimore sources report Hagerstown and Middletown FFA chapters sharing the top state award for effective work. The Maryland Farm Bureau honored them with a prize presented by B&O agricultural agent L S Hartley. More than 40 prizes were distributed for excellence across farm projects. Darrell Comer of North Harford led with multiple firsts and a second place. Dairy and Beef category winners are listed with several from North Harford, Hereford, and Williamsport. The Westminster tax rate remains 85 cents for 1954.
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Baltimore
Future Farmer of America
Hagerstown
Middletown
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Maryland Farm Bureau
L. S. Hartley
North Harford
Hereford High School
Wienmico High School
Darrell Comer
Amos Helter
George Kegley Jr
Harry Hamilton
Willamsport
Beef
Robert Mudd
LaPlata
William Wheatley
Richard Coffman
Williamsport
Ralph Coshen
Union Bridge
Paul Lloyd
Hereford
Marion Anderson
Hagerstown Light Plant To Reach Capacity In 1955
City owned electric plant in Hagerstown is expected to reach its 13 400 kilowatt capacity in 1955 amid a public versus private power debate. The plant has generated substantial net profits, reducing tax requirements, while facing options to expand, tie with Potomac Edison, or shift large customers, with cooling water limits and an upcoming study by engineers.
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George Rash
Hagerstown
Daily Mail
Hugh Hunter
Public Service Commission
Commission
Potomac Edison
Hunter
Tive
Potomac Ellison
Potomac Edi- St
Genual
Antietam Creek
R. R. Daniels
Potomac River
Winslow Burnans
Consistine
Johnson Says Senate Democrats Will Exercise a Veto Power
Lyndon B. Johnson said Senate Democrats will veto individual items in Eisenhower's legislative program. Senator Byrd plans to fight the debt limit increase, while debate swirls over farm reforms, tax revisions, atomic weapons use, and a proposed 18 year old voting amendment. Secretary Dulles defended Korea withdrawal and NATO, as President’s state of the union drew mixed reactions.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Senate
Democrats
Eisenhower
Byrd D-Val
Congress
Knowland
California
State of the Union
Sen
Lehman
Dlib-Ny
Chaorsen
Hisenhower
Duff
Morse
Indore
Dulles
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Korea
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO
Wintry Weather Stretches Across Northern States
The Associated Press reports light snow and flurries from the Rockies to New England with temperatures below freezing across the northern half of the country. Readings near zero in northern Michigan and Maine, with sub zero temps in some areas as Arctic air moved over the eastern Great Lakes and into New England, about 11 to 16 degrees colder than yesterday.
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Associated Press
Rockies
New England
Atlantic
Michigan
Maine
Great Lakes
IBM Unveils Mechanical Translator Aims To Break Language Barriers
New York reports IBM publicly introduced a 12 machine collective brain with 250 word vocabulary that could translate a sentence in seconds. The system may expand to handle entire language dictionaries, aided by Dr. Leon Dostert of Georgetown and Dr. Cuthbert Hurd of IBM.
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New York
International Business Machines Corp
Leon Dostert
Georgetown University
Institute of Languages and Linguistics
Cuthbert C. Hurd
INM
Applied Science
Rustler Caught As He Milks Cow
Fairfield California report of Chester Lee Davenport a famed FBI ten most wanted cattle rustler captured while milking a cow at a Dixon dairy. Davenport a Wichita Falls Texas fugitive had been hiding since escaping Granite Oklahoma reformatory. He admitted his identity after being pulled in by a posse.
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Fairfield
Calif
Chester Lee Davenport
Southwestern
FBI
Wichita Falls Tex
Dixon
State Reformatory
Granite
Okla
Ohia
Davenport
Bigger Tax Cuts Wanted By Politicos
Eisenhower tax plan falls short of lawmakers demands as Republicans and Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee push for larger reductions. Rep. Simpson proposes excise tax cuts to 10 percent, excluding liquor and tobacco, while presidents calls for gradual spending cuts and cancelling 3 billion in automatic tax cuts. Speaker Martin predicts tough passage amid pressure to widen excise tax relief.
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Eisenhower
Capitol Hall
House
Ways and Means Committee
Richard M. Simpson
State of the Union
Congress
Joseph W. Martin TrueMageen
Hisenhower
Ways and Means
Rep
Goodwin
R-Mass
Snowstorms Hit Europe Leaving Towns Isolated
Central Europe and Italy faced ferocious wintry weather as storms buried regions deeper. Montemezzano near Modena was cut off for a fourth day while rescue teams rushed provisions amid fears of food and fuel shortages. Ten lives were lost in northern Italy, with extreme cold hampering operations and low temperatures reported in Bolanza Modena and Milan. Roads clogged, Britain saw many highway accidents.
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Modena
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Miler
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Germany
Britain
Burning of the Greens Ends Christmas Season Tonight
The annual Burning of the Greens will be held at 7:30 tonight in Sisters' Rill quarry. City workers and Boy Scouts collected trees for a public bonfire ending the season, with Rev. Paul L. Althouse reading a Twelfth Night story and Mayor Donald B. Rice lighting the first torch. Jack Shorrow leads the committee. Senate panels say McCarthy seeks a 3000000 dollar appropriation to fund investigations this year.
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Sisters’ Rill
Isurel
Market
Patrick Streets
Roy Senate
Paul L. Althouse
Donald B. Rice
Jack Shorrow
Soviet could whip NATO army in war warns East Berlin expert
East Berlin military commentator Egbert von Frankenberg writes in Communist press that Soviet and allied forces could swiftly overrun Europe if war breaks out and US would face posturing rockets. He depicts NATO as surrounded by multi-nation forces and claims long range bombers and transatlantic missiles would threaten Western Europe within days.
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East Germany
Europe
NATO
United States
West
Egbert von Frankenberg
East Berlin
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von Frankenberg
Germany
Hamburg
Kassel
Coburg
Soviet Union
Red Press
Frankenberg
Thurmont Fire Company elects officers and plans carnival
D Weybright named president of the Thurmont Fire Company as volunteers elect a full slate including vice president Philip Zentz secretary Eugene Valentine and chief George Black. A week long carnival August 2 7 is planned as the main annual fundraiser while a February 13 turkey and oyster supper is set at Thurmont High School.
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D. Weybright
Thurmont Fire Company
Volunter Group
Philip Zentz
Eugene Valentine
John Wood
William Stitely
Harry O. Miller
George Black
Richard Wilhide
MM. Frankin Birely
James K. Gray
Howard Damuth
Harry Miller
John Ogie
Carroll Brown
C. V. Robertson
B. Ormond
William Rice
Carroll Remsburg
Thurmont High School
Yellow Springs
Thurmont
Five Day Forecast for Maryland Cloudy with Precipitation
Cloudy conditions with rain or snow spread eastward across the state on Saturday and Saturday night. Then partly cloudy, windy, and colder Sunday with little day to day temperature change. Snow or rain likely again about Tuesday. Temperatures about 5 degrees below normal, highs from upper 30s in Western Maryland to low 40s in eastern counties, lows around 18 in extreme Western Maryland and about 20s elsewhere.
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