Frederick by pass tops 1954 road cost list per mile
The first 3.12 mile leg of the Frederick by pass will be the most expensive in 1954 at about 1 334 000 dollars per mile with an overall cost around 4 745 000 dollars. Other costly segments include a Baltimore beltway stretch at 856 000 dollars per mile and the Washington Annapolis expressway at about 542 000 dollars per mile.
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Frederick
State Roads Commission
Monocacy River
Jug Bridge Hill
Brink
Seven Locks
Washington Road
West Patrick Street
Gentewer Gehyens Aggg
Frederick By-Pass
Tuscarora Creek
Main Roads Clear Of Ice After Weekend Warmup
Ice on main highways disappeared under milder temperatures after a weekend of freezing to mild conditions. Skaters used Baker Park, though frost and light fog marred some spots. State and County crews kept roads open with limited plowing while snow lingered in mountains. Arraignment for Baltimore figure Pollack postponed due to illness. Market remained firm in New York with moderate activity.
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Gambvrill State Park
Baker Park
Culler Lake
State Roads Commission
Brunswick Point of Rocks
County Roads Board
Jefferson
Baltimore
James H
Jack) Pollack
Plan 2 Way Traffic For Hamilton Are The Street Committee
The Street committee of the Board of Aldermen authorized City Attorney W. Jerome Offutt to draft an amended city ordinance making Hamilton avenue a two way street from Patrick to South streets. The measure includes no parking on the east side and a stop sign at Patrick street. A green arrow at the South Franklin intersection will allow continuous eastbound traffic.
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Board of Aldermen
W. Jerome Offutt
Hamilton Avenue
Patrick
South Streets
South Street
Charles ¥. Main
Hamilton
Donald B. Rice
W. Raymond Walter
South
Franklin Streets
Franklin Street
Franklin
Patrick Street
Carroll Street
Petrick
West Third Street
North Court Street
West | Third Street
Meyer Rice
Rice
Culler Lake
Park, Water
Baker Park
Firs
Juniors
Uniteds
Rescues Two As 22-Room Hotel Burns
Uniontown Pa resident Gene Mankins earned praise after rushing into the Lake Lynn Hotel as a fire trapped two occupants. He aided 82 year old Vito Rizzo and his 5 year old wife to safety as volunteers from three fire companies battled flames for over six hours in a pre-dawn blaze at the two story 22-room structure.
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Uniontown
Gene Mankins
Lake Lynn
Mankins
Vito Rizzo
Rizzo
S50
No New Taxes To Be Asked By McKeldin
Maryland Governor McKeldin plans a balanced 1955 budget with no new taxes and the state income tax kept at current levels. The budget, about 255 million dollars, was pared from initial requests and would fund mental health and education items while limiting other cuts. The Mental Hygiene Society asks for increased operating funds for mental hospitals and clinics, noting rising demand.
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Baltimore
McKeldin
Baltimore ‘Sun
Sun
James G. Rennie
Mental Hygiene Society of Maryland
Maryland
Special Meet Called by VFW and Country Club Members
The executive committee of John R. Webb Post No. 3285 VFW has called a special meeting of VFW and Country Club members for next Sunday afternoon to discuss plans for a possible swimming pool on the club property. If interest exists, construction could begin in spring with a pool and bath house, potentially finished by July 4. A pool contractor from Doylestown, Pa., will join at 2 PM. Plans cover a modern pool with chlorination, filtration, and financing discussions.
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John R. Webb
V.F_W
V.F.W
Country Club
Doylestown
Veterans’ Organization
Eisenhower outlines housing plan for Congress
President Eisenhower presented an eight point program to Congress to revise federal housing laws. He urged four more years of public housing and 140000 new units, coupled with private enterprise incentives and longer term, low down payment mortgages. He called for 700 million dollars in loan funds, slum clearance grants, FHA improvements, and a shift toward private control of the National Mortgage Association. He stressed preventing dependency on federal housing and eliminating slums while expanding housing eligibility for displaced families.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Federal Housing Administration
Federal National Mortgage Assn
Hosing
Albert M. Cole
Housing and Home Finance Agency
Cole
Grand Secretary of Eastern Star Dies
Mrs. Cora FE Wieder Grand Secretary of the Maryland Order of the Eastern Star died in an Annapolis hospital at 74 Funeral services will be in Baltimore Thursday at St. Margaret's Churchyard St. Margaret's Md Burial will be in the churchyard authorities said
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Baltimore
Cora FE. Wieder
Maryland Order of the Eastern Star
Annapolis
St. Margaret's
Budget study panel reviews new federal budget
The House Appropriations Committee enlists about 20 private experts to marke a systematic and intelligent examination of the new federal budget, led by Chairman Taher, a Republican from New York.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Taher
Hemingway and his fourth wife safe after Uganda crashes
In Uganda near Murchison Falls Hemingway and his fourth wife escaped harm after two small planes crash when landing for photographs and a rescue plane failed to take off. They traveled by road toward Entebbe while authorities searched. The party flew from Nairobi with pilot Roy Marsh, later aided by a safari launch to Bullaba before rescue planes collided with flight operations. No injuries were reported.
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Kampala
Uganda
Ernest Hemingway
Central East Africa
Upper Nile
Hemingways
Entebbe
Lake Victoria
Roy Marsh
Nairobi
Kenya
Murchison Falls
Marsh
Hemingway
East African Airways
R. ©. Jude
British Overseas Airways
Victoria Nile River
Bullaba
Lake Albert
Bricker Plan Faces Senate Clash Over Treaty Powers
In Washington President Eisenhower may back congressional action to rewrite the Bricker plan limiting treaty power. Len Knowland and Ferguson clash over terms, with a substitute allowing treaties to be reviewed for constitutionality, pending Eisenhower’s approval and long debate ahead. A separate clash notes a priest’s death in Maryland after a car crash, and a French claim that 93,357 Vietminh troops were killed in Indochina over four years.
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Washington
Hisenhower
Senate
Bricker
Len Knowland
Calif
White House
Sen. Ferguson
Michigan
GOP
Sen Bricker
Ohio
Ferguson
United States
Eisenhower
Knowland and Ferguson
State and Justice Departments
Indochina
Capitol Milk Producers Meet In Frederick Md
About 100 members and guests from Maryland and Virginia attended the Capitol Milk Producers Association annual meeting at Hotel Frederick. The event opened with a business session and included the manager’s report showing growth in volume and members. New directors elected for 1954 include Aubrey L. Hummer Harry B. Kanade Claude F. Culler Rodney R. Kelly Harry Swomley Jr and J L Monroe West. President Kanade presided. remarks came from Henry R. Shoemaker Dr C W England Stewart of Highs Dairy Jack S Conrad and George W Green who outlined brucellosis controls for the Washington market. Music and vocal numbers preceded adjournment.
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Maryland
Virginia
Capitol Milk Producers Association, Inc
Frederick
Washington
Pauli G Johnson
Aubrey L. Hummer
Sterling
Harry B. Kanade
Adamstown
Claude F. Culler
Rodney R. Kelly
Buckeystown
Harry 4. Swomley
Jr. Himlspurg
Jl. Monroe West
Kanede
Henry R. Shoemaker
C. W. England
Mr. Stewart
High’s Dairy
Jack 8. Conrad
Dairy Extension Service
University of Maryland
George W. Green
Frederick County
H David Hagan
James Gentry
Frank H. Lewis
India Joins Disapproval Of Prisoner Release Vote
India joined Poland and Czechoslovakia in a 3-2 vote by the Korean Repatriation Commission to disapprove the release of nearly 22,000 anti Red Korean and Chinese prisoners by the United Nations Command. The decision followed India’s previous support for sending prisoners into captive status pending a Korean peace conference. The U N Command had freed 7,300 anti Red North Koreans and 14,600 Chinese POWs and civilamps, with initial ships carrying 4,065 Chinese and 3,0POWs arriving at Formosa. The fate of 21 Americans and 326 pro Red prisoners in the neutral zone remained unreported.
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Panmunjomp
India
Poland
Czechoslovakia
U. N. Command
Sates
BS Cheen
Commission
K. S. Thimayye
Red
U. X. Command
Cavilians Baturday
Alles
Formosa
Toda
South Korea
Ameriana
Taipeh Welcomes Returning POWs
Five shiploads of former prisoners of war arrived in Keeching, Korea, and were welcomed by cheering crowds in Taipeh Formosa. Trucks carried 4,625 ex prisoners to Nationalist China as they returned from Korea in a tumultuous homecoming.
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Taipeh
Formosa
Red
China
Keeching
Korea
Lattimore Arguments Called For By Appeals Court
The U S Court of Appeals weighs reinstating four perjury charges against Owen Lattimore the Far Eastern specialist. Judge Luther W Youngdahl had dropped the four counts for nebulous and indefinite nature citing Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights. The appeal focuses on whether those charges were properly defined while other counts remain sturdy.
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Washington
U. S. ‘Court of Appeals
Owen Lattimore
U. S
Luther W. Youngdahl
Lattimore
Youngdahl
Mee Ee
Johns Hopkins University
Senate
Internal Security Subcommittee
Institute of Pacific Relations
I Magazine
United States
Darel
Younddahl
IPR
G.5
Leo A. Rover
Appeals Court
Joseph C. O'Ma
Thurman Arnold
Court of Appeals
Strike It Rich Couple Sought By Police in Pa
Quarryville police search for a man and woman claiming to be George and Joan Pover from Quarrysville Pa. They appeared on a TV show in New York Jan 2 and allegedly received 363.50 in cash groceries a pistol and other items. They face embezzlement and theft by bailee charges in Travis County Texas.
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Quarryville
Police
Austin
Tes
New York
George
Joan Pover
Quarrsville
Poper
Texas
Travis County
Lang
Travis
Quarrysile
Posta
Lester Resse
Big Four Meet Opens In Berlin To Seek Peace
The Big Four foreign ministers, led by U S Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, meet in West Berlin to discuss German unification and peace. Georges Bidault and Anthony Eden press for a unified approach while Molotov attends, amid Cold War tensions and security concerns.
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Berlin
France
Britain
Germany
Georges Bidault
Anthony Eden
Allied Central Authority
U. S
John Foster Dulles
Big Four
Bidault
Russia
West
Vyacheslav M. Molotov
Allied Control Authority
Molotov
West Berlin
Dulles
East
West Germany
Eisenhower
Moscow
Hitler
China
Oval Drive
Eden
Bidsalt
United States
Joseph Stalin
Georgi Malenkov
Soviet Union
Nop 2
Republican Party
Korea
Proposals for Higher Rates Studied by Public Service Commission
Hearing held today before the Public Service Commission on proposals for higher rates. The docket focuses on carrier charges and the implication for customers in Charleston and surrounding areas.
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Jhgher
Charleston
Martingbore
Public Service Commission
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VFW
Madrid
Madrid University
Gibraltar
Spain
Esso
Onl Co
Lasse Wy
Eastern Star
AYE
Laurel
James C. Wilhelm
Here
Burtonsville
Montgomery County
St. Bernard's Parish
Sandy Springs
Wilhelm
Ballard Kelly
Barbizon Cafe
Indianapolis
Ind
R. D. Edwards
Kelly
Capitol Milk Producers
Angel Gabriel
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