Recount in Queen Annes County Narrows Byrd Lead in Md Governor race
George P. Mahoney narrowed H. C. Byrd's margin in a Mary land governor nomination recount as officials checked one of 18 ballot boxes in Queen Annes County. Byrd's lead dropped from 143 111 to 137 106 with nine ballots rejected for improper marking. Attorneys wrangled over procedures and impounding unused ballots while Mahoney sought guards and court orders and pressed for recounts in Talbot County.
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Centreville
George P. Mahoney
H. C. Byrd
Queen Annes County
Byrd
Mahoney
Maryland
William C. Walsh
Hyman Pressman
Richard T. Earle
Pressman
Board of Supervisors
Willam R. Horney
County posts returns as recount looms in Talbot county
A $1,000 bond is posted to cover recount costs if vote changes exceed 2 percent. Anne Arundel reports show Byrd leading Mahoney by 2,304 with Byrd still ahead. Baltimore County and Baltimore City districts await official counts as Talbot s has four nominating unit votes.
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Queen Annes
Talbots
Anne Arundel
Byrd
Mahoney
Baltimore County
Baltimore City
Flynn Ordered to Pay Landlady or Face Jail
London July 6 Actor Errol Flynn was ordered by a London judge to pay his former landlady 129 within a week or face jail. The judge noted Flynn’s claim of being “shaken up” rather than “shaken down” and upheld the debt for gas electricity laundry and telephone bills from 1952 while he rented her Hampstead home. Flynn, in Britain for a film, did not attend the hearing.
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London
Errol Flynn
Flynn
Edgar Dale
Margaret Lucy Peters
Hampstead
Peters
Britain
Dale
Rural Carriers To Meet In Ocean City
The fifty first annual convention of the Maryland Rural Letter Carriers Association will be held Monday and Tuesday July 12 and 13 at the George Washington Hotel Ocean City. The association is an independent group of rural letter carriers governing themselves for their benefit. National membership in 1953 reached 36 300 including a broad membership base.
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Maryland Rural Letter Carriers’ Association
George Washington Hotel
Ocean City
Rural Letter Carriers’ Association
July 4 Traffic Fatalities Fall Short Of Forecasts
National totals show 348 people died in three days of holiday driving, below the 430 projected by the National Safety Council. States led by Michigan with 33 and California with 32 in traffic deaths, while drownings and fireworks mishaps contributed to the toll. Maryland, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia also listed fatalities across traffic, drowning, and miscellaneous incidents.
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Associated Press
National Safety Council
Michigan
California
Alan
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Tennessee
Virginia
West Virginia
Mrs Dennis Day Chooses Blue Bonnet Preference
Dennis Day of Los Angeles wife of the noted radio and TV singer asks her mother of four lively children why she prefers Blue Bonnet as a cooking or household choice in a brief social note.
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Mrs. Dennis Day
Dennis Day
Los Angeles
Calif
Convicted Puerto Ricans To Appeal In House Shootings
Attorneys for four Puerto Ricans convicted of wounding five congressmen in the House of Representatives March 1 said they would file notice of appeal Thursday. Judge Holtzoff denied motions for a new trial and will pass sentence Thursday. Lolita Lebron faces up to 3 years, her companions up to 15 years each. They were convicted on five counts of assault with intent to kill and five counts of assault with a dangerous weapon.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Alexander Holtzhoff
Lolita Lebron
Rafael Cancel Miranda
Andres Figueroa Cordero
Irving Flores Rodriguez
New York
Farm surplus declines as May investment tops 6.1 billion
The Agriculture Department reported May 31 investment in surplus farm commodities under price support programs at 6,109,295,000, down 79,443,000 from April. The drop stems from farmer redemption of wheat and cotton stored under price support loans. The agency also noted a 264,688,000 loss in handling price support operations from July 1, 1953, to May 31, 1954, mainly from selling commodities for less than paid.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
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