Federal Rent Controls In State Dead
Federal rent controls in Maryland are effectively ended as offices close due to lack of funding. Baltimore considers a local option revival, while Hagerstown and Cumberland plans stall. The state legislature approves local extensions but a Senate House version discrepancy could trigger a legal challenge.
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Baltimore
Maryland
Congress
Frederick
Hagerstown
Cumberland
Allegany County
House of Delegates
State Senate
Senate
Sen
Turnbull
D-Balto
House
McKeldit
McKay Becomes 15000th National Hot Rodder
Washington July 8 Interior Secretary McKay was named the 15000th member of the National Hot Rod Association in a brief office ceremony. He stressed hot rodders’ safety goals while noting his own car has 73 miles after two months and little time for unofficial travel. Parks, the association president, said true hot rodders work on engines for zip and look, and many police and firemen are members.
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Washington
McKay
National Hot Rod Association
Mechar
Chevrolet
Cadillac
Salem
Ore
Wally Parks
Association
NecKay
Parks
Ballenger 4H Meeting Plans Picnic and August Meet
The Ballenger Girls 4 H met July 3 at Nellie Shafer s home with pledge and song. Members discussed entering items for Achievement Day, planned a July 18 parents picnic at Fishing Creek, and a foods meeting at Community Ball. The next meeting is August 7 at Mrs Charles King s Route 4 at 8 p m.
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Ballenger
Nellie Shafer
Fishing Creek
Charles King
Route 4
Communists Try To Get Into Everything Communists Try To Get Into Everything
Senate hearing reveals Sen John Marshall Butler contends Communists use every tactic to infiltrate churches schools labor unions media and even government. He claims avowed Communists and fellow travelers occupy positions in learning religion and policy making.
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Washington
John Marshall Butler
R-Md
Senate Today
Butler
Politic rights for state workers debated in Maryland
Baltimore July 8 state employes freedom to engage in politics outside office hours urged by Mrs. Mary Duvall and other Democrats. Davis notes Hatch Act limits exist but broader rulings lack legal support while a capital improvements bill heads to committee. A special oil refinery committee is formed with Turner as chair and senators Goldstein Bailey Redden Lowe Lucas.
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Baltimore
Legislative Council
Mary Duvall
United Democratic Women’s Clubs of
Maryland
M. Alice Canoles
Walter Tabler
Russell 5
Davis
Harry C. Jones
General Assembly
Sen
Goldstein
Calvert
Baltimore City
Washington
Turner
Queen Anne's
Junior Christian Endeavor Union Meets in Adamstown
The Frederick County Junior Christian Endeavor Union meets this Saturday at 2 PM in Trinity Evangelical Reformed Church Adamstown. Rev Walter Mehrling leads a program featuring Warren Smith Sallman pictures poems Bible drills and music with hosts from Adamstown welcoming delegates including state and Maryland CE leaders.
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Christian Endeavor Union
Frederick County
Trinity Evangelical Reformed Church
Adamstown
Walter D. Mehrling
Middletown
Graceham
Frederick
Thurmont
Sabillasville
Lantz
Highfield
Myers‘Valley
William Woerner
County
CE Union
Warren Smith
State Christian Endeavor Union
Fredenck County
Christ
Heyward
Smallest Stadium in the American League
Griffith Stadium in Washington D C has the smallest seating capacity of any American League baseball venue at 2 731 seats.
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Washington, D. C
Soldier's Blood Call From Korea Echoes in Frederick County
Pfc. Richard Dutrow writes home from the fighting front describing blood shortages and Red Cross blood drives. He recounts a transfusion on a moving truck, environmental sights in the valley, and frustration with the Syngman Rhee issue. His mother, Mrs. Richard Dutrow, chairs Frederick county blood donors in tribute to 16 county men killed in Korea.
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Korea
Frederick Countians
Richard C. Dutrow
Pfc
Richard
Dick) Dutrow
Syngman Rhee
Dener
Red: Cross Blood Bank
Red Cross
Ruthy
Ruth Dutrow
Lushndes
Laniel Pushes Through Emergency French Finance Plan
Premier Joseph Laniel won parliamentary approval for an emergency seven year Indochina war funding plan after a marathon all night session. He secured powers to cut expenditures by decree, reorganize government, and raise gasoline and alcohol taxes, while preparing to resign as Bidault heads to Washington for talks with the Big Three.
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Paris
Joseph Laniel
National Assembly
Georges Bidault
Indochina
Lanier
Assembly
Rene Mayer
Laniel
Bidault
Washington
Death kiss slaying wife gets five years to life
Hildegard Pelton, 32, German war bride, was sentenced by Superior Judge C. D. Hamlin Jr. to five years to life for the February 1 slaying of her husband William Pelton on Niles Road. Convicted of second degree murder she showed no emotion.
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Oakland
Calif
Hildegard Pelton
William Pelton
Pelton
C. D. Hamlin Jr
California Institute For Women
Corona
Niles Road
New York
Youngster Frank DeMichels Tops Cardinals Prospect List
Frank DeMichels of New York City is the youngest in the St. Louis Cardinal organization. He celebrated his 17th birthday on April 16. DeMichels plays in Paducah Kentucky in the Class D Kitty League.
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Frank DeMichels
New York City
St. Louis Cardinal
DeMichele
Paducah, Ky
Woman and child escape fire near Mountaindale
A mother Melvin Reifsnider and her six year old daughter fled unharmed from a burning trailer along the Potomac Edison Railway tracks near Mountaindale on Yellow Springs road. The trailer, owned by Clyde Woolever, was destroyed with losses about 7500 dollars. Police noted prior lightning strikes and possible electrical issues though the exact cause remained undetermined. State Trooper Guilmino investigated.
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Potomac Edison
Mountaindale
Yellow Springs
Melvin F. Reif
Frederick
Clyde Woolever
Ira Stull
Yellow- Springs
V. L. Guilmino
New Magazine Out Under Old Title
The Democratic National Committee released a new monthly magazine titled Democratic Digest. It criticizes Republicans with temperate humor over 112 pages, selling at 25 cents with 100000 copies heading to stands and 20000 paid subscriptions claimed. editors are Clayton Fritchey Sam Brightman and Philip M Stern. AWOL Administration Without Leadership is among its features.
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Democratic National Committee
Sen. McCarthy
Rwis
Eisenhower
Democratic Digest
Clayton Fritchey
Sam Brightman
Philip M. Stern
Alf M. Landon
Kansas
GOP
Daniel A. Reed
Sailor Killed Near Conowingo Dam in Auto Crash
Glenn Curtis Wolvin an 18 year old sailor from Melvindale Michigan stationed at the Bainbridge Training Center was killed today when the car he rode in struck a truck and spun into a parking lot near Conowingo Dam. Two other sailors in the car were reported in serious condition at the hospital.
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Conowingo
Mad
Glenn Curtis Wolvin
Melvindale
Mich
Bainbridge Training Crater
Wolvin
Conowingo Dam
Rt 40 speeders face 55 day jail terms for July 4 drunk driving
Route 40 west from Frederick to South Mountain saw heavy enforcement on July 4 as State Troopers enforced speed limits and drunken driving laws. In Magistrate's Court, seven drivers lost collaterals for speeds over 50 mph or 30 mph limits, with multiple out of state defendants named. Alfred Drakes and Harmon faced major penalties including 55 days in jail for drunken driving and reckless driving, while others paid fines ranging from six to sixteen dollars.
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South Mountain
Glenn L. Bowmas
William Paul Carlin
Geneva
Ohio
Lionel Black
Baltimore
Delmar Doyle Hancock
Marion
Ralph Charles Schaub
Canton
Joseph Duncan
Muciall
Delton
Rummel
Polk
Weymer Lee Chanel
Falls Church
Harry Bowman
Walter Rosier
Cumberland
Alfred Drakes
Ernest Homer Walls
Oklahoma City
Okla
Myersville Road
Robert Alfred McGonigal
Havre de Grace
Bowman
Master Grant
Kannapolis
N. C
David E. Lechliter
Ridgeley
W. Va
Myersville
Edwin LeRoy Miller
Pittsburgh
David Goetz
Hagerstown
Charles H. Harmon
Wilbur F. Sheffield, Jr
Harmon
Reva May Clary
Thurmont
Nathan Dorsey
Market
Worman’s Mill
Countian
Sheffield
John Irving Shankle
West South Street
Market and
South Streets
Newell Esterly
Catoctin Avenue
Charles L. Wenzel
Route 1
Lester E. Utterback
North Market Street
Joseph W. Boyce
Middle Alley
Richard C. Johnson
Fee Street
Norman Tramp
Condemnation Case Opened In Carroll County
Westminister July 8 Baltimore City began condemnation proceedings in Carroll County Circuit Court to seize 128 acres including Melville Woolen Mills and Oakland Mills hamlet for the Liberty Dam reservoir. A jury will set the purchase price. 12 jurors inspected the property today along the Patapsco River loop near the Balli Taore Carroll line.
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Westminster
Baltimore City
Carroll County
Melville Woolen Mills
Oakland Aiilis
Oakland Mills
Liberty
Melviille
Patapsco River
Ballii- Taore
Maney Joins Upper Montgomery Planning Staff as Junior Planner
David S. Maney, a recent Army First Lieutenant, joins the Upper Montgomery County Planning Commission as junior planner. A Ames Iowa native with a landscape architecture degree from Iowa State College, he has worked with the U S Forest Service and Iowa State Highway Commission and led planning for a 306 acre 4 H Camp in the Des Moines River Valley. He and wife with two children reside in Rockville.
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David S. Maney
Upper
Montgomery County Planning Commission
Maney
Armed Forces
Army Ground
Field Artillery
Ames
Towa
Iowa State College
United States Forest Service
Iowa State Highway Commission
Des Moines River
David, Jr
iSusan
Woman Rivals Men at Atlanta Tech Graduation
Mrs Elizabeth Newbury widow of three children led the 75 graduates at Southern Technical Institute in Atlanta. She earned a science degree in electronics and communications as the institute's third female recipient. Newbury, widowed by an auto accident, has two sons and a daughter.
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Atlanta
Elizabeth Mewbury
Southern Technical Institute
Georgia Tech
Newbury
District Governor Visits Rotary Club
The Frederick Rotary Club hosted Theodore Albert Lewis, governor of district 267, at a luncheon in the Francis Scott Key Hotel. He praised Rotary lapel pins as open sesame to global friendship, urged personal peace through helpful action, and cited four modern challenges. Attendees included A L G Snow and W F Childs Jr among others.
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Frederick
Rotary
Lewis
A. L. G. Snow
College Park
W. F. Childs, Jr
Towson
Leslie Schwindt
Maryland Governor Pardons Death Sentence for Lowery
Governor McKeldin commuted 23 year old Charles Crosby Lowery from the death penalty to life in prison citing mental deficiency. Lowery, a former prizefighter, raped his wife’s 15 year old sister behind a Baltimore garage on May 4 1952, while previously escaping custody and holding larceny and assault convictions.
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McKeldin
Charles Crosby Lowery
Lowery
Federal Hill Park
House of Correction
Manfred S. Guttmacher
Herman M. Moser
Route 240 plan to enter Rock Creek Park hits second wall
Washington July 8 The Maryland Roads Commission faces internal resistance as Interior Secretary McKay opposes extending Route 240 into Rock Creek Park. McKay backs the National Capital Park and Planning Commission stance and urges Gov. McKeldin to drop the plan. He warns it would be a sad mistake to push a four lane highway into the park. McKay praises the park’s historic value for metropolitan Washington and hopes current leaders preserve the vision. Annapolis officials say McKeldin has not taken a position, deeming the issue administrative and best left to experts.
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Maryland Roads Commission
Rock Creek Park
Secretary of the Interior
McKay
McKeldin
Park
Department of the Interior
National Capital Park and Planning Commission
Wisconsin Avenu
Chevy Chase
Beach Drive
Gerald P. Nye
The
Roads Commission
Maryland
Annapolis
Commission
Suburban Shopping Centers Surveyed
Washington reports on a new Urban Land Institute booklet stating suburban shopping centers hardly hurt downtown stores in most communities while downtowns must actively improve to retain their central role. The crowd that shops and works downtown remains vital to retailers, newspapers, banks, and property owners, with focus on deliberate improvements. Facing murder charge in Centreville Maryland Charles Edward Johnson, 30, awaits grand jury after a July 4 shooting. bail denied. Senate votes to extend Small Business Committee mandate and funding for another year to aid small enterprises.
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Washington
Urban Land Institute
Senate Today
Shaulis Faces August Trial Over Maryland Murder Charge
ANNAPOLIS Md July Francis Shaulis a Harundale brick layer and former army ranger is to stand trial for the murder of his wife mother of five. An Anne Arundel County grand jury indicted him after eight witnesses. State's Atty. C Osborne Duvall said the trial may not occur until late August. Shaulis remains jailed after surrendering in Hagerstown last month. Police found May Ann Shaulis 27 in their yellow cottage south of Glen Burnie. He fled with the five children across Pennsylvania and Western Maryland claiming the shooting was accidental. He later surrendered in Hagerstown.
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Annapolis
Francis Shaulis
Harundale
Anne Arundel County
Atty
C. Osborne Duvall
Shaulis
Anne Arundel
Hagerstown
May Ann
Glen Burnie
Ritchie Highway
Shanks
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Listie
Council To Take Up Meister Case
Baltimore July 8 a Legislative Council committee will meet again July 21 to review state laws for arrestees. The panel was formed after Cumberland and Allegany officials held a man for nearly a week without charges. Del Whitworth called the methods gestapo and urged broader law changes. The Court of Appeals has deemed 72 hours reasonable before charging. The arrested man had been questioned in the Odessa Meister murder case and released after holding an attorney without charges.
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Baltimore
Legislative Council
Sen. McLaughlin
R-Wash
Allegany County
Cumberland
del. Whitworth
Allegany) Charged “Gestapo Methods” In the Handling of the Case. Whitworth
Maryland
Court of Appeals
Odessa Frances Meister
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