Optimists Set Goal of Adding 30 New Clubs
At the 16th District Optimist International Convention at the Franks Scott Key Hotel Edward J. Daugherty district governor says the group aims to sponsor 30 new clubs within a year. He notes about 70 clubs exist and urges each club to recruit new members to raise attendance and membership.
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Frarks Scott Key Hotel
Edward J. Daughtery
Goveror
16Th District
Optimist Club
Braddock Heights
Daugherty
Vernon Cassell
Optimist International
Maryland
Virginia
District of Columbia
West Virginia
Frederick
Optimists
Phil MecCardwell
Louisville
Lene
Don
Wald B. Cool
William R. Myers
Raymond Springer
Daughall
Emmitsburg
Gettysburg
Man
Tenek Ons
Alvin Small
Colonialjeas Fe Theft
Kengal Heights
Ize
Optimist
Lease Bussard
16Th
C. Lease Bussard
Richmond
Baltimore
Harold W. Brand
Timonium
Wallace Kauffman
Walter Neal
William Hobson
Francis Scott Key Hotel
City Police Kept Busy Over Weekend
City police arrested a Baltimore man for driving under the influence and charged several motorists for speed over the weekend. Additional arrests included intoxication, reckless driving, and speeding on North Market Street and West Patrick Street.
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Baltimore
Classifications Listed For Street Flower Show
Classifications announced for a street flower show with events for children and boys and girls categories. The program includes entries by age, with prizes in horticulture and theme parades, amid a traffic accident report noting a fatality and ongoing police investigation.
Civil Defense Exercise Ends After Rural Air Raid Drill
Weekend Civil Defense drill in Frederick County saw air raid simulations from 3 a.m. to 5 p.m. with firefighting units, evacuation routes, and mock bomber crashes. Officials including Lawrence Crickenberger and Paul Ebeads coordinated at Winchester Hall as crews reported fires, cleared roads, and returned evacuees to Baltimore amid simulated radiation fears.
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National Civil Defense
Frederick County
Allegany County
Damascus
Vosreweeemet
Guindell
STAT
Baltimore
Sraa
Civil Defense
Lawrence H. Crickenberger
Paul Ebeads
Geneva Barthel
Aux
John Patton
George Bodmer
George Stupp
William Hopwood
James Kolsrud
Michael Staley
Gordon Taylor
Leo Guyton
William Corbin
Andy Abraham
Foxville
Frederick
Crossword Puzzle May Aid Science
Johns Hopkins professor Dr. Wendell R Garner offers a 26 page booklet for crossword fans to aid science by studying how people use information. He seeks at least 200 participants via the university to test the word game whose mathematical basis will inform a Brussels paper on the redundancy of printed English.
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U.S
Johns Hopkins
Baltimore
Johns Hopkins University
Wendell R Garner
Garner
Brussels
Belgium
Four Men Charged With Larceny of Pipe In Emmitsburg Area
Four youths faced larceny charges after stealing 2 000 pounds of pipe from D M Pratt s farm near Emmitsburg Maryland The four men entered pleas of guilty and three remained jailed on nominal bail while Clarence William Stourer was released on bond to await sentence after facing local magistrate Basehore in Gettysburg Pennsylvania State Police traced the theft to a truck and a car used to move the pipe and the case was developed with help from Maryland authorities
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Pennsylvania
D. M. Pratt
Liberty Two
Penna
Star Emmitsburg
Clarence Wiliam‘ Stourer
Orrianna
Justice of the Peace
John H. Basetore
Gettysburg
Justice Basehore
Pratt Farm
Emmitsburg
Stouter
Maryland
William Morgan
Emmitsburg R. 1
Pennsyvania State Police
Maryland considers raising or cutting state gasoline tax
In July 1947 discussion centers on a one cent increase or a one cent cut to the six cent per gallon state tax. Sen. Thomas F. Dempsey notes possible bill to reduce the tax whileReads Commission Chair Bonnell cites rising construction costs and highway needs. Federal funds expected may bridge part of the highway program shortfall.
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Baltimore
Maryland
Thomas F. Dempsey
D. Balto
Reads Commission
Robert Q. Bonnell
Dempsey
Pennsylvania
Bonnell
Commission
New Market Man Killed In Auto Accident
A New Market colored man, James Richards Peach, 34, was killed Sunday evening near New Market after a speeding car on Maryland 144 collided with him. The driver, Harry Junior Anderson, 22, also of New Market, was treated for injuries at Frederick Memorial Hospital as the vehicle and scene were reported by State Police.
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Evangelical Reisarden
United Church of Christ
Church Street
Frederick Gar
den Club
Jto
Ication
Anderson’s
Peach
Tolanias
Loort
Thej Anderson
New Market
B. 0
Thomas Sr
James Richards Peach
Harry, Junior Anderson
New
Market
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Maryland 144
U.S. 40
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W. Va
Philipp L. Charles
West Virginia Internal Revenue Service
Charles
Caplains
W. Ve
Huttonsville
Elkins
Becky's Creek
Denver P. Wayhright
Wood County
Roy C. Gettings
Harrison County
James F. Webb
Cloudcroft
New Mexico
Kenneth Elsworth Stewart
Walnut Avenue
Stewart
West Patrick Street
Nathan Dorsey
Norman Trump
Augustus C. Harris
RFD
Mt. Airy
North Market Street
Guy Himes
Joseph Alfred Kenny
Woodsboro
Paul W. Mossburg
John William Norwood
Cpl
Mossiburg
John Harper Seigler
East Church Street
Kinner
Harts Alley
Mossburg
Charles Cashour
Pency Lee Harris
Detroit
Mich
Pam
South Market Street
Edward Jackson
South Street
West South Street
Ralph Potts
Harry Phillips
John Augustine Redmond
East Street
Charles Bare
Harvey H. Plawfield Jr
West Lawn
Gkrls
Anderson
Aereesee
Robert C. Snyder
Robert C. Efford
Arthur Peach
Elizabeth Bowie Peach
Virginia “Peach
Washington,d. C
Catherine Peach
Monrovia
Margaret Dotson
Mt Airy
Albert
Frank
Alfonza
Arthur
George
Norman
Chester Peach
Arthur, Jr
Simpson’s Chapel Church
EL Falconer
Zaragoza
Spain
Juan Carlos de Bourbon
United States
Nevada
Mississippi
Montgomery County
Anacostia Naval Air Race AirArouwe
SID Foicer
Bolling Field
Washington
Hagerstown
Andi
Cumberland Ware Edeiend
Ile
Ae Ey
Winghartane Wall
Samed
Frederick Fairgrounds
Liberty School
Jou Md
Utah
Délore
International Congress of Psychology
Safeway
Seventh Street Pike
Castleman Eee Ae Eee Ug
Davis
New York, N.Y
Chatham
St. Marys
Hendrickson
Miller Bros
Kehne Furniture Co
South Market St
William S. Hood
APEX
William S
Incorporated
Patrick Street
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