Electrical Work Bids Are Offered for Thurmont School
The Etter Electric Service Company of Hyattsville bid $22,700 for electrical work and fixtures at the new Thurmont elementary school, with award under advisement after investigation. Flowers School Equipment Company of Richmond won a $12,454.94 contract for North Frederick and Elm Street schools, supplying desks, chairs, tables, and teachers’ desks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Etter Electric Service Company, Inc
Hyattsville
Board of Education
Thurmont
North Frederick
Elm Street
The
Flowers School Equipment Company
Richmond
Eugene W. Pruitt
Lewistown Voeat Fe Beth Fatgyseclay
Aridameuile Dae
Obinay
A. E. Fisher
Kline
George Chadwick
Middletown High School
Wilbur Holmes
Lincoln High
Pauline Cissel
Frederick High
Helen Turner
Dover
Del
Dora
Rhyme
Virginia
Evelyn Harris
East Frederick School
Virginia Draper
Sabillasville
William O. Lee, Jr
Cornelius H. Turner
Lincoln High School
Carol Purvis
Robert V. Thomas
Elm Street School
David T. Barr
Core
Virginia Baldwin
Frederick High School
Jerry D Hicks
Estelle Yarinsky
Middletown High
Rita M Remavage
Emmitsburg
Francis Eigenbrode
Animals Do Better Sayings Highlight Baby Beating Case
Circuit Judge E Paul Mason addressed parents Mary and Roy Pasterfield over a severely beaten three month old girl risking blindness and brain damage. The judge acquitted both alleging insufficient proof of who inflicted injuries yet fined Roy Pasterfield twenty five dollars for beating his wife and urged juvenile court charges. The case stemmed from a drunken brawl on June 8. In Beverly Hills Marie McDonald’s husband paid a two hundred fifty dollar fine for reckless endangerment noted by photographers.
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Baltimore
E Paul Mason
Mary
Roy Pasterfield
Atty J.ames Murphy
Alexander Stark
Pasterfields
Pasterfield
Mason
Casualty List From Chestertown Explosion
A casualty list from yesterday's explosion names known dead, missing and hospitalized. The deceased include Nelson Lord 21 and Mrs. Mary E. Fallowfield among others. missing are Mrs. Margaret Batchelor Ida Benton Mench Betty Wheedleton and Mary Moore Covington. Hospitalized or injured are Mrs. Fannie Robbing Albert Foreman Miss Vivian Ashley Rose Boulter and Blance Hague with various injuries.
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Chestertown
MD. i
Nelson Lord
Mary E. Fallowfield
Nellie E. Starr
Lina Mae Taylor
Charles Taylor
Keys and Watch
Eva L. Fisher
James Fisher
Magdaline Seiler
Henderson
Margaret Emma Batchelor
Worton
Ida Benton Mench
Reck Hall
Betty Wheedleton
Mary Moore Covington
Centreville
Barbara Rockermann
Fannie Robbing
Millington
Easton Memorial Hospital
Kent-Queen Annes Hospital
Albert Harry Foreman
Vivian Mae Ashley
Rock Hall
Rose Boulter
Blance Hague
French Units Reoccupying Camp as Forces Push Vietminh
French units reoccupied Camp B rulin northeast of Hanoi after 5,000 troops in two columns pushed Vietminh rebels north of the Luc Nam Phu Lang Thuong road. Vietminh fire harassed the columns. another clamp on a four‑village area west of Son Tay failed as rebels slipped away. Night B 26 bombers targeted Vietminh convoys on Highway No. 1. No results announced.
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Hanoi
Indochina
Brulin
Luc Nam-Phu Lang Thuong
Red River Delta
Ph Lang Thuong
Luc Nam
Son Tay
Vinh Yen
Phuc ¥En
Red China
Lang Son
Lie Detector Tests Planned in Thornes Death Case
Chicago police plan lie detector tests as part of the investigation into the death of Montgom ery Ward Thorne heir to a near million dollar estate. Thomas Mulvey will meet with Coroner Wal ter McCarron to select test subjects and reveal more about the case. A phantom phone call to attorney Jay South claimed to be the last person to see Thorne alive, but police cannot trace the source.
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Chicago
Montgomery Ward Thorne
Thomas Mulvey
Walter McCarron
Thorne
Mauereen Ragen
Alien
Jay South
The
Ravens
Monty
Army offers Barry Miller new discharge with no stigma
The Army, after previously deeming Barry A. Miller an alleged security risk, proposes a new discharge described as carrying no stigma. Miller’s case centers on removing taint from his service record and the government’s stance on reclassifying his discharge status.
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New York
Army
Barry A. Miller
Lead azide removal eyed after Chestertown blasts
Chestertown Maryland faces evacuation as Army demolition experts plan to remove highly sensitive lead azide from a scorched munitions plant site after blasts killed ten people and damaged 65 buildings. state and local officials probe cause while guards maintain the temporary morgue at the armory.
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Chestertown
Kent Manufacturing Co
Maryland
Jone Company
Chicago
Melrose Fireworks Co
Schiller Park
Army
FBI and Company
Nelson Lord
Mary E. Fallowfield
Nellie Starr
Lina Mae Taylor
Magdaline Seiler
Henderson
Ith
Harry §. Russell
Chesterstown
Barius Vickers
Centreville
Here
Baltimore Harbor
Chesapeake Bay
Lack Authority Urged by Secretary Wilson in Subversive Defense Case
Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson tells the Senate committee that current law is inadequate to shield key industries from subversives in defense plants. He cites unable to prevent contractors from silent contact and warns for new legislation. Wilson notes improvements since McCarthy hearings and stresses a revitalized security system across the department to protect national defense.
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David Lawrence Washington
Charles E. Willson
Secretary of Defense
Senate Armed Services Committee
Congressional Committee
Senator Langer
Senate Judiciary
Senate
Wilson
Department of Defense
Saltonstall
Armed Services Committee
Langer
Judiciary Committee
Stempler
Defense Department
FBI
McCarthy
Capitol Hill
Peress
Army
New Peace Effort Under Taken In Indochina Talks
Geneva dispatch reports U S Undersecretary Walter Bedell Smith arriving to bolster France in Indochina peace talks. Mendes France and Eden hold talks with Molotov amid hints of possible Western concessions. No truce yet as negotiators dispute a Viet Nam partition and a July 20 ceasefire deadline looms.
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Geneva
U.S
Walter Bedell Smith
France
Indochina
Viet Nam
Cambodia
Laos
United States
Pierre Mendes- France
Anthony Eden
Smith
Mendes- France
Eden
Russia
V. M. Molotov
Mendes-france
Molotov
Three Cars Damaged in Five Frederick Accidents
Frederick police logged five accidents Friday into today causing around $100 damage per vehicle. A truck driven by Michael More hit a parked car on South Market Street after a driver’s door opened into the path of the truck. West All Saints and South Court streets saw two cars collide during a left turn, Hargrave’s car had minor damage. A milk truck incident near East South Street led to a 1940 sedan owned by Mary Caniford being abandoned. later traced to a used car lot. Quentin Crawford’s Willys Jeepster was reported stolen from Narva Avenue and later found abandoned on Charles Street.
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Frederick
South Market Street
Patrick Street
South Market
Michael J. More
Gaithersburg
David W. Beech
Rockville
Ellis Carty
West All Saints Street
South Court Street
Saints Street
Wilmer E. Jacobs
RFD
Court Street
All Saints
Lawrence N. Hargrave
Knoxville
Norman Trump
Hargrave
East South Street
Gunther
Heffner and Mossburg
Mary Caniford
Quentin Crawford
Narva Avenue
Willys
Crawford
Charles Street
Publicity and Immunity in McCarthy Era Security Debates
The piece argues that full publicity and immunity from libel prosecutions are essential for congressional committees to inform public opinion on delicate security issues involving Communist agents and sympathizers within the government, insisting openness is needed beyond political biases.
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Department of Defense
United States
Dr Small Acquitted In Allegan Death Case
Allegan Mich jury acquits Detroit dentist Dr Kenneth B Small of murder by reason of insanity in the death of Jules M Lack a New York playboy industrialist at a summer cottage near Allegan last Memorial Day weekend The verdict follows a dramatic deliberation as spectators reacted with screams applause and expressions of relief Small 31 faced the charge after pursuing his wife Edith 30 and Lack to the cottage amid suspicions of infidelity.
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Allegan
Mich
Kenneth B. Small
Detroit
Allegan County
Addam
Dr. Small
Jules M. Lack
New York
Here
Small
Edith
Lack
Chicago
Mrs
Jacob Small
Examination Ordered in Murder Case of Ervin Roden
Circuit Judge Paul Mason ordered a psychiatrist to examine Ervin E. Roden, 28, who pleaded not guilty to murder in the May slaying of a musician Gerald W. McCaffers, a singer and organist, in an apartment. Roden had returned from Cincinnati, Ohio. May delay adjournment looms as Knowland warns Congress.
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Baltimore
Paul Mason
Ervin E. Roden
Roden
Cincinnati
Ohio
Gerald W. McCaffers
Fery
Soviets Set Up Stations On Ice Floes
The Tass report describes two drifting Arctic ice floes north of Alaska hosting scientific stations for Arctic Ocean depth, weather, and geology studies. Bases near Alaska and Siberia house teams in tents and prefab homes, with helicopters supplying goods. The setup signals Soviet U.S. competition for Arctic supremacy along the shortest air route to North America.
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Moscow
Polar
Alaska
Tass
Arctic Ocean
North Pole
Siberia
Point Barrow
Pole
Arctic
Russia
North America
Merchants In Baltimore Fined For Trash Disposal
Magistrate Hel fined William H Kirkwood Jr. and three other Baltimore produce merchants for improper disposal of trash around food supply districts. Kirkwood, Maryland banking commissioner, said W H Kirkwood & Son is a large operation and difficult to be perfect.
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Baltimore
Helon Elizabeth Brown
Camden Street
William H Kirkwood Jr
Kirkwood
Maryland
W. H. Kirkwood & Son
Local Firm Bennett Secures SBA Financing in Frederik
R P Bennett Company of Frederik announces new Small Business Administration financing arranged by Farmers and Mechanics Citizens National Bank through executive vice president Benjamin L Snulf. It marks a first local SBA loan in peacetime, backed to support design, development and manufacture of electronic and mechanical devices. The firm plans a large new factory to consolidate two plants and expand output for essential military devices.
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R. P. Bennett Company, Inc
Frederik
Small Business Administration
U.S
Farmers and Mechanics Citizens National Bank
Benjamin L. Snulf
SBA
Bennett
Frederick
Beme
Calvert Vote Count Case Is Now In Court
Mahoney seeks access to all election records in Calvert County after a recount left Byrd ahead by 80 votes. He asks the court to order the Board of Election Supervisors to allow examination of all records beyond ballots. Recounts continue in Queen Annes, Talbot, and Garrett counties as Byrd leads and contest motions proceed.
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Associated
George P. Mahoney
Calvert County
H. C. Byrd
Calvert Circuit Court
Mahoney
Board of Election Supervisors
Baltimore
Byrd
Philip Dorsey
C. Ferdinand Sybert
Joseph L. Carter
Baltimore Board of Election Supervisors
E. Bracke Lee
Lee
Baltimore City
Garrett
Queen Agnes
Chestertown
Hhis
Talbot
Byra
Americans Held in Czechoslovakia Faced Interrogation Pressure
Seven U.S. soldiers said captors in Communist Czechoslovakia threatened them to divulge military secrets. Captain Jack Davis led a news conference describing near a border capture on July 4. They reported no bodily harm and provided names and ages of the seven, while river conditions noted Monocacy muddy at Frederick Junction and Potomac clear at Weverton.
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Davis
Richard J. Jumper
Bonneville
Miss
Pic
Leonard D. Tennis
Alliance
Ohio
Cpi
John F. Glasson
Oakdale
Calif
Jerry W. Griffith
Springfield
George Switzer
Milburn
Neb
Ross McGinnis
Greensburg
Frederick Junction
Weverton
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Beverly Hills
Marie McDorald
Casualty
Molotov Balks Mendes-France
New Sierra High School
San Mateo
Washington
Knowland
Congress
West Germany
Produce Merchants
Calvert
U. S
Ira R. Main
A. Victor Niagro
South Jefferson Street
Mildred J Rippon
Charles E. Garber
Johnsville
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