City targets parking violators with broad warrants
City police and the sheriff will issue warrants for hundreds of motorists who did not post collateral or attend hearings on parking violations. Delinquent drivers face arrest, with collateral requirements ranging from two to four dollars or more for specific offenses. Sergt Swomley leads the crackdown, extending to 2 am to 6 am violations and ignored notices.
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Sheriff's Office
Charles V. Main Sad
Main
Sergt
Daniel Swomley
Sergt. Swomley
Sergt. Suomles
Swomley
Princess Margaret Dances Through The Night In London
Princess Margaret returned to Clarence House after an all night party at the Savoy. She left Lord Hambleden's gathering just after 3 a.m. and was greeted by the daybreak reception as her royal car waited outside. The event featured calypso songs and Cossack dancing for guests including Katherine Smith and other attendees.
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Loxdon
Margaret
The
Savoy
Lord Hambleden
Clarence House
London
the Savoy
Katherine Smith
Wambleden
State Loan Pool Aids Local Schools
The County Commissioners signed a contract for a $400,000 loan from the State Loan pool to fund elementary school construction at Thurmont and North Frederick. The loan, amortized over 15 years, follows prior applications. Officials have already drawn $100,000 to pay requisitions at North Frederick, which is near completion.
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Thurmont
North Frederick
Leads Sought in Maryland Child Rape Slaying Case
In Baltimore investigators and two Florida deputy sheriffs hunted for new leads in the rape and murder of 17 year old Judith Ann Roberts. The girl was abducted July 7 from her Miami grandparents home while visiting relatives. Her parents, Mr and Mrs James T Roberts, are from Dundalk Maryland.
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Baltimore
Florida
Batimore
Judith Ann Roberts
Baltimore County
Judith
Ann
Miami
Roberts
James T. Roberts
Dundalk
Typhoid Immunizations Planned for Buckeystown Residents
Typhoid shots will be given to Buckeystown residents at the Buckeystown school Monday from 3 to 5 P M and 7 to 8 P M by the County Health Department. Health Director Forbes Burgess reported after investigating a second probable typhoid case and urged keeping children from playing in a contaminated stream near the town. A three year old is hospitalized with suspected typhoid, and a 32 year old woman has recovered from an earlier case. authorities said a possible carrier may be involved. Health officials conducted the morning investigation and urged immunization as a safety measure.
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Buckeystown
County Health Department
Forbes Burgess
Burgess
Health Department
New Lights Put Up at Baltimore Stadium
Four 210 foot light towers with 670 lamps added to the Baltimore Orioles Memoril Stadium lighting. Lights turned on last night. engineers pleased with overall volume but infield dim and parts of the outfield too bright. Adjustment of 15 to 20 percent of fixtures could balance the distribution. Also notes streams condition at Jug Bridge and Weverton.
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Baltimore
Baltimore Orioles
Memoril Stadium
Motor Trail From Cumberland To Washington Proposed
A plan to create a Potomac Valley Motor Trail from Cumberland to Washington hews to open the canal area as a public recreation site while preserving the canal, linking Cumberland with Hancock and beyond. The route uses existing highways with suggested gravel paths where needed, and picnic facilities would be placed along canal property, with potential alternate eastward route via Route 41 to U.S. 52 near Winchester.
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Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Country
Cumberland
Washington
Secretary of the Interior
Canal Strip
Wiliam O. Douglas
U. S. Supreme Court
Interior
McKay
Canal
Douglas
Hancock
Potomac Valley Motor Trail
Paw Paw
Anthony Ridge
Oldtown
Little Orleans
Pearre
Little Tonoloway Creek
Ernstville
Big Pool
Williamsport
Downsville
Bakersville
Sharpsburg
Antietam
Dargan
Pleasantville
Harpers Ferry
Everton
Ixnoxville
Brunswick
Rowe
Pointlot Rocks
Tuscarora
Dickferson
Martinsburg
White’s Ferry
River Road
Potomac
MacArthur Boulevard
Georgetown
West Virginia
Forks of Cacapon
Virginia State Line
U.S. 52
Winchester
Cacapon
U. S. 52
Dies in crash Fox was Waynesboro area resident
Lester W. Fox 28 of near Sahillasville died at Waynesboro Hospital from multiple injuries after a Friday automobile crash near his home. He was a field representative for the Southern States Cooperative in Hagerstown. Investigators indicated only the driver may have been involved. Fox left Hagerstown to visit his father Friday night. Funeral arrangements not announced. Witnesses questioned in Louis Hicks case in Charles County. Stock market opened with gains in New York.
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Washington
Peoples Court
South Mountain
Wilbur F. Sheffield, Jr
Edgar A. Combs
East Capital Street
Combs
Washington County
Maryland
Richard A. Myers
John W. Crout
Allen
Bennett
Maurice R. Hager
Hagerstown
John J. Hardy
Baltimore
Pauline V. Stup
Adamstown
Fabhern C. Fisher
Lodi
Otuo
J. W. Hardy
Lester W. Fox
Sabillasville
Waynesboro
Fox
Cooperaine
Sahillasville
Tie
Donald A. ‘Ducker
Mahoney Rivalry Hinges On Courtroom and Counts
Democratic governor candidate George P. Mahoney battles for the nomination against H. C. Byrd as recounts in Queen Annes and Talbot counties fail to widen his margin. Judge Joseph L. Carter now weighs Mahoney’s bid to obtain voter lists and cards to probe alleged fraud and possibly void whole precinct results. Byrd's allies counter attacks as legal challenges and recount delays stretch into the day.
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Associated Press
George P. Mahoney
Trump
H.C. Byrd
Queen Annes
Talbot
Byrd
Muad
University of Maryland
Mahoney
Joseph L. Carter
Baltimore
Superior Court
Carter
Queen Annes County
Fus
Tiyan Pressman
Atte Clasion C. Carter
Bird
Atty
Pressman
Board of Election Supervisors
6Th
Queen Ones
Cumberland Deadline On Roadway Plan Faces Aug Suspen
Cumberland city officials must act by August 9 on the $10 million throughway project or face a year’s delay. Mayor Roy Eves said council action August 8 will decide approval, with potential contracts this year and three construction seasons ahead. If no action, $85,000 in federal funds would be lost and city would fund $490,000 over seven years.
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Baltimore
Cumberland
Roy W. Eves
Eves
State Roads Commission
Norman W. Pritchett
Roads Commission
Coumbationd
Pritchett
Russell H. McCain
City of
Pine
Central Avenues
Brown Avenue
Saul
Cumberland News
Cumberland Times
Toopage
Mendes-France Returns to Present Indochina Cease-Fire Plan
Premier Mendes-France flew back from Geneva to Paris to present the Indochina cease-fire to the French Assembly. He greeted family and officials at Villa Coublay Airport, then headed to a cabinet meeting after voicing cautious optimism about the Geneva outcome and urging unity behind Western defense plans including the European Defense Community.
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Paris
Pierre Mendes- France
Geneva
Indochina
Villa Coublay
Mendes-France
Ths
Edgar Faure
United States
Assembly
France
Russia
West
Germany
Southeast Asia conference planned to form defense pact
Washington reports that the United States Britain and other allies will call an international conference late next month to draft a defensive alliance to shield non Communist Southeast Asia from potential Communist expansion. Officials say attendance and size of delegation are undecided with nations like Laos Cambodia Viet Nam and India possible participants.
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Brush
Anthony Eden
Britain
United States
France
Mendes-France
West Germany
Italy
Belgium
Netherlands
Luxembourg
Washington
Southeast Asia
Dulles
Walter Bedell Smith
Eden
Geneva
Indochina
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
Australia
New Zealand
Thailand
Philippines
Viet Nam
Laos
Cambodia
India
Burma
Pakistan
London
Ime
Nehru
Hill
Eisenhower reports smaller federal deficit for 1944
President Eisenhower announced the government closed the fiscal year ended June 30 with a deficit of 3.029 billion dollars. He said this was 0.25 billion below his January forecast and 6.411 billion below Truman’s earlier projection, aided by a 72 percent drop from the midyear deficit target. James Hagerty released the Treasury figures.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Truman
Treasury
James Hagerty
Huks' Line Captured on Mount Arayat by Manila Troops
Philippine government forces on Mount Arayat reported capturing the Communist Red Huks line known as the Statin Line. Army field dispatches said the fortification bristled with pill boxes sandbags and foxholes while Philippine Air Force planes earlier bombed and strafed the southern slope of the jungle covered mountain about 40 miles north of Manila.
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HUKS
Manila
Mount Arayat
Red Huks
Philippine Air Force
Explosion at Unexcelled Chemical plant kills at least three
State police reported three people dead and three seriously injured after an explosion and blaze at the Unexcelled Chemical Co fireworks plant in Cranbury New Jersey. The incident prompted emergency response and investigations into the cause and safety measures at the facility.
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Cranbury
N. J
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Jug Bridge
Weverton
L. W. Fox
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Charles County Grand Jury
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French Union
Quang Buu
Raymond Coursey
State Commission
New York
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East Fish Street
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Ade
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