Windfall plan exposed by Senate Banking panel
The Senate Banking Committee outlines how section 608 of the National Housing Act allowed F H A insured mortgages of 90 percent of inflated project costs. By acting as architect and builder or paying a small fee, developers could secure multi million dollar insured loans for land and buildings and pocket large windfalls. Windfall schemes far outstrip prior piracy by Get Rich Wallingford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate Banking Committee
National Housing Act
Get-Rich-Wallingford
Among The Sick In Frederick County July 23 1954
Freeman itemized social notices list local residents and relatives in Frederick area hospitals and homes. It notes patients at Frederick Memorial Hospital and Washington Sanitarium, with brief updates on recovery and transfers, including Mary Lawrey and others, along with routine hospital ambulance movements and a few family visit mentions.
Power and Suez in the balance of world power
The article argues that power politics favor nations that engage, noting Russia actively plays the game while the United States may or may not. It traces how Western withdrawal expands Russian influence from Asia to Eastern Europe and the Middle East, citing Greece Palestine Gibraltar Cyprus and the Suez Canal Zone as focal points, with Britain’s troop presence pivotal to blocking Russian aims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
United States
Asia
Pacific
China
Korea
Tibet
Indochina
Diukupe
Watc Coed
Romania
Bulgaria
Hungary
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Germany
Austria
Greece
Yugoslavia
Palestine
Spain
Gibraltar
Cyprus
Suez Canal
Middle East
India
Africa
Fifty Years Ago Items From The Columns Of The News
July 23 1904 items include John H Grove declining water rent collector post over salary, his resignation offered to the Mayor. Horse ridden by Mr Ed Weller on Market near Patrick street caused severe forehead gash. Crystal Plate Ice and Storage Co now operating with capacity 30 000 pounds daily. C E Cline president. plans cold storage next spring. Reno S Harp reelected chairman of the Republican County Central Committee at a Court House meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John H. Grove
C. E. Cline
Reno S. Harp
Republican County Central Committee
Court House
Twenty Years Ago Hems From The News July 23 1934
C Cyril Klein former city forester has two banana groves an orange tree and a lemon tree at his home. Miss Julia Ramsburg plus Miss Ann Helfenstein Miss Roberta Morton and Miss Jane McComas all of this city attend a camp for smaller girls near Woodstock Virginia. Forest fire swept about five acres of the city water shed near Hamburg and was extinguished after a CCC crew from Fishing Creek was dispatched. The playgrounds season may be cut short by two weeks as funds for operation are short of the goal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. Cyril Klein
Julia Ramsburg
Ann Helfenstein
Roberta Morton
Jane McComas
Woodstock
Hamburg
CCC
Fishing Creek
Sponge Cover Aids Pyelography Procedure
Dr. Norvell Belt of Frederick Memorial Hospital developed a coarse-pore cellulose sponge cover for the cystoscopic table to ease patient discomfort during retrograde and intravenous pyelograms. Tests on 100 patients showed no loss of image sharpness, and patients reported relief. the cover is installed at the hospital and discussed in the AMA journal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norvell Belt
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Tne Gourmat
Ue American Medical Association
Belt
DuPont Company
Journal of the Ama
Baltimore man pleads guilty in theft case
A Baltimore man named Robert C. Campbell pleaded guilty before Judge Wilbur F. Sheffield Jr to stealing a pistol a necklace and about $50 from Mr and Mrs Charles Lipps on West South Street. Campbell was sentenced to one year in the House of Correction with two months credit for jail time awaiting trial. He and Conrad Douglas Williams were arrested after a jewelry box was discarded and later located along East Second Street. Lipps identified the stolen items. Williams received one year for carrying concealed weapons and one year for larceny. Several minor collateral forfeitures followed.
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Baltimore
Jin Peoples Court
Charles Lipps
South Street
House of Correction
Wilbur F. Sheffield, Jr
Robert C.campbell
Campbell
Dellayed
Conrad Douglas Williams
Sergt
Norman Dietz
East Second Street
Lipps
Point of Rocks
Byron E
Wipck
Bedford
Gary S. Moore
Lindale
Tex
Hill
Albert A. Pearce, Jr
Upper College Terrace
Thomas E. Robinson
Hagerstown
Raymond L. Sadus
Grant Place
East Third Street
Ceustody
Eastland Delivers Lone Cotton Economics Talk At 3 A.M.
In a near-deserted Senate chamber at 3 am,Sen. Eastland spoke 41 minutes against Eisenhower’s atomic energy bill. An 12-person observers group watched as Eastland argued cotton economics, noting Upton presiding, Goldwater drafting a letter, and Long and Cooper listening in a subdued, almost inaudible scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington U
Senate Chamber
Sen
Eastland
D-Miss
Eisenhower
Washington
Lea Goldwater
R-Aziz
Long D-Lal
Sen. Cooper
R-Ky
Goldwater
Alabama
Georgia
South Carolina
Sen. Upton
Rnh
Upton
Long
Cooper
Taft
Garden Club Plans Fall Luncheon At Old Braddock Home
Garden club members meet Monday at Miss Helen Smith’s Old Braddock home to discuss the annual fall luncheon set for September 20 at the Francis Scott Key Hotel. President Theron Green presided as plans were announced for the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garden Club
Taskers Chance ‘Garden Club
Helen Smith
Old Braddock
Theron Green
Francis Scott Key Hotel
Strength For Today By Earl L Douglass
The piece ponders whether humanity deserves to continue amid repeated wars and asks if peace and harmony can be achieved through personal virtue. It recalls news of the Ghent peace treaty and laments ongoing conflicts despite technological progress. The Sunday School Picnic at Parkway Church of God drew 140 attendees with games, food, and activities organized by church members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl L. Douglass
New York
Ghent
Chicago Tribune
Parkway Church of God
Rocky Springs
Donald M. Sullivan
Luther Barker
Charles Schill
Mary Ford
Loyal Workers Bible Class
Elmer Moss
Milwaukee girl suffers cerebral concussion in drain fall
Waney Joan Koch six year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Robert Koch Milwaukee fell into a 95 foot open drain at her home and was taken to a hospital in Milwaukee with a cerebral concussion The family connections include Mrs Kohn former Truth Ann Hoke and Emma Jane Miller of Emmitsburg
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waney Joan Koch
Robert Koch
Milwaukee
Wis
Kohn
Truth Ann Hoke
Sara Hoke
Emma
Jane Miller
Emmitsburg
Conference Officers Are Elected Here
West Baltimore District Conference of the Washington Annual Conference of the Methodist church elected officers and named committees during the eighth annual session at Asbury Methodist church. Key posts went to Rev. C. A. Scott as district superintendent and Rev. N. B. Carrington as secretary with multiple others handling treasurer evangelism missions and temperance. Guest speakers reviewed the 1954-55 budget totaling 303852, with 15 percent allotted to the West Baltimore district and part of funds to the United Conference Appeal for Church Extension. The five-day meeting featured services by Atholton junior choir and other congregations, and ends Sunday with host pastor Rev. Edward D. McGowan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Baltimore
Washington
Methodist Church
Asbury Methodist Church
C. A. Scott
N. B. Carrington
J. L. Garrison
B. M. Hargrove
L. L. Mosley
A. H. Hammond
B.M. Hargrove
Katherine Holley
Women's Society of Christian Service
Christian Education
Sarah Waters
Dorothy McGowan
Viola Arter
Irvin C. Lockman
Golden Cross Society
Bertha Williams
Henry Johnson
Frederick Bruce
Herman Jackson
James Hutton
Louis Kelly
Randolph Robinson
E. E. Arter
S. W. Fields
United Conference Appeal
Williams
Atholton
Near
Washirington
Buckeystown
Athelton
Charles Town
Harpers Ferry
W. Va
Garrett Rawlings
W. M. ‘Carroll Home For
Levi B. Miller, Jr
Samuel Carter
Richard Johnson
Washington District of Methodist Church
Two Boys Caught With Stolen Goods From Local Store
Two young colored boys aged 8 and 11 were seen leaving McCrory's store on West Patrick street Thursday morning. Sergt. Sherman Boone recovered eight lots of safety pins eight key blanks and four toy motorcycles. The boys were released to their parents and the probation office notified.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sergt
Sherman Boone
Sergt. Boone
West Patrick Street
McCrory
Lease Filed for Babe's Package Store at 160 South Jefferson
A lease recorded with the Clerk of the Circuit Court shows Mr. and Mrs. Harry T. Krantz leasing Babe's Package Store at 160 South Jefferson Street to John H. Crum Ernest Cramer and Clifford M. Crum for four years from July 12 1954 at 150 dollars monthly. A renewal option grants two five year periods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Circuit Court
Harry T. Krantz
John H. Crum
Ernest Cramer
Clifford M. Crum
South
Jefferson Street
Babe’s Package Store
Jeans Dance Winners at Staley Park Event
Teenagers danced in jeans at a no weekly dance in Staley Park fieldhouse Wednesday evening. Betty Lou Davis and Buckey Summers won the spot dance. Prize donated by Thomas Lawson. Mrs. W. W. Corbin served as chaperone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Staley Park Fieldhouse
Betty Lou Davis
Buckey Summers
Thomas Lawson
W. W. Corbin
Derby Prize Error Corrected for Stockman Winner
Terry Stockman of MC West South Street won fifth place in Frederick's Soap Box Derby on Wednesday. The listing mistakenly named him Jerry Stockman, and he received a feature mitt as his prize.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terry Stockman
MC West South Street
Frederick
Jerry Stockman
France Lost In Lots Of Ways By Her Debacle In Indochina
Washington columnist David Lawrence contends France’s Indochina defeat undermines its prestige and weakens American faith in France as a reliable ally. He warns Congress may reallocate defense aid, urges vigilance against Soviet efforts to scuttle Europe, and cites EDC resistance, Western expectations, and a feared French cabinet retreat amid Moscow influence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Indochina
David Lawrence
Washington
America
Congress
Europe
Laniel
Mendes-France
Moscow
West Germany
United States
Morocco
Tunisia
Africa
Paris
Dulles
Geneva
Poland
Czechoslovakia
New Market WCTU Holds July Meeting at Kemp Town Hall
The New Market Women's Christian Temperance Union met in Kemp Town Hall with large attendance. Honorary members led the program including prayers by Rev J William Briscoe and Rev Leon E Cage, plus readings and music by the Little German Band. Miss Katherine Eye, a Congo Belge missionary, spoke of travels in the Holy Land. August gathering set for Mrs Mollie Gladhill in Damascus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C.T.U
New Market Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Kemptown Hall
Ivan Lawson
Harry Swomley
J. William Briscoe
Mary Ma Golerick
Browningsville
Raymond Day
Lawson
Katherina Eye
Congo Belge
Africa
Holy Land
Leon E. Cage
Mollie Gladhill
Damascus
Eight room house sold at public sale on Main Street
An eight room two story house in Walkersville on Main Street was bought in trustee sale at the Court House this morning. The property belonged to Maymie L Wachter. Amos A. Holter, trustee, conducted the sale with Emmett R. Bowlus as auctioneer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walkersville
Buty
Th Court House
Maymie L Wachter
Amos A. Holter
Emmett R. Bowlus
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Point
Great Southern Bre
MFG. Co. Rocks
North Court St
M. R. Etchison and Sons
Anstitute of Health
Bethesda
Johnsville
John Remsburg
Creagerstown
William A Cosgrove
B. B. Harsh
Willa Joy
Brunswick
Cosgrove
Lee Lucas
David LaMar May
Ernest May
Lillian Fogle May
Route 4
Fort Eustis
May
David L. May
U. S
Co. C
110Th T
M. M. Bn
Clarence A. Bussard
College Place
D. C. Winebrenner
Francis Scott Key
Franklin Easterday
Mount Airy
Washington Sanitarium and Hospital
Takoma Park
Walter Fuss
Thurnmont
Edwin C. Creager
American Legion
the News
Clerk of the Circuit Court
Democratic State Central Committee
Joseph E. Chew
Julius Jacobson
George E. Hamilton
John D. Leatherman
Louise BE. Fraley
George F. Abrecht
Earl M. Lowell
Sheriff
Hazel W. Lewis
House of Delegates
James H. Falk
State Roads Commission
Maryland
Garrell County
Warfieldsburg
Taylorsville
Internal Revenue Laws
EL. A. Chamberlain
Walter S. Cantrell
Tmamsville
Austland
Deborah Singleton Zeller
Ned Singleton Zeller
William E. Zimmerman
Braham
Barbara Weaver
W. Merval Weaver
Presbyterian Church
Frederick Zontians
Hagerstown Club
Fionday
Frederick Zonta Witb
Andrew Coffman
Zonta Club
Zontians
Ken Hersperger
Mary Rhoads
Catharine Johnson
Nan Roderick
Hal Lee T. Ott
Freda Doll
Norma Etzler
Hilda Croghan
Florence Garner
Lola Gladhill Summers
Pauline Fuss
Alice Barker
Estelle Fellows
Dotte McGraw
Croghan
Miss McGraw
Lana Long
Johnson
Julia Lizer
Hagerstown Group
Mary Hoffman
M. D. Waterman
Magnolia J Avenue
Inlaw
W. J. Powers
Jacksonville
Fila
National Airlines
Harry R. Kolb
The
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Route 2
West Seventh Street
City
William R. Koontz
Erin Sue
Doubs
R. Monroe Thomas
Diane
Jon
Adamstown
Farmington
Otsego Lake
Mich
Sey
Tulliues
Carlton M. Compher
Windsor
Canada
Niagara Falls
William H. Wiles
Tramsville
Linda Lea Wiles
Patricia Boone
Neilson Myers III
Charles Grubbs
Evelyn Summers
Richard Kehne
Bobby Summers
Darrel S. Kehne
Ashley Brubaker
Hamilton D. Williams
Harry D. Wiles
John Grey
Arnot
B. M. Woodfield
Grey
Henry Woodfield
Hawaii
Japanese Islands
Stanley Stiles
Laytonsville
Silver Spring
Stiles
Barbara Riggs
Gaithersburg
William D. Mowen
Fairview Avenue
Pennsylvania
Cheryl Lynn
Jody Ann Burdette
Francis Wagner
Patrick Street
S .Set
Lewis S. Smith
Long Island
N. Y
Arthur A. Greenhut
Miami Beach
Fla
Sherry Frontenac
Frank D. Worthington
Rosemont Avenue
Allen G. Quynn
Rockwell Terrace
New York State
H. G. Stauffer
Mt. Airy
John T. Hemp
Burkinsville
John A. Hemp
Ocean City
Rehoboth Beach
Del
John A. Horan
Fort Leonard Wood
Capt
Charles Horan
Miss Brunk
Mr. Bash
J. Milton Brunk
Braddock Heights
Catharine Ann
Verlin G. Eash
E. E. Eash
Archbald, O
Mr. Eash
First Baptist Church
Donald R. Russell
Ocean City, Ma
Michael J. Shipley
Grand Island
Harry F. Shipley
North Market Street
U.S
Casper
Cline, Jr
Casper, III
Hallie Lu Hallam
Buckhannon
Cape Cod
Mass
Paul Gordon
Frederick Gas Company
Cpl
James W. Snyder
Charles Snyder
Enunwellok
Frank Shaffer
Staunton
Kenneth Swope
Larry
Columbus
Akron
Mechanicsburg
Ohio
Philip Wirts
Linford Best
Rebecca
Ernie
Knoxville
Anna O. Kennedy
Barbara A. Kennedy
West
Springfield
Oklahoma
Jean Collmus
Richmond, Va
Mrs
A. B. Collmus
Charles Met. Mathias
Court Square
Virginia Beach
Cliff
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