Bids Readied for Six County School Projects on Sept 6
Frederick County Board of Education announced bids for Brunswick Emmitsburg Woodsboro and Walkersville school construction would be advertised on September 6. Architect Paul Kea reported plans approved after citizen consultation. Separate or joint bids under review with Woodsboro Walkersville possibly one-contract. New Middletown High under way with $20,000 payment. Driver training eyed for future budget. $350,000 state loan application filed. furniture purchases planned to upgrade six to seven schools, including Elm Street Lincoln Wolfsville Myersville Burkittsville Liberty Jefferson Thurmont. Eight new chairs for board needed. several roofing jobs awarded to Charles F Hartman. Parking sump pump installed at Parkway School. Hood College scholarships awarded to nine students. Appointments made at Middletown High and Elm Street.
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Frederick County
Brunswick Emmitsburg
Woodsboro
Walkersville
Frederick County Board of Education
Church Batreet
Paul Kea
Hyattsville
Eugene W. Pruitt
Brunswick
Emmitsburg
New Middletown High School
L. J. Keller and Sons
Pruitt
Liberty School
Joan Pool
State Department of Education
State Board of Public Works
James F. Zimmerman
Frederick
Western Maryland College
Charles F. Hartman
Thurmont
Middletown
Parkway School
A. E. Fisher
Elm Street
Lincoln
Wolfsville
Myersville
Burkittsville
Liberty
Jefferson
West Bronewick
Hest
Hood College
Frederick Female Seminary Fund
Alice Bowers
Natalie Colbert
Willoughby Cole
Ramona,Crowl
Donna Fogle
Doris Fulmer
Dorothy Handley
Betsy McCain
Lorraine Moberly
Robert Lambdin
Middletown High
University of Maryland
R. Francis Eigenbrode
Lebanon Valley College
William £. Peacher, Jr
Core
Shepherd College
David Jenkins
Frostburg Teachers College
MacArthur Dismisses Escort On Way Back From Korea
General MacArthur ordered the escort ships released to return to the front where they would do the most good after landing the Bataan in Tokyo. Major Anthony Story reported the capture of the moment and described the rocket-armed F-51 Mustangs providing cover.
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Tokyo
MacArthur
Korea
Anthony Story
St. Louis
Bataan
Brunswick Man Shot Near Potomac River Bridge
Walter H Minnick of Brunswick was shot at Rolandis Mathias residence near the Potomac river bridge along the C and O Canal and taken to Frederick Memorial Hospital. Mathias, 52, was jailed as officers from local police and B and O Railroad police investigated. Minnick said a .22 rifle fired through a closed door struck his heel. Mathias was in custody after Minnick was hospitalized. Investigation ongoing.
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Brunswick
Frederick Memorial Hospital
B. and O
Walter H. Minnick
Rolandis Mathias
H. A. Painter
Matias’ House
Potomac River
C. and O. Canal
Minnick
Mathias
Douglas Winpigler
Painter
Robert Hott
M. E. Magaha
Railroad Police
Vote For Soldiers Is Asked By Lane
Governor Lane urged legislators to restore World War II absentee voting for soldiers in the November election. He asked changes to primary date to September 18, altered city registration in Baltimore, adding three registration days in October and an extra August day.
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Annapolis
Lane
Baltimore City
Power Line Sags Fires Tree Near Doubs Point Road
Sheriff Guy Anders and Deputy George F. Crouse found a smoldering tree near Doubs Point of Rocks road near Doubs at 5 26 pm. Smoke and blue ooze emerged from the trunk as sparks flew from a spot on the tree, later traced to a sagging power line summoned Potomac Edison linemen.
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Guy Anders
George F. Crouse
Doubs Point of Rocks
Doubs
Sparka
Potomac Edison Company
Tax Course Returns To Upward Path
President Truman proposes a 5 billion dollar annual tax hike to offset revenue losses from postwar cuts. The plan aims to restore the tax path toward levels seen since 1789, with expectations to exceed 1945 totals before further changes. It notes past large reductions in 1945 and 1948 and details shifts in individual exemptions and corporate levies shaping tax receipts.
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Washington
Truman
Republic
Europe
Japan
Secretary of the Treasury
Snyder
Seven Get Reprieves From Death In Chair
Richmond Va July 27 Seven Negroes convicted of raping a Martinsville Va white woman received indef inite reprieves from Virginia electric chair. The men were believed doomed after Governor Battle refused clemency. Hastings Court Judge M Ray Doubles ordered stays of execution less than 36 hours before the first four were to die at the Virginia State Penitentiary.
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Richmond
Martinsville
Virginia
John S. Battle
Hastings Court
M. Ray Doubles
Virginia State Penitentiary
Caught Live Torpedo Kills Fishermen Near Hiroshima
A torpedo found at the sea bottom exploded when hauled aboard a Japanese fishing boat in the Instand Sea off Hiroshima prefecture. The blast killed 130 fishermen and injured 10, according to the Maritime Safety Board report.
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Tokyo
Hiroshima Prefecture
Maritime Safety Board
Four Newsmen On Lost Plane Headed For Korea
A C4 military transport with 26 aboard, including four war correspondents, ditched 10 miles south of Oshima Island near Japan. One survivor was reported, with others being sought. The correspondents named include James O Supple, Maximilien Philonenko, Stephen Simmons, and Albert Hinton.
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Tokyo
Japan
Oshima
MacArthur
Tokyo Correspondents Club
Korea
James O. Supple
Chicago
Sur- Times
Maximilien Philonenko
Agence France Presse
Stephen Simmons
Hilton Press
London Picture Post
Albert Hinton
Norfolk Journal
Kyushu
Resignation Reveals GOP Strategy Committee Split
Washington July 27 Internal dissension surfaces as Arthur Summerfield Michigan resigns as chairman of the GOP strategy committee. He accuses Guy Gabrielson of planning to dissolve the group while Gabrielson defends dissolving subcommittees as authorized by the party charter. Summerfield says the committee, lacking funds, built a solid campaign program. Hallanan contests the letter, calling it half truths and distortion.
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Washington
Republican National Committee
Arthur Summerfield
Michigan
National Committee
Summerfield
Guy G. Gabrielson
Gabrielson
Hugh D. Scott, Jr
Brewster
Maine
Rep
Leonard Hall
New York
Senate
House
Scntt
Executive Committee
National Republican Senatorial Committee
National Republican Congressional Committee
Walter Hallanan
West Virginia
Hallanan
Red Landing Party Wiped Out Near Amoy Naval Cash
The Defense Ministry said about 400 Chinese Communists landed on Tiny Taitan Island near Amoy. They were killed or captured by Nationalist defenders. Over 200 captured, three junks set afire, eight sunk, 12 captured, and ammunition seized. Separately, James N. Amos of Harford named star farmer of Maryland at the Future Farmers of America convention. The Air Force plans grow to 58 groups within 12 months and six groups by January 1953.
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Taipei
Formosa
Defense Ministry
Taitan
Amoy
Quemoy Island
Star Farmer
AIR Force
Washington
Vinson
D-Ga
No Controls To Be Sought At This Time
Washington reports that a House Banking Committee vote defeated a Baruch plan to freeze prices and wages and authorize rationing by ten to nine. President Truman said he sees no current need for wage price or manpower controls, noting any such measures would come with all-out mobilization if required. He outlined no atom bomb use in Korea and described steps to counter saboteurs without infringing the Bill of Rights.
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Washington
House Banking Committee
Truman
Bernard M. Baruch
Baruch
Congress
State
Capitol
McGrath
Fatality Rate High In Outbreak Of Polio
Wytheville Virginia reports a virulent polio outbreak with about 15 percent mortality among the 59 local cases and 11 deaths in Wythe County. Officials say the area has seen four new cases and two deaths in a day, with no quarantine imposed to curb spread. The epidemic began July 1 and has drawn state health scrutiny.
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Wytheville
Virginia
Wythe County
L. J. Roper
Roper
State Health Department
Home leaves cancelled for six months in Europe
Heidelberg headquarters European command announced all enlisted and officer personnel in Europe are frozen for six months beginning August. All home leaves are cancelled after August 31. In Sydney, Supply Minister Beale said Australia must mobilize its industry for total war and began recruiting a force to fight in Korea.
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Heidelberg
Germany
U. S. Army Headquarters
European Command
Europe
Sydney
Australia
O. H. Beale
Korea
MacArthur Visits Korean Front Sees Confidence in Victory
General Douglas MacArthur made a second surprise trip to the Korean front and declared he was never more confident of ultimate victory while warning of new heartaches and setbacks. He conferred with 8th Army leaders, met President Syngman Rhee, and visited wounded at an evacuation hospital.
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U.S
Korea
MacArthur
Korean War
Eighth Army
United Nations
Tokyo
Far East
Japan
Walton H. Walker
8Th Army
Truman
Bataan
6Th Army
Air Force
Navy
Walker
Fifth Air Force
Ti Yvear
Syngman Rhee
John Muccio
Britain
Sihn Sung Mo
Ground Troops Urgently Needed in Korea War
Washington reports Britain and other United Nations nations may send ground troops to Korea as American forces plead for combat-ready reinforcements. Pentagon officials stress units of not less than 1,000 men, trained and equipped, are needed urgently to bolster battered lines and allow rest for exhausted troops. Turkey and Australia pledge fighters. Netherlands Indies pullout noted, while Dutch commander calls redeployment "out of the question." The coming weeks are deemed critical to maintain a foothold and prepare counter-offensive capabilities.
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Washington
Britain
United Nations
Korea
United States Army
Republic of Korea
Pentagon
United States
2Nd Army
First Marine Division
Far East
London
London News
Australia
New Zealand
Turkey
Helland
Royal Netherlands Indies Army
Indonesia
Burman van Vreden
Water line break cuts Brunswick supply for eight hours
Residents west of Brunswick went without water for about eight hours Tuesday when a road grading machine sank into a soft hole and took a section of the main ten inch water line. County Roads Board workers halted flow by closing valves and City crews repaired the break and another leak, restoring service around six o'clock.
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New Addition
Brunswick
County Roads Board
Yourtee Springs
Brownsville
Brunswick City
U S Artillery Barrage Opens As Korea Battle Intensifies
General MacArthur reports enemy pressure in Korea as three Red divisions mass east of Yongdong near U S First Cavalry. American air and artillery bombardment target infantry concentrations while South Korean forces push forward on multiple fronts toward Pusan and Yongdong amid claims of coastal battles and city fires.
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Tokyo
MacArthur
Reda
Associated Press
William R. Moore
Yongdong
U. S. First Cavalry
MaceArthur
First Cavalry
Moore
Hamrhang
Yongdoke
U. S
Pusan
Hadong
Korea
U.S T
Pyongyang
North Korea
U.S
Yosu
Sunchon
Macy Arthur
United Nations
State asks bids for Hyattstown bridge on Washington Pike
The State Roads Commission invited bids to build a 170 foot bridge carrying the Washington National Pike over Camus Road and Little Bennett Creek at Hyattstown Montgomery County. A 60 foot span will carry Camus Road over the creek. Bids open August 22. The Pike will run from Washington to Frederick with Frederick County sections already under construction.
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Baltimore
State Roads Commission
Camus Road
Little Bennett Creek
Hyattstown
Montgomery County
Washington
Frederick
Frederick County
Condition Of Streams Monocacy clear at Frederick Junction
Streams report clear readings at Monocacy near Frederick Junction and Potomac near Turner's Cabins by Knoxville with no adverse indications recorded.
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Frederick Junction
Turner's [Cabins
Knoxville
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Mudd
Thomas B. R. Mudd
Charles County
Maryland Court of Appeals
Public Service Commission
G.O.P
Blast At
Gabriels
Alwayes
Torko
Southern Maryland Times
Zales T. Speer
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