Runaway Constable Captured After Payroll Heist
A runaway constable, Tom Bivens of Bluefield, was captured at Tri-State Airport with 79,000 dollars in payroll cash from the Flat Top National Bank. He had absconded with the American Coal Co payroll intended for the McComas mine, pursued by Sheriff Dye and state police, and was detained after the airliner he fled on landed.
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Huntington
Tri-State
Tom Bivens
Bluefield
Eris Fry
Bivens
American Coal Co
Flat Top National Bank
Lewis H. Perdue
McComas
American Co
Piedmont Airlines
Eak
P. L. Dye
Mercer County
Biven
Princeton
Dye
Charleston
Columbus
Ohio
Charleston State Police Radio Center
Kanawha
H. D. Coyner
South Charleston
Huntington State Police
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Huntington City
Massive Mt Airy parade draws 7000 crowd before storm
A huge crowd estimated at 7000 gathered in Mt. Airy for the Mt. Airy Volunteer Fire Department carnival parade led by the U S Marine Corps drum and bugle corps from Quantico Virginia. Sixty two apparatus participated and spectators cheered the Leathernecks while other bands from Shepherdstown and Harmody performed before a 1015 pm thunderstorm forced shelter. Parade prize winners included Alpha Hose Company Littlestown Frederick Independent Hose Company and Kensington Fire Department with trophies for best equipped pumper and best appearing aerial ladder truck.
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Mt. Airy
Leathernecks
Westminster
WFEW
Dance
Shepherdstown
Wo Va
Harmody Cornet Band
Kenneth Gittings
Washington
Yorky Flynn
U. S. Naval Air Station
Anacostia
Alpha Hose Company
Littlestown
Frederick Independent Hose Company
Fllen-Dale
Kensington Fire Department
Earleigh Heights
Browningsville
Fourteen The News Frederick July 23 Parade Awards
Frederick edition lists parade results and trophies for a Silver Spring training show with awards for longest distance, best looking float, oldest fire apparatus, and special recognitions. Prizes range from 10 to 25 dollars awarded to Prospect Church Young People Mt Sky Garden Club Davy Rockett House Mt Airy Lion Club and others.
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Frederick
AEI
Silver Spring
Mt. Airy Lion Club
Ford
Irving Long
Damascus
College Park
Eisenhower urges using atomic power for peace at stamp launch
President Eisenhower spoke at the White House ceremony inaugurating the three cent Atoms for Peace stamp. He urged nations to reject avarice and apply atomic science to peaceful uses for all, pledging U S effort to promote peaceful applications. About 175 guests from 78 nations attended as the stamp bore the UN address quotation.
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Washington
Eisenhower
White House
United States
United Nations
Bowling League scores and standings update
American Legion Ladies' Auxiliary reports 25 points in the bowling league, second place noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Legion Ladies’ Auxiliary
Driver Identified In Fatal Hagerstown Bicycle Car Crash
In Hagerstown on July 28 police and the State's attorney decided not to press charges against 19 year old Ian Hubert J. Myvers of Hagers town after he struck and killed 13 year old James Edwin Canan who rode from an alley on a bicycle. Canan family had moved from Ridge Nev. and Va to the area five years ago and the body was returned there for burial.
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M Municipal Pool
Ian Hubert J. Myvers
Hagersttown
Canan
Ridge- Nev. W. Va
Hagerstown
James Edwin Canan
Tors
Pauline Canan
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Mich
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Daniel C. Poole
Jefferson, MD
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Kehne Furn. CO
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Melvin M. Englen
Carroll
Ignavox Television
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Ann Saatarar Ali Saatiagal
William S. Hood, Inc
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