Groundhog Shooting Accident in Frederick County
A misfired 32 caliber pistol in Taneytown left Mabaugh with a bullet in the left knee while riding in a car with Portner and Clabaugh. Portner drove Mabaugh to Dr. William Drey Jr. in Taneytown for care as Trooper James Poteet investigated the incident. Both youths were farm workers or visitors over the weekend and were involved in a hunting excursion.
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Frederick County
Comwest
Autocom
Taneytown
Ladge Russell
Mabaugh
Lepssn ‘Portner
William &. Drey Jr
James Ss. Doteet
Poteet
Bodies of Five Missing After Langley B-26 Crashes
Langley Air Force Base Virginia crews search Chesapeake Bay for five men missing after two B 26 bombers failed to return from navigation flight near Buckroe Beach. Navy divers recovered the body of ROTC Cadet John F Harter of Dayton Ohio as rescuers probe the 18 to 20 foot depths three miles northeast of Buckroe Beach and two miles east of Grand View Light.
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Langley Air Force Base
Kesapeake Bay
Air Force
Navy Jvers
John F. Harter
Ayton
Ohio
Buckroe Beach
Grand View Light
Langley
Harter
Nationalists Claim Many Junks Were Sunk
Taipei July 20 Chinese Nationalists said their warplanes sank or damaged more than 150 of 500 Communist craft threatening an invasion of Quemoy Island off Amoy. The action, the first since halting strikes June 3, followed Communist shelling and suggests intent to invade Quemoy as 500 ships concentrate in the area.
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Taipei
Formos
Quemoy Island
Amoy
China
Truman
U. S
U. S. Seventh Fleet
Formosa
Air Headquarters
Quemoy Isang
Loinese
Arca
Quemoy
Taltan
Polio Epidemic Updates in Wytheville and County
Three new polio cases were reported in Wythe County, raising the total since July 1 to 61 with 56 in Wytheville. One death increased the county toll to 12. the victim was a 21-year-old father whose daughter had died of polio a week and a half earlier. Philadelphia marked the Liberty Bell toll for Chief Justice John Marshall.
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Wytheville
Wythe County
Philadelphia
U. S
John Marshall
Two Blind Mice Next On Mountain Theater Bill
Ex-newsman Samuel Spewack presents Two Blind Mice at Mountain Theater Breddock Heights Wednesday to Saturday. The comedy follows two women who run a liquidated government office and keep working by burning salary checks and renting space. Cast includes Richard Woods Eunice Wheaton Chloe Pollock Peggy Diem with transportation provided for patrons without cars.
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Samuel Spewack
Mountain Theater
Breddock Heights
Richard Woods
Tommy Thurston
Eunice Whea
Ton
Bureau of Seeds and Standards
Chloe Pollock
Peggy Diem
Newton Arnold
John Munson
John Weaver
Edmund Rene
Diane Newman
James Decker
Elaine Lois ‘Roberts
Masonet at Picnic
George P. Mahoney, Democratic candidate for Governor, spoke at the Libertytown picnic under St. Peter's church Saturday. He warned that if the state’s lavish outpouring of funds by Governor Lane is not halted, gasoline taxes and tolls on close A roads may rise, with Mahoney opposing William P.
Lane's Bid for Governor Faces Highway Financing Question
Dem candidate Lane touts highway progress while critic Mahoney notes the Roads Commission may exhaust the $100,000,000 bond and two thirds of the work remain unfinished under Chairman Reindollar.
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BISS
Frederick Bottled Gas CO
Nicodemus Paint Store
N. Court St
Edwin E. Stoffer
Westion
Renee
Stoffer Shurance Agency
Stokyo
Maneda
General Headquarters
Tokyo
Oshima Island
Haneda
Japan
Walter Snow
North Market St
Carty’s
Carty
Patrick Street
Hopalong Cassid
Milligan Bayd
Southern Dairies
Chicago
Ill
Gari
Pearre
ORK
Price
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