Maryland Expands Governor Powers and New Commissions
ANNAPOLIS AP A batch of new laws went into effect Monday expanding gubernatorial authority in Maryland. The changes create several commissions or enlarge existing ones, including Roads, Tidewater Fisheries, and a State Coordinating Commission on Aging, with July 1 effective dates for many provisions. Additional measures include a Tax Court, Department of Assessments and Taxation, and an Economic Development Commission. Some bills await referendum.
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Annapolis
Gov. Tawes
Maryland
Reorganized Roads Commission
Tidewater 2Ies Commission
TFC
Department of Tidewater Fisheries
General Assembly
State Racing Commission
Economic Development Commission
State Coordinating
Virginia
Charles County
Wiliam H. Weber
State Police
Tawes
Fight Over WSSC Chairmanship Expected
Washington AP reports the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission will meet Tuesday to choose a new chairman amid a possible contest. The bi county agency serves about 600,000 residents with water and sewage facilities and has long been led by a Prince Georges County member prior to reorganization.
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Washington
Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission
Prince Georges County
Mine Blast Claims Lives at Sherwood Iron Mine
In Iron River Michigan a gas and flame filled cave in at the Inland Steel Sherwood Mine trapped about 20 miners. Five men died with one more in hospital and 35 injured or treated. Names include Howard Group 31 Crystal Falls and Ingvar Wester 46. others listed from Crystal Falls Caspian and Iron River. Rescue teams worked through noxious fumes at the 1200 foot level after an explosion following a cave in.
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Iron River
Mich
Sherwood
Howard Group
Crystal Falls
Stambaugh
Ingvar Wester
August Zuckal
Caspian
Einar Johnson
Carl Anderson
Michigan Upper Peninsula
Inland Steel Co. c
Chicago
Miner Keith Sleeman Survives Dust Fire Escape
Keith Sleeman, one of the Hurst miners brought to the surface, was temporarily blinded by dust and fumes. He described leaping into a passageway to escape a blasting inferno, narrowly avoiding the worst of the venting flames.
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Keith Sleeman
Hurst
Jerome
Wheat Control Plan Ordered Into Effect Yet Seen as Failure
Secretary Ezra Tait Benson ordered into effect for 1960 a 21 year wheat crop control plan criticized as a failure by farm leaders. Congress delayed action. Eisenhower urged a new system to prevent price support breakdown while surpluses grow. Government holdings exceed three billion dollars and storage costs rise. Maryland and other states show 1960 planting allotments compared to 1959. Funeral services set for Col. Harold S. Whiteley in Fort Meade after a West Point visit.
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Washington
Ezra Tait Benson
Congress
Eisenhower
Maryland
Fort Meade, Md
Harold S. Whiteley
Ihhief
Second Army
Col. Whiteley
U. S. Military Academy
West Point
N. Y
Arlington Cemetery
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James Haupt
Middletown
American Automobile Association
Montgomery County
Frank Martin
Cumberland
Frank A. Martin
Hatterstown
Silver Spring
Memorial Hospital
Martin
Cumberland Hospital
Fort ‘Lauderdale
Fla
Florida
Dayton
Ohio
Retail Merchants Assn. of
Eloise Daugherty
Rose Hill Cemetery
Providence
R. I
Brown University
Carol Holzapfel
William M. Holzapfel
Carroll Parkway
Frederick
Frederick High School
National Student Association Coordinating Committee
Answerleten
Pembroke
WSSC
Routzahn’s
Stari
Flagstone
F. & H. Flagstone CO
Leo Fontanella
Coppermine Road
Kehne Furniture Co
South Market St
Hallmark & Norcross
Berger
North Market Street
Kaempf and Harris, Inc
Rocky Springs
Berger's
N. Market St
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