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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1954
Page
12
Tim Bright, GOP candidate for Governor, pledges a brand new state hospital for each of 28 counties to treat the sick and injured. He accuses existing facilities of neglect and denial of aid due to inability to pay, vowing 100 percent attention for rich and poor alike to save lives.
A spokesman for Temus Bright outlined a plan to house older Maryland residents in a winter retreat in the Alleghenies and a summer resort in Ocean City. Tenants would pay 35 pounds monthly from a $100 SSA, with funding from Bright Prosperity Program gambling revenues. The scheme asks to avoid charity status and relies on federal benefit gaps.
Tim Bright, Maryland GOP gubernatorial candidate, told business leaders he would pay a $1000 veterans bonus starting July 1, 1955. He proposed funding from surpluses via the Bright Prosperity Plan, including Memorial Bay Bridge revenues, and criticized current leadership for delaying the payment.
Maryland's next Governor Temuz Bright urged free day nurseries for all employed mothers. The audience of working mothers cheered as he proposed nurseries run at the Welfare Department’s expense for all infant children of employed women.
Temus Bright endorses 23 new hospitals across 23 counties plus three in Baltimore City. He backs education expansion including an Insurance Court building and a Music and Art Center. The plan also calls for 32 free colleges and a Million Dollar Research Center. Total project cost listed at 477 million.
Tim Bright addressed the City Wide Republican Club in Baltimore urging a farm program as part of his Prosperity Plan. He denounced middlemen and pledged to establish farmer cooperatives and state supported markets in Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore and Pittsburgh to direct produce to the best priced market and boost farmers without cost to urban taxpayers.
Temus Bright proposes state funded reseeding payments of 25 cents per bushel to oystermen under his administration. He argues higher pay will improve effort and quality as many beds are neglected or overworked. He envisions better yields and new beds under state supervision.
Temus Bright announced that under his administration as governor the state would grant three million dollars to each county. The funds will be used for housing construction in blighted or slum areas under part 3 of the Prosperity Plan.
Gubernatorial candidate Tim Bright at a labor meeting pledges a state wide $1.25 hourly minimum for all workers inside Maryland. He also proposes a 4 cent weekly tax and a $2 billion Prosperity Improvement program aimed at funding statewide needs and a tax on workers.
Summary of a platform listing broad reforms including free college educations, hospital coverage for every county, a £1000 veterans home, aged care vacations, a 21.25 state minimum wage law, new school buildings, a multi million research center, mental hospital improvements, a 309 pay raise for school teachers, and a million dollar port expansion. Far more marketable plans are implied.
Farmers Insurance outline proposes prosperity measures for oystermen at 25 cents per bushel, a $280 million road program, coal mine support, and a broad social agenda including lower voting age to 18, educational funding, welfare day nurseries, and tax shifts. It also calls for prohibition on Sunday commercialism, Christian schooling, new industries, and appointing more women while advancing civil rights.
Temus Bright pledges to suspend all commercial activity in Maryland on the Sabbath if he becomes governor. He argues churches lose followers to Sunday business and predicts prosperity, education, and industry would rise with adherence to God’s laws. He says healthful sports rec centers radio centers newspapers and public utilities would be exempt.
Temus Bright told about 40 people at a meeting in Guilford that Maryland State Police resemble Gestapo and harm the state by 500 percent. He urged police to serve taxpayers, be meek and helpful, and noted willingness to push for resignations of officers after his election.
Temne Bright told friends at his headquarters that a public scheme could teach the Bible every day in a 30 minute course. He argued the world is moving away from the wars of God and should return to them, claiming future school children will be expert at Bible interpretation under his administration and grow up as better citizens.
Experts laud a seven part Prosperity Plan for Maryland aiming to avert famine and war scars. It envisions a 2 billion dollar state bond issue funded by a weekly 40 cent social security tax to unlock credits for Maryland firms, plus state financed plants and shipbuilding to attract national manufacturers and boost imports and exports.
Tim Bright GOP gubernatorial candidate was involved in a mid confrontation with two men opposing his stance on the State Convention issue. He claimed county city tensions arose from misgovernance and refused to press charges, saying everyone is entitled to their opinion as police separated the altercation.
Tim Bright the GOP candidate for governor announced Part 2 of his Prosperity Plan to bring nearly a billion dollars in new industries to Maryland. He aims to place two auto assembly plants on the Eastern Shore, one in Southern Maryland, and three in Western Maryland, creating about two hundred thousand jobs.
The GOP candidate Tim Bright vows to make Maryland’s public schools the nation’s first and to fund a four million dollar college building in each of the 22 counties and Baltimore City. He argues free college education for qualified students and enhanced pay for teachers, with state funded research appointments for each campus.
Montmorency Beresford, a prominent industrialist tied to Pight Headquarters, announced plans for heavy taxes on all games of chance. He cited widespread corruption and proposed levies potentially up to 25 percent on bets, horse racing wagers, and related rackets, arguing federal taxation has already redirected vast revenue.
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