Route 40 Reconstruction Plans Outline for County
The Roads Commission outlines planned rebuilds including up to five miles of Route 40 between Pine Orchard and West Friendship and widening of Route 26 from Ceresville to Mt. Pleasant. Surveys, rights of way, and bid preparations are in progress while work west of West Friendship is unlikely this year. A new expressway style road toward Washington is listed as a priority project.
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Baly
Liberty Road
Balimore
Commission
Pine Orchard
West Friendship
Ridgeville
Elliott City
Ridgeville West
Ceresville
Mt. Pleasant
Unionville
Gaithersburg
Brink
Here
Washington
W. F. Childs, Jr
150 Attend MVA Meeting Foreman Training School Proposed
At the Monocacy Valley Association quarterly meeting held at Hotel Frederick a proposal for a local foreman training school was announced. About 150 people heard plans for a year long seminar program to improve plant output and address industrial problems with participation by manufacturer members.
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Monocacy
Monocac
Valley Association
F. W. Weitzelpatrick
Maryland Hospital Association spring meeting scheduled
The Maryland District of Coimbra Hospital Association will hold a spring conference at the Francis Scott Key hotel on March 27 and 28. The opening session focuses on trustee interests and Frederick Memorial Hospital leaders are expected to attend. A program is being arranged for the event.
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Maryland District of Coimbra Hospital Association
Francis Scott Key Hotel
Board of
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Maryland Day and Good Friday Create An Unusual Bank Holiday Week
Next week features a rare double legal holiday with Maryland Day on Thursday March 25 followed by Good Friday. Banks close both days, some offices shut, post office observes Easter holidays, and local merchants report brisk pre Easter business while parking meters see no coin use.
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Maryland
Land conservation rally to feature Lane and Bromfield speakers
Maryland chapter Friends Of The Land hosts its first conservation rally at the Sheraton Belvedere Baltimore Tuesday at 10 a.m. Gov. William Preston Lane Jr and author Louis Bromfield headline the morning session with discussions on Conservation in Maryland and Grass Land Farming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Preston Lane, Jr
Louis Bromfield
Maryland
Friends of the Land
Sheraton-Belvedere Hotel
Baltimore
Lane
Mr. Bromfield
Holmes D. Baker
Frederick Banker
Edward J. Condon
Sears, Roebuck and Company
Paul W. McKee
Maryland Water Pollution Control Commission
Thomas D'Alesandro
Alfred H. Williams
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Charles E. Bryan
T. B. Symons
State Soil Conservation Committee
Rabbert A. Overbeck
H. C. Buckingham
Department of State Forests and Parks
Ernest A
Deeds Recorded For Sales Of Properties
The latest deeds filed in the clerk’s office show several farm transfers. Harry W. Barrick sold the Ruby farm, 139 acres in Woodsboro district, to Harry C. Gruber and spouse for about 20000. Barrick also sold the Cramer farm, 249 acres in Woodsboro, to Bartee Q. Roller and wife for about 13000. Nellie M. Haller sold 16 acres with improvements along Rheil’s Mill road in Urbana to Marion D. Julian and wife for about 5500. Raymond M. Zent transferred the old Stitely farm, 145 acres northwest of Liberty, to Joseph S. Grabenstein and wife for about 5000.
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Harry W. Barrick
Ruby
Woodsboro
Harry C. Gruber
Barrick
Cramer
Bartee Q. Roller
Haller
Marion D_ Julian
Rheil's Mill Road
Urbana
Raymond M. Zent
Airs
Joseph S. Grabenstein
Stitely
Liberty
Cumberland Woman Shot in Freak Upstairs Pistol Accident
In Cumberland a 45 year old woman, Mary L. Andrews, was killed when a pistol discharged by her father in law while the men discussed it upstairs. The bullet went through the floor into the living room where she waited with her husband and another man. The elder Andrews was questioned and released. A separate item notes roving pickets closing Harrison county’s first strip mine in Clarksburg as they plan a tour of other surface operations.
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Cumberland
Poice
Rirs
Mary L. Andrews
James E. Andrews
Thomas J. Lee
James W. Andrews
Andrews
Clarksburg
W. Va
Harrison County
Women of Frederick Council Hear European Recovery Report
More than 335 members heard Mrs. Earle Gostweiler describe postwar life in the British Isles in 1947 and contrast Netherlands optimism with England’s discouraged rural mood. She noted reclamation of land in Holland and urged Americans to aid Europe and uphold democratic duties. The meeting at Calvary Methodist church featured a style show and a program by 447 Homemaker clubs with models from local counties.
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England
Frederick Car Council of Homemakers Clubs
Earle Gosstweller
State Council
British Isles
Abrs
Gosweiler
Associated Country Women of the World
Holland
Netherlands
Europe
Belgium
United States
Brussels
Paris
Gostweiler
Calvary Methodist Church Parish
Frederick
Page Gardner
Lou Davis
Miiss Miriam Leiter
Leiter
Lloyd Stup
Niemann Brunk
Mirs
C. E. Meitzier
Braddock
Bargaret Young
Denda Albaugh
Sterling Grumbine
Herman Kooniz
Unionville
Iva Zeiler
Buckerstown
Tred S. Zeiler
Lease Bussard
Luther Bussard
Jefferson
Bascom Neal
Marguerite Burgee
Pleasant Grove
Rayner Montgomery
Charles Collins
Urbana
Ethel Thomas
Harmony Grove
Darner
Ailddietown
Dixon
Russell Young
C. Engle
Jugiss
Anne Englehart
Sycearingen
Helen Walker
Hood College
Senior 4-H March Meeting Held Here
The Senior 4 H Club met Wednesday evening in the old Church street school conference room with president James Shaffer presiding. Members voted to donate 15 to the International Rural Youth Exchange for European visits and return trips. A Maryland boy will be chosen to represent the state. A spring dance for 4 H members and friends is set for April 2 at Parkway School. Barbara Young spoke on spring styles before routine business reports.
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Old Church Street School
James Shaffer
International Rural Youth Exchange
United States
Parkway School
Barbara Young
Thompson Out 18 Hours and Back in Jail Again
Sammy Thompson, known for short stints out of jail, was arrested again on an intoxication charge after a brief 24 hour departure from custody on Wi South street. Other overnight arrests included James R. Fergus of Edgewood for intoxication and exposure and Frimley P. Johnson, a colored man from Lime Kiln, for intoxication and disturbing the peace.
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Sammy Thompson
Sammy
Wi South Street
Sgt
Swomley
Oficer Rover
James R. Fergus
Edgewood
Frimley P. Johnson
Sgt. Swomley
Royer
Burras
Four Die In Crash As Truck Hits Parked Car
Four men in a Hancock sedan were killed when a heavy tractor-trailer rammed the rear of a parked car on U.S. 40 seven miles east of Hancock. The victims were Homer E. Weller, 40. Fluford C. Fritz, 43. Harry Younker, 61. and his son Lloyd Younker, 31. The truck driver John E. Blake, 30, was held on manslaughter charges.
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Hancock
U.S. 40
Here
Homer Ernest Weller
Fluford Charles Fritz
Harry Younker
Lloyd Younker
R. F.D
Edward Ditto
Washington County
Fritz
Younker
Weller
Hagerstown
Victor Products Corporation
Parkhead Level
John E. Blake
Leister Tsanogle Faid Blake
Martin L. Ingram
Blake
Charlton Brothers Transportation Company of
Kidnapped Girl Is Home in Concord
Ken neth A. Ingalls, 34, was arrested after abducting Charlotte O Brien, 16, at gunpoint from a farm home Sunday. The girl was found unharmed and returned. Ingalls was taken into custody three miles from the initial scene, authorities said.
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Concord
Kenneth A. Ingalls
Charlotte O Brien
Ingalls
Mr. and Mire
Charles O'Brien
Magistrate Tubman Salary Cut Remains In Place
Carroll county magistrate Vince A. Tubman will continue to receive 1200 a year after a Court of Appeals decision. Tubman had sued the County Commissioners to restore his salary to 1920 annually. The prior action raised to 1920 by law, then reduced to the legal minimum of 1200.
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Annapolis
Vince A. Tubman
Carroll County
Court of Appeals
Tubman
Com Sioners
May head off strike at Oak Ridge atomic lab
The White House said there is a good chance to prevent a midnight walkout of 999 atomic laboratory workers at Oak Ridge Tennessee. A separate report notes the Senate approved keeping an income tax cut proposal at 4,800,000,007 dollars with a final vote possible by nightfall.
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Washington
White House
Oak Ridge
Tenn
Senate
Rome Riot as Leftist Rally Clashes with Socialist Meeting
In Rome on St Joseph's Day riots erupted when crowds leaving a leftist rally in Piazza Santi Apostoli clashed with attendees of a nearby Socialist meeting. Police used riot squads to restore order after jeers and fistfights. No casualties were reported.
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Rome
Lurg
Longo
Hall
Popal Front
Piazza Santi Apostoli
Piazza Venezia
St. Joseph's Bay
Giovanni Messe
Russia
Giuseppe Saragat
Socialist Party
Ivan Matteo Lombardo
Socialist Unity Ticket
Pisza Santi Apostoli
Clementis Appointed Foreign Minister in Czechoslovakia
Vlado Clementis a Slovak and longtime Masaryk aide is named Foreign Minister and Secretary of State in Prague four weeks after a cabinet crisis gave full Communist control. He will hold both posts though Masaryk’s party affiliation remains unspecified.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Prague Radio
Vlado Clementis
Clementis
Foreign Ministry
Jan Masaryk
Masaryk
Eduard Benes
Masaryka
Lane Urges Maryland Voters to Participate in May and November
Governor Lane urged eligible Marylanders to vote in the May primary and November general elections. He emphasized registering and casting ballots, with an extra registration day on April 27 except in Montgomery and Washington counties which have permanent systems.
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Annapolis
Lane
Five Dead In Centralia Explosion Ravages Downtown
An explosion leveled a two story building in downtown Centralia leaving five dead and many hurt. Firefighters recovered two bodies early, with another woman dying en route to St. Marys Hospital. search for additional victims continued through the ruins as witnesses reported people trapped.
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Centralia
St. Mary's Hospital
Armaments Issues Up in New York Markets
March 19 report shows selected stocks linked to re armament prospects advancing while several market leaders falter as investors react to wartime demand and defense sector optimism.
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Armaments
New York
Release Scientist Held In U S
Irene Joliot Curie the French scientist detained at Ellis Island after arriving from Paris was held temporarily detained under immigration rules there as entry might be prejudicial to the United States. Attorney General Tom Clark authorized her release and will review the case. A French defense official warned of Communist ties to the Joliot Curie atomic research leadership amid a political clash in Paris over purging Communists from atomic duties.
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Washington
Tom Clark
Irene Joliot-Curie
Ellis Island
Joliot-Curie
New York
Paris
United States
Justice Department
Mme. Joliot Curie
LaGuardia
Clark
Refugee Committee
Department
Frederic Joliot-Curie
U.S
Paul Anxionnaz
French Assemblys
National Defense Committee
Council of the Republic
Frances
Charles DeGaulle
Comissariat For Atomic Research
Walkout Slows Steel and Rail as 12,000 to 15,000 Idle
Pittsburgh reports a five day coal strike idling 12 000 to 15 000 workers across steel and transport. Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad lays off 10 000 with 3 000 more to furlough unless the walkout ends by Saturday. Bethlehem Steel and Sharon Steel announce cuts. Lake Ontario shipping and other lines report idle crews amid reduced coal runs.
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Pittsburgh
United Mine
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
R. J Bowman
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Virginia Rail
Chicago
Milwaukee
St. Pat Pacific
Uian
Alsatama
Huntington
W. Va
Lake Ontario
Bethlehem Steel Co
Lackawanna
N. Y
Bethlehem
Johnstown
Youngstown Sheet & Tube
Youngstown
Sharon Steel
Farrell
Sharon
Washington Brunswick Train To Be Dropped
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad announces the discontinuance of 23 trains in passenger service at night Sunday in compliance with a government order for a 25 percent cut. The routes affected include Washington to Brunswick and connections to Pittsburgh Buffalo Detroit Toledo and Chicago among others.
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Washington-Brunswick
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Today
Baltwyftiun
Brunswick
Pitts
DuaBom
Pang
Rochester
East Salamanca
Toledo
New York
Washington
Chicago
Louis
Operators Seek Talks With Lewis Over Pension Standoff
Washington March 19 coal operators urged John N Lew to end the five day mine shutdown and negotiations on miners pensions. They said the pension demand is key to the dispute that has cut rail and steel output, and asked to meet with Lewis after 350 000 idle miners are recalled to work.
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Washington
John N. Lew
Lewis
United Mine Workers
Charles O'Neill
Senate Approves Greece and Turkey Aid Amid China Talks
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee backed 275 million dollars in military aid for Greece and Turkey after early unanimity among 13 senators. Officials discussed a proposed 570 million for China while the House Foreign Affairs Committee approved a 5.3 billion European recovery plan.
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Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Greece
Turkey
George
D-Ga
Truman
China
House Foreign Affairs’ Committee
Senate
Duty To Stop And Look At Railroad Crossing
The Court of Appeals in Annapolis ruled the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad need not pay 15.06 damages for the death of Olin R. Andrews at Roxbury penal farm. It held Andrews contributed to the accident by failing to stop before crossing, with one dissent.
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Annapolis
Court of Appeals
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Olin R. Andrews
Roxbury
High Court
Andrews
Rox
Ion
Dri
Soviet Uses Nazi Methods Warn Marshall
Washington March 19 Secretary of State George Marshall accused the Soviet Union of using Nazi methods in its drive to engulf free European nations. Speaking at Berkeley he outlined a strategy against Soviet expansion and urged prompt enactment of the European recovery program to fortify free nations and defend against police-state moves by communist domination.
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Berkeley
Calif
George Marshall
Russia
University of California
Marshall
America
Europe
Truman
Congress
Italy
Communist Party
United States
Middle East
Far East
Central Committee
Communist Party In
Hiver
Leaky Roof Case Heard Before Jury
Mrs Yolanda C Cole sued Ralph R Ritenour in Circuit Court alleging a leaking roof after repairs at Braddock Heights on Jefferson Boulevard. She paid $327.64 on a $35 quote, claims a guarantee against leaks, and seeks $447.64 with damages to wallpaper from each rain or snowstorm.
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Patrick 3. Schnauffer
Yolanda C. Cole
Ralph Rritenour
Lewister Fendant
Cele
Jefferson Boulevard
Braddock Heights
Rifenoue
Thomas Glass
W. Jerome Offutt
Sherman P. Bowers
Rit, Enoure
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Hospital Association
Sagzx
Helen L. Sagnet
Bowie
Friends of Land
Governor Lane
Labor Govt
Homemakers’ Council
Thompson
Rt. 40
Ciemen
Fisl
New
Curran
Soviet
Flanders
United Nations
U.N. General Assembly
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