Tornadoes strike across Midwest and Ohio cause heavy damage
A sweeping tornado outbreak from Texas to Ohio kills at least 45 people and injures many as homes are leveled in Illinois Missouri and Indiana. Damage runs into millions with towns like Fosterburg and Bunker Hill heavily hit and lines of communication disrupted.
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Macoupin County
Ilinois
St. Louis
Texas
Oktahors
Missouri
Kokomo
Ind
Indianapolis
Alton
Fosterburg
Bunker Hin
Little Woodburn
Gillespie
Ohio
Landeck
Afercer County
Ottawa
Urbana
Kentucky
Bracken County
Michigan
Elet Rock
New York
Red Cross
St. Loui
Washington County
Finksburg Man Fined After Route 140 Crash Case
A Finksburg man pled guilty to four charges after a March 9 crash on Route 140 near Westminster. Conrad Blum paid a total of 180 in fines and costs including 10145 for drunken driving and 26.45 for resisting arrest. Officers Stallings and Hollie said Blum’s car struck a state police vehicle and grazed two officers as he fled the scene before being subdued a half mile away.
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Conrad Blum
Route 1
Finksburg
Raymond L. Benson
Westminster
Richard Stallings
Charles Hollie
Blum
Route 140
West Seer
Instant Retaliation frames U S defense plan
U S defense plan centers on instant retaliation against a Soviet strike. The article notes Air Force weakness with 550 combat planes and outlines defensive and offensive measures, bases in Limestone Maine Mile 26 Field Alaska Dhahran Saudi Arabia Mellaha Tripoli and other northern routes, and the goal to paralyze enemy war capability at its source.
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U. S
Limestone
Mile 26 Field
Fairbanks
Alaska
Air Force
Dhahran
Saudi Arabia
Mensha
Tripoli
Greenland
Aleutians
Washington
Montana
Nebraska
Idaho
South Dakota
Michigan
Ilinois
New York
Pennsylvania
New Hampshire
Maine
Douglas Larsen
Gton
America
Congressional Aviation Policy Board
Russia
Carl Spaatz
USAF
Spaate
RAF
U.S
Moscow
North American
eMost
Mellaha
Tripol
Air Transport Command
Secret bases and quick retaliation phrasing in cold war notes
A fragment discusses USAF bases in Greenland Alaska and the Aleutians and notes that classifying information as secret aligns with instant retaliation concepts. It also records assignment of the cattle herd name Rocky Glide to Roger Hildebrand of Woodsboro Maryland for purebred Holstein Friesian cattle with registry by the Holstein-Friesian Association of America.
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Greenland
Alaska
The
Aleutians
Siteboro
Roger Hildebrand
Woodsboro
Rocky Glide
Holstein-Friesian Association of America
Taft Hartley Law Used At Atomic Plant
The government used the Taft Hartley Law to avert a threatened strike by about 900 AFL Atomic Trades and Labor Council workers at Oak Ridge. An injunction in Knoxville bans work for 20 days, restraining Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corp operators from disturbing the labor contract. Coal and meat shortages continue nationwide with price increases. Labor disputes involve UMW, steel firms, and meat packers as hearings proceed and pension demands surface.
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Associated Press
Oak Ridge
Truman
U. S. Attorn
AFL Atomic Trades and Labor Council
Knoxville
Tenn
Carbide and
Carbon Chemicals Corp
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
United Mine Workers
Seversl Steel Companies
CIO United Packinghouse
Chicago
AFL
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Pony Express
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Lee Slater
UCB
G. S
Frederick
South Market
Apapro
Kew
U.S. S.R
U.S. A
Allen
Market & Second Sts
IMS
Balto
Sante Smail
Burall's Cycle Shop
Carta’s
Patrick St
Cass
Bernie’s Arena
CIO
Lewis Soft Coal
John L. Lewis
Lewis
UMW
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co
Youngstown
Sharon Steel
Huntington
W. Va
Paul H. Grifith
American Legion
Griffith
Wash
George Hamilton
West End Motors
W. Patrick Street
Comaker
Delphey
West Patrick St
Dodge
Studebaker
Chevrolet
Plymouth
W. Patrick St
Stokers
Weil Brothers
North Market St
Saster
Carieania
Bere m
Berger
N. Market St
D.e.cline & Son
Funeral Directors Ambulance Service
Jeanne Crain
Dan Riley
Oscar Levant
Barbara Lawrence
O'Brien
Warner Bros
TOS
Barry Sullivan
Belita Arim Tamiroff
Toov Onna
Eddie Dean
Shadow Watley
Frederick Theatre
Billy the Kid
Batson
Hwamnaker Brothers
Tahermont, MD
Hagerstown, MD
Washington, D. OF
Georgia
Druid Theater
Damascus, Maryland
Sionday
Burt Lancaster
Lizabeth Scott
Tyrone Power
Alice
Alexander
Norma Shearer
Joan Crawford
Betty Hutton
John Lond
Jimmy Wakely
Cannonball Taylor
Song
Flos
Kent Taylor
Louise Currie
Markes & Second Sre
Victor
Simm
Photo-Sport
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