Fires Calm After Weekend Grass and Field Blazes
State Forest Warden and volunteers battled two fires in the area near Catoctin mountains and Gaithersburg while four northern Montgomery field fires were extinguished. A pasture fire near New Market spread briefly but burned only an acre before control. Neighbors and local engines helped, with costs agreed for the New Market incident.
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Fire crews battle multiple blazes across Montgomery County
Gaithersburg fire units responded Sunday to alarms at Cloppers and the Albert Gloyd farm where one and two acres burned, plus a right of way fire near the railroad at Boyds and a 220 acre stubborn fire on the Cornwell place known as Quince Orchard AU day. Earlier Saturday fires damaged a barn and brooder house on Ayrawn Farm Laytonsville Claysville roads.
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Oakmont School
Boyds
Cornwell Place
Quince Orchard
Ayrawn Farm
Laytonsville
Claysville
Sandy Spring
Garthersburg
Charles P. Fox
Ganthersburg
Bethesda
Waidale
Germantown
Eugene Casey
Shady Side
Accident near Gaithersburg injures Washington man
Fireman Walter Hershey reports David A. Bingham age 33 of 2625 Third Street NE Washington was hospitalized at Suburban Hospital Bethesda for injuries from a collision on Route 240. Capt. Reynolds Yemkins and rescue team found him with a badly lacerated right hand a fractured lower right jaw and multiple cuts on the face as his car left the highway sideswiped a telephone pole and struck a tree.
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Walter Hershey
David A. Bingham
Third Street
Washington
Bethesda
Hershey
Reynolds Yemkins
Bugham
Sixth Report On U S Aid Is Given Truman
Washington March 21 The President's Commission on Higher Education presented President Truman with the sixth volume of its report urging a federally aided expansion of higher learning. The volume provides statistics supporting earlier recommendations issued by the commission chaired by Dr George F Zook.
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President's Commission On Higher Education Today
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National Council On Education
B and O Tracks Snarled by Chester Wreck
Chester Pa March 21 Twenty four freight cars jumped their tracks plunging into an embankment and into a house shaking it free from its foundations Five year old Anthony Maisch narrowly escaped as wood and debris flew toward his kitchen The wreck blocked B and O routes north and south with five days or more needed before movement resumes rerouting via Pennsylvania Railroad lines and no serious injuries reported
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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
New York
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Anthony Maisch
James
Train wreck injures family as car plunges into creek
A 21st car jumped tracks on a 45 car BE&O freight near Chester while crossing a 50 foot bridge over Rosey Creek. Debris pinned a wood and Lite boy as the train toppled, a family fled to safety from upstairs while Mrs. Maische was treated for shock at Chester Hospital. Dozens of Western Union employees responded to the scene.
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Railroad crash disrupts eastern Pennsylvania lines
A derailment on a B & O line damaged an overhead trestle and knocked out communications across eastern Pennsylvania. A Philadelphia repair crew was dispatched as a railroad sergeant warned the crackup would be long and difficult. Gatekeeper L Logan reported a dragging brake shoe moments before the incident.
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Philadelphia
L. Logan
Ditching With Dynamite Demonstrations Planned by County Officials
Montgomery Soil Conservation Supervisors schedule two farm demonstrations to teach blasting drainage ditch digging. O W Anderson, county agent, notes land loss from poor drainage and labor shortages make blasting the cheapest option. Licensed operators will perform the work. The first demo is at James D. King’s Germantown farm on Wednesday at 2 p.m. The second at Eugene S. Walker’s Browningsville farm on March 31 at 2 p.m.
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Montgomery Soil Conservation Supervisors
O. W Andersson
James D. King
Germantown
Eugene S. Walker
Browningsville
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