Annual Meet of P. E. Co. Held Tuesday
Poto maco Edison Company reports 1948 operating revenues up about 15 percent with expenses rising 15.3 percent. Directors re elected. two new directors, G Frank Thomas and Hubert H Schindel, join the board. Officers named. executive committee formed. Residential revenues grow as appliance use rises. Construction over three years exceeds 17 million dollars with 13 million planned in two years. Rural electrification reached 543 miles of lines. about 90 percent of area farms now receive service.
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Potomaco Edison Company
R. Paul Smith
Francis Scott Key Hotel
G. Frank Thomas
Frederick
Hubert H. Schindel
Hagerstown
Donovan R. Beachley
J. Glenn Beall
Willam B. Bennett
G. Hunter Bowers
Raymond E. Creager
Robert B. Crothers
David K. Cushna Jr
R. E. Delaplaine
Robert G. Foltz
Mervyn C. Fuss
J. H. Gambrill
Harry George
I. Vinton Hershey
Owen E. Hitchins
Henry Holvapfel
George S. Humphrey
Harry J. Leichert
Harry W. LeGore
Frank S. Leiter
William C. Maugans
John J. McMullen
W. Clinton McSherry
M. P. Moller, Jr
Guy K. Motter
Charles A. Piper
D. Ramacciotti
P. Lee Rie
E. Stultz
A. F. MacDonald
J. Lee Rice
Prisoner Escapes Jail Then Recaptured Near Catoctin Furnace
George William Miller of Hagerstown was recaptured at gunpoint after an escape from Frederick county jail last Saturday night. Deputies tracked him to the Catoctin Furnace area, where he slept in woods and in a hay stack before surrendering in a garden near Roy Lewis farm. Miller faces a larceny charge tied to a power saw and will be held securely as Reno Linton’s case proceeds in Peoples Court. an escape charge may follow.
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Catoctin Furnace
George William Miller
Hagerstown
Frederick County
R. Paul Buhrman
Kenneth Bond
Miller
Miler
Catoctin
Roy Linton
Reno Linton
Linton
Roy Lewis
Mrs. Lewis
Peoples Court
Engineer Acquitted in Train Crash Case Near Harford
Al bert C. Cavanaugh of Orange New Jersey was cleared of manslaughter in a Hartford County Circuit Court action. He was at the throttle of a Baltimore and Ohio train that struck a truck at a private crossing March 11 near Van Rubber. Driver Howard J Johnson of Baltimore, 35, died. Witnesses said the train, about 75 miles per hour, could not stop in time.
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van Rubber
Albert C. Cavanaugh
Orange
N. J
Harford County
Cavanaugh
Baltimore and Ohio
Here
Howard J Johnson
Baltimore
N. Paul Cronin
Bus departments’ rising costs outpace revenue growth
Regular quarterly dividends on the 3.60 percent cumulative preferred stock were paid as interurban bus departments continued to rise more rapidly than operating revenues, according to officials.
Rabbits Turned Loose in Frederick County Short of Quota
Game Warden Benjamin F. Phobus reports only about 100 rabbits released in Frederick County this winter, far below the 900 state allotment, due to severe midwestern weather. Some rabbits were in poor shape and two of nine crates arrived with dead rabbits. To offset shortages, the state released 125 ringneck pheasants in the northern part of the county.
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Frederick County
Benjamin F. Phobus
State Game and Inland Fish Commission
Phebus
Frederick
Pheasants Released in Carroll County Near Taneytown and Mayberry
The report notes 125 pheasants released in Carroll County near Taneytown and Mayberry. It also mentions a drainage system in New Orleans relying on 11 pumping stations to dispose of low-lying water.
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Carroll County
Taneytown
Mayberry
New Orleans
Ashton Enters Plea of Guilty in Train Robbery Case
Twenty year old George L Ashton pleaded guilty to holding up a Baltimore and Ohio train near Martinsburg West Virginia with Skip Ramsdell both of Youngstown Ohio. He cited drink and benzedrine as partial causes. Judge Harry E Watkins deferred sentencing pending probation investigation. Ramsdell was wounded and hospitalised after the Washington D C arrest following the holdup which injured more than 100 aboard crew and passengers. Ashton's mother testified for leniency citing a troubled upbringing and potential for reform.
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Fairmont
W. Va
George L. Ashton
Baltimore
Harry E. Watkins
Ashton
Luman
Skip
Rutheda Unger
Youngstown
Mansfield, O
Watkins
Ramsdell
Washington
D. C
Dhaul
Robbery cases tie two suspects in train incident
Ashton admitted robbing two passengers on a train and linked drug use to Florida. Ramsdell, with a lengthy Ohio record, faces charges as they were caught near Washington after they diverted an Ambassador train from Baltimore to Detroit. Cash losses were about 1000 dollars with 500 recovered.
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Ashton
Florida
Ramsdell
Youngstown
Ambassador
Baltimore
Detroit
Washington
White House
Ohio
Ohio Reformatory
Mansfield
Plane lands safely after forced Jaipur stop
New Delhi reports Deputy Prime Minister Sardar V. Patel and six others were aboard a plane that made a forced landing but caused no injuries. Patel and his party continued to Jaipur by automobile, while the aircraft's passengers were unharmed.
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New Delhi
Miister Sardar V. Patel
Jaipur
Idian Air Headquarters
Pla
Patel
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