Road To Disaster Taxes shift to Washington and looming deficits
The piece argues that Washington collects 74 percent of taxes now versus 34 percent two decades ago and warns of growing deficits. It cites Byrd projects of deficits reaching $815,000,000 next year, $3.2 billion in 1950, and $7 billion in 1951, urging drastic spending cuts and restraint over deficit financing. It critiques Congress for boosting state and local aid and calls for Americans to demand less Federal action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Harry ¥. Byrd
Virginia
Air Force
Byrd
Conveyor belt plan faces rail road opposition in Ohio
A proposed coal and bulk goods conveyor belt in Ohio faces strong pushback from railroads warning of bankrupting competition. The debate echoes canal era shifts when railways displaced canal traffic, a historical parallel raised by supporters and opponents alike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
DeMolay Baseball at Camp Detrick Saturday
The DeMolay baseball team will meet Camp Detrick at Detrick Saturday afternoon at 2 00 p m. DeMolay coach asked today that his team be at Seventh street gate no later than 1 30 p m.
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Camp Detrick
DeMolay
Detrick
Seventh Street Gate
Fifty Years Ago Local Items From The News May 13 1899
Liberty faced a destructive fire at a feed store on George W Bowles property destroying the store ten ant house a large general store two dwellings and outbuildings Edwin Devilbiss residence narrowly escaped. A duel with fists occurred at a Garfield lumber camp over a fair lady. Governor Lloyd Lownes talked of a second term. A brewery plan from the old Page foundry failed as a New Yorker financier deemed Frederick not enough business warranted a first class plant. Pupils of Mr Irving Biser bid farewell and Leo Weinberg presented a Morris chair to the retiring teacher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liberty
George W. Bowles
Edwin Devilbiss
Garfield
Lloyd Lowndes
Annapolis
Page Foundry
Frederick
Irving Biser
Leo Weinberg
Biser
Morris
Plans to Expand Grand Stand at Fair Grounds
Twenty years ago the May 13 1929 column notes the Board of Managers favorably approved increasing seating at the Fair Grounds grand stand by more than 1000 seats for the fall fair. Also recorded is a request for a new dormitory for 100 freshmen at Hood College discussed at the Mary and Classis of Potomac Synod meeting in Grace Reformed church. A nine room house and two lots at Braddock Heights changed hands, Camden J. Ramsburg selling to Harry B. Coblentz near Maryland Avenue and Jefferson Boulevard. The United Fire Company festival and bazaar drew a large crowd for the Parade Association and will run nightly this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Managers
Hood College
the Mary and Classis of Potomac Synod
Grace Reformed Church
Braddock Heights
Camden J. Ramsburg
Harry B. Coblentz
Washington Daybook highlights labor bill maneuvers and diplomacy
Washington reports amid the labor bill drama, Tobin hosts closed door talks with AFL CIO leaders, Rayburn and McCormick redraw the plan, Hines and Hoffmann clash over injunctions, and public relations battles emerge from Pentagon publicity offices as lawmakers face industry pushback and potential Taft Hartley implications. Separate items cover wedding announcements and engagements in Maryland, with Francis Stockman, Grace Schmidt, and Betty Zimmerman among those celebrated.
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Uncle Sam
Sam Rayburn
House
John McCormick
Tobin
Rayburn
Big “Nordy" Hoffman
Notre Dame
Phil Murray
Hoffman
CIO
Lew Hines
A. F. of L
House Labor Committee
Engaged Frances Graham to Joseph Dill Baker II
Announced engagement of Miss Frances FitzGerald Graham daughter of Mrs Carroll Graham of Garden City New York to Mr Joseph Dill Baker II son of Mr and Mrs Holmes Davenport Baker of Waverley Farm near Frederick The bride to be Miss Graham a senior at Hood College and graduate of Cherry Valley School Both families prominent in local circles Mr Baker is with Citizens National Bank in Frederick after attending Episcopal High School in Alexandria Virginia Admiral Farragut Academy and Hudson Institute of Business Administration
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Upley—Zimmerman
Singanore Methodist Church
Betty Irene Zimmerman
Walter L. Zimmerman
New Windsor
Ralph Saville Ripley
Edgar Ripley Aso
Donald Lewis
Unionville
Isaac Nicodemus
William Dudderar
Mendelssohn
Sweethear
Clarence C. Fleming
Bethesda
Madeline Franklin
Woodbine
Oneida Albaugh
Albaugh
Carroll Ripley
Edward Wetvel
John Barker
Union Bridge
South
Ripley
Frederick High School
Liberty High School
Frances FitzGerald Graham
Carroll
Graham
Garden City
N. Y
Joseph Dill Baker, II
Holmes Davenport Baker
Waverley Farm
Frederick
Cherry Valley
Hood College
Mr. Baker
Episcopal High School
Alexandria
Admiral Farragut Athdemy
Hudson Institute of Business Administration
Baker
Citizens National Bank
Vice Consul and Wife Attend Landowner Party
Vice-Consul and Mrs. William J. Bushwaller of Dar es Salaam were among fifty to sixty guests aboard the African Star hosted by Capt. J. M. Wainwright son of General J. M. Wainwright. The event followed Bushwaller presenting the Medal of Freedom with Bronze Palm to Richard H. Heslop for wartime heroism as a British agent.
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United States
William J. Bushwalter, Jr
Dar Es Salaam
British East Africa
J. M. Wainwright
African Star
Wainwright
Bataan and
Corregidor
Bushwaller
William J. Bushwaller
Washington
U. S
Richard H. Heslop
Chunya
Eagle Scout To Get Juvenile Hearing
Richmond Virginia May 13 Evidence in the Roanoke church slaying of Dana Marie Weaver a 16 year old girl was under laboratory examination today In Roanoke jail Lee Scott 16 husky Eagle Scout and schoolmate of Dana Marie awaits a Juvenile Court hearing on a murder charge in the death of the girl She was slain in the kitchen of Christ Episcopal Church Sunday night Police hoped exhibits would reveal a motive. none yet found.
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Richmond
Roanoke
Pretty
Dana Marie Weaver
Lee Scott
Dana Marie
Christ Episcopal Church
Death of Mrs Bary Elliott Osburn Miller
Mrs. Bary Elliott Osburn Miller widow of J Hunter Miller died at her Los Angeles home at about 88. Born in Virginia she lived in Sewickley Pa before moving to California about 35 years ago. Survived by brother William W Osburn and sister Mrs Samuel R Wilson. Burial in Los Angeles Saturday.
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J. Hunter Miller Ward
Bary Elliott Osburn Miller
J. Hunter Miller
Los Angeles
Cal
Virginia
Franklin
Henrietta Osburn
Sewickley
California
William W. Osburn
Samuel R. Wilson
Funerals Held for Local Residents in Several Churches
Funeral services were held for Alvey R Brandenburg in Mt Moriah Lutheran Foxville with pallbearers named and burial at adjacent cemetery. Annie May Hahn of Union Bridge buried after services at D D Hartzler Sons funeral home, then Rocky Hill Lutheran church. Katherine W Black of Florence died in Baltimore and was laid to rest at Cherry Grove cemetery. Edward M Zile remembered at St John’s Westminster with Ebeneezer burial. Russell H Colwell of Woodbine buried at church cemetery after Morgan Chapel service.
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Frederick County
Trinity Chapel
West Church Street
Lou Davis
Miriam Leiter
Davis
Department of Agriculture
Washington
Miss Leiter
Patsie Himes
Walkersville
Alvey R. Brandenburg
Washington County Hospital
Hagerstown
Mt. Moriah Lutheran Church
Foxville
Chas. H. Corbett
Harry Brandenburg
Roy Brandenburg
Keefer Brandenburg
Otho Brandenburg
Cyrus
Brandenburg
Ira Brandenburg
M. L. Creager & Son
Annie May Hahn
Union Bridge
D. D. Hartzler and Sons
Rocky Hill
Katherine W. Black
Florence
Union Memorial Hospital
Baltimore
Leon P. F. Vauthier
Bernard Warfield
Mort Crabster
William Dorsey
George Donhauser
Griffith Jones
Wilbur Alle
Cherry Grove Cemetery
C. M. Waltz
St. John's Catholic Church
Westminster
Edward M. Zile
Brookland Park
Francis X. Wills
Frank J. Barnes
B. Frizzell
Stanley Pickett
Eugene Frizzell
Joseph L. Mathias, Jr
David T. Young
Ebeneezer Cemetery
Winfield
Morgan Chapel Methodist Church
Woodbine
Russell H. Colwell
Dennings
C. H. Shaw
C. L. Manahan
Guerney Stellar
Wilbur Naill
Charles Porter
Edgar Kiler
Thomas Stultz
Local health notes from Frederick area hospital patients
Among the sick residents near Frederick and Middletown several patients improve or recover. Mrs. Edward Magana of Burkittsville, and Mrs. Almetta Moser of Myersville, are reported somewhat improved or back home. Others recuperate after surgeries or illnesses at Frederick Memorial and University of Maryland Hospitals, with continued convalescence expected.
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Edward Magana
Burkittsville
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Almetta Moser
Myersville
Bernard Taylor
Middletown
University of Maryland Hospital
Baltimore
David
Charles E. Haines
Charles C. Crum
West Patrick Street
Robert S. Tyson
East Church Street
Deborah Ann Gross
Lewis A. Gross
Goldvein
Frederick
Aubrey
Sydenham Hospital
Wilma Jean Stull
Arthur Stull
Creagerstown
Thurmont High School
Clyde Bohn
Union Bridge
Maryland University Hospital
Balimore
Extended Maryland Delaware Forecast Weekend Thunder Showers
Saturday: partly cloudy with scattered afternoon or night showers. Sunday: fair and cooler. Monday to Wednesday: warmer with showers or thunder showers likely. Temperatures 2 to 4 degrees above normal, rainfall totals 0.50 to 0.75 inch across the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maryland
Delaware
Coal Mine Parley Set
John L. Lewis and southern coal mine operators agreed to begin negotiations on a new union mining contract at Bluefield West Virginia on May 25. The Southern Coal Producers Association president Joseph E Moody announced the agreement after talks with Lewis. The present contract expires June 30. northern western operators and steel company interests have not yet arranged talks.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Southern Coal Mine
Bluefield
W. Va
Joseph E. Moody
Southern Coal Producers Association
Lewis
United Mine Workers
Southern Group
Northern and Western
Steel Company
Housing vote set as Truman housing program faces GOP fight
Washington May 13 leaders predicted a strong Truman win in the House for a far reaching long range housing program. Republicans pledged a tough fight, with a decisive vote looming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Administration
Truman
House
Indiscriminate Word Lesson Prompts Daily Vocab Focus
A compact note presents today s word Indiscriminate defined as not making distinctions or being promiscuous. It cites a Junius quote on the indiscriminate defense of right and wrong and urges mastering one word daily to grow vocabulary.
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Junius
Bible Thoughts on Rest in the Wilderness
A concise meditation describes a green oasis in the wilderness where travelers pause for refreshment and repose after a week of journey, citing Exodus 16 30 and a note from Dr Reade about Sabbath rest.
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Dr. Reade
Jaundice Causes and Treatments Described by Dr Jordan
A medical column explains jaundice from bile obstruction infections and poisons with notes on measurement of bile pigments and possible surgeries. It discusses infectious hepatitis and other causes while answering reader questions about burning tongue.
Saxophone inventor and cathedral location questions
The saxophone was invented by Antoine Joseph Sax, a Belgian instrument maker, who registered the instrument in June 1846. The Cathedral of St Peter and St Paul refers to the National Cathedral in Washington, D C.
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Antoine Joseph Sax
St. Peter and St. Paul
National Cathedral
Washington, D. C
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Oklahoma
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C. Clifford Doll
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Urbana
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Philadelphia
Anne Gertrude Brown Thomas
W. Clinton McSherry
East Second Street
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Miami
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Ethel Loy
Harrisburg
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Wilbur Simpson
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Quinn
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Henry
Karen
AEA Service, Inc
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Nixon
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Lewistown
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Norfolk
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New Rochelle
Anne Tetlow
Sharon
Faithful Circle
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Harry Umberger
East Third Street
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Harry Smith
Russell C. Thomas
Ballenger Creek Road
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Repubican
Ives
Senate Labor Committee
Emmitsburg
M. J. Grove Lime Company
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Detroit
Ford
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