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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1954
Page
7
Local election tallies reveal 19,893 ballots cast with 343 rejected and 18,737 counted for Governor. Five write-ins included Earl Lowell for Sheriff and Raymond Kelly for County Treasurer, with many ballots unused and costs still pending.
Senate leaders plan last minute talks on procedure for a special session as a final vote on censuring Sen. McCarthy Wisconsin looms. McCarthy and aides work with friendly Senators while he prepares a public account rather than a defense. Johnson and Knowland meet to set an early showdown date and limit debate on the committee report recommending censure on three counts.
A 26 year old East German trawler cook Heinz Schulz escaped while the ship passed Kiel Canal. He attacked a Communist officer, knocked him down, and fled to the West at Freedom Lock seeking political asylum in West Germany.
Baltimore article reports Republican Edward Miller wins 1st District over Edward Turner with 35 220 to 28 179 based on complete official returns. Canvass unfinished in Baltimore City and four counties delaying outcome of other races. Governor McKeldin leads Byrd by about 61 thousand on partial counts. Sybert ahead of Rollins. Other districts show incomplete results awaiting canvass completion.
London reports Tito cabled greetings to the Kremlin for Russia’s October anniversary parade. It is his first recognition of the Communist celebration since breaking with the Cominform in 1948. He voiced desire for normalization with the Soviet bloc and addressed Marshal Voroshilov.
Governor McKeldin sent telegrams to newly elected Maryland General Assembly members after last Tuesday's balloting. He praised bipartisan cooperation and pledged an open door. Democrats hold a 22 to 7 Senate margin and 99 to 24 in the House.
Bosco the love sick circus elephant was shot by U S soldiers in Augsburg Germany after injuring his trainer and roaming loose. The 4000 pound animal had become dangerous and the owner requested destruction to prevent harm. Circus workers blamed the elephant's mood on his lack of a girlfriend.
Marilyn Kraai, a 21 year old student nurse, was assaulted and strangled with a red hospital necktie in a basement hydrotherapy lab at Kalamazoo State Hospital for mental patients. Hospital staff discovered her body after a missed supper check. Coroner Cobb describes the case as criminal assault and homicide.
Charles Hamilton Herbert known city employee dies suddenly at 11 15 Friday night at his home 1007 North Market Street age 86. He served about twenty years as assistant to the Plumbing Inspector inspecting residences and structures and maintaining water rent records. A Democrat active in party affairs he endured two eye operations and a heart attack last December. Survived by widow Sylvia Ridgely Herbert two sisters Mrs Albert Tibbitts Chevy Chase and Mrs Sue Marken Frederick and brother Harry Herbert. Funeral Monday at 2 30 from 106 East Church Street with rites at Mt Olivet Cemetery conducted by M Ritchison and Son, funeral directors.
Western nations finalize a U N resolution backing President Eisenhower’s peaceful atomic energy plan. It seeks full U N cooperation, calls for an international scientific conference next year, and asks the conference to report on peaceful production progress. The draft is by the United States Britain France Canada Australia Belgium and South Africa pending government authorizations.
The municipality plans to widen Park Avenue from Elm street to Park Place and possibly to Trail avenue by removing a full row of trees on the north curb. The curb will be set back five feet to improve traffic flow near Frederick Memorial Hospital and ease sewer-regression issues.
The Mobile X ray Unit will return to Frederick for six days from November 9 to 16 to finish a 26 day 1954 survey. It will be on North Market Street near Woolworths on Friday November 12 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Students and workers without prior chest x rays will be eligible during the week with certain sites and times noted at Camp Derick.
A Frederick man Robert Weedon was fined 320 on a charge of indecent exposure after a magistrate rejected his claim about how he was detained. He admitted drinking in the morning but said a motorcycle officer abducted him near South Beniz Street. Officers testified he was walked to jail in a car, while Weedon says he was walked across the street. Other traffic fines from the area include Harold R. Baer for passing on a bill and George F. Strausbaugh for improper passing, with various amounts listed. Police also reported Wong Fook Kwonk, known as the Iran Spearhead, to be banished to Red China for Communist activity. In Sicily, nine crew members died when two Halon military planes collided.
Veterans Day will be marked Thursday with a two o'clock service at Memorial Park led by Francis Scott Key Post American Legion. Commander Robert Edwards will preside with wreaths, a two o'clock start, and honors by Company A Maryland National Guard, a post chaplain address, and a firing squad.
Adamstown reports a man admitted to Frederik Ale morial Hospital Friday evening with chest injury and head abrasions after a cow gore incident. Ellisen remained unconscious. other victims from Silver Spring on Mont comers Blair High School football team were treated for injuries at the hospital. VanHorn shoulder injury and Thomas abdominal issue required further care at Takoma Park. Theater wrecked Vienna teens vandalize largest movie theater in Breslau, as reported from Communist Poland.
Governor McKeldin inaugurated a new expressway spur into Annapolis connecting U S 50 and Maryland 2 bypass. The span eases traffic in the capital and gives faster access from Washington Baltimore and the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. The old Severn River Bridge approach and southern routes are removed. The governor calls the new road the automobile entrance to the executive mansion.
Methodist Bishop G Bromley Oxnam urged the Iowa State Education Association centennial convention to defend teachers against “un-American” attacks by self appointed writers and to insist on better pay and conditions. He warned against forces aiming to undermine public schools and called for religion to be taught as a class room subject without endorsing any creed. The bishop emphasized shared Fatherhood and social unity as essential for tomorrow.
A deed was recorded in the Clerk's office transferring the residence at 305 West College Terrace from Mr and Mrs Edward D Grove to Mary A Kadall. Consideration was about $1950 per revenue stamps.
Hollywood star Marilyn Monroe will visit a hospital tomorrow for a minor operation. Dr Leon Krohn, a gynecologist, will perform the procedure on Monday.
A proposal at the Industrial Wastes Forum suggests storing water upriver in the Potomac watershed during spring to purify and dilute industrial wastes. The plan cites the Savage River Dam as a model and argues it could support more industry while improving water quality across Maryland West Virginia Virginia and Pennsylvania.
Senate veterans from both parties said President Eisenhower and the new Democratic Congress could work harmoniously the next two years. Sen. Russell and Sen. Aiken voiced cautious optimism about cooperation on domestic legislation while acknowledging differences likely in taxation and agriculture policy. They noted veto power and slim majorities limit chances to overturn GOP programs.
Probes of the citys fire, police and housing departments were under way today. Graft charges against three Brooklyn fire battalion chiefs expanded into the Police Department yesterday. Police Commissioner Francis W. H. Adams denounced traitors under his command at promotions for 18 officers, saying there are traitors who have sold out for a few dollars and that the department will not tolerate it.
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