Bypass Opens in Frederick Area December 9
The Frederick by pass from Baltimore National Pike east of Frederick to U S 15 near Harmony Grove north of the city will open Tuesday December 9. Gov Theodore R McKeldin will cut the ribbon as the project nears completion with Kline Inc finishing west-north leg connections. The seven mile route relieves city traffic while remaining work continues on ramps and surfaces awaiting favorable weather for final paving. A luncheon will follow dedication by M J Grove Lime Co officials.
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Frederick By-Pass
Baltimore National Pike
Frederick
U.S. 15
Harmony Grove
State Roads Commission
Theodore R. McKeldin
Richard F. Kline
Alotter Avenue
Central Pennsylvania Contracting Company
Liberty Road
Central Pennsylvania
Kline
West Fourth Street
Fourth Street
Thomas G. Mohler
SRC
Tuscarora
Mohler
M. J. Grove Lime Company
Firemen extinguish dangerous gasoline tanker blaze near Point of Rocks
Fire crews from Carroll Manor battled a dangerous fire on a gasoline tanker on U S 15 near Point of Rocks after a tire blowout on the tandem trailer sparked flames. Driver Ralph Myers of Glen Burnie attempted an extinguisher while shoveling dirt slowed the fire until firefighters arrived.
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U. S. 15
Point of Rocks
Carroll Manor
Dulles Returns From Seattle Colombia Plan Conference
Secretary of State Dulles returned from a five day stay in Seattle where he attended the Colombia Plan Economic Conference. He declined to comment on proceedings or his impressions.
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Dulles
Washington
Iap
Seattle
Eisenhower Opens State Street Lighting in Chicago
President Eisenhower initiated a new half-million-dollar lighting system along a mile of Chicago State Street, turning the Loop into the world’s brightest shopping center as 200,000 spectators watched. A golden telegraph key at the White House and a Vanguard satellite beep signaled the activation, and the system is four times brighter than the previous one.
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Chicago
Eisenhower
State Street
Loop
Washington
White House
Vanguard
Satelite
Myersville to Auction Old Fire Hall Post Office Site
The old Myersville fire hall, now housing the post office, will be sold at public auction on Saturday November 29 at 9 am. The two story building sits on the town center carnival grounds with the post office lease likely excluded. Funds from the sale will help defray the new fire hall construction nearby.
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Myersville
Central Trust Company Bank
Myersville Volunteer Fire Company
Dew
Fire Company
George Wiles
Braddock
Gets Twenty Years For Narcotics Violation
John Pollock 42 received a 20 year prison term and a 5000 fine in REYSER for a narcotics violation. Circuit Judge Ernest A. Lee imposed the sentence after Pollock was convicted November 3 by a jury for forging a doctor's name to obtain narcotics. He allegedly obtained prescriptions from Dr William Flick and used aliases to fill them at Revser drug stores. Police noted a long history of narcotics violations dating back to 1934.
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William Flick
Keyser
Wenchen| Sald
Hampshire County
Revser
Pollack
Wide Gains Lift Market Averages
Wide gains by Lorillard and Goodyear helped lift stock averages as trading stayed active and the market absorbed profit taking at week’s end. Rumors of a Goodyear stock split circulated while rubber firms expected a strong 1959 for auto sales growth. Maryland offers free diabetes test during Diabetes Detection Week starting Monday November 16? local pharmacists to participate. Readings note streams: Monocacy clear at Disposal Plant, Potomac clear at Brunswick.
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New York
Lorillard
Goodyear
Wall Street
Maryland
Medical and Chrurgical Faculty of
Maryland State Pharmaceutical Society
Maryland Dietetic Society
Potomac
Brunswick
Five Day Forecast for Maryland and Delaware
The forecast indicates temperatures 5 to 8 degrees above normal with cooler Sunday and a warmer period around Wednesday. Expect rain over the weekend and again midweek, totaling about half to one inch. Normal highs are mid 50s to near 50 in the mountains, with lows ranging from 35 to 41 and dipping to the upper 20s in the mountains.
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Associated Press
Maryland
Delaware
Mediator Steps Into Discussion in WV Pulp Paper Talks
Federal mediator Gilbert McCutcheon entered negotiations between West Virginia Pulp & Paper Co and United Paperworkers Union to avert a strike. Talks began Oct. 28 over non monetary items with 3,700 workers at Luke Maryland Covington Virginia and Williamsburg Pennsylvania. Union seeks 63 cents more per hour from about 30 demands. company has not yet made a monetary offer.
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Harry Scott
Luke
Covington
Williamsburg
D. C. Valentine
West Virginia
Corington
Gomulka To Be Asked To Explain Policy Shift
Washington reports the United States will ask Polish leader Wladyslaw Gomulka to explain his move joining Moscow in denouncing American policies. His Berlin four power stance and anti Imperialist remarks alarm top officials, while U S aid to Poland continues despite opposition. Jacob Beam, ambassador to Poland, returned for talks, with officials noting the trip not tied to Gomulka remarks. Authorities see Gomulka echoing Moscow to survive and press for greater independence. In court, two magistrate cases were heard with one guilty verdict for Jasper Morgan and one acquittal for Robert Grossnickle.
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Washington
United States
Wladyslaw Gomulka
Russia
Gomulka
Moscow
Khrushchev
State Department
Berlin
Poland
Reeve
Gomuika
Jacob Beam
U.S
Robert Lee Grossnickle
RFD
Frederick
Jasper
Morgan
West Patrick Stress
Grossnickie
Joseph Lechliter
Leonard F. Glenn
MecKeldin Dedicates Gath Hall at Gapland State Park
Governor McKeldin dedicates Gath Hall in Gathland State Park honoring Civil War correspondents and Mary land journalists. The ceremony in Frederick County featured remarks on George Alfred Townsend and notable writers such as Ernie Pyle and Richard Harding Davis, with restoration funded by historical groups and the state.
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Governor McKeldin
Gapland
Gath Hall
George Alfred Townsend
Gath
Ernie Pyle
Richard Harding Davis
Floyd Gibbons
Roll of Maryland
Lee McCardell
Honard Norton
Lou Azrael
Tom O'Donnell
Phil Potter
Earle Pooribaugh
Price Day
Nat Kenney
South Mountain
Antetam
Townsend
Crampton
Historical Society of
Frederick County
Frederick Chamber of Commerce
Maryland
Washington County
Isend
Jacob Ramsburg
Frederick
Washington
State Department of Forests and Parks
Almanack Sees 1959 As Wet
HAGERSTOWN AP The 1959 edition of the Hagerstown Town and Country Almanack predicts a generally wet year for 1959 with 31 days of snow rain and cold in January February and March. It forecasts a mix of storms and unseasonable weather across the year including 36 rainy days in July to September and stormy unsettled days in November and December.
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Hagerstown
Hagerstown Town
Maryland
J. Gruber Almanack Company
Pittsburgh
Phiadelphia
Harrisburg
Richmond
Tokyo
Akihito
Ejther
Japan
Long Criminal Record Held By Strike Leader
Chester Cable Co. president Malcolm White, jailed on a first degree murder charge, shot and killed Fred A. Dugan, a New Jersey crime figure and labor organizer, during a confrontation amid a wildcat strike led by Thomas Murphy. Dugan, 52, had a long criminal record in New Jersey for bank robbery and armed robbery. Production continued as some workers crossed picket lines.
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Chester
N.Y
Chester Cable Co
Thomas Murphy
Port Jervis
Malcolm White
Goshen
Alfred F. Dugan
New Jersey_thor
Jong
Afl-Cio
White
Jgun
Dugan
New Jersey
Frederick High School FFA completes 16 acre land project
Vocational agriculture students at Frederick High School completed and began seed sowing and mulching on 16 acres as part of a land improvement program. The project, aided by equipment loaned by farmers, includes blacktopping of a roadway linking the two schools and layout of play fields. Seeding finishes this fall with work continuing into spring on remaining sections and football facilities.
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YO Ag
Frederick High School
Vocational Agricullure
West Patrick
Ptenarne
Local Firm Low On Bid For State House Job
Willard Construction Company Frederick listed as the low bidder on a fire protection project for the State House in Annapolis as bids opened by the Maryland Department of Public Improvements. The firm bid 2965 dollars. Cyclone Fence Department Baltimore submitted the low bid for 850 feet of chain link fence at the Maryland School for the Deaf, bid 1780 dollars. No contracts were awarded. Deeds recorded show several property sales including Prentiss W VanSant to Luther M Harrison for about 13000 dollars, Maurice W Wood to Francis A Vortoro Sr for about 11000 dollars, Roy E Baker to Charles H Ambush at 243 Center Street for about 10000 dollars, and Dorsey Siers to Vernon M Koontz on Bethel Road Lewistown for about 10000 dollars.
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Willard Construction Company
Frederick
State House
Annapolis
Maryland Department of Public Improvements
Cyclone Fence Department
Baltimore
Maryland School For the Deaf
Prentiss W. VanSant
Luther M. Harrison
Mt. Airy
Maurice W. Wood
Francis A. Vortoro Sr
East Street
Thurmost
Roy E. Baker
Charles H. Ambush
Center Street
Dorsey Siers
Vernon M. Koontz
Bethel Road
Lewistown
Soviet Promises Record Living Standards by 1976
The Soviet government pledges the highest living standards in the world by 1976 under Khrushchev’s seven year plan. The report claims Russia will surpass the United States in total and per capita industrial output by 1970, and notes the aim to overtake Western production as proof of communism’s superiority. An intruder attacked a family during the case, tying relatives and taking a child as the police investigate similar incidents.
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Moscow
Khrushchev
Imunist Party Central Committee
Jean Brooks
Brooks
van Alien
Lynn
Lew Mhird
Jean
Stacles AP
Mason
Eagle Scout Award For Victim Of Polio
Jimmy Whitlatch an 18 year old polio survivor received the Eagle Badge, the Boy Scouts' top honor, at a ceremony in Mercer. About 130 people attended as Scoutmaster J Harold Peters praised him and planned his next steps with his troop after hospital discharge.
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Mercer, Pa
Jimmy Whitlatch
Frida
Jimmy
Eight Held Hostage Two Die In Va House Siege
A gunman gained entry by asking for food and held eight people hostage for over two hours in Bowe l ie g Virginia. He killed two white women, Mrs. James Brooks and her mother Edna Mae Parker, as victims tied in the dining room. Frederick Van Allen, a music student, was wounded in a struggle and hospitalized at Fredericksburg. More than 150 police searched the area near the town southeast of Fredericksburg for the shooter still at large.
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Bowleig Green
Sap
Lentrance
James
I Brooks
James S
Cap) Brooks
Frederick van Allen
Brooks
Fredericksburg
Virginia
Edna Mae Parker
Bank manager slain in Queens holdup at Long Island Bank
New York AP reports a 53-year-old bank manager, James F. Duggan, was killed and a customer wounded when three robbers robbed United National Bank of Long Island in Richmond Hill Queens of about 8 000 to 10 000 dollars. Suspects fled in a Nassau County stolen sedan. Wason, an auto mechanic, was wounded. FBI agents joined police at the scene.
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New York
Queens
James F. Duggan
United National Bank of
Long Island
Fom
Richmond Hill
Nassau County
Wason
Bane
Dep
Paul Rusch
Maryland Defective Delinquent Law Faces Court Appeal
The Maryland Court of Appeals reconsiders a 1951 act that civilly commits defect ive delinquents to Patuxent Institute for indeterminate terms. Rodney Blizgard was judged a defective delinquent after stealing a car and a jury upheld the finding. The case asks whether defendants should receive full criminal trial rights despite the civil framing.
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Annapolis
Maryland
Court of Appeals
Patuxent
High Court
Rodney Blizzgard
Reformatory
Baltimore County
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