County budget debate eyes tax relief and spending cuts
Commissioners review offers this week and seek to avoid a tax rise while hoping to drop the current 1.12 rate. They note two items removed, anticipate no school board pressure for 1443, and expect school funds in play next. Roads Board funds may rise amid state tax cuts, threatening other agency appropriations.
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Mites Ve Speeral
WPA
Health Department
5. C. Kefauver
Roads Board
Reads Board
Boston Club Fire Toll Reaches 477 Names Of Victims Released
Fire officials described a chaotic scene at the Piedmont Street Melody Lounge where hundreds fled flames. Victims include Van Nuys producer Scott Dunlap and Holy Cross star Joseph Boratyn, with many others identified or missing. Fire and police teams, aided by civilians and service members, extracted bodies as investigators reviewed cause and door safety.
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Charles
Buck) Jones
van Nuys
Calif
Scott KR. Dunlap
Edward Ansin
Brookline
Interstate Theaters Corporation
Boston
Frm
Helen Welch
Vincent S. Welch
Port Washington
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Joseph A. Boratyn
Holy Cross College
Katherine Woods
Carl F. Woods
Crosby Steam Gauge Company
Mary Elex. McCortack
John
Robert Beverly Cnaries
Winchester
Maas
W. R. Charles
Oak Park
Xii
Chicago Candy Company
U. S. Navy
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Walliam J. Foley
Joh Fo McDonough
Walhiain
Mahoney
Claflin
Stanley F Tomaszewski
Dorchester
Mass
Piedmont Street
Boston Committee On Public Safety
Chicago
Pickwick Club
Willian Ladd
Wilbur Sheffield
Newton
General Electric Company
Benjamin M. Ellis
Iremen
Cocoanut Grove
Ellis
George Carney
Jack Martin
Fiedmont Street
Scrap drive stalled by rain as Legionnaires pause
In a heavy downpour the 40 and 8 salvage committee halted the two ton scrap collection with Twenty Victory Corps volunteers from a local high school sent home. Legionnaires plan to resume next Sunday pending county approval. Donations from merchants will be sought by phone and trips to outlying towns organized with two phone centers for the drive. New Hampshire reports the steepest drop in automobile travel due to fuel and rubber shortages.
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Victory Corps
Legionnaires
Brunswick
Lipps
David G. Everhart Sr
County Salvage Committee
Legion
Cnperay
Viewry Group
Jers
Legion Home
Gen Perrott To Be Speaker For 8 A R Dinner
Gen Perrott of Frederick and Baltimore will speak at the 8 A R Repudiation Day dinner tonight at 6 30 at Hotel Frederick. About 30 attendees are expected including state officers from Baltimore. Brig Gen Francis Perrott is the keynote speaker.
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Lawrence Everhart Chapie
Sons of the American Revolution
Frederick
Francis Perrott
Baltimore
Japs Back On Attu Island
Navy reports renewed Japanese presence on Attu Island in the Aleutians with a small enemy cargo vessel bombed and sunk, while air attacks target Munda Bay in the Solomons. Japanese destroyers shell villages in western New Georgia, as U.S. forces consolidate positions on Guadalcanal and carry out night strikes in Vie Minds Bay.
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Washington
Attu Island
Aleutians
Navy
Munda Bay
New Georgia Islands
Solomons
New Georgia
North Pacific
United States
South Pacific
East Longtude
Guadalcanal
Vie Minds Bay
Attu
Agattu
Kiska
Kiska Harbor Threat Led Japanese To Rely On Attu Base
Military observers note Kiska offered base facilities and a harbor for ships and seaplanes but endured heavy American bombing through fall. Attu, shielded by new anti aircraft installations, emerged as a fallback for Japanese operations as Kiska remained largely foregone. the navy reported anti aircraft and air attacks with several ships sunk or damaged in the Aleutians.
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Kista
Andreanof Islands
Kiska
Attu
Navy
Holiz Bay
Aleutians
Solomons
South
Pacific Navy raids devastate targets in New Georgia clash
The Navy reported aerial attacks on November 23 24 damaged or destroyed all structures in the Munda Say area of the New Georgia Islands as U S forces harass and disrupt enemy activity during a multi day operation.
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Pacific
Munda Say
New Georgia Islands
Navy
Minneota
Amputation Victim Cobdentz Recovering at Frederick
Albert M. Cobd lfentz of Frederick underwent amputation of all fingers on his left hand after his hand was caught in a sausage grinder. He is reported as satisfactory at Frederick City Hospital where he is a patient while assisting in a family butchering at a brother in law’s home.
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Timothy Leary
Bible Claas
Calvary Methodist Church
C. Albert Gilson
Etricison
William Gosnell
Glenn Stovall
Salvation Army
R. Milton
Stovall
Raymond Free
Harry Wahl
Hampden Methodist Church
Baltimore
Edward Maatz, Sr
Edward 5
Rice
Albert M. Cobdlfentz
Frederick
Frederick City Hospital
Coblentz
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Melody Lounge
Billy Payne
Billy
Payne
New Hampshire
Sportsman
the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of
Baltimore City
Bell System
Perrott
A. R
Westminster
Nicholas H. Clemson
Charles 0. Clemson
Clemson
Frederick County
Henry Cramer
Elizabeth Summer Cramer
Frederick Female Seminary
Hood College
Lee
Appomattox
Mary Elizabeth Cramer
W Buckey Clemson
Winifred Buckey Clemson
Luia B. Clemson
Homeland
William E. Moore
Bess Clemson
Ralph Dudley
Mabel 5 B. Harris
U.S
U.S. War Bonds
Railro
Etroteus
America
Canada
Lewis R. Dertzbaugh
West Church St
Kemp’s
Itampa
Save
Frederick County National Bank
North Market Street
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Mit
Pearl Harbor
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
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