Zoning Firm To Aid With County Work
The Frederick County Zoning and Planning Commission voted to hire Segoe and Associates of Cincinnati to assist with planning and zoning. The advisory firm, chosen from 13, has prior Harford County experience and will provide technical guidance while final decisions remain with the commission.
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County Zoning and Planning Commission
Court House
Ladislas Segoe
J. William Brosiusov
Frederick
Bruce E. Cram
Harmiony Grove
Edward F. Holter
Middletown
Noah E. Kefauver Jr
Byron W. Thompson
Messrs
Segoe
Tarrant
Harford County
Watford County
Legoe & Associates
Cincinnati
Detroit
San Francisco
Richmond
Virginia
Leesburg
Falls Church
Hamilton County
Kentucky
Man guilty in holdup meant to land in jail
Harold Eugene Getridge of Hagerstown was found guilty of robbing a loan company on Sept 29. He said his plan was to get apprehended to escape social life, returning the money and claiming lack of criminal intent. Judge Tucker deferred sentence for a court psychiatric evaluation. Prior to the incident he sent letters to kin announcing plans to get into trouble.
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Baltimore
Harold Eugene Getridge
Hagerstown
Public Loan C
George Gavin
Leonard 5
Freedman
John T. Tucker
Getridge
Faure's Government Survives Algeria Confidence Vote
Paris reports Premier Edouard Faure's government won a 308 to 254 confidence vote on its Algeria reform program. He urged support tied to United Nations positions and warned of a perilous moment for the government amid North Africa tensions. The vote used individual balloting as deputies cast slips for themselves.
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Paris
Edgar Faure
Algeria
National Assembly
Geneva
Faure
France
United Nations General Assembly
United Nations
Antoine Pinay
Georges 8Rdault
Tering
Assembly
al- Beria
Tenant House Damaged By Fire At Spring Valley Farm
A fire about 5:20 Tuesday evening gutted the upper floor of a tenant house on Spring Valley Farm owned by A. G. Rolfe near Poolesville. Harold Marsh and his family are homeless, believed to have started from an overheated flue pot. Upper Montgomery County Volunteer Fire Department fought the blaze, using a dammed stream for water. Some furniture was saved. the shotgun was not insured. The Marsh family sought shelter with relatives in Gaithersburg.
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Spring Valley
A. G. Rolfe
Poolesville
Harold Marsh
Jhis
Montgomery County
Martinsburg Boy Slays His Father in Martinsburg
In Martinsburg West Virginia on October 18 a 13 year old boy Kenneth Sims shot and killed his father Clarence Sims 50 with a shotgun from seven feet away. The boy was taken into his mother’s custody as authorities decide his fate. The family had been terrorized earlier when Sims returned home drunk and beat his wife and children. The seven other children ranged from 11 months to 14 years old.
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Moody
Kenneth
Burse
Sims
Martinsburg
W. Va
Clarence A. Sims
Samdz
bin Sims
Wisconsin Battleship Grounded Yet Again at New York Harbor
The battleship Wisconsin ran aground in New York Harbor as a strong tide pushed her ashore for a second time in about four years. Thirteen tugs freed her in 55 minutes with engines dead, then she was towed to the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Under tow, she moved slowly from Bayonne, N J, toward a general overhaul at the East River Navy yard.
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New York
Wisconsin
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Navy
Bayonne
N. J
Navy Yard
East River
Gover
Tugboats Free Historic Ship After Mudbank Grounding
A large ship, swept by a strong tide near New York, was left entirely under civilian control after grounding a thousand yards south of the Brooklyn Bridge. In August 1951 it ran aground at a Hudson mudbank by 79th Street and was freed in two hours by 13 tugs, a quicker outcome than the Wisconsin class Missouri grounding in Norfolk in 1950 which cost the Navy $130,500 to free.
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Nors Island
Manhattan
Brooklyn Bridge
Navy
Hudson River
Ptf
79Th St
Wisconsin
Missouri
Norfolk
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University of Maryland Medical School
Raritan Club
Burkittsville
Lions Clubs
New Market
Adamstown
Economy Oil CO
Bennett’s
Tility Chests
George Drake
Chicago, Jr
St. Joseph
Richard R. Nicklas
Monument
Desoto
Plymouth
Weil Bros
Direct Factory
Chad
Lae
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Kehne Furn. CO
South Market St
Dairymen
Kinsey’s
West 7Th Street
North Bentz
Acme
Hendrickson’s
Hendrickson
EOE Seca
William
Hood
West Patrick
Charles Brust
East Ith Street
Cal Moq
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Beiter Homes Equip. CO
E. Patrick ST
Snap Hendrickson
St. Marys
Admiral Refrigerator
USAI
Patrick Street
Pasha Tilton
Opel
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