Fort Ritchie to reopen as permanent fort under Second Army
Washington Oct 26 The Army announces Camp Ritchie Md will reopen November 1 as a permanent installation to be known as Fort Ritchie under the Second Army. It will serve as a central communications center along Raven Rock Mountain while expanding land acquisitions near Frederick and Hagerstown Md for emergency landing strips and defenses. About 150 chronically ill patients cared for at Ritchie may move to Sydenham Hospital Baltimore by year end, with others to Salisbury area hospitals as the state negotiates Baltimore hospital purchase. Governor McKeldin seeks a short extension.
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Army
Camp Ritchie
Noember 1
Fort Itchie
Second Army
Defense Department
Supplemental Communications Center
Raven Rock Mountain
Frederick
Hagerstown
Ritchie
Robert H. Riley
State Department of Health
McKeldin
Secretary of the Army
Sydenham Hospital
Baltimore
Riley
Baltimore Hospital
Salisbury
Bank Cashier Held in $30,256 Embezzlement Case
PITTSBURGH October 26 A First National Bank of Indiana cashier Paul J Straitiff 52 was arrested on embezzlement charges for taking 30256 from bank funds He admitted taking the money claiming he replaced 13691 He was brought to Pittsburgh for arraignment This arrest marks the FBI Pittsburgh bureau 12th embezzlement case in 13 months and follows a prior missing 40000 from the bank’s cash reserve with Samuel P Lewis as the other arrested employee
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Pittsburgh
FRBI
Paul J Straitiff
First National Bank
Indiana
Fred Hallford
FBI
Hallford
Straitiff
First National Bank of Indiana
Samuel P. Lewis
Lewis
Westminster Kiwanis talk on public education and county schools
Samuel M Jenness Carroll County superintendent spoke to the Westminster Kiwanis on public education noting 310 teachers and 7 920 students in county schools. He said 100 new classrooms since 1946 and current buildings at capacity as enrollment rose by 400 since June 1954. Mrs Davis honored by Maryland Library Association with honorary membership in Baltimore announced by Helen Rex.
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Westminster
Samuel M. Jenness
Carroll County
Kiwanis Club of
Jenness
Board of Education
Davis Westminster
Walter H Davis
Maryland Library Association
Baltimore
Davis
Helen Rex
Davis Library
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