Wounded in Korea Pfc Kefauver Writes Home
Pfc Bernard C Kefauver left Frederick July 26 and was wounded in Korea after a week on the front. He writes with his left hand about throat and right arm injuries, losing his voice, possible operation, and temporary paralysis in the arm. He is a 24 year old veteran of six years Army service.
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Frederick
Bernard C. Kefauver
Department of Defense
Kathryn Fogle Kefauver
West Laritth Street
Pfc
Kefauver
Camp Detrick
Earl Kefauver
Boonsboro
Dickerson
Harry L. Poole
Mabel Poole
Korea
Defense Department
Carbaugh
Charles E. Carbaugh
Mildred Shafer
East Seventh Street
Adcom
California
America
Walter Reed Hospital
Washington
Ft. George G. Meade
Two Cars Damaged In Collision Near Market Streets
City Police report two vehicles collided about 50 feet north of Third and Market at 10 25 this morning causing $175 in damage. No injuries. Mason B Lenning 65 a Chevy Chase lawyer and Dayton W Miller 62 a Benton Pa barber were the drivers. Lenning stopped, Miller failed to stop and rear ended Lenning. Miller's 1948 Chevrolet and Lenning's 1948 Pontiac sustained damage.
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Third and Market Streets
Mason B. Lenning
Chevy Chase
Dayton W. Miller
Benton, Pa
R. A. Simmons
Lenning
North Market
Miller
York Uses Firearms In War On Starlings
York Pa September 6 York opened its annual 10 day season on starlings last night with forty five men including one city councilman joining in the shooting designed to curb the noisy birds A city moratorium on the firearms law was declared during the drive Police reported starlings dropping like flies and residents called the shots indiscriminate and dangerous.
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York
Felix
Bentzel
Voters persevere to register at multiple sites
Two new Frederick residents who moved in summer 1949 finally registered after a day of door to door searching. They visited the Court House, then tried Weil Brothers and a rally crowd before learning fromElection Supervisors where to register at North Market Street and Renn's garage for Precinct 6.
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Frederick
Court House
Weil Brothers
North Market Street
North Market Street School
Renn
Renn’s
Precinct No
Loan Granted For Survey For Sewer System
A federal loan of 14000 was approved for Middletown to prepare plans for a sewer disposal system. Congressman Beall. attorney Amos A. Holter says funds will help develop detailed plant designs and estimate costs. Total cost cited near 340000, figures not fixed pending plans. An equity case over Tanner's Branch open sewer awaits court action after September 23.
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Burgess and Commissioners of
Middletown
J. Glenn Beall
Amos A. Holter
Burgess and Commissioners
Holter
Lawrence F. Rudy
Last Night May Be The Coldest Since May
The Weather Bureau predicted a minimum in the mid forties tonight with the airport thermometer at 49 early this morning. Yesterday reached 67, the coolest day in some time. Forecaster said it would warm slightly tomorrow and no more rain was predicted for the immediate future.
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Weather Bureau
How To Sabotage Own Plant Is Told In Book
Washington reports the Defense Department urges industry to study plant protection. The booklet Principles of Plant Protection assigns management sole responsibility to thwart sabotage and attacks. It recommends appointing a with a lively imagination official to plan how to slow or halt production.
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Washington
i/Pi
Defense Department
Department
Munition Board
Stocks Drift Downward In Lackadaisical Trading
The New York stock market drifted downward with lackluster trading. Losses reached around 56 cents a share on a broad array of leading issues as prices eased through the day.
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New York
Hurricane Dying Out In Tampa Bay
The Gulf hurricane near Tampa Bay loses intensity as the 7 a.m. advisory reports doubtful continued hurricane winds. Cedar Key bears greatest damage with 400 to 500 homeless and all 200 buildings damaged or wrecked. Red Cross and National Guard aid arrives from Gainesville along with supplies.
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Miami
Fla
Tampa Bay Area
Miami Weather Bureau
Tampa
Florida Gulf Coast
Weather
Florida
Tampa Bay
Atlantic
St. Augustine
Savannah
Cedar Key
Florida Highway Patrol
Olin Hill
Turner Field
Albany
Red Cross and
National Guard
Gainesville
Motorcycle Destroyed by Fire on Route 240
A New Jersey motorcyclist en route to Florida lost his transport as his freshly filled gasoline tank ignited at a service station on Route 240 south of Evergreen Point Tuesday night. Independent Hose Co. responded around 10:30 p.m. to find the bike a total loss in front of the pumps, with a blown tire and warped engine and frame from the heat. The motorist’s name was not learned by the firemen, who quoted him as saying he was from New Jersey on his way to Florida.
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New Jersey
Florida
Route 240
Evergreen Point
Independent Hose Co
May
25th Division cuts off Red force in Korea action
The report from Tokyo dated September 6 states the U S 25th Division severed a Red force on the southern front in Korea. It claims enemy strength of about 1,000 with about 1,000 casualties as relayed to General MacArthur's headquarters.
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Tokyo
Korea
MacArthur
4000 Enrolled As Frederick Schools Open Today
About 4100 children begin classes in Frederick city schools marking a rise from 1949 first day totals. Attendance boosts observed across Frederick High Elm Street Parkway Lincoln and other schools, with detailed counts by grade and teacher in the opening report. Near 10,000 children were expected city and countywide, amid clear autumn weather.
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Frederick City
Frederick High
Elm Street
Parkway
Lincoln
North Market Street
Washington Street
Frederick High School
Harry O. Smith
Louise Weagley
Mary J Shuff
Mary Adams
David H. Collere
Erma Stull
Virginia Creed
Harvey L Price, Jr
Louise Hendrickson
Zelma Smith
Natalie Parton
Helen B. Decker
Ethel Beachley
Stephen Mester
J. B. Ranck
Mary F. Shuler
Audrey Presster
Warren Smith
Ruby Arneson
Nancy Carignan
Eleanor Barnhart
Edward L Oldaker
Flossie Cain
Louise Doty
Liloyd K. Hoover
Betty B. Englar
Frances Shores
Donald Sullivan
Jewell Beeson
Katherine Cronise
Eva Thomas
Agnes Tanner
Charlotte DeLashmutt
Reba Stite Iv
Linda Zimmerman
Betty Sponseller
Margaret Hatcher
Nellie Carlit
Louise Fink
Beeson
Frank H. Lewis
Edna Miller
Edythe Sigmund
Anna Simmons
Edna Schaefer
Isabel Robert
Sue Brooks
Ruth Smith
Alvida DeLashmutt
Louise Lippy
William Fazenbaker
Mary Rosencrantz
William Henline
David Jenkins
Elora Smith
Marion Moser
Dorothy Beatty
Helen Chandler
Walter Culler
Pauline Toms
Betty Winebrewer
Mabel Hoyler
Charles Holter
Elizabeth MacDonough
Jack Kussmaul
Mary M
Beattie Stauffer
Edna Culler
Marie Michael
Marie Linton
Linton
Hattie Willet
Alice Love
Love
Dora Magada
Nettie Miller
Mattie H. Cornpropst
Annabel C. Klein
Lenore M. Humberson
L. Irene Price
Three Frederick County Officials Run Unopposed
Three Frederick County office holders will face no opposition in the upcoming primary or general election. Clerk of the Circuit Court Ellis C. Wachter and Register of Wills Harry D. Radcliff, both Republicans, and County Treasurer James H Falk, a Democrat, were unchallenged after the August 1 filing deadline. Wachter and Falk will begin their fourth four year terms, while Radcliff starts his second.
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Frederick County
Circuit Court
Ellis C. Wachter
Register of Wills
Harry D. Radcliff
James H Falk
Wachter
Fatk
Radcliff
Court
Eli G. Haugh
Visitation Academy Reopens With Expanded Programs
Visitation Academy begins Thursday September 21 entering its 105th year with no high school. A new two year diploma program for high school graduates and a commercial department continue. Music school enrollments rise with piano harp violin and voice offered. Elementary grades from first through eighth return with new first and second classes. A wide sports program and dance under Miss Evelyn R White complement academics. Renovations finish restoring exterior walls and woodwork. The convent remains a Frederick landmark drawing strong local interest.
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The
Visitation Academy
Convent
Visitation High School
Visitation Music School
Frederick City
Evelyn R. White
Frederick
Holiday Toll Sets New Mark
The Labor Day weekend violent death toll rose to a record 565 with 389 traffic deaths, 78 drownings, and 98 other accidents over 78 hours. California led with 45 fatalities, while Delaware, Maine and Wyoming reported none.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
California
New York
Texas
Delaware
Maine
Wyoming
Truman's Outburst Shocks Battleweary Marines In Korea
Marines endure fatigue and frustration after President Truman calls the Marines a Stalin like propaganda machine in a contentious letter. White House aides discuss a possible apology. The Marine Corps League holds its annual Washington meeting as anger and calls for action surface.
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U. S
Korea
Truman
No Name Ridge
Naktong River Bulge
Washington
Jetter
Marine Corps League
Marine Corps
Navy
Stalin
White House
Armed Forces Joint Chiefs of Staffs
League
Clay Nixon
Nixon
Taft Blames Truman as Brainless Administration
Taft declares the Truman Administration like a man who senses but lacks a brain to form a consistent policy across foreign, military, and economic arenas. He urges a principled, practical program and a Republican Congress for coherent action amid internal administration divisions. Knowland accuses Beijing-Red killings and UN seating moves. Brewster questions top presidential appointee loyalties as talks open over GE strike.
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Washington
Taft
Truman
Senate
Ohio
Knowland
California
John M. Birch
Macon
Birch
North China
Congress
State Department
China
United Nations
Brewster
R-Me
GOP
John Foster Dulles
New York
John Sherman Cooper
Kentucky
Acheson
Gooks laughed as GI died of torture in Korea
Ay Stan Swinton of the 25th Division recalls a brutal hostage ordeal after a patrol attack in which American sergeant Clarence Jacobson and another soldier hid in a haystack while Korean Reds used two captives as human shields. The tortured man screamed for hours before dying. the men endured hunger, rain, and constant danger until a rescue by their unit.
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Stan Swinton
Korea
Clarence Jacobson
Anoher
Bede
Coates
New Russian Tanks and Eastern Front Advance Reported
Allied forces halted a Red Korean thrust near Taegu but faced 84 new Russian tanks on the northern and eastern fronts. UK troops supported U S Cavalry as ground fighting intensified around Yongchon and Kyongju with heavy losses on both sides.
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Tokyo
Yongchon
Taegu
U. S
U. S. Fifth Air Force
Pusan
Pohang
Sea of Japan
Ceral
Leif Erickson
Korea
Kigye
Kyongju
Tabu
Yongsan
U. S. Aih
Britain
Hongkong
U. S. First Cavalry Division
Kumhwa
Kasan
Waegwan
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Baltimore
Beall
V.A
Kitzmiller
Garrett County
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Russia
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Lucketts
Sergi
Swomley
Shook
Niles
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