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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1954
Page
2
Survivors in two rubber dinghies then waded through mud and water to reach solid ground after a plane went down near Amsterdam airfield. Officials faced criticism for delayed rescue and radio contact loss five minutes after takeoff. An investigation was ordered by the Irish government into the incident and rescue response.
A New York businesswoman Elizabeth Snyder was credited with preventing a catastrophe aboard a KLM airliner that crashed near Shannon Ireland. Twenty eight people died and twenty eight survived including 15 Americans. Snyder knocked a box of matches from a passenger as gasoline fumes filled the cabin and the plane sank in the Shannon estuary.
Eleven-year-old Howard Lester Owler Jr. was found hanging in a closet in Hagerstown Maryland. Authorities ruled death by own action with suffocation by hanging after the boy reportedly acted out a hangman scene while playing cowboys. His sister found him and called for help. The medical examiner noted the death occurred before his parents left for an outdoor movie. A stray line about a yard meter length appears in the report.
A new group, the Upper Montgomery County Landowners Association, formed to oppose the temporary zoning ordinance submitted to the Montgomery County Council. C. W. Anderson was elected temporary chairman at a Friday meeting at All-States Inn near Gaithersburg. A second meeting is set for September 10 at the Gaithersburg Agricultural Center auditorium. Members plan a drive open to all upper county landowners. The group says it favors zoning but objects to the two year freeze the ordinance would impose. They claim the current council is ineffective and may have contributed to election losses. The association intends to meet before a September 23 public hearing and hopes to present its views to the council. Also elected were J. Forest Walker as temporary secretary and directors Marvin Simmons, Lawson King, Harry Burdette, Gernard Gladhill, Henry Becraft, LE. Brashear, Roger Poole, Charles Jamison, Wilfred Watkins, and Dyke Cullum.
The Charles County grand jury in La Plata plans a quiz tomorrow or Wednesday as part of its probe into the death of World War II veteran Lewis A. Hicks. Hicks, 34, paralyzed by war wounds, was found dead in his wrecked car March 28 after his car struck his home foundation. the throttle had been taped open. Hicks’ widow Dorothy L Hicks, 25, previously refused to return from Richmond, Virginia, and has been with her father since the incident.
Judge J H Rives at Richmond continues the hearing in the Hicks case until Sept 22 to compel Mary land authorities to bring Mrs Hicks back as a material witness. She was bound for $5,000 to assure appearance, and the judge notes her voluntary return does not waive immunities or protection from arrest and civil or criminal process.
Kiwanians were to hear Louis Shannon regional manager of the Du Pont Extension Division at their weekly luncheon. Shannon is known as a speaker on industrial progress and chemical developments. He travels widely and has addressed more than 500 groups in four years.
The fragment mentions Florida and further post-dlety of Training Directors and graduate work at the University of Illinois. It references Phi Kappa Phi honorary society and a talk by Vr Shannon titled Let's Look at Te and indicates an event tomorrow.
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