Adams To Keynote Hood College Convocation
Hood College faculty prepare for a pre convocation conference September 15 and 16 to discuss the next decade’s higher education direction. Dr. Arthur S. Adams will deliver the keynote on Thursday evening and assist through Friday in guiding five working groups on curriculum and college aims.
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Hood College
Hood
Arthur S. Adams
Adams
University of New Hampshire
American Council On Education
Marines Join Fire Battle Near Santa Barbara
Five hundred Marines joined the firefighting effort along a seven mile line near Santa Barbara as a brush fire raged through the state. The fire threatens cattle ranches if not held at ridge tops, with 2,000 men currently on the lines and more expected as fire retardant tests begin.
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San Francisco
Santa Barbara
California
Robert Jones
Los Padres National Forest
Scanoia National Forest
Sierra Nevada
Fresno
John Beebe
Converse Basin
King’s Canyon
Gen Grant
Boole
Grant Tree
Grand Chancellor and Grand Chief Elected By Pythians
Cambridge farm owner was elected this morning to head the state Knights of Pythias. Marie Harding of Gaithersburg was chosen Grand Chief of the Pythian Sisters. Installations tonight at seven at the Francis Scott Key Hotel with a joint ceremony open to the public.
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Cambridge
State Knights of Pythias
Francis Scott Key
Pythian Sisters
Marie’ Harding
Gaithersburg
Hardings
Anita
D’arcy Harding
Stony Ridge
Town Point
Barbara White
Grovia
Robert
Helmuth Plugge
Clarence Harmon
Brawner Z. Harding
Madeline Harmon
Alma Ross
Nellie Miller
Frederick
Milton E. Akers
Mountain City Lodge
Akers
Stands Put On Integration In Carroll Co
Carroll County Board of Education stands firm on integrating two county public schools after a stormy meeting with pro segregationists. Fifteen Negro children attend Union Bridge and New Windsor schools, while about 70 white parents keep children home in protest. Superintendent Jenness cites legal necessity and warns of possible lawsuits, while a Union Bridge principal reports being physically manhandled by segregationists. A separate circuit court filing concerns a land condemnation case tied to a highway project in New Market district.
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Westminster
Mdi
Carroll County
Maryland Petition Committee
Union Bridge
Windsor Stupuls
Samuel M. Jenness
Jenness
Henry Kanowicz
Union Bridge School
Inic
State Ready Commission
U.S 40
New Market District
Paul AE Gaver
Plane No 4
New Market
Tme
Maryland Legion to Elect Officers at Ocean City Meet
Maryland Department of the American Legion nears election of State commander with a tight race between David J. Brigham of Rockville and Robert H. Archer Jr. of Bel Air. The convention closes after officer installations, including the women’s auxiliary led by Mrs. William B Hastings of Centreville and several Baltimore area officers.
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Ocean City
Maryland Department of the American Legion
David J. Brigham
Rockville
Robert H. Archer Jr
Bel Air
Brigham
University of Maryland Alumni Assn
Archer
Harford County
Benjamin Buckner
Baltimore
Legion
Women’s Auxiliary
William B Hastings
Centreville
Auxiliary
Robert Nichols
Laurel
Harlan Johnson
Miriam Frey
Rainier
August Miler
Foster B. Davie
Baltimore Chanlainers
Ona Hackman
Raymond, Pollack
George Heinz
J. Grant Yates Jr
Centrevidle
Earle Burkins
Frances Landings
Salisbury
Oliver Woetkins
Russell
Were Dams Needed On Upper Potomac
In Cumberland a committee of the Upper Potomac River Board agreed on studying flood control and mud reduction downstream to Washington. It will discuss proposals with Rep Hyde next week at the Interstate Commission meeting in Hagerstown. The panel, drawn from industrial interests, suggested up to 14 dams on the North Branch and tributaries but made no site recommendations.
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Cumberland 2
Nees
Potomac River
Washington
Upper Potomac River Board
Interstate Commission On
Hagerstown
Potomat
Jasing Jb
Rep Hyde
Cold Front Bears Down On Midwest
The season’s first major cold front from Canada sweeps into the Midwest ending a brief heat wave. Snow falls in Cut Bank Montana as Chicago faces 95 degree heat, while others report 80s in Iowa and Wisconsin and scattered showers stretch from Colorado to the Upper Great Lakes.
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Associated Press
Midwest
Canada
Cut Bank
Mont
Mercury
Chicago
Rec
Iowa
Wisconsin
Hadjo
Colorado
Great Lakes
Budget Up On Monday At General Convention
Honolulu reports delegates of the Protestant Episcopal Church press on Monday to review a proposed budget of six to eight million dollars. The budget, likely among the church’s largest, will be reviewed by joint sessions of the House of Bishops, House of Deputies, and the Womans Auxiliary. Bid cities New York and Miami vie for the 1958 convention site. Debates also saw a vote to keep the word Protestant in the church name and two failed proposals to alter marriage canons regarding remarriage after divorce.
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Honolulu
Protestant Episcopal Church
Uae
Lee
House of Bishops
House of Deputies
Womans Auxiliary
New York
Miami
Fla
Pressure mounts for early Eisenhower second term call
Denver GOP state chairmen pressed President Eisenhower for an early announcement of a 1956 candidacy. They flew in from Washington before a regional conference and urged support, noting health and world conditions would guide his decision. They stated they were looking forward to backing Ike again.
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Denver
Eisenhower
GOP
Washington
Navy Man Is Hurt In Wreck Near Frederick
Leonard F. Devine a 31 year old Navy man attached to Camp Detrick was injured when his 1947 convertible rear ended a heavily laden fertilizer truck on US 40 twelve miles west of Frederick. He suffered a lacerated forehead and multiple cuts and abrasions and was moved from Frederick Memorial Hospital to Camp Detrick hospital. The truck driver Albert Musselman of Curryville Pa was uninjured. Police said Devine faces a reckless driving charge.
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Leonard F. Devine
Camp Detrick
US S. 140
Frederick
Devine
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Camp Detrick Hospital
Detrick
Elmer Baum
De‘vine
Albert Musselman
Curryville
Woodsboro
George W. Eckenrode
RED. 1
Eckenrode
Roy E Baker Jr
Narva Avenue
South Market
South Streets
Baker
John Young
Buffalo
Young
Market
South Street
Wild postgame riot erupts after Dayton football game
A post game celebration in Dayton turned into a wild riot as hundreds clashed leaving a Dunbar versus Stivers High School game. Police used tear gas. nine injured including three officers and two sheriff's deputies. four arrests made. no white participants involved. Emergency backup from Wright-Patterson AFB and nearby communities rushed aid.
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Dayton
Ohio
Felic
West End
Ara
Dunbar
Stivers
YMCA
Montgomery County
Wright-Paterson Afb
Miamisburg
West Carrothan
Former President Truman regrets firing MacArthur
In Chicago at the Executives Club Truman says he wishes he had fired Gen Douglas MacArthur sooner. He explains MacArthur was unable to support UN policies in Korea and recalls Chinese intervention at the Yalu redirected Allied advances. A MacArthur aide declined immediate comment.
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Chicago
Truman
Douglas VacArthur
MacArthur
Korea
Ald
California
Executives Club of
U.N
New York
Extra Lift For Business This Week
New York reports broad gains in employment personal income and retail sales with stock markets at record highs. Education enrollment nears 40 million with an expected 11 percent rise by 1964. Steel output climbs while a major expansion by Republic Steel plans and railroads forecast heavy future spending. Automobiles face model changes and factory shifts as Ford and GM prepare the 1956 lineup. City collision on Market and Third causes property damage.
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New York
Rettail
Wall Street
TLS
U.S. Office of Education
Republic Stesn Cary
James M. Symes
Pennsylvania Railroad
U.S
General Motors
Ford
Chetopolet
Ima
Adenauer And Soviet Union Resume Talks in Moscow
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer met Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin and Khrushchev in Moscow for high level talks aimed at easing postwar German questions. The session focused on prisoners of war and reunification, with both sides signaling it as the first in a series toward normal relations and a future Geneva conference.
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Konrad Adenauer
Soviet Union
Adenauer
Kremlin
Nikolai Bulganin
Communist Party
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Heinrich von Brentano
Leningrad
Sovietskaya
Vwescaw
West Germany
Germany
Pravda
Izvesha
Geneva
Funeral Services for Mrs Warren Today at 3
Funeral services were held today at 3 pm for Mrs Barbara Jean Lovell Warren 38 former Associated Press editor wife of Huell E Warren Jr day news editor of the AP Baltimore bureau. A native of Gibson City Illinois she was society editor and city editor of the Annapolis Evening Capital before serving as an AP editor from 1942 to 1947. Survivors include her husband two sons a daughter two sisters and a brother.
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Glen Burnie
Barbara Jean Lovell Warren
Associated Press
Huell E. Warren Jr
Baltimore
Warren
Gibson City
Til
Annapolis
Red China and U.S. in accord on release of Americans
In Geneva the United States and China reached a final agreement on releasing American civilians held in China after 7th talks between U S Ambassador A Alexis Johnson and Red Chinese Ambassador Wang Ping nan A Chinese spokesman said negotiations on detained civilians were concluded and talks would continue on other practical matters The agreement narrows to releasing 25 Americans in prison and three under house arrest with some holding exit permits still pending
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Geneva
United States
China
U. S
A. Alexis Johnson
Wang Ping-nan
Formosa
United Nations
Johnson
Wang & Itat
Wang
Thurmont Library Site Secured In Public Sale Deeds
Deeds filed in the clerk’s office record the sale of several properties to Thurmont Public Library Inc including land on West Main street for a future library. Other transfers include Brosius Homes Corp selling 314 Adam Road for about 9 500 and 305 Pearl Street to Colliflower couple for about 10 500, plus parcels in Tuscarora Singanore and East Patrick Street areas with prices ranging from about 4 500 to 7 000.
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Lucy Boblitz
Nellie Boblitz
Thurmont Public Library, Inc
West Main Street
Thurmont
Brosius Homes Corporation
Adam Road
Charles E. Fogle
Pearl Street
Howard S. Colliflower Jr
Ernest Berger
Exel Yingling
Tuscarora
Jessie W. Price
Malone
Reassessment In 11 Districts Ended
The county assessors finished the reassessment of real estate and personal property in eleven districts including Mt. Pleasant Walkersville Buckeystown New Market Urbana Woodsboro Johnsville Linganore Woodville Liberty and Thurmont The last district was completed yesterday New construction in Frederick city will keep assessors busy for months Some properties from last year were reentered under new regulations as of July 1 and will form the basis for 1956 taxes Frederick city and other districts will be reassessed later this year.
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Ernest C. Spesks
Robert L. Stapley
Mt. Pleasant
Walkersville
Buckeystown
New Market
Urbana
Woodsboro
Johnsville
Linganore
Woodville
Liberty
Thurmont
Frederick City
Fredericks City
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Marie Harding
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Potomac
Montana
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U.S. 40
Stead Air Force Base
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Betty Re. Shaw
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