Four Held For Attempt At Jail Break
Four men alleged to have tried breaking out of the county jail in July were ordered held for grand jury action by Magistrate Wilbur F. Sheffield Jr. after a preliminary hearing. A local girl, Charlene Roberts, was not held after the state failed to prove she smuggled hacksaw blades into the jail. Witness Wallace I. Gift testified he saw the defendants sawing bars and obtaining blades from a pasteboard box, while Alfred Mackley said Roberts visited twice that day with packages, the second a cardboard box.
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We Grand Jury
Wilbur F. Sheffield Jr
Charlene Roberts
Harold R. Perkins Jr
Royal Jackson
Charles J. Dodson
James B. Heflin
Wallace I. Gift
Miss Roberts
James Heflin
Alfred Mackley
Mackley
Service Poet Of Yukon Dies In France At 84
Charles V. Mains testified in Yukon about the death of poet Robert W. Service known for Dan McGrew and The Shooting of Dan McGrew. He died in Lanciaux France at 84 of a heart attack while staying with Miss Roberts and others at his South Market Street home. Police described the bank and jail disturbances during the incident and noted blades found in the cell.
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Ae Ee
Brittany
Main
Isines
Miss Roberts
Roberts
Horee M. Alexander
Norman Dietz
Sheffield
Edwin F. Nikirk
Charles McC.i Mathias Jr
Perkins
E. Austin James
Dodson
Samuel W. Barrick
Eisenhower Budget Sees Gas Tax and Postal Rate Hikes
The Eisenhower administration weighs a possible one billion dollar increase in gasoline taxes and postal rates to reduce red ink. Budget Director Maurice Stans says a decision will come within 60 days, as the 1959 deficit is forecast at 12.223 billion dollars and total spending rises above earlier estimates.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Maurice H. ‘Stans
Congress
Stans
Budget Bureau
Deak
7Th Fleet
U.S
Peiping
China
Post Office Department
Postal
Agriculture
Feau
Defense
Earrier
Old Defenders Day Free Meters And Holiday Bank Hours
Old Defenders Day brings a free ride on city meters with no operation today or this evening. County and State workers enjoy a long weekend while banks stay open in the city though some county banks close.
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Uey
Wee Women Promise to Run Across It Soon
The speaker jokes about persistence and fate, implying a hidden object or outcome will appear within the week as if guided by chance. The tone is light and teasing, suggesting patience will be rewarded with a serendipitous find or event.
Inch of Snow Hits Mt Washington in New Hampshire
An inch of snow fell on Mt Washington overnight and the temperature dipped to 24 degrees. The AP report notes the wintry conditions affecting the mountaintop area.
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Boston
Mt. Washington
N.H
Hit and Run Probe In Middletown Continues
State Police maintain investigation into a hit and run that injured Roy W. Sigler, a Middletown municipal employee, Thursday morning at Main and Church. A witness described the vehicle as an old, beaten-up model Chevrolet that swerved and ran over Sigler as he painted the curb, then fled. Sigler received medical treatment. no bones were reported broken.
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Roy W. Sigler
Middletown
Main
Church Streets
Main Street
Sigler
Leonard F. Glenn
Convoys Ineffective as Quemoy Siege Presses On
AP reporting that Nationalist Chinese commanders dismiss American escorted convoys as ineffective to Quemoy while Communist shelling intensifies. Mainland artillery drives away supply ships, raising talk of air drops or aerial attacks by Nationalists. The heaviest barrage on the west pocket in the Forsgma Strait forces two supply ships from shore.
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Taipel
Quemoy
China
Formosa Strait
Quemoy Beach
Quemoyo
United States
U.S
Ko Yuan Feno
Eisenhower
Chiang Kai-shek
Future Farmers to Represent Md at Springfield Contest
William Powell Jr a Walkersville High School graduate will represent Maryland Future Farmers of America in the state regional public speaking finals tonight in Springfield Massachusetts The subject is This Is My Country Powell earned the right after winning the regional Bee at Newport Rhode Island contest He will compete against three other winners for the Far East region honor at the National F F A convention in Kansas City Missouri October 15 per the eastern states exposition tie in
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William Powell Jr
Walkersville High School
Maryland
Future Farmers of
Springfield
Mass
Walkersville
Springfield Ormee AN
Newport. RI
Delaware
West Virginia
White House
Tristate F. F. A
Eisen
Kansas City
Ifield
Five Day Forecast From The Associated Press Maryland and Delaware
Temperatures will average two to four degrees above normal with warmer Saturday and Monday, cooler Sunday and Tuesday, and a possible warm spell into Wednesday. Showers possible Tuesday as Ike replies to Eisenhower plans and Soviet leaders push for U.S. pullout of forces. Local highs range from the high 40s to mid 80s across Western Maryland.
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Associated Press
Maryland
Delaware
Newport
Ba.l
Eisenhower
Lews Khrushchev
Conference to sponsor Knights of Pythias meet at Braddock Heights
A four day conference on social rehabilitation for long term hospitalization is set at Schley Inn Braddock Heights September 16 to 19 under Spring Grove State Hospital leadership. Noted speakers include Dr Otto von Mering Dr Ruth Smalley and Dr Morris Schwartz with multiple workshop leaders from Yale Penn and University of Chicago. The event is backed by Maryland State Department of Mental Hygiene and National Institute of Mental Health with participation from public and private hospitals. The session opens with remarks by Knights of Pythias Supreme Chancellor William H. Pierce and includes discussion on admission impacts hospital pressures to extend stay discharge obstacles and remedies.
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Spring Grove State Hospital
Helen Padula
George Longley
Spring Grove
Otto von Mering
School of Medicine
University of Pittsburgh
Ruth Smalley
University of Pennsylvania
Morris Schwartz
Joint Commission On Mental Miners and Health
Cambridge
Mass
T. Girne Wiliams
Yale University
Sophia Belle May
University of Texas, Medical School
Lucille Leone
Public Health Service
Washington
Julius Roth
University, of Chicago
Maryland State Department of Mental Hygiene
Clifton T. Perkins
Department of Health
Perry Prather
National Institute of Mental Health
Robert Thomas
George Sutherland
Henrietta DeWitt
Department of Mental Hygiene
Julian Hanlon
U. S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Jarl Dyrud
Leon Eisenberg
Rosewood State Training School
Edward M. Akers
All America
Supreme Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Grand Lodge
Grand Temple
Pythian Org
Francis Scott Key
William H. Pierce
Pierce
Culley
J. R. Hault
Oakland
J. E. Whittington
Lonaconing
James A. Lawson
Early Frost Believed Averted In Frederick County
Temperatures in most areas stayed in the forties this morning, avoiding frost. Unionville bottomed at 39 but reported no frost, Frederick airport at 43, Middletown valley also in the low forties, and Gambrill State Park at High Knob recorded 50 at 7 am. Tonight will be a bit warmer with a low near 30, then partly cloudy Saturday. Daylight saving time remains in effect through the last Sunday in October to align with regional cities.
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Frederick County
Unionville
Frederick Airport
Middletown Valley
Gambrill State Park
High Knob
Electronic Brain Disrupts Beaumont High School
ST LOUIS AP A pioneering electronic classroom system at Beaumont High School failed seven days into the term. The device directed 2000 students to classes but left about 700 wandering, mixing genders and classes. Principal Walter Gammeter called it the worst scheduling mess in 34 years.
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ST. Louis
United States
Board of Education
Beaumont
Walter Gammeter
Twin Sisters and Two Young Men Die in Wreck
Four youths from Seaford died in a head on crash four miles south of Bridgeville on U.S. 13. Carolyn Nanney and Cliddie Nanney, both 18, were Milford student nurses. William Trivits, 20, Ralph McIlvain, 20, and Thomas Wheatley, 40, of Salisbury, Md., survived with injuries.
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Briggeville
Del
U.S
Carolyn Nanney
Seaford
Milford
William Trivits
Leon Trivits
Delaware House of Representatives
Ralph McIlvain
Cliddie Nanney
Milford Memorial Hospital
Sea ‘Ford
U. S. 13
Bridgeville
Thomas Wheat ‘Ley
Salisbury
British Backfire In No Appeasement Debates
Tampa AP report notes the body of Joseph Noel Shaffer 19 formerly of Hampstead Md recovered from the Hillsborough River. Autopsy shows drowning with no foul play. Shaffer had worked five months with a roofing firm in the area. London dispatch states the British government backs Eisenhower no appeasement stance but offers no promise against military use. Also mentions United States jet passenger plane flight into Le Bourget Airport.
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Tampa. Fla
Joseph Noel Shaffer
Hampstead
Hillsborough
Shaffer
London
Ents
Harry Shaffer
Eisenhower
Peasement
Mena
Pagis
Quemoy
le Bourget
Tinea Nase
LeMay Flies Jet Tanker For Record Flight
Washington reports Gen Curtis E LeMay piloted a KC135 jet tanker to Tokyo in 12 hours 28 minutes, a faster transatlantic test as Boeing 707 tests proceed and UAW talks unfold with hopes of a long awaited contract. Police seek a dog missing in Scottsdale while Cape Canaveral launches are halted due to technical trouble.
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Washington (Ap
Curtis E. LeMay
Tokyo
Washington
Ats
jHlaims
Boe- Detroit
Dustry
Pan American World Air
United Auto Workways
London
Eral Motors
GAW
Air
Boeing
LeMay
Ford
New York
Andrews Air Force
Air Force
Aprioy
William Eubank
Stratecia Air Commmand Airinan
Scottsdale
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Charles Killiner
Jonly
Unanimous Supreme Court Denies Delay in Central High Integration
Washington AP The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the Little Rock School Board cannot delay integration at Central High School. The decision affirms the St Louis circuit ruling and allows seven Negro students to attend immediately as Gov. Orval Faubus threatens to close the school. Chief Justice Warren announced the per curiam ruling stating the court will publish full opinions later.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Little Rock
Central High School
Warren
High S
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
St. Louis
Orval “Aubus
Court of Appeals
8Th Circuit
Central High
Grand Jury Session May Be Short One
The September term of Circuit Court opens Monday with a likely brief grand jury session of under three days. State's Attorney Samuel W. Bartick cites no murder charges and says cases include assault with intent to kill, breaking and entering, larceny, worthless checks, and one malicious burning case. Several condemned highway takings remain on the docket.
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Circuit Court
Samuel W. Bartick
Petit Jury
State Roads Commission
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Toronto
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Cumberland
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Alma Ross
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Wreck
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