Enrollment at Frederick County schools rises to 10,349
Frederick County public schools begin the 1951-52 year with 10,349 enrolled students, up 231 from 1950. The teaching staff increased to 363, with 155 white elementary, 177 white high, 17 colored elementary and 14 colored high teachers. Past year totals were 350 across white and colored schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick County
Board of Education
Eugene W. Pruitt
Elm Street
Brunswick
Pruitt
Frederick City
Frederick High School
Liberty Elementary
New Market
Sabillasville
Foxville
Woodsboro
New Midway
Jefferson
Thurmont High
Thurmont
Catoctin Furnace
Lewistown
Burkittsville
Myersville
East Brunswick
West Brunswick
Brunswick High
Walkersville High
Walkersville
Colored Schools
Doubs
Hopeland
Ebenezer
Liberty
Horsey’s
Rain Gives Relief After Heat Wave and Low Dam Levels
Forecaster predicts showers and possible storms late today through Friday as cooler air arrives tomorrow ending a warm September spell. Fishing Creek reservoir sits 22 inches below normal this morning while temperatures reached 91 degrees Wednesday. A belt of showers stretches from Ohio to Missouri, with clouds keeping temperatures down along the coast. clearing later could bring 85 to 89 as showers approach.
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Mercury
Fishing Creek
Ohio
Kansas
Missouri
Mew State Park To Be Developed
ANNAPOLIS September 13 Governor McKeldin announced funds approved by the Board of Public Works will enable purchase of land at the rocks of Deer Creek in Harford county for a new state park. The state has held an option on the land while a general recreation survey proceeds.
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Annapolis
Rocks of Deer Reek
Harford County
McKeldin
Board of Public Works
Tragic Mistake In New York Ends In Fatal Shot
Fourteen year old Julian F Sweeney lied about a self inflicted head wound following a mistaken identity case. In Queens the teen climbed to fix a television aerial when officers arrived after neighbors reported a prowler. Police fired four warning shots and then a fatal shot during pursuit.
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New York
Julian F. Sweeney
Queens
Prewler
Howard Cronin
Robert Peppard
OConor Proposes Fair Conduct Code for Congress
Senator Herbert R. OConor proposes a uniform fair conduct code for Congressional committees. In a speech prepared for Chief Justices, he urges rules applicable to all Senate and House panels, advocating standardized procedures for investigations.
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New York
N. Y
Congress
Herbert R. O'Conor
Invasion Tension Grows as Yugoslavia Faces Border Strife
Belgrade reports escalating frontier incidents with Albania Bulgaria Romania and Hungary. Tito fears a potential Cominform pressure while troops tighten along borders and diplomatic ties deteriorate amid a tense fall prelude to possible war.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Tito
Albania
Bulgaria
Romania
Hungary
Cominform
Russia
Kremlin
Boyle Hearing Opens as Senate Probes Boyle Influence
Washington Sept 13 Investigating Senators opened public hearings into William M Boyle Jr and the RFC loan practice. Witness J Frank Williams testified that American Lithofold Corp St Louis hired a government official who approved a 1944 1 671 000 loan and that the firm later hired as treasurer the SWPC employee who approved it. Also Brunswick voters organize new city council. Frank Murray notable Marquette coach dies. Lovett begins duties as Defense Secretary.
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Washington
American Lithofold Corp
St. Louis
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
William M. Boyle, Jr
Hoey
D-Nc
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
RFC
Litheford
Boyle
J. Frank Williams
War Plants Corporation
Williams
J. E. Toole
SWPC
Red China Money Ring Is Smashed
American postal authorities busted a vast black market ring that diverted 32 million dollars to Communist China for war scarce materials. Undercover work by Federal Postal Inspector R Frank Ogden traced a Manila counterfeiting gang, verified alterations to money orders and forged checks, with Hong Kong banks absorbing most losses. The scheme collapsed when the U S halted postal money orders to the Philippines on January 31.
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Honolulu
China
R. Frank Ogden
Orient
Manila
Ogden
Cing
U. S
Treasury
Hong Kong
Philippines
From Here On Way Home San Francisco Dispatch
Maryland Korea veterans among 4 371 Army rotation troops to arrive at San Francisco on the transport General William Weigel for 30 day furloughs before reassignment. Includes Frederick Mt Rainier Glen Echo Bethesda Silver Spring and Ellicott City residents. Also stock market strength and Britain grain purchase from Russia reported.
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San Francisco
Maryland
Korea
William Weigel
United States
Roscoe E. de Grange
E. 3Rd Street
Charles E. Ford
W. Pattick Street
Robert W. Stockman
W. 7Th Street
Frederick
James Baker
Chillum Road
Daniel R. Buck
Russell Avenue
Mt Rainier
Robert L. Burton
Glen Echo
Williamsb. Knoll
Cabin John
Carson Shaw
Maple Avenue
Bethesda
Theodore J. Thompson
Cody Drive
Silver Spring
Maurice L. Sisk
Main Street
Ellicott City
Warning To Pilots Watch Out For Horses
An airplane collided with a horse during a night landing at Hybla Valley airport in Hybla Valley Virginia. The horse was killed and the plane suffered landing gear damage. Two people aboard sustained bumps to the head. Sam Witanadel a Bolling Air Force base inspector explained he was giving night flying lessons to George Smith Franconia Virginia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexandria
Sam Witanadel
Bolling Air Force Base
George Smith
Franconia
Hybla Valley
West German Czech Flights Are Barred
The Allied High Commission barred all Czech airline flights across west Germany effective last Tuesday midnight. No reason given. An American official said the United States Britain and France concurred in the action connected to the case of William Oatis.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Allied High Commission
West Germany
High Commission
United States
Britain
France
William Oatis
Associated Press
Washington
State Department
US 5
Oasis
U. S
Czechoslovakia
Oatiss
Doctors Attending Baltimore Meeting Opens Three Day Surgical Congress
Doctors from Maryland Virginia West Virginia and the District of Columbia gathered in Baltimore for a Southeastern Surgical Congress area convention with eighteen lectures and clinics at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dr W Raymond McKenzie welcomed the group as the meeting began and plans include a banquet and a Naval Academy sightseeing tour in Annapolis. Deeds recorded in Court House show J Tyson Lee and James Heater Jr selling property to Carl Kintz and Jacob Kintz at 6 West Third Street for about 16000 with an alley reserved. Elizabeth Keefer sold three tracts totaling about 101 acres in Woodville and Mt Airy districts Carrell County for about 315000.
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Baltimore
District of Columbia
Southeastern Surgical Congress
Maryland
Virginia
West Virginia
Johns Hopkins Hospital
W. Raymond McKenzie
Naval Academy
Annapolis
Court House
J. Tyson Lee
James R. Heater
Carl H. Kintz
Jacob E. Kintz
West Third Street
Elizabeth L. Keefer
Herbert P. Burdette
Woodville
Mt. Airy
Carrell County
Air Patrol Squadron Grounded Over Alaska Crashes
The Navy grounded a Naval air squadron in Alaska for morale reasons after a series of crashes that claimed 45 lives. A special board of inquiry, headed by a rear admiral Naval aviator, investigates the incidents with confidential proceedings.
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Washington
Naval Air Squadron
Alaska
Navy
Mitchell
D-Wash
Francis P. Whitehair
Whitehair
Whitehalr
Patrol Squadron 9
Alaskan Sea Frontier
Pacific Fleet
Alaskan
Russia
Acquit Man Of Drunk Driving In Baltimore Case
A Baltimore man charged with drunken driving after a Steiner's Hill accident was found not guilty by Magistrate H Reese Shoemaker Jr in Peoples Court. Palmer M Kane drove the car that struck a taxi driven by Malcolm J Parker on West All Saints Street about 11:45 Tuesday night. William Staveley suffered slight injuries. Kane testified he had one beer and blamed the taxi for the collision. Trooper James H Rouzee Jr led the investigation concluding Kane was unsteady. Parker said Kane’s car stayed on his side of the road. Kane’s attorney was Edwin F Nikirk. The court also ordered William E Barthlow to pay 40 weekly support to his wife and three children. Barthlow stated he earns 24 daily as a bricklayer. Collateral forfeitures included Robert C Snavely 10 for exceeding 50, Louise Hoover 10 for exceeding 30, Robert Harris 10 for driving on a double white line, Morris Green 10 for the same, and Stephen Crowley 5 for missing a registration card. Arrests were by Troopers Rouzee and Stone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steiner's Hill
Peoples Court
H. Reese Shoemaker, Jr
Palmer M. Kane
Malcolm J. Parker
West All Saints Street
Kane
William Staveley
West Patrick Street
James H. Rouzee
Parker
Edwin F. Nikirk
William E. Barthlow
Frederick
Hazel L. Barthlow
Barthlow
Robert C. Snavely
Gettysburg
Louise Hoover
Washington
Robert Harris
Cavetown
Morris Green
Hyattsville
Stephen Crowley
Arlington
Rouzee
R. F. Stone
Plane missing over Mediterranean prompts search
PERPIGNAN France Sept 13 Airport officials said 36 passengers and three crew members are aboard a French DC3 plane missing on its run over the Mediterranean from Toulouse to Oran. The craft, last seen over Valencia, left Toulouse Wednesday morning and was due to land in Oran in the afternoon. TRAN CUT OFF LO IDON Sept 13 Britain halted British ships from delivering any cargoes to Iran.
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Perpignan
France
Mediterranean
Toulouse
Oran
North Africa
Valencia
Spain
Tran
Lo“Idon
Britain
Iran
Hood College Registers Special Students Next Week
Hood College will begin registration on Monday for a diverse group of special students. These adults include housewives high school pupils and working women and men who pursue evening courses for credit or noncredit. Criteria emphasize maturity and field-relevant work over formal entrance tests.
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Hood College
Hood
Allies capture additional peaks in east central Korea
U S Eighth Army reports rapid seizure of a northeast of Kumhwa peak and seven ridges amid light Red resistance. In separate fights, six vital peaks fall east of Kumhwa toward Kansong as tank supported Reds are criticized for stubborn defense. Western fronts see slower action while intelligence notes up to 250000 Red troops massed for a possible Seoul drive, with Van Fleet predicting no imminent offensive.
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U. S. Eighth Army
Korea
Kumbhwa
United Nations
Kumhwa
Kansong
Sea of Japan
North
South Korea
Oling
Stan Carter
Seoul
Carter
Reda
James A. van Fleet
Eighth Army
van Fleet
North Korea
Controls Law Is Denounced by AFL and Truman
The AFL denounces the new economic controls law as a fraud that will raise prices and block rollbacks. It backs President Truman’s push to repeal or revamp the Capehart amendment, with economist Peter Henle testifying to a Senate Banking subcommittee led by Senator Robertson during hearings on the Capehart issue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
AFL Today
Labor Organization
Truman
Congress
AFL
Peter Henle
Senate Banking
Robertson ‘D-Val
Henle
Robertson
New Super Priority Set Up By NPA
Washington reports the government established a new DX priority to untangle production bottlenecks in urgent military and atomic programs. The National Production Authority said the emergency device will be used by the armed forces to ensure completion of highly critical munitions contracts amid competing high priority orders.
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Washington
National Production Authority
Reds May Ask U N Admit All Claims
Tokyo dispatch reports the Peiping radio hinting that resuming Korean truce talks would require the United Nations to admit that all Red charges of violations are true. The U N Command rejects most charges but admits the accidental strafing of the Kaesong neutral zone.
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Tokyo
Peiping Radio
United Nations Command
Kaesong
Pokping Radio
U.N
Maison
U. N
Munsan
Pipe Ordered For Gas Line To Frederick
Frederick advances toward natural gas service as the Petroleum Administration for Defense issued a pipe allotment to Frederick Gas Company and Bethlehem Steel accepted the order to manufacture the steel pipe. Allocation, announced by Gas Company president Raymond C. Brehaut, covers Redland station supply with a 45 day construction timeline. Maryland heating restrictions won’t affect Frederick for 24 months under current policy.
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Frederick
Petroleum Administration For Defense
Frederick Gas Company
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
PAC
Raymond C. Brehaut
Gas Company
Steel Manufacturing Company
Redland Station
Rockville
Brehaut
Transcontinental Gas Company
Frederick Company
New Guided Missile Unit Is Readied
The Air Force will form its first guided missile squadron at Cocoa Florida on October 1 as the first operational unit of its kind. It will use the Matador B 61 pilotless bomber from Glenn L Martin Co and train under Air Research and Development Command before combat readiness under Tactical Air Command. The missile is a single jet powered guided craft without a pilot, tested at Holloman and Cocoa.
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Washington
Air Force
Guided Missile Center
Cocoa
Fla
Glenn L. Martin Co
Baltimore
Air Research and Development Command
Tactical Air Command
Truman
Holoman Air Force Base
Alamogordo
N. M
Boyle Urges Outlawing Baseless Attacks in Campaigns
William M. Boyle Jr the Democratic National Committee chairman told a Senate Elections subcommittee that campaigns must ban baseless defamatory attacks on individuals in politics. He called current tactics imported and poisonous to public life. Separately another Senate subcommittee probed Boyle’s alleged political influence in RFC loan decisions.
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Washington
William M. Boyle, Jr
Congress
Democratic National Committee
Boyle
Senate
Gillette
Drowa
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
RFC
Trapped on trestle by train in Memphis
Miss Edith Forsythe and fiancé Robert F. Taylor were trapped on a Memphis trestle by the Illinois Central City of New Orleans as a speeding train passed. Forsythe escaped with cuts while Taylor was thrown 50 feet into a creek and suffered possible back injury. A companion, Terry Kirk, leaped to safety with a broken leg and internal injuries.
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Memphis
Tenn
Edith Forsythe
Illinois Central
New Orleans
Robert F. Taylor
Terry Kirk
Taylor
Kirk
Kelly takes over Somerset guard detail in strip mine areas
Charles Kelly a World War II Medal of Honor recipient now heads 12 watchmen guarding Gray Contracting and Engineering equipment at Berlin Berin operates strip mines after United Mine Workers protests. Artist Arthur Szyk dies at 57 in New Canaan Connecticut after brief illness. Maryland Finance Committee rejects off track pari mutuel betting proposal in Legislative Council.
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Kelly
Somerset
Charles
Commando) Kelly
Harry Gray
Berlin
Gray
United Mine Workers
Gray Contracting and Engineering Company
New Canaan
Conn
Arthur Szyk
Baltimore
Finance Committee
The
Legislative Council
Maryland
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Mew State Park
O’conor
Boyle Hearing
New City
W. C. Wheeler
Stanley Wirts
John Rickard
David Riser
E. E. Brengle
E. C. Willey
John J. Moore
B. B. Harsh
W. F. Albert
A. H. Danner
Mr. Wheeler
Frank Murray
Milwaukee
Marquette University
Murray
Marquette
University of Virginia
U.S
London
Kathy Darlyn
Florida
Daytona Beach
Kathy
NPA
Reds
Frederick Junction
Knoxville
Hawker
England
English
British
Air Ministry
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