Commissioner objects to frills in new Hagerstown school
Hagerstown September 20 The County Commissioners delayed awarding the 728000 bid for a new elementary school after Chester A Delphey, a local sporting goods merchant and alum of Hagerstown High, complained the plans are full of frills that add no educational value. He cited features like costly lighting, pools in rooms, a $700 wrought iron name plaque and elaborate cabinet work. The item is set for discussion at tomorrow's meeting.
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Hagerstown
Chester A. Delphey
Delphey
New York
Hagerstown High School
Senate panel votes to rewrite Capehart amendment
The Senate Banking Committee approved a revised Capehart amendment by 9 votes to 4 after President Truman voiced objections. Senator Capehart denounced the rewrite and left a news conference. The committee also backed reapplying import control sections for dairy, oils, cheese, butter, peanuts, and rice products under specified conditions.
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Washington
Senate Banking Committee Today
Truman
Moody
D-Mich
Capehart
R-Ind
Yarn Production Cut at Celanese Cumberland Plant
Celanese Corporation of America in Cumberland reduces yarn and fabric output due to weak fall demand. Spinning and textile departments share 32 hour weeks with about 400 temporarily furloughed. chemical dyeing and engineering kept on. The plant employs over 5,000 workers amid the slow market.
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Cumberland
Celanese Corporation of America
Music federation convention sponsor sought by Maryland group
Mrs. George Bolek, president of the Maryland Federation of Music Clubs, asked the Monday Musicales to sponsor the state federation convention here April 24 to 26. The October 15 meeting will be at Mr. and Mrs. George B. Douglas Jr. Clifton. New president Mrs. Douglas heads officers including Mrs. Swank and Miss Shafer. The year’s program features Church Music American Music Christmas Music Gilbert and Sullivan and an Opera Night Carmen. A spring concert may feature the Peabody Madrigal Group.
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George Bolek
Maryland Federation of Music Clubs
Monday Musicales
Federation
William Zimmerman
West College Terrace
Frank Griffin
Marjorie Osne
Webster Whitehill
George B. Douglas
Gilbert and Sullivan
Bizet
Carmen
George Swank
Lewis
Earle Blakeslee
Peabody Madrigal Group
East and West Germany Sign Trade Accord
East and West Germany signed a trade pact after the Russian zone reportedly pledged to stop harassment of traffic to West Berlin. West German officials and Allied authorities confirmed the agreement, aimed to resume economic exchanges after a three month break.
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Berlin
West Germany
West Berlin
Bonn Republic
Church Buys House In Public Real Estate Sale
Real estate owner Helen R House Burkittsville sold 144 acres with an eight room frame house and outbuildings for 8000 to the Pleasant View Church of the Brethren Trustees. Personal property sold around 860. Proceeds to remodel as a parsonage for the church minister. Auctioneers were Emmett R Bowlus and Horace M Alexander.
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Church Buys House
Helen R. House
Burkittsville
Charles R. Roelke
Pleasant View
Church of the Brethren
Emmett R. Bowlus
Horace M. Alexander
German Peace Contract signals new West Germany ties
The peace contract idea for Germany would replace occupation authorities with ambassadors and end Allied occupation, making West Germany a sovereign state on most matters. It follows NATO and European defense moves, with draft by Nov and possible signing by Jan, while drawing opposition from Russia, eastern Germany Socialists, and some Western critics.
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Peter Edson
NEA
Washington
Sept
Germany
John ‘ Foster Dulles
Japan
Herbert Hoover
Berlin
Poland
Europe
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Korea
U. S
John J. McCloy
Senate Foreign Relations
House Foreign Affairs
Congress
Dean Acheson
Herbert Morrison
Robert Schuman
McCloy
Bonn
Rome
German Republic
Federal Republic
West Germany
Eisenhower
Paris
Western
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
East Germany
France
England
Thomas Estate Valued At Just Over Two Hundred Thousand
Inventories filed with Register Harry D. Radcliff show the John W. Thomas estate, late of the city, slightly exceeding $200,000. The gross total to date stands at $200,150.05, including real estate appraised at $65,800 and stocks and bonds at $116,350.05. Cash and personal property total $18,000.
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John W. Thomas
Wis
Harry D. Radcliff
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