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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1957
Page
10
County agency budgets call for pay boosts with requests detailing staff counts and requested numbers. The article notes ongoing debates and continued considerations of employee compensation across departments.
The meeting covered county budgets for 1958 with allotted increases for several offices and departments including the county treasurer, assessment supervisor, sheriff, roads, and public health. Councilman Valentine collapsed during recess. officials reported his condition as satisfactory the next day as budgets and proposed raises were debated and the county awaited final approvals.
In Towson Maryland the Van Horn murder trial drifted into day ten with three more opinions on his sanity. A prosecution psychiatrist joined defense counsel in noting psychiatry lacks exact scientific clarity, while others testified to a personal crisis and opportunities for suicide. Wechsler and Morganstern questioned mental unsoundness and ruled Van Horn legally sane at the time and now, attributing the killing to personality defects amid a high profile case.
AFL-CIO leaders pressed for wage increases and shorter work weeks as part of 1958 bargaining goals while reaffirming the drive to organize the unorganized. Meany warned against expulsion except as needed, citing labor’s long term gains and purchasing power. The convention also sanctioned a new bakery union and pledged to oppose weakening the labor movement.
Kappa Alpha fraternity at Washington College led by P Curtis Massey of Williamsport Md will host a Christmas party for thirty youngsters from Elizabeth W Murphy School Dover Del tomorrow afternoon in Chestertown Md A visit by Santa Claus will highlight the program This marks the fraternity's first effort at bringing Christmas cheer to underprivileged children.
A fragment notes a West Greenwich committee vote on teaching French to first, second, and third graders. It mentions arid conditions, a school lacking drinking water, and rodents feeding on seeds and dried rat, with emphasis on French study alongside English.
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