Year Gone By Through the Eyes of the Average Fellow
Washington columnist James Marlow reflects on the past year through the daily life of ordinary people. He notes rising concerns about family, education, and the impact of world events while balancing a sense of quiet, steady progress as prices stabilize and people plan for the future. The piece contrasts personal hopes with national headlines and ends with obituaries and local notices from Thurmont, Hagerstown, and Cavetown.
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Marlow
Iing
Doctor Charged With Mercy Killing Resumes Practice
Doctor Sander, out on a $25,600 bond, resumes medical practice amid mixed views. Prosecutor Craig condemns the act as murder as family and colleagues weigh mercy against the law. The board of medicine plans no action yet, while supporters defend the physician’s character and intent.
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Trnsiday
Sander
John F. Wheeler
New Hampshire Board of Registry In Medicine
Jess
Reginald Borreto
Borreto
John F. Bowler
New Hampshire Medical Society
John F. Conlin
Massachusetts Medical Society
Con Hin
Mancea
Ufa
Sherif Thomas O'Brien
O'Brien
Manchester
Dr. Sander
Bridal Joy Fills Church as Tabers Wed in Hagerstown
Patricia Taber and Robert Taber wed at St Marys in Hagerstown amid a packed church of friends and family. Guests lined the aisle for a reception after the ceremony at the Alexander Hotel. The Daily Mail extends best wishes to the newlyweds starting life in the city.
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Aittle
St. Mary's
Patricia
Rose Mary
Patricis
Joseph Wht Jr
Natricia
Robert
Robert FE
Taber
Alexander Hotel
Hagerstown
The
Daily Mail
Lewis Faces New Challenge Over Unfair Labor Practices
Washington NEC 31 John L. Lewis faces a new challenge from coal operators urging the NLRB to halt his three day work week order and seek a court injunction. They accuse Lewis of bad faith bargaining while some small mines report $15 daily wage and 35 cent per ton welfare royalty increases.
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Washington
Nec
John L. Lewis
Southern Coal Producers Association
National Labor Relations Board
Lewin
NLRB
United Mine Workers
Lewis
Robert N. Denham
UMW
Buenos Aires Faces Severe Water Shortage
Buenos Aires, population 3.157 million, confronts a serious water crisis due to a dollar shortage limiting import of pumping and drilling equipment. Argentina's public works minister warned of possible individual water meters as residents rely on far less water than typical daily usage.
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Buenos Aires
New York
Argentina
Walter
Couple Held In Ad Racket Case
Miss Crandall testified she was recruited by the U S Employment Service to call on business houses and schedule clock advertising sales for Thompson and another man. They toured several towns in New York and Pennsylvania before reaching Hagerstown this week and Frederick previously. She said Thompson claimed the company did not exist and that clocks never arrived in the Pennsylvania towns where contracts were signed.
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Peoples Drug Stores
New York State
Pennsylvania
Hagerstown
Frederick
Syracuse
Thompson
Three Lynchings Reported in 1949 as Police Halt Most
Tuskegee Institute tallies show 21 mob murders in 1949 with three actual lynchings in Georgia and Mississippi. New York state led in attempted lynchings with four rescues by police on three occasions. Police blocked attempts across several states and 16 of 17 attempted lynchings were prevented. one escape ended with the victim fleeing into a river.
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Tuskegee
Ala
Tuskegee Institute
Institute
Georgia
Mississippi
New York State
North Carolina
Alabama
Florida
Louisiana
South Carolina
Tennessee
Negro Institute
Rail Brakeman Shot By Hunter
Cumberland Maryland police hold 26 year old A B Hunter of Cumberland after a railroad brakeman on the Western Maryland Railway was shot in the head from a trestle. The hunter fled after forcing the train to edge and was later arrested at his home. The brakeman suffered minor pellet wounds and was treated by a physician.
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Cumberland
A. B. Hunter
Western Maryland Railway
Harry Holsinger
Hunter
Holsinger
Allegany
Locus Grove
Maryland Congressman Criticizes State Tax Investigations
Rep Edward Miller assails Maryland income tax probes as publicizing residents finances. He cites Easton offices in crowded rooms and loud questioning of private affairs, urging private conferences and privacy in inquiries. State officials offer no comment.
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Easton
EPA
Maryland
Rny
James J. Lacy
Miller
Japanese Seek Fate Of Prisoners Held By Russians
Japanese from Nagano Prefecture head to Tokyo to learn the fate of four and a half year old war prisoners captured by the Russians. They plan to wait at the Russian embassy gates for audience or word on how many survive and how they died.
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Tokyo
Japan
Nagano
U.S
William Bebdard
Allied Council
Kuzma Derevyanko
Enartly
Moscow
Social security tax hike takes effect at midnight
Washington reports the social security tax rises from 1 percent to 1.44 percent for about 29 million workers starting at midnight. The yearly tax reaches $45 for those earning $3,000 or more, with employers adding equivalent contributions. Pension benefits remain unchanged, with a $10 monthly minimum and average around $26. A Senate bill pending final approval would boost benefits by about 70 percent, lifting the maximum to $126 for a couple and the minimum to above $42.
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Washington
Ise
Senate
House
Death Sentence In Reading Train Wreck case
Norristown Pa December 31 James Morris Johnson 34 received the death penalty in the electric chair for murder tied to the derailment of a Reading Company local train from Pottsville to Philadelphia at Valley Forge Two trainmen engineer Buck I Demmy Jr 47 and fireman Howard R Jackson 24 both Allentown residents were killed in the wreck The defendants claimed a later appeal to the state supreme court was planned and defense counsel said they would seek a new trial citing police records of a previous wreck.
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Norristown
James Morris Johnson
Reading Company
Valley Forge
Johnson
Montgomery County
Pottsville
Philadelphia
Buck I. Demmy, Jr
Howard R. Jackson
Allentown
Johnann
Pocomoke City
Commonwealth
State Supreme Court
Second Man Dies In Auto Crash
A second man died in an automobile crash involving a Sind and fist Airborne Division member and Hagerstown V F W. He is survived by a brother Donald at home a sister Mrs Clifford Kindle Chewsville and grandfather Reuben Ridenour Cavetown. Funeral services set for 2 pm Tuesday at Grove Funeral Home Warsnesboro with Rev Francis Bell and Rev W Whalen officiating. Interment in Smithsboro cemetery. Friends may call Monday evening from 7 to 9.
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Charles A. Ridenour
Charles Arthur Ridenour
Cavetown
Christ Reformed Church
Lloyd R. Kilne
Harry
Hagerstown
Reuben
Meredith
Smithsburg
Krains Mortuary
J. Odell Zechman
Uclating
Cavetown Cemetery
Sind
Fist
Smithsboro Cemetery
Bidault Seeks Fourth Victory in Budget Push
Premier Georges Bidault, riding a string of three week gains, faced a fourth vote of confidence as France weighs a record 2.257 trillion franc budget. The opposition awaited the final tax measures while Bidault’s middle-ground coalition pressed for approval before the new year.
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Paris
Georges Bidault
France
iBidaal
National Assembly
Local Youth Turns Student Time Into Busy Entrepreneur
George Snyder, a University of Maryland student, builds a multi-location Sweet Shoppe empire while studying. He remodeled a former garage into a large ice cream parlor, expanded to wholesale distribution, and operates three sites with a staff, balancing campus life and business. He plans more growth and even a potential book on productivity.
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U. of Maryland
George
Howard Street
Virginia Avenue
Jimmy
J. i
Sill
Asan
George Snyder
Potomac Avenue
Bill
Earl Lightner, Jr
Billi Humels
Thle
Communism On the Defensive In Western Europe
W Averell Harriman, European ambassador at large for Marshall Plan operations, said in a New Year message that Communism in Western Europe has been driven to the defensive by the Marshall Plan gains. He urged consolidating 1955 progress, closing Europe’s dollar gap with American purchases, and boosting European exports to the United States.
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Europe
W. Averell Harriman
Harriman
Agcainet
America
United States
Three Escape Jail With Beer Opener
Attala County sheriff reports three inmates escaped from a jail in Kosciusko using a beer can opener a spoon and a pipe to cut a wall hole and crawl to freedom. The escape was discovered yesterday and the sheriff is pursuing the trio.
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Kosciusko
Miss
Attala
Roy Bras
Crew To Refuse To Run Blockade
Hong Kong December 31 crew men of the American freighter Flying Arrow reportedly notified they will refuse to take the Ishrandtsen vessel through Nationalist mined Chinese waters. The Flying Arrow bound for Communist Shanghai Tuesday and Captain David Jones of Chicago said he would sail into Shanghai despite mines gunboats and the State Department. The Hong Kong Sunday Herald said the crew wired the State Department and the National Maritime Union that they will not work if the ship attempts the blockade.
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Hong Kong
Flying Arrow
Ishrandtsen
Shanghs Tuesaday
David Jones
Chicago
Shanghai
State Department
Washington
Hong Kong Sunday Herald
U. S. State Department
National Maritime Union
New York
Yugoslav Shoe Shines Regulated
Government regulation reaches street shoe shiners in Belgrade. Prices fixed at 10 cents per shine after old men on public streets were free to set charges by customer and traffic. Mount Etna in Sicily stands at 10 741 feet high.
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Belgrade
Bors
Yugoslavia
Mount Etna
Sicily
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