16 Feb 1949
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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1949
Page
1
President Truman's Economic Stability Act of 1945 seeks stand by powers to impose maximum prices and regulate wages when needed to curb inflation, plus government authority to fund industrial expansion. The plan includes a temporary wage board and potential government loans to expand capacity, amid a cautious Capitol Hill reception.
The plan aims to direct scarce materials and facilities to essential production to prevent shortages and protect national security and foreign policy. It includes continuation of rent and export controls and curbs on commodity speculation, under separate bills for consideration.
Police describe the eerie lights as a fallen pole's cross arm projecting into the air. A witness thought a man stood in the light until the angle and wind moved the wire away from the stump. Potomac Edison crews fixed the issue around 1 AM.
William S. Rice Inc representatives will visit the Alexander Hotel in Hagerstown Maryland on Friday February 18 to demonstrate the Rice Method for reducible rupture control. Free appliance fitting with a 30 day trial and satisfaction guarantee. hours 1 to 8 pm, 2 to 6 pm, or 7 to 9 pm.
The Washington County Hospital School of Nursing has grown since its 1906 opening, now graduating 196 nurses. The program blends hospital and public health department coordination with instructors from both sides and a $1.25 million expansion funding to boost opportunities and facilities.
Architects outline winter work and Boonsboro school plan changes including higher site grading, a larger kindergarten and twelve classrooms on Key Avenue, road extensions from Nottingham to Hock Willow and Salem, and a new homeschool unit near Marshall and Clarendon Streets. They argue the moves reduce crossings of U S Rt 40, bring families closer to schools, require redistricting, and expand play areas.
The debate over the pension bill grows tense as Rankin presses recognition under a unanimous consent plan. Speaker Rayburn weighs options while Rankin blasts opponents. Huber warns of serious questions about the measure and its path through committees.
A discussion on extending pensions to World War I veterans drew sharp opposition and divided views. Some lawmakers argued pensions should wait 20 to 25 years after service, while veterans groups showed mixed support. Rep. Kearney labeled the bill deplorable as veterans organizations split on the issue.
A Cumberland Motor Express tractor trailer from Hagerstown collided with a post office building four miles south of Breezewood on Monday night. The driver James Rader of Cumberland said the front headlights failed as the truck took a curve, sending the vehicle off the road and into the structure. The tractor trailer sustained about 1.00 in damage. the frame storepost office was partially demolished. Rader escaped injury.
George McElwain head of the detached district office of the Prudential Insurance Co. at home confers with top level executives in the company’s Newark home office. He is among 36 specially selected representatives from the United States and Canada chosen for thorough knowledge of the life insurance field.
The House Judiciary committee met for over two hours debating a Sunday dry law aimed at Baltimore City and ten counties with church groups urging reverence for the Lord's Day and opponents warning of a return to the blind pig era. The session also heard supporters of tougher penalties for dog theft and a bill to allow owners to kill dogs trespassing on land when pursuing livestock.
Frankfurt report says General Lucius D. Clay asked the Soviet Repatriation Mission in the American zone to depart. The mission plans to halt operations after March 17 as voluntary Soviet displaced persons repatriation has largely ended. The FBI operates five field offices across the United States Puerto Rico Hawaii and Alaska.
The note states that all 1948 enlisted service pay is exempt and officer pay is exempt up to 1500 dollars. It also mentions that some fares owed by service members may be paid in twelve quarterly installments.
Jacob B. Baker a 47 year old Nexro farm hand was seized by local police aboard a freight train and sentenced to six to twelve years for assaulting a farm wife near Gettysburg Adama county Pa Baker employed by David Flynn two and a half miles from Gettysburg allegedly attacked the farmer's wife with a knife on January 28 Mrs Flynn hospitalised after leaping from a second story window and breaking her left leg Baker fled and was captured in the Hagerstown yards
Mrs J Hilton Darner of Braddock Heights reports her brother Charles M Churchey of Sharpsburg and Marine Jack Fleming of Keedysville had a surprise meeting aboard the aircraft carrier U S S Midway in the Mediterranean Sea in late January. Churchey listed as S A U 8 S Midway C V B 41 2nd Division Care F P O New York N Y following the address.
Three Hagerstown boys Rob ert Irvin Delautes Gene Luther Kade and Park David Fridinger Jr are training at Camp Pickett Virginia with the 17th Airborne Thunder from Heaven Division. They will train eight weeks then transfer to another unit or attend school.
Washington report notes Republicans shouted Socialism as they opposed TVA expansion but failed to remove a 2.5 million appropriation for a steam generating plant at New Johnsonville Tennessee from a large money bill. Earlier, in a 192 to 152 vote, the House blocked a four hundred thousand starter grant on the fifty four million project. Also mentions Finland granting women suffrage in 1906.
Malcolm Hutto, longtime Hagerstown organist and pianist, sails to New York City to board the Queen Elizabeth for three Atlantic crossings where he will give concerts daily aboard the Hammond Organ Company’s instrument. He began radio work at 14 after early piano studies and Shenandoah College training.
John E. Webb Jr. began an 80 year prison term after Judge Robert France gave four consecutive 20 year sentences for armed holdups. Webb, 22, collapsed in Baltimore Criminal Court as the sentences were imposed following an intensive manhunt across Baltimore and four counties.
Miss Margaret Bittner of Oak Hill avenue sustained a laceration to her right index finger when a car door was slammed shut yesterday. She received treatment at Washington County Hospital. Also treated yesterday were Mrs. Mary Peeher for a fractured right arm and Owen for a fractured left arm.
Blue Ridge Rus Lines will add an office block to its terminal on East Antietam Street. The concrete block addition measures roughly 20 by 29 feet and will adjoin the existing facility, officials said yesterday.
Philadelphia on February 16 enters the sixth day of a general transit strike and the second day of a city wide taxicab walkout. Bus trolley and subway services are halted as negotiators from Philadelphia Transportation Co. and the CIO Transit Workers Union meet again but wage dispute remains unsettled.
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