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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1952
Page
2
Montgomery Ward and Company sponsor a bicycle safety parade to promote safe riding. 65 have signed up as the event aims to make Hagerstown the safest cycling city, with prizes and ice cream for participants.
James Marlow reports that the Republican convention feels distant and political, with Taft and Eisenhower each showing public smiles while aides show tension. Delegates argue over who will win the 1 206 delegate contest, as behind the scenes blame and infighting threaten unity ahead of November.
A traveler in Ethiopia reports locals kiss on both cheeks in public, including in street meetings and outside churches. The practice extends to walls and church surroundings, with wide mouth kissing noted. Foreign doctors warn the habit may spread syphilis already common in the region.
Maintenance crews say rain frost and heat crack cement joints of the Empire State Building. Workers have overhauled it three times since it opened to replace weather damaged cement and carrying material. This round of repairs will cover from ground to the 104th story.
Captain Berry made the first successful descent using a parachute from a moving airplane in 1913 at St. Louis Missouri according to the Encyclopedia Britannica.
Pick Temple known as a folk singer and Library of Congress collector will be grand marshal of the Hagerstown firemen parade Tuesday. The event, paired with Montgomery Ward bicycle parade, offers over $500 in prizes. Parade forms at Oak Hill and Potomac Avenues at 8 15 and proceeds to Memorial Boulevard.
Ching Kuen, a surrendering commander of the 6th Communist Regiment, said Malaya's Communist terrorists used jungle huts for secret liaisons with upper rank women while lower ranks waited. He turned himself in with 12 followers as half a million copies of his letter were dropped to comrades.
King Herod ordered all male children two years old and under in Bethlehem killed to eliminate the infant Jesus who was seen as a rival claimant to the throne. The brutal decree aimed to remove potential threats to Herod's kingship.
Handshake across oceans features Richard Boschert of St Marys High School Frederick Md and Eleanor Lipski of Jerseyville Ave Franhold NJ as part of 186 teen and 35 adult delegates at Hood College for a week long Leadership Training on American Red Cross activities.
Berlin July 7 Ilya Ehrenburg urged Americans to press their rulers to end war cries and seek peace with the Soviet Union saying the Soviet people want peace with any American, including progressives Republicans and Democrats, as delegates at the Communist World Peace Council session applauded.
The Hagerstown Municipal Band benefited from a Performance Fund paid for by the Music Performance Trust Fund through a grant from the Recording Industry. The fund supports public service by financing free entertainment via the American Federation of Musicians locals, including Local 770. Also noted are references to pure blooded Indians left in Uruguay.
Catherine Swarts, blind since age three, works efficiently as a secretary in Oakland California. She credits a wire‑recorder dictation machine for her success and notes notes never grow cold, proving a qualified blind person can excel in secretarial work.
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