Maryland Pride Tops Nation In Travel Notes From Our Reporters
Clerk of Court G Merlin Snyder and wife drove 7000 miles visiting Yellowstone, Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, California, and the Midwest, but Maryland remains unmatched in beauty and comfort. Park Board praised for City Park upkeep after a visiting Virginia family praised its cleanliness. Locust song signals summer’s end as autumn nears. Hagerstown Police praised by Pennsylvania State Police for cooperative burglary case work across jurisdictions. Rev Freeman Ankrum’s manuscript accepted by Ora Garber.
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Harrisburg
Blair F. Overton
Richard B. Gray
Gray
Hidden Children Found Normal Despite Eleven Years Hidden
TECUMSEH Ontario AP three siblings Gordon 15 Connie 16 and Glenda 13 released from an 11 year confinement by police. They had been kept inside a Tecumseh home with boards over windows and 15 cats. They appeared healthy though small for age, learned from TV and asked about presidents sports and cars. They will be taken to a hospital while authorities decide next steps.
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Windsor
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Tecumseh, Ont
United States
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Gordon Dickerson
Gordon
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Samuel Young
Hagerstown
Mulberry St
Apan
Pears
School of Medicine
Graduate School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Forest Rich
Ards
Young
Nie
Glenda
Newby
The
United
Leach
Donald
Detroit
Mich
Tecumseh
America's First Biochemist Lived And Died In Hagerstown
A feature highlights John R. Young hailed as America's first biochemist who lived and died in Hagerstown. It notes a 1803 thesis on digestion at age 21, then his untimely death within a year, possibly from tuberculosis, while praising his experimental technique in examining digestion of animal and vegetable tissues.
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America
Hagerstown
John R. Young
Foes of Rhee Win Free Korea Election Victory
In Seoul the Democrats led by John M. Chang swept South Korea’s first free elections, ousting the Liberal party amid postvote violence. Despite clashes, the Democrats captured the decisive House majority as 2 million ballots were counted. Protests, arson, and street battles accompanied the election across Taejon Kosong and other cities as police protected counting stations and City Hall.
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South Korea
John M. Chang
Democrats
Syngman Rhee
Liberal Party
Rhee
House of Representatives
Taejon
Nouth
Kosong
Masan
Lam
Chong Po
Countian Held In Shooting Of Own Brother
Earl Henry Miller 36 of Yarrowsburg is jailed on assault with a deadly weapon charge after his brother Lewis William Miller 37 near Knoxville was shot during a family argument. Wounded man at Frederick Memorial Hospital with shotgun wound. surgery performed, blood loss heavy. Police attributed possible long standing family feud. Brunswick Ambulance transported casualty. another brother Gerald Miller accompanied him to the hospital.
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Earl Henry Miller
Yarrowsburg
Lewis William Miller
Knoxville
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Robert Basore
Earl Miller
Brunswick Volunteer Ambulance
Brunswick
Gerald Miller
Kennedy and Johnson Plan Wide Scale Reopening Congress
Senators Kennedy and Johnson announced a broad multibillion-dollar program for a late summer session of Congress to push key legislation. They said the agenda spans many fields and will be pressed despite potential obstructions, with a defense funding review also discussed.
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Johnson
Congress
Hyannis Port
Mass
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Lyn
Don B. Johnson
Con. Hess
Inca
Nikita Khrushchev
Eisenhower
Defense
Thomas S. Gates Jr
Gates
Pentagon
New Principals Appointed For Six County Schools
The Board of Education announced new principals for six Washington County schools. William R. Parkin becomes Clear Spring High principal, Gladys V Taylor Pinesburg Elementary, Elizabeth Barton Williamsport Primary, Ruth E Houpt Sharpsburg Elementary, and J Bruce Shipley Keedysville Elementary, with changes also affecting Downsville Elementary and others.
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Parkin
North High
Hagerstown High School
Shippenssburg State Teachers College
St. Lawrence University
Canton
Gladys V. ‘Taylor
Uppea
Erade
Pinesburg Elementary School
Virginia Lillard
Shepherd College
Taylor
Surrey School
Elizabeth Barton
Williamsport
Lincolnshire School
Ruth E. Houpt
Sharpsburg
William Buser
Boonsboro
Houpt
Downsville
Frosburg State Teachers College
Teachers College
Columbia University
J. Bruce Shipley
Keedysville
Alice Hutzell
Real Estate Market Quiet in County Week
Realty activity remained slow with fewer than twenty homes changing hands and total turnover under 200000. Transactions include Lewis W. Tzer to Charles Wesley Palmer on Williamsport Downsville Pike and others on Virginia Ave and Kent Avenue, with Ernest V. Wards executor selling Virgil B. Peek estate to Rosie.
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Lewis W. Tzer
Charles Wesley Palmer
Williamsport- Downsville Pike
Gerald T Mullendix
Charles Samuel Burger
Virginia Ave
J. Richard Cline
Norman S. Litten
Kent Avenue
Sharpsburg Pike
Ernest V. Wards
Virgil B. Peek
Rosie
Contract Awarded for Three Microwave Towers in Maryland
Travelstead and Sons Construction Co. of Baltimore won the contract to build three microwave towers in Western Maryland. The $15,898 bid, accepted by the State Roads Commission, covers concrete foundations and tower mounts. One tower will be erected on Fairview Mountain near Clear Spring, with another at Dan's Road in Allegheny County and a third at Cambridge State Park in Frederick County, along with related structural work.
Civil War Centennial Opening Nears in 1952 Plans
Readied centennial celebration unfolds with a January 8 opening in Washington and a September 17 reenactment of Antietam. Governors, commissions, and educational groups coordinate nationwide events and exhibits including a Port Hudson style sequence, Lincoln proclamations, and Civil War speakers bureaus for 23 states.
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United States
Port Semter
Oc Chiatesten
Lincoln
Jackson
Jefferson Davis
Montgomery
Bla
Ahlas
Washington
D.C
Marcel
Lexington
Thea Ie Bate
Phpph Durip
Ad Pvc
Nel Jr
Big Bethel
U.S
Offland Industrial Development
Tissis
Congress
Weather Outlook for Hagerstown and Vicinity
Clearing and cooler conditions across Hagerstown and Western Maryland with tonight in the 60s for lows. Sunday brings partly cloudy skies with a chance of showers, then cooler, drier air. northwest winds 5 to 18 mph tonight. Gale warnings shift to north to northwest this afternoon and diminish tonight. Monday remains fair and cool.
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Maryland
Easton
I Salisbury
Waterloo
Towson
Baltimore
Friend
Ship
Hagerstown
Astern Shore
Wrest
Virginia
Poe
Sviyaniat
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