Chamber seeks full Senate hearing on canal park plan
The Wagerstown Chamber of Commerce demands a full Senate committee hearing on a bill to develop a park or parkway along the old C and O Canal. It protests sub committee hearings and asks for a week’s notice to prepare a brief opposing public ownership of canal land. Frank Wachter chairs the chamber group handling the issue.
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Wagerstown Chamber of Commerce
Senate
Interior and Insular Affairs Committee
Hagerstown Chamber of Commerce
Escaped bull Stuns Storefront Chase in Pennsylvania
In Harrisburg a frightened man dodges a charging bull outside a hardware store as it shatters windows and bolts toward the street. The owner, Charles Russe, and onlookers watch the animal roam free until a truck pulls up. Separate items note Patrolman James segiehis in Lebanon and a prison release bid for a father convicted of murder.
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Lebanon
James Segiehis
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Harrisburg
Violette
Charles Russe
Lancaster
George
Cerely
Russa
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National Park
Grand Canyon
Distributive Education Program Expands At North Hagerstown
The report by principal Logsdon shows 26 000 hours of job experience for seniors in distributive education at North Hagerstown High. Fourteen employers cooperated, with an average wage gain, and 22 seniors pursued the program this year with 17 still in senior year. Plans include expanding to office and trade occupations, plus adult education efforts, and a follow up study of graduates is planned for August.
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Crahnitya
William L. Fowr
North Hagerstown High School
Hagers'stown
Senoor
Hagerstown
Yakima Mop Fence Sparks Neighbor Dispute
Fred Strahs burg in Yakima Washington has erected a fence made of a thousand mop handles painted in many colors. Neighbors call it an eyesore and seek its removal, arguing it violates local aesthetics and property standards.
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Yakima
Wash
Fred Strahsburg
St Johns College to graduate 12 in 165th commencement
Annapolis June 13. St Johns College will hold its 165th commencement Sunday, graduating 12 students from a small class of 39 freshmen in 1953. Enrollment has risen and will reach about 220 next fall with 140 freshmen admitted. Also notes the pygmy marmoset as the smallest monkey, weighing 3 to 5 ounces.
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Annapolis
St. John’s College
Many Treated For Cut Wounds at Local Hospital
Mrs Josephine Weber of Big Spring cut her right arm on a venetian blind and received many sutures in the emergency room of Washington County Hospital. Also treated were Charles Stottlemeyer Jr two and Charles Stottlemyer Sr at 2548 Mulberry Street for a forehead laceration from a falling sand bucket. Five stitches were required. The two year old victim suffered a forehead wound. Richard Gysberls, 15, of 50 Oak Hill Avenue, cut his left foot on a sharp object.
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Josephine Weber
Big Spring
Washington County Hospital
Charles Stottlemeyer, Jr
Charles Stottlemyer, Sr
Mulberry St
Richard Gysberls
Eugene Gysberls
Oak Hill Avenue
Attendance Record Aims to Highlight Student Travel Effort
Nes Estner from Paddock of Greeley Colo completed her practice working course at General Rose Hospital in Denver. She drove a 1938 model car 108 miles round trip daily for 286 days until missing one school day due to a snow storm. Mamie Van Doren was born in Rowena South Carolina, and temperatures reached 47 degrees below zero that day.
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Nes
Estner Jb
Greeley
General Rose Hospital
Denver
Mamie van Doren
Rowena
S. C
Man suffers eye injury while chopping wood in Williamsport
In Williamsport, Vathaniel Buharp sustained a laceration to the right eyelid after a chip struck him while he chopped wood. He received two sutures and was discharged from the scene.
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Vathaniel Buharp
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