Community Chest Sets 1950 Goal at $107,770.10 in Hagerstown
The Hagerstown and Washington County Community Chest board announced a 1950 goal of 107770.10, up about 20 percent from last year. Roy Danzer Sr said the operating budget for 1951 will be 117770.10, financed by a 10000 surplus, with funds supporting 12 agencies including the Children’s Hospital Salvation Army Day Nursery Boys Club YMCA and more.
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Hagerstown
Washington County
Community Chest
Chest
Roy Danzer
E. N. Funkhouser
Chests
C. Merritt Campbell
Funkhouser
Danzer
Red Feather
Children’s Hospital
Salvation Army
Day Nursery
Boys’ Club of
Boy Scouts
Girl Scouts
Chest Board
Ach
Twe
Associated Services of America
Paull S.shields
Waynesboro Eagles Officer Charged With Fund Shortage
Harold Buterbaugh secretary of Waynesboro Aerie No. 1758 Fraternal Order of Eagles is jailed in Franklin County on fraudulent conversion charges. A Landis Tool Co clerk he was arrested by Constable Summers as auditors estimate the shortage between 87,000 and 8,000 dollars while the national office audits the records.
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Harold ¥. Buterbaugh
Waynesboro Aerie No. 1758
Order of Eagles
Franklin County
Buterbaugh
Landis Tool Company
M. F. Summers
Geisselman
Butterbaugh
Pair Nabbed After Wild Police Chase Near Frederick
Two Baltimore brothers Raymond A. Kettle 21 and 18 year old were arrested after a high speed chase through Frederick. The stolen car owned by Elwood M. Carbaugh was pursued at 70 mph with police firing, a tire was punctured, and a tree escape ended the pursuit near Jug Bridge. A .22 rifle pair was found in the vehicle. The brothers claimed they came to Frederick to hunt.
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Baltimore
Hagerstown
Frederick
Elwood M. Carbaugh
Foundry Street
Raymond A. Kettle
Kettle
Navy
Philadelphia
Sherman Boone
Jug Bridge
Monocacy River
Raymond Kettle
Boone
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Pine Grove Drive-In Theatre Weekend Lineup
A Pine Grove Drive-In programme lists Saturday October 14 screenings including Home In San Antoino starring Roy Acuff and Last Round Up with Gene Autry. Sunday October 15 runs follow with additional features.
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Pine Grove Drive-In Theatre
San Antoino
Roy Acuff
Gene Autry
Ford matron wills Edison Institute major bequest
Mrs. Henry Ford leaves about 4 million dollars of an estimated 8.5 million estate to the Edison Institute for education. The will filed for probate today provides cash gifts to five longtime Ford servants and splits non voting Ford stock among grandchildren and great grandchildren. Mrs. Ford died September 29 at age 84.
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Detroit
Henry Ford
Edison Institute
Ford
Ford Motor Co
Fords
Edie Ford
Walter Buhl II
William Clay Ford
Edsel Ford
Henry Ford II
Benson Ford
Palace Looted Stolen Papers Missing State Secrets
London reports a night intruder at Buckingham Palace stole a box of diplomatic papers including state secrets. A soldier found the broken box in a garbage can near the palace, taken from Maj. Gen. A. C. Salisbury-Jones's room as detectives swarm the grounds. Scotland Yard declines to comment.
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London
Evening News
Buckingham Palace
A. C. Salisbury-Jones
Scotland Yard Special Branch
Hecht Plans New Northern Avenue Shopping Center
The Hecht Company announced a $10.9 million plan for an 18 acre shopping center on the main highway between Washington and Alexandria. A 40 store complex with a four tiered garage is to occupy the site and is scheduled to open in fall 1951. a suburban store exists at Silver Spring Maryland.
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Hecht Company
Northern Avenue
Washington
Alexandria
Silver Spring
Plan Clean Up Of Alabama Prisons
Governor-nominee Gordon Persons pledges to reform Alabama prisons to end brutality as described in the Scottsboro case. He cited Haywood Patterson, a 38 year-old Black fugitive, as supporting the claim and noted his own prison experience. Patterson was among nine Black defendants in the Scottsboro affair, convicted on a train rape claim from 1931, with a long period in prison and an escape in 1948.
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Tuscaloosa
Ala
Gordon Persons
Alabama
Persons
Haywood Patterson
Suuther
Patterson
Scottsboro
Treasury chief predicts larger 1951 tax rise for defense
Pittsburgh report quotes Treasury Secretary John W. Snyder saying a pay-as-you-go defense plan will require a substantial tax increase in 1951. He told industrialists and businessmen that funding defense on a spot basis would demand a larger tax rise next year than most expect.
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Pittsburgh
Treasury
John W. Snyder
Snyder
Diverter headlight device wins Maryland approval
The Maryland DMV approves Charles Adler Jr s Diverter lamp an auto device mounted below the right headlamp that activates with down beam to cast a safe low beam along the road edge not into oncoming drivers Leonard E Kolmer of the Automobile Club of Maryland endorses it as a comfort and safety asset after weeks of testing
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Baltimore
Maryland Department of Motor Vehicles
Charles Adler, Jr
Adler
Department of Motor Vehicles
Leonard E. Kolmer
Automobile Club of Maryland
Five Persons Hurt On Friday The 13th
Five local residents sustained injuries on Friday the thirteenth. Mary Estelle Stickell sprained her right arm at home, Mary Etta Ridenour fractured her left knee at school, Marjorie Theresa Stoner cut her head at school, Edward A. Harp Jr fractured his left collarbone while playing football, and Martha Joyce Michaels was struck by a car causing facial scalp lacerations and a foot contusion. All were treated at the hospital and released.
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Ihe
Mary Estelle Stickell
Lincoln Avenue
Mary Etta Ridenour
Keedysville
Marjorie Theresa
Stoner
G. Leitersburg
Edward A. Harp, Jr
Linwood Road
Martha Joyce Michaels
Hagerstown
Williamsport Lions Are Congratulated
District Governor Alvin BE. Yaste of Cumberland brought congratulations for high attendance and activity at the Williamsport Lions Club meeting. State Senator Kenneth McLaughlin spoke on Obher Law and urged club support at the upcoming election. Guests included E Leister Mobley, W F Burhans, and Robert M Line.
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Alvin BE. Yaste
Cumberland
Williamsport Lions Club
Edgar Sprecher
Kenneth McLaughlin
Donald S. Ebersole
E. Leister Mobley
International Councilor
W. F. Burhans
Hagerstown
Robert M. Line
Sharpsburg
Joseph K. Scott
Wil-lamieport
Raymond Mueller
Williamsport Club
Waynesboro Campaign Aims For Twenty Four Thousand Five Hundred
Waynesboro's Community Chest opens with a dinner meeting setting a goal of 24 500. Electrically operated equipment helps farmers increase crop yields by one third while saving 14 percent in time.
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Waynesboro
Benner writes from Korea on Inchon Suwon invasions
Pfc. George S. Benner of Sharpsburg, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray G. Benner, reports arrival in Korea a month ago. In his October 3 letter he mentions taking part in the Inchon and Suwon invasions and notes he is now with the 187th Regimental Paratroop Combat Team at Kimpo Air Field.
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George S. Benner
Ray G. Benner
Sharpsburg
Korea
Inchon
Suwon
187Th
Kimpo Air Field
Child Killed by Trooper Auto in Maryland Accident
Five year old Richard Winner of Gilmore was killed in Lonaconing Maryland when he ran into the path of a car driven by off duty State Trooper Maynard J Whitney. Whitney said he did not see the boy until impact while driving his own car on State Route 36.
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Lonaconing
Maryland
Maynard J. Whitney
Richard Winner
Gilmore
Whitney
Frederick
Cumberland
Pistol Wielder Now In Custody
Albert Barclay, 29, accused of using a pistol to obtain a $500 loan from Compton National Bank, was returned from a Mexico trip and jailed on a federal bank robbery charge with $109000 bond. FBI said his death threat claim was false and that he left the gun as security after taking the loan.
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Los Angeles
Albert Barclay
Mexico
FBI
Barclay
U. S
Frank Whitaker
Compton National Bank
Americans Eat About Nine Pounds of Beans Per Year
A report notes that the average American consumes roughly nine pounds of beans annually, reflecting dietary trends and agricultural production.
Students Tour Conservation Work At State Reformatory Farm
Washington County students visited the State Reformatory for Males at Breathedsville during Land Week to view contour farming, terraces and pasture improvements on the 225 acre farm with 150 acres of permanent pasture. The event, led by Harland Biggs and Joseph K. Scott, included about 50 students from Hagerstown and Williamsport High Schools and remarks by Walter Bromley and local officials. The projects aim to bring most of the reformatory farm under conservation by next year, with water course outlets and garden crops on contour.
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Washington County
State Reformatory
Breathedsville
Harry Leasure
SCS
Reformatory
Hagerstown High School
Harland Biggs
Williamsport High
Joseph K. Scott
Walter Bromley
Land Week
Washington
Leasure
Mark Miller
Minor C. Donnell
Hancock
R. &, Dillon
R. S. Dillon, Jr
808
Barkley Defends Secretary Acheson in Spokane Speech
Vice-President Barkley praised Secretary of State Acheson as the ablest most conscientious and loyal man in the United States addressing a Spokane audience. He asserted Democrats are responsible for the current state and proud of it.
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Spokane
Wash
Barkley
Acheson
United States
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