New Woodland Way Junior High Adds Auditorium and Gym
Workmen have erected a 36000 addition to Woodland Way Junior High, with a 500-seat auditorium and gymnasium. The project includes shower and dressing rooms, a top-floor cafeteria, and aims to relieve crowding. Aaron Beecher is the general contractor, with plans for future school expansions in Downeville Boonsboro and Williamsport. Architects Buckler Fenhagen and A J Klinkhart.
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Woodland Way
Aaron Beecher
Board ‘of Education
Downeville
Boonsboro
South Potomac
Williamsport High School
Buckler
Fenhagen
Baltimore
A. J. Klinkhart
Hagerstown
Campaign Chairman Outlines Y M C A Service In City
Frank S. Leiter announces the annual Y M C A campaign opens Oct 3. The 1937 38 report shows 2100 members with 666 enrolled and 3365 sessions totaling 77 632 in attendance plus 27 848 at 43 extra groups. Dormitory use yielded 15813 bed nights and camps logged 1757 camper days. Directors seek 15000 to cover next year’s budget without a deficit.
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Frank S. Leiter
Leiter
Y. M. C. A. Red Cross
Y. MC
Hagerstown
Convention To Name O'Conor Continues From Page 1
O'Conor plans to name seven Prince Georges delegates to vote for him securing a 79 vote tally and the nomination. Lasseer announced the seven votes, strengthening O'Conor's bid and positioning the southern Maryland delegation as kingmakers. O'Conor forces cancelled recounts in Anne Arundel and Frederick counties where the O'Conor Jackson primary contest was tight. Democratic ticket includes Governor Herbert R. O'Conor U S Senator Millard E. Tydings Comptroller J Millard Tawes and Clerk of Court of Appeals James A. Young. Eastern Shore counties Caroline Wicomico Worcester control 12 convention votes aiding a close Attorney General contest between John Gentrum and William C Walsh. Delegates will decide after dropping third choices. Walsh leads 70 to 67. Potential convention leadership names include Clarence W Miles or James Clark as chair, with other roles drawn from a list including Arthur H Brice Dudley G Roe and T Hughlett Henry and Mayor W Lee Elgin.
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Prince Georges
O’conor
Lasseer
O'Conor
Maryland
Anne Arundel
Frederick
Jackson
David C. Winebrenner
Frederick County
Herbert R. O’canor
Baltimore
U. S
Millard E. Tydings
Gontrum
Walsh
Clarence W Miles
James Clark
Howard County
Platform Committee
Democratic State Central Committee
Arthur H. Brice
Kent County
Dudley G. Roe
State Senate
Queen Anne’s
Easton
W. Lee Elgin
Hagera
O'Conor Wins Allegany County in Democratic Primary
The Board of Election Supervisors canvassed the recount in Allegany County Maryland and certified Herbert R O Conor carried by six votes earning seven convention votes in Baltimore. The court lifted a restraining order and allowed final tabulation of the Democratic ballot after Jackson sought a writ of mandamus.
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Cumberland
Board of Election Supervisors
Herbert R. O'Conor
Morrow
Baltimore
Howard W. Jackson
Thomas L. Richards
Jackson
D. Lindley Sloan
Frank G. Wagaman
Committee to Meet for Alsatia Parade Prizes
Alsatia Mummers Parade committee will meet in the club rooms tonight at 8 o'clock. A full attendance is desired as parade prizes will be the chief subject of discussion.
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Alsatia Mummers
O ConorNominated. Maryland Democratic Governor Candidate
Attorney General Herbert R. O Conor, labeled the likely Democratic contender for Maryland governor, is profiled as a former newspaper man with a rapid, energetic style. Born in Baltimore, he rose from Loyola College and Maryland law to State's Attorney, then Public Service counsel, shaping a political career in the 1920s.
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Baltimore
Herbert R. O’conor
Baltimore City
O'Conor
Loyola College
University of Maryland Law School
Peoples
Public Service Commission
Minister Tells Of Pastorate Changes In Hagerstown
The Rev. Frank G. Mentzer said reports he refused to leave his Antietam Street U B Church post are false. He cited church overstaffing and a side business to support seven children, and noted the church board voted to retain him while the Rev. Charles L. Herr, a Huntington College graduate, will assume the local pastorate. Herr has served in California and then joined the Pennsylvania Conference. his parents live in Chambersburg.
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Frank G. Mentzer
Antietam Street
U. B
Old Constitution
Pennsylvania
Charles L. Herr
Hagerstown
Mentzer
Herr
Huntington College
Indiana
California
Pennsylvania Conference
Chambersburg
Attempt To Break Jail Reported In Chambersburg
Three prisoners at Franklin county jail in Chambersburg were segregated as Sheriff Charles Gillan and State Police pursued an escape plot. Suspect William H. Poffenberger, 39, formerly of Hagerstown, awaits trial on a Waynesboro liquor store robbery charge. A pipe section and improvised tape hidden in a western cell block aided the probe.
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Franklin County
Chambersburg
Charles Gillan
William H. Poffenberger
Hagerstown
Waynesboro
Broadway Hit Opens Tonight
The New York Players present Open Your Heart at Franklin Court Auditorium opening tonight. Phyllis Rand pursues romance through dramatic lessons, meeting Tyron Brent who rejects her and introducing understudy Carl Edmonds. The romantic comedy features Shirley Ayers, John Lockie, John E Styles and a comic maid Martha. Show runs through Saturday with a 2:30 matinee.
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New York Players
Phyllis Rand
Tyron Brent
Broadway
New York
Carl Edmonds
Jessena
Shirley Ayers
John Lockie
John E. Styles
Phyllis
Jane Porter
John Travers
Pete Holden
Anna O'Neil
Albert Patterson
Ken Gaynor
Marcia Kelsten
Martha
Hagerstown
Franklin Court Auditorium
Property Sold at Trego Court House Auction
The Stine property in Trego sold yesterday afternoon in front of the Court House. Auctioneer Denton Shank led the sale with a bid of 900 dollars.
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Stine
Trego
Court House
Denton Shank
Local market quotations from Kinne Bros and area prices
Furnished by Kinne Bros Benevola Wheat at mill 68 cents bushel Wheat at harvest 64 6 46 Corn at mill local price paid Butter lb 20 to 26 cents Shoulder 20 to 6 cents Lard Country Ham Country Bacon Onions Potatoes No 1 bushels 60 cents No 2 bushels 25 cents Eggs 27 cents per dozen Spring Chickens 15 to 17 cents Old Chickens 12 to 10 cents
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Kinne ‘Bros
Wsesseseeras
Light cruisers provisioned at San Diego port
Sources report three light cruisers the Cincinnati Trenton and Concord being provisioned hurriedly at the San Diego harbor. Navy officials would not comment. Supplies for six months were loaded aboard with a reported deadline of 8 a m today.
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San Diego
Sept
Navy
Cincinnati
Trenton
Concord
Start New Church Rising on Artizan Street
Work has begun on a Pentecostal church on Artizan Street in Williamsport. Foundations are under way for a one story frame building with an auditorium for over 200. Rev. Lester Myers will serve as pastor.
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Artizan Street
Williamsport
Lester Myers
Presbyterian meeting opens Winchester presbytery in Duffield
About 1000 ministers and lay members gathered in Duffield West Virginia for the opening session of the Winchester presbytery at Elk Branch church between Charles Town and Shepherdstown. Rev John A Trostle of Hancock Maryland delivered the opening address.
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Duffield
W.va
Presbyterian Church
Winchester
John A. Trostle
Hancock
Elk Branch
Charles Town
Shepherdstown
Trains Collide Near Denver Injuring Eleven
A westbound passenger train and a freight train collided head on near the Denver city limits on Tuesday night. Eleven persons were injured, all in the Den ver and Rio Grande passenger train’s first coach. The baggage car was crushed against the coach.
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Denver
Senti
Denver and
Rio Grande
Danish cinemas earned about 1.63 million in 1926 37
Motion picture theaters in Denmark contributed about 1 628 000 dollars in fiscal year 1926 37 about three fourths of the total amusement receipts. Licensed circuses contributed nearly 40 000 dollars.
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Denmark
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