Cumberland Valley Art Exhibition Set for Hagerstown Show
The Washington County Museum of Fine Arts announces the 25th Annual Cumberland Valley Artists Exhibition at the museum in Hagerstown Maryland from March 31 to April 30. Entries due March 4 with two original works per contributor in oil watercolor gouache sculpture or graphic media. Residents of the Cumberland Valley area between Harrisburg Winchester Frederick and Cumberland may enter. Entry blanks available from Bruce Etchison director P O Box 423 Hagertown Md.
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Washington County Museum of Fine Arts
Hagerstown
Cumberland Valley
Harrisburg
Winchester
Frederick
Cumberland
Maryland
Bruce Etchison
The
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Three Projects Aid Dimes Drive
Three separate projects aid the March of Dimes campaign. A bake sale by the James Wood Future Homemakers of America netted 45 dollars, Coffee Day raised 203.27, and C A Hanshew of Middletown Dry Cleaners pledged ten percent of this week’s receipts to the drive against polio.
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March of Dimes
James Wood
Why Pigeons Favor Cities Over Other Birds
J F explains that pigeons have long inhabited city parks and squares in Europe and Asia and now in many cities. They are drawn to people who like them, enjoy easy food, and accessible shelter and breeding sites, though large congregations can become nuisances.
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Europe
Asia
Highway Expenditures Reveal Frederick Clarke Area Growth
Expenditures 1940-1956 total 4.32 million on Frederick primary highways and 3.04 million on secondary roads. Major projects include U S Route 11 widening 1944-54 and U S Route 50 paving 1941-54. Clarke County totals reach 2.81 million on primary and 1.34 million on secondary, with numerous widening and stabilizing projects.
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Frederick County
Clarke County
Winchester
U. S. Rt
State Rt
U.S. Rt
Clarke
Gainesboro
Reynolds’ Store
Mt. Falls
U. S
AFL-CIO Plans $7 Million Southern Membership Drive
The AFL-CIO discusses spending seven million dollars over three years to persuade Southern workers to join unions. Plans include TV radio newspapers and billboards highlighting union value. George Meany backs the approach as COPE and a PR committee handle details.
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Miami Beach
Fila
Afl-Cio
AFL - Cio
William C. Birthright
Barbers Union
Airliner Crashes On Final Approach At Orly Field
A four engine airliner overturned during landing at Orly Paris in dense fog. Sixty passengers on a Tunis to Paris charter. one death, a retired French army general. Fifteen seriously injured and about thirty with minor injuries. Five hours to free the last two victims.
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Paris
Orly Field
Tunis
Tunisia
Airpower Probers Split on Party Lines in Senate Report
A Senate special subcommittee report on airpower division shows Democrats warning of rising vulnerability and lagging retaliation programs, while Republicans call the majority view unduly pessimistic. Senator Bridges says the Senate Appropriations Committee will decide after follow up.
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Ved Services Committee
R-Pa
Duff
Apri
Washington
Senate
United States
Soviet Union
Defense Department
Sen. Bridges
RNH
Senate Appropriations Committee
Appropriations Committee
Bridges
Sen
Symington
D-Mo
Air Force
Jackson
D-Wash
Ervin
Saltonstall
Mass
13 Year Old Boy Accused in Mother's Shooting in Nashville
In Nashville a 13-year-old boy, Billy Blankenbaker, was charged with assault with intent to commit murder after firing two .22 rifle shots into his mother’s head while she read a book. He said she refused permission to play with a switch blade given by his father. The mother was listed in critical condition.
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Nashville
Tenn
Billy Blankenbaker
Billy
Dr McLanahan Assigned to Kuwait for Sheik Surgery
Dr Samuel McLanahan Jr, nephew of Mrs Joseph Massie Sr, travels from Baltimore to Kuwait to perform surgery on Sheik Shaykh Subah Nasser. He is an assistant professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins and has strong ties to Winchester. The Kuwait government requested the American government send him.
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Samuel McLanahan
Joseph A. Massie
Kingdom of
Kuwait
McLanahan
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Baltimore
Winchester
Seven Die in Manila Suburb Factory Fire
Seven persons died today in a fire that destroyed two factories in a Manila suburb. Police said they were investigating the possibility of arson.
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Manila
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Evening Star
Pattern Dept
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George Meany
Committee On Political Education
COPE
Jack Kroll
James L. McDevitt
Kroll
Cincinnati
Ohio
Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union
Sidney Hillman
CIO
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Challis
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Lester
James Wood School
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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Sheik
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Go B&o
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