98 MARYLAND MANUAL
Armories
State-owned and leased armories and facilities are located in the
following cities and towns:
Annapolis Easton
Baltimore City: Elkton
Fifth Regiment Armory Ellicott City
Broadway Armory Frederick
Fayette Street Armory Frostburg
Howard Street Armory Glen Burnie
Edmondson Ave. Armory Greenbelt
Hagerstown
Baltimore County: Havre de Grace
Gunpowder Range Highfield
Pikesville Hyattsville
Towson Kensington
Harbor Field LaPlata
Bel Air Laurel
Cambridge Leonardtown
Centreville Oakland
Chestertown Pocomoke City
Crisfield Prince Frederick
Cumberland Salisbury
Denton Silver Spring
Dundalk Westminster
Appropriations 1955 1956
General Fund ............................ $512,660 $509,611
Special Fund .............................. 85,000 61,500
Federal Fund ............................ 84,200 75,000
Total .................................... $651,860 $646,111
Staff: 95.
MARYLAND CIVIL DEFENSE AGENCY
Civil Defense Advisory Council
Chairman: William G. Ewald
Edmund S. Burke, Mrs. Harry Christopher, J. David Cor-
die, Charles Cornish, Charles E. McManus, Jr., Guthrie J.
McVicar, Harry F. Ogden, Brig. Gen. William C. Purnell,
W. Frank Roberts, Walter Sondheim, Jr., Ralph L. Thomas,
I. Ridgeway Trimble, M.D., E. Homer White, Jr., C. E.
Wise, Jr.
Sherley Ewing, Director
Arthur L. Shreve, Deputy Director
State Armory, Pikesville 8 Telephone: Hunter 6-4422
The Maryland Civil Defense Agency -was established by the Mary-
land Civil Defense Act of 1949. The Director of the agency is
appointed by the Governor. The agency is charged with the prep-
aration for, and the carrying out of, emergency functions other
than functions for which military forces are primarily responsible,
to minimize and repair injury and damage from disasters resulting
from enemy attack or natural causes. The agency is also authorized
to cooperate with the Federal government, the governments of other
states and local political sub-divisions of this State in organizing
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