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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1953
Page
12
Readable record of 4-H Department honors with names and places. Exhibits include egg, beets, preserves, beans, squash, cucumbers, clothing, sewing, and varied baked goods. Top awards go to Sylvester and Fisher families from Denton, Goldsboro, and Marydel, with multiple firsts, seconds, and classifications across ages 13 to 16 and under 13.
Sloan is named county chairman as part of a statewide effort by the Governor s Committee. The Caroline County Committee seeks public awareness for handicapped employment, stresses capable workers can perform across industries, and urges employers to hire on ability rather than sympathy. Employers and wheelchair users are urged to contact committee members or Chestertown 654 for counseling, training, restoration services, testing, or job placement.
Lois Fuchs competed with adults and won top ribbons in chiffon cake, white bread, whole wheat muffins, canned beets, and peaches with high marks for chocolate cake buns and tenderloin. Jimmie Morgan topped cookie displays and lemon pie, while Larry Clopper won angel food cake and sugar cookies, boosting a longstanding girls’ record as Frances Fisher and Lois Fuchs head to the State Style Review.
Lawson-Johnston urged Maryland readers to seek Collier's article on panic prevention after an atomic bio attack. He said civil defense aims to counteract panic and that 90 percent of emergency measures depend on calm survivors in the crucial first minutes.
In a feature from The American Weekly August 9 issue, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen outlines three methods he believes will hasten Russia's return to God. He presents a bold, religiously grounded approach to ideological conversion through moral persuasion, cultural influence, and personal witness.
Mac Wiseman stars in WRVA Old Dominion Barn Dance at the Reese Theatre Harrington on Wednesday August 12. Arrangements are under way to broadcast the show to Southern Stations from the stage.
A vehicle operated by Charles H. Gorham from Ridgely overturned near Thomastown at the left curve at the approach to an intersection. The report notes Gorham was the driver and describes the single-vehicle incident with location cues but lacks further outcomes.
A wartime poem by Cpl. Walter Lane laments Korean service under harsh conditions. It portrays Air Force guardsmen in distant lands earning meager pay, enduring fatigue and danger, while hoping to return home to misspent lives and forgotten sacrifices. The narrator warns youths not to enlist, suggesting even in death they are marked by service.
Enrollment exceeds eight children and sixteen teachers as the Daily Vacation Bible School begins at Ridgely Methodist Church. Classes run 9 to 11 15 a m Monday to Friday for ages 3 through high school with five departments. A Friday demonstration program plus display of handiwork and certificates for attending five days. Also notes Mrs. James H. Lynch hospitalized in Milford General Hospital and Ridgely 4-H girls at Maryland for 4-H Week.
On Monday night a Route 40 wreck west of Thomastown sent a vehicle up an embankment and onto a guy wire. Vernon Nichols and Barbara Smith, both colored, of Ridgely, were injured and transported to Memorial Hospital Easton by the Denton Volunteer Fire Co. ambulance. Trooper E C Myers charged Gorham with operating without a license and reckless driving. The car was a total loss.
Poem compares white clouds to ships at sea racing across a blue sky, noting their swift passage and the idea others may enjoy them elsewhere. A closing quip recalls a joke about a rented tuxedo and why someone did not dance.
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