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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1957
Page
3
Santiago confronts five day wave of anti inflation protests as troops fire on demonstrators. Authorities report at least four killed and hundreds injured or detained. Rioters targeted banks and government offices while a state of siege remains in effect nationwide.
The piece notes increasing tornado activity across several states with property damage and occasional fatalities. It stresses warning methods remain inadequate and highlights limited safety options, including sheltering in a tyre cellar when storms loom.
Birth announcements from Frederick Memorial Hospital list multiple families welcoming new children. Names include Donald William Hammond, Joan Kathryn Fagan, Sheila Marie Ray, Lisa Ann Powell, Curtis Wayne Orndorff, Brenda Ann Wolf, Sterling Eugene Weedon, David Williams Gray, Lois Jean Bolvard, Roberta Lyon Dodson with details on dates and parental residences.
In the April 4 1907 issue readers see a Congregational meeting at All Saints church electing vestrymen wardens and a registrar. Dennis Daniels and William Wachter patent a lightning arresting telephone device. Cromwell buys Derr meat store will open at 265 West Patrick Street. John Tyler returned to Frederick after the Baltimore Southern Methodist Conference session in Staunton Virginia with several appointments announced. Harry Schroeder resigns from B&O freight office to join W D Bowers Lumber Company. Irving Beard succeeds him.
Frederick county sportsmen defeated a bill to shift trout season from April to June 3 and from July 3 to July 15. The county Fish and Game Protective Association and the Izaak Walton League chapter led the opposition. About 1,500 visited the Fishing Creek CCC camp during open house. Jesse W. Kole, Alderman, announced his re election bid after one term. A barn and outbuildings on George Pearl’s farm near Burkittsville were destroyed by a fire of unknown origin. two fire companies saved the residence.
The Merryland Homemakers Club held its March meeting at Mrs. Herman Boyer’s home with 22 members and one visitor. Reading from Gift from the Sea, readings and music were shared as Civil Defense was discussed and plans for April were arranged.
Twenty three Jug Bridge Club members and three guests enjoyed an Easter motif dessert at the home of Mrs. Aubrey Davis. Co hosts were Mrs Bascom Neal and Mrs Paul Main with music by Mrs Clark Toms. The group sang Battle Hymn America and America the Beautiful. Mrs William Carty spoke on a food freezer membership plan and invited members to visit a plant in Alexandria Virginia April 15 17.
Deeds recorded in the clerk offices show Dennis C Simmons and wife selling 198 acres with improvements in Emmitsburg district to Delbert Piper and wife for about 40000 dollars. Robert C Rudy and wife sell three acres with improvements on Old Receiver road in Tuscarora district to Charles L Rhodes and wife for about 7500 dollars. Edna Mae Moljer sells to Charles L Higdon and wife tracts totaling about four acres with improvements in Braddock district for 20 dollars payable over time.
Miss Audrey JoAnne Groover and Norman Miller Mossburg wed at Tyner Methodist Church in Chattanooga on February 9. Attendants included Miss Anne Mossburg and Police Officer Paul W. Mossburg. Norman Mossburg, a Frederick High School graduate, works as a machinist in Chattanooga.
Dr James A Sensenbaugh addressed North Market PTA members on education and its relation to industry, stressing individual pupil attention and avoiding shortcuts in quality. Principal Donald McLuckie announced new furniture for three rooms and a new music and physical education instructor.
John Balaban 62 head of Balaban & Katz theater chain collapsed at his Lake Shore Drive apartment and died after 40 minutes of resuscitation attempts by a fire department inhalator squad. His wife Bertha reported he arose early and had trouble breathing. Cause of death was not immediately determined. Balaban was among five brothers prominent in the film industry. brother Barney Balaban, 69, heads Paramount Pictures in New York.
Homer C. Brooks who coached the state winning Frederick High basketball team was elected president of the Optimist club at a Wednesday dinner in the Francis Scott Key Hotel. Others named to offices include Warren Brake, Lester S. Moore, Edgar R. Brownlow, Melvin Snyder, Stanley Gaver, Bruce Reeder, and Rev. Carroll Boyer with five year director terms for C. Henry Lightner, Charles Collins, and Sylvester Thomas. Guests included Lt. Gov. Arnold Price and local Optimists.
Multiple obituaries from Frederick area note the deaths of Mrs Mary Roetta Boone aged 71 at 1 39 am at the Wachter residence on North Market Street after illness. Surviving relatives listed include daughter Mrs George M Wachter, brother Alfred Davis, nephew James Davis, niece Lola Nixon, four grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. Also recorded are David Francis Wetzel 89 of Rocky Ridge and Arthur Lee Derry 91, with service details, church affiliations, and survivors. Funeral arrangements are announced for each, with services to be held in Maryland and Indiana locations. burial in Mount Olivet and Mt Tabor cemeteries respectively.
Surviving relatives of Karl Emil Rabe include his parents and numerous sisters and brothers from Martinsburg and nearby towns. Funeral services were held at the funeral home and at 2 pm Wednesday with Masonic rites by Lynch Lodge 1163 A F and A M. Interment followed at Mount Olivet cemetery. Also noted are services for George W Davis of Mount Airy and details on a new Army ballistic research facility in Rockville and its dedication ceremonies.
Maryland congressman De Witt reflects on economy measures and budget handling by Congress. He notes the 83rd Club's plan for a permanent joint budget committee with full-time staff. He criticizes the Patman Subcommittee for monetary study as potentially political and cites District Estate distribution reform. He recounts a Kentucky trip and molasses joke about a man named Knight.
Among the sick listed in Frederick ailing residents are Mrs Voris Vronevurg reported recovering satisfactorily at Frederick Memorial Hospital after minor surgery. Mrs Elizabeth Carroll is a surgical patient at the same hospital, with satisfactory condition today. Mrs Lewis Eyier is confined to her home under doctor’s care. Mrs Annie Cline has improved and is able to be out again. Mrs G Millard Derr discharged after treatment for injuries from a fall and is recovering at her Middletown home. Mrs Charles E Collins of Urbana enters Church Home Hospital in Baltimore for treatment. Mrs Ethel Stockman improving after hospital admission. Mrs Isaac Hankey entered Johns Hopkins Hospital for observation and treatment. Mrs Maude M Frasey Burke entered United States Public Health Hospital in Baltimore for observation and treatment.
Who died Monday at 2 p m Wednesday at the funeral home in Damascus conducted by Rev Victor S Ross Jr Pallbearers were Horace Hipsley H S Albright Harry Bellison Carl Smith Edgar Grimes Ralph Williar Interment was in Prospect cemetery Olin L Molesworth funeral directors
A new wave of tornadoes swept Texas and Oklahoma, leaving Dallas with nineteen fatalities and nearly two hundred injured. Oklahoma totals stood five two at Little City, two at Durant, and one near Ardmore, with an additional tornado death near Ben Franklin in east Texas. Scattered tornadoes and tornadic winds accompanied the line moving east through Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee and Kentucky.
Governor McKeldin sails Easter Sunday for six weeks abroad starting in Monrovia Liberia for Maryland centennial events. He will then go to Europe to attend Heidelberg University commencement on May 25 and visit Spain before returning.
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