The News Frederickt Md April 6 1948 Front Page
The Frederick News published afternoons except Sundays by the Great Southern Fig and Mfg. Co lists subscription rates including monthly and quarterly options. Readers urged to address communications to The News News-Post Building Court Street Frederick Maryland. Associated Press dispatches credited only to AP. Public notices and corrections policy noted. Saturday April 6 1948 edition.
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Tidal Disaster Across the Pacific in 1946
A historical report recalls a 1946 Pacific tidal wave surge, reaching Hawaii from Alaska with 100 foot waves and immense damage. No advance warning was received by Honolulu or other affected areas, prompting comparisons to Pearl Harbor and warnings about possible future upheavals in the region.
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Food Saving Program Aims to Cut Bread Waste
A famine emergency committee proposes 59 practical saving measures to aid starving populations. The plan urges public cooperation and highlights bread end utilization to cut waste. It estimates five percent of bread is discarded and calls for preventing waste and spoilage to ease hunger.
Golden Rule Cards Across Cultures and a Sailor Joke
Odds and ends recount a stray card titled Golden Rule of Other People with proverbs from Persian Greek Chinese Buddhist Egyptian Christian and Hindu traditions about treating others as you wish to be treated The piece ends with a sailor order and a lunch counter reply reflecting a lighthearted urban moment Some readers joke that people believe anything told in whispers
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Jonn Wortis Phrase Sparks Scrutiny in Lesson
A language note shows Wortis arguing that the phrase about John or Ano resigning is sacred yet awkward, prompting discussion of pronoun use and clarity in instructional context. The example labeled Jonn illustrates how names and gendered forms influence sentence rhythm and meaning in English lessons.
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Grain curbs loom as distillers face wartime limits
Washington reports Congress pressing to ban grain use by distillers and brewers amid global food shortages. Voorhis and Aiken push identical resolutions. UNRRA urges drastic grain curtailment. US production stays restricted under Agriculture orders with stockpiles and aging losses highlighted.
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Vocabulary Notes and Word Study Encouragement
A short prose excerpt on pronunciation spelling and vocabulary aims. It includes guidance on common mispronunciations and a daily word study approach. It features a quotation about trees described as excrescences and cites John Galsworthy.
Fifty Years Ago Local Items From The News Columns
Local items from the April 6 1896 column note fishing along Monocacy near Baugher's woods with a good string, church elders and deacons elected, school house supervision moved from county to school commissioners, Middletown corporation election result, Bernard Grove struck in the eye by a stone, and rumors about Frank Lin Harshman’s potential appointment denied by the board.
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Frederick Male High School
Twenty Years Ago Local Items From 1926 Columns
Roanoke VA Reverend A R Tosh becomes new assistant to Hood College president Dr Joseph H Apple and plans active field work for the college. A petition signed by about 30 residents seeks a brick house at Sabillasville. no action was taken. A steam roller from M J Grove Lime Co becomes uncontrollable on a hill near Burkittsville. operator unhurt. The L E Mullinix property at 26 East Third Street sold to Mr and Mrs George C Smith of Smits and Grimes.
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Today In History and Anniversaries Lineup
A compilation of historical birthdays and events from 1785 to the modern era. Notable figures include John Fierpont, Lincoln Steffens, Helen Hyde, Houdini, and others with linked life spans, plus anniversaries such as the U S Senate opening session in 1788 and the Dred Scott decision in 1857.
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April remembers spring in Frederick amid postswar scenes
Saturday Chat recalls blossoms along Carroll Parkway and country meadows as spring grudgingly returns after winter. March winds ease but global tensions persist with UN Security Council delays. Frederick civic notes include veterans housing plans, airport progress, radio system upgrade, and rising food prices. Local life moves on with elections, dairy price talks, accidents, strikes, and community events.
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Leaves From Notebook Of A Correspondent Salonika April 6
Salonika reports on Dr. Herman Wells Indiana University president and five American district chiefs supervising Greek election data in a 400 mile zone from Albania to the Turkish border. Allied teams of three verify polling places, interview voters and candidates, report to governments, aiming at stabilizing influence amid a partisan landscape. Greece welcomes observers despite Communist boycott and regional tensions.
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Atomic tests push Bikini natives to Rongerik Atoll
In postwar quiz style, questions reveal displacement of Bikini residents to Rongerik Atoll 109 miles away for atomic tests. Other items note Anamese share of Indo China population, Soviet evacuation of Bornholm, Hiroshima death toll, and U.S. lumber demand projections.
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Love in the ruins of a Frederick Mason inn
A solitary figure, at sunset on a Frederick County hillside, gazes over grand but ruined baronial halls now mute mounds of masonry. Amid debris, a fading raised inscription on a pillar echoes a single word from the past: Love.
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Dorothy Dix letters on how to write letters to boys
The Bell Syndicate columns share tips for bobby-sockers on letter writing. They urge legible handwriting or a typewriter, personal updates, cheerful tone, and answering questions, warning against love letters before marriage and duplicating letters to a boy.
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Atomic Bomb May Require New Defense For Nation
Washington observes Army Day amid debate on universal military training and unified services. Laws and plans mix with fears of indoctrination, while Navy and Army push mixed strategies for postwar defense and a large peacetime force. Navy eyes ship tests this summer for new designs and tactics.
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