Kiwanis Club Hears Talk About Books
Kiwanis members heard Mrs. Roberta Broderick discuss John Kierans Natural History of New York City and three conservation works, noting Udalls Quiet Crisis and the roles of Thoreau Roosevelt Muir and Theodore Roosevelt in shaping national park policy. She praised library access to literature during National Library Week.
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John Kieran
New York City
Robert Broderick
C. Burr Artz Library
Kiwanis Club
Francis Scott Key Hotel
National Library Week
Broderick
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Civilian Conservation Corps
Catoctin
Frederick County
Stewart Udall
Secretary of the Interior
Udall
Thoreau
Theodore Roosevelt
Franklin Roosevelt
Louis E. Eichelberger
Frederick Rotary club notes donations and new members
A profit of 500 dollars was reported from a seafood dinner held last Tuesday night. Fifty nine dollars was donated to the State Science Fair and one hundred dollars to the Frederick Track and Field Club to support a trip to Olympic tryouts in California and competition in New Mexico. Two new members were welcomed by George Delaplaine Jr., Edward Henkler and Ronald Gazanno. Guests included Lou Campbell, Frederick. John Ginn, Philadelphia. and Dave Postal, University of Maryland. Birthdays this week observed for Edward Helfenstein, C S Yu, H Reese Shoemaker, and Alfred R Sharpe.
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Frederick
California
New Mexico
George Delaplaine Jr
Edward Henkler
Wade
Ronald Gazzano
Clorox
Lou Campbell
John Ginn
Philadelphia
Dave Postal
University of Maryland
Edward T. Helfenstein
C. S. Yu
Lh. Reese Shoemaker
Alfred R. Sharpe
Best Seller Author Dies
Silver Spring Maryland AP reports Rachel Carson aged 56, famed author of Silent Spring, dies of cancer. Carson, a biologist turned best selling writer, sparked nationwide pesticide controversy with The Sea Around Us and The Edge of the Sea. Her early work Under the Sea Wind also became a best seller as selections in the New Yorker drew strong industry reactions. Wintering in Silver Spring.
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Silver Spring, Md
Rachel Carson
Silent Spring
Miss Carson
New York
Marie Rachell
Robert M. Carson
New Yorker
Industy
Rachel Carson obituary highlights wartime service and eco activism
Miss Carson, lifelong writer and scientist, spent summers in Maine and years gathering global data for Silent Spring. Her work spurred a public outcry against pesticides, drew industry pushback, and influenced a Kennedy advisory report calling for stronger federal pesticide laws. She never married, adopted her grandnephew Roger Christie, born in Springdale, Pa, and received the Interior Department’s Distinguished Service Award in 1952. Elected to the National Academy of Arts and Letters last fall, she was to be inducted next month. funeral plans were not yet complete.
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Maine
Miss Carson
Kennedy
Roger Christie
Springdale
Department of the Interior
National Academy of Arts and Letters
Brunswick Council to Buy New Police Car Amid Bids
The Brunswick Town Council voted to purchase a new police car by inviting competitive bids. The current vehicle, in service for three years, will be replaced. The election registration day is set for June 15 with voting in the first week of August and candidate filing due 10 days before election.
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Brunswick
Coun
Himcilmen
Issetf
Ietat
Brunswick Mayor and council race heats up this year
Brunswick voters face a town election as three of six city council seats and the mayor's post open for four-year terms. Incumbents Jessie Orndorff W F Albert and Nellie Robey seek re election, while Mayor James E Cummings may also run. Republican events include a Federation of Republican Women spring conference set for April 22 at Timonium with a lunch and fashion show.
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Ewes
Jessie Orndorff
Brunswick
W. F. Albert
Nellie Robey
James E. Cummings
Cummings
GOP
Federation of Republican Women
Maryland
Fox
Timonium
All Republican Club
World table tennis champs win honors in Prague
Entries from China and Japan captured every honor at the 1963 world table tennis championships in Prague Czechoslovakia. Tickets available from Mrs Dorothy Captain Pikesville until April 17 for The News event inviting members wives husbands and friends on April 15 1964.
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Dorothy Captain
Pikesville
China
Japan
Prague
Czechoslovakia
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Locvale
Ryancrest Golden
Locvale Farms
J. Homer Remsberg & Sons
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Lenox
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