Soviet Leaders Visit London Lay Wreath at Cenotaph
Soviet Premier Bulganin and Communist Party chief Khrushchev arrived in London for a 10 day visit. They rode through crowds to lay a wreath at the Cenotaph, then to Buckingham Palace for a royal meeting.
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Balganm
Khrushchev
Landon
Britain
Anthony’ Eden
Claridges Hotel
Kremlin
Soviet Union
Great Britain
Buckingham Palace
Queen Elizabeth II
Windsor Castle
Employment Gains Lift U S Workforce Record
The nation added about half a million jobs from mid February to mid March lifting total employment to a new peak of 63 million. Wages rose as federal minimums took effect March 1 and business leaders report strong first quarter results with growth likely to continue.
Newsprint Shortage Tied to Election Demand and Rationing
A Congressional subcommittee reports that newsprint will face high demand this fall from political campaigns and advertising, with the first half of the year likely to set new ad space records. Supply may barely balance due to new equipment at Great Northern Paper Maine and a Tennessee mill becoming fully operational, but rationing will continue and no solution is offered.
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Congressional
Great Northern Paper Company
Maine
Tennessee
Boy With Air Pistol Causes Police Stir at Buckingham Palace
A young boy armed with an air pistol triggered a police response in a crowd outside Buckingham Palace during the visit of Soviet Premier Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev. The pistol clattered to the street and officers detained the boy but later said no further action would be taken.
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London
Buckingham Palace
Bulganin
Nikita Khrushchev
Rev Ralph H Miller Heads Gettysburg Alumni Club
The Frederick Carroll Club of Gettysburg College alumni met at Trinity Lutheran Taneytown for a yearly gathering with a dinner. Rev Ralph H Miller was elected president and officers include secretary treasurer Mrs George Molier and committee member David Babyton Jr. Others in attendance listed from Hampstead Taneytown Westminster Walkersville and Lancaster along with college trustee Mrs Parker Waginald.
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Frederick Carroll Club
Gettysburg College
Trinity Lutheran Church
Taneytown
Albo
Parker B. Waginald
Trenry T Bream
Russell Fink
Hampstead
George Motter
Taney Town
Ralph H. Miller
Brunswick
George Molier
David Babyton Jr
Westminster
Donald R. Warrenfeltz
Uniontown
Cash Smith
Woodshoro
George Best
Frederick
Ralph J. Miller
Clyde Hesson
W. Wallace Reindollar
Ethel Reindollar
Robert
R. Seibel
Silver Run
Ellwood R. Falkenstein
David Babylon Jr
Richard Waybright
Harney
Arthur Fellenbaum
Lancaster
The
College
Gettysburg
Fifty Years Ago Items From The News Columns April 19 1906
Freight car of the Frederick and Middletown Railroad with lime from Gilmer Schley’s kilns burned after heat contact. Lime shoveled away to save rest of car. Two strange dogs entered Charles Routzahn’s hennery on West Patrick Street and killed several chickens. Routzahn shot the dogs. Wilson Schley becomes bookkeeper at Farmers Exchange starting Monday. News solicits aid contributions for San Francisco earthquake victims. Company A gives 16 dollars and clothing donations are being gathered. Local Lodge of Eagles moves from Farmers and Mechanics Bank Building on Patrick Street to Morgan Cecil’s store.
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Frederick
Middletown
Gilmer Schley
Charles Routzahn
West Patrick Street
Routzahn
Wilson Schley
East
Patrick ‘Street
Farmers Exchange
Asl
San Francisco
Company A
Lodge OF Eagles
Farmers and Mechanics National Bank Bulle
Patrick Street
Morgan Cecil
LaVale Mother Named Mrs. Maryland in Pageant
Mrs. W. Ardell Haines of La Vale won the Mrs. Maryland title in a Cumberland and Allegheny Gas Co contest. She received a wrist watch luggage perfume and 150 dollars in cash and will get an expense paid trip to the national Mrs. America contest in Ellinor Village Florida. Her 10 year old son will represent Maryland in the pageant. Only two other entrants were Mrs. Ross Conderman of Hagerstown the runner up and Mrs. Marvin Jones of Deer Park Garrett County.
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Cumberland
Maryland
W. Ardell Haines
LaVale
Cumberland and Allegheny Gas Co
Ellinor Village
Fla
Ross Conderman
Hagerstown
Marvin Jones
Deer Park
Garrett County
Deer Killings Mark Winter Drags In Mountains West Of Catoctin
Twenty years ago items report many deer killed by packs of dogs in the mountains west of Catoctin Furnace on city watershed and nearby properties including those of Lawrence Richey. Deputy Forest Warden Renner provides the count and notes a rare albino doe among the quarry. The rest of the column notes a Mt. Pleasant fire destroying a garage and contents on Reformed Church property and later spreading to Grayson Angleberger outbuildings, with firemen saving the home. Another item shows trench-digging machinery for the new sanitary sewer system. Dick Nallin resigns from umpiring after 27 years, opting to farm locally.
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Lawrence Richey
Catoctin Furnace
William G. Renner
Reformed Church
Mt. Pleasant
Grayson Angleberger
Dick Nallin
Local Couple Return From Baltimore Life Insurance Convention
Mr and Mrs Richard Wiles of West Fifty street returned after a weekend at the Chamberlain Hotel in Old Point Comfort Virginia attending the Baltimore Life Insurance convention. Mr Sam Miller of West Patrick street also spent several days at the same hotel for the convention. A hydrogen bomb shock wave racing across Chicago at 1000 mph would destroy property values at a rate of a billion dollars per second.
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Richard Wiles
West Fifty Street
Chamberlain Hotel
Old Point Comfort
Baltimore Life Insurance
Sam Miller
West Patrick Street
Chicago
Three Winners In Optimist Oratorical Contest Named
Three boys from Walkersville and Frederick competed in the Optimist club oratorical contest at the Francis Scott Key Hotel. Richard Marvin Smith won first place and will represent the club at the district convention in Richmond in May. Ronald Edward Smith took second and is an alternate. Horace Albaugh finished third.
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Francis Scotties Hotel
Richard Marvin Smith
Walkersville High School
Harry Smith
Walkersvile
Richmond
Smith
Ronald Edward Smith
Walkerssille
Horace Jbaugh
E Street School
Horace Albaugh"Sr
Magnola
Fredenck County
Sweadner
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Glenn A. Mainer
Kiwanis
Optimist International
Ralph Bell
Washington
Bell
Los Angeles
Edward Daugherty
Sylvester Thomas
Lease Bussard
Western Maryland College
Belli Albaugh
Ronald Smith
Davis
Richard Marsin Smith
Francis Scott Key
Srem
Seroma
Ronald Eugene Smith
Horace Albaugh Jr
Court Maryland Catholic Daughters meet at Southern Restaurant
Mrs William Duggan Jr, vice grand regent, presided at the regular meeting in the Pine Room. The court heard a report from Mrs YT Levinson and voted to remember Emergency Hospital patients on their birthdays with gift boxes, and to extend the same to Montevue’s Komen patients. Arn Stuntan served as education chairman.
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William Duggan Jr
Catholic Daughters of America
Southern
YT. V. Levinson
Montevue Education
Arn Stuntan
No Benefits For Snake In Dinner Bucket
A worker from Spencer, Allen A. Redenberg, claimed unemployment after quitting Spencer Concrete Products Co. He found a live mouse in his dinner bucket, then a dead mouse, then a live garter snake, at noon, and resigned. The Iowa Employment Security Commission rejected his claim.
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Des Moines
Ye Gant
Lowa Employment Security Commission
Allen A. Redenberg
Spencer
Spencer Concrete, Products Co
Sect Forbidden Today To Join Unions In U S Affairs
Washington reports that members of a 250 year old German Baptist Brethren sect will return home with little guidance on securing industry jobs without joining unions. They met Labor Secretary Mitchell and NLRB counsel Kammbholz to seek a mutual understanding for working in unionized plants while donating to charity instead of paying dues.
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Washington
By D
Mitchell
Theophil C. Kammbholz
National Labor Relations Board
NLRB
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Lester Fisher
Covington
Ohio
Fisher
Wills Hess
Waynesboro
David Benedict
Dennied Garber
Chambersburg, Pa
Fifth District Daffodil And Spring Flower Show Set For April 24
Mrs Elizabeth Lewis Peters announces progress on chairs and committees for the Fifth District Federated Clubs of Maryland Daffodil and Spring Flower Show to be held April 24. Exhibitors are urged to submit entries and reports to Mrs Edgar Barnes by Friday evening as plans shape up for a colorful display.
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Elizabeth Lewis Peters
Edgar Barnes
Daffodil and
Springston Bridge
Wis Hobert
Cesta
Maryland
Envr
Calvary Methodist Church
Frederick
John P. Caspar
Federated Garden Clubs of
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Francis Seoul
Ars Caspar
Wancock
Dam near Lilypons prompts fears for goldfish business
A Potomac Electric Power Company dam planned a quarter mile below Monocacy mouth near Lilypons would heighten flood risk for Three Springs Fisheries owner G. L Thomas Jr. He warns the project could “put us out of business” as rising Monocacy levels threaten the Lilypons goldfish operation. Weather officials note Monocacy rise approximate but no profile chart exists.
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Lilypons Bridge
Hydrologic Services Division
U.S. Weather Bureau
Potomac Electric Power Company
Monocacy On
Potomac
G. L Thomas Jr
Three Springs
Cornelius Meas
Pepco
Thomas
Lilypons
Weather Bureau
William E. Hiatt
Monocacy
Camp Encampmentprepares for National Girl Scout Roundup
Four Frederick County Girl Scouts and two adults held a weekend encampment at a West Virginia state park in preparation for the National Girl Scout Roundup to be held June 29 to July 1 at Highland State Park in Macch. The group planned to attend the Roundup and assumed meals and camping gear responsibilities Friday through Sunday.
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Macch
Frederick
William Dorrell
Tristate J
Winchester
Tritown
Lake
Piedmont
Westernport
W. Va
Martinsburg
Cumberland
Hagerstown
Poetry Contest Winners Selected
The Catholic Daughters of America sponsored national poetry contest results announced for March. Division I winners include Lois Walstams and Julianne Clark of St Euphemia's Emmitsburg, William Ott of St Euphemia's, with others from St John’s Frederick and St Joseph's Emmitsburg. Division II winners feature Wanda Shank, James Wetzel, and Linda Hamerick from St John’s Frederick and St Joseph's Emmitsburg. State judging will feed into the national contest with trophies and cash prizes awarded.
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Catholic Daughters of America
St. Euphemia's School
Emmitsburg
St John’s Haugh School
Frederick
St. Joseph's High School
Lois Walstams
St. Eupemia’s
William Ott
St. Euphemia's
Julianne Clark
Euphemia’s
Winers
Wanda Shank
St. John’s
James Wetzel
St. Joseph's
Linda Hamerick
Weather Testimony Triggers Meckling Shipwreck Trial
An official from the Weather Bureau is set to testify as the John H. Meckling trial enters its second day. Meckling, skipper of the Levin J Marvel, survived the Chesapeake Bay wreck near North Beach Maryland last August amid a storm that preceded Hurricane Connie and cost lives. He faces two counts: negligence and operating a vessel recklessly endangering passengers and crew, with penalties including up to 10 years and $10,000 fine or one year and $2,000 fine respectively. The indictment follows Coast Guard recommendations from January after its inquiry.
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Baltimore
U. S. Weather Bureau
John H. Meckling
Levin J. Marvel
Marvel
Chesapeake Bay
North Beach
Meckling
Annapolis
U. S. Coast Guard
Distinguished talk on The Distinguished American Negro at AAUW meeting
Dr James B Ranck head of Hood College department will speak to AAUW members next Tuesday at 8 p m in the C Burr Artz Library Children s Room The program sponsored by the Social Studies Committee includes a business session and officer elections for 1956 1957 Hectorite white clay material mined in the Mojave Desert since 1946
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American Association of University Wolsten
James B. Ranck
Bpreheme of History
Frederick County
Ranek
Hood
Aauw Social Studies Committee
A. Royal Remsberg
Dutch Captain Jungschlager Dies While On Trial
The Hague reports Capt Leon Jungschlager, a Dutch national linked to Indonesian affairs, died from hemorrhages during trial proceedings. The incident follows tension over military intelligence and U.S. aid amid anti-Communist sentiment in the region.
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Jungschlager
Indonesia
Moe
Hague
Netherlands
Leon M. Jungschlager
Gence
Netherlands Indies
Ill Mrs Herbst Reported Somewhat Improved
Mrs Dellae V Herbst of East Fourth Street, confined at home with pleurisy, is reported somewhat improved in the latest bulletin from her physicians.
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Dellae V. Herbst
East Fourth Street
Grace Kelly Wedding Buzz Amid Grand Coverage
The Baltimore Sun editorialized on Grace Kelly and Rainier’s wedding as a world spectacle. Photographers and reporters tracked every detail from outfits to utterances, promising a return to normal life once the ceremony concludes.
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Baltimore Sun
Grace Kelly
Gina Lollobrigitha
Kelly
Grace
Rainier
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