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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1955
Page
2
The notice lists publication details for Pebbebe by Pe PIG & M Pre. co. in Frederick Maryland with contact and pricing. It states subscription options including monthly and yearly rates and notes postal registration as a second class matter. It is dated Friday April 22, 1955.
The piece recalls nickelodeon shows and five cent adventure books, noting The Great Train Robbery as the first connected plot film. It mentions detective weeklies Olé King Brady Nick Carter and Buffalo Bill style Indian foes, and child stars Foxy Grandpa and others. It wonders how middle aged people survived youth’s hazards and calls for new protections.
About 150 teenagers attended Wednesday night’s weekly dance in the Staley Park Field House. Winners of the spot dance were Mats Alice Cramer and Thomas Zufall. Plans are now underway for the May Ball.
Smallpox concerns arise in Hagerstown as a trolley excursion to Frederick is planned amid precautions. Emerson Literary Society debated whether science or wealth advanced civilization, with the negative winning 2-1. Bars Temperance officers elected include Lease, Enchelberser, Loy, Gaither, Thomas. First tennis matches on new Frederick Tennis Club courts draw a crowd. club officers listed. Twelve new Stieff pianos installed at the Woman’s College Conservatory, with crowd watching as instruments are hauled by pulleys.
Twenty years ago notes report that 752 to 600 children will enter first grades in Frederick County public schools next fall per Board of Education. Clayton Creager defeats Ed Beachley 48 to 39 for town commissioner in Thurman election. Willan J Staser unopposed for mayor. Mrs Ida Coblentz of Middletown fracturing her leg after being kicked by a cow while milking. Baker Park amphitheater construction under FERA with 15 to 20 workers, approved by mayor and aldermen.
Obituaries note the deaths of Mrs. Marry Lee of Woodbine and Earl Van Buren Price of Rosemont Brunswick. Mrs. Lee, aged widow of Harry Lee, rests at Pumphrey funeral home with services Sunday at two in Rockville, interment Gaithersburg cemetery. Price, 65, a veteran railroad engineer, died at Newton D Baker Veterans Hospital Martinsburg. funeral at Rosemont Monday with Legion honors and interment at Rosemont cemetery. Infant Robert Allen Carpenter died in Baltimore. funeral Saturday at Wol Tickner Long funeral home with interment Mt. Olivet Cemetery Frederick.
Arlington announces the engagement of Miss Jackson to Mr Delpher Sr. Miss Jackson is a University of Maryland student and Gamma Phi Beta secretary. Mr Delpher Sr is a University of Maryland graduate and a Riggs National Bank employee awaiting active duty as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force.
Wooddinas Gray-Bair Catherine Teresa Fair daughter of Mr and Mrs William Bair Hanover Pa and Jack Edward Gray son of Mr and Mrs Maurice E Gray Union Bridge were married Saturday April 9 at Rev Ernest Calswell Keymar. Single ring ceremony. attendees included the bride’s master Miss Eleanor Bair and the couple’s parents. The bride wore a cream brocade dress with a blue duster and orchid accessories. The groom is a graduate of Elmer Wolfe High School and employed at Camp Frederick. They will reside at 23 West Broadway Union Bridge.
Tasker's Chance Garden Club names cochairmen for Spring Flower Show to be held Friday April 29 at the C Burr Arts Library with the theme Thus Is Frederick. Other committees include scheduling classification and passing entries and judges as well as awards and displays.
Funeral services for Royleve lland Michael who died at home Tuesday were held at 2 pm Thursday at the funeral home 106 East Church Street Rev Dr William R Barthart officiated. Interment Mount Olivet cemetery. pallbearers were members of Columbia Lodge.
A fragmentary report notes a person removed from the Dan Dee Motel to Frederick Memorial hospital this morning. It lists the COR Chine and Son atmbuiae and Mr Albert NAW Cadtedl pant Second tireet, with reference to Hopkins Hospital and market prices for corn wheat and barley. It also mentions Kingsley Dam near Ogallala, Nebraska as the second largest earthen dam in North America.
The Optimist club hosted an Optimist and Opti-Mrs dinner at Southern restaurant where Elm Street school student James Fox won the annual oratorical on Freedom Our Most Precious Heritage. Second went to William Hahn and third to Horace Albaugh.
The first Joseph Victor Memorial Concert will be held Monday evening at eight in Brodheck Hall Hood College. The program features chamber music by local and other musicians including Sidney Forrest Edgar Muenzer Edward Pollack William Preuvit John Bateman and Pat Pollack. The program opens with Beethovens Trio in B flat Opus 11 and includes works by Brahms Milhaud and Prokofiev as well as an overture on Hebrew themes. Proceeds support a memorial fund for Dr Joseph Victor and the Hood College venue hosts the event. The Araby W S C held its April meeting with worship and business noting new officers and a birthday party planned for May 9. Little League workouts at Staley Park faced rain delays with a makeup session set for this evening at 6. Radio news reports William H B Anders Jr son of Mr and Mrs W H B Anders will be heard tonight at 545 on a tape recording from Little Creek Va with the Seabees Amphibious Construction Co.
Washington The Democratic party shows a paradox with many strong candidates but no clear campaign issue due to internal splits. While figures like Stevenson, Williams, Symington, Lausche, Byrd, Russell, Johnson, Kefauver, and Harriman are named, power realignment centers on labor unions and special interests, leaving the party divided between radical, confiscationist, and conservative wings. Without broad middle support, the party risks remaining aligned with special interests unless a unifying, non radical program emerges.
The Ever faithful Young Woman's Bible Class of St Mark's Tutheran Doubs met at the parish house with Mrs Edward Carey as hostess. President Mrs Hume Davis led the session. Psalm 15 was read by Mrs Stanley Fry. Mrs David Specht offered the prayer and read A God Given Gift. The gathering closed with hymns and prayers. The May meeting will be at the parish house with Mrs Me ry Bowers hostess.
In tribute to Mrs. James Dubel who died early Thursday at her Rosemont Avenue home readers are asked to send gifts to Mrs. Ruth Wills for the Beginners department of Centennial Memorial Evangelical United Brethren Church, where the deceased served as superintendent for over 35 years. The name in the Seath account appears as Willis.
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