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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1954
Page
2
The piece notes faster adoption of daylight saving time in densely populated areas and growing public acceptance. It mentions clocks set ahead for longer evening daylight, with some states slow to adopt, farmers often opposing clock changes, and the history of daylight saving from World War I and II with renewed congressional support in peacetime.
Marjorie A. Schoolman of Braddock Heights urges voters to require candidates to disclose positions on schools roads libraries health facilities and other local problems. She argues educated choices demand clear stances, warns against four more years of the same approach and stresses registration for the primary. April 21 1954 Braddock Heights Maryland.
At a court house sale this morning the brick two and a half story apartment house owned by the late Capt. and Mrs. Arthur T. Kren at 20 Mest Third street was bought by Mr. and Mrs. Harold T. Summers for 20 200. The property includes first and second floor apartments and nine rear frame garages. William M Storm and Robert E Capo Jr conducted the sale on behalf of assignees with Emmett R. Bowijus as auctioneer.
Rescue teams spent nearly seven hours last night attempting to revive 26 year old crane operator Robert Kurth of East New Market after a crane became entangled in an overhead line and electrocution occurred. He was pronounced dead by Acting Medical Examiner Dr Eldridge H Wolff at 8 4 p.m. Officials reported 44 000 volts passed through his body.
Rockville Maryland. The Montgomery County Council has postponed action until Saturday on a special report about County Manager Edvari Beall and alleged fund shortages in Portsmouth Ihre. The report links the official to financial issues affecting the county administration.
Melvin G. Sims Gilbert 41 of Woodsburg killed himself with a single barreled 32 gauge shotgun in a shed at his father's home. County medical examiner Dr. Robert J. Furie ruled death by self inflicted contact discharge. Neighbors reported a gunshot about 9 15 to 9 40 am. The note disposed of personal effects and gave burial instructions. He was a carpenter, unmarried, son of Raymond S Gilbert and the late Esta J M Eyler Gilbert. Funeral set for Saturday at the Walkersville funeral home with interment in Mt Hope Cemetery Woodsboro.
Final services for Steiner Speaks, vice president of La UASLULL de Eat, Duried, a local petroleum products distributor, will be at the funeral home Saturday at eleven. Interment follows at Mt Olivet Cemetery. Mr Speaks was a member and vice president of the Independent Hose Company. The body lies at the funeral home for viewing. M R Etchison and Son, funeral directors.
Read of artificial stone displayed on North Market street. Cement and crushed stone blocks compressed for building use attract attention. Nearby notes report the Independent Drill Association buying 25 uniforms as membership grows, with contract to Rosenour and Sons. Also mentions choral dolicts rehearsing Mendelssohn Elijah for May 5 at College Hall and a kitchen fire at Albert Wills' on East Sixth Street. Belies Lettres Literary Society debated local option with judges ruling for the negative.
Twenty years ago April twenty three nineteen fifty four items note city clean up, welfare aid totals for March, a speedball league opening with about six hundred fans, and local election results in Thurmont with William J. Stone re elected mayor by one fifty nine to eighty and Ernest Hammaker along with Fred Tressett elected to the Board of Commissioners.
Obituaries report the deaths of Emma Catherine Linn Riffle 79 at Thurmont after a 16 month illness. John L. Dougherty 49 New Midway merchant and postmaster. Lloyd D. Hays 58 near Smithsburg former Mangus Metal employee. Dr George Harrison Musgrave 69 Leesburg physician. Details include survivors, funeral plans, and burial locations.
Mrs. Emily J. Orrison sues Dr. Philemon S. Lansdale in circuit court for 10000 alleging negligence of uneven warped boards on stairs at 35 East Church Street. She says she fell while leaving Dr Jesse S. Fifer’s office, suffered severe injuries to head, body and limbs, incurred hospital bills, and was unable to work for about seven months.
Mr and Mrs William Pickett of Winfield announce the engagement of their foster daughter Elizabeth Ann Jones to George L Baumgardner son of L A Baumgardner of Frederick No date set for the wedding Also note Georgia beef cattle income has risen 466 percent since 1940 per the National Geographic Society.
Private memorial services and funerals were held for Mrs. Edwin H. Lockwood Mrs. Laura Isabell Finnegan widow of Jefferson D Finnegan Mrs. Ide M Shoemaker Layman and others. Services took place at All Saints Chapel Maryland L O C F Home Ivy Hill York Gettysburg Taneytown and Fairview cemeteries with various ministers pallbearers and funeral directors named.
The third annual Hood Street Fair is scheduled for Thursday May 27 in Memorial Park at Second and Bentz streets. President Mrs Paul J Payne announces a circus themed event with food stalls games and a square dance in the evening. Proceeds benefit the Hood Club college fund. Officer roster includes Vice President Mrs H Albert Dean Secretary Mrs Emery Larson Jr Treasurer Mrs H Earl Harner plus an executive board of several members.
Miss Piri Fernandez presented a Latin American themed poetry recital at Hood College in Brodbeck Hall before about 200 guests. She introduced each piece with a brief summary and changed costumes for each segment, drawing praise for her dramatic presence and mastery of languages.
Frederick native Harry E. Gilbert 83 died suddenly while lunching in a West Fayette street restaurant in Baltimore. A real estate pioneer and former president of the Real Estate Board of Baltimore he also served with the National Association of Real Estate Boards. He and his son ran a Baltimore office at 2 East Lexington Street. Funeral services set for 11 a.m. Monday. He is survived by his wife, son Charles Gordon Gilbert, another son Harry E. Gilbert Jr., daughters Mary Louise Leonard and Catherine Eugenia Gilbert, a sister, two brothers, and six grandchildren.
Washington dispatch reports Communist strategists launching a national chain letter campaign to President Eisenhower to halt all further H-bomb testing. Through 25,000 agents, names are drawn from phone books to recruit five others. Mimeographed texts urge action as a possible safeguard for citizens and children.
The piece describes Communist influenced chain letter campaigns aiming to sway U S policy on H-bomb tests. It notes radical Labor linking, foreign origins, and a two to three week lead time before support grows among unwitting individuals. It warns readers that mass letters mislead and that stopping letter writing may not end the effort.
John Benchoff a 13 year old delegate from Falling Spring Society Franklin County Pa attends the National Society of Children of the American Revolution convention in Washington at the Mayflower Hotel today through Sunday. He appears at eight this evening in the Falling Spring Society dramatic program Covenant of Blood about Col Benjamin Chambers and a Delaware chief from 1760.
Among the sick Mrs Grace Roelke has returned to her home at 331 Madison Street from Frederick Memorial Hospital and is getting along. Mrs George H Wiener of 314 North Market Street who fractured her ankle on April 6 is progressing well at Frederick Memorial Hospital. Mr Harry P Shafer of Burkitts ville was moved to Frederick Memorial Hospital and is doing as well as can be expected. HA SCANDAL-RIDDEN WASHINGTON FHA accused of partnering with lenders and promoters with no responsibility for victims of swindlers.
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