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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1956
Page
4
The Frederick Frederick Frederick Daily paper presents local news and notices for Tuesday April 24 1956. It includes standard subscription rates and masthead details for The News published by Great Southern Newspapers Frederick Maryland.
Hood College Choir directed by Dr. E Harold Geer will perform at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington DC on April 29 at 4 PM vesper service. Selections include Palestrina Couperin Holst Brahms and Poulenc, with organ accompaniment by William Singes and assist from sopranos Hilda Henderson and Billy Mervine.
The annual income tax filing closes with about 60 million taxpayers, ten percent filing late. Estimated individual taxes total around 33.5 billion dollars, with potential for a larger sum if revenue rises. Most taxpayers submitted returns with little or no payment, as withholding covered the year. Rebates will flow to overpaid taxpayers where due.
A reader cites a New York Times piece from April 22 1956 arguing that teacher salaries determine education quality. Long Beach Long Island school board president George B Costigan and superintendent Dr David G Salten detail new salary scales boosting bachelor master and doctoral pay to attract qualified teachers amid shortages.
The Women's Guilds of Utica's Charge of the Evangelical Reform church host the second annual Indian American festival at 8 p.m. in Mt Pleasant community hall. A mission study and program parts feature Zion church devotions, Pleasant Hill talks, Utica panel, slides by Pleasant Hill members, and a concluding moccasin ceremony led by Miss Louise Cecil.
Birth announcements from Frederick Memorial Hospital list numerous families welcoming new babies. Jo Ann Despeaux, Deborah Lynn Fraley, Vann Warren Gibbs, William Alexander MacKay, Karen Sue Martin, Michael Edwin Selby, Carolyn Marie Wiles, Johnny Ray Gibse, Michael Keith Burkinsville, and John Daniel Bourlar are among the newborns. Parents include Despeaux, Fraley, Gibbs, MacKay, Martin, Selby, Wiles, Gibse, Burkinsville, and Bourlar with listed residences in Frederick area and surrounding towns.
Engaged couple Miss Janet Ruth Huffer and Raymond K Basler announced by her mother. Both graduates, she at Frederick High School and he at Westminster High School, with a fall wedding planned. Young Men's Christian Association building campaign begins with $5000 pledge and $8500 raised toward $25,000 goal. Oil and gas drilling near Hancock reported as hopeful with Tonoloway Petroleum Company financing, lease areas and plans for operetta cantata. New York at Pittsburgh game postponed due to cold wet grounds.
Mr and Mrs Upton Gladhill Da Mascus announce the engagement of their daughter Anna Lee to Aubrey Mullineaux Jr son of Mr and Mrs Aubrey Mullineaux Da Mascus Miss Gladhill a graduate of Damascus High School class of 1953 and Temple University oral hygiene degree Mr Mullineaux Damascus High School class of 1952 currently with the U S Armed Forces Fort Lee Va No wedding date set Signal Battalion Changes Announced Louis Paid 150 000 Today In U S Affairs
Two Hood College seniors Mera Braungart and Mrs Cynthia Sternberg Schein will present a Friday evening recital at 8 o clock in Broidbeck Hall. Braungart will perform operatic arias and French English songs on violin, while Schein offers Mozart Debussy and Brahms piano works. A reception in Shriner Hall follows and audience members are invited.
New Spring and Summer schedules for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad go into effect Sunday. Timetables will show standard time with adjustments to departure and arrival times for daylight saving. Most through trains will leave terminals an hour earlier, with some exceptions for faster service and better East-West connections.
While William Davis, a driver for the Junior Fire Company, was charging the lighter of the engine, a bottle exploded and burned his left hand. his face and right hand were also slightly burned. The Visitation Academy graduates include Miss Annie Staley of this city, Miss Mary L. Brosius of Barnesville, Miss Ida C. Jarboe of Edwards Ferry, and Miss Emma B. Lynch of Halltown, West Virginia.
Items from the April 24 1936 issue note Lester Dutrow’s jaw fractures from a horse kick at Eyler's Livestock Market Thurmont. Licensing shows 37 alcoholic beverage licenses issued so far this year vs 104 last year. The News Today features Maryland bat star Charlie Keller likely headed for the New York Yankees after graduation. Mr and Mrs William Bart Gis Storm host a surprise birthday party for Patsy in the Francis Scott Key Hotel Blue and Grey room with Sperry Storm leading the orchestra. Betty Markey and J Harold Hooper win an elimination dance prize.
Hollywood reports a 90 minute documentary style feature titled Unidentified Flying Objects. Producers Clarence Green and Russell Rouse claim the film shows flying saucers are here, citing Pentagon clips of unidentified objects in flight. Air Force notes from a five thousand sighting review found no evidence of saucers, identifying 97% as non saucers.
Among The Sick Mrs Ransom R Lewis Jr near Walkersville recently returned from Johns Hopkins Hospital Baltimore and is recuperating at home. Mr Richard F Kline near Frederick returned home Monday from Frederick Memorial Hospital where she underwent an appendectomy and is progressing nicely. Mrs Lillie M Boyer at 129 A West Fourth Street is recuperating from illness after two weeks. Miss Shirley Brachey Thurmont is improving from measles at her grandmother Lydia Brachey’s East Patrick Street home. Mrs Allen F Sherald Sr at 526 Grant Place is slightly improved. Mrs Gilmer R Hawkins Urbana has been ill for six weeks and was moved to Frederick Memorial Hospital. Mr John Curfman Thurmont was taken to Newton D Baker Hospital in American Legion ambulance. Mrs Newton I Fisher Thurmont was taken to Gettysburg Hospital by ambulance. Mr Ralph F Martz Clarksburg is improving from recent illness.
Obituary notices convey the deaths of Amanda Catherine Arnold of near Knoxville at 89 after a one week illness. She leaves six children, a brother, grandchildren and great grandchildren. Services set at St Pauls Lutheran church Burkittsville with interment in the church cemetery. Funeral directors Mr Eichison and Son.
Funeral services were held for Walter Staley Hahn at 2 PM Monday at 106 East Church Street with Rev Jenuren and Paul L Althouse officiating. Interment in Frederick Memorial Park. Honorary bearers from Southern States Cooperative Inc. Active bearers listed. Also services for Helen M Alexander at Evangelical United Brethren Church Thurmont. burial in church cemetery. Adam Leroy Mowen dies at 8 in Patuxent River home. Births include Patricia Marie Ruch April 13 at Frederick Memorial Hospital. Mrs Lightner hospitalized after hip fracture. visiting relatives in Chambersburg.
A fire in an air chute at the Morrison Hotel in Chicago forced roughly 100 guests to evacuate early today. Firemen doused flames on the 42nd floor and at multiple chute openings five floors apart. About 1,500 guests were registered in the 1,850 room hotel. Damage estimated at $5,000.
Miss Connie Blair has returned home from a two week tour of the south visiting Raleigh Mi ami Beach Birmingham and New Orleans. Miss Betty Wills and Miss Effie Fulmer have returned home after several days in New York City with Lucille Wills in Brooklyn. Mrs Jennie Martz Crum observed her 85th birthday at 415 South Market Street, the oldest Martz family member in Frederick County. Rev Walter D Mehring of Adamstown is attending the Pastor's Conference at Roslyn near Richmond April 24 26.
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