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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1949
Page
5
Indignant mother argues wives must serve husbands with meals and care, while a sad letter writer complains of lazy wives. Dorothy Dix’s column replies that marriage is work not a mere bargain, and outlines duties, blame, and the risk of divorce.
In Buffalo a Du Pont executive marks 25 years of cellophane progress. Since 1924 output nears 300 million pounds, price per pound fell from 2.65 to 0.48, and real wealth per worker nearly doubled. Investment and savings back the growth, despite prosperity, depression, war, and inflation. An executor is named for Harry W. Young’s approximately $5,000 estate.
Fresh red strawberries sell for 35 cents a quart at market. Col Charles E. Trail’s collie Old Jim dies. Yelles Lectures Literary Society debates whether war causes more suffering than intemperance. judges rule for the negative. West Patrick street building boom with repainting on eight Dr George D Moore houses and new brick homes for Abrecht and Bailing. Mr William B Davis of the police force resigns effective next month. mayor unspecific on successor.
Twenty years ago in April 1929 a Youngstown man left his six year old daughter in town while they stopped for ice cream. The girl recalled the license tag and state police traced the car through Hagerstown. Rural route consolidations faced patron objections with petitions filed. Bernard Shorty Gannon injured a leg sliding into second for Frederick baseball. The unresolved white man found in a stream on a Point of Rocks farm was buried at Montevue, closing a county mystery.
The exhibition judges praised small to mid circulation papers for better make up, presswork, and typography. They noted masthead choices often clash with modern design but allowed old styles if harmonized with newer type. One attendee was unable to attend due to a meeting with Secretary Acheson in Washington.
Washington Daybook surveys Norwegian labor life and Russian conditions under communism, plus Taft and Bricker spar in the Senate on housing and welfare. Navy bureaucrats push unification ideas as Capt Latta-Lawrence and Rogers aides shape policy. Coplon trial opens with jury-eligibility questions in a Justice Department case. Market prices wrap the page with Wheat Barley Corn figures.
Miss Ann Ford Meadows daughter of Dr and Mrs Stanley J Meadows married Cyrus Gambrill Jr son of Mr and Mrs Cyrus Gambrill in a candlelit ceremony at St John’s Catholic Church officiated by Rev Herbert K Jordan. The bride wore an ivory Victorian gown with a bouffant skirt and finger tip veil. maid of honor Christine Meadows and bridesmaids wore pale blue marquisette gowns. Best man was Mr Gambrill with ushers Robert Gardner Keefer Stall Jr Edward Helfenstein and Walter Martz. A reception followed at the bride’s home and the couple plan to reside at 109 East Second Street after a wedding trip.
Know America's Today lists anniversaries from 1721 to 1943 including David Hale a New York publisher born in Lisbon Connecticut and physician William Ho Bissell born in Yates County New York. It notes Marconi and U.N. Charter milestones, 1943 and 1929 events, plus today’s notable birthdays such as Philip Cardon, Raymond Vanderleit, Edwin Wilson, Fletcher Pratt, and others with birthplaces and ages.
Dr. Carl Heath Kopf of Washington’s First Congregational Church spoke at Hood College vesper in Brodbeck Hall urging students and guests to seek fulfillment beyond themselves. He framed two people facing a third as a metaphor for teacher and student, friends, or spouses working toward a higher aim. The service featured Bach selections, organ preludes and postlude, and the college choir performing Crucifixus and Now Let Every Tongue Adore Thee.
Baltimore April 25 Indiana Maryland Santa Claus figure Harry H Heim Sr longtime Christmas dealer indicted for evading state income taxes posting 1000 bond. Grand jury alleged he unlawfully failed to file a 1947 tax return with Maryland comptroller listing 31000 income. Firm moved Savage town 18 months earlier transferring ball and tinsel business. BACK AT WORK Lansford Pa April 25 Six thousand anthracite miners who walked off are back in pits and full coal operations resumed.
A quiet wedding unfolded at the low Evangelical Lutheran church in Middletown as Miss Gladys M. Whittington and Elmer P. Cool exchanged vows with Rev. W. Ernest Fox officiating. Both families attended. the couple plans home in Springfield after a trip to Washington and Atlantic City.
A Washington debate over the Key West agreement heats as Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson bypasses Congress, prompting joint chiefs to split on Navy carrier and interservice absorption issues. The dispute questions executive overreach, naval morale, and the future balance of armed services.
Mrs. M. R. spoke to Hood students and guests about alcoholism at Brodbeck Hall. She outlined two factors in alcoholism habitual use of intoxicants and a personality structure. She said some drink socially for years before becoming alcoholic or may be an alcoholic from the first drink. She defined alcoholism as a mental obsession with a physical allergy and urged openness for disease control. She cited 4,000,000 alcoholics in the United States with 750,000 known as chronic cases and stressed three public realizations per National guidelines.
Among the sick, Keller, a Brunswick carpenter, fractured his left arm repairing a window and is receiving treatment. Kay Kephart, 4, of A Street, Brunswick, was admitted to Frederick Memorial Hospital for a lacération on the head and is reported in satisfactory condition. Gee Jaharias of Essex, hospitalized five weeks, is improving slowly. Marriage licenses were issued in Westminster to Smeak and Shildt, Ellsworth Dubel and Fienmying, Black and Harpe, Mort and LeseaNect, Love and Fowble. The United States has sme 20 million refrigerators.
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