Damascus Principal Honored for Service to School and Community
Charles H. Hoover, Damascus Elementary School principal, received a colonial style weather guide at a PTA meeting. Since 1951 the campus expanded from 10 rooms and 457 students with 7 of the original 13 teachers still teaching to 27 classrooms, 27 teachers, and 735 students. Hoover is a Washington County native, now living in Frederick with his wife and four children. He earned a B S in Elementary Education from Frostburg State Teachers College and pursued graduate work at Teachers College.
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Charles H. Hoover
Damascus
PTA
Hoover
Washington County
Frederick
Frostburg State Teachers College
Educator with Maryland MS Led Several Washington County Schools
A retired educator with degrees from Columbia University George Washington University and the University of Maryland taught social studies science math and physical education in Carroll Frederick Washington and Montgomery counties. He led Cascade Dargan Paramount and Beaver Creek elementary schools in Washington County and served in Coast Artillery during World War II. Later a Philadelphia AP brief notes thieves stole 1500 in change from a Ribbon Vending Co truck.
Douglas Proposes National Park From Washington to Pittsburgh
Supreme Court Justice William C. Douglas urged Congress to create a national park spanning from Washington D C to Pittsburgh Pa. The plan would add land along the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal from Washington to Cumberland plus a mountain trail to Pittsburgh for camping picnicking and more land acquisition through the National Park Service budget. He criticized a proposed high dam near Seneca Md that would flood part of the canal and urged sewage disposal improvements for Potomac estuaries.
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Hancock, Md
Washington, D.C
Pittsburgh
Supreme Court
William C. Douglas
Washington
Cumberland
America
C&o Assocation
Douglas
C&o
Canal Association
Paw Paw
W. Va
National Monument
Eisenhower
Congress
National Park Service
Army Corps of Engineers
Seneca
Potomac
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John M King
Montgomery
Billy Burdette
John M. King
Footers Cleaners
S. Market St
N. Market St. Frederick Shopping Center
Warner
Warner’s
Warner's
Philadelphia, Pa
Ribbon Vending Co
Big
Reveille
Udall
Cyprus
Market Street
Prospect Shopping Center
Coal and
Fuel Oil
Hillside Coal & Oil Co
Terminix
Kerk
Cokin
MATS
Starbridge
FLINT
Household Department
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