Community Playground Week Brims With Activities
Recreation leaders announce a packed week of activities at multiple parks including Baker Park Lincoln Park Harmon Field and Mullinix Park with concerts story hours crafts teen dances magic shows and a sun style show. Events run daily with teen dances square and folk dancing sessions and a special Curley screening at McCurdy Field.
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Baker Park
Jefferson Community Band
Staley Park
Tiny Tot Town
Mullinix Park
Lincoln
Harmon Field
Linden Hills
Lincoln Park
Harmon
Catoctin Park
North Market St
McCurdy Field
East Third St
Craft
Tesday
Rosedale
Maryland Ave
Tiny Tot
Babee Park
Dave Hagan
Curley
Staley
Linjden Hills
N. Market St
Me‘Curdy Field
Half Million Reward For Atomic Smuggling Information
Attorney General Browell proposes up to half a million dollars for information on atomic weapons smuggling or manufacture in the United States. Hoover warns weapons are small enough to hide on a person. The bill would offer asylum to informants and families to protect vital plants and avert assassination plots.
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United States
Herbert Brownell, Jr
J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Ice Cream Cone Invention Dispute Sparks Debate
The fight over who first invented the ice cream cone centers on Italian Italo Marchiony and Syrian E A Hamwi. Marchiony, who died at 86, claimed a 1896 patent and Hoboken cone factory, while Hamwi, linked to the 1904 St Louis World’s Fair, is said to have provided waffles to wrap ice cream. Americans consume billions of cones annually as the industry grows from a modest 19th century enterprise to a national staple.
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Italo Marchiony
Hoboken
E. A. Hamvi
St. Louis
Hamwi
United States
Robbery at Mt Airy Post Office and Local Fires
Fifty years ago this column notes a Mt Airy post office break in by robbers who blew the safe and took about 300 dollars in postage stamps and currency. A fire on Hiram Ramsburg farm destroyed the Frame Tenant House but spared lower-floor furniture. Weather events include wild geese sighting and a storm with rain. A chimney damage incident at Prof. Amon Burgee’s home and a steeple damage at St. Joseph’s Church are recorded, plus hail near Jefferson. A Mr. Williams Price of Poughkeepsie organizes a fireproofing compound company with 300000 capital.
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Mt. Airy
Walter R. Rudy
Hiram Ramsburg
Middletown
Fannie M. Grool
Amon Burgee
East Patrick Street
St. Joseph’s Catholic Church
Manor
Buckeystown
Former judge Glenn H Worthington dies at 76
Twenty years ago items note the death of former judge Glenn H. Worthington at Frederick City Hospital after a brief illness. Other items report a haymow fire destroying R. Rush Lewis’s $10,000 dairy barn, a lighter sugar corn yield and cane crop concerns, and Frederick citizens passing a motion against government leasing the J Calvin Hall property on East Eighth Street for transient activities without a dissenting vote.
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Glenn H. Worthington
Frederick City Hospital
R. Rush Lewis
Frederick
Washington Pike
Frederick County
Board of Aldermen Room
J. Calvin Hall
East Eighth Street
Congress stalls as McCarthy censure move debated
Congress slows after July 31 adjournment target, new Aug 14 date floated. Senate votes 75 12 to study McCarthy censure with a special committee and a progress report before adjournment. Lawmakers draft a panel including Watkins Johnson Casey Carlson Stennis and Ervin to weigh charges while hearings await the end of legislative business. President Eisenhower's foreign aid program also noted.
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Washington
Congress
Capitol Hill
McCarthy
Senate
Sen. Flanders
Sen
Watkins
Utah
Baud
Lens Johnson
D-Cole
Casey
R-Sd
Carlson ¢R-Kane
Stennis
D-Miss
Ervin Idnc
Eisenhower
Senate votes to cut foreign aid and debates energy plan
The Senate halved the foreign aid limit for this fiscal year, then conference committee restored 319 million of the cut. The chamber rejected a provision to halt all military raids but urged ending aid by mid 1956. A Senate Appropriations panel later backed 5.4 billion in aid for the year, 364 million above the House. The atomic energy program cleared a Senate House conference with rules for federal production, private sharing, and private power contracts, while a debate on farm price supports continued without votes. Treasury Secretary Humphrey urged a debt limit rise to 281 billion dollars. The House passed social security expansion and antisubversive bills. committees advanced postal, Hawaii-Alaska statehood, and pay measures for officials.
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Senate
Eisenhower
Senate House
Conference Group
Senate Appropriations Committee
House
Tennessee Valley
Treasury
Humphrey
Hawaii-Alaska
Congress
Monument to a fish dinner sparks Wyoming ranch tale
HAL BOYLE recounts how a $1,000,000 Ranch A in Beulah, Wyoming, was built by Moses Annenberg after a diner trout inspired purchase. The 689 acre showplace now yields 150,000 pounds of trout annually, with Pete Smith owning it and noting it would cost millions today to replicate.
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Sand Creek
Switzerland
Colorado
Annenberg
Bricker
Ohio
Florida
Pennsylvania
Pete Smith
Wyoming
Smith
Ovdis
Ordis
Pete
Bible Thoughts on Doctrine and Salvation
Meditation on the soul and spirit language by iweremy Taylor. Echoes the verse from I Timothy 4 16 urging heedfulness to self and doctrine to save both speaker and listeners.
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Iweremy Taylor
Eisenhower Photo Endorsements Stir GOP Doubt
Washington observers question President Eisenhower's photo endorsement tactic as risking GOP losses in the upcoming congressional elections. More than 100 Republicans were photographed with him, but staff refusals and uneven endorsements spark concern that Democratic control could result if the president withholds support from some Republican candidates.
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David Lawrence Washington
Capitol Hill
Eisenhower
White House
Congress
House
Senate
Mr. Eisenhower
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry Truman
Republican Party
Maryland National Guard units end Indiana encampment in Maryland
Local units of the Maryland National Guard returned to Frederick late this morning after a two week encampment at Indiantown Gap Pa. Company A and the Medical Company left the training camp around 7 45 a m by motor convoy for the journey. The camp featured rainy weather in the second week and the troops endured with minor accidents and blistered feet. During Army ground force tests Sgt Carl L. Culler of Frederick posted the highest total for the battalion. Company A softball lost the championship to Heavy Mortars Co 3 to 2 in ten innings. A guard mount demonstration amid heavy rain drew high praise from the regimental command. A party afterward saw Pfc James E Kemp receive a gold cup for devotion to duty from the NCO Club. Major James E Tear presided. Lt Paul L Crum Jr was guard officer. 22nd Lt Joseph M Cullan assisted, Sgt Donald P Wagner served as sergeant of the guard. Sgt James Walsh was platoon guide. Corporals of the guard included Sgt Culler, Sgt Harry R Saunders and Sgt James Mask. Regimental Adjutant Maj James E Tear announced John H Stewart was chosen to represent Company A as an outstanding noncom. Sgt Donald C Wagner was named to Governor McKeldin's honor guard.
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Maryland National Guard
Frederick
Indiantown Gap
Carl L. Culler
Heavy Mortars Co
Allen R. Kinsey
George C. J. Spurrier
Company A
National Guard
Paul L. Crum Jr
Joseph M. Cullan
Donald P. Wagner
Sle
James Walsh
Culler
Harry R. Saunders
James Mask
James E Kemp
NCO Club
James E. Tear
John H. Stewart
Donald C. Wagner
McKeldin
Burtonsville to Scaggsville Bridge Opens Monday
Four future toll-free spans between Washington and Baltimore extend with the Burtonsville Scaggsville bridge over the Patuxent River debuting Monday. Governor McKeldin will attend with Howard and Montgomery county officials as ribbons are cut. The bridge sits on Md Route 196. A coroner hears a wife admit powder marks on her dead husband, and she explains she shot him.
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Washington
Baltimore
Burtonsville-Scaggsville
Patuxent River
McKeldin
Howard
Montgomery
Married Friday Bride Darlene Marshall Weds Dennis George
Miss Darlene Frances Marshall daughter of Mr and Mrs Theodore R Marshall Woodsboro and Dennis Luther George son of Mr and Mrs Clarence J George were married Friday evening at eight o clock in the Rocky Hill Lutheran church near Woodsboro Rev Raymond C Myers officiated Mrs Delores Gaver pianist sang Because and O Promise Me A small reception followed on the church lawn The bride wore blue lace over taffeta with a white orchid on a white Bible Best man Clarence H George Allentown Pa The couple will reside in Altoona Pa after a two weeks Florida trip The bride a Walkerville High School graduate class of 48 and Frederick Memorial Hospital School of Nursing class of 31 Mr George a South Whitehall High School graduate 1946 works in his brother s contracting business in Allentown Out of town guests attended from Pennsylvania.
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Davis
Darlene Frances Marshall
Theodore R. Marshall
Woodsboro
Dennis Luther George
Clarence J. George
South Whitehall Avenue
Allentown
Rocky Hill Lutheran ‘Church
Raymond C. Myers
Delores Gaver
Miriam Gordon
Florida
George Will
North West Street
Altoona
Walkersville High School
Frederick Memorial Hospital School of Nursing
George
South Whitehall High School
Pennsylvania
Bridal Shower For Miss Hartse Hartse ll Albermarle guest honor
A bridal shower for Miss Hartse ll Hartse ll of Albermarle North Carolina honored the bride to be Miss Joseph H. Clem at Miss Efird’s home near Albermarle. About 30 guests attended as decorations featured summer flowers and the bride received a partial china setting and many gifts. A pink carnation and tuberose corsage was presented to the guest of honor. Refreshments were served.
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Hartse
Montie Hartsell
Albermarle
N. C
Joseph H. Clem
Earl John Henry Ciem
Thurmont
Route 1
Flore Hatley
Lexter Efird
Army housing project security tightened in Bremerhaven
German police increased security at a seven million dollar U S Army housing project in Bremerhaven to head off demonstrations by evicted German residents. Mayor Herman Gollasch faced boos and threats as he urged new quarters for 80 displaced homeowners after a riot by dockworkers two days earlier that involved 25 houses slated for razing.
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Bremerhaven
Germany
Herman Gullasch
Brunswick Potomac Players Formed At Meeting
A community Little Theater Group organized in Brunswick on August 3 by the Bruns wick Recreations Commission elected Carl Margrabe president, Mrs Margaret Spurrier secretary, and Mary Cage treasurer. Tentative name Potomac Players. Next meeting set for August 9 at 7 p.m. at Betty Lou's dance studio. Organizational meeting held at Scheer Stadium.
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Brunswick
Brunswick Recreations Commission
Carl Margrabe
Margaret Spurrier Corratary
Mary Cage
Potomac Players
Betty Lou
Scheer Stadium
Women’s Guild Meets at Mt. Pleasant Church
The Women's Guild of Mt. Pleasant Evangelical and Reform Church held its regular monthly gathering at Mrs. Oscar Ramsburg’s home with fourteen members and one visitor. Mrs. Oda Filler led, readings by Mrs. Linton, program on Christian need for God, and a brief business session. Next meeting planned for Mrs. Roger Remsburg’s home.
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Women
Mt. Pleasant
Long Fisher Nuptials Planned In Emmitsburg
Mr and Mrs John A Long of Emmitsburg announce the approaching marriage of their daughter Mary W Long to James L Fisher son of Mr and Mrs Roy Fisher of Creagerstown The wedding is set at Trinity Methodist Church Emmitsburg Sunday August 22 at 739 pm with a reception at Buckjets in Emmitsburg Fisher has directed the Hancock school band for the past two years Also noted in the notice are market prices for Wheat and Corn.
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Miss Brunk
Catharine Ann Brunk
Miss Bar
Kara Weaver
Missy
Mr. Brunk
Paul D. Freeze
Rock
Betty Fleet
A Sur- Ville
John D. Freeze
Thurmont
John A. Long
Emmitsburg
Mary W. Long
James L. Fisher
Roy Fisher
Creagerstown
Trinity Methodist Church
Buckjets
Fisher
Hancock
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