Improvements in Race Relations Reach Frederick County
In Frederick County this summer progress on race relations included the Stronghold trustees ending weekend Negro admission restrictions at Sugarloaf Park and the Woodsboro Volunteer Fire Co removing race-based membership limits. Leaders say changes came from mutual responsibility, not federal action or protests, reflecting local cooperation and efforts to improve the Negro image in the community.
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Stronghold
Sugarloaf Park
Sugarloaf Mountain
Gordon Strong
Panies
Woodsboro
Los Angeles
Frederick City
Barney Oldfields
Frederick
Middletown
Burkittsville
Repudiation Day proposed as national half holiday
The Maryland Manual entry notes Frederick County Repudiation Day, a noon November 23 bank half-holiday from 1894 statute. It recalls 1765 Stamp Act resistance by Frederick County judges who rejected the act for lacking notice and stamps, ending with a commemorative burials and toasts. Representative Mathias seeks to extend the day nationwide.
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Frederick County
Maryland
Mathias
House of Representatives
Barbara Friet
Baltimore Sun
Police Need Cooperation To Wage War On Crime
Joe Eisenhauer notes rising youth driver deaths and vandalism, urging cooperation with police. He cites Travelers Insurance figures showing under 25 drivers cause over 29 percent of highway deaths and 25 percent of non fatal mishaps, and discusses urban crime, rights of the majority, and the need for public support to curb crime.
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Travelers Insurance Companies
Marker Genealogy Traces George Marker Family Roots
Berry's World details the Marker lineage from German immigrant George Marker who settled near Myersville Maryland by 1795, wed Mary Mohler around 1773, and parented eight children. Nellie Marker Grillot of Dayton and the Marker sisters of Versailles continue a genealogy started over forty years ago, compiling descendants.
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Marker
America
George Marker
Maryland
Myersville
Mary Mohler
Nellie (Marker) Grillot
Dayton
Ohio
George
Mary Marker
Maud and
Grace
Versailles
Misses
George and Mary
Requests on Barbara Marker Wachter and Ambrose descendants
Samuel M. Andrusko seeks information on Barbara Marker Wachter born 1776 or 1784 and her descendants, and on the present location of descendants of John Ambrose 1857 1924 and Amanda M. Smith 1852 1925. He notes Matilda Marker 1629 1903 and George H. Ambrose 1829 1880 as ancestors and lists six Ambrose children. He asks readers in Frederick area for memories or records. Contact Takoma Park Maryland.
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Ren
Barbara
Barbara Marker
Wachter
Barbara Marker Wachter
Frederick
John Ambrose
Amanda M. Smith
John
Matilda Marker
George H. Ambrose
Matilda
George Marker
Mary Mohler
Michael
Sarah Ann Shriner
Job
Amanda
John C Ambrose
Lottie V. Ambrose Kle
Marshall F. Ambrose
Clarenceh. Ambrose
Charles G. Ambrose
Frederick County Road Build Aims At Safer Route
Fifty years ago the county undertook a road project to fill chasms with rocks weighing two thousand tons and lay a stone bed three to four feet deep. The work, part of early highway construction, targeted the dangerous stretch north of Thurmont linking the town with Washington County.
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Frederick
Thurmont
Washington County
Twenty Years Ago Angedt ii Occupation Plans Reported
A mid century dispatch notes Allied occupation forces in Japan and outlines a 12 year county education plan announced by Education Superintendent W Pruitt. Duval Sweadner will continue as Liberty principal as local workers shift to peacetime jobs with canneries resuming full sugar corn packing.
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Angedt ii
Japan
Chiba
Kanagawa
Yamanashi
Ghisucke Rieree
Tendent
W. Pruitt
Duval W. Sweadner
Liberty
Veterans of Foreign Wars push for economic power to end war
Washington Today recalls VFW national convention where veterans, including David Lawrence, urged allied nations to back the United States through coordinated economic embargoes against the Viet Nam war adversaries. Vice President Humphrey highlighted Viet Nam casualties and political violence, urging global allies to unite on international cooperation and trade restraint.
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Washington
Chicago
Vietnam
United States
United Nations
Quires
China
Red China
Humphrey
Ediets
W.F.W. Bernard M. Baruch
David Lawrence
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Sun Cription
Edvence
Carvier
Avait Bore
Sirculationa Rede Ge
Wb Rm
Associated Press
Freda
Southern Ftg. & Mes. Co. Ita
le Hea
Joe Eisenhauer
East Second Street
Berry's
Samuel M. Andrusko
Roanoke Ave
Takoma Park
Tang Feenk
Mary Cramer
Washington Today
Spain
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