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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1961
Page
11
Mrs. John G. Sommer, daughter of Col. and Mrs. Elmer F. Munshner, spoke to Frederick Lions Club about her Morocco trip. Slides, attire, and scenes from Tangier to Casablanca illustrated customs, gender roles, and daily life including veiled women and child labor in rug factories.
Mrs. Sommer presented a travelogue blending Moorish architecture with traditional craft and modern methods. A taped market turmoil sequence accompanied the talk, as Program Chairman Lester Feaga introduced the speaker. City and club figures including Mayor Ramsburg and guests from Glade Valley Club, Hyattsville, and Frederick attended.
Nine construction permits totaling over 27300 dollars were approved by the Assessments Office in Winchester Hall. A Mount Carmel Methodist Church addition adds a 30 by 40 cement block porch under Rev. Clark Crist and Howard W. Hartman Jr. Other permits include a 13500 dollar single family home on Sundays Lane for Franklin Wiles and homes for Norman Tressler Edgar Zepp Jr. and Ernest Neel in Frederick area.
Two Walkersville and Frederick area girls were hired as summer clerks in the County Courthouse Assess ment Office. One will return in fall to Hood College to study English, the other remains as an office assistant during modernization of assessment records. Separately a Van Fossen reunion on August 20 at Taneytown Memorial Park drew about 85 relatives and guests with a program including songs and baton twirl numbers.
Linda Clem reads Duet by Millard E Cramer and Sharon Crum's Sharon and her Puppet. Officers elected Roy Eaton president Edgar VanFossen Jr vice president Edward Mantz secretary treasurer. Reunion set for third Sunday in August 1962 at Memorial Park Taneytown. Obituary note and moment of silence for Walter Curfman. Attendees include Crums, Eatons, Staleys, VanFossens, and others.
The Civic Interest Group in Baltimore voices concern over bail policies and related API issues. Leaders include Mr. and Mrs. Hayward Swope and prominent Baltimore residents such as Mr. and Mrs. Edward Van Fossen and Rev. Arthur Garvin.
One owner 57 Ford Country Sedan Station Wagon in dessert tan and frost white with Ferdamatic radio heater and power steering. Also a 56 Buick Special two door hardtop in Presidential black with polar white and Dyna flow drive, priced as sharp value offers.
Residents of Frederick hear latest local updates from The News of Frederick Maryland on Friday August 25 1961. City developments weather and community notices fill the page with brief items and notices.
Three Baltimore teens Dorothy Feldman Anthony Curtis and Maurice Holmes faced $3000 bail each after a trespass arrest at a Catonsville drive in The group Civic Interest Group condemned the bail as grossly excessive and sent telegrams to Gov Tawes and County Executive Kahl. Separately Baltimore Criminal Court grand jury indicted 19 individuals on welfare fraud totaling 12632 with per person amounts from 138 to 2234.
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