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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1951
Page
4
Boyle observes twelve office types entering daily work life from the pedestrian philosopher to the rugged individualist. A comic catalog notes the espresso crowd and how predictable patterns reveal character as workers assemble in the morning.
The piece notes the American Chemical Society marks the diamond jubilee of its magazine Chemical and Engineering News in early September. It highlights chemistry’s rapid rise in the last seventy-five years and its impact on industry, agriculture, drugs, and daily life, while urging study of human nature for a better world.
An uninvited man with a briefcase disrupted a Senate military appropriations subcommittee hearing as Air Force officers testified. He had no credentials yet possessed a symbol of bureaucratic access, prompting talk that Congress will require credentials for hearings touching national security. The episode underscores growing concern over Communist infiltration and the need to learn security lessons without easy headlines.
Fifty five descendants of James Voss and Josephine Curry Voss gathered at Gard Land Lake Denton for the Voss family reunion. A business meeting elected Clayton Layton as president Bertha Dean secretary and Ida Harmoning treasurer. The group planned to meet again next year at the same site on the second Sunday of August. Notables included Silas Layton age 75 and Glenn Layton two months. A full attendance list from Harrington Denton Dover Westown and other towns accompanied the event.
A collection of 1901 items noting a lawn party for Miss Adele Green with recitations by local girls, the Frederick County Anti-Saloon League meeting at Middletown electing Rev. Pontius president, and D. S. Rice secretary, plus stereopticon views at Brad dock Heights drawing a crowd, a broken front axle on Dr Franklin B. Smiths bug gy on Court street, and the Fifth Judicial Circuit Republican convention nominating Judge Charles T. Reifsnider for associate judge.
Twenty Years Ago Of The News for August 28 1932 notes the Board of Education discussing a successor to the late G Lloyd Palmer with State Superintendent Cook. A family of 14 stranded in Frederick found shelter through Frederick Eagles at Montevue for the night. Mrs Charles W Ross II of Court Square visits Sherwood Forest with Baltimore friends. Emmitsburg held its annual picnic at Shriver woods drawing about 4000 under the Emmitsburg Community Association.
Dorothy Dix answers readers on postdivorce social perception, advising that a divorced man with good character is not an outcast but faces dating bias from women seeking security. She urges the man to shed bitterness and stresses keeping ambitions and education in view for future stability. A nursing-advice note follows about delaying marriage to finish schooling, then another reader asks about a second wife as stepmother, answered by Frances who confirms a second wife is the stepmother to her husband’s children.
In Shreveport a Philadelphia Eagles and Detroit Lions exhibition ended 17 apiece. Bob Layne passed for 221 yards, Doak Walker led rushing with 50 yards, while Steve Van Buren scored a TD and added a field goal for the Eagles. Layne added two rushing scores and two conversions for Detroit.
Earl L. Douglass argues moods reflect body or mind states and warns that mood swings beyond normal levels signal trouble. He urges self analysis and quiet, including prayer, to keep emotions in check and prevent diseased mood from ruling a life.
Washington observers outline how economic content and emotional issues influence party control in elections. The piece reviews past cycles, notes key factors that shift votes, and lists six issue areas likely to affect future results, including Communism, MacArthur, morality, draft policy, taxes, and inflation. Local notices follow about Bible school programs, class meetings, and a square dance event.
Gaithersburg August 28 a crowded Montgomery County fairhorse and pony show featured a husband wife duel for jumper honors. Gardner Hallman rode Red Knight to the jumper title with Avon Shockey’s entry, while Mrs Hallman on Altitude was runner up. Red Knight collected four blues and two seconds. Hallman led Sky Shadow to a conformation hunter win. Other notable horses and riders took top placings in hunting and saddle championships as W C T U met nearby in August.
W LE Gordon presents a daily vocabulary note on misuse and pronunciation. Today’s entry defines cynical as disbelieving in human motives and urges readers to expand vocabulary by mastering one word daily.
Miss Darlene Doris Kine daughter of Aquilla Kilne and Mrs Kilne and Charles Edwin Moser son of Hoy D Moser and Mrs Moser were united in a double ring ceremony at the Myersville Lutheran parsonage officiated by Rev Raymond Law Markley. The couple will reside near Wolfsville and tour Niagara Falls and Toronto after the ceremony.
Sunday guests of Mr and Mrs Samuel Butler of Middletown include Alva Leister Mary Ann Leister Mrs James Leister Laurence Dull all of Medford and other relations from Shepherdstown Martinsburg Falls Church Lovettsville and Braddock Heights Also announced births and travels with lists of visitors and trips to Niagara Falls Ontario Detroit Toledo and Pittsburgh plus a baptismal birth in Frederick Memorial Hospital and a cousin’s birthday gathering in Clagettsville.
Among The Sick air, Philip C. Wachter, Grace ham, was admitted Saturday to the Newton D. Baker Veterans Hospital, Martinsburg, W. Va, for treatment. Cpl. James N. Simmons of the State Police, who underwent surgery at Frederick Memorial Hospital on Monday, is reported doing satisfactorily.
Evang elical and Reformed church of Sabillasville hosts a homecoming at Jacobs Church Harbaughs Valley on Sunday September 9. Committees cover Ushering Holy Communion Sunday school music lunch grounds publicity transportation program registrar wards decorating and more with a August 29 meeting for all committees in Sabillasville. Boll weevil threat to 1951 North Carolina cotton lint crop prompts insect specialists to urge broader insecticide use.
NEA Washington correspondent outlines Dr. Warren Kelchner's detailed 53-item system to manage hotels, transport, security, translation and entertainment for the San Francisco Conference on the Japanese peace treaty. The event will be televised with multiple camera locations and pool coverage, aiming for a September 4 opening and a signing with pens prepared for each delegate.
Washington reports the Senate Finance Committee tentatively cut roughly one quarter of the House fiscal package. It kept the five percent corporate income tax but adjusted rates to ease small firms with under 25 000 dollars annual income. The panel aims for about 5 billion dollars in revenue after further possible excise tax cuts and studies on cooperatives mutual banks savings and loan insurers and others. They set corporate tax expiry for 1953 and personal tax sunset for 1951 while keeping base periods and rate structures under review.
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