One Hundred Thousand Raised For Frederick Church
One hundred thousand dollars has been raised to date for the new Frederick Church of the Brethren as pledges and gifts near the building fund goal of 100000. The campaign, led by Dr. Jesse S. Fifer and the Building committee, included a last night meeting to tabulate contributions and pledged further gifts within sixty days. The project’s estimated total cost is about 150000, with a required 150 weeks of weekly pledges and sawgrass donations including a unique steer gift.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick
Church of the Brethren
Jesse 5
S. Fifer
Fairview Avenue
Forrest A. Groff
Elgin
Ilinois
Fifer
Charles E. Swomley
John A. Derr
Norman W. Etzler
Rendal B. Garst
Robert K. Danner
Ralph £. White
Emmett R. Bowlus
Carroll Ausherman
Herbert Duvall
J. Wm. Gaver
Alton Williar
Chester Ausherman
Ernest Ausherman
Hubert Bailey
Webster Black
Silas’ Delauter
Harry Frushour
Denton Garst
Rober Garst
Ralph W. Fahrney
Emil Shober
Jesse C. Shaver
Albert McCracken
Norman McBride
Warne Shober
Joe Wilson
Gordon White
Garland Ausherman
Alice Gouker
Bruce Runkie
Kenneth Harsher
Omer Long
Carl Kintz
Paul Gaver
Robert Firer
Lewis Shankle
Claude Dutrow
J. Gilmer Garst
Douglas Won't Spend Xmas With Widow
Paris American film star Kirk Douglas dismissed claims that Estelle Auguste invited him to spend Christmas with her and her former fiancé Jack Dempsey. He stated he would not have accepted even if invited and said he plans to stay in New Jersey area. Auguste, recently widowed, reportedly travels in Florida for the holidays.
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Paris
Kirk Douglas
Jack Dempsey
Estelle Auguste
Auguste
Douglas
Ieee
United States
New Jersey
Florida
High Winds Follow More Showers Here
A windy morning followed showers that added half an inch to November totals. Winds up to 45 mph cooled the city and a forecaster warned of possible snow flurries in the mountains with a drop to the high twenties tonight. Rivers rose modestly. November precipitation reached 2.70 inches, near December normal. Minor outages reported by Potomac Edison.
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Potomac Edison Company
Improvements To Schools Before Board
The Board of Education discussed improvements to Washington street and New Market elementary schools, signed a land-use agreement for Washington street, and added a seven-foot fence to curb traffic. They explored options to relieve New Market crowding, including a possible wing, bussing changes, and seventh grade relocation with limited funds for major work next year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Street
New Market
Board of Education
Madison and McMurray Street
Donald B. Rice
Board of Aldermen
Eugene W.pruitt
Pruitt
A. Grant Hooper
Board of County Commissioners
Samuel Young
New Market Pta
Charles R. Mayfield
Marianna D. Koogle
Middletown
Janet P. Clancy
Thurmont High School
George Martin
Kent C. Nicodemus
Joseph F. Rhoder- Hick
Ross V. Smith
Truman and McCarthy Invited to Debate in Cambridge
Harvard Law School Forum chairman Herschel Shanks announced invitations were sent December 2 to former President Harry S. Truman and Senator Joseph McCarthy to debate communism in the United States. No response had been received from either by press time.
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Cambridge
Mass
Harvard Law School Forum
Harry S. Truman
Sen
Joseph A
Herschel Shanks
Nobel Peace Prize Award To Marshall Interrupted
Oslo audience at University Festival watched Gen George Marshall receive the 1953 Nobel Peace Prize for the European Recovery Program. About 20 Communist demonstrators shouted protest leaflets and were overpowered by police as Gunnar Jahn began the citation. Marshall, 73, accepted with gratitude on behalf of the American people who helped fund the recovery plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oslo
Norway
George C. Marshall
Marshall
Gunnar Jahn
Nobel Committee
Louis de Monicault
Albert Schweitzer
Alfred Nobel
Stockholm
Sweden
Britain
Sir Winston Churchill
Franz Albert Lipmann
Harvard University
Hans Adolph Krebs
England
Sheffield University
Holland
Frits Zernike
West Germany
Her_man Staudinger
Churchill
Bermuda
Haakon VII
Oslo University
Festival Hall
Jake
Footprints Linked to Double Murder in Pamplico Field
Footprints in a five acre Pamplico field guided investigators to a crude beheading and pistol slaying of a 15 year old girl, Betty Clair Cain, and her 22 year old escort Harvey B. Allen. The pair were found in an abandoned well, shot at close range. Sheriff Hann and SLED questioned several men while Florence police broadcast a description of a 6 foot 1 inch Negro suspect.
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Pamplico
S.C
Betty Clair Cain
Harvey B. Allen
Latta
John Hann
John Hann and State Law Enforcement Division
Florence
Milton Berle and Ruth Cosgrove Begin Honeymoon in Miami
Milton Berle carried his bride, Ruth Cosgrove, across a Miami Beach hotel threshold to start a three week honeymoon. They wed yesterday in New York City’s State Supreme Court chambers. Berle joked about his 12 pound loss as they arrived by plane. Also noted, magazine founder Charles Grey died in London at age 70.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami Beach
Fla. U
State Supreme Court
Morris Eder
New York County
U.S. Still Hopeful Soviet Will Accept Eisenhower Plan
The White House said the United States remains hopeful Soviet leaders will accept President Eisenhower's international atomic pool proposal as a serious first step toward atomic peace. James Hagerty stressed that immediate Soviet reaction does not reflect final government policy and that the statement represents official attitude.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
White House
United States
Eisenhower
James C. Hagerty
Moscow
Radin Moscow
Hagerty
Ingerty
Five Billion Needed For New Schools In 1954
Washington reports the National Education Association warns public schools face crowding with 29 million students in 1953 54. The NEA calls for 150 000 more teachers and 5 billion dollars for new buildings to ease shortages, citing continued double sessions and reliance on emergency teachers amid slow college training of staff.
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Washington
National Education Assn
Association
National Professional Organization For Educators
NEA
Frank W. Hubbard
Air Power Emphasis at Paris NATO Ministers Talks
Paris reports that Allied officers meeting for NATO ministers preparations stress air power for the 1954 European buildup. They seek about 1 200 additional planes, boosting NATO air strength in Europe to 5 600, with Russia at about 20 000. A 10 percent ground force boost, mainly reserves, is proposed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
NATO
Atlantic Alliance
Europe
Russia
Armenian Red Party Leader Fired in Moscow Purge
Soviet leaders Malenkov and Khrushchev intensified a crackdown with Armenian party leaders targeted. G A Arutiunoy, longtime Armenian chief, was fired and expelled from the Central Committee and likely arrested. Accusations tied him to Beria’s henchmen, amid Moscow political retribution across Transcaucasian republics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Georgi Malenkov
Nikita Khrushchev
Moscow
Great Russia
Khrushchev
Leningrad
V. M. Andrianov
Armenia
Peter N. Pospelov
Transcaucasian Republic
G. A. Arutiunoy
Central Committee
Arutiunoy
Lavrenty P. Beria
Malenkov
Beria
Staun
Transcaucasian
Georgia
Azerbaijan
VA To Pay Dividend On 375 000 Policies
The Veterans Administration said it will pay a regular dividend of 21 million dollars next year on 375,000 U S Government Life Insurance policies held by World War I veterans. The dividend goes to permanent plan policyholders. about 24,000 WWI veterans with USGLI term insurance are excluded. The action plus NSLI dividends totals 211 million dollars for WWI and US veterans. A 1954 NSLI dividend of about 190 million dollars was also announced, though figures on range were not available.
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Washington
Veterans Administration
U.S
State Health Dept Lists 18 Maryland Municipal Sewage Dilemmas
Eighteen Maryland cities and towns face severe sewage disposal problems with eight under formal orders to plan and build facilities. Cumberland Middletown Laurel North Beach Rockville and four others have already faced court action or long-standing orders. Financial needs range from 19 9 000 to 2 million dollars with North Beach hardest hit at 37 percent of assessed value. Authorities study state bonds to finance new facilities.
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Baltimore
Maryland
State Health Department
State Board of Health
Cumberland
Midgetown
Princess Anne
Wheaton
Health Department
la Plata
Laurel
North Beach
Rockville
Robert M. Brown
Department
Bureau of Environmental Hygiene
Taneytown
St. Michaels
Brown
Union Berdge
Pocomoke City
Elkton
Perryville
Port Deposit
Havre de Grace
Suthersville
Suthersvile
Chesapeake Bay
Calvert County
Middletown
General Assembly
Legislative Council
Aleady
County Reads
Soviet Signals Rebuff Ike Plan For Atomic Pool
Soviet spokesmen signaled rejection of Eisenhower's peaceful atomic energy pool proposal. Moscow radio observer Boris Leontyev dismissed the plan as a rehash of prior control ideas and warned the president had threatened atomic war. At the U.N., Andrei Vishinsky pressed for total prohibition and universal control, while Western press welcomed any easing of the atomic curtain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Kremlin
Eisenhower
Moscow Radio
Boris Leontyev
Baruch
Leontyev
U. S
United Nations Assembly
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
U.N
Russia
U.N. Assembly
India
United States
United Nations
Farewell notice for the Semi-Weekly News ends publication
The Semi-Weekly News ceases publication today due to dwindling subscriptions and rising costs. The Frederick press notes readers are shifting to The Daily News and The Frederick Post, praising their improving services and small town journalism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weekly News
Daily News
Frederick Post
the Post
Beieve
Frederick
Dickerson Makes FBI Ten Most Wanted List
Thomas Everett Dickerson a 30 year old parole violator with a tattooed face is added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted list. He is linked to a daylight July 14 bank holdup in Bethesda Maryland near Washington where $600 was stolen and a car driven by a woman fled. He was captured in Arlington Virginia and later placed in Montgomery County Jail at Rockville Maryland before attempting self harm and breaking from a hospital during a guard assault.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Thomas Everett Dickerson
FBI
Bethesda
Washington, D. C
Dickerson
Arlington
Potomac River
Washingon
Rockville
Gouzenko Agrees To Secret Talk
Igor Gouzenko, the former Soviet code clerk who exposed a spy ring, has agreed to a secret session with the U S Internal Security subcommittee under Canadian auspices with veto rights. The timing and location remain unsettled as Ottawa and Washington negotiate terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Igor Gouzenko
United States
Internal Security
Gouzenko
Canada
Britain
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
U. S. Senate
Sen
Jenner
R-Ind
U. S
U.S
Lester B. Pearson
Washington
Pearson
Report Would Cut Agencies From 70 to 30 or Fewer
A privately financed Temple University survey urged a drastic, long range reorganization of the federal government. It proposes folding many independent agencies into fewer units, restructuring Labor, Interior, and Veterans affairs, and shifting duties from the National Labor Relations Board and the Federal Mediation Service to the Labor Department.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Temple University
Congress
Labor Department
National Labor Relations Board
Federal Mediation Service
Hoover Commission
Interior Department
Reclamation Service
Army Corps of Engineers
Agriculture Department
Veterans Administration
West Virginia Disaster Area Designation Covers Most Counties
The Agriculture Department designated 30 West Virginia counties as a disaster area under the farm loan program due to severe drought. All counties except Mingo Logan Boone Wyoming and McDowell are included, enabling farmers with substantial losses unable to obtain credit to obtain loans from the Farmers Administration to carry on farming operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Agriculture Department
West Virginia
Mingo
Logan
Boone
Wyoming
McDowell
Father Who Burned Baby Given Term
A county man was sentenced to three years in the Reformatory for Males after being found guilty on a charge related to burning his nine month old son with a hot instrument. The judge acquitted him on a second assault charge and a third count. The wife testified he burned the child over irritation regarding breakfast and that the child was struck and fell. The infant suffered a fractured skull and possible brain damage. Other men were sentenced for breaking and entering and grand larceny. A separate case saw a motorist forfeit collateral on a speeding charge.
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Reformatory
Patrick M. Schnauffer
Charles Lewis Crumbie
Route 2
Union Bridge
Crumbie
Mary Anne Fink Crumbie
Westminster
Thomas Reichlerderfer
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Schnauffer
James Rouzee
Henry Hancock
M. Holmes Foot
Charles B. Price
Maryland House of Correction
Elmer Jackson Smith
Route 1
Frederick
Leo F. Henson
Hagerstown
Smith
Price
Henry Herman Tripp
Baltimore
Gaithersburg
Tripp
Linganore Road
Hensom
Fisher
North Market Street
Samuel Fisher
Henson
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Church of Brethren
Jesse S. Fifer
Widow
Sareh
New Market School
Truman
M’carthy
Milton Berle
Bride
Charles Grey
the Aeroplane
Kane
Lec Might
Armenian Red Party
Russ
Ike
Fbis
Wil
Subcommittee
W. Va
Charles L. Crumbie
Wilbur F. Sheffield
Peoples Court
Thomas C. Skipper, Jr
Ellicott City
Carlton Lewis
P—Secony-Vacuum Qi Co
District of Columbia
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