Belgium issues six franc Rockefeller stamp honors donor
Belgium issues a six franc blue stamp featuring John D Rockefeller, first portrait in philately. The issue celebrates the Rockefeller philanthropic legacy including the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research and its global health work. About one third of proceeds fund tuberculosis control and disease combat efforts.
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Homor
Belgium
Philately
John D. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Rockefeller Institute For Medical Research
Fluoridation study links to tooth decay rates in children
A New York State dental health study compared 400 children in Newburgh with eight years of fluoridated water to 400 in Kingston without fluoridation. Kingston children showed 50 percent higher decay, with no fluoridation effect on facial or jaw growth. Researchers were Dr. David B. Ast and Dr. J. A. Salzmann. Santa letters posted weekend include Catherine Boone and others.
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Newburgh
N. Y
Kingston
Hudson River
David B. Ast
Bureau of Dental Health
New York State
J. A. Salzmann
American Board of Orthodontists
Know America Twenty Years Ago column items Dec 12 1935
Frederick county weather area reports snow in Catoctin and South mountains. Bernard E McCaffrey 45 a former water superintendent dies from a fractured skull after a street accident. Post office hires new staff for Christmas rush including Sander, McCutcheon, Lamz, Gardner, Russell, Wightman, and Brown. Commodore P Prior injured by knife wielding man near Forrest school. later arrested. Also lists anniversaries births and historical events, tax liens notices, deeds recorded, Woodsboro P TA meeting notes, and population data on African Americans in major cities.
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Frederick County
Tiere
Catoctin
South Mountains
Bernard E. McCaffrey
Frederick
Frederick Cox Hospital
SIN
Motier
Harry Sanders
Robert McCutcheon
Merril Lamz
Austat Gardner Russell Wighmneton
Carl E. Brown
Commodore P. Prior
Forrest School
Wolfswire
Pryare Autotiine
W.K. May
News-Post Employees Celebrate Annual Christmas Dinner
News-Post employees gathered at the Francis Scott Key Hotel for their annual Christmas dinner. President Win Delaplaine reviewed yearlong operations and plant improvements including new linotype, perforators, an updated electrical system, and expanded advertising facilities. Tributes were paid to three deceased colleagues, with plans announced to microfilm and preserve The Post archives dating to 1910. The lone remaining original staff member, Loms Cole Sr., attended. date noted as December.
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Bemployes
Francis Scott Key Hotel
George Tschroeder J
Win T Delaplaine
Ludlow
John T. Betty Sub Bran
Harry “Gabba Herman
Fhre Post
Robert E Nelaplaine
News-Post
C. Burr Artz
Post
Loms Cole
Princess Margaret urged to take working role in Britain
London December 11 The Sunday Express urged the British government to find a real job for Princess Margaret now that her romance crisis is over The paper proposed two options making her working leader of Britain fashion or governor general of a colony It praised her West Indies tour noting federation plans and suggested the post of governor general could head the Caribbean federation as a diplomatic move to keep her engaged and popular.
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London
Lord Beaverbrook
Sunday Express
Princess Margaret
Britain
the Express
British Commonwealth
le Pro-Empire
West Indies
Caribbean Federation
Fifty Years Ago Items From The Columns Of The News
Fifty years ago December 14 items include a quiet wedding at Poplar Terrace near Frederick uniting Miss Helen Abell Saugl Mas and L Victor Baughman with Dr Charles H Conley officiating. A wagon horse ran into a fire plug injuring Mildred Shipley, and Mr Thomas Kemp slipped and dislocated a shoulder. The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal closed for the winter, and a photo celebrated Francis Hahn’s 92nd birthday at Wisner Street with his son-in-law Charles Baller.
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Helen Abell Saugil Mas
Gauge
Ue Creat
EU de
Fr. Harrington
St. Joseph's Church
Clyde Wachter
Adamstown
D. C. Winebrenec
East Fourth Street
East Fourth
Market
J. Howard Baer
Fourth Streets
Mildred Shipley
Charles Shipley
Margaret Shipley
Market Street
Charles Dertzhaugh
C. Fhomas Kemp
West Third Street
Francis D Hahn
Charles B. Laller
Wisner Street
Saturday Bride Weds In Middletown Church Ceremony
Doris Jean Schroyer and Kenneth Lee Boyer wed at Middletown Christ Evangelical and Reformed Church with Rev. Edwin M. Alcorn officiating. Attendants wore red and royal blue gowns, a reception followed, and the couple plans to reside in Middletown after a Florida trip.
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Doris Jean Schroyer
Herman J. Schrover
Betty G. Schroyer
Hagerstown
Middletown
Joyce
Ior
Maurice Schroyer
A. Lee Bussard Jr
Braddock Heights
Michael Boyer
Fred M. Schroyer
Marline A. Kinna
Mrs. Kinna
Ave Maria
Kinna
Ada Miller
Florida
Boyer
East Washington Street
Frederick Academy of the Visitation
Farm Credit Association
North Court Street
Frederick High School
Marcus Cleaners
East Patrick Street
Reds accuse Dulles of colonialist in Goa dispute
London dispatch reports the Peiping People's Daily accuses U S Secretary of State John Foster Dulles of exposing an ugly colonialist face by asserting Goa is a Portuguese province. The piece notes Dulles and Portuguese Foreign Minister Cunha denounced Soviet leaders in response to calls to grant India control over Goa and other holdings. Khrushchev backed India's stance while criticizing colonialism.
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London
Peiping Peoples Daily
U.S
John Foster Dulles
Goa
Red China Radio
Observer
Dulles
United States
Bulganin
Khrushchev
India
Burma
Asia
Cunha
Paula Cunha
Far East
Washington
Portugal
Soviet Union
LeMay cites dispersal and warning as defense against first blow
General Curtis LeMay, head of the U S Strategic Air Command, urges avoiding the first strike if possible and, if not, building dispersed forces, advanced warning, and training to prevent a crippling surprise attack. He argues deterrence and global dispersion are key to surviving and winning a nuclear war.
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David Lawren
Washington
United States
Soviet Union
Curtis E. le May
United States Strategic Air Command
LeMay
U.S. News & World Report
le May
Pearl Harbor
Europe
Ting
Maldev
Air Force
Ots
Strategic Air Command
Woodsboro Guild Meets for Candle Light Christmas Program
Mrs Raymond L Smith hosted the St Johns Reformed Guild in Woodsboro with co hosts Mrs George W Smith and Mrs Steiner Cramer. The candle light program included readings singing and prayers led by Miss Ellen Stottlemyer and others with plans to reconvene in January at Mrs Ira Houcks home.
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Woodsboro
Dorsey Rippeon
Pauline ,Crum
Emory Hubbard
Emory Catshall
Steiner Cramer
William Baker
William Schwarber
Arthur Jones
Ira Houck
Births and birthdays in Frederick area residents
Mr and Mrs Maurice F Orris announce the birth of their first child Gregory Martin on December 4 at Frederick Memorial Hospital. Avalon Willard is the mother. Charles Sonny Grable turns 10 today. Second Lieutenant Charles E Wells Jr returns from Fort Campbell for ten day leave, with plans to be stationed in Augsburg Germany for two years. Lt Wells and Lt Tailane will depart Idlewild for Europe. Olivia M Weller, living with Mrs Parry, ages 98, celebrated birthday. John Curtis Spahr and wife Dickerson welcome Robin Lynn, a seven pound seven ounce daughter, born at Frederick Memorial Hospital.
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John Jay
New York
U. S
Henry Wells
American Express Co
Wells, Fargo
Aurora, N.Y
Thetford
N. Y
Isaac Leeser
Philadelphia
America
Bor
Germany
Arthur Brisbane
Buffalo
Arthur Garfield Hays
Civ Liberties Union
Rochester
William N. Doak
Neayer
Whythe Co
Washington
Pennsylvania
Marconi
Atlantic
Dorothy Arnold
Philippines
Guam
Colin P. Kelly
Llaruna
U. S. Seventh Army
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
American Federation of Labor
Arthur H. Dean
Romania
Harry M Warner
Russia
Edward M. Almond
Luray
David) Elton Trueblood
Earnham College
Pleasantville
Iowa
Albert L. Cole
Readers Digest
Inhigago
Tygay
Maurice F. Orris
East Patrick Street
Gregory Martin
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Orris
Avalon Willard
Frederick
Charles
Sonny) Grable
Charles Grable
South Bentz Street
Charles E. Wells Jr
C. BE. Wells
College Avenue
Fort Campbell
St. Joseph Ptaitano
Hawaii
T. H
Idlewild
Augsburg
Wells
Co. F
51Th
AIR
11Th Airborne Div
APO
Olivia M. Weller
W. K. Parry
East Seventh Street
John Curtis Spahr
Dickerson
Robin Lynn
Sick residents and relatives show gradual recovery in Frederick
Among the sick are Mrs. William H. Tait of New York once Kitty Lebherz daughter of Mr and Mrs William Lebherz Sr at East Second Street who underwent surgery at Frederick Memorial Hospital and is progressing satisfactorily. Her two children stay with grandparents. Gregg and Warne Ford sons of Mr and Mrs Charles Ford at 4 East 13th Street are home with virus infection. Nancy Murphy a Frederick Memorial Hospital patient expects to return to Towson State Teachers College soon as a senior and daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles Murphy Monroe Avenue. Gen D John Markey recently moved from hospital to his East Second Street home after weeks of recovery. Robert N. May son of Mr and Mrs James E. May Maple Avenue is improving at home after a December 7 tonsillectomy. Elizabeth R. Smith 19 East Church Street returned home after hospitalization at Frederick Memorial Hospital.
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William H Tait
New York City
Kitty Lebherz
William 8. Lebherz Sr
East Second Street
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Tas
Alr
Leichert
Hall
New York
Gregg and
Warne Ford
Charles Ford
United Ambulance
Robert N. May
James E. May
Maple Avenue
Elizabeth R. Smith
East Church Street
Israeli Army Attacks Syrian Posts Near Sea of Galilee
Reported attacks say Israeli units struck Syrian positions on the northeast shore of the Sea of Galilee after clashes with Syrian gunners protecting fishing boats. A Syrian spokesman claimed two Israeli armored boats fired on border villages for 15 minutes before withdrawal. No casualties reported.
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Jerusalem
Sea of Galilee
Israei
Meu UM
Jordan
Efath
Gulf of Aqaba
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