Myers to retire as head of Fredericktown Savings Institution
F Ross Myers, longtime Frederick banker and prominent local figure, will retire as president of the Fredericktown Savings Institution on December 31. He will be succeeded by W Steredith S Young, assistant vice president with 28 years at the bank, who will join the board. Myers will remain a board member and has led the bank since 1955 after joining in 1914. Young, a Frederick native born May 16 1913, rose from runner to president with wartime service in World War II. The board declared a 7 percent semiannual dividend and added 50 000 to surplus. Market notes follow.
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Ross Myers
Frederick
Fredericktown Savings Institution
W. Steredith S. Young
Myers
Tate Jacob Rohrback
Herbert R. O.conor
Maryland
Maryland Bankers Association
W. Preston Lane
Theodore R. McKeldin
3Mr_ Myers
Army
Army Finance School
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Ind
Young
Evangelical Lutheran Church
Lynch Lodge
No. 163
A.F
A. Masons
Lodge
Order of DeMolay
Helen S$. Brown
Dik Avenue
Bank
G. Hunter
Bowers
Joseph T. Griffin
Howard M. Albaugh
Gerald G. Remsberg
F. Ross Myers
W. Meredith $. Young
Snow Ball Fund Near $7 500 Told by Auxiliary
The Frederick Memorial Hospital Auxiliary reported nearly 7500 raised for the Snow Ball at a Christmas tea and meeting at the Georgianna Houck Simmons Nurses Home. Reports listed funds raised, pledges, and donors from local companies and individuals. corsages will be sold December 22 at Hood College Gymnasium. Snow Ball set for December 22 at Gambrill Gym. Traffic on South Street declined after a sign directing trucks to the U.S. 30 interchange was put up, though initial delays caused by late placement affected early turnout. officials say traffic is now largely local with most truck movement diverted to the new route. The meeting included musical numbers by the Nurses Glee Club and publicity efforts by the Welcome Wagon Newcomers Club.
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South Street
U.S
380
Fred
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Georgianna Houck Simmons Nurses Home
Richard F. Kine
George B. Douglas
Nurses’ Home
Ned Levien
Robert E. Clapp Jr
Jennings
Bailey
Robert Gwen
Joseph Nestor
Russell Litten
Nathaniel Prime
Richard F. Kline Inc
Ebert Tee Cream Company
Everedy Company
M. J. Grove Lime Company
Ox Fibre Brush Company
Great Southern Prining and Manufacturing
Hood College Gymnasium
Gambrill Gymnasium
Hood College
Kline
Civitan Club
Hospital
Montevue
Welcome Wagon Newcomers Club
Clyde M. Honey
Douglas
Parsons Newman
E. C. Hartmann
Frederick High School
Art Ste
Glee Club
Jack Wantz
Missierick
Margaret Fisher
Cavere Ornathan
Gwendolyn Poole
Libby Ausherman
Geek Club
Tammy
County Debt and Road Funding Update for 1957 End
Audit shows county funded debt end 1957 at 9 773 649.47 plus long term school and highway loans from Maryland. 1958 principal payments totaled 314 000 from general fund. highway bonds paid from state gasoline taxes. Plans include amortizing school loans from state funds and potential 2 million dollar 1956 school bond issue. One way street system may continue with 2.5 million additional issue anticipated in 1958. Traffic counts and signals upgrades under review. State police report freeway traffic steady with no accidents to date.
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Bee
Maryland
Bentz
Morea
Frederick
State of Maryland
Record of cold, snow prospects, and school loan totals
The city endured a brutal cold snap with a low of 10 degrees at the airport and a forecast of possible snow by Sunday. Skating began at Cul Yer Lake as residents eyed a mild weekend if snow does not arrive. Financial figures show 1957 road bond and general public school construction loans totaling several million dollars outstanding, with interest paid and yearly payments documented.
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Cul Yer Lake
Prominent Mrs Harrison Found Dead at Home
A 66 year old woman identified as Mrs B C Harrison of Mr Airy was found hanged in her basement after returning home from a sanitarium. Dr James T Marsh ruled death by own action. She had been ill for about three years and planned treatment at a Baltimore institution. Survivors include one son. State Police from Randallstown investigated.
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James T. Marsh
Carroll County Medical
B. C. Harrison
Baltimore
Jaycees Sponsor Yule Lighting Contest Plans
The Junior Chamber of Commerce announced the annual Christmas lighting contest chaired by Robert F. Nicodemus Jr. Judges set for December 26 from 6 30 p m to 11 p m with six churches and two Virginia locations included. Prizes local 25 15 and 10 with national GE contest awarding 5000 in total. Barncord, last year's national fourth place winner, is ineligible this year. Entries close December 24 with baptized minister noted among past entries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Robert F. Nicodemus Jr
Glenn C. Main Jr
The
Jaycees
Nicodemus
General Electric Company
Kenneth Barncord
Barncord
Middletown
Point of Rocks
Jerment
Hefferson
Virginia
Doubs
Old Methodist Church
Rete
Auto Runs Into Barn Near Lime Kiln Road
Five people are named in a traffic accident report after a car driven by Ronald Rudolph Kaiser left Route 15 north of Lime Kiln and crashed into a barn owned by Lease Bussardson. The mishap at 9:05 p.m. damaged the Chrysler and barn about $450, with no serious injuries reported. The Briscoe family and other relatives are listed among those involved or connected to the incident. The last pastorate of Rev. Mr. Briscoe with Urbana Methodist spanned 1938 to 188, ending in retirement.
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Ak Neen
Rochester
N. Y
Mam
Ed Monor
Briscoe
Mason
Frederick
United States
Florida
Ronald Rudolph Kaiser
Super Leonard F. Glenn
Clarence C. Briscoe
Philadelphia
Route 15
J. Wiliam Briscoe Jr
Chrysler
Kaiser
Train Hits School Bus Near Essex Ontario
A train struck a school bus on Route 15 near Essex injuring several aboard and destroying the bus. The bus carried two boys, David Purvis and Paul Bossey, plus others. the driver was cited and a passenger sustained a broken leg.
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Essex
Ontario
Marlette House
York Central
Westerning
Jenues
Frederick
Toro
Glenn
Ford
Wayne Everett Stroh
Detroit
Avilla_iInd
Holy Name
Tancer
David Purvis
Paul Bossey
Albert Slole
Essex Professional Center
Fenaimont
Allied Unity Sought By Ike And Dulles
President Eisenhower and Secretary Dulles plan talks on uniting Allies against Soviet pressure in West Berlin and Germany. They aim to resolve Britain West Germany rift over Khrushchev’s proposal while Dulles recovers from diverticulitis at Walter Reed before a Paris conference series.
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Washington
Eisenhower
John Foster Dulles
West Serin
Dulles
Walter Reed
Paris
Berlin
Britain
West Germany
West Berlin
Konrad Adenauer
Germany
Nikita Khrushchev
Adenauer
Khrushchev
Harold Macmillan
Selwyn Lloyd
Duiles
Khrushev
Tass
State Department
United States
Bitter snow covers the South and deep freeze hits the East
Snow and freezing temperatures spread from the South to the East as North Carolina and Virginia report up to 16 inches and states from Maine to New England face bitter cold. Presque Isle records 127 degrees below zero and dozens of Virginia communities close schools amid hazardous travel and fatal fires in Norfolk area.
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Associated Press
Dixie
Southland
Florida
Carolinas
Virginia
Elizabeth City
N.C
Quonset Point
Mississippi
Alabama
Montana
Atlantic
Weather Bureau
New England
New Englan
Oswego
N.Y
Lake Ontario
Air Force cancels Goose decoy missile program
The Air Force ends the Goose long range decoy missile project to distract enemy defenses from combat aircraft and missiles. Officials cite changes in operational concepts and cost savings as reasons. Fairchild Aircraft and Missile Division in Hagerstown, Maryland was the prime contractor.
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Washington
Air Force
Todiay
Fairchié Aircraft and Missile Division
Hagerstown
Road Conditions Report From AAA Issued
Washington AP says AAA road report notes West D C to Pa Turnpike clear U S 40 West to Ohio occasional icy spots U S 50 West to Ohio mostly clear North and East to Delaware Memorial Bridge clear New Jersey Turnpike clear DC Harrisburg Pa clear
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Washington
AAA
D.C
U.S. 40
Ohio
U.S. 50
Delaware Memorial Bridge
New Jersey Turnpike
Harrisburg
Five-Day Forecast for Assecayd Fier Maryland and Delaware
The forecast notes average temperatures about 16 degrees below normal. Cold weekend with moderation possible Tuesday or Wednesday. Snow likely Tuesday with total precipitation of one quarter to one half inch. Normal highs 39 to 45. Lows around 20 in Garrett County and in the 20s to 30s elsewhere.
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Fiermaryland
Delaware
Garrett County
Maryland man sentenced to death in gas chamber case
AP report notes John Leo Brady, a 2 year old from Upper Marlboro, was sentenced to die in Maryland's gas chamber for a June 27 murder. The court also linked William Brooks, a 56 year old semiinvalid, to the case and the broader verdict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annapolis
John Leo
Brady
Upper
Marlboro
Maryland
William Brooks
Rabid-check Dogs In Baltimore After Girl Attack
Three dogs with temperamental swings are held in a pound for rabies tests after they bit six year old Shirley Hubbard near her home south of Baltimore Wednesday night. Doctors report the girl is improving while hospitalized in critical condition.
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Baltimore
Shirley Hubbard
Here
Shirley
Retired Minister J W Briscoe Dies in Florida
Rev J W Briscoe a longtime Urbana Methodist pastor died suddenly at his St. Petersburg home. Aged in his years, he came from a noted Ohio lineage and was a US Marine veteran of the Spanish American War. He and wife Mattie White observed their fiftieth anniversary in 1951 at Dun Movin Urbana. Briscoe served 45 years in ministry across Eastern Shore, mountain chapels, and the Midwest beginning in 1912 with the Doubs Methodist charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J.W. Briscoe
Urbana
St. Petersburg
Fla
Mr. Briscoe
Galena
John William Briscoe
Mattie White
Briscoe
Dun Movin
Shore Islands
Snow And Windstorm Roars Into Northeast
A powerful snow and wind storm moved into New England, buffeting coastal sections of the South with heavy snow. The Washington Weather Bureau forecast heavy snowfall for Cape Cod and southeastern Massachusetts, with lighter amounts in eastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
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Washington
New England
Washington Weather Bureau
Cape Cod
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Frankie Albert Quitting As Coach Of 49ers
Frankie Albert told Vic Moabito he will resign as head coach of the San Francisco 49ers after Sunday's game with the Baltimore Colts. The news comes as the team faces major schedule implications and management shifts amid his announced departure.
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Frankie Albert
49Ers
SAN Francisco
San Francisco 49Ers
Albert
Vic Moabito
Baltimore Colts
Man Killed in Cumberland Road Crash
Joseph JG. Scholl, 44, of West Newton Pennsylvania, was killed early today in an accident on U S 49 eight miles west of Cumberland. Eva Louise Shanholtz, 43, of Cumberland RFD 3, a passenger, was admitted in fair condition with severe lacerations abrasions and a back injury. Police said the car went downhill crossed the ditch hit an embankment and Scholl was thrown from the vehicle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cumberland
Joseph JG. Scholl
Vine St
West
Newton
U. S. 49
Here
Eva Louise Shanholtz
RFD
Scholl
Sacred Heart Hospital
Fire destroys barn and 27 cattle at Gar San Mar parcel
A large frame barn and 27 cattle were burned in Boonsboro area. The loss totaled about 15,000 dollars with cattle worth around 10,000 and the barn 5,000. State Trooper Clyde B. Tucker blamed defective wiring as the fire cause, fought by Funkstown and Boonsboro volunteers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boonsboro. Md
Gar San Mar Old Folks
Clyde B. Tucker
Funkstown
Boonsboro
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W. Meredith S. Young
New York
Snow Ball
Auxiliary
NEW York PG
New York Today
Robert F. Wagner
New York Central Railroad
Federal Trade Commission
Zoysia Farm Nurseries Inc
Randallstown
Yule Lighting
Woodietown
Briscoes
Lime Ein
Beailer Namsesd
Sacaenee
Windsor Hospital
Allied Unity
Ike and
Soviet
Russia
Frank Keefer Right
Fairchild
J. W. Briscoe
Sters
Great Atlantic & Pacific
A.m. Milletia
Tea Co
New York Stock Exchange
San Mar
Enbbega
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