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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1960
Page
6
The Chicago council warned Christmas weekend traffic could claim up to 1510 lives if driving remains risky. Speeding and alcohol were cited as main causes while nearly all 74 million vehicles could be in use from Friday 6 pm to Monday midnight, with an estimated 200 million extra miles driven. The prior two three day periods saw tolls of 493 and 609.
Public focus on workers from department stores to postal and transport staff as pre Christmas rush tests patience. Fatigue and stress raise tensions among delivery crews bus drivers and traffic officers while urging actions to ease last minute demands and show consideration for others.
A reader questions a December 15 Know America history item, disputing the claim of Sitting Bull’s 1890 death and mischaracterized events. The letter argues for factual accuracy and cites alternative historical details and broader context.
A Moscow radio broadcast accused Portugal of attempting to drown its African colonies in blood. It claimed reports of bloodshed in Mozambique and Angola had leaked out and listed alleged incidents dating to March 29, 1959, asserting hundreds of Africans had been shot or jailed.
The initial mission of the U S Public Health Service when created in 1788 was to operate hospitals for American merchant seamen.
The article presents a Nordicist view claiming that people of Nordic descent constitute the most developed branch of the white race. It asserts superiority in biology, intellect, and morality over all other races, reflecting harmful racial ideology.
United States Army recruiting station to open in the city under Capt William R Harrison and Private J D Burgage with quarters at the Arlington Hotel. YMCA religious committee plans January talks by out of town speakers. Frederick College defeated by Martinsburg YMCA 27 to 27 in basketball. YMCA cafe notes and reading room quest discussed. Temperature dipped below four degrees. snow clearing from city trolley tracks completed.
In a December 19, 1340 report the British isolate the Italian base at Bardia in Libya while Italian forces retreat toward Derna. Lisura is set ablaze as Albanian front withdrawals continue. The Woodsboro post office lease is renewed, and tax rates hover around 1.17. Gist Blair, eight, a previously ran for Congress, dies in Washington. Ambassador Kennedy is tipped for a front page role after holidays.
Addis Ababa reports say Haile Selassie’s government hunted rebel imperial guards who fled to the mountains after a failed bid to dethrone the 63 year old monarch. Officials put civilian and army casualties at about 2000 as the emperor returned to the capital and pledged swift punishment for conspirators.
Claude R. Eatherly 41 of Van Alstyne Texas, a former Air Force major and WWII pilot in B29 missions over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was arrested in Dallas today after being recognized by a patrolman while driving with a Dallas area woman. He had disappeared Nov 22 from a VA hospital in Waco where he was a mental patient.
Temperatures will average 4 to 8 degrees below normal with little precipitation. Normal highs in the 40s and lows in the 20s, slightly cooler in Western Maryland and mountains. An unrelated obituary notes Helene Ashley Kelly 65 an authority on bridge who directed tournaments in the East and lectured in Atlantic City for 25 years.
The News and The Post held their annual Christmas dinner at the Francis Scott Key Hotel with about 70 attendees. Long-serving employees were honored, including John P. Engelbrecht for 40 years and William T. Delaplaine for 50 years, among others.
In Shavano Park near San Antonio a 42 year old Raymond Fraley Sr assaulted his wife in a wheelchair and two children with a hammer, killing one child before dying from a throat wound and leaving his wife and another child hospitalized. The mother reported the attack in a call to police. Denise Rita Fraley, age 7, died. Raymond Fraley Jr., 5, died at hospital. Mrs Fraley and Denise were wounded. The killer was found in pajamas with a throat injury and a butcher knife nearby. The family home was described as brick and frame. Mrs Fraley remained hospitalized in fair condition.
Multiple obituaries from Frederick County noting the deaths of Clete Fogle at home in New Midway after a three week illness, Harry Ridgely in Frederick aged 65, Miss M Mae Rodger of Frederick at Western Maryland Hospital, George H Sanders of Emmitsburg aged 86, and John William Spriggs of Brunswick. Surviving relatives, funeral arrangements, and burial details listed for each.
John Thomas Watts, 60, a retired Baltimore and Ohio Railroad engineer, died of a heart attack in his parked car in Brunswick. He is survived by two sons, two daughters, a list of siblings, and many grandchildren. Funeral services are set at 2 p.m. Tuesday at 311 N Maple Ave with Rev. William Warner. interment in Boonsboro cemetery. Also, Pa Spriggs and brothers Richard and Theodore Spriggs of Brunswick had funeral services today at 1 p.m. with interment in Mountain cemetery, Knoxville.
Funeral services were held for Bes sie M. Draper of Frederick Michael Irving Lippy John HL Morningstar and Kenneth R. Wagaman. Interments followed at Mt Olivet Glade Blue Ridge cemeteries with pallbearers named for each service.
Mr and Mrs Nellinger of Rockville and formerly of Frederick observe their 60th wedding anniversary today. Delia Hamilton ages 93 or 94 and Harvey Zimmerman ages 85 are noted in upcoming birthdays. Pvt Bernard Cordell recently left for Panama after a home leave. Rodman Myers and wife announce the birth of Robert Charles at Warner Hospital Pa.
The University of Maryland Memorial Chapel hosted the wedding of Miss Virginia Windle daughter of Mr and Mrs Garrett L Windle of Hall and Lester H Buryn son of Mr and Mrs Kazimierz Buryn of Miami Beach Fla Rev Clarkson R Banes officiated The couple resides at Adelphi after honeymooning in the south Both have active ties to the University Chapel Choir and Windle is a 1960 graduate in home economics The groom is a senior in the College of Business and Public Administration The reception followed at Adelphi Mill The bride’s relatives and the groom’s family attended
Among the sick Mrs Gordon Bauer of Plane No 4 underwent an emergency operation at Frederick Memorial Hospital yesterday. Her condition is satisfactory. Mr Walter G Clem of North Market Street, also a patient there, had surgery last Wednesday and is improving nicely.
The text notes that probation began in 1841 when John Augustus, a Boston cobbler, posted bail for a man convicted of habitual drunkenness, effectively initiating the concept of supervised release. The fragment connects the early practice to the development of probation.
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