Maryland group cites low admin costs in fundraising drive
The Maryland State Association of County Commissioners notes only four percent of funds go to administration. The drive funds scholarships that aided Dr. Jonas Salk’s vaccine development. The association meets January 12 at Carvel Hall Hotel Annapolis where Delbert S. Null retires as president and a new slate is elected. Governor Tawes Comptroller Goldstein and Delegate Blair Lee will speak.
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Maryland
Jonas Salk
Commis- Maryland State Association of
Carvel Hall
Annapolis
Delbert S. Null
J. Millard Tawes
Louis L. Goldstein
Montgomery County
Blair Lee
Fund Group Meets With Officials
The Frederick County Commissioners met with leaders of the March of Dimes to discuss county drive plans in Thurmont Emmitsburg Brunswick Middletown Mount Airy and Jefferson. Officials outlined events skating party a Middletown supper a dance cake sales and card parties plus street solicitations and a January Mother’s March across rural areas. The group noted 25 election districts have an area chairman and warned that Salk vaccine is only 80 percent effective while stressing new efforts for birth defects arthritis and polio support.
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Frederick County
C. Richard Soup
National Foundation
Goodloe E. Byron
Frederick City
Northwest County
Thurmont
Emmitsburg
Bowyer E. Fout Jr
Fengaville
Middletown
Fisher
Sanders
Smith
Stup
Christmas Pageant and Church Activities in Damascus
A Damascus creche outside St. Pauls Catholic Church plays recordings of the Nativity daily at 3, 7, and 9 p.m. through Christmas season. George Kelly organized and directed the project with a script by Mrs. Robert Hart and voices including Mrs. D Amico James Betten dorf and George Smith. The event features carols sung by Miss Darlene Lyons with violin by Jimmie McCarvill and organ by Mrs. George Smith. The Damascus WSCS distributed 14 poinsettias to sick and shut‑ins. Senior MYF caroled Christmas Eve. Wesleyan Service Guild offers church plates by local members. Damascus Elementary School PTA met December 15 with a carol program by three sixth grades under Miss Emily Chiswell.
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Luther Burke
Damascus
St. Paul's Catholic Church
George Kelly
Robert Hart
Vincent D'Amico
James Bettendorf
George Smith
Darlene Lyons
Jimmie McCarvill
Damascus Methodist Church
Wesleyan Service Guild
Roger Meiklejohn
Bernard Frenzel
Anson DeWitt
PTA
Gilbert Henshaw
First Baptist Church of
Den 6
Emily Chiswell
Damascus High School honors rolls and Legion bond dance
Fifty five students earned honor rolls at Damascus High School with two achieving above B average. The Damascus Post 171 American Legion held its annual bond dance awarding Savings Bonds to multiple winners in $500, $100, $50 and $25 categories, with recipients from Silver Spring, Damascus, Taneytown, Germantown, Bethesda, and Frederick.
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D. H. S. Vocational
Damascus Club
Damascus High School
Barbara Buxton
Claire Megsta
Maurene Anamosa
Joan Hitchcock
Evelyn Offutt
Lynda Sell
Cheryl Warfield
Donald Lowe
David Slaton
Darryl Walker
Barbara Darby
Arbara Bennett
Verna Brown
Wit
Martha Slaton
Gary Baker
Maurice Browning
Jerry Duvall
Linda Bardette
Jacquelyn Jacobs
Mary Kesler
Gloria King
Bonnie Lewis
Jane Mailineaux
Sylvia Pope
Elaine Tobin
Damascus Post 171
American Legion
Post
Donald Heckard
Silver Spring
Roland Poole
Damascus
Sterling Fritz
Taneytown
St. Paul's Church of Damascus
Julian D. Reid
Germantown
John Murphy
Frederick
Ruth Reynolds
Bethesda
Norman Gros
Seerie Authent
Montgomery General
Jack Keser
Kesner
Civil Engineering Honor Society
College of Engineering
Phi Eta! Sigma
Provide Oral Polio Vaccine and Community Notices
The Minnesota Health Department announced it will provide oral polio vaccine as part of a trial during the 1961 season. Local clinics will be set for those who received the vaccine and blood tests showed 96.7 percent antibody presence after vaccination. Carol Miller, 10, died of burns in Baltimore from a November fire.
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Minnesota
Health Department
Minneapolis-St. Paul
Minneapolis, Minn
Minnesota Health Department
Dees
Burns Baltimore
Carol Miller
South Baltimore General Hospital
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