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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1963
Page
4
The passage contrasts youth and aging as New Year dawns and notes universal celebration. It cites Swinburne on life’s brevity and cites economists and pundits predicting a hopeful 1964 filled with peace prosperity and plenty for the United States.
Winter road hazards rise after Christmas as motorists face ice snow and traffic delays. The American Automobile Association advises slow steady speeds, large following distance of 23 to 193 feet to stop on dry snow and ice, avoid hard braking and keep pressure on the accelerator to maintain battery charge. The guidance ends with a reminder to play it safe and limit risk on the holiday period.
The letter accuses pro annexation supporters of offering Miss Alice a ride to the polls and handing whiskey as payment to vote for annexation, while denouncing a nurse falsehood about hospitalizations. It cites the December 31 Montgomery County Council meeting in Rockville to vote on zoning applications C 1094 C 1095 C 1096.
A collection from 1913 recounts incidents in Frederick. An auto flaunted Excuse My Dust on a damp day. Postmaster Birley reports the heaviest parcel post mail in history. The Farmers Association plans a farm demonstration agent. A barn on George S Summers farm in Mt Pleasant burned, losses around 4000 dollars. Mrs Summers fainted in Frederick when told. A small parlor fire in William Dertzbaugh’s home was stopped before spreading. Mrs Harry Cline collapsed from a heart attack. Souvenir hunters raid the Community Christmas Tree for balls and bulbs.
Twenty years ago December 30 1943 police made numerous arrests over the holiday due to a local liquor issue. County Welfare Board fund increase of 18000 for 1944 is unlikely to pass the County Commissioners. Fourteen more local Draft Board One men leave for military service after furlough. Culler Lake skating ends with rising temperatures. Army moves to take over railroads using railroad trained troops. Frederick County Farm Bureau rejected a five year postwar road program.
Among the sick Miss dred Gouker 15 of Rockville underwent treatment December 24 at Suburban Hospital Bethesda and is slowly improving. Mrs Lacey Forney has been a patient at Frederick Memorial Hospital since November 22 and is slowly improving. Mr Edward Poole has returned home from Frederick Memorial Hospital where he had been a surgical patient for four weeks.
Two young duck hunters were rescued from icy Isle of Wight Bay after their companion swam 150 yards to shore when their boat sank. In Utah a USS Indiana relic will fund a radiation research room at the University of Utah College of Medicine.
Article notes Martha Weinman Lear's book The Child Worshippers and examines how some mothers use children as status symbols through fashion, schooling, and social choices. It includes expert context and cautions against parent-driven pressure harming child well being.
Westminster hit its million dollar pre Christmas goal in a 3.645 million Centennial Expansion Program. Contributions stand around 1.1 million with a 500 thousand phase underway targeting alumni and friends as construction planned for spring to add facilities for 1,000 students by 1967 88. Current enrollment 740.
Mr and Mrs Roy J Biser observe their 30th wedding anniversary in Bartonsville. The Delaplaine family hosts Christmas visitors from Central while Barker family of Jacksonville Fla and Mrs C B Strickler of Salem Va attend. Miss Elizabeth C Martin and Mrs G William Shipley visit Shippensburg Pa for funeral services for Lewis B Martin. The modern digital computer enables solutions to complex differential equations.
A 31 year old East Third Street man Rhodell Burriss was charged Friday with leaving the scene of a property damage accident from December 8 at East Church and North Market streets where Evelyn Giesler was struck. Burriss car damage valued at $5, Giesler’s at $80. Later, Katherine Schnauffer and George Smith faced separate accidents and charges for driving infractions in the same vicinity.
Births reported December 26 to 28 include Sharon Leigh Moats Jr and Marshall Moats Jr of Middletown as fourth child and first daughter and Karl Robert Bowers of Pontiac Avenue as second son. Others include Kim Allen Green, Mancy Lee Crum, Veronica Rene Parsley, Douglas Alan Newcomer, Timothy James Boyle, Jerry Aloysius Murphy, Stephanie Ann Weedon, Gary Wade Linton, Julie Anna Knill, Scott Michael Shafer. A motorist was fined $103 for driving under the influence in Westminster.
Donald E. Teets of Baltimore died at 63 after a long career with Ashburton Pharmacy. He leaves a wife, brother Hugh, sisters Mildred Dunne and Dorothy DeVine, with ties to Frederick and Miami. Oliver M. Wise, 88, retired farmer near Middletown, died at Reeder Nursing Home Boonsboro. survived by eight children, three daughters, seven sons, a sister, two brothers and many grandchildren. Funeral services for Wise will be held at Gladhill Funeral Home with Rev. J. Paul Seltzer officiating.
Funeral services for many residents were held across Frederick County. Notables include Nina Pauline Biddinger in Gaithersburg with Maryland State Game Wardens, Elizabeth J. Cover in Thurmont, Anna Louise Lewis in Baltimore, Raymond A. Haugh Sr. in Frederick, Garland A. Makel Sr. in East Fifth Street, R. L. Nickens in Frederick, John J. Strange of Sayre connection, Dessie Josephine Wagner in Union Bridge, Harry A. Young of LeGore, George Jacob Martin of Emmitsburg, and Marcia Rene Smith near Ijamsville. Interments followed at multiple area cemeteries.
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