Fifty Years Ago From The News Post February 2 1912
Digest of local items: Evalyn Walsh McLean plans a $30 000 dinner for 50 to celebrate the Hope diamond purchase. Mrs Howard Young hosts a charity card party for Frederick City Hospital. Waterous Engine Works Co ships a new fire engine to Grayson. Brunswick Board of Trade names officers. Farmers Institute lectures grow in popularity. Dr Kinney’s milk sleigh accident with minor damage. Governor Goldsborough receives endorsements for Land Commissioner and State Fire Marshal. Syndicate takes control of Hagerstown Street Railway. Middletown Opera House leased for a year to show moving pictures.
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Washington
Evalyn Walsh McLean
Hope
McLeans
Howard Young
East Second Street
Frederick City
Grayson Haller
Waterous Engine Works Co
Uniteds
Brunswick Board OF Trade
E. C. Shafer
C. M. Wenner
George P. Swank
FL. L. Spitzer
G. H. Hogan
Gardner
Farmers’ Institute
Frederick and Hagerstown
Hagerstown
Middletown
Take Home Pay Surges as Personal Income Reaches New High
The Department of Commerce reports Americans took home about a billion dollars daily last year. Disposable income rose to 365 billion after taxes, while before taxes personal income reached 416.7 billion with wages and salaries at 279.7 billion. Rents declined, but gains occurred across farms, professionals, dividends, and Social Security benefits. Projections put year-end personal income around 431 to 448 billion. If plans hold, households should be better off next year.
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Department of Commerce
America
Cuban Refugees Grow Sugar Industry in Florida
Cuban refugee sugar planters drive a Florida expansion using seized Cuba assets. Fernando de la Riva leased 18,800 acres in the Everglades to plant sugar cane, producing 20,000 tons this year and doubling soon. State output could reach 500,000 tons by 1963, boosting the regional economy.
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Florida
Fidel Castro
Fernando de la Riva
Cuba
Everglades
Miami
Letter Commends Welfare Dept Action To County Advocate
Norvell Belt applauds the County Welfare Department for returning 2483.12 to the county and congratulates Mrs Geneva Barthel for the action. Dated January 31 1962.
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Welfare Department
Geneva Barthel
Norvell
Goldberg To Visit Baltimore Yards
Secretary of Labor Arthur J. Goldberg will visit industrial plants and shipyards in the Baltimore area on Friday to gather first hand information on employment conditions. The trip is at Gov. Tawes request to discuss Maryland conditions with local and state leaders. He will tour Martin Manetta plant and Bethlehem Steel Shipyards, then lunch with business labor and political leaders.
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Washington
API
Arthur J. Goldberg
Baltimore
Fed
Labor Department
J Millard Tawes
Waryland
Martin Manetta
Middle River-Essex
Bethlehem Steel
Key Highway
Maryland
Police Investigate Hit and Run In City
City police continue probe into a hit and run on North Market Street near 10:30 p m Wednesday. A 1957 Chevrolet station wagon owned by Sgt William McK Bopst was struck by an unidentified vehicle. Sgt Bopst and Sgt Harry Phillips lead the investigation.
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William McK. Bopst
North Market St
Bopst
Harry Phillips
Daylight time set to begin next Monday in Frederick
Residents prepare to adjust clocks as daylight saving time starts next Monday. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz reports extensive damage to Japanese bases with minimal U.S. losses in the Central Pacific. The U.S. Fleet destroys six bases on Japan's supply line to Australia. General MacArthur says Bataan defenders repulsed recent Japanese attacks with heavy losses. A British commentator notes Singapore’s coast guns possibly used against Malayan troops. Pvt. Russell Y. Dansberger listed as serving in the Philippines with the Signal Corps. Gilbert Mead of Washington College will speak at Hood College convocation. The groundhog’s shadow predicts six more weeks of bad weather.
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News-Post
Biles
Rederick
Chester W. Nimtpz
Pacific Fleet
U.S. Navy
Central Pacific
United States
Japan
Australia
MacArthur
Bataan
Philippines
Singapore
Johore Strait
Pvt
Russell Y. Dansberger
G. William Dansberger
West
Patrick Street
Kreisler Rites Heard In New York Mass
About 1500 attended a Requiem Mass for violinist Fritz Kreisler at St John the Evangelist in Manhattan. Auxiliary Bishop Fulton J. Sheen presided. Kurt Kreisler, the violinist's nephew, was the only relative present and Kreisler’s widow was ill. Burial followed at Woodlawn Cemetery.
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E. 52Nd St
Woodlawn Cemetery
The
Bronx
Rubber bridge play and overtrick risk analyzed
The article explains an absolute sure thing in rubber bridge for a contract. It describes winning the first spade in hand, exploiting dummy’s king, and leading hearts to secure diamonds spades hearts and clubs. It contrasts this with attempts at overtricks via a club finesse which fails if the club suit does not break.
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West
East
Various historic items and anniversaries in brief
A compact list of 19th and 20th century notes includes a Confederate capture and destruction by Cmdr. J. T. Wood on the Neuse River in North Carolina, a House bill granting a yearly pension to five Revolutionary War soldiers, and a Nome Alaska diphtheria relief effort with 300000 units of serum carried by dog teams. Also mentioned are Eisenhower’s return to civilian life, births and deaths of notable figures, a Manila military exercise involving about 10 000 service members, and local market grain prices.
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J. T. Wood
Neuse River
North Carolina
House of Representatives
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Gunnar Kasson
Nenana
Eisenhower
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Albert Sidney Johnston
Washington
Kentucky
Johnston
West Point
Army of
Texas Republic
Army of Texas
Grant
Shiloh
George Engelmann
Frankfort-on- Main
Germany
Engelmann
Berlin
U.S
St. Louis
Edwin S. Burdell
Cooper Union
Columbus
Ohio
Jascha Heifetz
Vilna
Russia
Henry G. Houghton
N.Y.C
Sharyn Biser Inspires Through “Have To” Spirit at Center
This feature profiles Sharyn Biser an 18 year old from Sandigan Shookstown area who volunteers at the Easter Seal Treatment Center four days a week though she is physically handicapped from polio. Her dedication stems from family medical roots and she has earned a scholarship to Hagerstown Medical Secretarial School.
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Sharyn Biser
R. A. Biser
Sandigan
Shookstown
Sharyn
Easter Seal
Johns Hopkins School of Nursing
Hopkins
Biser
Office of Vocational Rehabilitation
Hagerstown Medical Secretarial School
Bids Opened For School Grounds Contract
Bids for grading, draining and grassing the new Brunswick high school grounds were opened at the Board of Education offices. The seven part job includes top soil handling, rough and fine grading, baseball diamond completion, seed, sod, and drainage. The Howard Speaks Company bid the full project at 129,993 with 150 days, other bidders listed with varying totals and times, and contracts to be awarded next Wednesday.
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New Brunswick High School
Board of Education
Howard Speaks Company
M. J. Grove
Haverhill
Communists Fire On Laos Airstrip Near Nam Tha
Communist forces bombarded Nam Tha airstrip with 120 mm mortars cutting airlift to the besieged government stronghold in northwest Laos. Reports say Pathet Lao reinforced by North Vietnamese battalions moved mortars within about three miles of Nam Tha, threatening the town from three sides. Nam Tha lies about 100 miles northwest of Luang Prabang, with potential wider regional gains.
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Vientiane
Laos
Nam Tha
Pathet Lao
Viet Nam
Fort Detrick Officers Lead Credit Union Elections
James A. Kime elected president of Monocacy Federal Credit Union Fort Detrick along with Dudley P. Glick and Leonard M. Thompson as vice presidents J Paul Thomas secretary and Gail A Eaton treasurer Outgoing president Harold A Chichester notes rapid growth 935 members 460 88467 in loans and 4.5 percent dividend.
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James A. Kime
Monocacy Federal Credit Union
Post
Dudley P. Glick
Leonard M. Thompson
J. Paul Thomas
Gail A. Eaton
USA
Harold A. Chichester
Derrick Organization
Chichester
Mr. Chichester
Colonel Eaton
Dr. Glick
Mr. Thomas
Ernest R. Higgins
Edgar W. Larson
Nicholas L. Pollok
Mr. Kime
Gerald W. Miller
Paul L. Olney
Mr. Thompson
Driver Killed By Own Vehicle Near Ellicott City
A Washington man, Richard Kelly, 31, was crushed by his own tractor-trailer near Ellicott City as the truck descended a hill. Police say he may have jumped or been thrown from the vehicle. the cause remains undetermined. Snow fell but roads were not slippery at the Howard County intersection.
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Ellicott City
Washington, D. C
Richard Kelly
Howard County
Thomas Herbert
Kelly
River Road Iron and Metal Co
Bladensburg
Chester
Bonny Branch
Berlin slang adds new police slang term
A German slang update in Berlin introduces a new term for police groups including the Vopos communist police and the transport police. The article notes evolving shorthand used by locals to refer to police units.
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Berlin
Communist People’s Police
Trapps
Citizens urge White House antiques annex for a living museum
Boyle's column writes of First Lady Mrs Kennedy’s appeal for historic gifts for the White House. Readers offer items from a 19th century coal mine pick to a 1861 walnut desk with a secret compartment and more, urging congressional funds to ship them to Washington.
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New York
John F. Kennedy
White House
Ben Franklin
Zachary Taylor
Congress
Grand Rapids
America
Washington
Word Study: Perambulate in Daily Vocabulary
Lesson notes by W L Gordon define perambulate as a walk through or over to inspect. Example: The engineer will perambulate the grounds tomorrow on a tour of inspection. The piece emphasizes using a word three times to own it.
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W. L. Gordon
Howitzer
Cecil Noll won't seek re election to Berkeley House seat
Cecil S. Noll, finishing his second term as a Democrat delegate from Berkeley County, says he will not run again. He cited personal reasons for stepping down as a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates.
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W.va
Cecil S. Noll
House of Delegates
Berkeley County
Noll
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