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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1949
Page
4
Military scientists tell House subcommittee they need a 3 900 mile range and a 200 million dollar budget to develop a new guided missile range. They warn existing U S test areas cannot host future long range rockets and require a system of many stations and a city sized support network.
Mrs Zarina Soule Kukde traveling secretary of the Student Volunteer Movement will visit Hood College between Wednesday and Friday. A former missionary in India she will be hosted by President and Mrs Andrew G Truxal and address classes at Y chapel and Coblent Hall after dinner. She will also hold student interviews and attend morning classes. Sgt Howard R Kerchner announced the U S Army Air Force recruiting station in Brunswick moved to the new municipal building on A street from Stedman Keenan Post 96 American Legion after three months of operation.
Local items from the Frederick area note ice and snow removal on the Frederick and Middletown Electric Road with twenty five workers at work. The town clock is back in order after repairs. Sleighing is nearly done as county roads thaw, while ice remains on the Monocacy and Potomac rivers. Dr J T Kline discusses a bird of $856 in January and recent blizzards. wheat signals winter conditions amid snow.
A fragment from The News dated February 22 1929 recalls light snow and ice with terms like spinner and cold days. Frederick prepares its annual Automobile Show set for March 12 to 16 with exhibitors in their own show rooms. The community notes new telephone service 3167 lines up from Chesapeake and Potomac since 1928, plus letters from Dorothy Dix and a church meeting with youth programs and a march 6 home city event.
In Washington on February 21, a contentious debate over the North Atlantic Pact unfolds in the Senate. Senator Forrest Donnell presses Arthur Vandenberg for war-commitment details, prompting Vandenberg to claim Congress alone can declare war while noting European disagreements. The piece weaves in Kefauver’s anecdotes and a harsher Argentine note, ending with a local Bark Hill fire report.
Hood College won the first game 23 to 21 and Gettysburg College took the second 41 to 15 in a Saturday doubleheader at Gettysburg Pennsylvania. The set was the second in a six game intercollegiate series for the season.
Washington column analyzes how name calling and personal attacks shape debates over the Taft Hartley act. Senator Pepper is urged to apologize for implying Navy farmer Ira Mosher’s family suffered in war, highlighting need for civil, issue focused discourse in committee rooms.
Washington correspondent reports the political maneuvering over credit for the “point four” idea in Truman's inaugural address. The piece traces origins to a 1944 Senate proposal on international economic collaboration, noting Truman as one sponsor. It also covers related anecdotes about Hoover praise, SPEBSQSA, housing shortages, and cultural exchange programs.
The passage advises reciprocity in hospitality by returning dinner invitations after receiving many meals. It contrasts a wrong approach—a large cocktail party inviting all hosts—with the right approach a one for one exchange of dinners to repay kindness.
Know America Today's anniversaries recount Natheniel Rochester born in renue died 1831 and Charles Scribner born New York died 1873 plus Mother Angela Gil lespie and Brander Matthews. Also many 16th to 20th century events and notable birthdays with brief notes and a horoscope predicting calmness masking passion and resilience.
Sunday visits and hospital updates feature Harney Harner and family. Mrs Delia Morelock and children visit the Shriver home. Stuart Dam and family linger at Joan Ridinger’s place. Charles Beck and Patsy Boyer visit George Shriver family. Chester Overholster hospitalized with pneumonia at Annie Warner Hospital. Dean Schultz seriously ill with meningitis in Harrisburg City Hospital. Edna Hoffman admitted Gettysburg Hospital. Yields routine community notices and local travel.
A five room frame dwelling with garage and outbuildings, owned by the late Lilia D. Shaw near Harman's Gap to Creagerstown, was sold to Mr and Mrs Paul Toms for 4400 dollars. Holden S Felton Frederick acted as attorney in fact. Personal,
At the February Carroll county Board of Education meeting planning focused on architect sketches for Mt Airy Winfield Taneytown and Union Bridge school facilities. The board authorized negotiations for land and center plans with state approval pending, while resignations at Westminster and Taneytown High were accepted and new hires announced. Also covered were a Leaders Bible Class program at Calvary Methodist church and Bethesda-Chevy Chase Post 105 American Legion set to occupy its own home with a commemorative song performance honoring veterans.
A reader notes on language usage and pronunciation with examples. The text mentions misused phrases, spelling quirks, and synonyms. It reports that a property sale occurred earlier in the day with Emmett R Bowlus as auctioneer.
Cello virtuoso Edmund Kurtz returns for a Wednesday night recital at 8 30 in the Frederick High School auditorium as the third of four Community Concert Association programs for 1948 49. Born in St Petersburg he studied in Berlin and made his American debut in 1945 after performances with Toscanini and the NBC Symphony now based in Greenwich Conn with wife and two sons. Assisting Kurtz is Anthony Di Sonaventura program includes Frescobaldi Teceata varieties Schumann impromptu Rigoletto Par damino Saint Saens Lobos Schubert and more.
Bronze plaques for Middletown World War II servicemen arrived from Media Art Bronze Co. in Covington Kentucky. Work will begin on the stone base at the memorial site where Jefferson and Burkittsville roads meet, on land deeded by Frederick County Board of Education for this purpose.
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