Fifty Years Ago Items from the News-Post Files
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Frederick retains title to 400 acres of mineral and timber land in Garrett County after landholders Tha yer Lincell and Mitchell drop claims to permit a railroad. David Lowenstein plans 18 new rental houses on East Second Street, near Fast Street, at about 12.50 monthly. Woodsboro residents seek 3000 toward Shu maker Road construction to Carroll county line. Central Railway of Maryland, a spur of the Northern Central, completes a 5.16 mile line between Keymar and Union Bridge, linking Tidewater Portland Cement plant.
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Evangelical Lutheran Church of
Frederick
Garrett County
Messrs
F.A. Thayer
Edward H. Lincell
John T. Mitchell
David Lowenstein
East Second Street
Fast Street
Reese St. Clair Poffenberger
Allen Schaeffer
Joseph Koontz
Woodsboro
Shumaker
Carroll County
Central Railway OF Maryland
Northern Central
Keymar
Union Bridge
Tidewater Portland Cement Company
Senate House conferees approve $11.5 billion tax cut bill
The Senate and House conferees agree on an $11.5 billion tax cut covering individuals and corporations for 1964 earnings with most relief flowing in 1965. The plan, awaiting Johnson's signature, targets about 19 percent average individual relief and 15 to 23 percent for higher earners, totaling $9.1 billion for individuals and $2.4 billion for corporations.
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Senate House
Johnson
Senate
House
Desalting Progress Spurs Navy Plan at Guantanamo
The Navy plans a desalting plant at Guantanamo Cuba as Castro blocks normal water. Costs have fallen from four to five dollars per thousand gallons in 1952 to one to one and a half dollars at four demonstration plants. A San Diego plant will be shipped to Guantanamo and a nuclear powered desalting probe with Mexico is planned for the Gulf of California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy
Guantanamo
Cuba
Castro
San Diego
United States
Mexico
Gulf of California
Appointees Face Meeting Attendance Law Proposal
Annapolis AP: Del. Samuel Dillo Jr. pushes a bill requiring state board and commission appointees to attend at least half of their agency meetings with automatic resignation after a year of nonattendance unless a public waiver is granted by the governor. He cites active leaders and compares to a banking attendance rule.
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Annapolis
Washington County
del. R. Samuel Dillo Jr
Dillon
General Assembly
Singapore plant upgrades eyed with bid on March first
City engineers announce bids expected March 1 for expansion of the Singapore filtration plant adding two million gallons daily to the Frank plant. W Rothenhoefer notes the project as part of wartime improvements. First muster-out pay checks of 100 dollars are arriving for eligible veterans. Frederick County performs March of Dimes drive, with receipts around 415 dollars. Red Cross unit reports nearly one million surgical dressings produced in 1943 by Frederick City and County volunteers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Singapore
Frank
W. Rothenhoefer
Frederick City
Elgin Hemp
Frederick County
Roger R. Rice
Red Cross Service
Personal News From Frederick Area Residents
Mr A O Zimmerman of East Sixth Street returned home Saturday after a stay as a medical patient at Frederick Memorial Hospital since February 18. Mr and Mrs Francis Crutchley Jr of Biggs Avenue returned from a Riviera Beach Florida trip with visits in Starke and with Commander Larry Hardin and family. Mrs Crutchley drove home January 25. Two weeks earlier Mr and Mrs Winpigler and Mrs Summers and Mrs Stup vacationed in Bradenton and St Petersburg Florida. Rev and Mrs J Paul Seltzer announce the birth of daughter Linda Leoma at George Washington University Hospital February 18.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. O. Zimmerman
East Sixth Street
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Francis Crutchley Jr
Biggs Avenue
Riviera Beach
Fla
Frederick
Starke
U.S. Navy
Larry Hardin
Hardin
Ft. Detrick
Florida State Prison
Raiford
Crutchley
Washington
Hardins
Lawrence Winpigler
Elizabeth Summers
Grace Stup
Bradenton
East South Street
J. Paul Seltzer
Middletown
Linda Leoma
George Washington University Hospital
Rev. Seltzer
Zion Lutheran Church
Former WPA Chief Hunter Dies at 68 in Florida
Howard Owen Hunter a former head of the Works Projects Administration died Saturday in Fort Lauderdale Florida at 68. The longtime federal employee led the WPA from 1939 to 13 and later served as president of the American Institute of Baking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WPA
Fort Lauderdale, Fla
Howard Owen Hunter
Federal Works Projects Administration
American Institute of Baking
Hunter
Vindobona Wins Maryland Blue Cross Senior Citizen Program
The Vindobona Convalescent and Rest Home at Braddock Heights is named the sole Western Maryland facility in the Maryland Blue Cross Senior Citizen Program. The 70 day plan offers two days of post hospital care for each day of unused care if admitted within 14 days of hospital discharge for the same or related condition and under physician supervision. The facility is recognized for total health care, is a National Geriatrics Society member, and holds a Pulse Magazine Merit Award for patient relations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vindobona Convalescent
Braddock Heights
Maryland
Maryland Blue Cross
Blue Shield
Blue Cross
National Geriatrics Society
Pulse Magazine
Parsons Banker Killed In Florida Crash
Roy Verne Shaffer a 36 year old Parsons West Virginia banker was killed in a two car collision near Bradenton Florida. His wife Anna Lou Shaffer 36 and daughter Sherryl Ann four were seriously injured. Their son Kevern five suffered a bruised knee. Shaffer was auditor for Tucker County Bank and a Parsons Kiwanis member. He served in the Air Force in Europe and North Africa. He is survived by a Philadelphia brother Keith Shaffer and a Parsons sister Elizabeth Propst.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parsons
W. Va
Bradenton
Fla
Roy Verne Shaffer
Tucker County
Anna Louic-Donald Shaffer
Sherryl Ann
Kevern
Shaffers
Florida
Mr. Shaffer
Bradford
Dana Moore Shaffer
Parsons Kiwanis Club
Parsons Junior Association of Commerce
St. John’s Methodists Church
Men’s Brotherhood
Parsons High School
West Virginia Bankers Association
Jackson’s Mills
Shaffer
Europe
North Africa
Keith Shaffer
Philadelphia
Elizabeth Propst
This City
Queen Frederika Stricken by Pneumonia in Greece
Queen Frederika of Greece is bedridden with a light pneumonia case four days after King Paul underwent emergency stomach ulcer surgery. Palace doctors report the king’s condition improved and in good order while the queen, 46, remains ill and has spent most hours at his bedside since the operation.
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Athens
Greece
Frederika
Paul
Logger Injured Near Emmitsburg While Logging Crew
Thomas William Lupton 52 of Winchester Virginia was admitted for observation at Annie M Warner Hospital Gettysburg Pennsylvania after a tree fell striking his knee and side. Police say Lupton and his crew were logging on a mountain three miles west of Emmitsburg and one quarter mile from a road. Local Rescue Squad arrived as Lupton was moved toward the road and transferred to a VFW ambulance then to the hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas William Lupton
Winchester
Annie M. Warner
Gettysburg
Emmitsburg
Wilmer E. Law
Lupton
Vigilant Hose Co
VFW
Hosital
Hyattstown Firemen Plan Benefit
The Hyattstown fire company sells tickets for its annual fundraiser and distributes emergency telephone stickers linking Montgomery County fire services. Stickers, usable countywide, can be picked up at the Hyattstown fire hall or Burdette Brothers garage in Hyattstown. The dinner, a fried oyster ham and chicken event, is March 14 at 3 p.m. with meals similar to last year’s 1254-served.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hyattstown Fire Company
Upper
Montgomeryunty
Montgomery
Fire All
Burdette Brothers
Hyattstown
Doctor to Speak at Scho Frederick Junior High PTA Meeting
Dr. Thurman Mott Jr., head of Frederick County Health Department Mental Health Clinic, will address Scho Frederick Junior High PTA Tuesday on Patience and Fortitude. He leads adolescent treatment projects, teaches at Maryland and Johns Hopkins medical schools, and maintains a private practice.
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Thurman Mott Jr
Frederick County Health Department
Scho Frederick Junior High School
Parent-Teachers Association
Sykesville
Toll House Avenue
Mott
University of Maryland Medical School
Johns Hopkins University Medical School
Baltimore
Edwin R. Cornish Jr
P.T.A
Sit-in protests by Negro students continue at two Maryland eateries
In Princess Anne Maryland a small group of Negro college students from the Student Appeal for Equality staged sit ins at Tulls and Muirs restaurants on the main street. State Police turned away another group at a second restaurant with no incident reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Princess Anne, Md
John Wilson
Appeal For Equality
Wilson
Maryland State College
Princess Anne
Tull’s
Muir’s Restaurant
Tull's
Muir's
Maryland farmers face Saturday grain loan deadline
Maryland farmers have until Saturday to redeem lean wheat and barley under government loans. George B. Reeves, chairman of the Maryland ASCS, urged producers with farm stored or warehouse stored grain to notify their local ASCS office if they intend to pay off the loan and reclaim the grain. If not paid by Saturday, the Commodity Credit Corp. will accept the grain as payment for loan principal and charges.
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College Park
Maryland
Maryland Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation State Committee
George B. Reeves
ASCS
Reeves
Commodity Credit Corp
Funeral notices from Frederick area churches and cemeteries
Funeral services for Earl E Eyler, Mrs Gertie Hillery, Efie McSherry, George Morrison, Mary A Quinn, Joseph Wirtz, and Clara Miller Wright are listed with dates, locations, officiants, and pallbearers. Interments follow at local church or area cemeteries. Several funeral homes arranged services and pallbearers are named.
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Earl E. Eyler
Woodsboro
Oak Hill Church of God
LeGore
Paul C. Cordell
Old Rugged Cross
Roland Weller
Samuel Barrick
LeRoy Barrick
al Brookhouse
William Speak
Raymond Ashbaugh
Franklin Carlisle
G. C. Barton
Mary A. Quinn
New Addition
Brunswick
Grace Episcopal Church
A. D. Salmon
Mt. Hebron
Winchester
Virginia
Stanley Wirts
Robert Garrison
J. P. Rhorback
Ernest Forback
Ernest Wineholt
Eugene Walker
C. H. Feete
Girl Charged In Death Of Mate
A 17 year old girl, Carolyn Sue Crosco, was charged with first degree murder in the fatal shooting of her husband Wilmer, 19, in Oakland Maryland. She appeared before Magistrate Robert Maloney and was ordered held without bond for the Garrett County grand jury. The couple, married less than a year, had prior court appearances.
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Oakland
Carolyn Sue ‘Crosco
Robert Maloney
Garrett County
Crosco
Wilmer
Maloney
Hood Professor to Speak to AAUW at Hood College
Miss Mary Ellen Randolf art professor at Hood College will address the Frederick Branch AAUW on Tuesday at 8 p.m. in Fox Alumnae Headquarters, presenting Chinese Art and Culture. She previously joined a cooperative Asian cultures study, and an exhibit of her drawings and watercolors runs May 16 to 29 in Coffman Chapel Gallery.
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Mary Ellen Randolf
Hood College
Frederick
American Association of University Women
Randolf
Fox Alumnae
Coffman Chap
Obituaries for Milton Blank John Burdette Marvin Dedmon and others
Milton Harrison Blank 71 of Frederick died at Newton D. Baker VA Hospital Martinsburg after a week long illness. Survived by wife Elizabeth Lowrey Blank and multiple children. John Russell Burdette 62 of Dickerson died suddenly. survived by wife Helen I. Burdette and four sons. Marvin Lee Dedmon 59 of Middleburg died of a heart attack. survived by wife Daisie Dedmon and two sons. George T. Haller 95 of Mt. Carmel. survived by daughter Blanche, son Albert, foster-daughter Nina Holloway, seven grandchildren and ten great grandchildren. Fred E. T. Offutt 86 veteran Navy Yard employee. survived by daughter Annabelle Ryan and son Franklin L. Porter. Raymond Butler Porter 82 of Frederick died at Springfield State Hospital. survived by wife Virginia and daughter Helene Hastla.
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Milton H. Blank
Milton Harrison Blank
RFD
Newton D. Baker
Martinsburg
Blank
Fort Detrick
154 Deport Brigade
Co. G
Veterans of
Elizabeth V. Lowrey Blank
Meredith L. Blank Sr
Milton M. Blank
Robert M. Blank
Bernard ©. Rice
Grayson L. Masser
Frederick
Wesley E. Blank
East Church Street
Rocky Springs Cemetery
M. R. Etchison and Son
John R. Burdette
John Russell Burdette
Dickerson
George
Ann Burdette
Helen I. Burdette
John D
Edward R
Otis M
Thomas C
Julia Mentzer
Grover
Thomas
Otis
William
Marvin Lee Dedmon
Middleburg
Union Bridge
Carroll County General Hospital
Westminster
North Carolina
William L
Fannie Lutz
Daisie Warlick Dedmon
E. Lee
Albert Donald Dedmon
John and
Pinkney Dedmon
Shelby
Emma Carpenter
Mae Dedmon
Cherryville
Union ‘Bridge
D. C
George T. Haller
Lola R. Haller
Mt. Carmel
Washington County
Frederick County
Jane Wiles Haller
Brownsville
Church of the Brethren
Blanche Shelby
Albert Haller
Boonsboro
Nina Holloway
Hagerstown
East Funeral Home
Albert Huston
Reformed Cemetery
Middletown
Fred E. T. Offutt
Washington Navy Yard
Wheaton
Mr. Offutt
Capon Bridge
W. Va
Washington
Navy Yard
Annabelle Ryan
Lewisdale
Franklin L
The
Washington Post
Rex J. Offutt
Keyser
Frankie Bond
Sue Gleason
Gaithersburg
Ery
Walker
Liquor Control Board
Orphans Court
Democratic Party
State Central Committee
Pentalpha Masonic Lodge
Montgomery County
Farmer’s Club
Grace Methodist Church
Marie
James F. Walker Jr
Rockville
Robert
Honolulu
Milton E. Kettler
Springfield
Obituaries From Frederick Area Funeral Notices
Several obituaries list mourners and service details for residents of Frederick, Brunswick, Hagerstown, Mount Airy, and Gaithersburg. Names include Irene Thomas, J Herbert Porter, Doris Stottlemyer, Elmer Wharton, J Forest Walker, and Marie Stottlemyer. Services are at local funeral homes and churches with interments at Park Heights, Prospect, Mt Olivet, Bethel and other cemeteries.
Heart Fund Drive Sees $7117 Collected In Frederick Area
Mrs. George Douglass reports Heart Sunday total of 3134 today, reaching 7117 since February start. The drive aims for 17500 as Eagles group adds 700 for Max Baer Heart Fund. About 600 to 700 volunteers, including 20 in Frederick City, contributed. funds counted at Farmers and Mechanics Bank headquarters.
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George Douglas
Frederick County Heart Association
Heart
Douglass
Heart Association
Maryland
D. C
Douglas
Heart Sunday
Frederick City
Nevin Baker
Harry H. Reid
Nelson R. Bohn
H. Albert Dean
George E. van Fossen
George B. Douglas
Elias B. Ramsburg Jr
Victor A. Palmer
Heart Fund
Farmers and Mechanics Bank
Weather Elsewhere Weather Elsewhere
The Associated Press reports on weather across regions with brief notes on conditions and forecasts. Local readers receive concise updates on temperatures precipitation and notable storm activity in distant locations.
Retirements and Patient Update In Local Notices
Among the sick is Mrs Carroll L Burgee of East South street now at Frederick Memorial Hospital in satisfactory condition. Also note a correction: Glenn E Draper of West Patrick street did not retire last Saturday as News carrier and will retire this Saturday.
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Carroll L. Burgee
East South Street
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Glenn E
Gus) Draper
West Patrick Street
Draper
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John H. Hillery
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Clark Rist
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Jesse Clay
William A. Green
J. William Moxley
George Kommalon
Woodrow Hay
Falconer Funeral Home
New Market
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Avondale Road
Waltz
Liberty Road
Winfield
Harry Ledgard
I Russell
Edward Myers
Zoland Zile Jr
Vernon Warner
Augustus Krapp
Patrick Triangal
St.James Cemetery
Dennings
George F. Morrison
United Church] of Christ
Jefferson
Joseph Wirtz
Greendale Avenue
Maryland General Hospital
Marie Delauder Snoots
Petersville
Ralph Miller
St. Mark’s Cemetery
Steadman Keenan Post
American Legion
Frederick Post
Beulah Hammer
Washington, D.C
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C. H. Feete and Brother Funeral Home
Clara Miller Wright
West Potomac Street
Lovettsville Union Cemetery
Ralph Moore
Lawrence Heffner
Linwood Moss
Forrest G. Moler , Jr
J. C. Thompson
Ray Lucas
Comrade K
Robert F. Woodward
First Baptist Church of
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Robert E. Dailey and Son
Franklin H. Singer
Dorothy June Singer
Penn Shop Road
Mount Airy
Ralph W
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Steven Ralph
Kenneth Williar
Helen Day
Mt. Airy
Calvary Methodist Church
Roger Elgert
Orville Stottlemyer
Marie I. Stottlemyer
East Avenue
Western Maryland Chronic Hospital
Christopher
Sarah Blickenstaff Stottlemyer
United Brethren Church of
Wolfsville
Doris Stottlemyer
Harold Stottlemyer
Elmer L. Wharton
Elmer Linwood Wharton
Mr. Wharton
Hillsboro
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Nellie Lyons Wharton
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Elmer L. Wharton, Jr
Dewey Foreman
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Irver Supinger
Front Royal
Wharton
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