No Whipping Bill Abolishes Punishment in Delaware
Delaware lawmakers consider a bill to end the whipping post, introduced by Rep Herman Holloway the lone Black member of the General Assembly. The proposal would abolish corporal punishment while retaining capital punishment. In Middletown a correction clarifies that Gerald House 11C was named to the honor roll, not Gary House.
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Dover
Del
Delaware
Herman Holloway
Wilmington
General Assembly
Gary House
Middletown High School
Gerald House
Labor Chief Sees Double Time Overtime Cure
Wirtz told a House subcommittee that unemployment has risen by about a million while manufacturing jobs fell by 800000. He suggested forcing double time for overtime could cut unemployment, but warned costs could raise prices and reduce overtime overall. He argued the right economic climate, not pressure, would create hires.
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Labor
Wirtz
Diary notebooks and public life linked at Radcliffe Archives
Barbara Miller Solomon of Radcliffe College tells a White House gathering that women in public life must keep journals to record history. Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson confirms she diaries as First Lady, dictating on tape for transcription. The Women’s Archives collect diaries and papers from all walks of life to document women’s roles from colonial times to today.
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Radcliffe College
Harvard University
White House
Barbara Miller Solomon
Lyndon B. Johnson
Women’s Archives
America
Thanks For A Successful Mardi Gras Ball In Frederick
Letter to the editor expresses gratitude for the third annual Mardi Gras Ball hosted by Frederick Civic Club. Thanks are given to General Chairman Mrs Jennings Bailey Jr and General Co chair Mrs Edward Storm, plus Civic Club members, Junior Woman's Club, decorations team, hotel staff, Treeland Nurseries, public address crew, performers, and local talent for their support and guidance in making the event socially and financially successful.
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WFMD
WMUI
Thhe News-Post
Goodloe Byron
Col
Carl Casto
George Dela Plaine Jr
Richard Summers
Civic Club
Robert E. Klein
The
Frederick Civic Club, Inc
Frederick
Morton Siegel
Bryant Ayler
James Bisonette
Francis Scott Key Hotel
Robert Klein
Treeland Nurseries
William Routzahn
Mike Stup
Princesses
Damien
Classics
Bill Figley
Robert
Armory project to crown Frederick with new armory facility
Lloyd Culler will likely finish Frederick’s Armory within ten days. The $50,000 building will house Company A and defend Frederick’s military tradition, promising a premier one company armory in the nation. Frigid temperatures marked Frederick as zero-degree readings return. Plastering fell at the new Boys High School auditorium damaging a piano, from Miss Mary Ott’s room. Local mischief reported as horse harness vandalism near Garfield, with Raymond Grossnickle and Harry Blickenstaff affected.
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Lloyd C. Culler
Frederick
United States
Company A
New Boys High School
Mary C. Ott
Raymond Grossnickle
Harry Blickenstaff
Garfield
Twenty Years Ago Items From the News Post Files
A Frederick County grand jury recommends legislation to ban Sunday beer and wine sales and to curb unlicensed dogs. Milk shortage affects Frederick city area, milk producers report at a luncheon. Dip net use made legal in non trout streams across the county. Japan's Mariana Islands raided by hundreds of planes from a major Pacific fleet task force, possibly same force that struck Truk.
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Frederick County
Frederick City
Albert M. Mercer
Milk Producers Association
Frederick
Benjamin F. Phebus Sr
Japan
Mariana Islands
Tokyo
Pacific Fleet
Truk
Former County Minister Schmidt Dies at 55
Rev. Herbert H. Schmidt, 55, ex pastor of Woodsboro Lutheran Church from 1938 to 1946, died in Harrisburg General Hospital. He was librarian at Gettysburg Theological Seminary. Survived by wife Janet Bieseker Schmidt, two sons, two brothers. Funeral Thursday 10 a.m. at Bender Funeral Home Gettysburg. Donations to Heart Fund. Interment Evergreen Cemetery Gettysburg.
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Herbert H. Schmidt
Woodsboro Lutheran Church
Harrisburg
General Hospital
Woodsboro
Gettysburg Theological Seminary
Janet Bieseker Schmidt
David
Steven
Eugene
Lester
Johnstown
Bender Funeral Home
Carlisle Street
Gettysburg
Robert W. Koontz
Heart Fund
Evergreen Cemetery
YMCA Official Invited To National Meeting
Frederick County YMCA president Warner L. Brittain announces Merrill E. Groelle General Secretary will attend the National Councils of the Canadian and United States YMCAs Advanced Management Development Program in Norman Oklahoma for two weeks. The program offers advanced management training and is invitation only. Groelle will return March 9.
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Warner L. Brittain
Frederick County
YMCA
Merrill E. Groelle
Norman
Oklo
National Councils
United States
National Council
Brittain
Frederick
Groelle
Dallas To Erect JFK Monument
Dallas plans a memorial at the assassination site with a curved white marble wall about 10 feet high. The Citizens Memorial Committee chaired by W. Dawson Sterling also envisions a memorial sector in the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library in Boston.
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Dallas
Tex
John F. Kennedy
Citizens Memorial Committee
Earle Cabell
W. Dawson Sterling
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Boston
Robersons and Main Family Notices From Dickerson Weyton Area
Mr and Mrs Harold Roberson and family of Wheaton visited with Mr Robersons mother Mrs Ruth Roberson of Dickerson. Mr and Mrs Leonard Roberson and family of Wheaton visited with Mrs Mary Roberson of Dickerson who celebrated her birthday February 22. Mr and Mrs William H Main Sr of West Fifth street observed their 44th wedding anniversary and Mrs Main also observed her 68th birthday.
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Harold Roberson
Wheaton
Mr. Roberson
Ruth Roberson
Dickerson
Leonard Roberson
Mary Roberson
William H. Main Sr
West Fifth Street
Main
Zimmerman’s 10 year old daughter undergoes surgery
Among The Sick Miss Bonnie Lou Zimmerman 10 year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Samuel Zimmerman RFD 4 Frederick underwent surgery Sunday at Frederick Memorial Hospital Her condition is listed as satisfactory.
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Bonnie Lou Zimmerman
Samuel Zimmerman
RFD
Frederick
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Queen Frederika Recovers From Pneumonia In Greece
In Athens the palace announced Queen Frederika has recovered from pneumonia after falling ill last Monday, three days after King Paul underwent surgery for a stomach ulcer. The medical bulletin says the king continues to make steady progress.
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Athens
Greece
Frederika
Paul
Johnson seeks new paths as trouble spots test policy
Washington on Johnson moves to reshuffle Latin America and Viet Nam policy. He elevates Thomas Mann to run Latin affairs while Hilsman resigns. Cuba under Castro remains a problem, with Rusk insisting the policy toward Cuba will not retreat.
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Associated Press
Washington
Thomas C. Mann
Mexico
White House
Mann
Edwin M. J. Martin
Latin America
Panama Canal Zone
South Viet Nam
North Viet Nam
Johnson
Roger J. Hilsman
Athough Hilsman
Viet Nam
China
United States
Red China
Red
Saigon
U.S
State Department
William H. Sullivan
Dean Rusk
Sullivan
State
Defense Departments
Hilsman
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Rusk
Castro
Retired Damascus Storekeeper Dies
Albert R. Scott of Damascus, 75, a longtime general store operator, died Tuesday morning at Montgomery General Hospital Olney. Born in Howard County he was married to the late Madeline V. Scott. Survived by two daughters two sisters two brothers seven grandchildren and ten great grandchildren. Services Thursday at 2 p.m. at Olin L. Molesworth funeral home Damascus, with interment in Damascus cemetery.
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Albert R. Scott
Damascus
Montgomery General Hospital
Olney
Howard County
Samuel N
Margaret Burdette Scott
Madeline V. Scott
Long Corner
Earl Mullineaux
Mt. Airy
William N. Scott
Walter F. Scott
Arbutus
Olin L. Molesworth
Hoover Reported As Improved After Illness
New York AP Former President Herbert Hoover 89 was described as definitively improved today though some respiratory trouble from a pulmonary infection remained. Doctors said the infection was responding to therapy and kidney bleeding had stopped in a bulletin issued before 10 am EST.
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New York
Herbert Hoover
Hoover
Cumberland Plans To Annex Mountain
Cumberland mayor and city council approve three annexation resolutions for land on Haystack Mountain. Atty. Gen. Finan, speaking for Sacred Heart Hospital Advisory Board, says an $8 million 250 bed hospital would boost economy, create about 450 jobs, and require city services. Hospital supporters note $705,000 raised. Sisters of Charity to operate. One commissioner votes no, citing unresolved questions.
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Cumberland City Council
Haystack Mountain
Atty
Thomas B. Finan
Sacred Heart Hospital Advisory Board
Haystack
Sisters of Charity
Lucile Roeder
Retired Travelers To Give Program At Union Bridge
The Philippine Islands Indonesia and Thailand will be subjects at a 7 30 p m program Friday March 13 at the Community Center Union Bridge slides and exhibits of handiwork and costumes with comments by Mr and Mrs Clarence Sayler Mr Sayler a world traveler recently retired from U S government duties has settled in Carroll County They present the program as a service to the community through the Ladies Auxiliary Tickets are available through Ladies Auxiliary members.
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Philippine Islands
Indonesia
Thailand
Union Bridge
Clarence Sayler
Sayler
United States
Carroll County
Ladies
Ladies Auxiliary
Montgomery Man to Run for Congress
ANNAPOLIS AP John P Moore a Montgomery County member of the Maryland House of Delegates announced today as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Congress The 6th district incumbent is Charles Mathias a Frederick Republican Moore 48 a 1962 Montgomery County delegate and Kennedy supporter is in accord with President Johnson program He is a lawyer former chief counsel of the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections and served as trial attorney with the Securities and Exchange Commission
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Annapolis
John P. Moore
Montgomery County
Maryland
House of Delegates
Congress
Charles Mathias
Frederick
Moore
Kennedy
Johnson
Senate Committee On Privileges and Elections
Jin
Joseph R. McCarthy
Securities and Exchange
Deaths in the area Presley Cogle and others
Oscar Cogle 73 of Engle West Virginia died after a long illness at Charles Town General Hospital. He was a retired B&O trackman born February 19 1885 in Loudoun County Virginia. Survived by daughter Mrs Emily Fraley and two sons Arnold and Francis plus five grandchildren and two brothers. Burial in Fairview Cemetery Bolivar. Cecilia McKimmey George 80 Lovettsville widow of F Henry George died at home with family nearby. Survived by son Fred Lee and three daughters plus grandchildren and great grandchildren and two sisters. Funeral at Union Cemetery Lovettsville conducted by Rev M W Kret singer. Infant son of Harry Eugene and Doris Schrader Longerbeam died aged four days. Survived by parents one brother and two sisters. Funeral at Feete Funeral Home and interment at St Marks Cemetery Petersville. Helen M Rouzer Shead widow of Harry Snead formerly of Thurmont died suddenly at her Bethesda home. Survived by four daughters five sons fifteen grandchildren one great grandchild and siblings. Funeral details at Cr eager Funeral Home Thurmont with interment at United Brethren cemetery. Infant Xyle Lee Willard son of Ronald and Barbara Penn Willard Thurmont died at Frederick Memorial Hospital. Survived by two brothers and a sister and paternal grandparents. Services at Crea Funeral Home Thurmont with burial at Blue Ridge Cemetery.
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Oscar Craven Cogle
Engle
West Virginia
Charles Town General Hospital
B.&o
Loudoun County
Virginia
Samuel Turner
Martha Jane Leigh Cogle
Emily Fraley
Shepherdstown
W. Va
Arnold N. Cogle
Francis M. Cogle
Bakerton
George Cogle
Loudoun Heights
Thomas Cogle
Purcellville
Euckle Funeral Chapel
Eagle Methodist Church
Harold R. McClay, Jr
Fairview Cemetery
Bolivar
F. Henry George
Cecilia McKimmey George
Robert Myers
Lovettsville
William and
Isabelle Beamer McKimmey
Fred Lee George
Eliza Myers
Edna Albaugh
Falls Church
Margaret Keena
Vienna
Pearl McKimmey
Blanche McKimmey
Washington, D. C
M. W. Kretsinger
Union Cemetery
R. E. Brown
Harry Eugene
Doris Schrader Longerbeam
West Potomac St
Brunswick
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Richard Allen
Linda Dianne
Arlene Yvonne Himes
Feete Funeral
James Senseny
St. Mark’s Cemetery
Petersville
Harry Snead
Helen M. Rouzer Shead
Thurmont
Bethesda
Morris
Mamie Henshaw Rouzer
Lutheran Church
Dorothy L. Fetchka
Washington
Margaret G. Owen
Sherry L. Kloak
United Brethren Cemetery
Xyle Lee Willard
Ronald
Barbara Penn Willard
David
Terry Lee Willard
Tina Ann Willard
Manuel Willard
Creager Funeral Home
Charles A. PollJard
Blue Ridge Cemetery
Uncle Sam’s Tax Experts Blunder In Refund Figures
Washington AP reports the IRS misfiled a sample form, copying the wrong wage figure. A staff error listed $1,375 instead of $1,025, reducing the refund for the fictional couple Evelyn Jones, highlighting a public stumble in federal tax processing.
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Uncle Sam
Internal Revenue Service
Evelyn Jones
Funerals for Dedmon Nicodemus Singer and Stottlemyer noted
Funeral services were held for Marvin Lee Dedmon in Uniontown Lutheran Cemetery with pallbearers named James Paul Jr. and others. Private services for Mrs. C Marian Nicodemus were held at 11 am with honorary pallbearers former Frederick mayors. Dorothy Singer’s funeral occurred at Calvary Methodist Church Mount Airy with pallbearers listed. Marie Stottlemyer died in Hagerstown and services were at EUB Church Wolfsville. Interments followed at Mount Olivet and Bethel Church of God cemeteries.
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Aubrey A. Nicodemus
City of
Frederick
University Hospital
Baltimore
East Church Street
Carroll L. Boyer
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
Elmer ¥. Munshower
Donald B. Rice
Jacob R. Ramsburg
E. Paul Magaha
Joseph F. Fisenhauer Ltd
Marie Stottlemyer
Orville, Stottlemyer
Hagerstown
Western Maryland Chronic Hospital
EUB Church
Wolfsville
Albert Snyder
Chester Stottlemyer
John Buffington
Merle Crampton
Edwin Hemp
Bethel Church of God
Gladhill Funeral Home
Middletown
State College Board Opposes Maryland Branches Plan
Salisbury AP report: The State College Board of Trustees voted against expanding University of Maryland branches on the Eastern Shore or in Western Maryland. They warned of unnecessary duplication and wasted expenditures, saying expansion would lower academic standards amid faculty and student competition. The board also accepted the resignation of Frostburg State College president R Bowen Hardesty, effective June 30.
France envoy presents credentials to Communist China
Claude Chayet France's charge d'affaires to China presented credentials to the Peking regime, as reported by New China News Agency. In Texas, Vernon Castle the famed dancer died in a plane crash while instructing British pilots during World War II.
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Paris
Peking
Tokyo
France
China
Claude Chayet
New China News Agency
Vernon Castle
Texas
Tax Guide Irregularities Noted In IRS Printing
A fragment notes discrepancies in the sample return figures from about 114 to 33 and mentions the IRS issuing corrected ion sheets to accompany the tax guide Your Federal Income Tax. The fragment implies corrective steps for taxpayers using the guide.
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IRS
Honor Students Found Dead
In Houston two Rice University students, Kaylah Holcomb 20 and John H. Calhoun 21, died in a motel room from gunshot wounds. Police termed it murder and suicide. a 38 caliber revolver with four discharged shells and one live round was found in Calhoun’s hand. The pair had a campus romance amid Holcomb’s National Honor Society status and Calhoun’s ties to Texas A&M University.
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Houston
Tex
Rice University
National Honor Society
Kaylah Holcomb
Baytown
Rice
John H. Calhoun
John C. Calhoun Jr
Texas A&m University
Secretary of the Interior
Washington, D.C
Young Calhoun
College Station
Calhoun
Heating Battle Shapes Maryland House Hearing
ANNAPOLIS AP The House Judiciary Committee heard a heated dispute over bills backed by fuel oil dealers and opposed by gas and electric firms. Proposals include preventing rebates, requiring public service approval for new gas mains, and separating utility from appliance business accounts. Critics say the bills target one industry to help another while supporters claim fair competition.
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House Judiciary Committee
Public Service Commission
Clement R. Mercaldo
Fuel Oil Dealers
Maryland
Gas and Electric
William Baxter
Baltimore Gas and Electric Co
Del
Murray Abramson
D-Balto 4Th
Legislative Council
Elmer H. Biles
Home Builders Association of Maryland
Maryland Institute of Home Builders
Famed Sgt York Not Doing Well
Jamestown Tennessee AP report: Alvin York, WWI hero, remains hospitalized with dehydration. He is showing some improvement but his physician says he is not doing well.
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Sgt. York
Jamestown, Tenn
Alvin York
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