Talking Books Aid Blind Readers From Local Library
The C Burr Artz Library and others offer a Talking Books program. Qualified readers obtain free recordings via the Library of Congress project, with eligibility based on certified legal blindness. Maryland Work Shop for the Blind handles machines. Virginia State Library distributes. News magazines and textbooks are included, and staff assist patrons in applying.
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C. Burr Artz Library
Frederick
Countians
Josephine P. Etchison
U. S
Library of Congress
Congress
Maryland Workshop For
Baltimore
Virginia State Library
Richmond
American Heritage
Atlantic Monthly
Newsweek
Reader’s Digest
Holiday
Sports Illustrated
New York
Selections From The Adult Collection
Nancy Hale curates an American anthology tracing New England myth to reality through essays poems and stories by Winthrop Mather Franklin Emerson Thoreau Holmes Dickinson Frost Eliot and others. The feature lists related volumes and notes library availability and club events with details on a February meeting and future program plans.
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Nancy Hale
New England Discovery
Miss Hale
The
New Yorker
New England
New
New Member Speaks To Zontians
Louise LaMar Young, secretary treasurer of the David H. Young Company Middletown, gave a Zonta Club of Frederick classification talk. She described demanding contracts, strict oversight, and bid preparation, noting small firms face big competitors while highlighting family, education, and civic leadership.
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Zonta Club
Frederick
Louise LaMar Young
David H. Young Company
Middletown
Youngs
Young
Juniata College
Federated Republican Women’s Clubs
Frederick County
Associated Women of Farm Bureau
State Farm Bureau Board
Jocal Grange
American Soil Conservation
Maryland
Legion Auxiliary Essay Contest Underway at Frederick Unit
The Francis Scott Key Unit No. 11 American Legion Auxiliary held its February meeting at the Legion Home with President Louise Reid in charge. Americanism chairman Jackie Butler reported local schools submitted essays now being judged. winners will be announced later.
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Frederick Memorial Hospital
Margaret Mary
Lloyd Church Smith
Walter Remsberg
Middletown
Madeline Warnock
Rita Giesken
Sonia Levien
Edna Mensell
Estelle Collins
Francis Scott Key Hotel
Francis Scott Key Unit No. 11
American Legion Auxiliary
Legion Home
East Church Street
Louise Reid
Jackie Butler
C. Burr
Virginia Miller
State Office
Baltimore
Maryland
Legion Auxiliary
Department of Maryland
Mary Holdcraft
Community Service
Hospital Auxiliary
Newton D. Baker Veteran’s Hospital
Martinsburg
W. Va
Reid
Parkville
Westminster
Breakfast survey at West Frederick Jr High shows 61 percent inadequate
A survey of 463 seventh graders at West Frederick Junior High found 61 percent had inadequate breakfasts while 23 percent of those who ate breakfast were adequately nourished. The study, led by the Future Nurses Club, aims to promote healthy morning meals with fruit juice cereal milk or eggs and involved teachers, the Dairy Council and student prize posters.
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West Frederick Junior High School
Spon
Future Nurses Club
Edna Mensell
Mensell
Dairy Council
Washington
Marthena Hoffman
Joye Harris
Donna Webb
Alice Reeder
Future Nurses ' Club
The
Mary Arla Hoffman
Profiles
Peggy Lane
Betty Beavers
Frank Lewis
America
Memo on hair cuts and SHEROKEN House of Hair Fashions
Two basic hair cut types are described tapered and blunt with differences in length and effect. The piece notes that tapered cuts vary in length and blunt cuts can add body to fine hair. It advertises Sheroken House of Hair Fashions at 10 E Church St and provides phone contact.
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Sharon
Sheroken House OF Hair Fashions
Church St
Try
Sidelights on Letters to Editor and May Maryland Pilgrimage
A reader reflects on a past Letters to the Editor column and the misread “joke” tag placed on a 1910 water system verse. The piece defends the column’s good faith and recalls a winter injury while stressing caution with slang and “home spun” poetry. The column then previews the May Maryland House and Garden Pilgrimage, describing Maryland’s varied scenery and historic sites from Tidewater to Baltimore and beyond.
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Lafayette Carpenter
McKaig
Walkersville
Calvary Church
Lucy
Attyone
Maryland
America
Annapolis
Baltimore
Hartford
Carroll
Water cruises and river trips anchor spring travel plans
The report notes May 1 to May 10 as travel dates with Frederick and Montgomery counties not participating. Chesapeake Bay cruises from Baltimore to Oxford are set for May 16 and 17, with a Patuxent River trip linked to the St. Marys tour. Details are scarce, but the Frederick Travel Club may show interest.
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Frederick
Montgomery Counties
Chesapeake Bay
Baltimore
Oxford
St. Mary’s
Hood College Violinist Dr Ramaley Heads Faculty Recital
Dr D Ramaley associate professor of music at Hood College will headline a faculty recital at Hood, accompanied by Allen Bonde. The 8 p.m. event in Brodbeck Hall features Schubert Brahms Creston Hindemith and Donde pieces. The public may attend free of charge.
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D. Ramaley
Hood College
Hood
Dr. Ramaley
Allen Bonde
Brodbeck Hall
Donde
Washington Area
Schubert
Johannes Brahms
Paul Creston
Paul Hindemith
Ramaley
Community
Frederick Orchestra
Univeristy of Colorado
Northwestern University
Onion Flavored Burgers Start With Minced Onion
For juicy burgers, mix two tablespoons of minced onion per pound of beef before shaping patties. This small addition enhances flavor and keeps the meat moist during cooking.
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Cleveland Amory
van Wyck Brooks
E. B. White
Jonathan Daniels
Samuel Chamberlain
Whiting and
Hough
Elsie Masterton
Patricia M. Broderick
William Golding
John F. Kennedy
Hall Mills
William M. Kunstler
JFK
Victor Lasky
John Re Carre
Mary T. Me.Carthy
John O'Hara
William Shakespeare
Alfred Leslie Rowse
Irving Wallace
Morris L. West
T. H. White
the Villa Fiorita
Rumer Godden
Helen Macinnes
Artz
Zontians
Mary Anla Hoffman
Frank J. Keefer
West Frederick
Audry J. Shawver
Dickerson
Barbara Ann
Douglas Warren Edwards
Earl Edwards
Clarksburg
Miss Shawver
Poolesville High School
Gaithersburg
Edwards
Gaithersburg High School
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda
Williamsburg
Washington - Baltimore
Paul Green
Ritchie Coliseum
University of Maryland
Jamestown Corporation
Her
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