Fifty Years Ago in The News Post January 1914 Highlights
Former Governor Frank Brown urges General Assembly to restrict social drinking to curb drunkenness. A massive 17 ton tank at Earl's Water Nymphs nearly collapsed the City Opera House stage under heavy weight. Frederick county faces 1000 to 1200 income tax filings as collectors list high earners. The Frederick post office likely advances to first class in 1916 with receipts up to 19 578.98 for midyear period. Jacob Engelbrecht diary entry written in blood remains legible after 79 years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
News-Post
Frank Brown
General Assembly
Annapolis
City Opera House
Earl
Frederick County
Frederick
W. C. Birely
Jacob Engelbrecht
Berlin Wall Breach Spur Red East German Leverage
The Berlin Wall has been breached as West Berliners continue to visit relatives and bring back stories of life on the other side. Workers at East Berlin’s Seventh of October plant call for removal of visitor passes to ease talks. Easter could bring a partial reopening, but the wall remains a symbol of postwar failure. The wreath left on the wall by a young man underscores the quest for freedom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Khrushchev
East Berlin
Ulbricht
West Berlin
East Germany
Prolific Foundations Grow Wealth and Numbers
A Foundation Library Center survey shows philanthropic foundations hold $14.5 billion in assets, up $3 billion since 1960, and grant $779 million annually, up over $150 million since 1960. They fund education, health, research, and cultural activities, while rising unease about rapid growth persists as most were formed after 1940 and tax status has faced Congress scrutiny.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foundation Library Center
Congress
Taneytown 4-H Girls Hold Christmas Meeting
The Taneytown Girls 4-H Club met at Diane Windischs home for a Christmas party. Members sang carols and shared experiences since the November meeting. Diane Windisch announced harvest queen dance plans while Barbara Harvey Susan Null Judy Null and Sharon Feeser took part in the 4-H chorus at the Farm Bureau banquet. Betty and Mary Ellen Stonesifer attended the National 4-H Club Congress in Chicago. A gift was given to Mrs Eve Stonesifer for her past year of service. Gifts were exchanged and refreshments served. The next meeting is January 20 at 7:30 p.m. at Virginia Nulls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taneytown
Eve Stonesifer
Diane Windisch
Virginia Null
Farm Bureau Letter Supports Postwar Road Planning
Twenty years ago The News-Post reports Farm Bureau leaders A M Etzler and T S Anderson sending to County Commissioner Charles G Geisbert that the organization is not opposed to postwar road planning as charged by County Engineer Willard. Also notes a German military spokesman speculating on possible withdrawal from Russia amid a Soviet offensive from Leningrad to the Black Sea. Frederick City Hospital designated an approved institution by the American College of Surgeons with 147 beds. Maryland Attorney General ruling that state inheritance tax applies to United States bonds, regardless of beneficiary names.
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News-Post
A. M. Etzler
T. S. Anderson
Farm Bureau
Charles G. Geisbert
Willard
Russia
Leningrad
Black Sea
Frederick City Hospital
American College of Surgeons
Man Injured In 12 Foot Fall In Frederick
Franklin Tracey 36 of West Fourth Street, a bricklayer for Floyd Culler, fell 12 feet from a scaffold at Sagner Inc on Wisner Street. A car parked between ladders was moved by Claude Miller, pulling a ladder and causing the fall. Tracey was taken to Frederick Memorial Hospital in satisfactory condition. Officer Cashour investigated.
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Frederick
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Franklin Tracey
West Fourth Street
Floyd Culler
Tracey
Sagner, Inc
Wisner Street
Claude L. Miller
Middletown
Sagner
Miller
United Ambulance
Charles K. Cashour
Beets Rise as Global Sugar Source in War and Peace
The beet, once a forage crop, gained value as a sugar source after 1800 when beet juice was found to be identical to cane sugar. Napoleon and the King of Prussia backed beet cultivation, and by World War I beets supplied more sugar worldwide than cane.
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Napoleon
Prussia
Births Reported at Frederick Memorial Hospital
Births announced January 2 to 6 at Frederick Memorial Hospital include multiple first and subsequent children. Recipients span Frederick area families such as Dorsey, Lin ton Shamrock Farm, Kline East Patrick Street, Phillips Birmingham Drive, Husnander Walkersville, Brown Broadway, Morris Walkersville, Kaetzel Brunswick, Ward Pinoak Drive, Hoitzinger Clifton Road, Atkinson Thurmont, Mohr Park Avenue, Caudill Thurmont, Favorite East Third Street, Lookingbill RFD Taneytown, Zimmermann Burkittsville, Neel Frederick RFD, King Jr Boyds, Biddinger Myersville, Gascoigne North Market Street, Dorsey Airy, with newborns Michele Lynn, Gerald Alan, David Earl Jr, Brett Loren, James Donald, Brenda Renee, William Brodbeck, Brian Keith, Leslie Annette, Brenda Lee, Molly Ann, Alberta Sue, Kelli Jo, and Howard Carroll Jr.
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Birmingham Drive
Gerald Alan
David E. Husnander
RFD
Walkersville
David Earl Jr
Husnander
Mitchelle Miller
Stuart
Florida
Amos A. Brown
Broadway
Dwight L. Morris
Brett Loren
Donald A. Kaetzel
Brunswick
James Donald
Jesse W. Ward
Pinoak Drive
Brenda Renee
John Hoitzinger
Clifton Road
Frederick
William Brodbeck
Rollins Atkinson Jr
Thomas Avenue
Brian Keith
Atkinson
Polly Heatherly
Thurmont
David L. Mohr
Park Avenue
Lesly Annette
Mohr
Edna Wachter
Lawrence Caudill
Brenda Lee
Caudill
Nancy May
Robert Allen Favorite
East Third Street
Brenda Kay
Favorite
Dorothy Lane
Robert Lee Lookingbill
RFD 2
Taneytown
Molly Ann
Lookingbill
Margaret Wilson
Emmitsburg
Albert RK
Zimmerman
Burkittsville
Alberta Sue
Donald W. Neel
Kelli Jo
Clarence A. King Jr. Boyds
Howard C. Biddinger
Myersville
Howard Carroll Jr
Biddinger
Sheila Fenton
Baltimore
Donald A. Gascoyne
North Market Street
Scott Allen
Stanley Dorsey
Airy
Dale Dwayne
Monay
Local Birth and Birthday Notices Highlight Area Residents
Mr Jack Eichelberger of 16 Taney Apartments will celebrate his birthday on January 13. Robert E Clapp II returns to the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg Virginia as a sophomore after holiday visits with family. Staff Sgt John E Fonda of Santa Rosa California and husband of Vicki M Melane helps operate Titan II missile sites at Little Rock Arkansas as missile analyst in the 408th Missile Wing. Mrs Elizabeth Smoot and Miss Medora Jones of Braddock Heights plan a Florida winter retreat. Mr and Mrs Bobby Lee Easter of Manassas Park announce the birth of Christine Rene Easter born January 2 at Fairfax Hospital weighing seven pounds.
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Jack Eichelberger
Taney Apartments
Robert E Clapp II
College of William and Mary
Williamsburg
John E. Fonda
Edward §. Fonda
Santa Rosa
Calif
Vicki M. Melane
Mable S. Pearson
Gaithersburg
Little Rock
Ark
Fonda
Strategic Air Command
408Th
308Th
Elizabeth Smoot
Medora Jones
Braddock Heights
Florida
Bobby Lee Easter
Manassas Park
Christine Rene
Fairfax Va
Easter
Linda Rene
Jean Minch
Local Figures Report Recoveries and Illnesses in Area
Among The Sick Mr Lanes Tibbs Knoxville has returned home after Freder ick Memorial Hospital treatment and is improving Nicely. Mr Earl M Oden of West Patrick street is confined to his apartment with pneumonia. Mr Charles Easterday of Mynersville entered Washington County Hospital Hagerstown after a heart attack at Fort Detrick. Mrs Marian Nicodemus secretary of City Engineer Robert Whiteford has been ill at her North Market Street home since last week.
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Lanes
Tibbs
Knoxville
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Earl M. Oden
West Patrick Street
Charles Easterday
Mynersville
Washington County Hospital
Hagerstown
Fort Detrick
Marian Nicodemus
Robert Whiteford
North Market Street
State of Union Seen Mixed for Economy
AP analysis notes the State of the Union is better than last year but faces gaps. The budget Johnson will propose aims at economy in existing programs and a poverty war, with tax cuts and new government spending as key levers. Budget size and pace, plus Congress approval, will shape the economy and market impact.
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Sam Dawson
AP Business News
NEW York
Union
Johnson
Treasury
Congress
Funeral notices from multiple area residents listed
Funeral services were held for Mrs Em ma R Cross Mrs Elizabeth Bratt Mrs Ida Garber and Glenn Rogowsky with interments at Mt Bethel Cemetery Park Heights Linganore Reformed and Mt Herman. Pallbearers included several family members and local names. services conducted by Rev Monore J Shearer Rev William Warner and Chaplain Carberry. D. D. Hartzler Sons and Gladhill Funeral Home led arrangements.
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Emma R. Cross
Myersville
Paul F. Bittle
Monroe J. Shearer
Mt. Bethel Methodist
Garfield
John K. Warrenfeltz
James R. Horne
Charles O. Myers
Howard T. Miller
A. Lee Doub
Dennis L. Flook
Elizabeth Bratt
Brunswick
Groton
Conn
Feete
William Warner
Park Heights
Hewes Kelley
Ollie Myers
Kirk Cramer Jr
Kirk Cramer Sr
Raymond Funk
Charles Mills
Ida Mary Garber
Charles E. Garber
Johnsville
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Union Bridge
D. D. Hartzler
Glenn J. Rogowsky
Middletown
Fort Detrick Post
Chaplain Carberry
Glenn Rudy
Thomas Haupt
James Tobery
Frank [Ffert
Jesse Clary
David Wise
Reformed
Gladhill Funeral Home
Epidemic Of TB Found In Cows In Frederick County
An eastern Frederick County cattle herd shows 67 of 73 cows infected with tuberculosis in a report by State Veterinarian Dr. George W. Green. James R. Thompson of Glisons Mill Road faces destruction of cattle under health rules, with compensation only a fraction of value. Public health officials say infection risk to humans is mainly from unpasteurized milk and barn air.
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Maryland
Frederick County
George W. Green
James R. Thompson
Glisons Mill Road
Hearlow Thompson
Thompson
USDA
Forbes H. Burgess
Dr. Burgess
Burgess
Green
Livestock Sanitary Service
Retired Candy Maker Dies at 82
George K. Christis longtime city resident died today at Walter Reed General Hospital Ft Detrick after a illness of complications aged 82. Survived by wife Andronike and children Christ G. Christis Harriet Summers Aphrodite Martin five grandchildren and brother Chester Christis he was a Key Candy Shop operator and later a cand maker at Barbara Fritchie Dan Shoppe until his 1957 retirement. Funeral services Friday at 10 30 a m at 106 East Church Street with Mt Olivet cemetery interment by M R Etchison and Son funeral directors.
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George K. Christis
James Martin
Biggs Avenue
Walter Reed General Hospital
Ft. Detrick
Christis
Christ and
Canelia Kabadis
Greece
Andronike Gallas Christis
This City
Christ G
East Church Street
Mt. Olivet
M. R. Etchison and Son
Obituaries mark multiple deaths in Maryland area
Several deaths reported in Maryland and nearby areas. Mrs. Nancy Louise Dunn of Boyds dies of leukemia at NIH Bethesda at 18. Charles E. Gilbert of Mountaindale dies after Christmas Eve heart attack. services Friday at 2 pm in Thurmont. Howard G. Lantz dies in Thurmont rooming house. funeral Friday. Maude L. Myerly of Hagerstown dies at 64. services Friday at Rest Haven Chapel. John H. Mackley of Walkersville dies at Frederick Memorial Hospital. services Saturday at Pentecostal Church.
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Charles E. Gilbert
Mountaindale
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Maude L. Myerly
Charles Ed Myerly
Hagerstown
Union Bridge
Edward
Effie Barnhart Stultz
Annabelle
Louise Hadley
Harry
Lester
Smithsburg
David
Elwood
Freddie
Robert
Las Vegas
N. Mex
Earl Stultz
Iva Ochs
Blanche Odell
York
Edith Smith
Bethesda
Rest Haven Funeral Chapel
Ray EB. Blanset
Rest Haven Cemetery
Britain confirms sale of Cuban buses and spares
London reports the government will proceed with the sale of 11.2 million dollars worth of British buses and spare parts to Cuba. The Board of Trade dismisses U S criticism and says the deal does not involve strategic goods.
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London
Cuba
Board of Trade
Britain
US Commerce Department
U.S
Johnson and Nixon call for restraint in nuclear program
Johnson outlines a 25 percent cut in enriched uranium output and the closing of four plutonium piles as part of a broader push to reduce nuclear weapons. He urges adversaries to mirror cuts while stressing domestic anti poverty plans and tax cut measures to spur employment and investment.
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Johnson
United States
Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
W. Willard Wirtz
U.S
Graf
White House
Capitol
Harry F. Byrd
Senate Finance Committee
Wilbur Mills
D-Ark
House
Ways and Means Committee
Byrd
Logine Johnson B
Alpha Portland sells limestone rock to Bmal for 550000
The Alpha Portland Cement Company deeded sale shows limestone rock from its Lime Kiln plant to Bmal Corporation for 550000 as part of a 2900000 total purchase for rock from Alpha plants in Catskill New York Ironton Ohio Martins Creek Pennsylvania Birmingham Alabama LaSalle Illinois and St Louis Missouri. Harold Stepanek vice president says this is a sale of future production rather than land and represents depreciation carved from next year's output.
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Alpha Portland Cement Company
County Court House
Bmal Corporation
Alpha Portland
United States
Harold Stepanek
Said
Court House
Catskill
N. Y
Ironton
Ohio
Martins Creek
Birmingham
Ala
LaSalle
St. Louis
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Encyclopaedia Britannica
Matthew Taylor Lackey
Piney Creek
Warren Eshbach
Mt. Herman
Bassett
Oscar Wolfe
Wilmer Barnes
James Sells
Lloyd Bowers
Charles Flickinger
Robert Miller
D. D
Hartzler and Son
William Duss
Nancy Louise Dunn
William Dunn
Boyds
National Institutes of Health
Fo Stevenson
Germantown Baptist Church
Jean Ann Dunn
Douglas Evan
Jean Davidson
Betty Pollen
Quinn’s Orchard
Patsy Simms
Donald Lee Simms
Forest Simms Jr
Bayds
James Simms
Edna Neeley
Colorado
George William Simms
Oregon
May Kauffman Gilbert
Beatrice Rice
Charles M. Gilbert
Edna Warrenfeltz
Donald L. Gilbert
James E. Gilbert
Catherine C. Wiles
Mary L. Gilbert
Lena M
Helen Y. Gilbert
Louis Studebaker
Monroe Studebaker
Edward Mull
Bessie Studebaker
Creager
Arthur Rice
Lewistown Cemetery
Howard G. Lantz
Goldie Anders
Lantz
Joseph B
Mary 5
John H. Mackley
Edna Crouse Mackley
East Fourth Street
Carroll County
Milton
Mary Little Mackley
D. C
Barton Funeral Home
Pentecostal Church
Praca
NBC
Orient Express
Paris
Istanbul
Edwin Newman
Newman
Agatha Christie
Graham Greene
Europe
Switzerland
Richard Boone
Boone
Cosa Nostra
Italy
RADIO
Cynthia Lowry
Portland
Spapet
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