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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1964
Page
4
The piece argues Americans value convenience and leisure over hard work, noting shifts since the 1950s. It contrasts past 50-hour weeks and low income with today’s shorter hours, higher pay, and gadget-filled homes. It also discusses rising living costs in 1963 and skepticism about price stability.
Frederick residents decried a proposed zoning change to permit a truck stop and commercial development on a 20 acre site near South Market Street. They urged the Mayor and Board of Aldermen to reverse the decision and protect residential areas around Mt. Olivet Cemetery and the Maryland State School.
At a January meeting the Mayor and Aldermen discussed changing a 20 acre parcel south of Frederick from Residential C to Business B. Robert Clapp for Pure Oil seeks a motel restaurant filling station and truck depot. About 60 property owners protested citing noise and undesirability in a quiet residential area.
The North Italian town of Sotto Il Monte di Airuno renamed itself Soto Il Monte Giovanni XXIII in honor of the birth place of Pope John XXIII. The change commemorates the pontiff and ties to local history.
Items from The News-Post files dated January 14 1914 include Kefauver Middletown named postmaster confirmed by Senate with $1100 salary and potential clerk, Rocky Ridge Church of the Brethren rededicated after renovations cost about $500, Mantle Lamp Company opening Maryland operations at 38 East Patrick street, Shakespeare lecture by Dr J Duncan Spaeth at Hood College, about 8500 deposited at Peoples Savings Bank Libertytown, Austrian consular investigation into brutal rail yard assault at Brunswick halted by disappearance of victim.
The News-Post item notes that draft boards will move to reclassify registrants still in 3-A largely composed of pre Pearl Harbor fathers. Additional calls for reinduction examinations are considered probable this month. The report also mentions a defense view of future budgets and war materials viewable at the Salvage Segregation Center.
Mrs. Thelma Kindle, of this city and a part time cafe worker at Frederick Memorial Hospital, returned January 2 from a three week visit with her son and family, Mr and Mrs Howard Kindle of Cincinnati Ohio. Mr Frank W Yanes of 105 West Fourteenth Street was honored at a family dinner Sunday for his birthday.
In Baltimore two chest surgeons, Dr William F. Reinhoff III and his father, Dr William F. Reinhoff Jr., debate the Surgeon General’s smoking report. The father rejects the link as coincidence while the son supports some connections to cancer and plans to cut his habit from ten cigarettes a day.
Funeral services were conducted Saturday at noon for Ray and Hayhurst at Mt Union Cemetery near Union Bridge. Rev Howard W Miller officiated. C O Fuss and Son served as funeral directors. George Washington signed the first treaty between the United States and Morocco in 1787.
Maryland Army National Guard unit Company B Forward Support 729th Maintenance Battalion at Highfield received a Superior rating from the Inspector General’s Office in the annual General Inspection. Captain William C. McCleaf announced recruitment openings for ages 17 to 26 with positions in repair, radar, signal, office equipment, cooks and artillery. Enlistees without prior service face four to nine months active duty training culminating in school training at US Army facilities. prior service may join for one year in current rank if openings exist.
Among the sick Mrs. Roy Miller of Grant Place remains a surgical patient at Frederick Memorial Hospital. Mr. Hicks Belcher has returned home to Dickerson from Suburban Hospital in Bethesda in satisfactory condition. Mrs. Raymond Carlisle of Hyattstown improves at home after illness. Jan Jones of Dickerson recovers from a December skiing accident. Mrs. Nathan Hildebrand’s sister Mrs. Mae Smith is hospitalized in Bradenton Florida. Register of Wills Thomas M. Hichelberger is in Providence Hospital Washington after surgery in satisfactory condition.
In two transactions Ransom R. Lewis Jr and wife sold 140 acres to Frederick Business Properties for about 130000. Frederick Business Properties then sold the same land to Frederick Electronics Corporation for 175000. The Hayward Farm sits along Hayward Road near U S 15 north of Harmony Grove. Frederick Electronics moved to the new Pine avenue site late December. Howard Brice was jailed 50 days in default of a 50 fine after being found intoxicated by Magistrate Byron W. Thompson. arrest followed Monday by Officer Charles K. Cashour at the Court House.
Obituaries detail deaths of Mrs. Effie W. Anderson of Alexandria Virginia 74. Mrs. Emma Grace Long of Emmitsburg 69. Leon Ellsworth Merriman of Bolivar heart attack. Mrs. Anna Mary Moler of Brunswick 84. Surviving relatives listed with burial plans at Ivy Hill Mountain View Park Heights and other local cemeteries. Funeral details pending public services and calls at local homes and chapels.
No charges were filed after a State Police cruiser slid on snow and rear-ended a 1957 Buick driven by Norman W Clark on East South Street. Trooper Gordon H K Smith, in a 1963 Ford police car, caused $35 damage while Clark’s car sustained $100. Police also noted a separate City Police crash on West Patrick Street with $40 damage.
Local weather notes show subfreezing lows from six to nine degrees above with high day temperatures. Traffic police report tractors without chains caused delays on U S 15 Buckeystown area and U S 40 West. 1 70 cleared. Cinders aided hill flows. several residents snowbound awaiting road reopenings. The Francis Scott Key Hotel sheltered many out of town and county residents overnight.
Frederick Memorial Hospital records show multiple births between January 10 and 12. Recipients include Atwell, Dehn, Amoss, Gannon, Grossnickle, Boyer, Main, Webb, Snyder, and Engel, listing each newborn with gender and the parent’s names and hometowns.
Magistrate Byron W Thompson dismissed two of three cases Monday for lack of prosecution. Gerald Worrell 21 West Patrick street faced assault and battery and fan-support charges filed December 26 by wife Carolyn Worrell. those counts were dismissed. Robert Henry Addison 22 West South street had assault and battery charges filed December 24 by Emma C Addison dismissed. Ida May Onley 36 Chapel Alley was found guilty of disorderly conduct and fined $10 plus costs, arrested by Officer William H Crapill.
Thomas Asbury Hadder, a 22 year old Maryland hospital escapee, was arrested by seven FBI agents after showering at a Salvation Army center in Oklahoma City. He faced a federal flight warrant and had been awaiting trial for the murder of patrolman Alfred Stinet in Maryland.
Baltimore AP reports psychiatrist and lexicographer Dr J E Schmidt now living in Charlestown Indiana coined terms in 1957 to describe smoking related conditions and attitudes Capnogenous capnopathy hypercapnosis capnophilia capnodulia acapnotic capnofic and acapnofic. He notes the terms have little currency outside specialists and that he is acapnofic.
Baltimore AP reports the new parks administrator Spencer C. Ellis earns about $2,500 more annually than when appointed last October. Samuel L. Hammerman, park commissioner, said Ellis’s pay is $12,125 per year, and he cited unclear details about the discrepancy.
Captain George F. Curlett died at 99 in a Williamsport nursing home after a long career steering ships on the Chesapeake Bay. The longtime mariner spent 25 years as captain of his own vessels and wore out a life on the river he loved.
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