Garden Club notes and social events in Frederick
Mrs. Ewell hosted the Tasker's Chance Garden Club at 35 East Second Street for the January meeting led by president Mrs. Claude H. Barrick. The club planned year round flower arrangements for Frederick Memorial Hospital and discussed the Spring flower show with several guests in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ewell
John Ewell
Tasker’s Chance Garden Club
East Second Street
Claude H. Barrick
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Helen Smith
Dwight D. Eisenhower
White House
Franklin Birely
Thurmont
A Record Year Ahead Predicted by GM Leader
General Motors president Harlow H Curtice forecasts a record year for U S business with gross national product rising about 3 percent above 1954. He notes GM’s ambitious expansion in Europe and a 600 million investment to launch new 1955 models while funding a 2 million annual program of college grants for 306 American students.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harlow H. Curtice
General Motors
United States
Mr. Curfice
Europe
Nuclear Nautilus Launch Opens Nuclear Power Era
The world ignored the first successful harnessing of atomic power as the atomic powered submarine Nautilus launched at Groton Conn. Yet predictions rise that within a decade or two atomic power will light homes and run factories. Future generations may mark Nautilus as ushering in the nuclear power age, though the event was largely overlooked in current news.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Groton
Conn
Marine Fox to Take Part in Puerto Rican Amphibious Exercise
Marine Private Ronald E. Fox, son of Earl Fox of Frederick Maryland and husband of Patricia Sandower of 31 East Sixth Street Frederick, is scheduled for a large scale amphibious training exercise with the Atlantic Fleet Marine Force Training Group in the Puerto Rican area from January through March 1955.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lrieune
N. C.1
FHTNC
Marine Pic
Ronald E. Fox
Earl Fox
RFD 5
Patricia Sandower
East Sixth Street
Frederick
Atlantic Fleet Marine Force Training Group
Fifty Years Ago Items From The Columns Of The News 1905
Fifty years ago Frederick city society items report a new ambulance for Frederick City Hospital donated by two patrons and delivered to D F Davis carriage factory for two cots and a physician’s seat. Local literary society debated steam versus electricity with negatives winning. Abstinence league election names officers and notes 52 members. A charity farce comedy for YMCA features listed performers. A New Year’s gift includes two lots donated by Mrs Georgia Simonson to the hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick City Hospital
D. F. Davis
South Market Street
Parker
Ruth Mulliny
Alexander Grave
Taonise
Madeline + Shipley
Harry J. Kefauver
Lee Reich
John Markey
William Lebbers
Robert Delaplaine
Arthur T. Kreh
Avice Radcliff
Walter A McDaniel
Electric Tower and county expect lower bills and relief plans
Twenty years ago item notes an Edison scheduled power rate cut of about 62.90 for Frederick county residents under a new plan. It also mentions a county welfare advisory committee led by James H Gambrill Jr with Mayor Lloyd C Culler and others to propose work relief projects. Auditors begin work as weather turns cold with rain sleet and snow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patomat Edison Company
Frederick County Welfare Board
Frederck County
James H. Gambrill,Jrr
Lioyd C. Culler
Holmes D. Baker
Elmer St. C. Maxwell
A. H. Derr
Wilbert L. Smith
Frederck County Farm Bureau
W. Jarboe Grove
Civic Club Discusses Americanism and UN Charter
Civic Club members met last Monday at Mrs. Calvin Schildknecht home to study Americanism with Mrs. Elmer Munshower presenting an article and Pearl Eader examining the United Nations charter. Other hostesses assisted, and plans were announced for future safety themed programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Civic Club
Calvin Schildknecht
College Parkway
Elmer F. Munshower
Iiss
Pearl Eader
United Nations
Schildknecht
J. W. Canaan
Ezra Hoffman
Andrew G. Truxal
Munshower
Five charter members shaped Frederick medical history
Dr Louis R Schoolman spoke to Frederick County Historical Society detailing Fredericks five charter members of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland: Thomas, Tsler, Hilleary, Sappington, and Smith. He credited Elisha Hall with driving the movement leading to the Faculty charter in 1729 and noted Philip Thomas as a pivotal figure in medicine here.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick
Medical
Maryland
Louis R. Schoolman
Historical Society of
Frederick County
Philip Thomas
John jTsler
William Hilleary
Francis Brown Sappingion
Joseph Sim Smith
Elisha John Hall
Fredericktown
Schoolman
Hall
University of Maryland Medical School
Committee of Safety
Thomas
Jane Contee Hanson
John Hanson
John Tyler
America
United
John Hunter
Hilleary
Mt. Pleasant
Sappington
Libertytown
Smith
Taneytown
Joseph W. Urner
Treasury Department
Samuel H. Rosenstock
Zacharias
Carroll County
John F. Massey
Pen Mar. Pa
Congressional
Earl Warren
Taney Memorial
J Glenn Beall
Francis Scott Key
Key
Fawcett
Edward S$. Delaplaine
Frederick Co
Mary Elizabeth
Carty Rogers
Marshall L. Etchison
Henri L. G. Bieffer
Soriety
David Boudin
Geneva
Switzerland
Gilbert L. Oddo
Francis Scott Key Hotel
Ordo
Mt. St. Mary's College
Emmitsburg
Oddo
Herbert Hoover
Dr. Oddo
Eisenhower
Farm Suit Is Heard In Court
In Emmitsburg court Dallas Sonny McNair contends his stepfather Scott H. McNair promised to leave him the 117 acre farm before dying without a will. Witnesses Ohler and Gregg testified the elder McNair spoke of leaving the farm to the boy. Defendants deny any agreement and say McNair compensated the stepson for his work. The case, a bill for specific performance, will continue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emmitsburgh
Equity Court
Scott H. McNeir
Dallas Sonny McNair
Patrick M. Schnauffer
John £. Ohler
Alvey P. Gregg
Ohler
McNair
Sonny
Gregg
Emmitsburg
Scott McNair
Scott T. McNair
Dula M. Welty
Mae
Se McNair
Hefarsons
Dallas McNair
Thes
Pat
When One Gets It Nearly All Have The Same Virus
A polio finding from a Tu lane University New Orleans team shows that if one family member contract s polio the others share the same virus type and gain immunity to that type. The scientists John P. Fox Henry M. Gelfand Pravin N. Bhatt Dorothy LeBlanc and Donald P. Conwell presented the study at a New York Academy of Sciences polio conference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
New York Academy of Sciences
Tulane Unversity
New Orleans
John P. Fox
Henry M. Gelfand
Pravin N. Bhatt
Dorothy LeBlanc
Donald P. Conwell
City Enacts New Ordinance on Disorderly Conduct
Frederick city officials approved a revised disorderly conduct ordinance to define vagrancy and unlawful behavior, clarifying what constitutes disorderly acts within city limits. The Board also created five specific parking spots on North The Ul Nowse U District Street for County commissioners, the County Engineer, and the Office of Supervisor of Assessments, plus a loading zone on East Church Street from the red line to 86 feet east.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Aldermen
Frederick
Tne Ul Nowse Um CuuliLie Street
Board
Suspended $5 Fine Tied To Serviceman Case
In Pe ople Court magistrate Wilbur F Sheffield suspended a $5 fine for Raymond J Burkett of Red 3 Bedford Pa on a charge of operating without a license. Burkett was en route to Fort Meade. leave his car here until a licensed driver removes it was the condition. Other motorists forfeited varying sums on US 5 and US 40 west for speeding, tossing, and stop-sign violations with names and towns listed among the offenders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilbur F. Sheffield
Peoples Court
Raymond J. Burkett
RED 3
Bedford
W. L. Guilding
Fort Meade
Burkett
Frederick
Maurice R. Mowery
Baltimore
Byron L. Vorster
Olmstead Falls
William A. Gray
Washington
John R. Shuss
Breezewood
John E. Manuel
Bel Air
Robert S. Rays
Arlington
P A
William R. Sagrilla
Annedale
U. S. 40
West
Ruth V. Steele
Boston
John A. Walterhoefer
Donald F. Cunningham
Butler
Joseph Jones
Martinsburg
W. Va
Knoxville
Illness and hospital updates across Martinsburg and Frederick
Numerous local residents receive hospital care and updates. George D. Biggs of 342 Madison Street improves at Newton D Baker Hospital in Martinsburg after admission January 9. Frederick Memorial Hospital treats Howard Hoff for emergency surgery with satisfactory condition. Mildred Rippeon and Ethel Hahn undergo observation and surgery at Frederick Memorial Hospital. Dr Werner Braun of Mountaindale cites a heart condition for a patient at Frederick Memorial. Clifford Shelton of Walkersville recovers after surgery. Jesse C Ramsburg Jr discharged from Frederick Memorial Hospital after two weeks. Benjamin Esler of Thurmont is under observation at Church Home and Hospital in Baltimore. Raymond Parker Free Jr and family note scarlet fever. Tommy Stockman seeks treatment at Kernan Children's Hospital in Baltimore for sex and hip issues. Frank Lee of Walkersville admitted for observation and treatment at Frederick Memorial. Donald G Musgrave of Brunswick undergoes emergency operation at Frederick Memorial Hospital. condition serious with even chance of recovery. Delbert Anvil of Brunswick enters Kings Daughters Hospital Martinsburg for surgery. Mrs George Mentzer convalesces in Burkeville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George D. Biggs
Madison Street
Newton D. Baker Hospital
Martinsburg
W. Va
Biggs
Howard A. Hoff
East Fifth Street
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Mildred Rippeon
South Market Street
Ethel Hahn
Second Street
Werner Braun
Mountaindale
Camp Detrick
Clifford Shelton
Walkersville
Jesse C. Ramsburg Jr
Frederick Memoral Hospital
Benjamin H. Esler
Thurmont
Church Home
Baltimore
Raymond Parker Free UI
Raymond P. Free Jr
East Ith Street
Tommy Stockman
W. Stockman
West South Street
Kernan Children’s Hospital
Frank Lee
Donald G. Musgrave
Brunswick
Delbert Anvil
Kings Daughters
Pital
Aper Frederick Memorial Hospital
Atien
Burkitts
George Mentzer
Whoreville
Carroll County Board Approves Teachers Salary Schedule
The Carroll County Board of Education approved a teachers salary schedule starting at 3006 for bachelor degree holders, rising to 4800 over nine years. Frederick County will pay 3200 to 5000 over eleven years. The plan aligns with the 1955 36 budget approval and directs the superintendent to hire for 1955 56 vacancies and new positions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Education of
Carroll County
Frederick County
Carroll
Stable dollar and economy praised by Eisenhower
Washington correspondent David Lawrence notes President Eisenhower’s emphasis on a healthy economic outlook based on authentic data. He argues free enterprise fuels jobs and growth, while government overreach or rapid deficit spending can erode confidence and stifle private initiative. The piece contrasts conservative liberalism with radical liberalism and weighs solvency, inflation, and policy targets ahead of the 1956 campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Lawrence
Washington
Waltet
United States
Eisenhower
Congress
Alexander Hamilton
Metropolitan Life Officials Confer in Baltimore
Charles H. Woodman of Metropolitan Life Insurance travels to Baltimore for a conference with company president Frederick W. Ecker and other executives. Ecker leads a nationwide series to meet more than 22 000 field representatives, joined by several vice presidents and agency superintendents. Also attending today are Gerald Dorsey James C Grimes George W Hull Harry T James Carlton A Marvel Jr Bruce H Runkle and John W Schamel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Charles H. Woodman
Loinl
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Frederic W. Ecker
Mr. Ecker
C. J. North
E. C. McDonald
Marvin E. Davis
Officers elected at Mutual Fire Insurance meeting
At the annual meeting of the Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Carroll County on January 21 officers and directors were chosen. Directors include Dr. Lewis K. Woodward and C Glosd Lynch among others. Woodward was elected president, Lynch secretary treasurer, and Granville E. Bixler assistant secretary treasurer. Red Buttons enters hospital for jaw calcium deposit treatment. his Manhattan Eve show is rescheduled to January 28.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Manufacturing Company Antal
Union Manufacturing Company
Francis Scott Key
James Crist
Union Manufacturing Retief and Benet Association
Geranal
Bonnie Dale Caplan
Crist
Wwessminster
Mutual Fire Insurance Company of
Carroll County
Lewis K. Woodward
Charlies R. Foutz
C. Glosd Lynch
DeVries R. Hering
D. Eugene Walsh
James M. Shriver
Gilbert G. Miller
Paul E. Sawyer
Charles R. Arnold
Edgar M. Long
Dn Woodward
Mr. Lynch
Granville E. Bixler
Red Buttons
New York
Manhattan
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Garden Club
Welcome Wagon
Newcomer's Club
A. G. Schuettinger
Upper College Terrace
Dorothy Menke
Monocacy Garden Club
Anders Fewand
Grave Capital Garden Club League
Menké
Rockwell Terrace
Mr. Grove
Yuary
L. D. Edward D. Grove
Worsham
Henry B. Mathews
Joseph J. Skelly
Media
Elizabeth Getzendanner
Grove
John R. Ewell
Thomas J. Fichting
Columbia
S. C
Edward D. Grove, Jr
Pfe
Edward P. Thomas
Denton Cootey
Houston
Tex
Cooley
Mary Maulsby
West Church Street
New York City
Robert Henke
St. Mary's College
Annie Warner Hospital
Gellysboro
Airs
Henke
Hubert L. Joy
Raymond D. Smith, Sr
Center Street
Roy Parks
Waynesboro
Ikknoxville
Leesburg
Wesleyan Service Guild
Calvary Methodist Church
Alissa Helen Daugherty
Motter Avenue
Margaret Thomas
Folgac K Moore
India
Sibley Hosptal
D. C
Mothers’ Memorial Center
Cincinnati
Guild
Iica Hatler
Mirs
Barbara Burke
Mass
Margaret Creesec Oa
Hammond Clary
Maska
Leonand Vs. Creuse
RED Fi
Maryland Military Dstrict
Crouse
797Th Panel Bridge Engineer Company
U.S. Army Re Serve
Ali
A. Levi Porter
Sharon Kaye
William Huffman
Charles S. Huffman
Nellie E Hoffman
Huffman
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
the News
South Frederick Literary Society
R. Rhoads
H. Albaugh
E. Ramsburg
R. Grubbs
F. Gaither
J. Davis
Total Abstinence League
W. W. Lease
Wm. D. Hales
George W. Shoemaker
E. F. Biggs
James L. Beard
Russell E. Lighter
Joseph W. Smith
William C. Wertenbaker
William B. Leichert
West Coast
East Francisco
Thomas B. Lebherz
Coronoa Naval Hospital
Los Angeles
Janet Johnson
West College Terrace
American Association of University Women
Milton Gordon
Warren L. Mauzy
Allister M. Mack
Rosemont Avenue
Grant Place
Aes
Welcome Wagon Newcomer's Club
Bridge
G. Hunter Bowers, Jr
Tlis Bowers
Limestone
Ale
Bowers
Air Force
Charles Kevehner
Walkersvile
M. Set
Howard Kerehner
Pasadena
Set Kerenner
William B. Crum
McKaie
Billy
William Ro Cram
Bruce Bo Ccram
Clarence A. Raves
William OS Cram
William Fo Howes
Charles C. Fogle
Walter Genlis
Clyde Fogle
Mass Wilda Forte
and Myre Robert Crum
Clyde Cran
Mees Kitty Keller
George Sheetenhelm
Pamela
Louis Danner
Paint of Rocks
Naomi White
Mary Louise
Dixon-Yates Tva
Atomic Power Commission
McClelan
Oregon
84Th Congress
Ral TM
Reg Ws, Patt, Oy
HEA Service, Inc
Cheapec
Pondmo
AIO
Avesster
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