Damascus Community Activities Include Travel Club Trip
The Damascus Travel Club secured a third bus for a February 3 trip to Washington DC to see Ice Capades at the Washington Coliseum. A non member seating option is available via Mrs Mary Virginia Dietz. The Damascus Methodist Church hosts a February School of Missions with weekly sessions, featuring youth and adult programs, films, and fundraisers for India workers and Shepherds of the Street.
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Damascus Travel Club
Washington, DC
Washington Coliseum
Mary Virginia Dietz
Damascus Methodist Church
Everett Jones
Robert Barker
Charles McCreery
Robert Newlin
William Freienmuth
Warren Schwab
Jack Poole
Donald Watkins
India
Tukaram S. Kamble
Paul Wagner
Mabel Wagner
Damascus
Dascus
Edwina
Constance Mullinix
Births and hospital notes fill Montgomery area pages
Congratulations pour in as Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Wartten welcome their fourth child Ib 9 oz Brenda Marie born January 20 at Montgomery General Hospital. Various residents are listed as surgical patients at Montgomery General and Frederick Memorial Hospitals, with moves, parties, and birthdays noted among families on Ridge Road and in Damascus. Airman Robert Main receives a promotion and is stationed in Germany, with plans to return to the U S in July.
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Wayne Wartten
Browningsville
Brenda Marie
Montgomery General Hospital
James Burch
Bethesda Church Road
Suburban Hospital
Carroll Fetzer
Mr. Fetzer
Robert Main
Main
Woodrow Main
Germany
United States
Fires Level Shed and Cabin at Boy Scout Camp
Over the weekend two fires destroyed a storage shed at Clarence Craver’s Mountaindale Road property and a small sleeping cabin at Baker Scout Camp on Ridge Road near Braddock Heights. Fire crews from Independent Walkers and Thurmont fought both blazes, with the first at about 10:30 p.m. Saturday and the second at 11:45 a.m. Sunday. Damages were about 100 dollars. causes could not be determined.
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Clarence Craver
Mountaindale Road
Independent
Walkers‘hire
Thurmont
Baker Scout Camp
Ridge Road
Braddock Heights
Open Housing Bill Aims to End Montgomery County Discrimination
A comprehensive open housing bill to outlaw discrimination in sale or rental of nearly all housing in Montgomery County is set for unveiling Monday by the Montgomery Human Relations Commission. If approved by the county council, fines and jail terms would apply to violators, making Montgomery the first Washington area county to challenge the white housing ring surrounding the region.
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Montgomery County
Montgomery Human Relations Commission
Montgomery
Washington
Housing bill faced rough sledding in Negro District seen
Veteran county observers warned the bill would apply to all housing except private rooms and church properties. It would bar lending institutions from discrimination in mortgage and rehabilitation loans, carrying penalties up to six months in jail and a $1000 fine. The Congo case mentions Salvation Army Major Gabrielle Becquet weeping in court as she was driven home by the judge's chauffeur.
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Salvation Army
Gabrielle Becquet
The
Congo
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Luther Burke
Wesleyan Service Guild
Emerson Slocum
Roland Green
School of Missions
Herbert S. Hyatt
Francis Scott Key Hotel
Frederick
Raymond Wilson
Richard Shook
Connie
Edwina Mullinix
Youth For Christ
Dan Hill
St. Anne’s
Donald Walker
Montgomery Methodist Church
Deets Warfield Sr
Douglas Jernigan
Helen Mahylis
Albert Robert
Kenneth Reader
Maloy Moxley
Deets Warfield Jr
Edmond Rhodes Jr
Southeast Asia
Mary Green
Woodfield
Leroy Wachier
Donald Weyne
George Pope
Church Hall
George Kempigs
Mt Tabor
WSCS
C. R. Biles
Law
Hazel Allnutt
Merkle Warfield Jr
Georgia Oland
American Field Service
Ellis Grime
AFL
Gordon Hanson
Elc
AFS
Damascus Garden Club
Sidney Gustavson
Roger Day
Albert Busch
Kenneth Peters
Ethvn Burdette
Hollywood, Florida
Elwood Wright
Kenneth Boone
Frederck Memorial Hospital
Thomas McCarvill
Woodfield Road
Frederick Memorial Hospital
9101
Gue Road
Alfred Kohn
Raleigh, North Carolina
John Beck
David Beall
Paulette Burdette
Tom and Ray's
Druid Theatre
Cynthia Barnard
Ginger Richards
Sheila Mullinix
Susan Moxley
Yvonne Mehairy
Linda Sue Bu
Jean Beaver
Lyn Sue Shaw
Teresa Warfield
Mignon Miles
Patti Luhn
Bradley Hawkins
Ed Watkins
Sterling Hawkins
Gloria
James Hawkins
Sharon
Richard Stup
Brenda
Shirley
Sterling Hawkins Jr
Charles E. Watkins Jr
James Musson
Cromwell King
Raymond Kemp
Mrs
Howard Taylor
Largo
Florida
Paul Braun
Harold Ward
Woodrow Ward
Polly
George Woodfield
Bertie Grimes
James E. Devall
Hiawatha McDonald
Rockville
Roger Poole
Harriet Ann Stipe
Ann Houck
Robert Bavender
Buck Hill Falls, Pennsylvania
Lillie Vaughn
Catonsville
Pauline Brown
Parkville
Oland
Ray Servery
David
Darryl Whitt
Leonard Burns
Olney
Elwood Mullinix
Sheila
Kenneth Howes
Sue
Mrs. Lloyd White
Cumberisland
Duraclean
Dick’s Duraclean
East 8Th Street
Victor
Royal Portable & Office
Storm and Shipley
2Nd & Market Sts
Laber Delivery
Neoples
North Market Street
Frederick Shopping Center
Prospect Shopping Center
Deoples Drug Stores
Bowling
Frederick’s
Ater
Williams Typewriter & Supply CO
East Patrick ‘St
Yellow Springs Road
Frederick Cablevision
Cablevision, Inc
Shipley’s
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