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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1964
Page
11
A captioned photo highlights one of the newspaper's best known features, showing 10 year olds Kurt Holter of Middletown and Dan sleeping out, illustrating a community activity or school project.
YMCA Day Camp at Breezy Grove Park operates this year under Roy Okan of Rosemont Avenue with four two week sessions from June 22 to August 14. Enrollment averages 60 campers per session, totaling about 240 for the year, similar to last year. The camp serves ages seven to 14 and lists Karen Dyer and David Marple as unit directors with four counsellors. All staff return except the two unit directors from last year.
The Frederick area YMCA Day Camp continues two week sessions with two Counsellors-In-Training from Frederik YMCA staff William Baker and Nancy Cole assisting. The new director emphasizes nature programs across the M J Grove Lime Company land six miles south of Frederick, including compass hikes woodsy games nature craft demonstrations axe lore and Indian crafts with strict camper counselor ratios. The program preserves popular activities such as daily camp pool swimming with instruction to advanced levels bakeouts overnight stays and overnight camping in improvised facilities plus pond fishing archery and air rifle training and mood hikes.
The Emmitsburg Jaycees asked Town Council to help oppose locating the consolidated Emmitsburg Thurmont High School on Thurmont’s outskirts. They seek about 750 dollars for lawyer fees, and ask the town to underwrite 500 dollars and act as plaintiffs against the County Commissioners and Board of Education. A motion proposed raising 250 dollars locally to trigger council action. The meeting also covered water meter vault site work for St Joseph’s College.
Increasing tourist trade prompts Frederick County Citizen Band Radio Club to plan aid for visitors. Meeting at Joe Bussard Jr. home discusses a dedicated information channel and net traffic control to assist travelers, with contact details for joining. Mentions later Paris case and Cape Cod hogs in moss notes.
Brandstadt M D in care of this paper states he cannot answer individual letters but will address letters of general interest in future columns.
The government agreed to purchase seven Russian built Antonov-24 planes for United Arab Republic internal airlines at a cost of 33 million, to be paid mostly in cotton. Delivery begins March 1965. A rail lugger is a horse that runs close to the rail in racing terms.
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