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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1950
Page
11
A reader asks Dorothy Dix about being too nice to a young man and whether overwhelming affection hurts a relationship. Dix warns that overnurturing can bore a man and suggests keeping affection as a treat to sustain interest while noting common marriage dynamics.
Washington reports State Department scrutiny of Kurt Adenauer's bid to centralize West German civil police into a 25,000 strong unit to shield the government from unrest. McCloy opposes, fearing a step toward remilitarization as Adenauer touts better internal security and tighter government control amid East bloc threats.
Eighty two German teenagers arrived at New Windsor to join the 1950 Brethren Service Commission high school student exchange. The group undergoes screenings, language help, and host placements as they spend a year in American homes and schools to learn democratic living by experience.
A regional column laments holiday weekend highway chaos and the wrecks that mar sunny drives. It credits planners and safety groups for steps to fix road ills and calls for stronger US diplomacy to counter Soviet pressure in Korea, urging measured, decisive action.
The wheat crop is the finest in years with harvest 15 to 20 bushels per acre. Over 10,000 bushels sold in Frederick city. Frederick City Milling Company bought 7,000. Market well supplied. fruit line strong with cherries near finished and raspberries plenteous. A field of wheat near Adamstown belonging to Daniel Z Padgett burned. 212 shocks destroyed, barn saved with difficulty. Keystone Copper Company representatives secured options on tracts near Good Hope and plan four shafts soon for ore. Rosenour Brothers offer free baby shoes to every baby born in 1900.
Twenty years ago notes report a new steel truss bridge over the Rey Nocacy River at Furnace Ford and a concrete arch bridge over Linganore Creek on the New London to Liberty town road. Frederick Fair prizes rise by about 1100 for Oct 21 to 24. Brunswick residents fear a Japanese beetle spread in the railroad town, with 148 found in four days. William J. Grove writes to the editor opposing school consolidation, challenging wards for parents and taxpayers.
The mother Pauline Bowman aged 26 and stepfather Harold 23 were found guilty of beating a seven year old girl with an Army webbed belt and buckle. Bowman received two years probation while Harold was fined 50 dollars and costs for assault and 25 dollars and costs for disturbing the peace. Set. Ellis Gilmore, who took the child to hospital, said the couple had been drinking and that the stepfather lashed the child before the mother joined in.
A brief, quirky exchange unfolds as a clerk quotes a dollar fifty plus tax for two dozen diapers while a shopper mulls alternatives and jokes about safety pins, reflecting a light local moment in everyday commerce.
Andrea Gehr, a 30 year old New York woman and German refugee, was shot dead early today near Patterson while pursuing divorce evidence with her estranged husband Herbert Gehr, his companion Dorothea Matthews, and four private detectives. Gehr fired a 22 rifle as the group confronted them at Birth Hill cabin. two detectives were wounded. Gehr and Matthews fled but were captured less than two hours later in Armonk. Matthews, a 30 year old brunette, faces questioning. Gehr says he acted thinking prowlers approached.
Stanley E. Sutherland of Carrick mourns son William 24 found dead with a bullet wound near Newell riverbank close to Waterford Downs race track. He wore a wedding band and watch missing from the body along with about 655 dollars. No weapon recovered. Employer L O Hardman calls it murder. The case centers on a possible hitchhiker and missing money. Thirteen upper Mississippi Valley states supply about half of America's eggs.
James Marlow explains the U S government’s wartime planning process. He outlines the roles of the President, Defense Department, State Department, National Security Council, National Security Resources Board, Munitions Board, and Research and Development Board, detailing how they advise and coordinate military and civilian mobilization and policy decisions.
A daily vocabulary note highlights the word compliance defined as yielding to a wish or proposal. It notes usage examples and common mispronunciations and misspellings for related terms. It also includes a remark about elevators in the United States carrying as many passengers as railroads, though phrasing is unclear.
Illinois Governor Adlai E. Stevenson urges a wholesale overhaul of state and federal tax structures. He argues current costs exceed revenues, cites past savings from trimming government, and says reforms should assign taxes to appropriate levels while avoiding drastic department eliminations. He notes legislative headwinds and farmer and union opposition to service cuts.
Mr and Mrs Eugene W Pruitt returned Saturday from St Louis Mo where Mr Pruitt superintendent of Frederick county schools attended sessions of the National Education Association annual convention Mr Pruitt has resigned as association director from Maryland and has been succeeded by Harry Frank vice principal of the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute Among the 90 Marylanders who registered for the convention were from Frederick delegates Miss Pauline Van Pelt Mid Hetawn and Miss Charlotte Koontz Jefferson Miss Zelma Smith Frederick High School recently elected president of the Frederick County Teachers Association Harry Frushour principal of the Liberty High School and Mrs Frushour The party was registered at the Hotel Lennox
Hongkong dispatch says 10,000 troops of Gen. Lin Piao’s Fourth Army left Canton by rail for the Manchuria Korea border. In two weeks nearly 50,000 Red troops reported dispatched to Manchuria, per Sing Tao Jih Pao.
A terse moral essay discusses how reputation stems from public perception of a man’s qualities and motives, while character reveals deeper truths hidden beneath outward screens. The piece signals how people judge others by what is shown versus what lies beneath.
A mixed Q A excerpt covers biblical Jericho six day encirclement with wall collapse on day seven. Nobel Prize fields Medicine Literature Physics Chemistry Peace. Pennsylvania as Commonwealth origin. Shasta Dam built 12 years second largest dam. first electric lighted passenger trains 1887. Marine Band played at inaugurations since Monroe era. truncated ending question.
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