End of Shooting Wars Prompts Reflections on Peace
Frederick editor Nicholas Yinger notes no active shooting war worldwide for the first time since World War I. He argues the Indo China cease-fire ends American combat risk, deemed a Western defeat, with China and allies now 400 miles closer to the border and 12 million more people at risk. He cites costs, French losses, and hopes for France to regain strength.
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Indochina
Asia
United States
China
France
Thurmont man appeals to keep Emergency Hospital open
Letters to the editor urge Frederick County to preserve the Emergency Hospital arguing its services are vital and affordable. George W. Wireman of Thurmont implores citizens to act, stressing care for the less fortunate and urging community support to prevent the hospital’s closure.
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Thurmont
Frederick County
Frederick
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Piedesin
Frederick Memorial
George W. Wireman
Braddock Heights Fete Draws 400 Plus In Western Themed Night
More than 400 persons attended the Braddock Heights lawn fete held on the Ross McCutcheon and Carlotta Hayes lawn. Decor included rail fences hay wagons and a covered wagon with Chippewa costumes and western attire. A chorus directed by Mrs. Corinne Wastler sang western tunes as local Red Men members entertained in Indian outfits. An antique auction led by Delbert Null was among the highlights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Braddock Heights
Charles Ross
Srd
Robert J. McCutcheon
Carlotta Hayes
Harry Mossburg
Graydon Mercer
Pocahontas
the Heights
Corinne Wastler
David Yinger
Wastler
John Brodmer
Ruth Mentzer
Nancy Morton
Fifty Years Ago Items From The Columns Of The News
Firemen split over an ordinance to fund $1000 yearly horse equipment for engines. The Independents refuse under conditions. Juniors favor, Unitees oppose. Mayor Smith names John Biser as Water Rent Collector. Scholarships to Western Maryland College go to M H Haupt and Hattie Bell of Middletown. Edgar McBride wins St Johns College award. A 65 year old woman, long a home visitor, is arrested as a nuisance. Frederick City Hospital grounds are turned into a park with hammocks and benches for patients.
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Board of Aldermen
Unitees
Wayor Smith
John Biser
East Second Street
John H. Grove
Western
Maryland College
M. H. Haupt
Middletown
Hattie Bell
Edgar McBride
Jefferson
St. John’s College
Frederick
Carter
Frederick City Hospital
Twenty Years Ago Items From The Columns Of The News
Twenty Years Ago Of The News notes an exploding coal oil stove at Herbert N Grimes Buckeystown residence caused a minor fire extinguished quickly by buckets of water. The third counterfeit $10 bill surfaced as a customer paid with 11 at a local bank. Frederick county welfare expenditure for the year totaled 231274 dollars with about 1509 families on relief rolls. A doll show in Baker Park drew 300 to 400 attendees with 150 children participating. prize winners included Kathleen Alban Margaret Mary Elkins Dorothy Fox Betty Dorsey Katherine Cooke and Mary Low Hiliner.
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Herbert N. Grimes
Buckeystown
FOTAL
Frederick County
Marguerite Winkter
Contest Named for Model Airplane Event At Local Airport
Lt. Col. Vincent E Ritnet president of the Exchange Club will chair the first annual model airplane contest at Municipal Airport on Sunday August 8 from 9 am to 5 pm sanctioned by the national association. Entries come from nearby states and Chile with a strong local interest. Committee lists include promotion finance operations and various event chiefs with LaVern Ike Brendle contest director and James Snyder as assistants.
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Vincent E. Ritnet
Exchange Club
National Association
Chile
Ruwet
E. E. Champlin
Peter Mazur
Morris Rhian
Walker N. Jolliffe
Paul Eigenbrode
Edward Spurrier
W. Verl Forney
Howard H. Kelly
Paul Strine
Frank Smith
Claude N. Fogle
LaVern
Ike"’ Brendle
James Snyder
Paul Whipp
W. Veil Forney
Vernon Sanders
C. V. Smith
Austin Bohn
James Kepler
Nelson May
Howard Ambrose
Thomas E. Staley
Lewis Gannon
Joseph C. Wilhide
Claude M. Fogle
Charles Strosnider
Paul Gaver
Richard L. Schindel
Robert Schutz
Herbert Liggon
E. &. Champlin
John W. Schamel
Frank Smith, Jr
Weddings in Emmitsburg and Mt Airy Tie The Knot
Miss Thelma Bollinger and Walden Miller wed in Elias Evangelical Lutheran Church Emmitsburg with a double ring ceremony. Thelma Bollinger and Charles Bollinger/Miller families detailed. Niagara Falls trip planned. brides and grooms from Emmitsburg and Rocky Ridge. Later Bollinger Tressler nuptials in Mt Airy with double ring ceremony at Calvary Methodist Church. Boone Harris wedding at Ebenezer Methodist. Nurses and staff from Springfield State Hospital noted. Property sales near Thurmont include a cement block dwelling to W Henry Martin for 4800 and a Watershed Road frame dwelling and lot to Clay Hays for 2800. A timber tract near Thurmont sold to Lester Isanogle for 925.
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Propertes
U.S 15
Thurmont
W. Henry Martin
Clay R. Hays
Rockville
Thur- Mont
Lester W. Isanogle
Gond
Miss Wachter Weds Carroll Dorsey in Utica Lutheran Church
Miss Dorothy Lee Wachter daughter of Mr and Mrs Edgar Wachter Han sonville and Carroll Ray Dorsey son of Mr E Owen Dorsey Woodsboro and the late Mrs Bessie Dorsey were married Saturday at 2 30 PM in St Pauls Lutheran Church Utica Rev E Koontz Helwig officiating. The gown featured Chantilly lace and nylon tulle with a chapel train and pearl jewelry. Attendants included Wise Shik Whuu Waele sister of the bride maid of honor and Mrs Peggy Parker Lovettsville Va and Miss Doris Dorsey Woodsboro bridesmaids. Best man Donald Hahn Woodsboro. Ushers Frank Barton James Shankle Woodsboro. Recep tion at Hotel Frederick followed. The couple planned a Niagara Falls and Atlantic City wedding trip. They will reside in Woodsboro after August 2. The bride is a Frederick High School graduate ’51 and works with C and F P tele phone company. the groom a Walkersville High School ’50 graduate and with Dorsey’s Meats Woodsboro. He has completed Air Force service. Attending from Orlando Wash ington Downingtown and Virginia.
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Blea~dunmeemiss
Thelma Jane Bollinger
Charles Bollinger
Emmitsburg
R. D
Walden Theodore Miller
Howard Miller
Rocky Ridge
Elias Evangelical Lutheran Church
Philip Bower
Ruth Shuff
Mary Bollinger
Howard Miller, Jr
Niagara Falls
Emmitsburg High School
Thurmont High School
University of Maryland
U. S. Army
M. P
Camp Gordon, Ga
Dorothy Lee Wachter
Edgar Lemuel Wachter
Hansonville
Carroll Ray Dorsey
E. Owen Dorsey
Woodsboro
Bessie Dorsey
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Utica
E. Koontz Helwig
Wise Shik Whuu Waele
Peggy, Parker
Lovettsville
Doris Dorsey
Donald Hahn
Hotel Frederick
Wachter
Canada
Atlantic City
Woodshoro
Frederick High School
C. and FP
Beta Sigma Phi Sorority
Dorsey
Walkersville High School
Dorsey’s Meats
Air Force
Orlando
Fla
Washington, D. C
Downingtown
Virginia
Director Of Warden Service To Address New Market CD Dinner
Prominent civil defense figures will attend a New Market Farm Emergency CD committee anniversary dinner at Peter Pan Inn on Tuesday night. Speakers include Congressman DeWitt S Hyde and Virgil L Couch director of Warden Service FCDA plus nine brief remarks. About 125 people expected.
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Peter Pan Inn
Farm Emergency CD Committee
New Market
DeWitt S. Hyde
Virgil L. Couch
Federal Civil Defense Administration
Thalia S. Woods
Division of Women's Activities
F.C.D.A
Ethel S. Weller
Office of Civil Defense
District of Columbia
Cathryn B. Wolfe
J. Glenn Beall
Couch
Hrde
National Diel Defense College
Civl Defense
Economic Cooperation Administration
Marshal Plan
Farmers Home Administration
Farm Security Administration
FCDA
Divorce Decree in Wollard Case and Custody Granted
Edwin F. Nikirk and Samuel W. Barrick acted as attorneys in fact for Mr and Mrs Ernet L Wollard John L Ponton served as auctioneer and John J Shaw as clerk Virginia Riggles of 122 West Patrick Street seeks an absolute divorce from John Clark Riggles custody of two children awarded visitation granted costs imposed Wilbur F Sheffield Jr represented the plaintiff in a decree signed by the equity court Helen Mathias and Mathias acted for the defendant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwin F. Nikirk
Samuel W. Barrick
Ernet L. Wollard
John L. Ponton
John J. Shaw
Virginia Riggles
West Patrick Street
John Clark Riggles
Wilbur F. Sheffield, Jr
M Athias and
Mathias
Equity Court
Helen
Eisenhower's 50 Billion Congressional Highway Plan
President Eisenhower proposes a 50 billion highway program over ten years, part funded by states. Total road spending could reach 87.3 billion when combined with current federal aid. The plan awaits a formal Congress proposal after Bureau of Public Roads cost estimates.
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James Marlow
Washington
Eisenhower
U.S. Treasury
New York State
Congress
Bureau of Public Roads
Mieunat Luau J
American Assn
Low bids submitted by T. Edgie Russell on county roads
T Edgie Russell of Frederick submitted seemingly low bids at the County Roads Board office for two Emmitsburg district projects. Russell bid 24872.20 and Kline 31745 for Grimes road clearing grading and macadamizing 1.113 miles. Russell bid 21063.40 and Kline 25146 for 0.956 mile clearing grading and paving.
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T. Edgie Russel
Frederick
County Roads Board
Emmitsburg
Russell
Richard F. Kline
Grimes Road
Kline
Cumberland man given suspended sentence in intoxication case
A Cumberland man received a suspended sentence after a charge of intoxication in the only case heard by Magistrate H Reese Shoemaker Jr in Peoples Court. George H Lindner was arrested Sunday on South Bentz Street by Lt Frank Dorsey and Sgt Sherman Boone. Other docket items list motorists fined on U S 40 near Frederick for offenses such as passing on hills failing to stop and reckless driving with fines ranging from 6.45 to 16.45 dollars and arrests by Lt W K May and Troopers Philip Kretsinger and Carlton Lewis.
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Cumberland
H. Reese Shoemaker, Jr
Peoples Court
George H. Lindner
South Bentz Street
Frank Dorsey
Sherman Boone
Dewey E. Moore
Baltimore
U. S. 40
Frederick
Francis E. Kernan
Silver Spring
U.S. 40
Robert A. Bussin
Martinsburg
Thomas E. Glick
East Lake
Brad Dock Mountain
Ralph E. Clas
Worman’s Mill
John E. Flock
Myersville
W. K. May
Philip Kretsinger
Carlton Lewis
Property Withdrawn at Feagaville Public Sale
The property of Mrs Edgar Culler of Feagaville was withdrawn after a 4 bid failed. The sale, held Saturday on the premises, drew a good crowd. Personal property sold well, especially antiques. Auctioneer Ignatius E Lease and clerk R L Kelly conducted the event.
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Edgar Culler
Feagaville
Ignatius E. Lease
R. L. Kelly
Complicated Battle Of TVA Leaves Layman Confused
A long running clash over TVA power policy centers on President Eisenhower and the Dixon Yates private power plan. The administration seeks to have AEC contract with Dixon Yates to build a plant at West Memphis Arkansas to feed TVA customers, potentially blocking TVA Fulton plans near Memphis. Key figures include Eisenhower Hoover Manion McKay Tudor Randahl and Holifield as the fight shapes energy policy and TVA funding. Also noted are legal notices about wills probated and a circuit court case involving Regina Blandford and William Ashbaugh.
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Peter Edson
NEA
Washington
NEAI
Eisenhower
Tennessee Valley Authority
Budget Bureau
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Dixon-Yates
West Memphis
Ark
TVA
Memphis
Fulton
Teno
Herbert Hoover
Cleveland
Congress
Clarence Manion
Notre Dame
Dean
Dean Manion
Commission On Inter-Governmental Relations
Douglas McKay
Interior
Ralph A. Tudor
Sec
Fred G. Randahl
Gordon Clapp
Chet Holifield D
Calif. m
Atomic Energy Committee
Regina M. Blandford
Upper Marlboro
William Leonard Ashbaugh
Mary M. Ashbaugh
Emmitsburg
Carroll County
Ashbaugh
Bible Thoughts on Preaching the Gospel and Christ
Herrick Johnson argues from Romans 15 that preaching must center on Christ, not where He is unnamed, warning that removing Christ strips gospel of life and power. The note emphasizes Christ as origin, heart, and soul of the gospel.
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Christ
Herrick Johnson
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