Shelter program eyed to protect one fourth of population
President Kennedy urges fallout shelters to shield major urban populations while planning for nationwide protection. Shelters would fit in existing buildings with minimal changes and hold essentials like rations, water, first aid, sanitary supplies, and radiation meters. A nationwide survey is still needed to gauge shelter potential and private homes are encouraged to prepare as well.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kennedy
Archias
Soviet View Of Kennedy Speech Sees War Prospects
The Soviet press labeled Kennedy's national address as warlike, pushing arms buildup while glossing Berlin talks. They view the arms drive as reviving the economy and opposing liberation movements, yet Khrushchev may seek Berlin negotiations. His invite to McCloy signals a possible thaw and a chance to avert crisis through discussion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kennedy
Berlin
Asia
Africa
Latin America
Khrushchev
Germany
John J. McCloy
McCloy
Middletown Waits For New Fire Engine This Weekend
Middletown residents expect the arrival of the Middletown Volunteer Fire Company's new engine from John Bean Fire Apparatus Company of Lansing this week. Five members traveled to Lansing to inspect and bring back the engine, with a return to Middletown planned today.
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Middletown
Middletown Volunteer Fire Company
John Bean Fire Apparatus Company
Lansing
Middietown
Iremen Ha
Ray C. Gladh
Everett Gaver
Arst
Pauls K Shave Richardesen Csistant
Enene Co No
Ano
H. Engens KeJer
Eneme Co No
Teas Matigna
Damaged Vehicle Fire Suppresses in Town Street
Reported Saturday a car fire in a barn yard near a field on West Main street caused engine damage before firefighters extinguished the blaze. A second small blaze on Monday at a curbside parking area near Clarence Thomas residence was already out upon arrival.
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Sbaer
West Main Street
Clarence Thomas
Market prices from Farmers Cooperative Association today
Market prices quoted show Wreat Carr Barney new at 168 dollars per bushel and 6.25 dollars per barrel, the total gross prices recorded by the association for today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmers Cooperative Association
Wreat Carr Barney
New
Three Members Discuss Agawa 4-H Camp and Meeting Plans
Three members described their trip to the 4-H camp Agawa on July 16 and noted the softball tournament. Refreshments were served by the host. The next meeting will be at Ronald Fisher RFC 3, Walter Martz road on August 21.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agawa
Ronald Fisher
RFC 3
Walter Martz
Fifty Years Ago From The News Post July 29 1911
Miss Sara Enright of this city engaged by the Orpheum Theater Stock Co Montreal Canada. Weather forecasters predict continued cool but today was Frederick’s hottest since the last wave with temperatures around 92. The plastering contract for the Methodist Episcopal church was awarded. Low water on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal impeded navigation. While at Miss Fannie Boone’s funeral pallbearer W H Greene suffered a stroke and was treated. A ball game incident left H H Smith with a gash needing stitches. City residents urged to boil water after a suspicious sample from Lakin’s spring. The large barn on Mrs F F Smith’s Comus farm burned. City officials reviewed land purchases near Ox Creek and water supply annexation. The Stine milk wagon horse collapsed without damage. No meeting of the Independent Hose Co due to lack of quorum. Dr Levin West and Judge Lloyd investigated a death near Brunswick Knoxville. death ruled natural. Democratic leaders named Gorman for Governor Harrington for Comptroller Ritchie for Attorney General.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sara Enright
Orpheum Theater Stock Co
Montreal
Canada
Washington
Frederick
Fannie Boone
W. H. Greene
Board of Aldermen
Smith
Rogers
Wiliam H. Boardman
Ox Creek
John F. Stine
Independent Hose Co
D. Princeton Buckey
Willard
Levin West
Judge Lloyd
Petersville
Brunswick
Knoxville
Arthur P. Gorman
Emerson C. Harrington
Albert C. Ritchie
City imposes water ban and pool closure amid drought
July 29 1941 Twenty Years Ago item notes municipal ban on sprinkling and pool shutdown due to dwindling water supply. Officials consider filtration beds at Singapore filtration plant to double capacity. Copper sulfate missing from pool bathhouse blamed for fish deaths in Carroll Creek. City urges weed-clearing drive as hay fever season nears. Churchill warns of possible German invasion in September. Moscow says German drive on Moscow and Kiev broken. Water ban shuts Court House fountain. Local crops suffer from Japanese beetle. Rev Ralph M Sharpe spoke at Baker Park service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Singapore
Carroll Creek
E. Lee le Compte
Thailand
Churchill
Moscow
Kiev
Court House Park
Ralph M. Sharpe
Mt Airy Calvary Methodist Church
Baker Park
Minister Returns From European Trip
Rev. John W. Schildt pastor of the Wolfsville Charge of the Evangelical United Brethren Church returned home after study travel in the Middle East and Europe. Places visited included Amsterdam Munich Zurich Rome Cairo Beirut Damascus Amman Old and New Jerusalem Istanbul and Athens. The trip featured seeing Pope John XXIII in Rome and touring Holy Land sites in Jordan including Bethlehem and the Dead Sea area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John W. Schildt
Pastoss
Wolfsville
Evangelical United Brethren Church
Middle East
Europe
Amsterdam
Munich
Zurich
Rome
Cairo
Beirut
Damascus
Amman
Old and New Jerusalem
Istanbul
Athens
Pope John XXIII
St. Peter's
Holy Land
Jordan
Archeological Museum
Qumran
Schildt
James A. Weber
Indiana Central College
Ths
Bethlehem
Church of the Nativity
Shepherds
Jericho
Mount of Templaton
Inn of the Good Samaritain
Bethany
Pool of Bethesda
Temple Area
Mount of Olives
Gethsemane
Via Dolorosa
Calvary
Emmaus
Miss Dodge Weds Frankie Hilderbrand at New Bedford Church
Miss Joan M. Dodge daughter of Mrs Mildred Dodge of New Bedford Massachusetts married Frankie Vallee Hilderbrand son of Mr and Mrs Franklin Hilderbrand on July 23 at Allen Street Methodist Church New Bedford Reverend Donald H James officiated. The bride wore a ballerina length bencon lace gown with illusion veil. Matron of honor Mrs Robert B Dodge and bridesmaids Mildred M Dodge Martha T Dodge and Kim Dodge wore pastels. Best man J Donald Hilderbrand and ushers Gordon T Dodge Jonathan A Botelho. Nuptial music by Mrs Donald H James and solo by Mrs Alexander Thomson. Reception in church social hall. Couple to reside Braddock Heights after a Maine wedding trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joan M. Dodge
Mildred Dodge
New Bedford
Mass
Frankie Vallee Hilderbrand
Franklin Hilderbrand
Lee Flace
Allen Street Methodist Church
Donald H. James
Robert B. Dodge
Mildred M
Martha
T. Dodge
Kim Dodge
J. Donald Hilderbrand
Gordon T. Dodge
Jonathan A. Botelho
Alexander Thomson
Maine
Braddock Heights
Civil War Maps Of County Receive Distribution
The Frederick Chamber of Commerce received a shipment of Civil War Tour Maps highlighting county sites where action occurred. Richard D. Hammond said maps are being distributed to chamber tourist members and include markers for sites like Monocacy Battlefield and the Rudy House. The county sites and Frederick city landmarks are mapped with markers, with plans to add markers where absent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick
Rudy
Middleoown
Battle of
South Mountain
Reno Monument
Gapland
Admiral Winfield Scott Schley
Frederick City
Court House
City Hall
Ramsey
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Kemp Hall
Revolutionary
Barbara Fritchie
Roger Brooke Taney
Schiey
Evangelical and Reformed Church of Christ
Presbyterian Church
Harmmond
Fredrick County Civil War Centennial Inc
Marriages and Property Deeds in Court News
Court notices list marriages: James H Weller and Charlotte L Watkins. Romer H Travis and Beverly A Minnick. James H Spring and Margaret L Simpson. Stromie Melvin Ellis and Nancy Ann Eisroad. Property deeds record transfers: E W Ausherman Inc to Thomas H Holcomb and wife for $10. David Epstein and Sons of Maryland to Tri-State Bowling Inc. Charles W Ramsburg to John C Houston Jr. Naom Q O Long to Masten D Long for $26500.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James H Weller
Mount Airy
Charlotte L. Watkins
Frederick
Romer H Travis
Beverly A. Minnick
Middletown
James H Spring
Margaret L. Simpson
Lovettsville
Stromie Melvin Ellis
Nancy Ann Eisroad
Harrisonburg
E. W. Ausherman, Inc
Thomas H Holcomb
Court Hears Family Fight
A Monrovia quarrel over attending a carnival led to an assault conviction for Thomas J. Sargent, 30, after his wife Darkie Sargent testified of hair pulling and a bottle attack. He pleaded guilty, jailed 15 days in lieu of a $50 fine, with four children in the household.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monrovia
Thomas J. Sargent
Darkie Sargent
Elmer H. Smallwood
Nesro
Carver Apts
Smallwood
Roy Romsburg
West Patrick Street
Romsburg
Edward 0. Beachley
Middletown
Beachley
N. W. Alexander
Alexander
Will H. Worth
Raymond W. Frye
RFD
Hamsville
Col
Robert T Storer
U.S. 40
Frederick
Birth of Robert Buchanan at Walker Air Force Hospital
TSgt and Mrs Richard Mendor of 2904 South Sea Avenue Roswell New Mexico celebrate the birth of a son Robert Buchanan born July 10 at Walker Air Force Hospital weighing 5 pounds 10 ounces The family traces to Nellie Buchanan Urbana Maryland relatives and visitors from Dickerson Adamstown Poolesville Washington Wheaton Hagerstown and Frederick areas enjoy the event with friends and neighbors including Crystal Beach Manor Earleville and Rose Mane Cottage Virginia Beach planning birthday tribute for Mrs Vernon Stull Walkersville who will be 86 on July 31.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tsgt
Richard Mendor
South Sea Avenue
Roswell
New Mexico
Robert Buchanan
Walker Air Force Hospital
Mendor
Nellie Buchanan
Wiliam J. Buchanan
Urbana
Howard Roberson
Dickerson
Edwin Matthesws
Harry Kanode
Adamstown
Jenny Kummering
Hairline Indicator At Rochester Barber Shop Lights
A Rochester barber shop uses a traffic light outside to show chair availability. When the light is green there is an empty chair, while red signals the chairs are all occupied.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rochester
N.Y
Taneytown builder Allen Feeser dies at 65 in Baltimore
Allen F. Feeser of Taneytown died at University Hospital in Baltimore Thursday evening at 7 05. He was 65. Survived by wife Jean Yourex Feeser and son Birnie William Feeser in the Army at Fort Jackson. Also three grandchildren and siblings Maurice, Carol and Mrs Leander Wantz. Lifelong Grace United Church of Christ member and charter member of Maryland Builders Association. Funeral Monday 2 pm at Littlestown funeral home with interment in Taneytown Reformed cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen F. Feeser
Taneytown
University Hospital
Baltimore
Birnie
Barbara Fleagle Feeser
Jean Yourex Feeser
Birnie William Feeser
United States Army
Fort Jackson
Columbia
S. C
Maurice Feeser
Carol Feeser
Leander Wantz
Pleasant Valley
Grace United Church of Christ
Association of Builders and Contractors of Maryland
Atlantic City
N. J
Little’s Funeral Home
Littlestown
Reformed
Woodsboro Coop to Hold Picnic and Election
The Southern States Cooperative Woodsboro area will hold its annual membership meeting Thursday August 10 at 645 pm CST in Mi Tabor Park Rocky Ridge. Edgar Heflin will chair the local meeting with Invoca tion by Rev Donald Hass. Reports on operations will be given by William Devitbiss and Lacy Richardson. overall Southern States operations for the year ending last June will be presented. Nominees for the local Board include Paul Ott Thurmont Arthur Graham Millard Crum Jr Charles Lease Tyler Herndon. Farm Home Advisory Committee nominees are Mrs LeRoy Hilderbrand Mrs Edward Hall Jr Mrs George Martin and Mrs Lawrence Clark. Terms expiring for board members are Franklin M Long Preston L Kolb and Edgar Heflin. advisory committee terms expiring are Mrs Clarence Eaves and Mrs Charles Lease. EDITOR DIES ABILENE Tex AP Frank Grimes 68 editor of the Abilene Reporter-News since 1919 died of pneumonia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farm Home Advisory Committee
Southern States Cooperative
Woodsboro
Mi Tabor Park
Rocky Ridge
Edgar Heflin
Donald Hass
Lutheran Church of
Clarence Eaves
Walkersville
William Devitbiss
Southern States Woodshoro Cooperative
Lacy Richardson
Baltimore
Southern States
Southern States Board
Paul Ott
Thurmont
Arthur Graham
Millard Crum Jr
Charles Lease
Walkershire
Tyler Herndon
Keymar
LeRoy Hilderbrand
Edward Hall Jr
George Martin
Lawrence Clark
Franklin M. Long
Preston L. Kolb
Reminiscences Tie to Old Georgetown and Garden lore
Dr. Norvell Belt recalls youth with Fulton Lewis Jr and his controversial radio fame. The piece also praises Lilypons garden spot near Frederick, highlighting G. L. Thomas Jr.’s water garden book, vividly illustrated by A. Aubrey Bodine. Virginia Thomas shares garden visits and hotel chatter from a Baltimore “Golden Age” club stop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgetown
Dr. Belt
Lewis
Helen Hayes
Helen Brown
Washington
Tom Kelley
Fultons
Buckeystown
Belt
Lewises
Robert Nicodemus
Fulton Lewis Jr
Leonardtown
District of Columbia
Upton Street
Drew Pearson
Frederick
G. L. Thomas Jr
Thomas
A. Aubrey Bodine
Helen Smith
Old Braddock
National Organization of Garden Clubs
Lilypons
Virginia
Utica Youth Fellowship plans Glen Echo Park trip
The Utica Lutheran Youth Fellowship met at Patsy and Frances Biddinger's home with Michael Stull as vice president opening services led by Jeanne Putman and Rev. Charles Pollard. They voted to hold an Aug 10 trip from Frederick High School to Glen Echo Park, planted corn between potatoes for a fund drive, and will sell Christmas cards while Youth Sunday worship is led by the group.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Utica Lutheran Youth Fellowship
Patsy
Frances Biddinger
Hansonville
Michael Stull
Jeanne Putman
Charles Pollard
Glen Echo Park
Frederick High School
Miller's Woods
Mike Stull
Mike Bartholow
Patsy Biddinger
Dwight Leatherman
Mary Alice Ramsburg
Pollard
Jesus
Deaths in Carroll County and Nearby Areas
Obituaries report the deaths of John Gilroy near Gamber and Mary Susan Poole near Jefferson with multiple survivors. Arby Roy Manahan of Deerfield dies at 76, with a son and daughter surviving. Services are planned at local funeral homes and Lutheran or Branden bury Cemetery details provided.
Albania Across Puzzle Fragments Hint At Priorities
A fragmented OCR word soup lists scattered clues and partial terms such as Albania, across, continents, oxidizing, and various stray letters. The garbled text resembles a crossword style grid with tenuous references to ages, verbs, and place names, offering no coherent story or clear entities beyond generic geography terms.
Obituary notices for Warner and Munoz families
Two obituaries noted one for Mrs. Custis Warner who died Friday at 1 p.m. in Blue Ridge Summit area. She was born in Burkittsville daughter of Luther A Horrie and Susan R Sheffer. Funeral Monday 10 a.m. Wilson Funeral Home Emmitsburg with Bethel Cemetery Cascade interment. The second obituary concerns Mrs Anne Marie Wiese Munoz who died Friday at Walter Reed Hospital Washington at 48. She was wife of Col Custis Munoz retired A U S. Funeral Wednesday 2 p.m. Greenmount Cemetery Baltimore with private interment. Donations to American Cancer Society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blue Ridge Sum Dut
James T. Hays
West Main Street
Emmitsburg
Charles Anderson Warner
Laurean _Horrie Warner
Blue Ridge Summit
Margaret Warner Hays
Charles A. Warlner
Luther A. Horiie
Susan R. Sheffer
Burkittsville
Wilson Funeral Home
Bethel Cemetery
Cascade
Custis Munoz
Anne Marie Wiese Munoz
Braddock Heights
Walter Reed General Hospital
Washington
Col
A.U.S
Hans Eggert Wiese
Berlin
Germany
Greenmount Cemetery
Baltimore
American Cancer Society
Funerals for Mamie Dill and Carlton Molesworth Sr
Funeral services were held for Mamie E. Dill who died Wednesday at Wynell Nursing Home with Rev. Tor Dahlberg officiating. Pallbearers included Roy C W Schaffer and Robert E Dailey Jr. Interment Mount Olivet. Carlton Molesworth Sr died at Glen Merrie Nursing Home. Rev. Carroll L. Boyer led services with pallbearers Dar win A Hunting and others. Interment Mount Olivet. Woods fire reported by Walkersville Fire Co near Mt. Pleasant at 2 a m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mamie E. Dill
Wynell Nursing Home
North Market Street
Tor Dahlberg
Seventh Day Adventist Church of
Mount Olivet Cemetery
Robert E. Dailey and Son
Carlton Molesworth Sr
Glen Merrie
Lander
East Church Street
Carroll L. Boyer
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
Joseph P. Turner
Harry ©. Brachey
Richard G. Hopkins
Clark Sheetenhelm
Darwin A. Hunting
A P. Simmons
Mount Olivet
M. R. Etchison and Son
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Balfa
Tan
News-Post
Miss Dodge
Mr. Hilderbrand
Court News
Chamber
Harry F. Schmidt
Market and
Fourth Streets
Phofo
Frank J. Keefer
Humble Oil Company
Mr. Schmidt
Allen F. Freeser
Woodsboro Coop
Abilene, Tex
Frank Grimes
The
Abilene
Reporter-News
Idelights
Bysie White
Haines
Utica Youth Fellowship
Keeeeeea
Daddy
Ellsworth
John Gilroy
Bird View Road
Gamber
Carroll County
Owen Gilroy
Mary Gamble
Ellicott City
Hilda M. Matick
Central City
Gertrude Barnard
Michael Gilroy
Franklin Grove
Illinois
Miley Gilroy
C. M. Waltz
Liberty Road
Winfield
John C. Ledbetter
Brandenburg Cemetery
Berrett
Walter C. Poole
Mary Susan Poole
Jefferson
Daniel L
Mary Cline Bussard
Middletown Lutheran Church
Lee Gordon
Daniel C. Poole
Nelly Arnold
Bethesda
Eva Bussard
Alice Bussar
Arby Roy Manahan
Deerfield
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Daniel
Amanda Manahan
Bessie Wollard Manahan
United Brethren Church
Lillian Pryor
California
Leo, Lantz
Walter Manahan
Highfield
Guy Manahan
Lantz
Mamie Birely
Waynesboro
Mr. Creager and Son
Charles A. Warner
Carrie May Warner
Albania
Tian Island
Sodentarret
Pepe
Woods
Mt. Pleasant
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