Accidents In This Area Reported In Maryland Area
Police report multiple auto accidents with several injuries across Frederick, Emmitsburg, Brunswick and nearby routes. Injuries range from serious head trauma to minor, with victims from Guy Thomas of Emmitsburg to Doris Freed of Takoma Park and James Donovan of Washington. One driver charged for speed. another for improper turning. A separate note cites Gov McKeldin advocating Friendship Airport as alternative to Andrews to ease National Airport congestion.
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Lee Place
Meade Avenue
Guy Thomas
Emmitsburg
Paul G Garver
Ben Phebus, Jr
Harry Quinn
M. R. Etchison and Son
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Thomas
Garver
Doris Freed
North Market Street
Brunswick
James Donovan
Oakwood Street
S.E
Washington
Rita Donovan
James H. Rouzee, Jr
Donovans
Free
Donovan
Route 17
C. H
Frederick
William F. ,Lowe
Bel Air
Roger F. Arris
New York City
V. L. Guilmino
Arris
Myersville
Doris Adams
Takoma Park
Hardy
Steve Mike Adams
Edward R. Hamilton
Baltimore
Adams
John Laurence, Jr
Lisbon
John Adams
Berwick
Deshong
Edward Maroid Henry
Trenton
N. J
John Riggin Adams
Henry
Franklin Cramer Geiser
West Fourth Street
Route 15
Thurmont
Charles Myers
Friendship
McKeldin
Friendship International Airport
Andrews Air Force Base
Washington National Airport
Stovernor
Maryland
U. S
National Airport
Andrews
Wolfsville Fire of Lightning Destroys Garage
Lightning struck Frederick area and Wolfsville causing heavy damage Saturday night and early Sunday. The Warrenfeltz Garage and radio shop in Wolfsville burned completely. water supply issues and bogged equipment hampered crews from Warrenfeltz, Myersville, and Smithsburg. Contents, garage machinery, and radio TV sets were lost. residences nearby were saved. In Frederick city, power-line and TV lead-in damage from separate strikes endangered homes, with minor damage and outages reported.
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Frederick
Braddock Heights
Wolfsville
Warrenfeltz
Myersville
Smithsburg
Wolfsvile
Carlos Ef.warrenfeltz
Frederick City
Klinehearts Alley
la Bolt
Robert K. Castle
Columbus Avenue
Klineharts Alley
Castle
Powers Of Molotov Increased By Changes See Powers Of Molotov Increased By Changes
Western diplomats in Moscow say replacing military control with a civilian Soviet High Commissioner in East Germany boosts Foreign Minister Molotov. He would gain direct, personal control of German affairs in the Soviet zone, shifting from Defense Ministry oversight. The Kremlin named V. Semyonov as High Commissioner for Germany, taking over from Gen. Vassily Chuikov, who will command Soviet occupation troops.
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Moscow
East Germany
V. M. Molotov
Defense Ministry
Kremlin
Germany
Vassily Chuikov
Soviet ‘Control Commission
Chuikov
Soviet Union
Britain
France
UU. S
Semyonov
Last Ride Tickets Draw Crowds In Hagerstown
Crowds queued for yesterday's final Western Maryland Railway run between Hagerstown and Cumberland as officials end the service due to losses. About 115 passengers rode the last westbound train from Hagerstown and roughly 150 traveled east from Cumberland, with many buying tickets as souvenirs. The Maryland Public Service Commission approved discontinuing the service. ESCAPED DEATH CENTREVILLE Md May 31 a 4-year-old farm hand escaped serious injury when a dislodged disk halted his fall near moving blades. friend Pat O Farrell acted quickly to aid him on the Rathen farm near Wye Mills. The boy sustained bruises to the head shoulder and arms.
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Hagerstown
Western Maryland Railway
Harry Hartman
Cumberland
Hartman
Maryland Public Service Commission
Western
Maryland
Centreville
wWe
David Wooters
Pat O'Farrell
Longwoods
Wooters
O'Farrell
Charles Rathen
Wye Mills
Hood Senior Teaches French to Girl Scout Troop
Hood College senior Dorothy Best led a group of 19 Girl Scouts in weekly French sessions at Elm Street School from November through spring, using spoken drills and posters to teach vocabulary and conversation. The program aims to strengthen international friendship ties with a French-Canadian troop and may influence broader foreign language efforts in American public schools.
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Hood College
Au Revoir
Dorothy Best
Girl Scouts
Troop 15
Elm Street
Mademoiselle Baker
Mademoiselle
Teachier le Professeur
A al
Troop
National Scout Association
Edward Storm
Dotille
New Jersey
Dottie
Hagerstown High School
Flim Street School
Hail Strikes Cumberland Maryland Causes Floods and Power Loss
Hail up to large ice cube sizes pounded Cumberland and caused floods in basements and streets. Storms brought thunder and lightning, knocked out power, disrupted utilities, and damaged gardens and flowers across the city.
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Cumberland Cumberland
Cumberland
Memorial
Grange News Linganore and Thurmont Reports
Linganore Grange speaker Stewart Young of Westminster an International Farm Youth Exchange delegate shared five months of farm life in France during an open meeting. Announcement set July luncheon and cookie contest instead of June. no June meeting. Members meet by 7 15 p m at Unionville Community Hall to go to Carroll Manor next Monday. Thurmont Grange No 409 notes Future Homemakers of America from Thurmont School presented a fashion show and club achievements. Claudia Hoffman hosted with a ceremony. several girls performed. Business meeting led by Francis Long. Senator Ramsburg school notes and Harry Lentz remarks on the school project. Home economics chair Mrs Paul Fox reported grange cook books arrived and she will judge a cookie contest at Glade Valley Grange. Jewelry sale profits to the organization.
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Linganore Grange
Stewart Young
Westminster
Young
International Farm Youth Exchange
France
Unionvile
Carroll Manor
Thurmont Grange
Homemakers of America
Thurmont School
Inez Lewis
George Osmans
Claudia Hoffman
Lela Angleberger
Delores Baker
Betty Bowman
5Ylvia Fraley
Shirley Stottlemeyer
Patsy Long
Jean Ogie
Thelma Sanders
Nancy Scott
Virginia Shorb
Pauline Shuff
Maretta Stambaugh
Beatrice Unger
Margaret Wastler
Connie Wolfe
Connie Harbaugh
Lois Bailey
Jane Barthelow
Nancy Brandenburg
Ruth Alartin
Betty Lou Shriner
Shirley Sprague
Grange
Francis Long
Senator Ramsburg
Harry A. Lentz
Paul Fox
The
Glade Valley Grange
Frances Carbaugh
Emmitsburg Notes and Local Incidents This Week
Peter F Burker returned from Long View Nursing Home Manchester where he has been a patient six weeks He stays with nieces Margaret and Agnes Reuter Mrs and Mrs Paul Virbal Baltimore visited with Mrs Virbals parents en route to Duryea Pa for Memorial Day weekend Local fire company battled a stove chimney fire at John Willards home five miles south of Emmitsburg The stove ignition caused rapid combustion and debris ignition Rev David W Shaum Mt St Marys Glee Club director will conduct St Josephs Academy commencement McSherrytown Pa June 7 Emma Jane Miller visited Frederick and attended the Mayflower show at the Francis Scott Key Hotel Mrs Anna Grigsby Chicago visited Mrs Sara Hoke and Emma Jane Miller
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Emmitsburg
Peter F. Burker
Longview
Manchester
Margaret
Agnes Reuter
Paul Virbal
Baltimore
Virbal
Frank Fitzgerald
Duryea
John Willard
David W. Shaum
Mt. St. Mary's
District Grand Officer Recalls Lodge History Dinner
Dr Jesse Trager president of District Grand Lodge No. 5 Bonai Brith spoke on the organization history and his trip to Europe and Israel for the Frederick Chapter tenth anniversary celebration at the Peter Pan Inn. A. J. Elin acted as toastmaster introducing Trager and other dignitaries. the event included dinner and dancing with guests from Norfolk and York.
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Jesse Trager
District Grand Lodge No. 5
Bonai Brith
Europe
Israel
Fredderick
International Order
Peter Pan Inn
A. J. Elin
Trager
Alfred Goldberg
District of Columbia
Bnai Brith
Jules Bernstein
York
Frederick
Benjamin B. Rosenstock
Eizhis
Visitation Academy Holds V A Finals and Alumnae Day
Six young girls received diplomas at Visitation Academy on graduation day. Rev Fr James Hogan presented diplomas at 4 pm in the convent chapel followed by a Solemn Benediction with Fr Havan and assistants. Miss Harriett Offutt, Miss Mary Linda Shipley, Miss Constance Sener, Miss Norma Jean Mackonald, Miss Mary Lou Meltan, and Miss Margaret Yates completed the eighth grade. Awards were given, including the Mary Austin gold medal to Miss Melton and a catechetical prize to Miss Yates. Rev Fr Jordan delivered the graduation address and urged parental responsibility and moral education. Alumnae from across the country arrived for a home-coming and officers were elected for the Alumnae Association. A May 20 fashion show and card party raised over $259.
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Visitation Academy
James Hogan
St John's Church
Havan
Herbert K. Jordan
Robert Bovel
Frederick
Harriett Anne Offutt
Barnesville
Mary Linda Shipley
Constance Vroom Sener
Snow
Norma Jean Mackonald
Newport
R. I
Mary Lou Meltan
Margaret Elizabeth Yates
Washington
Miss Offutt
Mary Loretta Davis Offutt
Mary Brosius Davis
FAW
Miss Yates
Mary Ruppert Schaeffer
Blessed Mother
Visitation School
Mary Austin
Charles H. Conley
Miss Melton
Fr. Jordan
Vickie Sue Heller
Kay Ann Collier
Mary Ellen Yienger
Patricia Fegan
Judith Myers
Wanda Jo Bussard
Neville Worthington
Jean Dwyer
Nancy Wilcom
Louise , McDonald
Mary MacDonald
Constance Sener
Anne Offutt
Linda Shipley
Norma Jean MacDonald
Visitation
Christ
God
Fr Jordan
Alumnae Association
Mary Joe Dunning
Arington
Rosemary Hanley
Baltimore
Beatrice Rang
Alex
Sandria
Ellen’ S Galibart
Irene Young
Florence Windsor Stewart
Mars Snyder Beatty
Alumnae Celebrate School Reunion and vision of 1954 event
About 75 former students attended a homecoming at the Visitation school with a luncheon at 1:30 and a 6 o’clock supper in the convent refectory. Rev Mother Mary Loretta thanked alumnae for their noble efforts while Mrs Beatty, outgoing president, was named chair for the spring fashion show. Notables include Mollie Arrington of Frederick 1883 and Felisa Ahearn of Washington 1890s, among others.
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Mary Loretta
Visitation
Association
Beatty
Tlun‘eheon
Mobile
Ala
Mollie Brookey Uarrington
Frederick
Mason Walter Rang
Alexandria
Felisa Davis Ahearn
Washington
Daniel Dunning
Arrington
Dunning
Alumnae Association
Abearn
Long Distance Call On Murder Rejected
Loudoun County Commonwealth Attorney Stirling Harrison rejected a long distance collect call from Omaha Nebraska claiming knowledge of an 11 year old unsolved murder. He said the caller offered nothing worthwhile and advised reporting to Omaha police or writing a letter. Later authorities confirmed a man named Al Beavers was found dead in a well 15 years ago.
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Omaha
Nebr
Loudoun County
Stirling Harrison
Harrison
Leesburg
Jim
al Beavers
Mr. Harrison
Taneytown Farm Planning Group Sets July Picnic at Pipe Creek Park
Taneytown Farm Planning Group met at the Null home to plan the annual picnic for July 26 at Pipe Creek Park and announced no meetings in June or July. President Harvey Dickinson led a weights and measures discussion for farmers as games and refreshments followed. The next meeting is August 28 at the Overholtzer home.
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Kenneth Reifsnider
Christian Endeavor Society
Grace Reformed Church
David Reifsnider
Leonard Reifsnider
Helen Bankard
Quantum Libel Needlework Guild
Carel Frock
Blood shortage hits wounded soldiers in Korea
TOKYO June 1 Allied hospitals in Korea face a near exhaustion of whole blood. US Army chaplains in Japan appealed Sunday for blood donations after services. Seven day transport from the US limits new supplies though hospitals in Korea still have some blood. About 50 Americans in Tokyo answered the appeal as Griset warned substitutes for plasma are not acceptable and whole blood remains essential.
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Tokyo
Korea
United Nations
U. S. Army
Japan
Eighth Army
Tokya Chapel Center
Ted Griset
Texarkana
Tex
Far East Command Blood Bank
Griset
Defense Department
Army
Logal Weather Station Faces Shutdown In May
Frederick’s weather station could close at 4 p.m. Sunday May 31 unless Congress awards funds. The Senate Appropriations Committee proposed 27 million dollars for the Weather Bureau, boosting the House figure by 52.3 million. local residents and Senator J Glenn Beall urge retention. If enacted, the station may stay open and spare observers from relying on distant data. until then, the county’s farmers pilots and orchards depend on it for precise local forecasts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick
Washington
Senate Appropriations Committee
Weather Bureau
House
Committee
Senate
J. Glenn Beall
F W. Reichelderfer
Baltimore
Beall
Rechelder
Inves
Congress
Vows End Four Year TE Ons Sfeone On Ud AR Ame Avs
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Camp Gordon
Signal Corps Replacement Training Center
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Frank Keeter
Dorothy Rost
Rachel Baker
Jeanne Rabstecin
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Elizabeth Conley
Patsy Kent
Mary Storm
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Detroit
Cleveland
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Davis
Eduard Davis
William Harrison
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Clarksburg
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Menabeim
Grange News
C .M. Nottingham
Nortfolk Va
W. G .Parker
North Court Street
V.A
Breckinridge
Glenn F. Summers
John A. Summers
Camp Breckinridge
Battery C
ABN
FA BN
Camp Breckinridge, Ky
Taneytown
Robert Olver Lambert
Charles E. Ramsburg
Fort Benning
Lambert
Oliver E. Lambert
Tanes
Western Maryland College
Ramsburg
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Frederick High School
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