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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1957
Page
2
A fragmented entry lists a Thursday notice at Norte Court Street and Prowse Square with Frese noted, but details are unclear. The readable items reference a date in June and a location, suggesting a small public notice or schedule snippet.
Washington reports Harold Stassen heads to London to resume disarmament talks with allies and Russia while the State Department tightens his private talks. In Frederick Maryland, licensing and parking violations are cited in local notices against residents including Charles Downs Jr and Charles Lembert with fines listed.
A Scarsdale Woman’s Club program since 1954 has repurposed over 45 000 unused volumes into reading rooms hospitals nursing homes prisons and libraries. Damaged and unwanted books are discarded while rare volumes fund encyclopedias and dictionaries for benefactors. The piece wonders how many similar untapped volumes lie in attics and closets waiting for rediscovery.
At a Tuesday evening meeting the Junior Chamber of Commerce board named standing committee chairs for the year. Newly elected president Donald Koons announced the list with Bernard Calyan Jr. as first vice president and Glenn Mainare as second vice president guiding a broad set of portfolios from programs to Americanism and religious activities.
A Brunswick man was fined $50 and costs in the Trial Magistrate's court. James W. Hoopengardner was found guilty of reckless driving on May 31 after an auto accident on Route 26 near Brunswick.
June 13 1907 column items note Mayor George Edward Smith’s reelection to a third term by a large margin over E Peter Mantz. The whale Democratic ticket won. Prof E C Shepherd won city register by 481 votes over C Ausherman. New Board of Aldermen listed: Lewis A Fraley James H Gambrill Jr Henry A Hahn George F Wilcoxon David Lowenstein. Special B&O train carried 31 passengers to Annapolis for State Firemen’s convention. Frederick County Farmers Exchange stockholders meet. officers include Kemp Renn Gambrill Davis Lewis and Doub. Wo man’s College commencement ends with diplomas. Rev Curtis Lee Laws speaks on culture and character. Miss Susie Markey, teacher at Columbia College for Women, visits home.
Twenty years ago items note the death of MCGILL BELT of Rock Hall near Dickerson a former state legislator and prominent farmer who died of a cerebral hemorrhage at Frederick City Hospital at age 81. The column also covers city election bills, tax collections, and the new Maryland State Police broadcasting station.
Lioyd Amtosen introduced J Emory Baer of the Everedy Company who recounted the firm’s origins in 1930 and its growth from bottling equipment to chromium plated kitchenware and then stainless steel Speedy-Heat lines. He praised the Leichert brothers for expanding locally while building a national brand and noted wartime production and postwar diversification. Local Rotary President Norveil Belt lauded the group as “no cracked pots,” while visiting Rotarians from multiple towns were introduced.
The Public Service Commission granted Potomac Edison an 18 foot clearance for a Frederick highway bypass, approving a compromise between 16 and 22 feet, amid opposition from the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen. The second case involved PE seeking to sell its Hagerstown bus operation to Joseph Succa, moving toward a Pennsylvania bus line sale.
Among The Sick Bar residents report Cobdlentz returning home on Magnolia avenue from Frederick Memorial Hospital after cataract removal. Mrs. John Boone of Yellow Springs goes home from Frederick Memorial Hospital where she was a surgical patient. Milton A Rickerds of East South Street moved from the hospital to Three Pines Nursing Home after illness on May 17. Mrs. Rev Strine of West Thirteenth Street was admitted to Frederick Memorial Hospital for medical treatment.
Seven year old Jerry J Weddie of 912 Motter Avenue was slightly injured when his bicycle collided with a westbound 1954 Oldsmobile sedan driven by Alvey D Young. Weddie was treated and released from Frederick Memorial Hospital. Officer Nathan A Dorsey investigated.
Announcement reports the marriage of Arline Mey and Laurence Thorne Carroll at Lovely Lane Methodist Church with details on attire and attendees. It also notes Beatrice Lay of Lovellsville announcing the engagement of Betty Ann Loy to James Mayo Nester with plans for a fall wedding.
City and county high school home economics teachers will take an all day Red Cross home nursing course to teach at their schools. Classes run June 18 and 19 at Frederick High School from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Instructor is Miss Lucy Johns with teachers from Emmitsburg Frederick High Brunswick Middletown Lincoln Walkersville. Mrs. Ernest Berger is chapter chairman.
The ceremony at the Officers' Open Mess awarded Certificates of Appreciation to Lieutenants Everet L Plyler and Robert Wagner, and a Major Fred Gardner medal for institutional representative work. Dr. Lloyd Graf and Dr. Harold Neufeld presented the honors as diverse merit badges and tenderfoot investments were noted along with multiple first and second class scout recognitions.
Miss Ottilie Sutro, famed from the gay nineties, toured Frederick yesterday. She recalled a 1895 recital at the Woman’s College and visited Key’s grave at Mt. Olivet Cemetery. She plans to write a work from Key family sources and donated a Frederick press book to Judge Edward S. Dela Plaine.
Earl L Douglass argues that modern frontiers are scientific, not physical, with vast demand for engineers doctors and ministers. He urges today’s youth to seize opportunities despite nuclear threats, noting Canada’s bison rebound from near extinction to about 115000 through strict patrols.
Mr Ralph Fouche will observe his 44th birthday in Pleasant with family and friends. The notice notes personal celebration plans and local observance details.
Fire damaged the Howard Toms home in Law, estimated at nearly 3600. Blue Ridge Mountain Volunteer Fire Company dispatched three pieces of equipment and a Fort Ritchie truck, extinguishing the blaze prompted by an enclosed back porch wiring. No injuries. The eight room frame dwelling with shingled exterior housed a family of six.
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