Fifty Years Ago Items From The News Post Files
Fifty years ago on June 18 1914 Frederick era sign board day urged destruction of road signs. Wolfsville and Thurmont school sites approved by the county school board with land purchases. Sandy Hook residents protest a German Brewing saloon license in circuit court. A new dog law passed city hall mayor appoints Ephraim Eyler as city dog catcher amid opposition. Civic Club plans a Safe and Sane Fourth of July with a $100 fireworks budget matching last year.
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Frederick
Wolfsville
Asbury Hoover
Thurmont
Firor
Sandy Hook
Hagerstown
German Brewing Company
Cumberland
Board OF Aldermen
Fraley
Ephraim Eyler
Civic Club
East Church Street
Australia backs US in Vietnam effort with enhanced aid
Minister Paul Hasluck described the Vietnam fighting as a world power struggle and asserted Weve got to win. After a three day visit to South Vietnam he pledged to double Australia s military advisory team with 30 advisers plus 20 instructors and provide six planes and crews in four months. Westmoreland, taking command in the region, also emphasized a win in the long guerrilla war, aligning with Hasluck s view.
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Australia
Paul M. C. Hasluck
Vietnam
United States
China
Southeast Asia
South Vietnam
Hasluck
North Vietnam
William G. Westmoreland
Malaysia
Westmoreland
Romania seeks to impress West with independence
After 17 years under Soviet domination Romania releases political prisoners and plans a general pardon by August to free nearly all internees by year end. It signed a trade pact with the United States and cooperates with Yugoslavia on Danube projects. Romania hopes West trade will boost its economy independent of Moscow amid rising nationalism in Hungary Bulgaria and Poland, signaling a Danubian bloc and possible erosion of Comecon.
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Romania
United States
Rumania
Yugoslavia
Danube
Soviet Union
Hungary
Bulgaria
Comecon
Soviet Bloc
Poland
Khrushchev
Moscow
Navy Commander Snead Takes Command At Oceana
Navy Commander Leonard A Snead former Naval Academy graduate assumes command of Attack Squadron 75 at Naval Air Station Oceana Virginia. In Baltimore Chief Judge Roszel C Thomson says a written opinion will be issued in weeks on a suit challenging a Harford County school integration plan.
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Navy
Leonard A Snead
Martha F Snead
Mt. Airy
Attack Squadron 75
Naval Air Station
Oceana
Cdr. Snead
Naval Academy
Annapolis
Baltimore
Roszel C. Thomson
U.S. District Court
Harford County
Thunderstorm sweeps region amid heat wave and hail
Twenty years ago reports describe a heavy morning thunderstorm with high winds striking Brunswick and Urbana bringing relief to heat scorched lawns. The American Ninth Division repelled a German breakout near Cherbourg. A small cream receiving station on East All Saints Street burned, tied to William and Russell Horman. Harry C. Gilbert sworn as substitute minority member of the Board of Election Supervisors. W.A. Riddell takes oath as Housing Authority member for five years.
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Brunswick
Urbana
Cherbourg
East All Saints Street
William and Russell Horman
Middletown
Harry C. Gilbert
Circuit Court
Board of Election Supervisors
W.A. Riddell
Housing Authority
City of
Frederick
Local Group To Attend State VFW Meeting
Harold E. McCue commander of the local Veterans of Foreign Wars Fest leads a Frederick delegation to the 44th Annual Convention of the Maryland VFW in Baltimore. Post commanders John Howard and Bernard Willard and auxiliary officers attend, with Mrs Bernard Mossburg and others joining for the Saturday session and luncheon. The group travels Saturday to Baltimore for the convention banquet featuring Paul B. Fay Jr. as speaker.
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Harold E. McCue
Department of Maryland
United States
McCue
John Howard
Bernard Willard
Bernard Mossburg
James Cronenburg
John Slagle
M. Rose King
James Williard
Emerson Hotel
Baltimore
Frederick
Alice A Chadwick
Ladies Auxiliary
Paul B. Fay Jr
Navy
Poland Rejects German Plan to Freeze Nuclear Weapons
Poland rejects a West German proposal to include parts of the Soviet Union in a Polish plan to freeze nuclear weapons at current central European levels. The report cites the Polish press agency PAP. The New York Public Library houses about seven million books, making it the second largest in the United States.
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Warsaw
Poland
Soviet Union
Central
Europe
Pap
New York
Births Reported At Frederick Memorial Hospital
Frederick Memorial Hospital records list numerous births from June 12 to June 16. Families include Boone, Townes, Kreh, Kingsley, Jescines, Kline, Biggus, Smith, Fox, Brown, Kolpack, Alexander, and Alexander Jr. with new daughters and sons named Robin Lynn, Richard Theodore Jr., Jennifer Diane, Richard Allen, Mark Alan, Samuel Augustus, Sheridan LeRoy, John Daniel, Jeffrey Sterling, Lisa Ann, and Richard Franklin. The report notes parental details and residences in Frederick and surrounding areas.
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Frederick Memorial Hospital
Robert F. Boone
North Market Street
Robin Lynn
Frank L. Townes Jr
RFD
Frederick
Townes
Anacleta Balderamna
Philippine Islands
Richard Kreh
Richard Theodore Jr
James Kingsjley
Fort Detrick
Femasters
Jennifer Diane
Leonard W. Jescines
Richard Allen
Robert Kline
Woodsboro
Mark Alan
Austin Biggus
John Hanson Apartments
Samuel Augustus
Sheridan Smith
Walkersville
Sheridan LeRoy
John H. Fox
John Daniel
Thomas A. Brown
Union Bridge
Jeffrey Sterling
William Kolpack Jr
New Windsor
Lisa Ann
Kolpack
Virginia Lawrence
Carroll County
Guy F. Alexander Jr
Middletown
Richard Franklin
Bees And Trees Course At College
Beekeeping and Nature Study courses were highlights of College Week for Women at the University of Maryland June 16 19. Entomology Prof George Abrams noted beekeeping attracts many engineers as a relaxing precise science and could aid retirees and low income areas. Extension forester Harry Dengler explained Maryland forests cover over 40 percent and influence rainfall while students studied trees nuts berries and Christmas trees.
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Maryland
University of Maryland
George Abrams
Abrams
Dengler
The American Voter’s Deciders And The Partisan Blend
AP report analyzes U S voters from the University of Michigan SRC findings. It outlines how 30 40 percent know their choice early while 10 percent delay until late, and details party strength by group. It notes independents often apolitical or misinformed yet some are highly informed mugwumps, and explains coattail theory and media influence on voter beliefs.
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Noth
John Barbour
Ann Arbor, Mich
Angus Campbell
Survey Research Center
University of Michigan
Institute For Social Research
SRC
Republican Party
Woodrow Wilson
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Dwight D Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
America
Campbell
Timing Ideal Red China Uses Asian Crises To Pressure Talks
AP Special Correspondent William L. Ryan reports that Red China may seek to stir fear in Europe and the United States by suggesting a looming general war in Asia. Beijing aims to push negotiated withdrawals from Laos and Vietnam, seeking a new 14-nation neutral Laos conference as the basis for any settlement amid regional tensions.
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William L. Ryan
Red
Indochina
Laos
Viet Nam
Peking
U.S
Asia
Red China
Soviet Union
Red Chinese
Moscow
U.S.S.R
Southeast Asia
United States
Pigeon Lost Hopeful Lead Pelted With Storm and Puddles
Mrs Willard P Echrich of Mt Airy believes she found one of 33 homing pigeons sent from St Petersburg Florida by the Carroll County Racing Pigeon Club on May 22. The bird appeared exhausted in her driveway after a storm and she feeds it corn as she waits for word on the return flight.
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Willard P. Echrich
Mt. Airy
Westminster
Echrich
Ehrich
St. Petersburg
Fla
Carroll County Racing Pigeon Club
Florida
Georgia
Hospital Patients Named In Local Medical Notes
Among the sick Mrs. Edna Redmond of Hamilton Avenue is a surgical patient at Frederick Memorial Hospital. Miss Helen Eddinger, manager of Staub's Launderette, West Fourth Street, is a medical patient at Frederick Memorial Hospital.
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Edna Redmond
Hamilton Avenue
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Helen Eddinger
Staub’s Launderette
West Fourth Street
Britannica cites vast butterfly diversity with over 100000 species
The Encyclopaedia Britannica states there are at least 100000 distinct butterfly species worldwide. This reflects the enormous scope of lepidopteran diversity across global habitats and taxonomic groups.
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Encyclopaedia Britannica
Deaths Mrs William J Phipps of Unionville Frederick Co
Mrs Emma E Phipps aged 88 died yesterday at her daughter Mildred Johnson's home where she had lived for 18 years. Widow of William J Phipps she was born in Hagerstown daughter of Abraham and Mary Hess. Survived by Johnson, son William J Phipps Jr of Baltimore, brother H E Hess and sister Ada E of Hagerstown, seven grandchildren, five great grandchildren and niece Anna Westbrook. Funeral from Waltz Funeral Home Winfield Saturday at 10 30 a m with Rev Lawrence Mason officiating. Interment Carroll Chapel cemetery Baltimore County. Friends may call 7-9 p m today and 2-9 p m Friday.
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William J. Phipps
Emma E. Phipps
Unionville
Frederick County
Mildred Johnson
Phipps
Hagerstown
Abraham and
Mary Hess
Johnson
William J. Phipps Jr
Baltimore
Funeral services for Paul V. Bowers and others in Walkersville
Funeral services were held for Paul V. Bowers at Barton Funeral Home Walkersville with Rev. Harry M. Angle officiating and interment at Mount Hope Cemetery Woodsboro. Edward Lee Bell died Sunday in Baltimore and was buried at Mount Olivet. Eleanor R. Fout died Sunday and was laid to rest at Randolph Olivet cemetery with Pythian Sisters ritual at the grave.
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Paul V. Bowers
LeGore
Barton Funeral Home
Walkersville
Harry M. Angle
Steiner Smith
Hartwood Cornell
Paul Weddle
Oscar Ambrose
Robert Wachter
Joseph Tressler
Mount Hope Cemetery
Woodsboro
Edward Lee Bell
Highland Street
University Hospital
Baltimore
East Church Street
Clifford Lloyd
Centennial Memorial Evangelical U. B. Church
Thomas Williams Sr
Russell Fogle
Charles Gearinger
Paul Hummer
Murray Fox
Victor Summers
Mount Olivet Cemetery
M. R. Darnes
Eleanor R. Fout
Daniel S. Fout
Charles F. Trunk
Pythian Sisters
Randolph Putman
Harold Olivet
Prominent Walkersville Resident Dies at 38
Thomas L. Cramer 38 a lifelong Walkersville farmer died Wednesday at Frederick Memorial Hospital after several days illness. He led the Walkersville Community Association for 25 years and headed the former Walkersville Band. Surviving: wife Bessie, son Thomas P., daughter Elizabeth Lindsey, three grandchildren, and three great grandchildren. Funeral at Barton Funeral Home Saturday 1:30 p.m. Interment in Glade cemetery Walkersville.
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Thomas L. Cramer
Walkersville
Frederick Memorial Hospital
George H
Annie Mary Elizabeth Gernand Cramer
Cramer
Grade United Church of Christ
Thomas F. Lindsey
Washington
John Cramer Lindsey
Sherman
Tex
Barton Funeral Home
Glade Cemetery
11 Cars Of B&O Derailed Today
Sleepy Creek West Virginia AP reports eleven Baltimore and Ohio freight cars derailed near Sleepy Creek six miles south of Hancock Maryland. One car blocked westbound track cleared by noon. eastbound track status unknown. Wreck trains from Brunswick and Cumberland Maryland responded. Cause undetermined.
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Sleepy Creek
W.va
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
West Virginia
Panhandle
Baltimore
Brunswick
Cumberland
Maryland
Sleep Creek
Hancock, Md
Christian Dangers Are Cited On Laity Led Church
Mrs Wedel argues faith must be social and worldly with laity on the front line. The clergy coach train and enable lay participation to spread the Gospel and God s will through listening and selfless care.
Youth Gets Suspended Sentence In Police Headquarters Fight
A 16 year old Frederick boy George Allen Beckett Jr. received a suspended 30 day jail term for disorderly conduct after a May 31 incident at City Police headquarters. Beckett, of East Second street, fought with a boy at the back porch and in the communications room. Sgt. Charles Bell and Lt. Ralph Potts assisted. Magistrate Byron W. Thompson cited no prior record and good work as reasons for the suspended sentence.
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Frederick
Byron W. Thompson
George Allen Beckett Jr
East Second Street
Charles Bell
City Police
Beckett
Charles Roberts
Bell
Ralph L. Potts
Gideon T. Darkis
Darkis
Alfred J. Cronenburg
West Patrick Street
Dronenburg
Barbara
Ralph Gastley
Eichelberger
Florence Ei’chelberger
Birthday Cheer for Mr Archie Cecil on Center Street
Mr Archie Cecil of Center street celebrated his birthday Wednesday. Minced parsley and chives are described as flavor enhancers for a French omelet, with culinary notes on using lamb kidneys and bacon for a rolled, seasoned dish.
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Archie Cecil
Center Street
Cheatham Heads U A Drive in Frederick Welfare Board
Cheatham heads a United Appeal drive for the Frederick County Welfare Board. Announcements report two resignations from the Board of Directors Col Carl S Casto and Nicholas G Fanos leaving July 1 for new roles in Connecticut. Francis W Bush elected to fill one vacancy and Col Vincent L Rowe to fill another with Col Herbert M Bloom as alternate. The executive committee discussed organizational plans and division chairmen for the drive.
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Frederick
Connecticut
Bearch
Francis W. Bush
Carrollton Drive
M. J. Grove Lime Company
Vincent L. Rowet
Fort Detrick
Herbert M. Bloom
Catholic Archbishop Says Doctrine Must Precede Unity with Protestants
Catholic Archbishop Lawrence Shehan of Baltimore told Western Maryland College attendees that settlement of basic doctrinal differences must come before any true unity with Protestant groups. He stressed that Catholic doctrine on papal supremacy and infallibility will not change, while speaking at a Presbyterian meeting during the 109th Synod of the Chesapeake session held jointly with the Chesapeake Women's Synodical Society.
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Westminster
Lawrence Shehan
Baltimore
Neolithic Swiss Lake Villages Revealed by Rising Lakes
Ancient Swiss lake shorelines hid Neolithic pile dwellings built on platforms along lake shores. Wangen sites hold about fifty thousand piles, showing homes stood by the water as lake levels rose and later fell. Also tips on frying eggplant with oil or butter for fat control.
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Europe
Switzerland
Wangen
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Parkersburg
W. Va
Steven W. Black
U.S. 21
Minnesota
B&o
Cheatham
U. A. Drive
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