Convention Of Firemen Opens Today
The sixty fourth annual convention of the Maryland State Firemen's Association opens with an officers banquet at the Francis Scott Key Hotel followed by an executive committee meeting. State officers and local officials will attend, with housing arranged for 800 visiting firefighters and a parade review in Frederick.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maryland, State Firemen’s Association
Francis Scott Key
State Association
State Ladies Auxiliaries
Frederick County Firemen’s Association
Ted’ Co. Gardner
Philip H. Beard
Floyd Bleimer
William A. Wilson
James W. Minter
Frederick Fire Companies
Hiobert L. Smith
Dorsey F. Shipley
North Market Street
Walter A. Danner Sr
Independent Hose Company
Frederick Theater
Association
Two Accidents On U S 15 Near Lewistown
Two accidents on U S 15 near Lewistown in Catoctin Furnace left no injuries. Leah Feingold 28 of Brooklyn N Y faced charges after skidding across center line and colliding with Elizabeth Cruse of Bellefonte Pa. Oxley 27 of Buffalo N C followed too closely after rear ending Elvae Hahn 37 of Thurmont. Each driver posted collateral for hearings, damages estimated at 50 to 150 dollars. Officials noted a pending nationwide steel strike threat by United Steelworkers leaders.
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U.S. 15
Lewistown
Catoctin Furnace
Angleberger Road
W. G. Morgan
Leah Ruth Feingold
Brooklyn
US. 15
Elizabeth A. Cruse
Bellefonte
Feingold
Cruse
Miss Feingold
Thurmont
Morgan
Elvae Marie
Believes Fellers Girl Also Was Strangled
Dr. B O Thomas Frederick county medical examiner said Mary Elizabeth Fellers 18 Beltsville was likely strangled like Shelby Jean Venable 16 Laurel whose body was found in a Virginia creek near Brunswick. Venable’s death is confirmed as strangulation and Eellers case awaits final pathology report expected next week.
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Mary Elizabeth Fellers
Beltsville
Potomac River
Brunswick
Shelby Jean Venable
Laurel
Virginia
B. O. Thomas
Frederick County
Associated Press
Miss Venable
Grange Head To Address BHS Alumni
Herschel D. Newsom, master of the National Grange, will speak at the 61st annual banquet and reunion of the Boys High School Alumni Association in the Francis Scott Key Hotel ballroom Saturday at 6 45 p m. He has led the National Grange since 1950 and edits its Monthly. Over 100 alumni and guests expected. event marks BHS’s post co education era with survivors from classes 1896 1906 1916 noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herschel D. Newsom
National Grange
Boys, High School
Francis Scott Key
Newsom
State Grange
National Grange Monthly
Frederick High
BHS
Roy Z. Thomas
Rock Hill
8. C
Thomas
Boys High School
William T. Delaplaine
William Mck. Wetzel
Austin P. Renn
J. F. Minor Simp
Charles C. T. Stull
H. David Hagan
Joseph S Stephens
Sperry L. Storm
Edgar E. Thomas
James H. Falk
Lester B. Feaga
Renn
J. Roger Fisher
Austin M. Kline
Mr. Falk
Truman Demonstrates How to Tie a Tie for British Salesman
President Truman shopping in London shows a British salesman how to tie a necktie. He jokes about tying lessons and notes he will not travel far, recalling his Kansas City clothing store days and a past tie business with Eddie Jacobson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Harry
Truman
William Lewis
Tel
Truman Ran & Men's Clothing
Kansas City
Eddie Jacobson
Fire Gutting Keedysville Home Amid Coca Cola Work
Donald Wyand, residing with his mother and stepfather Earl and Mrs Lambert, faced the loss of his Keedysville home after a fire sparked by an air stove explosion. Firefighters from nearby towns battled the blaze, saving nearby houses with a cistern water source. In Washington, President Eisenhower showed another good night’s rest and progress, with doctors reporting morale high and vital signs normal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick
Lambert
Keedysville
Boonsboro
Sharpsburg
iThe
Washington
Eisenhower
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Sherman Adams
Walter Reed Army
Jesus
Hagerty
Leonard D. Heaton
Berrill Crohn
Three youths fined for attempted bank prank in Hagerstown
Three Silver Spring teenagers Michael Byrd 16 William Blomgren 17 and Daniel Hummel 17 pleaded guilty to assault charges after attempting to rob a bank as a prank in Hagerstown They were fined 300 each and given 60 day suspended jail terms The conspiracy to rob charge was dropped The judge followed probation board recommendations and the youths said they would earn the money to pay the fines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hagerstown If
Silver Spring
Michael C. Byrd
William A. Blomgren
Daniel G. Hummel
D. Kenneth McLaughlin
State Board of Probation and Parole
Cumberland
Federal Savings and Loan Assn
14 Year Old Girl in East Baltimore Gunfight with Police
A 14 year old girl from Essex fired at police in Patterson Park as a running gun battle lasted about 15 minutes. She was wounded in the right ankle and taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital. Police described her as Norma Ruth and said officers warned her before the exchange ended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Norma Ruth
Essex
Thomas’ Maalews
Patterson Park
Matthews
1956 Frederick County Primary Cost Tops Eleven Thousand
The 1956 Frederick County primary, first with new voting machines, cost 11 199.04 dollars according to the Board of Election Supervisors. The higher figure versus 1954 covered items not repeated later, including tables and printed materials. Judges’ salaries dropped by over 1 000 dollars as overtime was eliminated and pay shifted to a flat 15 dollars per day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick County
Board of Election Supervisors
Tito And Russians Plan Final Communique On New Communist Ties
In Moscow a Kremlin meeting was held to draft a joint statement between Tito and Soviet leaders outlining a new relationship between their Communist parties. Tito told reporters at a Yugoslav reception that the communique would be issued tonight and would not group the Soviet and Yugoslav parties under a single federation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Tito
Russia
Kremlin
Frederick County Social Security Benefits Reach 1955 Totals
In 1955 Frederick County residents received over 1.5 million dollars in social security benefits. The end-year totals show 1,555 retired workers collecting old age payments and 1,287 dependents or survivors. National figures rose to 4.5 million retired workers and 3.5 million dependents. Lump-sum payments statewide reached 1,876,000 dollars, with nationwide benefits near 19.7 billion since 1940.
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Frederick County
W. S. King
Hagerstown
King
Maryland
Social Security Office
Earle Building
West
Washington Street
Frederick
Thurmont
Emmitsburg
Victory Report Tonight On Building Fund For Good Shepherd Church
A victory report meeting on the building fund canvass for the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Frederick will be held this evening at nine o'clock at the present Motter Avenue church. The pastor Rev. Carroll L. Boyer announced that canvassers will report and refreshments will be served as the congregation is invited to attend.
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Victory
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
Frederick
Motter Avenue
Carroll L. Boyer
Ten Hurt In Explosion At Cumberland Plant Site
Ten workmen building a Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co plant in Cumberland Md were injured in a gas explosion. All patients at Memorial Hospital were listed in critical condition. The blast occurred in a basement area where bottled gas fed a furnace. a leak was suspected but ignition cause undetermined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cumberland
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co
Memorial Hospital
Leo V. Mills
Robert Bower
Ridgeley
W. Va
George Wolfe
Ellerslie
Kenneth Valentine
Douglas May
Clarence B. Frostnight
Front Royal
Russell Hendricks
Keyser
E. C. Butcher
Webster Springs
Cal B. Bird
Chrishansburg
Robert M. Weller
Hagerstown
Bodies Of Two Starved Infants Found In Tenement
In New York City an East Side tenement yielded the bodies of two starved infants, a two year old girl and a younger boy, left alone after their mother was committed to a psychiatric ward eight days earlier. Authorities say the mother, Anastasia Velez, 32, was arrested after a tavern incident. No relatives or address are listed for her. A welfare worker and officer discovered the dusty, littered apartment after the children died four to five days earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
East Side
Anastasia Velez
Bellevue Hospital
Marvin Luienberg
Welfare Department
Josephina
Antonio
Spot Relief From Light Rains Across County
Sporadic heavy showers Monday offered short relief from a long drought but failed to bring wide precipitation. Airport station logged .40 inch while the State Police barracks had .13. Braddock Mountain and Unionville saw .12 inches. Showers aided gardens and pasture but did not improve water supplies. no more rain expected through Thursday. Temperatures cooled from a 70 degree high to 54 overnight. forecast calls for partly cloudy, cool Wednesday and slightly warmer Thursday. River conditions at Monocacy and Linganore remained near normal and Fishing Creek reservoir stayed lightly rainfed.
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Braddock Mountain
Unionville
Ballistic Missile Program Held Real
Air Force research chief Lt. Gen. Donald L. Putt testified in a closed Senate session that the United States has a real firm program for developing an intercontinental ballistic missile. He described the ICBM as the ultimate weapon capable of delivering a nuclear warhead across continents within minutes, aiming for a 5,000 mile range.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Air Force
Donald L. Putt
Putt
Senate Armed Services
U.S
Russia
Two Major Questions Face American Youth Conference
Deeds recorded show multiple property transfers in Braddock Heights Monocacy Village and Middletown. The Annapolis meeting on youth fitness considers a national council, expanded PE, supervised recreation, and greater health funding starting at the community level.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William C. Meintzer
George P. Blundell
Jefferson Boulevard
Braddock Heights
Hamilton Homes, Inc
Iwca
Annapolis
James H. Kep
Ler
Shawnee Drive
Joseph E. Elkins Jr
Cherokee Trail
B. Robert
Enola W. Marlin
Keith M. Gaylor
Roy F. Grossnickle
Main Street
Middletown
American Youth Conference
Frost Touches Northern New England Amid Warm Sweep
The Associated Press reports a cool air outbreak bringing frost in northern New England with near freezing levels in Houston Maine and record low 45 in Connecticut. Temperatures drop 8 to 12 degrees in the Middle Atlantic and thunder showers and heat return were forecast for later in the day. Two tornadoes touched down in west central North Dakota with no injuries reported.
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Associated Press
Boston
Central Atlantic States
Ohio Valley
Great Lakes
Middle Atlantic
New England
Middle Atlantic States
Central Plains
Mississippi Valley
Dakotas
North Dakota
Rockies
Mississippi River
Weather Lifts Maryland Farmers After Miserable Spring
Maryland Crop Reporting Service notes widespread good growing conditions across field crops including corn barley oats rye and soybeans. Tobacco planting progressed with about 80 percent set out while hay and pasture recovered with alfalfa clover and timothy activities varying by county due to rainfall.
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College Park i
Maryland
Maryland Crop Reporting Service
Chesapeake Bay
Wicomico County
Allegany
Timothy
Delmarva Peninsula
Woman Killed In Owings Mills Wreck
Mrs. Marjorie L. Bowman 31 of Woodlawn drove into the center piling of a railroad overpass on Reisertown Road Owings Mills and was killed. Police Sgt C J Ecenrode noted a flashing red light on the piling of the Western Maryland Railway overpass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Owings Mills
Marjorie L. Bowman
Woodlawn
C. J. Ecenrode
Western Maryland Railway
Reisterstown Road
Also Mentioned on This Page
New York II
United Steelworkers of America
Grange Head
Herschel D. N
Donald Wyand
Coca Cola Company
Keedysville House
White House
S.s.tn
Bob Sweikert
Salem
Ind.) Speedway
Sweikert
Ballistic Missile Program
Potomac
Knoxville
Frederick ‘Junction
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