Church Society Set for June Meeting in Frederick
The quadrennial council of the Historical Soviets of the Evangelical United Brethren Church will gather June 24 to 26 in Frederick for its second national meeting. Delegates plan pilgrimages to historic church sites across Pennsylvania and Maryland, with sessions at Centennial Memorial Church and papers on church history by Rev. Dr Edvin Sponseller.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Soviets
Evangelical United Brethren Church
Frederick
Alorigh College
Reading
Lancaster
Berks
Pennsylvania
Frederick Centennial Memorial Church
John H. Ness
Lungheon
Old Queree
Baltimore
D. Gaul E Holacraft
Unitcd
Brethren In Christ
Hebron Metery
Reeds Cile
Washington
John Stamm
St. Pauls Church
Baltimore Insurance Official Arrested in $30,000 Fraud Case
Robert J Wright, Baltimore district manager for John Hancock Mutual, was arrested by the FBI on charges of interstate transportation of stolen property and forged checks. He allegedly created fictitious life insurance policies, staged marriages and divorces, and filed false death claims to collect premiums and payouts, with a preliminary hearing set for June 14.
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Baltimore
FBI
Robert J Wright
John Hancock Mutual Insurance Co
Boston
Wright
Philajelpnia
Insurance
Home Office
Sara
Cep! Pte
Honorary Doctor of Laws Awarded to Dr Joseph Thorning
Luis Francisco Thainen of the Dominican Republic announced that the historic University of Sarce Doninee, founded in 1538, voted to award Dr Joseph F Thorning an honorary Doctor of Laws. The decision praised his intellect and unselfish efforts toward inter American understanding, noted in his new book Miranda World published by University of Florida Press.
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Geng Lon
Amnasarier
Luis Francisco Thainen
Dominican
Repeblic
Foca
Historie Universial
Sarce Doninee
Rafael F. Bernnelis
O the Facult
Washington
Thomen
Shepherd College to Open New PE Building in West Virginia
The new half million dollar physical education building on the Shepherd College campus will be put into use beginning Wednesday. Dr Olver Thenberry president said the State Board of Education formally accepted the plant during the past week.
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Shepherdsto
W Va
Shepherd College
Olver
Thenberry
State Board of Factqieaton
Ehrohiye
New Commander Succeeds Thompson in Local Medical Company
First Lieutenant Robert S. Stone has succeeded Captain John E. Thompson as commanding officer of the 115th Infantry Maryland National Guard Medical Company. Stone, a 3 year resident, is a Potomac Edison traveling auditor and World War I veteran with 18 months service in the European Theater of Operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert S. Stone
John E. Thompson
115Th Infantry
Maryland National Guard
Thompson
Stone
411Son Place
Potomac Edison Company
Lane offered National Civilian Defense post
Hagerstown June 16 Preston Lane Jr said he has been offered the National Civilian Defense Administrator job but must weigh prior commitments first. Frank E. McKinney of the Democratic National Committee asked him to take the post during a telephone convention. Mayor D'Alesandro said Truman would approve Lane's appointment. Lane, a former Maryland governor, runs two daily papers and sits on Fairchild Aircraft Co board. Millard Caldwell occupies the post at 17 500 yearly. he plans to leave after a suitable successor is found.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McKinney
Truman
Lane
Maryland
Fairchild Aircraft Co
Millard F. Caldwell
Florida
Potatoes Market Glut Cuts Prices Across New York
New York markets show a potato price collapse after weeks of shortages. Dealers predict further drops as wholesale and retail buyers hesitate. Carolina spuds listed at 4 per 100 pound box wholesale, California potatoes down from black market highs to 25 a bag, aided by Virginia crop shipments.
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New York
Herman B Glaser
Retail Food Merchants Association
Edward A. Hausman
Allboro Retail Frustociation
Carolina
California
Virginia
Maryland postal chapters elect officers at Cumberland meeting
The Maryland Chapters of the National Association of Postmasters and Postal Supervisors re elected most officers at their annual convention closing sessions in Cumberland. Newcomers William Bowman and Egbert Quinn named first and second vice presidents of the Postmasters. Re elected were Thomas Conlon as president and other officers. The Postal Supervisors branch re elected Albert Bridge as president and listed multiple vice presidents and a secretary treasurer. An unrelated note: the average U.S. smoker uses 115 packs of cigarettes annually.
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Cumberland
Maryland
Uional Associations of Postmasters and Postal Supervisors
William E. Bowman
Silver Spring
Egbert Quinn
Thomas F. Conlon
Maude L. Shives
Hancock
Gertrude Chapman
Lanham
Wilma al Berg
Hares
National Association of Postal Supervisitors
Albert Bridge
H. Hiehiman
Hagerstown
Norman L. Seigman
Baltimore
Revert L. Hooper
David T Young
Westminser
Carroll F. Bright Denton
Action delayed on school bids in Frederick County
Frederick County Board of Education representatives met with the County Commissioners to discuss bids from the last meeting for Middletown elementary alterations and Lincoln school furnace changes to address a water issue. A Thurmont school grading and paving project estimated at about 21 thousand dollars replaces an earlier 24.8 thousand plan. Bids on Middletown alterations ranged from 16.38 to 32.77 thousand dollars. Lincoln furnace bid was 32.474 thousand. No action was taken as yet, with another meeting planned.
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Frederick County Board of Education
Middletown
Lincoln School
Thurmont School
L. R. Waesche and Sons, Inc
Hamilton Homes, Inc
This City
Lloyd C. Culler
Frederick
L. J. Keller and Sons
W. Hartey Miller
Martinsburg
George C Rhoderick
Eugene W. Pruitt
Charles F. Bowers
Board of Education
Emmitsburg
Thurmont
Brunswick High School
Middletown Elementary
Cal
Ruth Richards
Frederick High
Harvey J. Starkey
Worcester County
Brunswick High Industrial Arts
Ellain McG. Brooks
Lincoln
Joan Rebecca Brengle
Western Maryland College
Doris Simpson
Dorothy A. Snyder
Hood
Maria Cincotta
St. Joseph College
Frederick High School
Brunswick Elementary
Brunswick
E. L. Lloxd At & . Ach Tion
Hsntston
Urbana
Thurston-Araby
Uribana
Seeger and Company
Posey
Route 40
East Patrick Street
Schanl
Pruitt
Frederick School
Lewis Bader
Remanded To Jail To Await Sentence In Assault Case
A man named Melvin Willis was found guilty in Peoples Night Court on assault and battery involving a 62 year old man. Willis was remanded to jail with sentencing set for Wednesday. James W. Parker testified about an alleged attempt to take money from him, a portion of which was struck from the charge. Several other defendants faced varying penalties, with sentences including jail time for drunkenness and disorderly conduct, while some cases were dropped or postponed. The article also notes a $10,000 Ford Foundation grant to Baltimore for a slum rehabilitation plan and local 4-H Club activities in Shookstown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peoples
Ivan
Melvin Willis
H. Reese Shoemaker Jr
James W. Parker
Willis
Parker
Claude Burch Harrell
Boyds
Frederick
House of Correction
Equity
Montgomery County
Edward C. Naylor
Middle Alley
William L. Cromwell
West Patrick Street
William David Naille
Patrick Street
Sergi, Phillips
DeGrange
William Boone
Donald Fisher
East Fifth Street
Edward P. O'Malley
Vamsville
James Edward Morgan
East Church Street
Robert W Harner
Alford A. Butler
Hagerstown
Frank Dorsey
Baltimore
Mayvor D’alesandro
Ford Foundation
Fight Bright Inc
J Corporation
Frederick County Teachers See Longtime Staff Retirements
A special board of education meeting reported retirement and resignations as Frederick County schools adjust teaching assignments. Retirements include J Norman Harper Lewistown principal 25 years in Lewistown and 44 years teaching, George Etzler at Oak Hill and Miss Margaret Cronenburg New Market. many resignations followed across Middletown Brunswick Walkersville and Elm Street schools.
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Board Ofucation
East Church Street
J. Norman Harper
Lewistown
George Etzler
Margaret Cronenburg
New Market
Harper
Fof
Utica
Franklinville
Bloomfield
Hansonville
Etzler
Unionville
Oak Hill
New Midway
Dronenourg
Green Valley
Rock Cliff
Friendship
Central
Buckeystown
Burle
Brook Hill
Ijamsville
Joyce B Graybeal
Middletown High School
Donald Sullivan
Joyce Hatter
Phyllis Long
Frederick High
Evelyn Sullivan
Brunswick High
Virginia’ Voll
Myersville
Charles Voll
Walkersville
Donald Feeser
Middletown High
David Jenkins
Edna Miller
Elm Street
Julian Nixon
Liberty Elementary
Eleanor Collins
Near East
Turkey
Rosie D. Hutchinson
Doubs Colored School
East Frederick
Patricia Kennedy
Towson Teachers College
Eugene W. Pruitt
Susan Callahan
Winniecita Whisler
Missouri Teachers College
Middletown
Parker Morrill
Jeanne P Mortal
Towson
Thurmont
Mildred C. Nicodemus
Lee Smith
Brunswick
Doris Ziebell
Emmitsburg
Elaine Grumbine
Tempe College
Arizona
Sarah Wheeler
Durham
N. C
Liberty
Rebecca Marnuel
Donald Lee Lewis
Frastburg Teachers College
Dorothy Handley
Hood College
Kathryn L. Fagan
Rachel Hemp
Duane Wirts
Dorothy Zimmerman
Townson
Nancy C George
Pulaski
Radford State Teachers College
Virginia
Middletown Physi
Mosquitoes Declared Not Breeding in City Reservoirs
Frederick mayor and health officials announced after testing that the two West Seventh street reservoirs showed no mosquito larvae and no odors. The investigation followed complaints from Culler Avenue residents. Authorities will raise southern reservoir water level and maintain flow to prevent stagnation while weed growth on Apple Avenue lots will be addressed.
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Frederick City
Seventh Street
Apple Avenue
Rice
Flag Day Observed by DAR with Flag History Program
Daughters of the American Revolution marked Flag Day with a lunch at the VFW country club attended by about forty members and guests. Mrs. C Herbert Kreh presided. narration by Mrs. Miriam W Feely described the flag’s history and songs from Yankee Doodle to Sousa’s Stars and Stripes Forever, with performances by Mrs. James Eisenhauer Miss Elizabeth McCaffrey and others.
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Daughters of the American Revolution
VFW Country Club
C. Herbert Kreh
Miriam W. Feely
Frederick
John Hanson
Johnson
Taney
Francis Scott Key
Pearl Eader
Feely
DAR
Silver Spring
New Republic
James Eisenhauer
Elizabeth McCaffrey
Caroline Winebrenner
Columbia
Joseph Hopking
Turkey
John Philip Sousa
Delivery On Time For United States Liner
U S Lines expects the blue ribbon liner United States to be delivered by the government on schedule next Friday. The liner is planned for its first Europe voyage on July 3 with 2 000 passengers aboard. Officials disputed Comptroller General Lindsay Warren’s claim that the government is paying too large a share of the 74 million dollar cost. Warren argued the government should not accept delivery unless A and Lines pays more than the 28 million contract.
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Washington
U. S
United States
Europe
Lindsay Warren
Warren
A & Lines
Zonta to Hear Wallace Reidt on Crime and Women
Towson lawyer Wallace Reidt, longtime Baltimore Crimin al Justice Commission staffer and 1948- era managing director, talks on crime with a feminine angle at the Zonta Club dinner in the Francis Scott Key Hotel next Monday. He has led youth commissions, served as General Secretary of the Baltimore Youth Council, chaired Cheltenham School for Boys, and presided as Montrose School for Girls president in 1951, plus work on juvenile courts surveys and police surveillance efforts.
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ZONTA
Wallace Reidt
Towson
Baltimore Crimsina Justice Commission
Zonta Club
Francis Scott Key
Reidt
Baltimore Youth Counci Commission
C E Maylan
Baltimore County Youth Commission
Cheltenham School For Boys
Montrose School For Girls
State Department
State Bar Association
Baltimore City Police Department
Department of Correction
Assault Cases Heard Before Magistrate Sheffield Jr
Several assault and battery cases were heard Wednesday night before Magistrate Wilbur F. Sheffield Jr. LeRoy Castle was acquitted of assault and battery involving alleged rib injuries to William H. Oden. Cedric Magaha faced long range assault charges and was found not guilty. John F. Byerly Jr. was cleared of throwing an unsafe substance on the highway. Various defendants faced fines or suspended sentences for intoxication, reckless driving, or lack of proper licenses.
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Wilbur F. Sheffield Jr
LeRoy Castle
Frederick
William H. Oden
West South Street
Charles A. Price
Edwin JF. Mkirk
Castle
Cedric Magaha
Old Annapols
Ernest L. Shoemaker
Shoemaker
E. Austin James
Magada
John F. Byerly, Jr
Taok
Ellis Carly
Charles M. Carbaugh
Thurmont
DeGrange
Carly
Dawson Webber
Route 1
Qakidale
James David Teets
Iyamsville
iCharles L. Smith
Lander
Raymond E. Stevens
Knoxville
James Lester Fox
East Fifth Street
Carty
James T. Martin Phillip
W. Va
Charles D. Parms
Silver Spring
James F. Rance
John B. Wogan, Jr
Prospect Hall
Economy feels strike effects across steel industry
Pittsburgh June 17 7 The two week old steel strike deepens its drain on the economy as curtailments in munition plants appear near. More than 650000 CIO Steelworkers are out plus over 100000 allied workers idle including 50000 coal miners and 30000 railroaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
CIO
U. S Supreme Court
Truman
Great Lakes
United Steelworker
Wght
Philip Murray
CSW
USW
Murray
Wage Stabilization Board
Hich
Western protest over Berlin highway ban rejected by Soviets
Berlin reported Soviet commander Gen Vasily T Chuikov accused US and British military police of violating 1945 agreements by patrolling the Berlin Helms–Feld highway. He said Allied troops were warned to stop and claimed they would handle highway affairs in the Soviet zone. The tense standoff followed a ban on patrols and included reports of abductions in the British sector and a sit down protest at Radio Berlin. Also noted were local social items including a Stork Shower for Mrs Ernest McLean at Seventh Day Adventist church and community notices in New Market and West Maryland College events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Berlin-Helmstedt
Vasily T. Chuikov
East Germany
United States
West Germany
Radio Berlin
West Berlin
Seventhday Adventist Church
Ernest McLean
North Market Street
Ernest Lemon
Home and School Association
Lawrence DeLon
Church School Board
Surse
Lemon
DeLong
Con Jimme
Mars Witenan
Meredith Redmond Hiss
Mamie Dill
Charles Redmond
Byron Crum
Dos Las
Carole
Dorothy Fuller
Glen Jones
Carlene
Glenna Jean
Mary Louse
Marjorie Delong
McLear
Loca Church
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Church Society
Foreign Office
Postal Chapters
Shookstown
Betty Moats
Wistful Workers
Rosalie Turner
Anna Mae Hooper
Reginald Biser
Mae Hooper
Aot
Esther Maye Hammaker
Connecticut College For Women
New London
Conn
Lidia Ellen Hammaker
Penn Hall Junior College and Preparatory School
Chambersburg
Ernest P Hammaker
North Church Street
M, Af
Etchison Gradteu
Elizabeth Etchison
A. Hart Etchison
Linden Hall Junior College
Lititz
Etchison
Sarah 4
Harnish
Pariss Etchison
Vesper
Linden Hall
Frederick County
Boros
Louisville Chine
Gaolfere Association
Julius Boros
PGA
St. John’s “Lutheran Church
Creagerstown
Myrsie Hubbard
Harvey Lare
Leroy Hann
Ruth Martin
Bessie Bell
Hubbard
Maurice Smith
Malcolm T Preece Jr
Louisa
Veterans Administration Appeal Board
Preece
Camp Gruber
Okla
New Windsor
Lee Woodward Zeigler
Zeigler
George Washington
United States Military Academy
West Point
Maryland Institute
St. Paul, Minn
Enoch Prey Free Librery
West
WSCS
All Children Qur Concern
Wc‘tu
School of Missions
V. W. Nicodemus
Ernest Michaua
Frenes Jocksmith
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