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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1959
Page
2
A fragment from The News outlines subscription prices and options. It lists monthly and quarterly rates, with term lengths and prices, and notes a postal registration line. The readable portion focuses on costs and how to subscribe, reflecting a 19th century newspaper format.
Antique hunters should explore contemporary handmade furniture from American craftsmen. Mrs Webb notes 125 craft groups with 30 to 600 members, reviving skills once fading in a mass produced nation. She started Putnam County Products to aid those affected by economic downturns and sees many craft shows providing extra income or even full support for families.
Urban planners push to expand parking and mass transit funding, weighing underground and surface lots. Engineers cite rising car ownership and the need to balance business districts with space for vehicles.
Letter to the editor corrects a Lion Club discussion on Antietam centennial. It notes McKinley did not hold a commission and was not a sergeant, though he did serve coffee to Union troops, a history cited with monument details at the battlefield.
In Columbus a gimmick offers 18 dimes for each dollar purchase at Lane Avenue Shopping Center. Customers flooded stores with tiny coins, prompting merchants to cancel the offer. Later reports reveal 163,311,000 dimes minted in 1348 an error in the copy.
Contract for building improvements at Montevue Hospital has been awarded to Martin C. Kemp. The improvements will include a brick addition to the Mildine for colored persons and a brick building to be used as a prest house. Walter Laurens Bowers, youngest son of Mr and Mrs John Bowers Jr, East South Street, scalded his hips and legs after falling into a pot of hot water while in the kitchen at home. Mrs A C McCardell chosen president for Frederik Cus Hospital Association. Thirty seven patients treated at the hospital in February. Rev Glyp Bready preached an interesting farewell sermon at Apples Church near Yourmont on Sunday. Milton T Eng, Rhode Island Red breeder, shipped no settings of eggs from his prize stock to a minister in England.
Twenty Years Ago items from The Columns Of The News dated March 16 1939 cover Fresh Water streams stocking with about 8900 brook and brown trout from Lewistown state hatchery. Superintendent Albert Mc Powell notes 4000 to 5000 fish into county streams. Frederick Chapter DeMolay members fingerprinted for Junior Charter of Commerce. Percheron sires to be shown at first annual sale at the Fair grounds near Knoxville. Taxicab collision injures a man near Baltimore in West Baltimore General Hospital care.
At a plant wide safety rally M J Grove Lime Company received a special citation from American Mutual Liability Insurance for outstanding highway accident prevention covering December 1956 to July 1958 at Alpha Port land Cement Plant Lime Kiln. The transit miner truck drivers logged 11 332 trips totaling 67 692 miles without an accident. Certificates were awarded for 1958 with drivers earning one to eighteen years without a lost time accident including Russell K Summers Herbert R Tyergar Donald Gladhill Hetmut Main Ralph Smith Carroll Sayler Garman Dern Paul Simpson Elton Pate Joseph Andrews Charles Hoover Paul Zier Elmer Lambert.
Frederick area families announce births across multiple dates. Names include Mark Allen Freter, GBennis Allen Lewis, Ran call Alan Burrier, Douglas Eugene Glass, Paul Douglas Droneburg, second son Asa Dorsey, Catherine Ann Miller, Frederick Date Jr, James Douglas Aames, Jacqueline Anita Aire, Lana Jane Kehne, Nancy Carol Bure, with mothers identified by maiden names such as Delauter, Droneburg, Dorsey, Miller, McKenzie, McNally, Shoemaker, Paeviskie.
Miss Sara Elaine Atwood of Anchor Age Alaska wins Blossom Queen title for Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival with events on April 30 and May 12. Daughter of Robert Bruce Atwood editor of Anchorage Daily Times, she carries Alaska statehood history. Marilyn Atwood serves in Washington as an Interior official’s assistant.
In Somerset, Doris Koscan bought a four cent conservation stamp at the post office after asking for a stamp that would suit her envelope. The Lutheran Men's Club held its dinner meeting at East Church Street Old Chapel with about eighty five members, featuring skits by Master Scott and Ann Shipley, and Rev. Rosenberger spoke on Lent. The Walkersville class of Calvary Methodist planned attendance at the April 9 meeting, with devotionals by Mrs. George Zimmerman and a short business session. Other briefs include a Cleveland segment on a woman and brother thwarting a robbery, a theatre organ hobbyist in Lee Virginia, and Oklahoma reports on a 5 year old boy and a blizzard rescue.
Among The Sick Clark Davis 9 son of Water Superintendent and Mrs William J. Davis has been treated at Washington County Hospital Hagerstown for serious injuries from an accident and is improving at home. Mrs Rhoda A. Cecil Buckeystown was admitted to VindoTena Convalescent and Rest Home Braddock Heights after recent illness. Mrs Minute Mitsuri 408 West Paine Street has been very ill at home. Mrs Elizabeth Rosenthal was moved from Frederick Memorial Hospital to Valley View Nursing Home Middletown. Mr George Halfmaster was transferred to Valley View Nursing Home Middletown from Frederick Memorial Hospital.
Mr and Mrs L Otto Hape relocate to 14 East Second Street. Jack Page and wife welcome daughter Debra Lynn born February 28 at Frederick Memorial Hospital. Birthday notices for Wake RMS on So Sue Hicks and Sadie Stotelmyer. Mullinix anniversary observed March 4. Senate roll call shows 16 to 11 approval of referendum on 18-year-old voting, listing many senators with party and district notes.
Four local Scouters journeyed to Fort Belvoir Virginia for a Boy Scout Commissioners Conference. Executives Roger Cann Jack Herrick and neighborhood commissioners Jack Joy and Herman D Shook represented the Frederick County area and discussed unit maintenance leader qualifications charter renewals recruitment and training with emphasis on expanding northern Frederick County units and supporting Pack 799 Troop 799 and Explorer Post 799. Herrick will start local training sessions within weeks.
Graceham Moravian Church witnessed the March 1 wedding of Miss Anna Kathryn Boller and William B. Hocks with 125 guests. Rev. John R. Hoesman officiated the double ring ceremony as Clara Green played music and James Fisher sang. The bride wore white satin and lace. her sister Shirley Boller was maid of honor, with LeRoy Boller as best man. A reception followed and the couple planned a Florida wedding trip before settling in Washington after April 15. Out-of-town guests came from Maryland and Pennsylvania. A bridal shower hosted a pre-nuptial party.
The University of Maryland Board of Regents issued a statement defending current academic standards in response to Del.Harveys G. Machen who seeks an explanation of policies and an investigation to quell unrest. The board says the present administration emphasizes scholastic attainment and maintains no intent to compare administr ations, past or future.
Funeral services were held for William Lemon Gray at Eackles Chapel Harpers Ferry after a long illness. Edith Lilian Davis died Thursday and was buried at Bartonsville Cemetery with large attendance and hymns. Mildred Viola Keilholtz died in a car accident and was laid to rest at Rocky Ridge Cemetery with pallbearers named from the community.
The annual Blue and Gold dinner of Cub Scout Pack 499 was held March 5 at the South End Civic Association recreation building. Charles Biggs led as master of ceremonies. The event opened with color guard and pledge, a benediction by Marvin Spencer Jr., a covered dish supper, and welcome by Gordon Townsend. Guest speaker John S. Herrick spoke on the pleasures and problems of scouring. A shadow play featured local youths, with contests won by several families. Graduation ceremonies admitted Donald and Ronald Roberts to Troop 267 and Vaughn Draper and Tommy Leather to Troop 42A. Certificates of appreciation were awarded to several leaders. The closing included a Scout prayer and America. ATTENDED CONCERT: Many from Frederick area attended the Harterstown Municipal Band Concert at the South Hagerstown High Rebeal Auditorium Sunday.
In Magistrates court this morning Mrs. Mary Fauver was found guilty of assaulting her parents Mary E. and Walter Fogle of Walkersville during a custody dispute over their granddaughter. A generally suspended sentence was imposed. Details described a tense confrontation involving a gun, threats, and moved plans to separate families amid ongoing friction with the Forte family. James Rovert Waidsenmuidt, Bethesda, was guilty of failing to grant right of way on West Patrick Street and received a $10 suspended fine. A Milton area incident noted a light saver mishap with a vacuum cleaner lens blown free during a messy repair.
A decree in Equity Court enjoins Ralph Holmes Sr. of near Frederick from competing with Montgomery County firm Womack Industries doing business as Odo-Matic Sanitation Service within a 40 mile radius until October 4 1959. Holmes must account for all money earned during competing activity and in his prior employment, with the plaintiff seeking court costs and judgment for sums due.
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