Great Southern PTC and MFG Co Subscription Rates
The notice lists subscription rates for mail and carrier service. It includes monthly, quarterly, semiannual, and yearly options with varied prices. The document identifies the Frederick, Maryland office and mentions the Audit Bureau of Circulations and Associated Press association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Southern Ptc, & Mfg. CO
e'Roo Court St
Frederick
Firgie
Oorce
Stonth
ember Audit_Bureau
Associated Press
Ube
al AP
Ispateres
Local Personal Notes Highlight Visits and Births in Frederick Area
Several Frederick area residents are noted for visits and travel. Cadet James R. Clemson of Staunton Military Academy plans spring furlough visits with his mother in Frederick before returning to the academy. Birth announcements include Cynthia Edith Clem and Connie Loretta Murphy, with family details.
Frederick to get modern street lights on Market and Patrick
The City of Frederick will install fluorescent street lighting along Market Street from South to Seventh and Patrick Street from East to College avenues. The project may cost 37000 to 55000 for equipment with 50 percent borrowing, no interest, and half material paid this year. The plan aims to improve traffic safety and curb crime while boosting business appeal. A parkway from Cumberland to Hancock, linking canal sites, is also backed by the National Park Service and Senator Beall to preserve the canal and provide scenic access.
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Frederick
Market Street
Sout
Seventh
Patrick Street
Fast Street
College Avenue
Naional Park Service
Beall
Cumberland
Hancock
Potomac
McKay
Potomac Valley
Washington
AD Tietam
Harpers Ferry
Historical Park
Park Service
Lerttare Post
Times-Her
Taneytown Arlene Naylor Heads to State Oratorical Finals
Taneytown senior Arlene Naylor, winner of the district finals and Western Maryland title, competes in the 15th annual National High School Oratorical Contest in Baltimore. She spoke on The Constitution Guardian of the People's Rights, won 25 dollars, and will vie for a 300 dollar college scholarship and a place in the national finals April 16 in Columbia, under American Legion sponsorship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taneytown
Boonsboro
Arlene Naylor
Baltimore
Naylor
Taneytown High School
Maryland
Guardian of the People’s Rights
Mary Jane Spielman
Clear Spring
Carroll County
Baltimore War Memorial
Columbia
D. C
American Legion
Browns to host Colts in Cleveland November 11
Cleveland Browns and Baltimore Colts, old All-America Conference rivals, will meet in Municipal Stadium on November 11 in the first league game between them in six years. The Colts, coached by former Browns tackle Weeb Ewbank, last faced Cleveland in 1950 when both teams moved to the NFL. A hospital transport report notes Walter K. Thompson was admitted to Frederick Memorial Hospital after a collapse on West Sixth Street.
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Colts
Browns
Cleveland
Cleveland Browns
Baltimore Colts
Ramnetitimn Sont Coca Fox
Municipal Stadium
Baltimore
Weeb Ewbank
All America
Cleve- Lee
Ma Eayne
United Ambulance
West Sixth Street
Frederick Vernodal Hospital
Walter K. Thompson
Fifty Years Ago Items From The News Columns March 19 1906
Fifty years ago items recount a Jefferson meeting on extending the F and M Railroad from Braddock Heights to Jefferson. Valley-route sentiment grows, though more costly. Residents’ subscriptions debated. Also notes misstep injures Mrs. Brust. hen theft at Amelia Markell’s. Mr Freed injures knee near Market Patrick. Clover Leaf Literary Society debates poverty versus riches with affirmative win by Nicodemus Moberiy and Schafer.
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Jefferson
F. and M
Braddock Heights
Dean Farm
Sarah Brust
West South Street
James E. Staub
West Patrick Street
Amelia Markell
South Market Street
Wm, Freed
Market Street
Patrick
Central Hardware
Clover Leaf Literary Society
A. Nicodemus
Harold Moberiy
W. Shhaefer
Hopwood
Charles Carr
Louis Eichelberger
Twenty Years Ago Flood Devastates Potomac Region March 19 1938
The worst Potomac River flood in history washed away bridges at Point of Rocks Harpers Ferry Shepherdstown and Hancock. About 200 residents at Point of Rocks were temporarily homeless as water covered homes. Brunswick railroad yards flooded and Furnace Ford bridge on the Monocacy closed. Harpers Ferry rose to 35 feet as looting occurred and businesses were up to two stories underwater. Pall Delphey ferried residents from Seneca across fields to the Mood road, aiding Austin Trout Robert Staley II and others as water reached eight to ten feet in fields and fences tangled Delphey’s motorboat propeller.
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Point of Rocks
Harpers Ferry
Shepherdstown
Hancock
Brunswick
Furnace Ford
Monotacy River
Buckeystown
Dickerson
Pall Delphey
Seneca
Delphey
Austin Trout
Robert Staley
Savie
Robert E. Stup
Harry Stup
George
Harry Zimmerman
Clarence Delphey
Juden Deiphes
Deiphes
Cyprus dispute sparks U S Senate clash
A group of 14 senators from both parties urged the United States to pressure Britain to give up Cyprus, arguing its Greek majority should shape governance. The piece defends British sovereignty, notes Cyprus’ strategic importance in the Mediterranean, and cites alleged subversive activity linked to Archbishop Makarios. It contrasts U S and British roles amid Cold War tensions and warns against foreign meddling in Britain’s affairs.
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David Lawrence
Washington
Cyprus
Great Britain
United States
Puerto Rico
Hawaii
Mediterranean
Wisconsin
McCarthy
America
Britain
Senate
Poland
Warsaw
Palestine
Philippines
Wweul
Gepel de
Makarios
State Department
U.S. Department of State
North
Africa
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Bulgaria
Rumania
Latvia
Lithuania
Estonia
New York
Local veteran Wastler recalls WWI service and Paris caucus
Wastler, assigned to Headquarters Company AEF France, did not attend the Paris caucus as a delegate but remained to drive a colonel to the meeting. He is the sole local veteran at the session, the first man drafted by Frederick board in WWI, and served as sergeant overseas from March 1918 to July 1919. Born in Downsville January 1, 1896, he was inducted September 1917 and promoted to corporal January 1918. He worked as a foreman at Price’s Electric Company and lives with his wife on McMurray Street.
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Wastler
General Headquarters
American Expeditionary Forces
France
Paris
Frederick Board
Secretary of the Army
Legionnaire
Downsville
Price’ S Electric Company
McMurray
Frank Keefer
First Legion
Elias J. Wastler
H. Q. Miller
Francis Scott Key Post
American Legion
Legion
Albert Dean
Elias Ramsburg
Report Finding Way To Free Chemically Stored Sunlight
The Air Research and Development Command announces a major breakthrough at Holloman Air Development Center New Mexico. Scientists under Dr. Murray Zelikoff released energy stored in atomic oxygen by adding nitric oxide causing a bright light to rocket 60 miles aloft and expand to four lunar diameters before fading.
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Baltimore
Air Research and Development Command
ARDC
Holloman Air Development Center
New Mexico
Murray Zelikoff
Holloman
Illness notes across Frederick area patients
Among The Sick Mr James F Hobbs of Frederick Avenue has returned home after treatment at JUS HUpADS Hospital Baltimore. Mrs Elsie G Boone Woodsboro has been a patient at Frederick Memorial Hospital with somewhat improved condition. Mr George E Van Fossen East Eighth street admitted to Frederick Memorial Hospital Saturday. Mr Basil C Lewis near Pearl is a patient at Frederick Memorial Hospital. Mr W Glenn Spencer Wilson place is improved at Frederick Memorial Hospital. Mr Lee Floyd Warrenfeltz RFD 2 Myersville, critically injured on his nineteenth birthday near Wolfsville, remains in Washington County Hospital Hagerstown unchanged and unconscious this morning.
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James F. Hobbs
Frederick Avenue
Baltimore
Elsie G. Boone
Woodsboro
Frederick Memorial Hospital
George E. van Fossen
East Eighth Street
Basil C. Lewis
Pearl
W. Glenn Spencer
Wilson Place
Lee Floyd Warrenfeltz
Myersville
Wolfsville
Washington County Hospital
Hagerstown
Union Bridge and area notices and events
Union Bridge residents view slides on B U S work in Germany at the Union Bridge Church of the Brethren. Birth announced for Mary Elizabeth Martin on March 7. Cartzenhamer injured in accident. treated at Annie M. Walter Hospital Gettysburg. Mrs. John Mackley recently discharged from Frederick Memorial Hospital. Fleming family weekend in Washington. Senator Beall to discuss Western Maryland at Founders Day Dinner in New York March 23 with Western Maryland College president Dr Ensor and Maryland Society leader Magruder. Bennett house sale at 24 West South Street to Gilmore R Flautt Jr for 5600. personal property sale proceeds near 909. sale conducted by Glenn E F Bicht as executor.
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Union Bridge
Bob Roller
Woodstock
B.U.S
Germany
Church of the Brethren
Charles Martin
Mary Elizabeth
Ralph Cartzenhamer
Beall
Washington
Western Maryland
J. Glenn Beall
Rep
Maryland Society of New York
Advertising Club of New York
New York City
Lowell S. Ensor
Western Maryland College
Herbert T. Magruder
Bennett Bouse
le Jae
Dr Truxal Addresses Dads And Daughters Weekend Talk
President Andrew G. Truxal spoke to Hood College fathers during the Dad and Daughter weekend on March 18 at 10 a.m. in Coffman Chapel. He urged love as selfless and warned against using children as means to ends. The talk referenced Religious Emphasis Week and a student letter to fathers about finding a good life. Associate Judge Patrick Sehnauffer denied a habeas corpus petition by Roland I. Poe, a House of Correction prisoner, noting no right to review for alleged perjured testimony and that Poe had not secured counsel.
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Andrew G. Truxal
Coffman Chanel
Hood
Truxal
Hood College
Truxa
Patrick M. Sehnauffer
Roland I. Poe
House of Correction
Poe
Baltimore Cily
Sehnauffer
All Main Highways Open After Snow Storm
Heavy weekend snow disrupted Frederick area roads with five to eight inches in spots like Thurmont and Gambrill State Park. State Roads crews and police reported few serious crashes, while utilities and telephone operators managed high call volumes. A derailed soul of local events included Hood College fathers stranded, a fatal exposure death near Sykesville, and traffic detours along U S 15 and U S 40.
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State Roads Commission
Greyhound Bus Lines
Roads Commission
Frederick County
Maryland 17
Burkittsville
Broad Hun
Weverton
Frederick
Thurmont
Gambrill State Park
High Knob
Potomac Edison Co
Hansonville
Highland
Hood College
New Haven
Hoods Mill
James C. Marsh
Lilian Lewis
John Crout
Ridgeville
St. Agnes Hospital
Baltimore
U. S. 40
West Friendship
William Morgan
Emmitsburg
Black and Decker President Alonzo Decker Dies
Baltimore mourns Alonzo Gallo Decker 72 founder and president of Black and Decker Mfg Co who died after a cerebral hemorrhage. An innovator in portable tools and trigger switches, Decker helped build a global firm with Towson Hampstead plants and operations in Canada, Australia, Mexico, Brazil and South Africa. He leaves wife Fanny Duncan Fox and two children.
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Baltimore
Alonzo Galloway Decker
Black and Decker Mfg. Co
Decker
Towson
Union Memorial Hospital
Duncan Black
Hampstead
Fanny Duncan Fox
Carl H. Asmis
Eldersburg, Md
Expect 400 Homemakers To Attend Annual Meet March 29
Advance registrations indicate about 400 members of Frederick County Homemakers clubs will attend the -th annual meeting at Tuva College to hear F B I Special Agent D K Brown discuss family relations and juvenile delinquency. The program includes 1955 highlights an election of officers and chorus selections.
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Frederick County
Homemakers Clubs
Mth
Brodbeck Wall
Tuva College
D. K. Brown
The
Homemakers
Dorothy K. Lassetter
Frederick
Unionville
Warren Grushon
Thurmont
Verfal Moore
Pleasant
Robert Rothenhoefer
Yellow Springs
Charles King
Ballenger
W. Leslie Hurger
Harmony Grove
Paul Willard
Raymond E. Wilhelm
Grace Reformed Church
Kui 4
AAU
Hood
Coblentz Hall
JC. J. Mortis
Joseph Rhoderick
James Working
Staff Aides Valuable For Red Cross
The Red Cross relies on behind the scenes volunteers known as Staff Aides who work at the Chapter headquarters on South Market Street. They index, file, and type for varying durations, contributing 348% hours last year at the local office, supporting disaster relief and humanitarian services.
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Red Cross
Federated Charities
South Market Street
Obituary Notice for Alonzo G Decker Jr in Baltimore
Alonzo G. Decker Jr. vice president of the firm. Services will be held Wednesday at 11 am in Baltimore.
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Alonzo G. Decker Jr
Vicw
Baltimore
Deed Recorded For 8.5 Acre Mt. Pleasant Tract Sale
A deed was recorded in the Clerk's office for the sale of an 8.5 acre tract and improvements on Water street road from Mr and Mrs Richard A Lowe to Mr and Mrs Charles D Stitely for about 11500 dollars per revenue stamps in Liberty Walkersville Mt Pleasant district
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Water Street
Liberty
Walkersville
Mt. Pleasant
Richard A. Lowe
Charles D. Stitely
Colts Sign Guard Pat Del Vicario From Mississippi Southern
The Baltimore Colts announced the signing of guard Pat Del Vicario a 223 pound 6 foot 2 native of Brooklyn New York from Mississippi Southern as the team 22nd draft choice for 195%.
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COLTS
Baltimore
Pat del Vicario
Mississippi Southern
Baltimore Colts
Brooklyn
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Upper College Terrace
George A. Zeigler
Upper Montclair
N. J
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Delaplaine
James R. Clemson
Staunton Military Academy
Paul H. Clemson
Academy
C. Earl Hahn
St. Augustine
Fla
Charles P Corbet
East Fourteenth Street
Joseph Chester
Miami
Chester
Bliss Marion Corbet
Jasper Morgan
Rocky Mount
N. C
Donald W. Clem
Connie Loretta
Murphy
Mary Edith Price
Arnold S. Price
Clarksburg
D. Vernon Holter
Farmers and Traders Life Insurance
Syracuse
Holter
New “White Way
the News
Today In World Affairs
Atlantic Fleet
At.laane
Omsted
Charles F. White
Lsn
Janet M Whre
East Second Street
John Mackley
Estis Fleming
Dr. Truxal
Black and Decker
William Powell
Walkersville Club
Vernal Moore
Mr. Pleasant Club
McLmne
Brown
Donald Sullivan
Gambrill Park Club
Carol Freed
Gambrill Park
James Barnes
Monrovia
Lewis Burger
Middletown
Richard Duble
Tourmont
Frank Gladhill
Beatrice Fehr
Lucy Gladhill
John Harris Jr
Frank Higinbotham
Bryce Hopkins
Frederick City
James Keyser
Austin Kemp
David Kifer
Merrryland Tract
Marion Lawson
Pleasant Grove
Paul E. Main
Howard Mayne
Jug Bridge
William Patterson
Lewis Martz
Francis Putman
Rosedale
G. Palmer Snook
Adamstown
Howard Stup
Herman Schroyer
Henry Sheffler
Peter Sicilia
Phillp WU
Shayer
Richard Wenzel
Urbana
Irene Barnes
Yamsville
Cyrus McBride
Austin Kelix
Earl Kells
Harry Irs
Charles Putman
Charlesville
Herbert Staley
Edith Flannigan
Roscoe Harbaugh
New Midway
Joseph Payne
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