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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1954
Page
2
The Frederick newspaper issue dated Saturday March 20 1954 presents the daily paper’s masthead, publication details, and subscription rates. It notes the Great Southern Printing and Manufacturing Co as publisher and lists single copy price and advance payment options.
The last decade saw 130000 elderly persons move to California 66400 to Florida and thousands to New Mexico Arizona and other mild states. Investigators say this shift breaks up third generation families and loosens two generation ties. Old folks lose joy in helping raise grandchildren and fear fallback on children. Young folks lose access to parental advice and aid. The trend is stronger in metropolitan centers than in smaller communities where life is slower and duty is stronger.
President Roosevelt could shift Thanksgiving by proclamation but cannot alter the sun Earth relation that fixes season timing. The calendar drifts about a quarter day yearly due to the Earth's 365 plus six hours orbit, leap years reset the clock, and seasons vary in length because the orbit is egg shaped. Welcome spring.
Reader letters outline teacher shortages and the toll on educators. A teacher's mother recalls her son leaving the classroom for service after discipline and funding woes, while a principal and professor critique parental influence and policy. A 1936 corporal punishment law is blamed for current troubles. Emmitsburg resident Oscar Stern notes March 18.
Ollie Liason a 24 year old colored man from West Sixth street working for Harvey Burall on Magnolia avenue fractured his left wrist after falling by a cellar way Friday morning. He was treated at Frederick Memorial Hospital and returned home.
Eddie Waitkus joined the Baltimore Orioles in Mesa Arizona for his first workout with the team. Manager Jimmy Dykes immediately had Waitkus run 12 laps around Rendezvous Park to condition him. He said he was two pounds overweight at 175 and expected to be ready for regular action after another exhibition game.
A large delegation of property owners urged the County Commissioners to buy the bridge over the Potomac at Point of Rocks, owned by Frederick and Loudoun County Bridge Company. estimated cost about 30 000. A legislative appropriation for the purchase is doubtful. Ralph Culler and William B. Doty of Jefferson narrowly escaped injury when Culler’s car overturned near W W. H. Harry’s residence three miles from the city. Howard Chew, son of Mrs. Clara Chew, was fireman on a B and C tram that jumped the track in Baltimore, killing one brakeman and injuring the conductor. Chew and the engineer were uninjured. A giant ice gorge in the Potomac River nearly disappeared, 30 miles long and 10 to 20 feet high in places. William Dean sold his house and lot on East Saint street in Mary Jane Vitich of Monrovia for 580.
Twenty years ago on March 2h 1934 a chimney fire in West South street left over twenty homeless. Six houses burned beyond repair and damage to another. Canning factories faced a sugar corn price of 10 dollars per ton for the season up from seven to start last year. Spring arrived with cold notes as the temperature read 26 degrees. Thieves cracked Warner's store at Detour stealing apparel after taking cheese bread butter and ice cream.
Mrs. Joseph Holdcraft, chairwoman of the Junior Auxiliary of the Francis Scott Key Post Amer ican Legion Auxiliary, was guest of honor at a surprise birthday party Friday evening. Gifts were given and many members attended including Mrs. Virginia Miller and Fay Grimes. A brief business meeting followed. next gathering set for Aneit 2 at the Tucian home.
ExChange club members discussed August sponsorship of a model airplane meet and announced upcoming March 25 showings by Ben Champlin and Paul Strine. The films cover recent Hagerstown events and include fights. Claude V. Smith joined the Aviation committee to lead meet prep, with Robert Schultz and Peter Mazur named new members. Louis Warner chaired the VFW Country Club dinner meeting.
Beatrice Brown and Ruth Elliott with two Martinsburg daughters visited Bolivar relatives. Baltimore visitors included George Briscoe, Robert Bowers, and Charles Speaks with ties to Loudoun VA. Lieut. Charles Glover, Gaithersburg native, en route to Japan with family after Ellington Field posting. House warming for Sgt. Samuel Himes and wife in Harpers Ferry. guests from Brunswick, Knoxville, and Baltimore. Funeral Directors Association meeting in Romany noted. visits from Elizabeth Bequette in Washington.
Charles Newton Stuckey, a 84 year old former Berkeley County resident, died yesterday at his Jones Spring home. Survivors include two sons, Carlton B. Stuckey, mayor of this city, and another son. The obituary notes his local ties and public service.
Washington columnist David Lawrence argues Soviet aims center on the cold war to avoid direct conflict and gain influence, with infiltration of free countries and access to strategic materials. He contends the U S stance is weakened by internal leftist pressure and missteps on Red China, while Indo China and Korea remain flashpoints shaping the conflict. He notes Soviet leverage grows as Western unity frays and trade moves toward the Iron Curtain.
Two Brandenburg sisters wed cousins Galen Strite and Jay Strite in a March 6 ceremony at Pleasant View Church of the Brethren Burkittsville. Rev Emmet F Bittinger and Rev Cyrus Strite officiated. Brides wore white lace gowns. receptions followed with red camellia corsages. The couples plan a Florida honeymoon before settling on farms near Hopewell.
The New Windsor Methodist and Stone Chapel Methodist churches, served together by Rev. C. Lewis Robson, vote to become independent. New Windsor will appoint a fulltime pastor starting June 1 with the new Conference Year.
Obituary notices report the deaths of Mrs. Margaret E. Houck 82 of 642 Grant Place and others including Mrs. Harriett V. Clabaugh 87 of Baltimore, Mrs. Inez B. Nalley 81 of Brunswick, James B. Grimes 73 of Washington DC, Daniel E. Montgomery 75 of Burkittsville, Frank G. Poland of Loudoun County, and James R. Gray in Centerville. Survivors across these notices include spouses, children, and siblings. services and interments are planned at local funeral homes and churches in Frederick, Brunswick, Purcellville, Gettysburg, and Falls Church areas. Funeral directors named include CHE Cline and Son, Woodsboro, C. H. Feete and Bro, James R. Gray’s service by Roy W. Barker.
Mrs Hazel Foreman of Washington Mrs Gladys Washington of Germantown and Melvin Carroll of Adamstown survive with nieces and nephews. Remains rest at 24 West All Saints Street where friends may call Monday after four pm. Funeral services from John Wesley Methodist Church Clarksburg Tuesday at two pm Rev R Langston officiates. Interment in church cemetery. C E Hicks III funeral director.
Funeral services were held for Miss Alice Virginia Crum Charlotte Margaret Fulmer and Mrs Bessie B Perkins. Prayers at the home 34 East Patrick Street, mass at St John s Catholic Church, and interment at Mount Olivet cemetery. Pallbearers included Crum Mc Ca rley McGinnis Lease McCuller Garst and Perkins relatives. services conducted by Fr Herbert R Jordan Rev G Ermine Platt and Lieut Harry E Powell. M R Etchison and Son funeral directors.
A set of Q A style facts on tigers distribution noting Asia as the type animal region, and a comparison of Earth surface elevations citing the Mindanao Deep and the highest mountain to state a 64 541 foot difference. It also states annual candy consumption exceeding two billion pounds.
A damaged space heater at Charles Harpine’s residence on Soult and Winchester streets flooded and exploded about 11 o’clock this morning. Firemen from the Units and Citizens responded. no other damage was reported. The Maryland Department of Public Improvements awarded Abbey Fence Company a $3395 contract to build a fence at the Maryland State School for the Deaf with a $3795 alternate bid. Two Baltimore youths, Thomas Ellis and George Mefford, were held on $5000 bail after a branch post office holdup in East Baltimore.
Frederick High School won first place in a sanitary milk production contest run by the Baltimore Health Department and local pasteurization plants. Only 4,637 samples showed no improper pasteurization, a record first set this year. Kenard Dale High School and Sparks High School finished second and third.
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