Fifty Years Ago March 24 191% From The News-Post Files
Dispatch from Hong Kong reports serious fighting between rebels and Canton troops north of Swatow with an imminent attack on the city. Election supervisors add three men to registry copy effort Aubrey Lindsay Thurmont C Herbert Thomas Adamstown H E W Storm Frederick. Maryland House passes amended local option bill. Delegates investigate bribery claims in Prince George's County and refer testimony to Anne Arundel State's Attorney. Western Maryland passenger train derailment narrowly averted but no casualties. Maryland Senate limits women’s workday to ten hours. South Street School forms a baseball team led by J Kennedy and G Knock with Jesse Ramsburg as mascot. Middletown Musicians rehearse Pauline for WhitMonday. Dr J M Goodman named pension examiner for Frederick. W A Long resigns. Edna Keller earns Maryland Agricultural College scholarship for essay on Domestic Science. John Lewis found dead near Bartholows after being struck by a train.
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News-Post
Hong Kong
Canton
Swatow
Aubrey Lindsay
Thurmont
C. Herbert Thomas
Adamstown
H. E. W. Storm
Frederick
Maryland House OF Delegates
William R. Smallwood
Prince George’s County
House of Delegates
Anne Arundel County
Maryland
Hagerstown
State Senate
South Street
G. Knock
J. Kennedy
E. Lipps
V. Rinehart
W. Notnagle
C. Crum
Miller
H. Fleischman
H. Downey
Jesse Ramsburg
Bartholows
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
The News Frederick March 24 1962 item
Frederick edition of The News reports local notices and brief items from March 24 1962. It lists subscription rates and carrier pricing while noting Associated Press republication rights and newspaper branding. The page context includes standard masthead details for the Great Southern Printing and Manufacturing Company.
Nations Fight Nuclear Disarmament Debates Persist
A 1946 Baruch Plan proposal and Russia’s disarmament stance are examined as recurring failures of world disarmament efforts. Western diplomats view Russia’s approach as propaganda. Also listed are drivers exams passed at the Maryland DMV, naming numerous individuals by name and address.
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United States
U. S
Warden Named Fuel Oil Salesman for Hagerstown Area
Galen R. Warden has been appointed a fuel oil salesman for the Hagerstown area by Humble Oil Refining Company, announced by John C. McFadden Baltimore district manager. He replaces Oscar Shafer who takes the Frederick field assignment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Galen R. Warden
Hagerstown
Humble Oil Refining Company
John C. McFadden
Baltimore
Oscar Shafer
Frederick
War Era Proposals and War News Snapshot
Twenty years ago today, a wartime proposal to convert the old World War I cannon on Memorial Ground into scrap metal for weapons production is raised by ex State Senator Jacob Rohrback. The Wall Street Journal notes gasoline rationing will cut Atlantic Seaboard driving by 50 percent. Port Moresby air raids continue as General MacArthur pledges news media access. Blackouts may be ordered statewide. County purchases shift to single month contracts amid war unrest. A Frederick native recounts surviving a 65 foot fall into Baltimore harbor water and injuries. New one cent coins are issued with reduced tin content, sparking public confusion. Missionaries of the Reform Church are among those buried in Japan. US submarines report sinking three Japanese merchant ships and damaging freighters in hostile waters. Joan Orndorff, 32, Emmitsburg, sustains a gash cutting wood.
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War Department
Jacob Rohrback
United States
Wall Street Journal
Atlantic Seaboard
Port Moresby
New Guinea
MacArthur
Henry
Barrett
Montevyue
Frederick
Baltimore
Franklin Free
Bradley T. Free
Maryland General Hospital
Reformed Church
Japan
Navy
Joan Orndorff
Emmitsburg
Johnsville 4-H Club March Meeting Report
Johnsville Girl's 4-H Club met March 15 at Catherine Martin home. President Alice Hevner led. Treasurer balance $46.12. Reports covered 4-H Week and a Village Lanes bowling party March 3. Darlene Moore spoke on What I've Accompanied in 4 H Club Work. Mother's Tea planned for May 12 for club mothers. Sewing lesson by Hevner and Kathy Mulls demonstrated Tricks with Crackers.
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Johnsville
Catherine Martin
Alice Hevner
Village Lanes
Darlene Moore
Kathy Mulls
Last Show of Travel Fair on Monday
More than 400 people attended the Travel Fair and Fashion Show at West Frederick Junior High School on March 19. Pacific Northwest and Seattle World's Fair topics were featured with color film and slides, plus a Hawaii program and travel fashions. Door prizes were awarded, and the final show on March 26 will feature a trip around the world and a grand prize drawing for two tours to New York.
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West Frederick Junior High School
Pacific Northwest
Seattle World's Fair
Hawaii
Mary Mahan
Union Pacific Railroad
Ed Jakes
Northwest Orient Airlines
Mark Michael
Ft. George G. Meade
Seattle
New York
Frederick Homemakers and Araby WSCS Meetings Recap
Frederick Homemakers Club hosted by Mrs. Darwin Hueting on March 19 featured plans for a Beltsville agriculture tour and a March 29 covered dish dinner at Ballenger Creek Hall Feagaville. Araby WSCS met March 12 with program The Great Physician Is Still Healing and outlined upcoming trips and zone meeting details.
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Frederick Club
Darwin Hueting
Frederick
Feagaville
Marlowe Cline
Bryce Hopkins
Araby Wscs
Margaret Ausherman
Charlotte Ausherman
Delores Harper
Patsy Bowers
Bonnie Linton
Doris Sines
Jefferson
McKaig Church
Asbury Methodist Church
Walkersville
Urbana
Alll
Doris Lines
Hilda Rice
Delia Ausherman
Baker Valley Road
Sick Mrs. Elsie Huse Hospitalized for Treatment
Mrs. Elsie Huse and John Hanson Apt. are patients at Frederick Memorial Hospital receiving treatment. Both are reported to be setting along satisfactorily.
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Elsie Huse
John Hanson
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Sidelights on travel and local clubs in Frederick
A column from the News-Post recounts travel club plans to Seattle World Fair trips and a New Castle Delaware one day excursion with historical notes. It also covers Garden Week in Virginia shoe tips, a profile of Nina Auchincloss Steers and other political family links, a Rabbit Breeders Association meeting in Germantown, Rotary Kiwanis and Lions club culture in Frederick, and local club camaraderie amid health and dental woes.
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Pat Rosencrantz
Don Whipp
New York
Frederick
David Spiner
Jug Bridge
New Castle
Del
Delaware River
Wilmington
William Penn
America
Holland
Casimir
Sweden
Peter Stuyvesant
South River
New Amstel
Dover
AAA
James J. Romimer
Manhattan
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Virginia
Lions Club
Kiwanis Club
Rotary Club
Lions
Dave Youngdahl
Hood College gets 500000 grant to match
Governor J Millard Tawes signed a bill Friday awarding Hood College a 500000 matching fund grant. If Hood can raise a like amount from other sources before January 1 1964 it may proceed with an expansion valued over 1 million dollars including a new classroom building and a 125 student dormitory. The plan aims to increase enrollment to 750 by 1965 while preserving close faculty student ties.
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J. Millard Tawes
Hood College
Tf Hood
College Board of Trustees
Hood
Randle Elliott
Fort Detrick News Highlights Crusade and Community Updates
Fort Detrick News reports the Joint Crusade for Health Agencies nears completion with a target of 100 percent participation by April 3. Local business, personnel moves, arrivals, farewells, seminars, hospitalizations, and a building fire relocation are summarized, including new births, transfers, and staff activities tied to Fort Detrick community life.
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Fort Detrick
Federal Services
David F. Tate
Funeral services for William C Flautt held Monday
Funeral services for William C. Flautt 81 retired watch maker and jeweler who died yesterday will be at the Robert Be Dailey and Son funeral home 1201 North Market street Monday at 2 p.m. The body is at the funeral home where friends may call. Interment in Mt. Olivet Cemetery. Funeral services for Melvin Russell Lyles found dead Tuesday morning were held Friday at noon at Ebenezer Methodist Church Centerville with Rev. Alonzo Graham Rev. H J McDonald and Rev. Luther Brown officiating. The choir sang several hymns. Military honors by a Fort Detrick unit. Pallbearers Mt. City Lodge of Elks. Interment in church cemetery. C E Hicks III funeral director.
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Russell G. Johnson
Minnesota Medical School
University of Minnesota
Leonard Spero
J. Paul Thomas
V.F.W. Club
Thomas
Intelligence and Security Division
Alex Craw
Chicago
Juanita Gillam
The
Post Beauty Shop
Texas
Anna Mae Carmack
Jim Kelly
Baltimore City
Maude Mohler
PFC
Jerry Mallonee
Iowa
Dick Wowak
Post
Signal
Charles Beachley
Baltimore
Loretta Eyler
Fort Detrick
American Chemical Society
Washington
Elizabeth Mayo
Robert Boyle
Emmit Grogan
Edward Schantz
David Stefange
George Svarnas
John L. Converse
Herbert M. Bloom
Joseph Schwimer
Miami
Florida
William C. Flautt
Robert BE. Dailey and Son
North Market Street
Mt. Olivet Cemetery
Melvin Russell Lyles
Ebeneezer Methodist Church
Centerville
Alonzo Graham
H. J. McDonald
Luther Brown
Newman Spencer Sr
Mt. City
John W. Hicks
John Wesley Hicks
Mary Nuse Hicks
Jefferson
David
Barbara Coburn Hicks
Richard
Dorothy Hicks
Gary
Knoxville
Nancy Robertson
Bethesda
Susan Suddeth
Damascus
Joseph
Evan Hicks
Rock Royal
N. Y
Leonard
Arlington
Arthur Woodward
Stedman-Keenan Post
American Legion
Jefferson Reformed Cemetery
Bessie M. Naille
Edgar
Naille
Myersville
Frederick Memorial Hospital
James and
Ida Durrow Moser
Mt. Zion Eur Church
Nannie G. Palmer
Hagerstown
Bittle Funeral Home
United Brethren Cemetery
Mazeppa G. Shealey
Graceham
Allen Shealey
Thurmont
Samuel and
Elizabeth Colliflower Troxell
Moravian Church
Ladies’ Aid Society
Addie Valentine
Rosa Stevens
Creager Funeral Home
Frederick L. Morgenstern
Graceham Cemetery
Charles F. Trunk
Mt. Olivet
Robert E. Dailey and Son
Marshall T. Watkins
Uriah and
Margaret Brown Watkins
Mattie E. Watkins
Rhoda Reed
Olin L. Molesworth
Mr and Mrs Calvin Geisbert Jr 25th anniversary observed
Mr and Mrs Calvin Geisbert Jr McMurray street will observe their 25th wedding anniversary Sunday. Mr and Mrs Robert Coates Petersville have returned home after a month's tour of the West Indies on the S S Hantesie. The average American has to see his doctor about five times annually.
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Calvin Geisbert Jr
McMurray Street
Robert Coates
Petersville
West Indies
S.S. Hantesie
Deaths in Maryland and nearby states prompt obits
John W. Hicks 52 of Jefferson dies in Chicago. James L Ledford 32 of Linwood dies at home on Walter Brandenburg Farm. Bessie M Naille 74 of Myersville dies in Frederick Memorial Hospital. Mazeppa G Shealey Sr dies Graceham. Grace Baker Summers 79 of Buckeystown dies in Frederick Memorial. Marshall T Watkins 75 of Damascus dies at home. Services set at local funeral homes with military honors and church ceremonies.
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James 1. Ledford
James Lee Ledford
Phyllis Neely Ledford
Walter Brandenburg
Linwood
Baltimore City
James T. Marsh
Carroll County
John W. B. Summers
Grace Baker Summers
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Lewistown
W. Christopher
Susan Devik
Miss Baker
John Arthur Rs
Richard
Expert Blackwood and strong no trump bidding in bridge
North misread a four notrump as Blackwood while South treated it as a simple no trump raise. West opened hearts and the defense defeated four no trumps, though six spades would have made. the writer cites poor partnership and misused Blackwood as the blame, advising universal four no trump Blackwood with unfamiliar partners. A hotel Rembrandt room reproduces Aristotle Contemplating Homer, valued at 2.8 million, with a $600 frame cost.
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South
West
East
Blackwood
New York
Rembrandt
Aristotle
Homer
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Ijamsville
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Danville, Hi
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Potomac Electric Company
William E. Poole
Donald F. Stitely
Riley J. Jenkins
Roy C. Culler
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Chemical Corps School
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Ala
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Karen Sue
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Easton
Samuel J. Cannella
Melville
Isaac S. Banks
Carol ¥. Hunter
Oscar G
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Audrey Grabell
Marriottsville
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Airy
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Lousiana
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Westminster
Helen Johnson
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Sykesville
Joseph Ledford
New Windsor
Ruby
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Earl
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Paul
Mark Ledford
590Th Engineering Corps
D. D. Hartzler
Jacoby
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