Freed On One Charge, Faces Another Here
A 28 year old Thurmont man Richard H Spurlock faced multiple charges after a night court appearance for a peeping Tom case in the 800 block of Montclair Avenue. Warrants were issued for two earlier disorderly conduct charges as witnesses identified him in court. The defendant posted bond for future trial. Local driver Steve Bistarky of South View Pennsylvania received a $150 fine for operating under the influence after being stopped near a Gilling station for suspected intoxication. A separate non support case in Luray involved a man and his wife, with the magistrate arranging weekly payments and requiring the wife’s presence on payday.
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Frederick City
Richard H. Spurlock
Thurmont
H. Reese Shoemaker Jr
Spurlock
People’s Night Court
W. Jerome Offutt
Charles A. Price
Edwin F. Nikirk
Montclair Avenue
George Carter
Serat
Phillips
Price
Oy Spurlock
Pennsylvania
Steve Bistarky
South View
William Staley
Bistarky
Gilling Station
South Market Street
Staley
Charles V. Main
Shoemaker
Luray
Washington to honor prayer by Baltimore priest on Pan American Day
March 23 Congress invites Rev Dr Joseph F Thorning of St Josephs Church Carrollton Manor Md to give the prayer at the Capitol on April 14 marking Pan American Day. Speaker Martin will introduce him. The event underscores inter American friendship amid concerns about Soviet influence. Dr Thorning has served the U S on diplomatic missions in South and Central America and attended presidential inaugurations.
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Washington
Archdiocese of Baltimore
Joseph F. Thorning
St. Joseph’s Church
Carrollton Manor
Miranda
Joseph W Martin, Jr
Thorning
U. S
South
Central America
United States
Carpenter Struck by Loose Chain at Camp Detrick
Ellis H. Schildt 42 Walkersville carpenter suffered a severe facial injury when a loose chain struck him while working on a building for Ajax Construction at Camp Detrick. He fell about 30 feet to a ladder and was rushed to Frederick Memorial Hospital in serious condition with unchanged status.
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Detrick
Ellis H. Schidt
Walkersville
Ajax Construction Company
Camp Detrick
Schiidt
Schildt
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Contract Signed To End Labor Dispute In Cumberland
A two year agreement on working conditions was signed today in Cumberland between the Kelly-Springfield Tire Company and the CIO Rubber Workers Union. The contract settles key terms after a period of negotiations and positions both sides for continued labor relations.
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Cumberland
Kelly-Springfield Tire Company
CIO Rubber Workers Union
Ehachve
Chambers says he knows nothing direct about Bohlen
Whittaker Chambers, ill after a heart attack, states he has no direct knowledge bearing on Charles Bohlen, ambassador-designate to Russia, amid Sen. McCarthy opposition. He insists he never met Bohlen and has no information placing Bohlen as a security risk, though notes Bohlen’s Yalta role troubles him.
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Westminster
Whittaker Chambers
Charles Bohlen
Russia
Chambers
Alger Hiss
Sen. McCarthy
R-Wis
Bohlen
Mr. Bohlen
McCarthy
Begin Work On New Police Training School
PIKESVILLE Md March 23 Gov McKeidin broke ground for a new police training school and criticized the Legislature for cutting the State Police force. He noted a 12 year road plan and said the state should add 40 troopers, including 15 cut last year, to improve training, housing, and facilities at the State Police Headquarters campus.
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Pikesville
McKeidin
jState Police Headquarters
Bonus deadline extended for West Virginia veterans
West Virginia extends the claims deadline to June 30 1953 for the state bonus law. WV veterans in Maryland have received about 1 250 000 under the program since enactment. Eligible veterans include WWI service of 90 days between April 6 1917 and November 11 1918 and WWII duty of at least 9 days between December 7 1941 and September 2 1945. Residency required six months before entering service. Benefits are 10 dollars per month for stateside duty and 15 dollars per month for foreign duty with caps of 900 dollars domestic and 600 dollars foreign respectively.
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West Virginia
Maryland
Paratrooper Lt Richard R Kline Assigned to Fort Campbell
Fort Campbell Ky announces Lieutenant Richard R Kline son of Mrs Ralph G Kline of Frederick Maryland has a new duty with the 11th Airborne Division Replacement Training Faculty He teaches basic trainees the fundamentals of attacking fortified positions on the Tactics Committee program
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Fort Campbell
Richard R. Kline
Ralph G. Kline
Elm Street
Frederick
Army
Kline
Tee
11Th Airborne Division
Shoplifter Sentenced as Court Imposes New DWI Policy
Magistrate Wilbur F Sheffield sentenced a woman to the Reformatory for Females for six months and announced jail terms for all drunken driving cases. Evelyn Bowens of Ice Street was convicted of larceny for stealing a skirt. two dresses were recovered at her residence. Jack Frank West received ten days in jail plus a $150 fine for drunken driving. Earl Andrew Maas was acquitted of drunken driving but fined for reckless driving after a drug interaction misled police. Two Cumberland men got 60 days of road gang work for intoxication and loitering, while a Hagerstown soldier faced a $15 fine for speeding on Route 40.
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Wilbur F. Sheffield
Reformatory
Peoples Court
Evelyn Bowens
Ice Street
Robert Pritchard
J.C. Penney Co
Bowens
William Boone
Jack Frank West
Corriganville
Cumberland
Sheffield
John Shaw
West
Earl Andrew Maas
Frederick Optician
Maas
West Partick Street
Kenneth D. Bond
Robert Dishong
Charles A. Price
Edwin F. Nikirk
Coun
Sel
Frederick
County Road
Benjamin Alderton
Gabe L. Miller
West Patrick Street
Bernard King
Akron
Hagerstown
Braddock Mountain
South Mountain
Jake Biines
Route 340
Norwood Green
Zonta Club Meets and Deeds Recorded in Local Clerk’s Office
The Zonta Club met at the Francis Scott Key Hotel with President Mrs Freda Doll presiding. Miss Nancy Stup, a Fred Jerick Memorial Hospital student nurse, spoke on nursing dedication. Deeds filed show Eric C. and Mrs. Riser selling 227 acres in Buckeystown and 29 acres in Jefferson for about 20000, and Charles A. Marker selling land on West Main Street Middletown for around 18000.
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Zonta Club
Franceis Scott Key
Freda Doll
Collect
Edna Mensell
Catherine Foland
Hood College
Mary Rhoads
Nancy Stup
Fred Jerick Memorial Hospital
Miss Stup
Frederick High School
Michael DeCarlo
Camp Detrick
Eric C. Riser
Paul M. Riser
Buckeystown
Jefferson District
Charles A. Marker
Obed M. Bailey
West Main Street
Middletown
Red Cross Unit Makes Articles For Local Hospital
A Red Cross factory group in Federated Charities building operates as volunteers led by Mrs. E C Webb producing 91 pieces in a visit day. They cut and sew cloth folders leg protectors pillow cases sheets and a Mayo sheet plus other hospital items for Frederick Memorial and Emergency hospital. A separate Wednesday group led by Mrs Frank D Worthington produces similar items.
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Frederick Memorial Hospital
E . C. Webb
Red Cross
Federated Charities
Memorial Hospital
Veterans” Hospitals
Frank D. Worthington
East Frederick School Carnival Plans Made At PTA Meeting
East Frederick School parents discussed carnival plans to raise funds for a mimeograph machine and playground equipment. The event aims to involve posters distributed to other city schools and features student piano numbers and a mimeograph demonstration. Preschool registration is March 27 from 1 to 3 39 p m.
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East Frederick
Parent- Teachers Association
William Thomas, Jr
Warner L. Brittain
Beattie Stauffer
Helen Myers
Mary Alice Ramsburg
Vickie Hall
Sally Jones
Dackie Fox
Deanna Fogle
George Brachey
Anchors Aweigh
March Rainfall Tops four Inch Mark with Showers
March rainfall surpassed four inches on Tuesday with heavy overnight showers raising creeks and delaying plowing. About 0.73 inches fell at the airport, bringing March total to 4.01 inches, above normal 3.31. Weather began with light showers Monday, then windy, heavy showers, and Monocacy crested modestly at Ceresville. County Agent Henry R. Shoemaker noted unusually good pasture and crops after wet weather, while corn and garden plowing slowed by rain.
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Air
Ceresville
Henry R. Shoemaker
Frederick group plans safety parade trip to Washington
At a Frederick Branch Automotive Club meeting, plans outlined to send more than 500 county students to Washington on May 9 for the annual safety parade. About 15 busses will carry schoolboy and girl patrol members and the Frederic High School Band. Cost estimated at 1500, funded by local business and civic groups. discussions covered roads and the 12 year highway program in Annapolis.
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Frederick
The
Automobile Club of Maryland
Frederick County
Washington
J. T. Alexander
Francis Scott Key
Capital
Frederic
Maryland
Ignatius Bjorlee
State Roads Commission
General Assembly
Annapolis
Art Club Meets At Historical House In Frederick
Frederick Art Club met at the Frederick Historical House on West Patrick street Thursday evening with Mrs. Roger H. Willard as program chairman. Mrs. George S. Rodeck discussed Ceramic Art Majolica della Robbia and terra cotta and showcased pottery pieces while noting Roman use of clay for architecture, vessels and tableware. A large wall plaque by Luca della Robbia from the 15th century hangs in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Mrs. Delaplaine discussed Italian gardens and garden sculpture, explaining that “Italian” refers to style, not geography, and showed illustrations of formal gardens with marble statuary and fountains.
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Frederick
Luca Della Robbia
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Rodeck
William Delaplaine
Italy
Tractor overturns fatally injures boy near Norbeck
March 2 near Norbeck a farm tractor overturned killing Stanley Barber, 2, as he drove a tractor hauling two wagonloads of sawdust. Police say the wagon lacked brakes and went out of control on a downgrade, jackknifing the wagon and overturning the tractor.
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Rockville
Stanley Barber
Silver Spring
Barber
Norbeck
Police patrol intensifies on Route 340 enforcement
State Police assign special crew along Route 340 from Frederick to the Virginia line to enforce motor vehicle laws amid complaints of reckless driving and passing on hills. Traffic counts show about 3 000 to 4 000 vehicles daily. seventeen accidents since January 1 1953. Enforcement targets high accident zones and increasing commercial traffic, with school bus passing violations also under close watch.
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Frederick
Virginia Line
Potomac River
Charles W. Magaha
Petersville
Jefferson
Fengaville
Magaha
Sandy Hook Bridge
Charles Town
W. Va
Brunswick
Capt. Magaha
Bar- Tack
Frederick County
Maryland
Baltimore Delegates Propose Enhanced Veterans Bonus Bill
Annapolis reports three Baltimore City delegates introduced a near identical veterans bonus bill with minor changes to prior Milanicz Silk proposal. They seek a $100 million bond issue, include Korean War veterans, and levy a 0.375 percent gross receipts tax on profit making entities. No action yet. Sen. Phoebus vows a rival bill pending AG ruling.
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Annapolis
Baltimore City
Dels. Dabrowski
D-Balto Ist
Hodges
D-Balto
Kavanagh
Dbalto
Dets. Milanicz
Silk
Milanicz-Silk
Sen
Phoebus
Somerset
Attorney General's Office
Thurmont Bank Open House Showcases Renovated Lobby
Thurmont Bank held an open house to reveal newly refurbished quarters on the first floor. The main area features a white marble counter, metal fixtures, Italian marble walls, and asphalt tile floors, with Venetian blinds and modern lighting. Attendees included executives from Farmers and Mechanics, Western Maryland Trust, Walkersville Bank, Birnie Trust, and others from Maryland banks and related firms. Hostesses and bank officers are named, along with a list of directors.
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Thurmont Bank
Thurmont
Farmers and Mechanics Citizens National Bank
B. L. Shuff
Western Maryland Trust Co
A. B. Collinus
Clifford M. Yinger
George L. Wilhide
Farmers’ State Bank
Wilhide
Frank W. Weant
Ass’t
Quinn F. Topper
Marie Rosensteel
Alice Shorb
Emmitsburg
Kent C. Nicodemus
Walkersville Bank
Nicodemus
William D. Powell
William J. Deter
Glade Valley Milling Co
Deter
M. Rice
Rice
Robert Nicodemus, Jr
Walkersville
Ernest W. Dunbar
Birnie Trust Co
Taneytown
Charles R. Arnold
Baltimore
Harvey E. Emmart
Baltimore National Bank
Emmart
M.ann Emmart
William I. Brown
Catonsville
Sam A. Long
David
Rocky Ridge
Mary E. Ramsburg
Brunswick
George C. Rhoderick, Jr
Middletown
Grace A. Lantz
Mary Ellen Pryor
Lantz
James Fentress
Hagerstown
Blossom Reed
J. Harvey Gearhart
Arden Barton
Ernest W. Dick
Blue Ridge Summit
S.C. Swartz
Lemoyne
Stewart C. Swartz
Camp Hill
Maurice A. Gersing
Edward F. Gersing
Marie Ruch
Thomas E. Steffey
Ray L Taylor
Samuel T. Royer, Sr
James K. Gray
John G. Jones
Harry O. Miller
Helen Mackley
Capital Expenditures Rise in 1983 Planning
Washington reports U S business firms plan record 1983 capital outlays for new plant and equipment. Commerce Department states plans disclosed to government agencies show outlays at a new high of 2.2 billion dollars, about 75 percent of 1952 GNP and 47 percent of private investment that year.
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Washington
U. S
Department of Commerce
Department
Coyle Indicted for Bogging His Wife in Towson
Wilbur F. Coyle a 4 year old former government attorney was indicted today in Towson Md on a charge of bik ing his wife after a quarrel in their home last Feb 5 He is still in Union Memorial Hospital Baltimore suffering from a week wound police said was self inflicted Witnesses before the grand jury included Wilbur F. Coyle Jr 10 who testified he overheard his father and Mrs Elizabeth Coyle in their bedroom days earlier
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Coyle
Towson
Wilbur F. Coyle
Union Memorial Hospital
Baltimore
Wibur F. Coyle
Peirce
Elzabeth Coyle
Badere
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