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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1949
Page
11
A state bill aims to modify Frederick police administration reducing committee influence. It would give the Mayor more authority to discipline officers and guide department operations, strengthening city leadership and accountability.
The Ox Fibre Brush Company sponsors an April display at the C Burr Artz Library organized by Between The Book Ends Club. The history traces back to 1881 with Palmetto fibre brushes leading to automatic machinery by 1903 and consolidation into the Ox Fibre Brush Company by 1910, with a Benson Junction plant built in 1928 and wide sales nationwide.
The National Association of Waste Material Dealers urges members to charge for collecting scrap paper. Demand is high as twice as much paper scrap is recovered postwar, with threequarters of annual mill output returning as used paper. Mills must improve reworking to utilize recovered material fully.
The article weighs toll roads versus free highways, noting rising costs of four lane super roads from $25 000 to $50 000 per mile in flat terrain to up to a half million to a million in rough country. It highlights Pennsyl vania Turnpike and New England parkways as toll successes, discusses public burdens, and mentions a compromise using private bonds with state take over after tolls pay off. It ends with a stray note on the timaran, a large Philippine mammal.
A brief piece by N. A. Lufburrow muses on the primacy of work over leisure. He stresses that duties demand attention even when one prefers sport or fun, urging steady effort and course keeping.
Justice White decided today against the Baltimore and Frederick Turnpike Company in a toll dispute at Monocacy bridge. Register of Wills Edward Saylor presented Judges Young Wilson and Grinder of the Orphans Court with paper weights. After five weeks idle, Wilcoxon and Brown lumber plant resumed operations. A fall from a North Market street tree left Mr Alexander Brengle uninjured. Inter-State Telephone sale to Frederick County Telephone and Telegraph Company completed for 20000.
County authorities fail to locate the Negro thief who entered a Monrovia home and fled after stealing valuables. Frederick county keeps its mortgage tax per legislative action, the only county in the state to do so. Frederick Chamber plans C C Pyle’s Bunion Derby appearance on April 6. Miss Mary Frances Croghan hosts a tenth birthday supper at Hotel Frederick with many young guests.
Washington Daybook details the lawmakers behind the Rankin pension plan clash. Pete Roding highlights John Rankin and Isaiah Marcantonio as key operatives, with Charlie Halleck coordinating GOP support to complicate the Fair Deal. Freshman Boyd Tackett condemns selling patriotism for politics. Helen Knowland's novel Madame Baltimore is billed. Clark Clifford's White House maneuvering toward Forrestal and Johnson is teased. A Beltsville visit by Hood College genetics class is announced.
Washington editorial argues that Louis Johnson should be sworn in as Secretary of Defense with refereed pomp while setting unimpeachable standards of conduct. It urges Congress, the President, and the press to remove political influence from appointments, stressing civilians in advisory roles and defense independence from partisan interests to maintain national security.
Dorothy Dix advises that no perfect spouse exists and warns against shaping a mate into an ideal. She argues height, wealth, or beauty do not define compatibility, stressing character, brains, and loyalty. Spoiling children undermines discipline and responsibility, a common lifelong hazard.
Parkway School PTA moved toward a spring festival to be held Friday April 29 with Joseph Rhoderick as general chairman. The group reported 487 members on the rolls and discussed county PTA actions to secure school building funds. Visual education films by James Messeremith and a new ditto machine were noted, and vice president Mrs. Dean Stickell presided.
A reproduced Q and A style set covers constitutional law usage on the supreme law, phrase etymology for scot free, the Wayside Inn in Sudbury Massachusetts, timber area photography value, ouija board etymology, the 1948 Indianapolis 500 attendance record, Indonesia principal islands, and the mythic Adonis explaining why the name symbolizes vegetation cycles.
William T. Manning invokes Luke 8 25 to frame Christian faith as active love grace and humanity. He asserts Jesus commands winds and waves and through Christ believers move from despair to faith and service.
About 100 members attended a special dinner Monday evening at Catoctin Country Club to welcome Joe Reposkey of Pittsburgh as the new golf professional. He urged an early start to the season, noting the course is in excellent shape. Reposkey succeeds Lob Grove, whose resignation took effect March 15. Dr. William E. Ross presided. Carroll MacMaster, pro at Woodholme, served as toastmaster and was the club’s first pro. Catoctin is in the Maryland State Golf Association and current Tri-State League champions, with clubs in Martinsburg, Front Royal, Winchester, Purcellville, and Fairfax.
The piece contrasts two approaches to sending a child to his first party, favoring minimal reminders. It notes meteorite falls are rare, with only two or three observed yearly but at least a hundred striking Earth annually.
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