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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1960
Page
1
April ended with average temps about 2.9 degrees above normal at 55.8 as a rare heat wave pushed readings, including a 93 degree high tying a record from 1925. Rain fell 2.48 inches at the airport, well under the 3.50 inch norm, with early month rainfall 2.21 inches before a drier stretch.
President Eisenhower will speak on foreign policy in a major address tonight at 3 30 pm EST. The broadcast is sponsored by the Committee for International Economic Growth and the Committee to Strengthen the Frontiers of Freedom and will air on radio and TV. Airman killed near Dover Air Force Base Virginia native LC Harrington died after his car collided with a truck.
A car on the Frederick Freeway skidded on a wet road Sunday morning, struck a reflector stand, and stopped at a sign. James Leo Henry of Hagerstown was the driver. Damage estimated at 150 dollars. A second accident on North Market Street involved a parked car struck by a truck driven by Earl Franklin Miller Jr. The 1953 Ford pickup hit Michael Lipsitz’s car, causing about 75 dollars damage to the car and 30 dollars to the truck. charges were anticipated.
The Montrose High School band and choir will give several concerts with two morning shows at West Frederick and a public evening performance at Elm Street Junior High School auditorium next Friday. The 125 musicians will be housed by local residents after arrangements by Thomas Silliman and Frank R. Lewis.
State's Attorney Robert Rothenhoefer calls a 2:30 PM Thursday meeting of law enforcement officials at the county courthouse to discuss uniform procedures for the magistrate's court. Attendees include state and city police heads and trial magistrates to iron out scheduling and advance case handling. Magistrates in county towns will not be invited.
About 200 Frederick UCW members join nationwide May Fellowship Day on May 6 at the Frederick Church of the Brethren for a 6 15 p m dinner meeting. Mrs Mildred Atkinson of the Maryland Council of Churches will speak on Citizenship Free and Responsible and lead a post program discussion.
Frederick High School students Carolyn Bere and Mary Ellen Creed were elected to Future Nurses of Maryland posts at a Baltimore meeting. Bere, a sophomore, becomes president-elect with training duties before leading in two years, Creed, a junior, becomes recording secretary. Retiring president Susan Eyster, also from Frederick, presided at Parkville Senior High School.
The State Roads Commission will surface treat 17.25 miles in Frederick County within weeks. Ray Hartman says total miles improved this year exceed recent years as crews patch holes and cracks on both treated and untreated roads.
Mayor Ramsburg proclaims May as Hospital Month urging public support for the Frederick Memorial Hospital Building Fund seeking 650000 dollars for a new three story wing and basement with pediatric maternity and medical surgical floors. Campaign runs until June 1 with kickoff meetings this week and progress reports on May 17 and May 24.
Three minors Melvin Roberts Jerry Ketterman and Robert Klepp pleaded guilty to unauthorized use of two cars over the weekend. Magistrate Edward Storm withheld sentencing held without bond while reviewing jail records and considering alcohol source details.
The Coast Guard called off the search for 52 year old Leon Webster of Cambridge after Navy helicopter and twin engine plane aided surface craft in a futile hunt. Authorities alerted police and Chesapeake Bay shore residents to be on the lookout while the man is presumed drowned.
Thousands of youths clashed with Turkish troops in Istanbul as NATO foreign ministers gathered for a key summit review. Police and soldiers pushed back demonstrators near City Hall, while martial law and a May Day curfew limited movement. Prime Minister Menderes blamed the opposition, while Republican leaders denied inciting unrest amid the NATO session.
The Hood College Choir won a four week summer tour of Europe performing for servicemen in Germany France and Italy. Seventeen members plus director Charles J. Warner and Hood organist William Sprigg depart August 1 under the Army Special Services program. The group will perform up to two times daily six days weekly with sacred secular and popular numbers. An Octet will be formed from the tour group and extra weeks in Europe may be added at the choir’s expense.
About 750 select music students from city and county schools will perform in three concerts starting Tuesday with two vocal groups at West Frederick Junior High. The series features a 1 316 member junior high chorus and a 200 member senior high chorus, a May 11 concert by the all county senior high school band at Frederick High School conducted by Hugh Henderson, and a May 31 finale by the all county junior high band at West Frederick. conductors include Thomas Fuguate and Robert Doster, with Donald Regier directing the senior vocal group and Rose Marie Grentzer directing the junior high chorus. Capacity audiences are expected as many parents attend.
Daryl Chessman died in the San Quentin gas chamber at 10 03 45 am Pacific Daylight Time the 12 03 45 EST. He was pronounced dead at 10 12 am after a smile as the fatal fumes rose and he directed a final remark to Eleanor Black a Los Angeles reporter. He had been sentenced for kidnapping with bodily harm in a 1948 case in Los Angeles and died at 38.
California Supreme Court rejected writs of habeas corpus and stay of execution for Daryl Chessman. He died by hydrocyanic gas after a 20 year prison saga that made him a worldwide symbol of capital punishment and a focus of public protest.
Washington Austin Renn, Master of Maryland State Grange, will serve on the Committee on Safety and Uniform Laws at the Eighth Highway Transportation Congress in Washington at the Hotel Mayflower on May 10 11 and 12. The appointment was announced by Arthur C Butler Director of the National Highway Users Conference which sponsors the congress.
Temperatures will average near normal with warmer Tuesday and Wednesday and cooler Friday or Saturday. Showers expected Thursday with precipitation around half an inch. Normal highs 66 to 71, early morning readings in the 40s and 50s, with upper 60s in some areas.
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