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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1954
Page
2
The administration plans to sell warehoused food and fiber surplus totaling 6.25 billion dollars to adjust production and relieve hunger. The program targets both domestic low income families and foreign markets, as a step toward flexible price supports and avoiding another surplus build up. It will use experiments to distribute aid at home and monitor world prices abroad.
A new trend links weather changes to business planning as winters shorten and summers grow hotter and drier. Forecasting firms aid sales and distribution decisions, boosting air conditioning, ice cream, soft drinks, beer, outdoor gear, and sportswear while coal fuel and print media may suffer. Canadian fighter Armand Savoie faces Cisco Andrade in a Memorial Auditorium bout televised nationwide.
Market bulletin lists prices for corn per barrel equivalent barley and wheat per bushel with bids and quotes from local merchants. Data shows current rates, with notation of trades and prevailing market levels across the region.
Fifty years ago reports include a dog slain after a mad claim near Boivers lumber yard by Harry Bader, multiple dogs bitten by a car, plans for a covered Braddock Heights station by the Frederick and Middletown Electric Railroad directors, new officers elected at Franklin Savings Bank led by James Houck and Clayton O. Reedy, Mayor Smith engaging J Chalkley Tratton to visit Frederick for street paving on an upcoming Saturday,Male Peco school students to present a minstrel entertainment on March 13.
May 8 2034 note recalls a Democratic State Cen meeting backing Charles R Holter for postmaster at Middletown a letter to President Roosevelt by Public Works workers prompted a PWA probe Frederick officials respond and local names Grove Bennett move plans noted plus 620 new voters qualified for municipal registration for the coming election
Mrs Elizabeth Shetla widow of George Shetla and long time Baltimore resident dies at 69 after several weeks illness. Services at T G Fy Home Sunday afternoon with interment at Cedarity cemetery. Charles Alfred Lynch of near Woodsboro dies at 83 after seven weeks illness. Funeral Monday afternoon at 2 at Walkersville with interment at Utica cemetery.
A fragmentary religious passage cites Ezekiel 16 59 about God judging faithlessness and Psalms 12 3 about God’s protection. The text references devotion and peace, mentioning a beloved figure and resting with the Saviour in a devotional tone.
ENGAULD IrL and Mrs Jjosenn Berkeley Pearson Jefferson announce the engagement of their daughter Shirley Ant to Joseph Bool Thamacande nf Me and Mrs Richard C. Thompson Knoxville. The wedding will take place July 3. Miss Pearson is a Frederick High School graduate class of 1953 and works for Frederick County Board of Education. Mr. Thompson is Brunswick High School class of 1948 graduate and is farming with his father.
Bridal announcements detail Ruth Ellen Crabbs and Earl Franklin Trimmer wedding in Union Bridge Church of the Brethren with a 2:30 PM ceremony, reception for 250, Niagara Falls trip, future home at the bride’s residence. Also coverage of Hazel Irene Porter and Isaac Rice marriage at Walkersville, Dolores Ann Eaves and William Hoff LeGore wedding at Westminster parsonage, plus engagements for Mildred Oneida Leather man to Charles Specht and Shirley Ann Schrover to Kenneth Brandenburg.
About 45 members and guests of the Frederick Community Chorus attended the annual spring banquet at Peter Pan Inn. Mrs. Robert W. Russell presided as mistress of ceremonies. Special guests included Dr. Kate B. Blakeslee, director, John Ramaley, accompanist, and William Spring who assisted with the organ. Following dinner, a program was presented by James Gentry.
Emmitsburg farm owner Virgie Y Ohier filed equity court action seeking an accounting from Murray W Eyler her second cousin and former tenant. She alleges the 1950 verbal lease obliged sharing profits, joint payment of seed and lime costs, and crop sales at market prices but Eyler did not render proper accounts through April 1 1954.
The piece praises a country opposed to war that aids others and treats neighbors as brothers. It argues that if it maintains trust and noble tone it will surpass a self centered nation, urging steadfast goodwill and unity.
Congress wrestled with heated topics from the Taft Hartley revision to the St. Lawrence Seaway and Indochina policy. The Senate killed the Taft Hartley revisions 50 to 42, the House voted to join Canada on the Seaway, and Indochina policy received guarded assurances of preintervention planning.
Among The Sick, Mr. James G. Albaugh of Thurmont is able to be cut again after an operation at Frederick Memorial Hospital. Several neighbors and relatives in Frederick County report varying recoveries from surgery or illness, including Mrs. Joseph Marshall, Mrs. Charles Baxter, Miss Blanche Rippeon, Clifford Toms, Miss Doris Falkenstein, Alonzo J. Ahalt, Thomas Davis, Mrs. Paul Young, Mr. Samuel J. Fogle, and Finley V. Wade Jr. Two motorists forfeited collateral before Magistrate Shoe maker in Peoples Court, Arvex of Baltimore and Gladys Naomi Myers of Myersville, with state trooper James Handy making the arrests.
Geneva reports that public opinion in Britain and the United States remains unprepared for the realistic dangers of Indo China to world peace. Despite parliamentary hurdles, Britain and the United States move toward a united front with France to deter Communist aggression in Southeast Asia, through military planning and a potential armistice backed by a collective security pact spearheaded by Dulles.
A quiz style page presents answers to common questions. Topics include notable figures Richard Halliburton and Socrates, nature facts about barnacles and tubers, the Uintas, unemployment benefits, presidential vetoes, and a local Maryland jail resignation. A fire incident at Maiden Choice Elementary School in Halethorpe Maryland forces 700 pupils to evacuate.
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