Fifty Years Ago A Fire Destroys Register of Wills Home
The Register of Wills William B. Cutspal residence in Woodsboro was burned, forcing family members to flee in their night attire. Only a few personal items were saved.
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Register of Wills
William. B. Cutspal
Woodsboro
Northket Street
R. McHeary
Stanton
H. Swartz
Marsh
F. Sierm
A. Surf
Frederick
Pearce
Sebeck
Opera House
Michael Strogoff
Jules Verne
News Briefs From Frederick May 16 1958
Short local items and notices appear in this Frederick edition dated May 16 1958. The page includes AP sourced dispatches and community notes typical of a Saturday issue.
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the News
Frederick
Associated Press
Ofice A
Frederick Ltd
Sereed
Mother Love in the Modern Age
The piece argues that mother love, while timeless as a protective and nurturing force, must now be intelligent and poised to guide future moral and material well being. It praises mothers advancing in shaping new lives amid rising human complexity and global progress.
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Chile
Letters To The Editor Express Appreciation And Critique
A collection of reader letters to The News includes thanks from the Maryland Division American Cancer Society for coverage of the 1958 Crusade and support for the society. Other letters praise the paper’s help with the Buddy Poppy Drive for veterans hospital work and challenge statements about Frederick County road plans and taxes with data correcting claimed figures.
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Maryland
American Cancer Society
John M. Nasit
Frederick
Frederick City
Newton D. Baker
Martinsburg
John R. Webb
Veterans OF Foreign Wars
Jane Dronenburg
James M. Dronenburg
Twenty Years Ago Items From The News May 10 1938
Local motorcycle mechanic Lionel L Burras escaped serious injury after a head on collision with a trailer truck on the National pike west of Boonsboro. Pollution from a spray killed thousands of fish for more than two miles in Bush Creek per a Game Warden investigation with local sportsmen. Salaries of colored public school elementary teachers in the county rise from 20 to 25 dollars a month starting next fiscal year. Commencement exercises in Frederick county high schools begin June 6. Frederick High School commencement in Tivoli theater June 3. End recruit training at Great Lakes as Rafe E Ledford and Lawrence L Michaels graduate May 3 after nine weeks of boot camp with full dress parade before officials and dignitaries.
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Lionel L. Burras
National Pike
Boonsboro
Bush Creek
Phobus
Frederick County High Schools
Frederick High School
Tivoli Theater
Great Lakes
Rafe E. Ledford
Route 1
Union Bridge
Lawrence, L. Michaels
Herbert E. Michaels
Whyte
Naval Training Center
Greats, Lakes
High School Seniors Stage Comedy Class Play
Frederick High School presents a crowd pleasing comedy into its annual class play featuring 28 seniors. The show centers on a murder mystery at a sorority house with Chief Whitmore and Joe solving the crime amid a host of colorful characters including Judith Wayne and pianist Val. Audience reaction ran strong with about 800 attendees enjoying the performance and its lively ensemble.
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Pat Rosencrantz
Whitmore
College Judith
Sassy Doreen Divine
Linda Sip
College Avenue
Rita
Marion Wol
Frederick High School
Audi
Torium
Jeanne Rabstein
Dean Olivia D. Ool
Tery
Mark Whitmore
Mark
Colyn Phillips
Joe
Mrs Grace Bream Dies in Gettysburg Convalescent Home
Mrs Grace Bream wife of John C Bream of Gettysburg Rt 2 died Friday at the Pape Convalescent Home Gettysburg R D where she had been a patient for the last four years Surviving are her husband a son and a daughter Mrs Philip Bower of Emmitsburg is a sister
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John C. Bream
Grace B. Bream
Gettysburg
Pape Convalescent
R. D
Philip Bower
Emmitsburg
Fort Detrick workers honored for suggestions and performance
Three Fort Detrick employees received awards in a ceremony at the Post Commander office. Lt. Col. Kenneth I. Bechtold presented Maurice K.R. Smith a 50 dollar special service award for internal spending controls. George W. Harris earned a 100 dollar sustained Superior performance award for field test operations. John Fleischman received a 15 dollar check for proposing a two name emergency contact list.
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Fort Detrick
Detrick
Kenneth I. Bechtold
Maurice KR. Smith
Smith
George W. Harris
John &. Fleischman
U. S. Arms Phot Marshal's Office
E. C. Hemby
Harris
FR. S. Hutton
Col. Bechtold
Fleischman
J. W. Titus
Senior class comedy charms townsfolk with lively cast
Margaret Jones as Phyllis Martin and Frank Meehan as Ken lead a strong ensemble in a humorous school production. Extras play cops as the show delivers broad laughs, with costumes evoking late era fashions. Curtain time 8 13 tonight. Director Anna May Hughes praised for guiding the cast to audience enjoyment.
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Margaret Jones
Phyllis Martin
Frank Meehan
Ken
Janet Poole
Nan Lillo
James Kefauver
Hap
James Remsburg
Phoenix
Wiliam Lerner
Romney
Irene Sheckles
Mosetta Veene
Edward Smith
Ben Cox
William Schroder
William Corbin
Charles Crothers
Ilocal
Anna May Hughes
Home Demonstration Week Celebrated in Maryland
Miss Beatrice Fehr reports Frederick County Homemakers and 34 4H clubs join National Home Demonstration Week May 4 to 10. Extension staff emphasize home economics education, community impact, and practical family living improvements through agents, clubs, and demonstrations.
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Beatrice Fehr
United States
Maryland
iMcKeldin
Paul Nystrom
University of Maryland
Evelyn Scott
Frederick County
Scott
Baltimore City
iHome
Funerals for Crone Cline and Lewis Held
Funeral services were held for Ralph M. Crone Sr. at Gladhill Funeral Home Middletown with Rev. George Klinefelter officiating. Interment followed in Reformed Cemetery Middletown. Pallbearers listed. Separate services for John C. Cline near Myersville were conducted by Rev. Raymond L. Markley with interment in St. Paul’s Lutheran Cemetery. Pallbearers named. Levin T. Lewis of Middlepoint also noted as deceased with services held.
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Ralph M. Crone Sr
Jefferson
Gladhill
Middletown
George Klinefelter
LeRoy Poffenberger
Amos Holter
John Holter
Elmer Mottern
Louis Kinsey
Harold Fogle
Reformed
John C. Cline
Myersville
Raymond L. Markley
St. Paul's Lutheran Cemetery
Frank Keller
Malcolm Palmer
Sylvester Summers
Clarence Gaver
John Langdon
John D. Mause
Paul F. Bittle
Levin T. Lewis
Middlepoint
Local hospital notes patients and recoveries in Frederick
Among the sick at Frederick Memorial Hospital several residents return from surgery or remain under care including Kathy Faye Flohr daughter of Mrs Pauline Flohr and Barbara Jean Wolfe who had tonsillectomy. Also James H Dayhoff and Mrs Jennie Derry receive visitors as they recuperate from operations. Robert L. Pendergratt of Brunswick Md, graduates from recruit training at Great Lakes May 3.
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Kathy Faye Flohr
Pauline F. Flohr
South
Jefferson Street
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Jennie Kidd Derry
Frederick
Calvary Methodist Cchurch
Derry
James H. Dayhoff
LeGore
Larry Forney
Claude Forney
Larry
Union Bridge
Harold EB. Rice
Mountainsdale
Great Lakes, Il
Robert L. Pendergratt
W. C. Street
Brunswick, Md
Naval Training Center
Great Lakes, Ill
Multiple Frederick area life events and notices
Local news notes several anniversaries births and visits. Merril Lantz and partner celebrate 24th wedding anniversary at Olivet boulevard. SS Yarmouth sails preparations with Boyer TravelAgency staff aboard. A2C Benjamin S. Runkles announces birth of daughter Chris Lin in Sacramento CA. Russell Strine and Peggy Burdette mark 40th anniversary. James Van Fossen and Peggy Burdette welcome second child Eldred Winfield in Hagerstown. Various residents travel to visit and ships and meetings listed. F. Gordon Sholes Jr will speak at Fort Detrick club on Vanguard flight control system with mechanical engineering focus. Laura Elizabeth Stupp born weighing 4 lbs 15 oz with parents Mr. and Mrs. George B. Stupp. R. A. Sullivan II turns 12 with Peter Pan Inn dinner. Mrs. Stanley R. Burns admitted for surgery, expected home soon.
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James van Fossen
Hagerstown
Eldred Winfield
Washington County Hospital
van Fossen
Peggy Burdette
Melvin Fout
Walkersville
Mr. van Fossen
Eldred van Fossen
Lindbergh Avenue
F. Gordon Sholes Jr
Glenn L. Martin Company
Western Maryland
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Fort Detrick
Vanguard
Sholes
George B- Stupp
Funer
Braddock Heights
Myersville
Robert L. Strickler
Laura Elizabeth
Beverly Feaga
Walter P. Feaga
Prospect
Also Mentioned on This Page
Delbert Smull
Board of County Commissioners
Heal Estate Board
Frederick Post
Planning and Zoning Commission
Null
State Tax Commission
Charles County
John BD
Leatherman Thurmon
Rt. 1
Judith
Wayne
Edith Whisner
Millard Eiler
Slovesi
Joes
Mary Elizabeth Storm
Lucille Norwaine
Terry Horman
Estort
Ernie
James Putman
Val
Pattie Kent
Minna
Richard Langley
Russel
Randolph Krantz
Billy
Grady
Cecelia Bear
Nydia
Noyes
Chris Whichard
Franklin Stockman
Lee Macon
Washington-Baltimore
Baltimore and Ohio
Lime
Carolyn Norris
Veyor Bell
Connie Cashour
Imperial Dam
Myra Sneadner
Colorado River
Libertetown
Libertytown Girls
Mildred
Shirley Williams
Ieifigla
Sevei
Million
Mea Baron Me
OGETX
Merril Lantz
Advunt Olivet Boulevard
Yarmouth
Washington
Paul Francoeur
N. C. Frazier
Eastern Shipping Co
Boyer Travel Agency
Ralph W. Boyer
Ernest Mort
Baltimore
Bermuda
Nassau
West Indies
Benjamin S. Runkles
McClellan Air Force Base
California
Sacramento Hospital
Runkles
Winter S. Runkles
Brunswick
Chris Lin
Russell Strine
North Market Street
Horace Reynolds
J. W. Donnan
Bettie May
Bernard Warren-feltz
Dill Avenue
Charles Mar
Albany
R. A. Sullivan II
Brinton E. Sullivan
New Market
Peter Pan Inn
Patricia Umberger
Dianei Brightwell
Dorothy Zimmerman
Nancy Watkins
Merilyn Pickering
Fauucaris Wee
Warrenfeliz
Paul E. Grossnickle
Upton Harp
R. Glenn Grossnickle
J. Frank Harshman
Upton W. Grossnickle
Stanley R. Burns
Towson
Union Memorial Hospital
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