Frederick papers report record first quarter circulation
The Frederick Post and The News combined tallied 19 163 paid copies for the three months ending March 31 1960 the highest figure in their history. ABC audited data show the gain over 1959 and 1959 fourth quarter subscribers with 8 885 subscribing to The News and 10 218 to the Post.
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Frederick Post
the News
Frederick Papers
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Audit Bureau of Circulation
Frederick
ABC
News
Post
Voting Age Population Grows Ahead of Election
The Census Bureau estimates 179,300,060 people were of voting age at year start, with 2.9 million added. In 1955 the election margin was 62,027,040 voters, about 60 percent of the age group. The coming vote could rise by about a half million, risking higher stay at home apathy.
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Census Bureau
Letters to the Editor Corrects Mental Health Campaign Note
A reader clarifies that Frederick County’s mental health drive is the sixth public solicitation, not the first. The letter credits past volunteers and explains this year’s effort is organized by the Maryland Association for Mental Health staff for broader county coverage.
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Frederick County
Mental Health Society
Election of Rev. Henri L. G. Kieffer at Evangelical Reformed Church
Fifty years ago this May 10 a morning election at the Evangelical Reformed church chapel chose Rev. Henri L. G. Kieffer as successor to the late Rev. Dr. E. BR. Eschbach. Seventy six votes cast, 73 for Kieffer with a motion to make the vote unanimous. S. S. Miller chaired, Charles F. Knock secretary, R. S. J. Dutr ow and Guy K. Moller acted as tellers. Kieffer, son of Rev. Dr. J. Spangler Kieffer of Hagerstown, previously led Mercersburg Reformed Church. Eschbach died before Kieffer’s duties began. Locust trees in blossom. Gist Blair of Silver Spring and Brainer D. Warner Jr. of Kensington seek Republican congressional nominations in the Sixth District. Simon Wastler of Frederick Brick Works suffered a broken leg in a clay-bank accident. 20 years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evangelical Reformed Church
Henri L. G. Kieffer
E. BR. Eschbach
Kieffer
S. S. Miller
Charles F. Knock
R. S. J. Dutrow
Guy K. Moller
J. Spangler Kieffer
Hagerstown
Mercersburg Reformed Church
Eschbach
Gist Blair
Sliver Spring
Simon Wastler
Frederick Brick Works
Brainer
D .H. Warner Jr
Kensington
Frederick
Commencement Speaker, Local Oath, and War Headlines
Dr Fred G Holloway will speak at Frederick High School commencement. John W Eldridge sworn in as Burgess of Myersville. Community Chest totals 1767 on first day toward 16550 goal. British French army mobilizes toward Belgium border as Nazi forces advance. Neville Chamberlain resigns. Winston Churchill appointed successor. German air assault lands troops in Rotterdam as Belgian forces clash with Nazis and raids injure children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred G. Holloway
Western Maryland College
Frederick High School
John W. Eldridge
Myersville
Paris
Neville Chamberlain
Great Britain
Winston Churchill
Rotterdam
Frederick Names James A. Bopst Regular Fireman Driver
James A. Bopst has been appointed May 1 and began active duty May 2 with Junior Fire Company No. 2 as a regular driver in Frederick City. Born June 10 1934, he is the son of veteran fireman William M. Bopst Sr. and the late Mrs. Bopst, and lives at 604 North Market Street. He attended North Market Street, St John’s Literary Institute, and earned a high school diploma via the U S Armed Forces Institute after eight years at Price Electric Corporation including two years in the Army. He is a bachelor whose hobbies include hunting and fishing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James A. Bopst
Frederick City
Bopst
William M. Bopst
North Market Street
St. John’s Literary Institute
U.S. Armed Forces Institute
Price Electric Corporation
Frederick
Post Office to Issue 117-Cent Regu lar Stamp in June
The Post Office Department will issue a 117 cent stamp of the regular series in sheet and coil from June 17 at the Santa Fe New Mexico post office. The turquoise stamp will be available for first day cancellations and four 3 cent stamps will meet the first class rate on covers. Mint unprecancelled stamps may be obtained from the Philatelic Sales Agency in Washington DC from June 18 to December 31.
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Post Office Department
Santa Fe
N. M
Philatelic Sales Agency
Washington
D. C
Onis
Weds Elvise Frizzell to Eaward J Wooden in Baltimore
Miss Elvise Frizzell daughter of the late Mr and Mrs Harry Frizzell becomes the bride of Eaward J Wooden son of Mrs Mary Wooden of Baltimore in Blessed Sacrament Church Baltimore. Rt Rev Roger K Wooden officiated. Reception for 350 at Carroll County Agricultural Center. They plan a two week trip to Chicago and the Middle West. They will reside in Mt Airy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elvise Frizzell
Airy
Harry Frizzell
Eaward J. Wooden
Mary Wooden
Baltimore
Blessed Sacrament Church
Roger K. Wooden
Lloyd Spencer
Maisie Byrnes
James Gosnell
James Gosnell Westminster
Allen Wooden
Edward Smith
Russell Wooden
Carroll County Agricultural Center
Chicago
Middle West
Mt. Airy
Mt. Airy High School
Westminster Coat Co
St. John’s the Evangelist
Baltmore
Smith's Transfer
Births Reported at Frederick Memorial Hospital May 3 to May 6
Frederick Memorial Hospital records show several births: Stanley Cash, Michele Lynn, Philip Craig, Kimberly Jeannine, Jo Ann, Margaret Christine, and Crystal Fay. Parents include Nusbaum, Comegys, Shafer, Hood, Kidd, Runxles, Marker. All births occurred around Thursday or Friday with mothers listed by maiden names.
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Frederick Memorial Hospital
Donald Nusbaum
Box 183
Westminster
Stanley Cash
Nusbaum
Patricia Wright
Eugene Comegys
Hyattstown
Michele Lynn
Comegys
Lulu Wright
Frederick
Calvin Shafer Jr
RFD
Middletown
Philip Craig
Shafer
Betty Nunemaker
Thurmont
Beverly Hood
Poplar Springs
Airy
Kimberly Jeannine
Hood
Betty Lamb
Woodbine
Gene Kidd
Shookstown
Jo Ann
Kidd
Roseanna Blank
Hann Charged After Rear-End Collision on East Street
Harold E. Hann of Myersville was charged with failure to reduce speed to avoid a collision after his car struck the rear of Samuel Contino’s car at the East Second and East streets intersection. Contino’s vehicle had halted for a traffic light. both vehicles were southbound. Officer J. Main Jr. investigated.
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Harold E. Hann
Myersville
East Street
Hann
Samuel Contino
Contine
East Second
East Streets
J. ¥. Main, Jr
Detrick Players Debut With Three One-Act Shows
The Detrick Players open their first season May 17 and 18 at 8 15 in West Frederick Junior High auditorium. The program blends Chekhov The Boor Kaufman If Men Played Cards As Women Do and Saroyan Hello Out There with Army scientists Hood College students and Frederick High School actress Linda Leopold in the title roles. Tickets from Berger's Book Mart Hood College Fort Detrick. 50 cent donation funds production costs.
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Detrick Players
West Frederick Junior High School
Anton Chekbov
George S. Kaufman
William Saroyan
Hood‘ College
Frederick High School
Chekhov
Kaufman
Saroyan
Army
Berger's Book Mart
North Market Street
Hood College
Fort Detrick
PFC
Carlo Grasso
Derrick Players
Grasso
Texas
Linda Leopold
Miss Leopold
Sidney Leopold
George Casavant
Waterville
University of Maine
Casavant
Jan Barfield
Asheville
S.C
William Frink
Bloomington
Lake Forest College
Illinois
Colorado State University
Pvt
Eugene Binder
New Brunswick
N.J
City College of New York
Rutgers University
Joel Middlecamp
Bethlehem
Charles Rapp
Fairbury
Minhlenberg College
Allentown
Illinois State Normal University
Information on Watkins Family Traces Frederick County Roots
Mrs Franklin Gladhill of Dalmascus, a granddaughter of William Watkins, a 1862 Frederick County Commissioner, shares details about his life. Born November 2 1792, Watkins married Henrietta Purdum in 1809. They had five daughters and one son, with Ellen marrying Jacob Pena and Lydia dying in her sixties. Watkins died January 26 1870 at 77, Mrs Watkins in 1833. The family lived at Watkins Mills near Monrovia, where Watkins was miller and county official. The mill remained in the family for two generations through John Watkins.
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Franklin Gladhill
Dalmascus
Wiliam Watkins
Frederick County
Frederick News- Post
William Watkins
Henrietta Purdum
Watkins
Ellen
Jacob Pena
Martha
Henry Wilson
Ann
Jacob Keller
Lydia
William Wilson
John
Maggie Fiood
Laura Victoria
Jesse Baker
Mr. Watkins
Gladhills
Mollie Baker
Franklin Gladwill
Galdwill
Radie
Hicks Bader
Emma
Charles Riggs
Evelyn
John Kelly
Frederick
Gladnik
Watkins Mills
Monrovia
W Frederick Honor List Released at West Frederick Junior High
The West Frederick Junior High honor roll released by principal Frank H. Lewis lists students making A or B grades across seventh through ninth grades. Selections include Ronald Crum, Sylvia Hanes, Judy Roberts, Sue Carol Adams, Barbara Bender, David Guggenheim, Kath y Idoine, and many more with detailed rosters for each grade. The item ends noting Korea inviting Eisenhower to address the National Assembly during his June 22 Korea visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Frederick Junior High
Frank H. Lewis
Ronald Crum
Malcolm Douglas
Galen Hahn
Sylvia Hanes
Donna Hargett
Carol Hughes
Susan Kran
Judy Roberts
Robert Russell
Melissa Salisbury
Judy Smith
Judy Stoner
Sue Carol Adams
Barbara Bender
Connie
Billy
Charles Bokesch
Gale Bowman
Galen Smith
Diedra Stevens
Jeanette Stup
Cathy Trunk
Robert Watkins
Judy Willard
Reseoul
Korea
National Assembly
Eisenhower
Community leaders named for hospital drive
Douglas Jr the president of the Women's Auxiliary Mrs Byron D White the first president of the Aushary W Jarhoe Grove the general chairman of the campaign Rear Adm Allen G Quynn the president of the hospital board of trustees and Mrs Paul S Michael the president of the board of managers are listed as key figures in the hospital fundraising effort.
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Francis Scott Key Hotel
William Schwab
George B
Obituaries From Middletown And Surrounds
Several local death notices report Mrs. Catherine R. Kepler 73 of Middletown died at Frederick Memorial Hospital. Services set at Middletown Lutheran Church with Rev. Albert Burkhardt officiating. Survives include two daughters Hilda Korrel and Ruth Schultz, a sister Emma Rudy, and five grandchildren. The body lies at Gladhill funeral home with calling after 7 p.m. Wednesday. services Friday at 10:30 from the funeral home and interment in the church cemetery. Also listed are Ruth G. Naille 38 of 469 West Patrick St. who died at Frederick Memorial Hospital. Survived by mother Mrs. Bertha Gaylor, two daughters Ruth E. and Mary Louise, two sons William D. and Donald L., two sisters Dora Thomas and Gay Houser, and a local funeral home service with calling after 7 p.m. today. services Thursday at 2:30 led by Rev. William A. Herpich. Interment Locust Valley Church of God Cemetery. Mazie Stanley Ward’s death at Raritan New Jersey is noted with funeral at Speers in Somerville, interment in Elizabeth. Mrs. Ira B. Tucker Cora Irene Tucker, 71, widow of Ira B. Tucker, died suddenly at home in West. Surviving daughters Arbutus Smith and Margie Clark, three grandchildren, ten great-grandchildren, sisters-in-law, and Church of God membership near Union Bridge. Funeral arrangements at Union Bridge funeral home with services Thursday at 1 p.m. at the Church of God, interment Mount Olivet Cemetery.
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M Beary Kepler
Catherine R. Kepler
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Singleton
Francis Shafer Remsburg
M. Henry Kepler
Middletown
Kepler
Middletown Lutheran Church
Albert Burkhardt
Hilda Korrel
David Schultz Jr
Frederick
Emma Rudy
Gladhill Funeral Home
Otlock
Lutheran Church Cemetery
Willie Naille
Ruth G. Naille
West Patrick St
Bertha Knndler Gaylor
Boonsboro
Daniel A. Gaylor
Ruth E
Mary Louise Nailie
William D
Donald L
Dora E. Thomas
Gay Houser
Williamsport
Gladhill
William A. Herpich
Locust Valley Church of God
Mazie Stanley Ward
Mazie Stanley
Raritan
N. J
Yellow Springs
John
Stella Cannon Fox
Charles Stanley
Catherine Slaktowicz
Alonza Fox
Landis Fox
Shookstown
Eldridge Fox
Cletus Fox
Speers
Somerville
Elizabeth
Ira B. Tucker
Cora Irene Tucker
Ira B
Roland Green
New Windsor
Florence Jones
Baltimore
Tucker
Church of God
Union Bridge
D.D. Hartzler and Sons
Mount Olivet
Charles Elise Linton
Fun Memorial Hospital
East Church Street
John F. Myers
Edgewood Church
Frederick Memorial Park
MR. Etchison and Son
Carlton T. King
North Market Street
Raymond E. Wilhelm
United Church of Christ
Clyde Lawson Jr
Exel Yingling
Sidney Michael
Howard Fry
J. Russell King
Curtis Zimmerman
Robert E. Dailey and Son
Emory Samuel Whipp
Lew
Ralph E. Goodsell
Funeral notices for multiple local residents
Funeral services for Charles Upton Mehring were held at Haugh's Mt. Zion Lutheran Church with burial in the church cemetery. Margaret V. Hope, Elise Linton, Julia Hershberger, Carlton T. King, William Paul Maloney Jr., Emory Samuel Whipp, and other local residents are noted with church or funeral home services, pallbearers, and interment details across Frederick area churches and cemeteries.
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Charles Upton Mehring
Haugh
Mt. Zion Lutheran Church
Willam M. Brown
Paul E. Freeman
Reginald Lowman
Fred Lieb
Keefer Martz
Hans Steffen
Ralph Stonesiler
Russell Blacksten
Margaret V. Hope
Fuss Funeral Home
Taneytown
Stanley B. Jennings
Lutheran Church Cemetery
Fred
Donald Garner
Richard Andrews
Paul Shorts
Charles Crowl
David Miler
Julia Hershberger
Hilton Funeral Home
Barnesville
Monocacy Cemetery
Bealisville
Local Couple Returning From Panama Canal Zone Visit
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Alderton and Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Alderton and son John, formerly of the city and living in the Panama Canal Zone since March 1957, return to the United States aboard the Pan Canal Lux-Liner Ancon. Disembarking in New York today they will visit Frederick before moving to West Hollywood Florida. En route they spent a day at Port-au-Prince Meiti.
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Dennis Alderton
C. W. Alderton
John
Panama Canal Zone
New York
Frederick
West Hollywood
Fla
States
Port-en-Prince
Meiti
Hospital admissions and license revocation report
Among The Sick Mr. Hansel E Hurst of 403 Elm Street entered Frederick Memorial Hospital as a medical patient early Sunday morning. Chester F Loy son of Mr and Mrs Charles R Loy Keymar re entered Frederick Memorial Hospital for further observation after bronchial pneumonia treatment. LICENSE REVOKED The license of Melvin Stewart Boyd s revoked Friday by the Department of Motor Vehicles.
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Hansel E. Hurst
Elm St
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Chester F. Loy
Charles R Loy
Melvin Stewart
Boyds
Department of Motor Vehicles
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Martinsburg
Grant Harman
Taneytoan
Annie Warner
Gettysburg
Charles Hall
Arthur Lowman
Earl Rice
Ili
Emmitsburg
Bertha Shockley
Donald Top
AAT
Western Maryland College Art Department
Louise Stapley
S Hare
Hoffa Field
Upen
Robinson Garden
New Market
Lorraine Dorsey
New London
James U. Bopst
Shoshana Gershom
Israel
United States
National Council of Jewish Women
Peter Pan Inn
Urbana
Abraham Solar
G. Arthur Wiles
Barbara Lee
Oscar F. Summers
Oscar
Summers
Tramsville
Byron Flory
Church of the Brethren
Patricia Heyde
Frostburg
Eugene E. Dorsey
Harmony Grove
Detrick
Boor
Anton Chekhov
Vanya
Lynn Smith
Kennett Square
Miss Smith
Stanley Levine
The
Bronx
Levine
Allen B. Dumont Laboratories
Clifton, N. J
Collins Radio Company
Burbank, Calif
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Wiliam Paul Maloney Jr
Ridgeville
St Michael's Catholic Church
Thomas H. Metzger
Joseph Brown
Wiliam Walker
Philip Stack
Francis Buckley
Gordon Umstead
Arthur R. Griffith
Ft. Detrick
Pine Grove Cemetery
Abr. Olin L. Molesworth
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