Park Leased With Right To Purchase At Braddock Heights
The Potomac Edison Company leases Braddock Heights Amusement Park to Ollie W. Rosenberry Jr. and wife with a $90,000 purchase option. The lease runs May 10 to September 30 1956 for 7000, with 3000 paid upfront and the rest due July 1 and August 1. The lessees must acquire Braddock Heights Water Company to exercise the option. land and facilities are restricted to recreational use. Other property like PE lines and the substation are excluded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Potomac Edison Company
Braddock Heights
Ollie W. Rosenberry Jr
Crew Court
Rosenberry
Braddock Heights Park
Thi
Guepecutda Dee Mdsenuens
William C. Humm
the Heights
Braddock Heights Water Company
Water Company
Yereverv Arerire
Rosenberrys
Frank A. Beachley
Guy J. Cramer
Jessor—Pe
Cramer
Bradforck
Sme Paal
Seek To Form Frederick Air Force Reserve Flight
Frederick County veterans are urged to join a new Air Force reserve airmen’s flight led by Lt. Alan W. Long of Frederick who will command. The group would meet twice monthly at Camp Detrick and offer three specialty fields administration, aircraft and engines mechanic, or supply. If enough qualified veterans sign up, the unit will form and meet for two hours twice a month in Frederick. Members receive base pay for meetings and credits toward promotion, retirement and longevity, plus uniforms. A two week annual active duty tour on full pay is required. First Lt. James Harris is handling inquiries and a preliminary meeting may be planned early next month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick County
Air Force Reserve
Cat
Alan W. Long
Frederick
Camp Detrick
Air Force
James Harris
Operation Fireball Demonstration Staged Sunday Countywide
Frederick county Civil Defense volunteers and auxiliary police will stage a large scale fire and rescue exercise Sunday. Communications volunteers will operate short wave radio networks across the county to relay messages after the alert sounding the start. Charles Main will assign police at the demonstration scene.
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Frederick County
Civil Defense Communications System
Civil Defense Communications
O 1 Defense Headquard
Freder
Charles Main
Festival Of Music Sunday At Woodsboro
Woodsboro Lutheran church hosts the annual festival by Wannlebara Flame Makers club with an eight o clock program. The Grace Evangelical Reformed church choir and local soloists perform under direction of Mrs Robert Russell and Rev Charles A Price. A reception and floral decorations follow in church social rooms with a committee of local volunteers coordinating arrangements.
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Lhe
Hlamemekers Club
Wannlebara
Woodsboro Lutheran Church
Richard Comstock
Elmer Highhouse
Robert Dorens
Charles A. Price
Grace Evangelical Reformed Church
Frederick
Robert W. Russell
Paul Strine
Ruth Stull
C.T. Stull
Quei
Artamicha Hawkins
Susig LeGore
Russell
Guartette
C. T. Stull
Edwin Free
Gordon Palmer
E. Koontz Heinig
Mary Alice Burvier
Charlotte Yarrell
Effie Fulmer
Paul A. Dinterman
James L. Fisher
Clara Green
William Stauffer
Fred Myers
William Brooks
William Smith
Daryl Hawkins
Macy Isabelle Griffith
Robert Russell
Robert Simpson
Carrol Zimmerman
Bernard Kelley
Steiner Smith
Carroll Wickless
Anna Cramer
Nina Anders
Gail Catshall
Glenn Lenhart
Oscar Barrick
Maurice Murray
Claude Barrick
Cash Smith
Nancy Seidel
Filtration System to Improve YMCA Pool Operations
The YMCA plans a new water filtration system for its pool to provide a constant flow of fresh water and automatic regeneration of filtration media. Current practice drains and adds chemicals by hand. the upgrade will keep water continuously fresh. Fundraising covered most costs, but several hundred dollars remain to reach the over $3,000 goal. After completion, a spring swim meet and a Learn to Swim campaign for Frederick children are planned. Residents may donate through headquarters at Church and Court streets.
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YMCA
Abin G. Quinn
Assurinnt
Frederick
Church and
Court Streets
Memorial Day Observance Honors War Dead by Vets Groups
Veterans organizations in the city collaborate for Memorial Day May 30 with Rev. Charles F. Trunk Jr. as principal speaker. Francis Scott Key Post continues grave decoration May 22, while multiple groups join the program at Mt Oliver War Memorial Cemetery beginning 2 PM. J Robert Edwards leads as general chair and a color guard, firing squad, and bugler will participate.
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Charles F. Trunk Jr
Evangelical Lutheran Church
Wal
American Legion
Legionnaires
Legion Home
East Church Street
Disabled American Veterans
Amvets
29Th Division Assn
William, P. Larkin Post
West Saints Street
Edwards
War Memorial
Mt. Oliver Cemetery
Trunk
Frances Spurrier
Legion
Kipling
Francis Scott Key
Jesse Ramsburg
Ed Wild
Areh Stee
Charles F. Corbet
115Th Infantry
Marian National Guard
Legion Auxiliary
Sons of the Legion
Frederick High Chorus Draws 1200 at County Auditorium
The Frederick High School auditorium overflowed with over 1,200 attendees for a two hour program by the Frederick County High School Chorus and district glee clubs. The combined 164 voices performed highlights from senior high schools across the county with parts by individual clubs.
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Frederick High School
AU Frederick County
Hgh School
Wood Cutter Charged With Starting Fire Near Caledonia Park
Samuel K. Christman of Fayetteville R D 2 a wood cutter was charged with starting a brush fire that burned about 400 acres of forest land near Caledonia State Park. He posted bond before Shirley J. Zarger justice of the peace. District forester Richard Dalton filed the charge and said Christman started the blaze to clear brush near his home. Dalton will seek about $1,000 in costs for fighting the fire.
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Chambersburg
Samuel K. Christman
Fayetteville
R. D
Caledonia State Park
Christman
Shirley J. Zarger
Richard Dalton
Dalton
Otal
West Backers Support Diem in South Vietnam Government
Paris reported United States France and Britain united in backing Ngo Dinh Diem as head of the South Vietnam government and offering Bao Dai a possible short lease on his job. They reportedly agreed to bring home French troops as training of the Vietnamese army progressed amid pending Saigon demands on troop placement at the 17th Parallel.
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Paris
United States
France
Britain
Ngo Dinh Bien
Bao Dai
Saigon
Diem
South Viet Nam
Geneva
al Tourane
Viet Nam
Cap St. Jacques
U. S
State Dulles
Edagar Faure
Maenid Vaemiilan
Five Naturalized At Hearings Held Here
Five Frederick county residents became citizens at naturalization hearings before Associate Judge Patrick M Schnauffer on Monday. Final papers were issued to Marie Louis Oxx Braddock Heights native of Reichstett France Michael George Zavis of State Sanatorium native of My Ukraina Viasta Anns wife also of State Sanatorium native of Pilsen Czechoslovakia Aladar Wroth Victor Cullen State Hospital near Sabillasville native of Sevlus Czechoslovakiat Springer Albert DePauw St Marys Seminary Emmitsburg native of Stekene Belgium.
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Frederick County
Patrick M. Schnauffer
Marie Louis Oxx
Braddock Heights
Reichstett
France
Michael George Zavis
State Sanatorium
My. Ukraina
Viasta Ann S
Pilsen
Czechoslovakia
Aladar Wroth
Victor Cullen State Hospital
Sabillasville
Sevlus
Forty Foreign Ministers May Attend U.N. Anniversary
The United States said up to forty foreign ministers may attend the ten year anniversary meetings of the United Nations in San Francisco. The U.N. has sixty member nations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Nations
San Francisco
U.S
U.N
May Day Weekend At Hood College Features Swimming And Riding
Public events include the Geet Open swimming and riding programs over the May Day weekend at Hood College. Friday night offers Time Splashes On at 7.50 and 8.30 pm in Hudson pool, with a repeat Saturday at 10 am. Riding Club's semiannual show runs Saturday 9 am to 1 pm on the north campus, led by president Miss Judith Kreider Annville PA, with about 30 riders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bood College
Risbane
Judith Kreider
Annville
Atrist Jordan
Hamang
George Urges U S To Take Initiative In Talks
Washington lawmakers press for strong initiative ahead of Big Four talks with Nikolai Bulganin. Senator George (D) Deal warns of a defeatist stance while Eisenhower signals potential top level discussions if foreign ministers agree. Kremlin disarmament plan hints at troop withdrawals and local police roles in Germany.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Nikolai Bulganin
Eulganin
Moscow
Canton
George ‘Deal
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
George
Britain
France
Russia
Geta
Bulgania
Bulganin
Formosa
West Germany
United Nations
Germany
United States
Western Europe
Far East
China
Europe
Communist China Pledges Aid in European War Threat
WARSAW Poland Communist China pledged to aid the Soviet Union and allies if war erupts in Europe. In Rome Palmiro Togliatti, the Italian Communist leader, was moved from Trieste to a railway hospital car and carried home by ambulance on a stretcher.
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Warsaw
Poland
China
Soviet Union
Togliatto
Rome
Palmiro Togliatti
Trieste
Lawmakers Study State Finances in Maryland 1957 plan
Maryland lawmakers began sizing up state finances for fiscal 1957 while fiscal 1956 starts July 1. A special Senate committee, led by Sen Northrop, will report next fall and work largely behind closed doors, weighing revisions to the Sherbow Plan, tax sources, and automatic raises for state workers and pensions. The Finance Committee backed a 50,000 long range study and proposed separate property assessment units with a Tax Court of Appeals, while hearings on insurance laws and wiretapping were set for later. The committees aim to meet on the eve of the next council session.
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Baltimore
Maryland
Legislative Council
Northrop D
Northrop Committee
Northrop
Legisative Council
General Assembly
Sen. Phipps
Anne Arunachel
del. Robinson
D-Batic
Phipps
Ful Council
Tax Court of Appeals
Department
State Tax Commission
Carl N. Everstine
Department of Legislative Reference
Department of Legislative Reference, Was Requested By (Ieuediciary
Droup
SHHAC
State Roads Commission
How They Voted Washington Postal Pay Conference Vote
The Senate approved the postal pay conference report by a 66 to 11 roll call. Democrats for the conference report were Frear of Delaware. Republicans for were Beall and Butler of Maryland. Republicans against included Williams of Delaware.
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Washington
Senate
White House
Delaware
Frear
Maryland
Beall
Butler
Wiliams
Congress considers standby powers for Salk vaccine controls
A congressional move gains momentum to authorise President Eisenhower to enforce distribution and price controls on Salk polio vaccine. Rep. Wolcott cites a compromise between voluntary guidelines and compulsory controls while Parke, Davis tests a refined vaccine in De Witt County Illinois amid public health inspections and rising vaccinated polio cases.
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Washington
Congress
Eisenhower
Wolcott Jr-Mich
Wolcott
House Banking Committee
Committee
Spence Day
Public Health Service
Parke, Davis and Co. Laboratories
Detroit
Leonard Scheele
Scheele
Banking Committee
Oveta Culp Hobby
Eduation and Welfare
Parke, Davis and Co
de Witt
Ferry Crash Toll Rises to 133 in Japan
Dozens of bodies, mostly schoolchildren, pulled from the inland sea as the Shinn Maru sank after a foggy collision. 775 rescued, 60 still missing. Parents and relatives converged on a temporary morgue seeking missing loved ones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sakamas SS
Japan
Dulles Puts Treaty Up To Russians
Vienna reports say four occupiers close to an Austrian independence treaty while Dulles hints a decision by the Russians within hours. A Vienna meeting with Molotov and potential plans for a summer summit of the Big Four hinge on treaty signature and a compensation dispute involving oil firms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
Paris
Dulles
V. M. Molotov
Dukites
Eisenhower
Nikolai Bulganin
Edgar Faure
Eden
Molotov
Polio Cases Rise Across Nation in Weekly Health Report
The Public Health Service logs 149 new polio cases for the week, up from the prior week and above the year-ago figure. Through May 7 total polio cases reach 1,601 nationwide with California contributing 27 cases, 20 paralytic, and 16 in Los Angeles County. Ten cases were in vaccinated individuals, nine paralytic.
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Washington
Public Health Service Today
California
Los Angeles County
Tree seller charged with selling rootless trees
SILvER SPRING Maryland Poolsville police arrested Stanley D. Tibbs 36 on a warrant from Mrs. Helen Lieberman for obtaining money under false pretenses by selling trees without roots. Lieberman bought trees from Tibbs who planted and watered them, then found sawed off ends when one was uprooted. Tibbs claimed he bought the trees from a truck in the South and did not know they lacked roots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silver Spring
Frederick County Holstein Sale Attracts Large Crowd
The 29th annual com mission sale sponsored by the Frederick County Holstein Association drew many buyers at the Fair Grounds. Eighty two registered Holsteins were offered for sale. A pre sale meeting at the Francis Scott Key Hotel drew an audience of over 200 persons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick County Holstein Association
Francis Scott Key
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