Frederick set to issue bonds to fund city projects
Frederick plans to issue 2 million dollars in bonds this summer to finance public works and repay 164 thousand in principal this year, reducing outstanding debt to 2.325 million. Mayor Ramsburg cites a favorable bonded debt ratio and a tax assessable base of 58.6 million, with several 1920s issues nearing liquidation.
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Frederick City
Fishing Creek
Lanner
Singapore
Jacob R. Ramsburg
Man Taken After Self Harm Attempt In Frederick
A 31 year old man William F. Boyer of 200 block East Patrick Street was taken to Frederick Memorial Hospital after cutting both wrists and knees in what police described as a suicide attempt at his home. He was listed in satisfactory condition after treatment. Sgt. Harry L. Quine and Sgt. William Boone investigated.
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East Pattrick Street
Wiliam EF. Boyer
East Patrick
Boyer
Frederick Memorial Hospital
United Ambulance
County Roads Board To Open Bids June 8
Frederick County Roads Board will open bids June 8 at noon for two federal aid highway contracts. One seeks to complete the Maryland 144 Old Annapolis road link with 397 miles of paving and grading from Plane No. 4 to Old Annapolis road. The other calls for 0.966 miles of grading and macadam on the Hesson Bridge road from the Little Hunting Creek bridge northerly toward Catoctin Furnace. County crews have macadamized about a mile on John Kinne Road and half a mile on Hayward Road, completing more all hard surfaced highway links. Grading continues on Schrover-Black Road, Linthicum Road, Nicholson Road, and other sections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick
Maryland
Annapolis Road
O. Wilson Rankles
Annapolis
Prospect Road
Woodville Road
Hesson Bridge
Little Hunting Creek
Black's Mill
Catoctin Furnace
Br. Bunkies
John Kinne
Wolfsville
Smithsburg
Hayward
U.S. 15
Harmony Grove
Opossum
Bridge
Frederick Road
Glade Road
Middletown
Hyattstown
Haugh’s Church
Ladiesburg
Train Hits Car Killing Six Teens Near Shelbyville
A Louisiana bound Illinois Central passenger train struck a car at an unguarded crossing in the Mattoon area. Six students were killed and two injured. Victims identified include Jerry Hill 18 Eileen Moon 16 Judy Keen 18 Loraine Pfeiffer 18 Lisle Pfeiffer 18 all Shelbyville residents and Jerry Hays 19 of Woodlawn.
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Maticon
HI API
Illinois Central
Louisian
Chicago
New Orleans
Cham ‘Paign
Mattoon
Ilinois
Coles County
Jerry Hill
Eileen Moon
Judy Keen
Loraine
Lisle Pfeiffer
Shelbyville
Jerry Hays
Woodlawn
Shelbyvile
Short Course registration tea to recruit county delegates
On May 27 a tea hosted by Mrs Renn at her Salaudo Farm home near Adamstown will promote the 3rd annual Short Course for county women. Aim is to recruit 40 delegates for College Week at the University of Maryland June 15 to 20. Tea runs 2 30 to 3 30 PM with ghostesses from homemakers clubs and information on college club cheek. Deputies from multiple clubs and counties will help staff the event.
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Mirs
Austin
Bean
Sear Adamstown
F. J. Cook
University of Maryland
Renn
College Club
Cook
Frederick City
Washington
Wilson el ‘Kins
Nation Eyes Steel Wage Talks Amid Wide Economic Signals
As steel wage talks unfold, President Eisenhower tours New York while White House remains hands off. Bank rate hikes lift prime at 4.25 percent, signaling cautious optimism. Industrial output hits a record, housing and employment surge, auto production nears 1959 highs, and weekly stock and bond activity show notable gains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Steel
Eisenhower
David J. McDonald
United Steelworkers
White House
Wall Street
Goslow
Federal Reserve Board
Two Deadly Fires Claim Nine Lives Across Missouri
In Riverview near St Louis, the Bennett family perished in a house fire. Police say smoke inhalation was the cause. In Neelyville, four Wray children were killed when flames consumed their frame home while Mr. and Mrs. Wray and another child escaped.
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ST. Louis
Neelyville
St. Louis County
Robert Bennett Sr
Lawanda
Dianne
Robert Jr
Sherry
Riverview
Mississippi River
George Whieffler
Charles L. Wray
Zucson
Ariz
Michael
Charles
Margie
Joyce
Watered Oysters Firm Fined for Violations in Maryland
U S District Judge Roster C Thomson fined Lawson Oyster Co and owners Horace Cameron 37 Norman E Lawson 68 in Baltimore area for watering oysters The government sought 1000 The court cited tough times in the oyster industry FDA inspectors found oysters left in water longer than the 30 minute limit at packing operations
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Crisfield
U. S
Roster C. Thomson
Lawson Oyster Co
Horace Cameron
Norman E. Lawson
Willam J. Evans
Thomson
Food and Drug Administration
Yankus Family Moves to Australia After Farm Sale
Stanley Yankus and his family head to Australia after selling their Dowagiac poultry farm to pay a government wheat overproduction fine. He said the move is not pleasant as they transfer to a train in Chicago and plan to sail from San Francisco on Monday with their three children bound for Australia.
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Australia
Chicago
Stanley Yankus
Austtralia
Midh
Yankus
San Franncisco
San Francisco
Soviet Bloc Officials Circling Latin American Talks
At the U N economic conference in Latin America representatives from the Soviet bloc mingle and promote trade. Soviet ambassador to Mexico Vladimir I Bazikin works behind the scenes drawing notice for expanding Soviet trade interests in the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panama
Latin America
Mexico
Vladimir I. Bazikin
Soviet Union
Frost Fails to Grip County as Cold Lingers
Frost escaped the county with readings around 26 to 30 degrees while Unionville reported no frost. State Police barracks logged 41 and dew formed. Some residents protected tomato plants as forecasts warned of colder weather tonight and a warmer week ahead.
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Tne County
Unionville
Lutheran S S Convention Draws 200 From Several States
About 200 Lutheran Sunday School workers, officers, teachers and students gathered at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Maryland for the 35th annual convention of the Western Conference Evangelical Lutheran Synod. Sessions covered officer elections, workshops on teaching, and devotions led by Rev. William E. Ervin Jr. from Lineboro Parish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lutheran Sunday School Association
Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Maryland
Good Shepherd
Carroll L. Boyer
Tobias E. Zimmerman
J. Frank Fife
Baltimore
the Mary
Synod
Donald M. Lantz
William E. Ervin Jr
Vanctor
Lineboro Parish
Frederick
Carroll
Washington
Allegany
Martinsburg
W. Va
Lovellsville
Waynesboro
Allard Stail- Smecht
Hagerstown
J. Arthur
Throne
Mervyn C. Fuss
Taneytown
Frances Adalt
Middletown
Sarah Leiter
Stanley B. Jennings
Ronald Fearer
Lilord H. Seiler
Silver Run
M. L. Zirkle
Burkittsville
Henry K. Brown
Woodbine
E. Koontz Helwig
Walkersville
Barron B. Maberry
Upperco
Earl G. Creps Jr
iSupt
Eugene A McVicker
Thurmont
James H. Close
Frostburg
Robert N
End
Rey B Kiser
Shex
Trea
Roland A. Ries
Belamere
Michael W. Kretsmser
Loveitsy
En Edmund Macges
Cumberland
Give D Alesandro Cadillac For Farewell
Outgoing Baltimore Mayor Thomas D Alesandro received a Cadillac de Ville with a 195% model year and a 1937 license at a luncheon. Friends also presented a year of free insurance from D Alesandro Insurance Co and a $200 gasoline certificate along with a service policy and a gold cigarette lighter.
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Baltimore
Thomas D’alesandro
D'Alesandro
Cac
D'Alesandro Insurance Co
Girl Injured in Auto Crash in Hagerstown
Barbara Ann Grant, 19, of Hagerstown, suffered a compound skull fracture and facial lacerations when the car driven by Gerald G. Brendle, 31, struck a power pole on West Patrick Street near West College Terrace at 12:35 a.m. Brendle was treated and discharged. he faces reckless driving charges after the crash.
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Hagerstown
West Pat Iick Street
West College Terrace
Barbara Ann Grant
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Gerald G. Brendle
Hagrstown
Guy Himes
West Patrick
Patrick
Himes
Brendle
Donald E. Smith
Thurmont
RFD 1
North Market Street
Fourth Street
Smith
Market Street
Noan King
Mt. Airy
Dil Avenue
Norman Trump
Wo Alesis Om Motor
Trump
James A. Jefferson Jr
Frederick
West al Saints Street
John A Harpold
Adamstown
Almost Planted Herself on Hollywood Cliff
Hollywood resident Erna Tanner tried to plant geraniums on a 100 foot cliff behind her home. She ended up dangling, tying a rope to a car bumper, and clinging for 45 minutes before firefighters rescued her. In San Francisco four people jumped or fell from high places. a fifth was pulled from a 16th floor ledge in Oakland, with three killed and one critically injured.
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Hollywood
Erna Tanner
Hollywood Hills
Frisco
San Francisco
Bay
Oakland
Dulles Kin Gather in Washington as Illness Worsens
Washington AP John Foster Dulles is gravely ill with cancer spreading through his body and a mild pneumonia. His wife and brother Allen Dulles head the CIA join three children and three sisters at Walter Reed as doctors report a decline in his condition. Dulles was hospitalized February 12 after a cancerous colon growth. the cancer was found to have spread during a February hernia operation. Pope John XXIII officiated at the royal chapel in Vatican Palace weddings for his nephew Flaviano Angelo Roncalli to Maria Galimberti, the first marriage performed by the Pope since his election.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
John Foster Dulles
Allen
Central
Inttelligence Agency
State Department
Lincoln White
Dulles
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Vatican City
John Cxeit
Flaviano Angelo Roncalli
Vatican Palace
Maria Galimberti
Western powers seek separate talks on Berlin crisis
Western diplomats hoped for a separate Berlin discussion as the Big Four stalled on a package for Germany. Gromyko and foreign ministers remain in Geneva, with Western plans to merge West and East Berlin rejected. Secretary Herter heads to Rome, de Gaulle to Paris for talks.
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Geneva
Berlin
Germany
West Berlin
Soviet Union
Christian A. Herter
Rome
Maurice Couve de Murville
Paris
Charles de Gaulle
Andrei A. Gromyko
Selwyn Lloyd
Gromyko
Kremlin
East Berlin
Important Changes Made In Motor Vehicle Laws
The 1959 Maryland motor vehicle acts set numerous changes including a new point system for license suspensions effective December 31, 1960, higher oversize vehicle permit fees, and allowance for local authorities to regulate pedestrian signals. Other provisions address plate sales by county treasurers, exemptions for congressional members, school bus laws in towns, and financial responsibility rules.
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Marsland
Astate Department of Motor Vehicles
Fred County
Congress
Maryland
Chanter
State Roads Commission
Financial Responsibility Division
Department of Motor Vehicles
Baltimore City
Frederick
Frederick City
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National Broadcast Co
SBC
Clarence McLeod
Detroit
Clarence J., McLeod
Ineoamanien
County Roads Board
Big Banks
Mrs. Wray
Toni
TUS
TORYO
Communist
China
Peiping Peoples Daily
United States
Indochina
Peiping
Ae Nroing Canthaset
Ali Ghan
Ali Ghan Temple
Boumi
Kena Temple
Alexandria
Nemesis Temple
Parkersburg
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
South Hagerstown High School
U.S
Seoul
Viet Nam
Man Rhee
Cambodia
South Korea
Laos
Manila
SEATO
Paoli
Lutheran S.S. Meeting
Good Shepherd Church
D’ Alesandro Cadillac
Big Four
Newspap
Raphe
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