Boon To The Blind device aids sightless readers
An account of a Kansas invention by M A McCollum and Ed Sexton that uses a four pound radio wave emitting device with earphones to sense nearby objects. McCollum, once blind since a bicycle accident, describes learning to walk again and hopes to help others with SITE backing. a brief note on Eisenhower veto vote context follows.
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Kansas
M. A. McCollum
Topeka
Ed Sexton
McCollum
Kansas City
KGNO
Dodge City
Sexton
SITE
Fifty Years Ago Items From The Columns Of The News
Fifty years ago items tell of Thomas Biggs 14 narrowly escaping a fall from a delivery wagon in front of Willard's groc ery. Dr Franklin B Smith and James E Solt making a record Stanley car trip to Gettysburg and back. Frederick waterworks finish cleaning the larger reservoir and turning water back in after 10 days pumping. Smaller reservoir work begins. A Lovettsville man dies from heart failure after 16 teeth extraction. Strawberries plentiful and streets selling at 6 cents a box.
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Thomas Biggs
Niles Abrecht
West Patrick Street
Willard
Franklin B. Smith
James E. Solt
Gettysburg
Stanley
Frederick
Lovettsville
Twenty Years Ago in the Columns of The News May 25 1935
Frederick county grand jury urges action against slot machines and gambling devices as Judge Urner backs suppression. Raymond Hyson named Carroll county schools superintendent. Eight occupants survive a rollover on Payne's Hill near Thurmont. Frederick High wins the 21st annual county track meet amid ideal weather with 4150 spectators and 4,150? bays noted.
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Igorgls
Frederick County
Grand Jury
Ludge Urner
Raymond Hyson
Bennetts Bennett Olsen Nuptials At Ev Angelical Lutheran Church
Miss Clarice Olsen and Thomas Mc Devitt Bennett wed in a two o’clock ceremony at the Ev ang Lutheran Church with about 80 guests. Rev. Charles F. Trunk Jr. officiated as William Spriggs provided music. The couple will reside at 1A Narva Avenue after June 2 and the bride will work as a stenographer for Ralph M. Parsons Co. of Frederick. Out of town guests came from Massachusetts Baltimore Philadelphia Waynesboro Mt. Airy Blue Ridge Summit and Highfield.
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Bennett
Everett Olsen
Thurmont
Richard Riktle
Smithsurg
Joseph E. Doll
Stanley ¥. Bennett
Thomas E. Olsen
Narva Avenue
Thuy ‘Mont High School
Ralph M. Parsons Company
Frederick
Frederick High School
U. S. Army
Maryland State Roads Commission
Massachusetts
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Waynesboro
Mt. Airy
Blue Ridge Summit
Highfield
Zonta Club Awards State Scholarship At Frederick High
Zonta Club voted to award a full state scholarship to a Frederick High School senior headed for Towson Teachers College. The announcement came at a Francis Scott Key Hotel dinner where Mrs Melvin Partridge spoke on birds, their markings, migration, and how to attract them while protecting garden birds.
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Zonta Club
Frederick High School
Teacher’s College
Towson
Mere Bartriden
Audubon
Family notices and births across Wisconsin and Virginia
Joseph T Griffin retires to his West Whukel Street home after weeks with his Navy family in Norfolk. Wellington Davis Jr visits grandparents in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, while his parents remain abroad. James Herbert Porter Jr born May 12 at Frederick Memorial Hospital weighing seven and a half pounds. A Blackfeet Nation powwow in mont opens with a wager on drilling success and a trader Mrs Morning Cun aims for royalties from a find.
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Jeseph T. Griffin
West Whukel Street
Joseph T. Griffin
Fort Benning
Wellington Davis Jr
Wellington Davis
Betty Jane Gosnell Davis
William Gosnell
South Market Street
van Davis
Clyde Snyder
Chippewa Falls
Wisconsin
Navy
Norfolk
Great Lakes
Claude Herbert Porter
Brunswick
James Herbert Porter Jr
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Porter
James Herbert Porter
Qs Eny
Ot Browning
Morning Cun
Rich
Emmitsburg High Plans June 10 Graduation Exercises
Plans are set for Emmitsburg High School commencement in the school auditorium Friday June 10 at 8 o'clock DST. Rev Charles F Trunk Jr will deliver the address to twenty graduates. The program includes invocations, glee club selections, orchestra performances, and the presentation of diplomas by Eugene W Prince. Senior officers, a senior play, and a public event are noted with multiple staff and student participants.
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Emmitsburg High School
Charles F. Trunk Jr
Evangelical Lutheran Church
Paul H. McCauley
Emmitsburg Methodist Church
Glee Club
Glee Club Will Be “Invocation,” Bortniansky
Brodsch
Trunk
Eugene W. Prince
Firestone
Hoppin
McCauley
James Fisher
Ruth Stull
Jack L. Wantz
Kenneth F. Glass
Jasper L. Wants
Charles F. Grimes
Arthur J. Demuth
S. Robert Hays
Hay W. Harner
Stanley H. Hartle
Marylanders Attend National PTA Meet in Chicago
Maryland delegates at the National Congress of Parents and Teachers gathering in Chicago include Dr. Benjamin C. Willis formerly Washington County superintendent and now in Chicago. Louise S. Walker of Chevy Chase and two others from Maryland are honored guests at events. Joseph A. Hunter, longtime Maryland congress leader, will co preside at tonight's session for delegates.
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Chicago IA
National Congress of Parents and Teachers
Maryland
Benjamin C. Willis
Chicago
Washington County
Louise S. Walker
Chevy Chase
Walker
Montgomery County
Hid
Fred JL. Bull
College Park
Stanley G. Cook
Library Services
Bull
Maryland Congress of Parents and Teachers
Cook
Maryland Congress
Joseph A. Hunter
Stenson
Naional Congress
Resion
Nashua Marches Ahead in Preakness Entry List
Nashua and Traffic Judge appear prominent as the Preakness Mullins unfolds with entries and last minute decisions. Trainers express disappointment over Thinking Cap’s prep finish while others delay final entry fees to Thursday morning. Fleet Path and Mon Merceau loom as potential gate starters amid widening field uncertainty.
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Baltimore
Nashua
Funt
Harry Clark
Christiana Stable
Thinking Cap
Frank Bonsal
Saratoga
J. A. Dabison
Rane
Ali
Duanteeath
Faris
Nashud
Swaps
Berby
Rex Elbworth
California
Nastia
Maryland Court to rule on governor filling two new judgeships
The Maryland Court of Appeals will decide if the governor can appoint two added judges in Baltimore after three supreme bench judges ruled the power exists. The decision follows a taxpayers suit seeking elections for the posts created by the 1955 General Assembly.
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Baltimore
Maryland Court of Appeals
Maryland
Supreme Bench
Court of Appeals
General Assembly
Emory H. Niles
John T. Tucker
Joseph L. Carter
Toit
King of Pinups Balks at Producing Records
Irving Klaw known as the King of the Pinups balked at producing business records for a Senate Kefauver subcommittee probe into pornography and juvenile crime. He called the subpoena vague and illegal, but Kefauver ordered his appearance with records as hearings resumed. The testimony listed over a million phonographs and stills tied to Klaw’s film material among witnesses subpoenaed.
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New York T
Senate
Irving Klay
King of
Sen
Kefauver
Dtenn
Klaw
Scar
Senate Judiciary Subcommittee
Willam Langer
R-Nd
Kelauver
Dedee
Erratic Local Notices From A Damaged Page
Fragmented report lists several patients and hospital updates including Mrs Margaret Walbott at Frederick Memorial Hospital undergoing emergency appendectomy and resting well. Mrs James Painter at her mother’s home in Martinsburg after thyroid treatment. Mrs Earl Harceptte in serious condition at Ward’s Hospital Baltimore. and a Detroit car crash involving Mrs Lipta ck.
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Charles 4
St. Thurmont
Newton LD
Baker Veterans Center
Martinaburg
Wo Ya
Margaret Walbott
East Sixth Street
Frederick Memorial Hospital
James Painter
Dunswick
Clem Datas
East South Street
Martinsburg
W. Va
Painter
City Hospital
Earl Harcett
Bigs Avenue
Ward's Hospital
Halthmore
Pate
Hebb Brunswith
iNew Books At Artz Library
New acquisitions listed include Onions in the Stew by Betty MacDonald detailing 12 years on an island in Puget Sound during wartime, McCall's Complete Book ofBazars with planning and craft guidance, Collected Poems by Edith Sitwell, Geopards in the Night by Guy Muldoon, Freedom Loyalty Dissent by Henry Steele Commager, Parkman Reader introducing Parkman's France and England in North America, Looking Beyond by Lin Yurang, and a memorial note about a closed Memorial Day. Memorial Day notices and Air Force training details for Airman Third Class Cha Warfield are also noted.
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Betty MacDonald
MacDonald
Puget Sound
McCall’s
Edith Sitwell
Guy Muldoon
Nyasaland
Henry Steele Commager
Parkman
Francis Parkman
France
Eng‘land
North America
Effert
Memorial Dar
ERS
AM Force
Cha Warfield
Joan OL W Woodbine
Mw Forvre
Sheppard Apr
Wichita Falls
Ter
Air Sheppard
Air Force
Air Foyya
Research In Agriculture by Roger W Babson
Roger W Babson discusses chemurgy and the shift from farming to industrial uses. He traces the National Farm Chemurgic Council to Ford and Garvan, notes the new Council for Agricultural and Chemurgic Research, and urges diversification toward new crops and marine studies to stabilize farm income and spur industrial raw materials. He highlights soybeans, timber bamboo, diospropia, castorbeans, cane crops, acerola, and enblica along with potential ocean resources for industry. He includes notes on Army recruiting and school attendance sections.
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Roger W. Babson
Babson Park
Mass
Dearborn
Michigan
Henry Ford
Francis F. Garvan
The
Chemical Foundation
Wheeler McMillen
Farm Journal
Chemurgic Council
Council For Agricultural and Chemurgic Research
Roger W. Sabson
Columbus
Ohio
Porto Rico
Hawaiian Islands
New College of Fisheries
Gloucester
Massachusett
Fin
Burne
Dope Violator Was Manager Dope Violator Was Manager
A pro boxing probe in Philadelphia centers on Harold Johnson's May 6 KO loss to Mederos amid doping questions. Witness James White, listed as Mederos’ manager, testified Louis Black formerly managed Mederos from 1953 until March, and that Black faced multiple dope charges. White claimed Johnson was drugged but fought hard, while commission doctors cited a barbiturate for the knockout outcome.
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Philadelphia
Frist
Julio Vederes
Iunerdag
Harold Johnson
Pennsylvania
Athletic Commission
Johnson
James White
New York
Miami
Mederos
White
Louis Black
Louis Saccarema
Black
Whites
Lewisburg
Adc Hetui
Uehlieve
Commission
Local Youth Places Third In Contest
ROANOKE Va May 24 Lara Baltimore youth won the oratorical contest and the international president spoke at closing sessions of the annual convention of 16th District Optimists at Hotel Roanoke Ray Harris 15 was top speaker among 493 youths who spoke on Freedom Our Most Precious Heritage Dennis Taylor of Towson Md was second and James Fox Frederick Md third Harris will represent the district at the international oratorical contest part of the convention at Montreal Canada June 28 29 and 30 Maurice Perkins of Louisville by international president declared normalcy is a myth times were never normal Speaking at the closing banquet he asserted every generation faces its own crises and every generation has a rendezvous with destiny Earlier in the day Russell R Rinetart an oil company executive of Washington DC was elected district governor to succeed Ralph B Bell a Washington dentist Dr Walter A Neil also of Washington was reelected secretary measurer
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Roanoke
Montreal
Canada
Maurice Perkins
Louisville
Russell R. Rinetart
Washington, D. C
Ralph B. Bell
Washington
Frank Thomas Battles Severe Batting Slump With Pirates
Pittsburgh May 23 Big Frank Thomas fights the worst batting slump of his major league career. He says timing is off and the illness may be a factor after losing about 12 pounds. Once a 23 homer man in 1934, he has two doubles and a triple this season with four RBIs.
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Pittsburgh
Frank Thomas
Todas
Pitsburgh Pirates
Pirates
Thomas
Rennie Smith Honored As Terps Star Athlete
Rennie Smith of Maryland was named the Maryland Ring winner as the top athlete for 1954-55. The lacrosse star scored 12 goals and assisted on 20, leading a list of 275 Spring letter winners. Burke L Wilson earned two awards including the Silvester Watch and the Evans Award. Charlie Wicker was the leading lacrosse scorer with 39 goals and received the Edwin E Parwell Trophy.
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College Park
Rennie Smith
Maryland
Lonight
Baltimore
Smith
Burke L. Wilson
Silvester Watch
H. K. Evans
Charlie Wicker
Edwin Epaweil
Maryland Lacrosse
Luf's Stuff TRUE STORY Tou use Wie way 4a, OL drive
Lufburrow argues work drives purpose and skill, praising honest toil. He insists people need meaningful labor to stay engaged, learn, and enjoy life, warning against idleness. The piece reflects a folksy, motivational tone from X. A. Lufburrow.
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X. A. Lufburrow
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