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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1960
Page
4
The Great Southern Pig and Mes. Co. of Frederick Missouri offers subscription rates for different periods and formats including single copies and mail options. The paper notes prices by month six months and yearly terms and mentions Associated Press membership.
A four page leaflet offers precautions for women and children to avert crime in the metropolis. Advice includes not advertising an empty home, canceling deliveries during absences, locking doors, using peepholes, not keeping spare keys, complying with robbers, not showing cash, and teaching children to report suspicious persons and use safe routes home. The piece emphasizes neighborliness but warns strangers may exploit trust.
A letter from Frank F. Figge, president of the American Cancer Society Maryland Division, thanks the News-Post for publicizing cancer facts and supporting research and education. The note credits the paper with reducing ignorance and fear surrounding cancer.
Pack 283 Good Shepherd Lutheran Church holds its monthly meeting with Den 1 and 3 set to vie in a field meet at Elm Street Junior High on June 18 at 2 p.m. A picnic will follow. Thomas Perry earns a Wolf badge. Rickey nee transfers from Pack 3655 Ravenna Ohio. Committee changes move to the second Thursday.
Miss Gertrude Hotaling from St. Joseph College Emmitsburg will attend Yale University Summer School of Alcohol Studies in New Haven Conn from June 26 to July 21. She is one of 15 Maryland attendees funded by state and local health departments to study prevention and treatment of alcoholism and to educate others about the facts of alcoholism.
A May 25 1910 column notes MR OTIS KEPLER bought a Buick car. An Ox Fibre brush works accident injured William Bruchey cutting two fingertips. Graduation exercises set for June 2 with lists of Girls' High and Boys' High graduates. A M N G Company will stage a sham battle at Monocacy on Gas House road with supper after. Liberty Town Fire Co elected officers for the year headed by President J Albaugh and Secretary W Curfman with a slate of trustees and directors listed.
Bo boulogne on the English Channel fell to the Germans as Allies face disaster with a shrinking ring around a trapped army. Henri Honore Giraud, French general, captured. Frederick precinct No 3 split for coming election. Community Chest short of goal by 1 886 of 16 550. Edgar Roderick of Walkersville wins Maryland Holstein trophy at 13th annual banquet. Brunswick holds one of its largest funerals for William T. James, former B and O YMCA secretary. many businesses closed for the service.
Lloyd E. Shuffstall, 51, sought in the killings of his wife Vera Rose and Harold DuPont, was captured after wounding himself. He was found in a wooded area near Cooperstown Pennsylvania with a lost part of his chin, after a 17 hour manhunt. He had been released from a mental institution a week earlier.
Frederick Memorial Hospital recorded births from May nineteen to May twenty three. Listings include the Schneider family’s second child Catherine Ann born Thursday to Mr and Mrs Hubert Schneider of Clarksburg, and several other families detailing names, locations, and birth days for Ricky Neil Ammendheuser, Eileen Juanita Turner, Sherry Lee Farmer, James Richard Deavers, Barbara Ann Frushour, Kathy Diane Stoner, Kristine Dee Koozer, and more, with mothers' maiden names noted where provided.
Mr and Mrs John Tyler of Taneyytown Road Emmitsburg announce the engagement of their daughter Deliliah Juanita to Charles Atle Fream son of Mr and Mrs Earnest Fream Taney Miss Tyler is a graduate of Emmitsburg High School class of 1956 and is employed at London Manufacturing Co in Emmitsburg Mr Fream is a graduate of Taneytown High School and is self employed as an egg hucker No date has been set for the wedding.
Mr and Mrs Harry F Rhoderick of Baltimore Life Insurance Co Frederick office joined top producers as guests at the Honor Club meeting held at the Park Sheraton in New York City. The three day trip rewards agents hitting sales quotas and 1959 records were set by many Honor Club members with 58 districts represented. Carlton J Brennan directed the local district office.
Clara Ingram Judson, age 81 and author of 79 children's books, died Tuesday. She was slated to receive the Laura Ingalls Wilder award from the American Library Association in June, the highest honor for a children’s author, an award given only once before.
In Bedham Massachusetts 75 year old Jesse Kettils of Walkersville and Eunice Gerloch wed after decades as friends. They met in 1927 in Bedham and after spouses passed, reunited last summer. The ceremony May 1 at St Johns Methodist Parsonage followed by a dinner hosted by the bride’s daughters. The couple honeymooned at Magra Falls visiting Buskirk and glassworks then returned to Walkersville for a second celebration. They will reside at 24 Fulton Avenue.
Magistrate Byron W. Thompson-Sod found three of four youths guilty of destroying property after a late Friday night crash six blocks behind them. Richard Saylor of Ladiesburg and James and William Underwood of Poolesville received suspended fines and 90 day jail terms, while a fourth suspect awaits juvenile court judgment. Defense motions for directed verdicts were denied and separate disorderly conduct charges were dismissed. The accident occurred as the vehicle they were in crashed.
Obituaries note Edwin F Geesey 90 of Woodsboro dies after extended illness at Woburn Nursing Home. Survived by two children, two grandchildren, great grandchild. Funeral at Woodsboro Lutheran Church with burial Mt Hope. Also Virginia Hewitt 35 of Barnesville dies in Frederick Memorial Hospital. Survived by husband Esti Hewitt and siblings. Charles R Young 78 of Bolivar dies at home after long illness. longtime B and O trainman and community leader. Services at Bolivar Methodist Church with burial at Fairview Cemetery. J Donald Eackles named funeral director.
Property damage at 212 East Patrick left a wooden porch in shambles and garbage cans overturned. D Ralph Zimmerman testified he was out of town during about 129 dollar vandalism. Nurse Helen Bowie identified James Underwood and William Underwood as suspects. They admitted presence at the Eagles Club dance but denied porch demolition. One threw a beer bottle near Bowie. others claimed only minor junking. Officers noted heavy drinking among several in the group.
Ralph W. Stauffer Jr led a meeting with Rear Admiral Allen G. Quynn and Daniel J. Thomas as speakers for a county building fund drive. A public information meeting for Walkersville Woodsboro residents is set for 7 30 tonight at Walkersville Methodist church with Hallar Best presiding. Hospital reps will speak and show slides detailing the program. Cecil Prince Charlotte editor dies after kidney operation.
Honolulu Star Bulletin and Honolulu Advertiser received by News and Post recount tidal waves that struck Hilo on Hawaii. Reports note 1:05 am wave at 400 mph, banner front pages, coast seismology alert, and comparison to the 14 year earlier disaster.
Irregular stock market activity in New York sees electronics and selected issues strong this afternoon. Trading runs heavy as favored issues gain 1 to 3 points while most key stocks show fractional gains or losses of about a point.
Bowers announces expansion of the Blue Ridge pre fabricated home plant featuring Douglas Fir framing and nationally known building materials. He claims construction costs run lower than comparable designs while maintaining quality. The program reflects strong dealer and buyer satisfaction as demand grows within a 300 mile radius of Frederick.
Funeral services were held at St. Josephs Catholic Church Emmitsburg for Grace Saffer 86 of 323 East Main Street Emmitsburg who died Saturday evening at her granddaughter Mrs Hemlers home in Oxford Pa Rev Father James Twomey officiated and interment followed in the new St Josephs cemetery Pallbearers were Warren Gelwicks John Lingg Henry Warthen Clarence Frailey Daniel Topper and John White
Miss Nena Derr turns 80 at home on Dill avenue while Albert Smith of West Seventh street nears 57. Andrew Brown marks 91 on Thurston. Marie Beail of Brooke Grove recovers in Damascus after surgery. Edward and Marie Long celebrate birth of daughter Marlene Elaine May 15 at St. Agnes Hospital with Longs’ parents Geraldine Runkles referenced.
Among The Sick Mr. Joseph Milton Tobery of East Eighth Street entered Johns Hopkins Hospital Baltimore on Thursday. The next day he had eye surgery and the latest report lists him as well as can be expected. Admissions during the past week include Mrs Daisy Birch Arlington Va Mrs Sophie Kemp 16 West Third Street Mr Charles Young Route 4 Frederick and Mrs Mattie Hartman of Pi of Rocks.
Hood College honors ceremony lists multiple scholarships and gifts. Jane Watterson of Shaker Heights presents a $500 class gift for the reading room, Jane Morgan of York announces a $2,350 endowment, and Dean Katherine Sherrill reveals numerous undergraduate and entering-student awards totaling support from Warehime funds, Lantz and Bertha McCall scholarships, and various named awards across disciplines and music.
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