Plan to Improve Mail Service Shifts to Local Decentralization
Alfred J. Dumas outlined Post Office measures to decentralize operations and boost efficiency, proposing regional offices, streamlined procedures, and a modest rate increase to cut a $727 million deficit. The plan includes out of town letter rate rises, third class boosts, and local postmaster empowerment to speed up service. Lions and guests attended the Francis Scott Key Hotel briefing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick Lions Club
Post Office Department
Alfred J. Dumas
Washington
Post Office
Francis Scott Key
Dumas
Lion James A. Grove
Frederick
Lion George W. Trout
Noel H. Gross
Mr. Dumas
Summerfield
District of Columbia
Bureau of Budget
Congress
Postal Service
Bureau of Personnel
Civil Service Commission
William Driscoll
Boston
Mass
George W. Owing
North Beach
Nicholas Stuart
Gettysburg
Ray Dinterman
Walkersville
W. A Startzman
Jack Jamison
Hagerstown
C. C. Fishpaw
Proclamation On Armistice Day Issued
President Eisenhower urges Americans to renew dedication to permanent world peace on Armistice Day. He notes the 35th anniversary of WWI’s end and recalls battles from Chateaubriant to Iwo Jima. Flag display on public buildings is ordered for Armistice Day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Eisenhower
Chatea- Thierry
Saint Mihiel
The
Argonne
Omaha Beach
Anzio
Iwo Jima
Heartbreak Ridge
First Gift For 54 Polio Fund Is Made
Frederick Chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis elected officers and received the first contribution for its 1954 March of Dimes fund at an YMCA meeting. Sub-teen solicitors sent 10.25 by trick or treat letter honoring George B. Stup, a polio patient from Baltimore. Officers include Alton Bennett as president and Roger R. Rice as treasurer. Helen Hayes opened the meeting with a film. state officials urged immediate funding for polio research and vaccine efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George B. Stup
Baltimore
David Schoolman
Karin Larsen
Robert Meintzer
Richard Zimmerman
Marjorie Towson
Jo Ann Wilson
Elizabeth Towson
Lawrence Miller
Sharon Miller
Woody Miller
Penelope Owen
Lyne Remsberg
Dinah Schoolman
Ann Zimmerman
Brian Zimmerman
Roger R. Rice
Alton ¥. Bennett
Maud L. Kefauver
Arthur H. Lambert
Hazel Lewis
Women’s Committee
Helen Hayes
Infantile Paralysis Foundation
Catherime C. Gaule
John S. Gardner
National Foundation
Smokehouse Fire Damages Thurmont Plant and Property
An explosion and fire damaged a smokehouse in Howard F. Late's Thurmont meat plant about 5:30 pm Thursday. Loss included 40 hams and 40 shoulders. total damage $1,000 to $1,200 insured, with $500 to meat. Firefighters contained flames with booster lines. later another blaze on Fry property burned about an acre near Payne's Hill, likely sparked by nearby construction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard F
Thurmont
Guardian Hose Company
Guardian Company
Payne's Hill
Youth Groups Join In Tree Planting Program
The Future Farmers of America chapter at Middletown High School and the Mt. Pleasant 4H Club join the Frederick Forestry Conservancy District fall program. Middletown FFA will plant about 1,400 white pine and yellow poplar trees on an abandoned W. W. Welfe pasture near Myersville under adviser Louis Ahait. Mt. Pleasant 4H Club will plant about 1,000 white pines on E. W. Mc Devitt’s Lewistown farm. Frederick High School FFA plans 2,000 trees on Mrs. Edward J. Cunningham’s farm. Planting follows a dry spell break. weather will influence progress. State forest and soil districts provide planting machines. end-of-week orders needed to obtain stock from the state nursery for fall planting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Future Farmers of America
Middletown High School
Mt. Pleasant 4H Club
Frederick Forestry Conservancy District
Middletown Ffa
W. W. Welfe
Myersville
Louis Ahait
FFA
Mt. Pleasant
E. W. McDevitt
Lewistown
Frederick High School
Edward J. Cunningham
State Department of Forests, Land Parks
Frederick and Catoctin
Gifts For Korean Orphans Sought By Former Resident
2nd Lt James L Myers of the 167th Transportation Truck Battalion in Korea asks for gifts for 28 boys and 67 girls aged 3 to 17. Nonperishable foods clothing and soap are needed with gifts mailed before November 15 to Lt Myers APO 973 care of San Francisco Postmaster. Do not send money or checks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James L. Myers
Korea
167Th Transportation Truck Battalion
U. N
America
San Francisco
California
United States
Lt. Myers
John Richardson
Frederick
Harry XK. Shaffer
Dill Avenue
Baltimore City College
St. Myers
University of Virginia
ROTC
Phi Beta Kappa
Sigma Chi Fraternity
Carroll Wickless
Charles Cole
John Wickless
East German Secret Police Roundup Seizes 100 Suspects
Berlin reports reveal the Soviet zone secret police captured at least 100 East Germans over a new roundup of spy suspects. Erich Mielke claims those seized work for the West German Republic and the American counter intelligence corps, armed with transmitters and secret instructions. The move follows recent death sentences and long terms for spies, amid flights of Czechs toward West Berlin and rising anti Communist tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Russian Zone
Erich Mielke
Mielke
Nation's atomic energy show to open in Hagerstown
The U S Atomic Energy Commission and Oak Ridge Institute bring a free exhibit to the National Guard Armory in Hagerstown on November 11 to 13. With more than 30 sections, it features an atomic furnace splitting uranium, radioisotope production, a radioactive dime demo, and a Van de Graff electrostatic generator by Dr Robert Van de Graaff of MIT.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Guard
Hagerstown
U. S. Atomic Energy Commission
Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies
van de Graff
Robert 3. van de Graff
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Boyds Man Burt Earl Gue Rushed After Auto Crash
Earl Gue, 52, of Boyds, was taken to Frederick Memorial Hospital by Hyattstown Fire Department ambulance around 2:20 PM Friday after a daytime auto accident. He was admitted for X rays with serious pains. injury extent undetermined. Montgomery County Peace Rockville had no accident record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
BOYDS
Burt Earl Gue
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Hyattstown Fire Department
Montgomery County Peace
Rockville
Frederick Hears Dr Abel Wolman for City Water Study
The Frederick Board of Aldermen approved hiring Dr Abel Wolman of Johns Hopkins to conduct a $5,000 general survey of the city water supply. The study will assess current and future requirements, potential sources, metering value, and a long range development plan, with completion expected in about two months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Aldermen
Abel Wolman
Baltimore
Frederick
Donald B. Rice
Wolman
Department of Civil Engineering
Johns Hopkins University
Singapore
Camp Detrick
Whitman, Reynardt and Associates
Middletown Valley Grange forms and events noted
The Middletown Valley Grange held its meeting with the local FFA Chapter in charge led by Wayne Guyton. Six FFA members pledged, a recording was played, and Carrolee Zecher reported on the National FFA convention. Next meeting November 12 to choose 1954 leaders. Pomona meeting at Adamstown includes state quarter contest with Howard County guest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middletown Valley
Middletown Valley Grange
Wayne Guyton
F.F. A
Carrolee Zecher
F. A
The
Grange
Adamstown
Howard County
Frederick County
Walkersville
Vishinsky Charges U S Preparing For New War
At the United Nations Vishinsky charged the United States bases its policy on battalion numbers and is preparing a new war with mass destruction weapons. He urged the Disarmament Commission to pursue armament cuts and an international control body, arguing for base liquidation and end to the arms race. Sir Selwyn Lloyd condemned Soviet propaganda and failure to engage in genuine negotiations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Nations
N. Y
Russia
Andrei Y Vishinsky
United States
Soviet Union
U. N. Assembly
Vishinsky
U. N.disarmament Commission
Sate Selwyn Lloyd
Report Police Pacume Cause Of Workers Death
Autopsy on Ralph W. Elbert 24 a former Ralph M Parsons Co employee at Camp Detrick shows death from poliomyelitis pneumonia. Findings announced by Dr Joseph Vieter and Dr Thomas W Green Sr of Detrick. Elbert father of two resides in Mt Airy Ged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph W. Elbert
Ralph M. Parsons Co
Camp Detrick
Joseph Vieter
Thomas W. Green
Detrick
Elbert
Mt. Airy
Frederick Church Women Observe Community Day
Frederick Church Women joined in World Community Day at Trinity chapel on Friday at two p m sponsored by the Frederick Council of Church Women. Devotions led by president Mrs F P Brose featured speaker John Hilberly from New Windsor. He cited Luke 4 18 20 stressing deeds of kindness and peace through goodwill. Soloist Robert Woodward sang Rest in the Lord with George T Schroeder Jr at the organ.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church Women of
Frederick
Trinity Chapel
Robert Woodward
George T. Schroeder, Jr
Raymond Wilhelm
National Assembly of United Church Women
Atlantic City
Paul L. Althouse
Autos Damaged In Two Vehicle Collisions
Several hundred dollars in damage resulted from a rear end collision Friday about 1 45 involving a 1953 Plymouth driven by Nikki Smith of Damascus struck in the rear by a 1948 Chevrolet sedan driven by James E. Scott of Rockville. State Trooper James Browning investigated. On Thursday evening about 5 40 on Route P near New Market Thomas Leon Trippitt of Annapolis sustained a fracture of the right arm after his eastbound car stopped to turn left and was struck by a vehicle driven by John R. Bringhurst Jr of Charles Town WV. Trooper Browning investigated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plymouth
Nikki Smith
Damascus
James E. Scott
Rockville
James Browning
Smith
New Market
Thomas Leon Trippitt
Annapolis
Trippitt
John R. Bringhurst, Jr
Charles Town
W. V
Browning
Egypt officer jailed for 15 years in corruption case
In Cairo, Col. Abdel Ghaffar Osman was sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment on charges of corruption and conspiracy to supply the Egyptian army with defective weapons during the 18 Arab Jewish Palestine war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cairo
Egypt
Revi Coust
Col
Abdel Ghaffar Osman
Street Pattern Given Approval in West South Extension
Final inspection by Bureau of Public Roads State Roads Commission and city officials found the West South street extension from Jefferson to West College Terrace satisfactory. The one way east west system will activate, with parking changes on Franklin and Hamilton streets and curb widening at Hamilton and Patrick streets. City and state engineers attended with Mayor Donald B. Rice and board members Emmett R. Bowlus Clyde M. Roney Dorsey F. Shipley and Allen G. Quynn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West South Street
Jefferson Street
West College Terrace
Bureau of Public Roads
State Roads Commission
Donald B. Rice
Board of Aldermen
Reads
East South
Wisner
Hamilton
Emmett R. Bowlus
Clyde M. Roney
Dorsey F. Shipley
Allen G. Quynn
Franklin Street
South Street
Patrick Street
Hamilton Avenue
Patrick
Patrick South
Rice
Patrick Streets
Hamton
Silas Koons
Mr Hill
W. Raymond Waller
William Selzer
Actress wins $17,375 over Waldorf Astoria luggage sale
Hungarian actress Francisca Gaai won a New York Supreme Court verdict for 17,375 after the Waldorf Astoria auctioned her 15 trunks for unclaimed baggage. She claimed trunks held handmade nightgowns and gowns. the hotel says sale complied with law and netted 493.50 at auction. Meanwhile bridge groups from Welcome Wagon Newcomers Club held meetings with winners named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Waldorf- Astoria
Francisca Gaai
Europe
Supreme Court
Miss Gaai
Hotel
Auto wreck case seeks $100000 in damages
Bethesda man dies in December crash on Route 40. State of Maryland suit on behalf of widow Mrs. Rona E. Maness and infant Maureen Maness names Seyler Lumber Co. Bluefield Virginia James E. Fields West Graham Virginia and Austin C. Murray Lime Kiln as defendants. Accusation says tractor trailer slowed causing Maness to collide, then hit by Murray. Suit filed by attorney Robert E. Clapp Jr. on behalf of the survivors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State of Maryland
Rona E. Maness
Maureen Maness
Troy L. Maness
C. L. Seyler
Seyler Lumber Company
Blue- Held
James E. Fields
Weat
Graham
Austin C. Murray
Maness
Poplar Springs
Fields
Seyler
Murray
Gong West
Bethesda Jraan
Robert E. Clapp, Jr
Frederick Community Chest drives past halfway mark
Frederick community fundraising shows $21,433 raised toward a $37,000 1953 goal. General chairman Byron Thompson urges prompt reporting and rapid completion of contacts as 50 percent of quota is reached, with committee totals from Special Gifts to Outlying showing varying progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick
Richard F Krline
Samuel W. Barrick
Ernest A. Dettbarn
Melvin H. Derr
James Fraser
James H. Falk
W. D. Morton
Guy Kelly
Harold _ E. Schaden
Claude de Lauder Jr
Richard E. Zimmerman
Community Chest
Thompson
Ward C Haffner Found Dead In Hanover Hotel
Ward C Haffner aged 79 prominent Hanover Republican died Thursday night in the Central Hotel Center Square Hanover coroner attributed death to a heart condition He was a Marston School and University of Maryland graduate formerly with John S Young Co now operating in Baltimore and served on Hanover Savings Fund board Surviving son Howard Y Haffner Charlottesville VA Funeral services Monday 10 a m Frederick Bucher funeral home Rev Edgar D Ziegier will officiate Interment Mt Olivet cemetery Friends may call Sunday evening Also noted is his father Dr Samuel T Haffner and family history including late Austin F Haffner Arlington VA
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ward C. Haffner
Central
Center Square
Hanover
Harold Walters
York County
Lester J. Sell
Marston School
University of Maryland
John S. Young Company
Baltimore
Hanover Savings Fund
Howard Y.haffner
Charlottesville
Frederick Bucher
Frederick Street
Edgar D. Ziegier
Mt. Olivet
Haffner
Samuel T. Haffner
Susan Whitmore Haffner
Ward Haffner
Austin F. Haffner
City Board Awards Contracts and Plans Street Work
Frederick aldermen authorized bids for street lights on Biggs Avenue and Grant Place, awarded multiple contracts including a $4,147.95 pipe installation and a $119,020.52 plant improvements, and approved sewer and storm sewer bids. They also approved a salt spreader purchase, a used Servicycle for meter work, and set a $15 City Code price while discussing Sunday work protests and a proposed bridge between Dietrich and Gambrill buildings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Aldermen
Frederick
City Hall
W. R. Walter
Biggs Avenue
Grant Place
Glamorgan Pipe Company
Lynchburg
William Hetzer
Hagerstown
W. F. Wilson and Sons
Brookeville
Linden Hills
Walter
State Roads Commission
Charles V. Main
Donald B. Rice
West South Street
East South Street
W. Jerome Offutt
Earl F. Hargett
Iis
Dietrich and Gambrill
S. Carroll Street
Henry Chase
Church Street
Camber F of Commerce
Samuel W. Barrick
West College Terrace
Patrick Street
Carroll Parkway
Frederick Section meeting on support for retarded children
Dr and Mrs Walter Braun attended a Frederick Section Council Jewish Women meeting at Bnai B'rith lodge rooms Monday night The rummage sale was discussed Mrs Braun spoke on the Association to Help Retarded Children plan to provide special training to help these children become self sufficient citizens The Council considered assisting this project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick
Walter Braun
Council
B'nai B'rith Lodge
Jean Weisman
Braun
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Baltimore Authority
Circuit Court
County Land Records
Frederick County Bar Association
Board of County Commissioners
Bar Association
Impetue
J. Millard Tawes
Joseph McCusker
Tawes
Bar Committee
Court House
Sheriff's Office
Grange News
U. S
Pacume
John Wood, Jr
Court Place
Westminster
Carole Lee Wood
John Wood
West Third Street
Theodore Bryan McIntire, Jr
Theodore Bryan McIntire
Towson
Wood
Goucher College
McIntire
West South Extension
Margaret Schminz
Record Street
Albert Fernelius
Harry Lattanzi
Fred Hodge
W. E Grebe
Lawrence Ware
Bethesda
Route 40
Ward
Senevi
Fribute
Chesnut
Warren
W. Calvin Chesnut
Federal District Court
Bar Association of Baltimore
John J. Parker
Fourth Federal Circuit Court For Appeals
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