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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1954
Page
2
Citizens display concern as auto fever grips the public amid a bumper forecast of 5,000,000 new cars next year. General Motors and Ford push new shipping charges while prices stay steady, boosting demand and reshaping steel and rubber sectors in a rising economy.
Clark A. Orme, colored, of 1 Clark A. Orme, Fast Church street, held by city police on assault with a deadly weapon in the shooting of Grace Hox, 39, colored, of 128 East street. Hox leg wound sent to Frederick Memorial Hospital. Orme says he handled the gun. shooting claimed accidental. Mother questioned then to be released. No fracas reported. Three 19 year old youths questioned in seven car arson probe. no charges yet. Remsberg, Rowtzahn named.
Reverend E C Rice longtime Neffsville pastor dies at 67 in Lancaster after months of illness. Funeral services set at St Peter's Neffsville with Lutheran leaders officiating then interment in Middletown Lutheran cemetery. Survived by wife Minnie Catherine Dinterman Rice and several relatives.
Mr and Mrs John Weishaar of Mount Airy announce the engagement of their daughter Robbie Louse to William T Blentlinger Jr son of Mr and Mrs William T Blentlinger of Mount Airy. The wedding will take place in the near future.
Fifty years ago notes confirm Frederick City Hospital will receive a fully equipped operating room donated by board member Miss Ella Hlouck and her sisters. The Hood family donation of a new wing nears completion with occupancy hoped by December 15. Also reports show Maryland election results remain tight with Roosevelt leading by about 200 to 300 votes and possible Democratic plurality. MR WHIM of Sylaire, Logansport, returns after a fall at Gentry Bros. show. MR ALBERT R. WALLIS takes a new bookkeeper post at Palmetto Fibre Works. The issue notes the death of David S. Gillelan, longtime Enuniteburg resident and farmer, at age 70.
Twenty years ago items recount a car collision at a Brunswick crossing with a Chesapeake Bay line, a fall from a grapevine causing a broken forearm near Catoctin, a justice fining hunters for off season violations, two men found with rab bits, and a quiet Baltimore wedding of Miss Cerelly Laveni a Mercer and Mr Gerald G Remsberg officiated by Rev W U Rupp.
Obituaries describe Miss Eva Maud Brown of Waynesboro aged 75 dying at a nephew's home after years of illness with services planned at Poe funeral home Waynesboro. Also noted are the deaths of Mrs Wilmetta L Wackie Wilson in Woodville Walter C Byrne of Gaithersburg Monroe Stevens of Silver Spring with funeral arrangements and Arlington burial plans.
Funeral services for Amy Long, widow of Charles H Lang, were conducted Wednesday at a Thurmont funeral home with Rev Edouard Taylor officiating. She died Sunday at her daughter’s Rocky Ridge home. Burial followed at Mt Tahor Cemetery with pallbearers including Earl Long and Charles Long among others. funeral directors were WM L Creager and Son.
A Washington column questions if the Senate Rules Committee properly handles a probe into investigations and if the Watkins committee oversteps by proposing a rule change without prior hearings. It argues censure would only target McCarthy while others with similar conduct escape scrutiny, and warns about filibuster and Zwicker episodes shaping the debate.
Sen J Glenn Beall keynoted Baltimore Veterans Day ceremonies at the Wac Memorial Building noting the shift from Armistice Day to Veterans Day in 1945 and warning that Cold War tensions and new weapons threaten peace. He praised President Eisenhower for seeking peaceful solutions and urged cooperation to avoid a global catastrophe.
Imagined scene at the Statue of Liberty as 30 000 new Americans pledge allegiance. Veterans Day mass naturalisation ceremonies across the United States from coast to coast, including Hawaii and Guam. A diverse group of men and women from many countries, many displaced, join the oath.
Graven on her statue the words give voice to tired and poor as about 16,000 new citizens gather in the city. The gathering spans Ebbets Field in Brooklyn and the Pale Grounds in Upper Manhattan with Gen Herbert Brownell speaking at both venues, signaling a moment of formal American welcome.
Rotary skipped its Noonday meeting for Ladies Night at Peter Pan in Urbana. Over 190 Rotarians and guests attended as Walter Lamus led arrangements. Orchids were given, cocktails served, and a student group from Hood College performed with Delores Michel Mara Braunsart Mares Heller Cynthia Sternberg Exvelan Kanfield at the piano while a local band provided dance music.
City engineer grants permits for Monocacy Village homes along East Street extension. October building total reaches 176200 with multiple new dwellings and a major church project. Largest permit goes to L J Keller for a 144400 brick church at 201 Fairview Avenue.
A Sangyo Heizai report cites ancient documents allegedly certified by historians about a 64 billion dollar treasure hidden in a silver mine near Osaka. Warlord Hideyoshi, who invaded Korea in 1592, is linked to the saga with Sumitomo Metal Mining said to seek the gold.
Among the sick, Mr. J. P. Feiser of Woodsboro, a survival patient at Church Home Hospital Baltimore, is progressing nicely. Mrs. James Arbaugh of Thurmont was moved to Frederick Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Esther Forney of Thurmont underwent surgery at Frederick Memorial Hospital on Wednesday. Mr. W. H. Miller has returned to work after illness on East Chuck street. The American Legion ambulance transported Mrs. Russell Forney to Frederick Memorial Hospital. Miss Daisy Kline of Moster Avenue underwent surgery at Frederick Memorial Hospital and is recovering. Mr. William A. Nowle of 117 East Seventh Street is a patient at Johns Hopkins Hospital Baltimore.
Mr Lewis Hahn of 216 East Third Street will mark his eighty first birthday with an informal gathering at his home. Mr and Mrs Bruce To Reeder of Baltimore announce the birth of a six pound eight ounce daughter named Odette Kehne at Woman's Hospital in Baltimore. Mrs Reeder is the former Miss Odette Kehne, daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles I Kehne Sr Buckeystown.
Dr Hubert Louis Dunn director of the National Office of Vital Statistics spoke at Hood College on Vital Statistics and Their Value He traced the rise of national data gathering from 1902 through 1930 and noted growth driven by social changes WW II and hospital expansion He described adoption record challenges for foreign born children and the sealing of birth records to protect illegitimacy stigma He urged state federal cooperation and outlined a biennial conference to align methods He announced the 1950 volume Vital Statistics of the United States and distributed related pamphlets
Soviet Communist party chiefs told Red propagandists to continue anti religious rhetoric but to curb harsh attacks on churches. A Pravda issued decree signed by Nikita Khrushchev urges restraint to avoid strengthening religious prejudice among the people and follows a broader campaign against religion.
Urbana Homemakers members and guests met at Mrs. Charles G. Geisbert’s Arady road home for a play, with Home Management chair Mrs. Murray Fox leading the safety in the home program. Members planned a wrapped gift exchange for Victor Cullen Hospital and voted a donation to the Children's Aid Society with Mrs. Monroe Stull presiding.
President Eisenhower returns to his boyhood home town Abilene Kansas to dedicate the 525000 Eisenhower Memorial Museum during Veterans Day ceremonies. Mrs Clyde Adams joins the meeting, with Mrs Norman MacFayden leading the prayer and music.
A 540 man task force of armed police subdued 800 rebellious convicts at Naha Penitentiary Okinawa today with no resistance.
In Boca Raton Florida Acting Gov Charley E Johns urged President Eisenhower to convene a special session of Congress to push a constitutional amendment allowing states to maintain separate but equal public schools by race. A separate light moment involves a policeman dropping a nickel to a blind man, prompting a quip about substitutes at the movies.
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