Gold Out Of Ft. Knox Prompts Trade Use Talk
Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer told the National Foreign Trade Convention in New York that gold may again settle international trade balances as the world trade picture shifts. He noted 1947 export surplus at 31.4 billion and 1950 six months produced 2990 million before the third quarter saw that surplus virtually disappear, signaling a new era for gold’s role.
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Ft. Knox
Charles Sawyer
New York City
Sawyer
Aload
Marriage Still First In Changing Modern Age View
A study at Vascat College finds 95 percent of women there still aim to marry and have children before thirty, with many planning to work after children grow. reflects ongoing balance between independence and traditional family goals. Samaritan Rebekah Lodge held its November meeting with Noble Grand Helen Wachter presiding. two candidates received the Degree of Rebekah, and Celeste Thomas was named for December banquet planning.
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Fife
Vascat College
Eprolica
Carter
Samaritan Rebekahs
Samaritan Rebekah Lodge
Helen Wachter
Gaithersburg
Virginia
Céleste Thomas
Fifty Years Ago Local Items From The News Nov 17 1909
The B A N D Hospital opened at Brunswick November 13 drawing over 30 visitors. The December circuit court jury for Frederick district includes Henry Muller John A Grumbine Carlina Stull Josiah Schildknecht and George H Bruner. Eggs remain scarce at 25 cents a dozen. chestnuts priced at five cents a box. The Women’s Christian Temperance Union to open new headquarters on Court Street November 19 with musical selections by Miss Bertha Trail and Mr Otho J Keller.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brunswick
James McSherry
Frederick
Henry Muller
John A. Grumbine
Carlina Stull
Josiah Schildknecht
George H Bruner
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Court Street
Park Hotel
Bertha Trail
Otho J. Keller
Two suspects jailed in joyride thefts. third turned over
Maryland news notes report two suspects held in jail for a string of auto thefts tied to recent joyrides while a third man was delivered to Baltimore authorities. In Frederick County, about 200 persons booked for the Maryland Congress of Parents and Teachers banquet at the Francis Scott Key Hotel. A short term bond proposal of 100,900 for county road work was recommended by the County Commissioners drought committee. The year to date remains the driest on record with a 19 inch precipitation deficit. Willie Lee Moxley, 13, son of Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Moxley near Monrovia, sustained bruises after falling from his father's truck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Maryland Congress of Parents and Teachers
Francis Scott Key
Frederick County Drouth Emergency Association
Willie Lee Moxley
Mra. O. L. Moxley
Monrovia
Guerrilla Front Emerges Behind Korean Battle Lines
Tokyo dispatch reports Korean Reds have opened a guerrilla front behind main Korea forces. Organized with central command, they coordinate raids with UN offensives, targeting command posts, supply lines, ammo stores, and American advisory groups. They rely on surprise, avoid large clashes, and exploit terrain.
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Relman Morin
Hal Boyle
Tokyo
Korea
Russia
China
U. S. Army
United Nations
Pussh
United States
Wacho
Seven Hurt In Blue Ridge Bus Skid Near Martinsburg
A Blue Ridge Lines bus skidded on Route 11 near Martinsburg West Virginia injuring seven passengers. The craft struck a bank and slid down a 12 foot embankment, sending riders to Martinsburg hospital where six were treated for minor injuries and released, one man hospitalized with a severe facial wound. The bus was en route from Hagerstown Maryland to Winchester Virginia. The driver Roessner Wenty Grossnirkle of Hagerstown said an ice patch caused the skid as he tried to steer through a sharp curve.
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Martinsburs
Wo Va
Maclowe
W. Va
Hagerstraeh
Mel
Winchester
Roessner Wenty Grossnirkle
Hagersown
Annual Banquet Held By Catholic Daughters
Miss Margaret Buckles gave the keynote at the Catholic Daughters of America annual banquet in the Francis Acott Key Hotel matching room. Other speakers included Rev Msgr Nelligan and Rev Bozel as well as the Grand Regent Mrs Florence Little. The program featured songs, poems, a jewel box presentation, and the reveal of Secret Sisters with about seventy members attending.
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Margaret Buckles
Supreme Vice
Catholic Daughters of America
Francis Acott Key Hotel
Joseph Nelligan
Pttarer
Gertrude Garvey
Robert Bozel
Court Maryland
Herbert Jordan
Florence Little
Miss Buckley
Visitation Sisters
Betty McCaffrey
Dorothy Crutchley
Connie Wastler
Elizabeth McCaffitex
Our Lady
William Waad
Fannie Kennedy
Marguerite Hess
Misa Buckley
Louise Leichert
Corinne Wastler
October Heating Costs Faltered by Degree Day Shortfall
A local firm records October degree day deficiency at 230, about 4.8 percent of the season’s expected total. October typically accounts for 7 percent of the annual heating bill, with degree days reflecting daily temperature gaps from 65 degrees. If normal, season costs drop with colder spells, while warmer months push the total lower.
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Hames
Wil
Miss Behrend Heard In Recital At Hood College
Miss Jeanne Behrend gave a piano recital at Hood College featuring contemporary and classical works. A Juilliard and Philadelphia Conservatory instructor, she highlighted American and South American pieces, closed with encores by MacDowell and Chopin, to an audience over 200.
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Jeanne Behrend
Hood College
Miss Behrend
Julliard School of Music
Philadelphia Conservatory of Music
Miss Rebrend
Miss Redrend
Heitor Villa Lobos
Carlos Chaves
Stephen Foster
Jouts Moreau Gottschalk
Everett Helm
Samuel Barker
Darius Mithead
Faithful Workers Meet at St Johns Lutheran Creagers Town
The Faithful Workers of St John s Lutheran church Creagers Town met at Mrs Ruby Six s home. Twenty members attended and planned a Thanksgiving dinner. Mrs Charles Shorb s Kuess box was won by Mrs Ruth Martin. Next meeting is December 14 in the Parish House with hostess Mrs Harvey Lare.
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Faithful Circle
Grace Reformed Church School
E. Roy Nikirk
Ralph Cecil
Grayson Nikirk
Margaret Railing
Day
Charles Encle
Amy Hoatsman
R. L. Day
Railing
BE. Roy Nikirk
Lillian Bell
St. John's Lutheran Church
Creagerstown
Ruby Six
Harvey Lare
Charles Shorb
Ruth Martin
Mrs Six
Woodsboro
Blanche Cadis
Westminster
Janet Barrick
Cochs
Joel Cochs
Westminster Church of God
Miss Barrick
Morgan Dayhoff
Mabel Albut
Genevieve Fanstock
Beatrice Fanstock
P. A. Richardson
Cora Barrick
Linda Renner
New Midway
Mrs May To Give At Home This Thanksgiving Day
Hood College dean Elizabeth Eckhardt May invites guests to an at home event from 3 to 6 p.m. Thanksgiving Day at Maywood in Braddock Heights. The notes include social happenings such as birthdays, anniversaries, and faculty activities from Frederick area households and Hood College staff.
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May
Elizabeth Eckhardt May
Hood College
Maywoodr
Braddock Heights
Strength For Today by Douglass on Protection From Temptation
An essay argues flowers and people benefit from protective walls against harm. It cites the Lord s prayer and warns against excessive enforcement of rules while acknowledging need for shielding from life s temptations. Includes a note on a Mountain City Temple Pythian Sisters gathering and upcoming Christmas party. A closing atomic bomb explosion fact notes the cloud rising to 1000 feet in under a second.
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Babson Newspaper
Past Chiefs’ Association of Mountain
City Temple
Pythian Sisters
Fannie King
Jefferson Street
Bessie Poole
North Market Street
Poole
Naomi Wachter
Mollie Zimmerman
Matte Harris
Margaret Bowers
Cooperatives Have Doubled In 20 Years
Washington reports a government survey showing 60 percent of U S farmers belong to cooperatives, more than doubling in 20 years. There are over 10 000 cooperatives with 6 400 000 members, handling nearly 10 billion dollars in business yearly. Farmers also organize mutual fire insurance, rural telephone service, hospitals, and irrigation. About 300 000 borrowing farmers own Federal land banks via their farm loan associations, while cooperatives run food processing, feed mills, fertilizer plants, and even some retail supermarkets.
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Washington
Mutual
Mutual Telephone
Rural Telephone
Rural Electrification Administration
Reception For Organist After Musical Service
A special musical program at the Evangelical Reform church features organist and choirmaster Russell H. Hinds and the church choir performing Mendelssohn Hear My Prayer and three anthems. Mrs. Zimmermann solos. Hinds plays Bach and Schubert. a postlude and prelude are planned. The reception for Hinds follows the service, arranged by the Altar Guild.
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Evangelical Reformed Church
Russell H. Hinds
Harry Zimmerman
Tschaikowsky
James
Jacobs
Noble
Bach
Schubert
Altar Guild
Hinds
Paul L. Althouse
Teen Ager Killed In Convertible's Crash Salisbury
Four teens in a Delmar area convertible failed to navigate a curve in Salisbury at 216 o'clock this morning. John Hancock, 18, died two hours later at Emergency Hospital from a fractured skull after being thrown free when the car struck a utility pole and rolled. Joshua Hearn, 17, Delmar, was the driver. Francis Sparks, 18, of Rose Dale. and Robert Records, 18, of Laurel, were only bruised. All four were former Delmar High School athletes. The accident occurred at North Division and Chesnut streets, where the street bends sharply.
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Salisbury
John Hancock
John H. Hancock
Delmar
Joshua Hearn
Francis Sparks
Rosedale
Robert Records
Laurel
Del
North Division
Chesnut Streets
Delmar High School
Arrests Docketed By City Police In Overnight Roundup
Two arrests logged overnight by city police name William Cromwell Frederick and Eugenes Oldaker Cumberland charged with indigitation by Officer Kanade and held under three pound costs each.
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William Cromwell
Frederick
Eugenes Oldaker
Cumberland
Kanade
Washington on wartime controls in peacetime economy
Washington observers fear a large scale Far East war may trigger broader shortages as civilian goods are rationed for military needs. The shift to a controlled materials plan and allocation by producers risks discriminatory outcomes, with layoffs, credit tightening, and inflation pressures looming as Congress prepares to set the wartime program.
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Washington
Korea
Far East
David Lawrence
U. N
Congress
United States
Song
Frederick High School honors two with Boy and Girl of the Month
Two Frederick High School seniors, Patricia Seitz and Bruce Douglas, were named Boy and Girl of the Month at a joint Optimist Club dinner at Catoctin Country Club. Principal Harry O. Smith lauded the public school’s role in growth and noted four academic tracks and other needs while two new cups were presented for the awards.
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Frederick High School
Optimist Club
Catoctin
Patricia Seitz
Lean FP. F. Vauthier
New Market
Bruce Douglas
George B. Douglas
Clifton
Harry O. Smith
Smith
Hood College selects student for Who's Who honor
Miss Alice Elizabeth McCal of Hood College, daughter of Mr and Mrs Russell H McCal of 317 West College Terrace, has been elected by the student body to represent Hood in the 1951 edition of Who's Who Among Students, American Universities and Colleges.
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A. Austin Pearce
Upper College Terrace
Hill
Lawrenceville
Pottstown
A. Austin Pearre
the Hill School
Bryn Mawr
Haverford Colleges
Nancy Pearre
Pearres
Eleanor Pearre
Radcliffe College, Cambridge
Mass
Hood
Alice Elizabeth McCal
Hood College
Russell H. McCal
West College Terrace
Coleges
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