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Local notice describes a community project connected to the Great Soltheen Pig and SFG Company. Details are faint but reference to a phone number and planning steps appear in the area.
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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1957
Page
2
Local notice describes a community project connected to the Great Soltheen Pig and SFG Company. Details are faint but reference to a phone number and planning steps appear in the area.
An article discusses efforts to remove salt from sea water and store freshwater. It notes Bahrain on the Persian Gulf using membrane desalination, Maxim Silencer Co claiming a cheaper method, and Southern California’s goal to make Pacific water potable cheaper than pumping. It argues vast underground storage and watershed conservation as essential to long term water security.
Readers offer a piano for Montevue Hospital chronic patients to aid entertainment groups. Mrs Ruth Crawford will arrange piano moves. contact MD 346835 between 9 am and 4 pm. November 25 1957.
Samuel Franklin Thomas former city health officer and a noted Frederick resident died suddenly in his room at Mrs Richard Anderson's boarding house on West Patrick Street after visiting his drug store earlier in the evening He was 66 Chief Judge McSherry of the Court of Appeals died at a session with tributes to his memory from Maryland bar leaders and Chief Judge Boyd Workmen digging on Court Street unearthed what appears to be an old water pipe with a red cedar section and iron band A Dream of Fairyland was performed by the Girls High School cast including Blanche Gittinger Helen Best Loretta Willard Charlotte Linn Dorothy Wilson Florence Schley Eleanor Cline and others in a beautiful cantata.
The Chamber of Commerce announced prizes for best decorated business building and for the best decorated home or lawn this Christmas season. Dr. James S. Montgomery, House of Representatives chaplain, will speak at the Frederick County Young Men's Bible Sacristy annual session on January 8. Frederick High School’s powerful fieldball team won the Western Shore championship with a 190 defeat of Ellicott City High at Catonsville. A 17 year old Pennsylvanian youth was arrested after a hold up at a Middletown filling station where $23 was taken. The text includes obituaries for Calvin C. Bierley John Raymond Kain and Clarence E. Selby detailing their lives and funeral arrangements.
Funeral services were held for Percy R Keeney of Walkersville at Grace Lutheran Church with burial in the church cemetery. Rosa M Arnold of Mr Airy died at her Glen Burnie home and was interred at Prospect Methodist Church cemetery with grandsons serving as pallbearers. Funeral services for Calvin Lake Wilson of Union Bridge occurred at the Union Bridge funeral home with interment in Lutheran Cemetery at Uniontown.
Multiple readers are listed observing List birthdays today and upcoming birthdays on Tuesday. Various families announce the birth of daughters at Holy Cross Hospital, Eau Galle Hospital, Washington County Hospital, Frederick Memorial Hospital, and other local facilities. Names include Mrs Jacob Shook, Mr Robert Thomas, Mr Mrs Norman Xeinmeyer, Mrs Daisy Kline, Rev Darcey Abbott, Brenda Lee Blank, and Patsy Hildebrand among others.
Fire at the Thorbahn home in Quincy killed John Thorbahn aged 52 and his wife Ann aged 50 after their wedding reception. The couple had hosted about 130 guests. their son John Jr. 22 was injured and hospitalized. The bride Carol 23 and groom Thomas Graham 23 from Saugus had just left on their honeymoon.
The clipping lists stock quotations from Alex Brown & Sons of the New York Stock Exchange and mentions local securities with approximate changes. It references Frederick, Maryland connections, the Potomac Edison price figures, and comparisons to other Alaskan city prices.
Walter Shank, 37, a volunteer with the Citizens Fire Truck Company, died after being crushed between the hook and ladder apparatus on a responding run for a chimney fire at North Bentz Street. Norman Stine held him to prevent further injury as the truck stopped. An autopsy was ordered to determine if he died from a sudden collapse or injuries from the fall. Shank had served over a decade with the fire company and worked 20 years as a meat cutter at the A&P store. He is survived by his wife Evel and several children and relatives.
Frederick Memorial Hospital records births from November 11 to 22 listing families by surname and address. It includes Terry Lee Grimes first child third son. Brenda Lee Dickerson. Barbara Lynn Angles. Steven Bruce Brandt. Kathleen Marie Beall. Barbara Ellen Fritz. Steven Edward Smith. Edward Puis Jr.. Patricia Jean Burrier. Wendle Mark Poindexter. Larry Eugene Flock. David Michael Diggs. Robert Lee Wetzel. Patricia Lee Rhodes. Stephen Samuel Brown. Edward Lowell Garland. Debra Sue Raines. Stephen Gambrill. Addison Foster Cage. Severt Ray Thompson. Extra notes reference mothers' former names and birth dates.
William Emory Franklin 60 of Gum Road Woodbine shot himself in the head with a 16 gauge shotgun Sunday morning, apparently due to ill health. He had returned recently from Baltimore hospital after a stroke and is survived by his wife and several children and grandchildren. Funeral services are scheduled for Tuesday at 2 p.m. at C. M. Waltz funeral home in Winfield with interment at Morgan Chapel Cemetery.
Dr. Perry F. Prather, Maryland health chief and chair of the state Board of Health, will address a Junior Chamber of Commerce dinner Tuesday at the Veterans of Foreign Wars club. He will discuss The Public Health Aspects of Aging and Long Term Illness.
The Burgess and Commissioners announce plans to extend water and sewer lines to a new eastern street. Approval from the State Department of Health has been secured and work is expected to begin soon. Locust Boulevard will host both lines with 1,400 feet of eight inch sewer pipe and house connections at about $11.00 per unit, funded from remaining public sanitary sewer funds.
Walkersville PTA met November 18 in the school auditorium. The program featured a magic show by Dr. Ernest Dettbarn and remarks by Mrs Evelyn F and Davis and Mrs Alice Love on supervising junior high and elementary schools. Board of Education plans further study on pupil progress reporting.
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