Myersville Girl Cynthia Metzger Wins Local Voice of Democracy
Cynthia Metzger a 17 year old senior at Middletown High School won the Frederick County Voice of Democracy contest held at Frederick High School. Her talk will be sent to Silver Spring for statewide judging on December 12. The local Jaycees sponsor the prizes including a 50 war bond for first 25 for second and 10 for third among five county finalists.
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Cynthia Metzger
Middletown High School
Frederick County
Voice of Democracy
Frederick High School
Howard L. Metzger
Myersville
Silver Spring
Margaret Dunne
St. John’s
Howard W. Dunne
Camp Detrick
John Mark Roddy
John M. Roddy
St. Anthony's
Emmitsburg
Alice Love
Trail Avenue
Frederick High
Juanita Myers
Route 2
Thurmont
Thurmont High School
Frederick
James B. Ranck
R. A. Gremman, Jr
Clifford Yinger
Henri Groenheim
Jaycee Americanism Committee
Metzger
Maryland Jaycees
Williamsburg
Communists Taught To Kidnap President
DETROIT Nov 19 A former Communist witness testified that during a Moscow civil warfare class in 1931 32 he was taught to abduct the U S president and seize cabinet members as hostages in case of revolution. He said Earl Browder gave instructions before the trip, aiding a Michigan conspiracy trial of six Communists.
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Detroit
United States
William O'Dell Nowell
U.S. Immigration,and Naturalization Service
Nowell
Michigan
New York
Frank A. Picard
Frederick breeder wins blue ribbon at eastern livestock show
A Frederick County breeder of Aberdeen Angus cattle won blue at the Eastern National Livestock Show for a yearling Angus open fat cattle judging win. Paul S Wise near Lewistown took first with his steer and it sold for a high price to Esskay Packing Company at cents per pound. Carsten Baumgardner of North Market Street was admitted to Frederick Memorial Hospital in unknown condition.
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Frederick County
Tim
Paul S. Wise
Lewistown
Esskay Packing Company
Tri-Hi-Y Set To Induct 13 New Members
Thirteen new Tri-Hi-Y members will be inducted at Frederick High School auditorium Monday at 2:30 PM. Rev W Merval Weaver and Alvin G Quinn will speak. The ceremony includes a candlelight service and a reception in the school lobby. Initiates washed windows, cleaned rooms and renewed bindings instead of Hell Week. Club plans Easter activities for children and hospital reading programs. bake sale and square dance fundraisers supported projects. Miss Zelma Smith is advisor.
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Frederick Tri-Hi
Frederick High School
YMCA
W. Merval Weaver
Alvin G. Quinn
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Esther Grimage
Zelma Smith
CIO Pledges Campaign for a Million New Union Members
The CIO aims to recruit one million new union members within a year and pushes for complete repeal of the Taft Hartley Act. Walter Reuther set the goal in a keynote at the annual convention and urged renewed activism in political and economic arenas. The convention backed outright repeal while dismissing Labor Secretary Mitchell’s plea to modify rather than repeal. Senator Humphrey drew the largest applause with a sharp attack on the Eisenhower administration.
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Cleveland
CIO
Walter Reuther
Reuther
Humphrey
D-Minn
Eisenhower
Washington
Captain Kidd
Optimist balloon release draws 175 kids in Bak er Park
Rainy Saturday drew about 175 youngsters to Bak er Park for the Optimist Club balloon release. One hundred balloons containing certificates worth 1 to 25 dollars were released, with Chief Charles V. Main presiding. Certificates must be validated by Ernest P. Stephens by midnight at Enterprise Printing, 70 South Market Street. BLAST RIPS SCHOOL HEPHZIBAH. Ga. Nov 19 A gym explosion killed one first grader and injured five. Gilda Martin died after a wall collapsed. Sand ra Lane suffered a broken leg. four others burned. Explosion blamed on a gas heated boiler in the basement.
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Optimist Club
Baker Park
Optimists
Charles V. Main
Hephzibah
Gilda Martin
Hephribah
University Hospital
Augusta
Sandra Lane
Fear topic highlighted at Mt. St. Mary's banquet
Members of Court Maryland No. 8 Catholic Daughters heard Rt. Rev. Msgr. Joseph P. O'Donnell rector of Mt. St. Mary's Seminary Emmitsburg speak at the autumn banquet Tuesday evening at the VFW country club Rev. Richard C. Mitchell chaplain of the court introduced O'Donnell a sacred scripture professor whose talk focused on fear and its effects on world peoples Miss Veronica Catlett toastmistress read a letter from Fr. Robert A. Bozell regretfully unable to attend about 70 attendees Mrs. Miriam Remsburg led table decorations Miss Regina Little reported the event ухода.
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Msgr. O'Donnell
Maryland
Catholic Daughters of America
Joseph.p. O'Donnell
Mt. St. Mary's Seminary
Emmitsburg
VFW
the Mount
Veronica Catlett
Robert A. Bozell
Baltimore
Bozell
Regina Little
Court Maryland
Miriam Remsburg
New Ambulance To Be Available By Next Spring
Frederick will gain a city supported public ambulance available free to residents, on order now and expected by April 1. Operated 24 7 by paid personnel, it will be housed on South Market Street and funded by donations from Frederick merchants. Two city paid staff will operate within the corporate limits. The four occupant ambulance, a 1954 Cadillac from Superior Coach, will feature advanced equipment, two way radio, air conditioning, water, oxygen, and emergency gear, serving all call types within Frederick.
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Frederick City
United Fire Company
Frederick
South Market Street
Cadillac
Superior Coach Corporation
Lima
Baltimore
Washington
Davis Studio
NEW Public
Frederick i5
Reporters Quiz on Big Four Meeting and Cold War
An informal poll of six Frederick area residents shows mixed views on a conference of the Big Four leaders United States England France and Russia to end the cold war. Half say a meeting among Eisenhower Churchill Laniel and Matenker could accomplish something, half disagree.
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United States
England
France
Russia
Eisenhower
Churchill
Laniel
Matenker
Nixon seen doomed by precedents in bid for 1956 presidency
NEA Washington correspondent notes only three vice presidents have ever been elected president directly, with most ascending after a president’s death. The piece surveys historic patterns for Nixon’s possible 1956 run, contrasting past precedents with current political expectations.
Infant's Father Held On Charge Of Assault
Charles L. Crumbie of Johnsville road west of Union Bridge Frederick County is jailed on 35000 bond after a Johns Hopkins Hospital pediatrician reported Crumbie's infant son injured at the hospital in Lattimore. State Police and Children’s Aid Society investigations followed leading to the assault and battery charge.
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Charles L. Crumbie
Johnsville Road
Union Bridge
Frederick County
James H. Rouzee
Crumbie
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Lattimore
Children’s Aid Society
Dinner Event Highlights Mo nocacy Club Meeting
Nearly 100 members of the monocacy Club of Evangelical Reformed church and their children attended a Thursday 6:45 PM dinner in the social rooms. A turkey dinner was served. Peter Smith of Eastern Airlines presented a technicolor film Flying With Godfrey narrated by Arthur Godfrey. Albert Fisher entertained with magic stunts. Elmer Wachter presided.
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Monocacy Club
Evangelical Reformed Church
Peter Smith
Eastern Airlines
Godfrey
Arthur Godfrey
Albert Fisher
Elmer Wachter
Mink Theft Follows Ad For Sold Fur Pieces
Hollywood reports a woman advertised a mink coat and stole for sale. A man answered the ad, bound her, cut the phone wires, and made off with the two mink pieces valued at 2300 dollars.
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Hollywood
Deeds Recorded For Several Properties Sold In City
Deeds were recorded in the clerk's office for multiple property transfers. J Milton Koons and wife sold to Lows E Eichelberger the former Harry Daniels residence on Mt Olivet Boulevard for about 127000 dollars. Viola M Barlett sold 2 West South Street to Walter H Bartlett for about 34508 dollars.
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J. Milton Koons
Lows E. Eichelberger
Harry Daniels
Mt. Olivet Boulevard
Viola M. Barlett
Walter H. Bartlett
West South Street
Four Killed In Maryland Highway Accidents
Four people including a 4 year old girl and a 41 year old pedestrian died in Maryland highway crashes over the weekend. Two cars collided head on on the Ritchie Highway killing Attle Dorothy Mae Brooks and injuring others. A bus strike in downtown Baltimore crushed pedestrian Harlan Webster. In Grantsville a car left Route 40 killing Harry Sylvester Wilt and his wife. A discharged Korean War veteran also died in a related mishap five weeks earlier.
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Maryland
Attle Dorothy Mae Brooks
Ritchie
Harlan Webster
Baltimore
Harry Sylvester Wilt
Jennings
Grantsville
Webster
County Road Bridge Ruined in 10-Ton Mixer Collapse
A 63-foot pony truss bridge over Ballenger Creek on New Design Road, two miles south of Frederick, collapsed Monday afternoon under an empty 10-ton transit concrete mixer from M. J. Grove Lime Co. Driver Russell Summers escaped with no injuries. The bridge is a total loss, with replacement estimated at 10,000 to 17,000 dollars and through traffic closed for weeks. Roads Engineer Roger H. Willard cites prior damage from a Sunday end-post hit and notes plans for a new steel-girder, concrete-deck span.
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Ballenger Creek
New Design
Frederick
Russell Summers
Adam Road
Earl H. Cline and Sons, Inc
M. J. Grove Lime Co
Roger H. Willard
Willard
Roads Board
Summers
Commercial Credit Clerk Is Sentenced In Maryland Case
In Baltimore on November 23 a Commercial Credit Co clerk was sentenced to five years in prison after forging checks totaling about 79 1000 over a week long period. About 71000 was covered and the rest used to pay loans department store bills and buy a new sedan. The 12 year employee earned 350 monthly and the company seeks to deter similar acts. The judge ordered a probation report and potential early sentence reduction. ARMY CUTS JOBS WASHINGTON Nov 23 The Army announced the closure of repair operations at five depots will cut 244 civilian jobs with some work shifted to civilians or other facilities, including New Cumberland Pa where 14 jobs are affected.
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Baltimore
Guy R. Freeman
Commercial Credit Co
Joseph L. Carter
Freeman
J. Francis Ireton
Commercial Credit
Carter
Freeman's
ARMY
Washington
Army General
New Cumberland
People Life Head Speaker At Dinner
O R Hoover vice president of Peoples Life Insurance Company Washington spoke at the Progressive Club Frederick District annual dinner at the Francis Scott Key Hotel. 95 members and guests attended with M J Floyd master of ceremonies and Edwin Shauck providing dinner music.
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O. R. Hoover
Peoples Life Insurance Company
Washington
Frederick
Francis Scott Key Hotel
M. J. Floyd
Nathan S. White
W. G. Schwinn
Westminster
Edwin Shauck
Gene Frock
Houston Nicodemus
Virginia N. Metcalf
D. W. Wayne
Helen C. Leith
R. G. Deipenbrack
M. A. Menge
T. BR. Schneeman
L. W. Camp
Gilmore’ Lescaieet, Jr
Silver Spring
T. M. Jenkins
Baltimore
L. D. DeHaven
Martinsburg
G. W. Reynolds
Hagerstown
W. J. Corneil
J. P. Moffatt
Cumberland
Charlottesville
N. MaGaha
Frederick District
D. Sprigg Chesley
Carroll R. Eyler
Charles F. Rentzel
Paul A Watkins
Maurice J. Fioyd
Preston H. Lawson
Walter L. Plummer
Richard B. Perry
Carl E. Dornheim
George A.tucker
Lawrence H. Price
Archie E. Smith
Strangler Sought in Japan Case of Col Rothschild’s Daughter
In SAGAMIBARA near Tokyo investigators from U. S. Army Police CID and Japanese forces seek the killer of 93 year old red haired girl Susan Rothschild the daughter of Col Jacquard H Rothschild found strangled in a drainage ditch Saturday night. Authorities say autopsy found no rape and consider the crime possibly a sex motive driven incident.
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Sagamibara
Japan
Tokyo
U. S
Army Criminal Investigation Division
CID
Susan Rothschild
Col
Jacquard H. Rothschild
Chicago
Mathieson Takes Over Puritan Co
Mathieson Chemical Corp to absorb Puritan Co of Rochester North Carolina through stock exchange on January 6 with Genesee Research as a subsidiary. Alexander Beach leads Puritan. Genesee Research makes specialty automotive chemicals and soaps since 1823. Puritan management will remain within Mathieson. Bible Class at Calvary Methodist meets with Gay E Kelly presiding and lessons on feeding the world. attendance listed and next Missionary Day noted.
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Baltimore
Mathieson Chemical Corporation
Puritan Company, Inc
Rochester
N. C
Thomas S. Nichols
Mathieson
Puritan
Genesee Research Corporation
Alexander Beach
Puritan Company
Genesee Research
United States
Calvary Methodist Church
Gay E. Kelly
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Elwood Green
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Charles L. Weddle
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Nixon
Peter Edson
NEA
Richard M. Nixon
Dwight D. Eisenhower
U S
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George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Martin van Buren
Andrew Jackson
Teur Fer
National Associaton
Electric Power Lobby
Niagara Falls
New York Power Authority
San Francisco
Pacific Gas and Electric Co
Portland
Pacific Power and Light
Boise
Idaho Power and Light
Snake River
Hell's Canyon
Spokane
Price of Public Service
Joseph M. Dodge
Budget Bureau
Department of Labor
Southwest
Sil
James P. Mitchell
U.S
Congress
Pipe and Tobacco Council
Cyrus Ching
Billy Leiserson
J. Edgar Hoover
Allen Dulles
Central Intelligence
Herbert Lehman
Willis Robertson
Virginia
Thomas E. Dewey
Earl Warren
California
Alfred Driscoll
New Jersey
Allan Shivers
Texas
Frank Lausche
Ohio
James F. Byrnes
South Carolina
G. Mennen Williams
John 5. Fine
Pennsylvania
Herman Talmadge
Georgia
Charles Russell
Nevada
Edwin L. Mechem
New Mexico
Edward F. Arn
Kansas
Rice
Ernest Stephens
Donald B. Rice
Edgar Brownlow
Marty Patwa
Mr. Stephess
Joka Zafail
Man
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Puritan Co
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