Church Aid Rebuilds Arctic Circle Town Beavers Alaska Effort
A work camp from the American Mennonite Service Committee spent a summer rehabilitating Beaver Alaska a Yukon River port once tied to Chandatar gold mining. The villagers faced poverty poor health and deteriorating homes. Campers built 11 log cabins and began two more while villagers learned to drive tractors and helped with carpentry under Dr. John Ferger. A separate item notes a Week of Witnessing planned by Clarksburg Trinity Churches with Rev. L Carroll Yingling Jr as guest preacher and church outreach aims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beaver
Alaska
Arctic Circle
United States
American Menes Service Committee
Yukon
Moses Cruikshank
John Ferger
Dryden
N.Y
Feader
Andre Bucknell
Seauie
Clarksburg
Trinity
L. Carroll Yingling Jr
John the Apostle
Ora H. King
Charles Miller
Charles R. Miller
Dorothy Day
Iris King
Robert, C. Green
Dorothy King
Ralph F. Martz
St. Luke's Methodist Church
Wisconsin Ave
Calvert Street
N. W
Washington
Frederick County Planning Plans 1959 Budget and Staffing
The Frederick County Planning and Zoning Commission on Friday approved a proposed 1959 budget of 26 020 for submission to County Commissioners. An added 800 covers transferring a county car, with staff travel use noted. Executives include a 5700 secretary, 1260 stenographer, 7600 planner, 1000 draftsman, and 6000 consultant, among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Planning and Zoning Commission
Frederick County
Merk H. Ramsburg
Planning Commission
Board of Appeals
Daniel E. Wight
Frederick City
Commission
State 4-H Winner Richard Remsburg from Frederick
Richard Remsburg an 18 year old 4-H Club member from Frederick county has been named state 4 H garden winner. He has saved his family almost 1900 dollars over ten years in 4 H projects and produced a notably high bean yield of 160 pounds from four 25 foot rows. He manages a acre garden and has aided with a family garden including 42 to 74 acres of potatoes, plus vegetables, and he plans to be a teacher while attending Shepherd College. He will receive a trip to Chicago as sponsor Allis Chalmers. He also participates in poultry and dairy projects and serves as assistant 4 H Club leader.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Remsburg
Frederick County
Richard
Mt. Pleasant
Earl McDevitt
Frederick
Marinland
Ruling Knocks Out Segregation Ban in Louisiana Sports
A federal court ruling nullifies a 1956 Louisiana law barring sports competition between white and Negro athletes, widening potential matchups for events like the Sugar Bowl. The decision narrows opportunities but opens the door for teams such as the Air Force Academy to be considered for New Year games. Sugar Bowl officials weigh the implications as service academies respond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Louisiana
Joe Dorsey
Sugar Bowl
Louisana State
Air Force Academy
Associated Press
Tke
Army
Navy
Air Force
Claude
Monk? Simons
Won Trip On 4 H Work
Charles R Noffsinger a Frederick County teen has won a trip to the National 4 H Club Congress this December for outstanding work in the 4 H field crops program He plans to expand crops projects next year and has tied field crops to swine tractor maintenance poultry and rabbit projects The trip is sponsored by Arcadian Products Allied Chemical and Dye Corporation New York Published notes on arrests and Oslo derailment deaths also appear in this issue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles R. Noffsinger
Claiborne C.noffsinger
Noffsinger
Charles
Kenneth E. Shiffler
Frederick County
Frederick
Frederick High School
FFA
Ballenger Boys 414
Arthur Cook
Robert Kemp
Ballenger Boys Club
Harrisburg
Arcadian Products
Allied Chemical and ‘Dye Corporation
New York
Outstanding 4-H Member Joseph Smith
Frederick County honors Joseph Smith a long time 4 H Club member dairy farmer near New Market son of Herbert and Mrs Smith He graduated Frederick High School 1957 major in Vocational Agriculture He earned an expense paid trip to National 4 H Congress Chicago Nov 30 Dec 4 for leadership and project work as well as his role in a 20 plus Maryland delegation He has held all 4 H offices led county state committees presides over the Frederick County Older Youth Group He was Maryland delegate to the 4 H Camp at Pennsylvania State College and been repeatedly on county team dairy judging and record keeping projects noted by Assistant County Agent Kenneth Shifflet as a top dairyman in the show ring and judging
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick County
Joseph Smith
RFD
Airy
Herbert
Smith
Frederick High School
Joe
New Maret
Chicago
B & O Railroad Company
Maryland
New Market
John T. G. Stiles
Old Jer
Ry Joe
4-H
Pennsylvania
A. State College
Kenneth Shifflet
Who's Farm This? Mystery Piques Local Readers
Readers are asked to identify a farm location unseen by the News-Post. The first five correct callers win Titoli Theater passes and the farm operator will receive a mounted Zekan-Robbins photo. Names and location to be published next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
News - Post Business Office
Titoli Theater
Zekan-Robbins
News- Post
Desertion Charge Reveals Navy Sailor’s Double Life
SAN FRANCISCO AP The Navy sailor Carton Vance Mings aged 31 from Swenson Texas faces court martial for wartime desertion after vanishing from the cruiser Chester on the eve of V E Day. He fathered three children while AWOL and is held on Treasure Island San Francisco Bay.
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San "Francisco
Carton Vance
Jiggs) Mings
Swenson
Tex
Treasure Island
San Francisco Bay
Mings
Wilma
Chester
Pacific War
Pacific
Japan
Wilma Boren
Yuba City
Calif
Carl
Joseph
Angie
Farm Prices Fall Slightly Amid Mixed 1958 Trends
Farm products in the mid November period showed a four tenths of one percent price decline led by lower costs for oranges hogs cotton corn and tobacco the Agriculture Department reported prices for some vegetables potatoes apples and milk rose offsetting the declines overall mid November prices were about 4 percent higher than a year earlier but still roughly 23 percent below the February 1951 peak.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Agriculture Department
Also Mentioned on This Page
Church
Farm Bureau
Maryland Farm Bureau
iKenneth Miller
Allegany
Cecil
Kent
Talbot
Dorchester
Wicomico
Somerset
Worcester
Harford
Prince George's
St. Marys
Calvert
Anne’ Arundel
Public Health Service
London
Neers
Siberia
Niagara Falls
Mos
Bratsk Hydro
Angara
Trinity, Mission Circle
United Lutheran Church Women of Trinity| Lutheran Church
Taneytown
Oren Strine
Walkersville
Strine
United Lutheran Church Women
James Keefer Redmond
William A. Boone Jr
Charles Herbert Wilson
Sjamsville
Heim
Marishall Murray
Bernard ‘King
Oslo
Norway
Oslo Drammen
Panama Canal
Market St. Frederick, Md
Goodyear
Count’s Western Store
Rodeo and Square Dance Clothing
Damascus, Maryland
Washington, D. C
Sam Miller
South Market St
Motorola
Wayside
E. Patrick Sr
Porterville
Porterville State Hospital
FBI
Baltimore
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Indus
New Westinghouse
Westing
Westinghouse
Cones
East Patrick St
Better Homes Equipment CO
Farmers and Mechanics- Citizens National Bank Christmas Club
Farmers and Mechanics
Citizens National Bank
Citizens National Bank OF Frederick
Federal Deposit Isurance Corp
Federal Reserve System
Frederick Shopping Center
Libertytown Bank
Libertytown, Md
Citizens Office Market
Patrick Sts
Fort Detrick Facility
Union Bridge Bank Office
Union Bridge, Md
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