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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1948
Page
4
In Paris delegates ponder if Russia will quit the UN as Bevin and Schuman push to settle Berlin via a three power decision. Bevin argues Russia’s withdrawal would not end peace efforts but would remove a sabotaging member. He warns a UN immobilized by fear would prove the body failed.
A digest of Thomas Chalmers sermon on replacing evil desires with new affections. The piece argues that overpowering bad impulses with good desires is the path to moral change and cautions against relying on willpower alone. Includes note on Babson Newspaper Synd and Lemantane tanning material from Austria.
A coal cart incident near Chapel alley ends with the driver Frank Schwearing thrown from the seat as a frightened horse bolts toward Third street. Market reports show corn weak with tomatoes at 50 cents a basket, eggs and butter steady at 18 cents. Junior Fire Company offers engine use to aid reservoir watering from Little Tuscarora. Weather shifts to cool after a long sultry spell.
Twenty years ago the Board of Aldermen awarded contracts for police overcoats and winter uniforms. E. D Michael Co. received a 15 uniform contract at 31 dollars each, and B. Rosenour and Son bagged 153 overcoats at 32 dollars and 75 cents each. The Real Estate Board of Frederick backed widening the State road from Frederick Junction to Hendersons Corn, a 15 mile stretch. George G Kehner sold two Elm Street brick dwellings at 515 517 to Miss Irwin Harry, taking possession April 1. Rev George W Strine was reappointed pastor at Centennial Memorial United Brethren church at the Pennsylvania U B Conference.
A reader asks whether to divorce after 35 years of marriage and how to survive if separated. Dorothy Dix urges patience, predicts the husband’s return, and advises the wife to learn a trade, notably cooking and housekeeping, for independence and future usefulness.
Washington Daybook reports officials push for a federation of Western Europe as a step toward a United States of Europe. The World Bank warns unity is needed to avoid economic collapse, while Joint Chiefs press for a unified defense plan and allies to cooperate or risk losing aid. Senator Fulbright urges federation and warns the U.S. cannot bear Europe’s burdens alone.
The CIO president Philip Muray accuses the Atomic Energy Commission of defying law by relaxing loyalty affidavits for union officers on atomic energy projects. He questions the Taft Hartley act's constitutionality while urging the commission to avoid prejudging union loyalties and jeopardizing national security.
Mrs G R Lasar of Alexandria has found a young male cocker spaniel near Frederick and hopes to locate the owner. The dog is loving and child oriented, exhausted then revived under care, and Mrs Lasar may have to have him put down if no owner is found. She asks for help locating the rightful home.
The lesson highlights misused terms and pronunciation notes for words like tunerins and puerile. It urges readers to expand vocabulary by mastering one word daily and using it multiple times in context.
Mr. and Mrs. Russell owners of a Hatchery Road dairy near Lewistown returned from fourteen months in Berlin with OMGUS ties. They describe travel hurdles in 1945 between Berlin and Bremerhaven and changes after March 1948 when rail and auto travel to Berlin were restricted. Prior to Germany they worked for the Reconstruction Finance Corporation in Rio de Janeiro. Mrs. Russell is Portuguese and will join her husband in Frederick County where he plans tax consultancy and accounting work near Lewistown.
Washington reports debate over whether Navy and Marine reserve officers with under 90 days active duty must enter 21 months of Army service under the draft act. Section 7 ties nondeferred reservists to possible Army calls, while services weigh alternative paths to active duty or discharge and reappointment in their branches.
Miss Dorothy Smith returns home from two weeks with relatives in Chestertown. June graduates depart for college with Mary Liew Ewell enrolling at the Maryland Institute for the Promotion of Art in Baltimore, Kathleen Larcombe and Ann Beall at Maryland University College Park, and Gloria Walker at Southern Seminary Buena Vista Virginia. Various other residents travel, host showers, and host visitors with family ties extending to Williamsport Pa and Venice Florida as Grove residents prepare for winter in Washington.
Col Louis H. Renfrow told Veterans of Foreign Wars members that the United States might be the only power with the atom bomb and warned war tends to begin with the aggressor. He compared Soviet and German forces, noted 300,000 U S servicemen could be hard to evacuate in war, and discussed Selective Service challenges. The talk followed questions about when a shooting war would start and whether Russia has the atom bomb.
The article presents Q and A on the International Court of Justice as United Nations successor to the League of Nations and the largest hailstone on record, a 17 inch circumference stone from Potter Xeb in July 1928. It lists questions about cowbird parasitism and references several social visits to Rockville and nearby towns.
A compact roll of notable anniversaries and birthdays from American history lists figures such as Robert Baird George H Stoker George Westinghouse Aan McLane Hamilton Albert Beveridge George Lorimer John L Lewis Paul A Porter Laurence Steinhardt Clarence Little Owen Davis Janet Gaynor Brien McMahon and others with brief notes on their birthplaces and lifespans. It also recalls historical events like the Concord landing Mennonite refugees in Germantown and WWI and policy shifts on Prohibition Open Door China and Munich.
A concise collection of phrases on women noting Proverbs 31:12 about a wife’s goodness and a Schiller line praising women as tender mates. The text blends scripture with literary reflection to define female virtue and natural purpose.
F W McCullough 59 long an assistant to the president of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad and a prominent figure in West Virginia Democratic politics died today in a New York hotel. Huntington obituary notes his influence and career.
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