War Dads seek 1000 dollar honor roll appropriation
At a regular meeting the Mayor and Aldermen approved a 1000 dollar appropriation to pay a third of the cost of erecting an honor roll for Frederick County service members, contingent on a county match. War Dads spokesmen included Wachter Klein Kicheberger Singte and Putman. County Commissioners Geisbert and Hooper attended.
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Frederick
War Dads
Winchester Hall
Are Horees Fesent
Leonard G. Wachter
C. Cyril Klein
Louis £. Kicheberger
George C. Singte
Robert E. L. Putman
Charles G. Geisbert
A. Grant Hooper
Patrick Street
Monroe Avenue
W. Jerome Offutt
William J. Davis
Russell H. McCain
William B. Leichert
Frederick County Committee For Economic Development
Alfred E. Fimemremanstra
East Ninth Street
W. Raymond Walter
St. John’s Church
Walter
Fred Straley
Ouf
Posthumous Purple Heart for Cpl. Ramsburg Revealed
The Purple Heart was awarded posthumously to Cpl. Claude T. Ramsburg who died in Augusta France at age 21. His wife Mrs. Ethel Ramsburg of 18 Franklin Street received the medal and a letter from Pvt. Charles Fogle, a long-time friend from Woodsboro. Ramsburg and Fogle enlisted together in 1941 with Company A 115th Infantry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claude T. Ramsburg
Augusta
France
Ethel M. Showe Ramsburg
Franklin Street
Charles Fogle
Woodsboro
Cpl
Ramsburg
Pvt. Fogle
Company A
115Th Infantry
Express-ng
Ine Uvala
Pvt
Fogle
Cpl. Ramsburg
Norman Ramsburg
Thurmont
Public Health Building Sheds Light on Damascus Plan
Dr. W L Ellicott Montgomery County health officer urged the Rockville board to approve a 310000 public health building in Damascus to replace the inadequate basement clinic used by white children. He warned cafeteria space is needed for patients and described the current setup as unacceptable amid long-standing controversy.
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Damascus
W. L. Ellicott
Montgomery County
Board of County Commissioners
Rockville
Ellicott
Abcou
Sant Ellicott
Sv de
Deaf School Graduate Serves Overseas in France
Cpl Wagner son of Mrs. Edith Scott of 24 Broadway is in France now. He was employed at the Maryland School for the Deaf before entering service May 7, 1943.
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Cpl Wagner
Edith Scott
Broadway
France
Maryland School For the Deaf
Pfc. Boyer
Violet M Boyer
Frederick
Route 3
Army Air Forces Central
Laredo Army Air Field
Laredo
Tex
Vets to Get Home Loans After Appraisal Rule
Washington announces new Veterans Administration home loan rules under the G I Bill of Rights. Loans guaranteed only after appraisal determines reasonably normal value. If guarantee denied, lender may still make the loan without guarantee. The total guaranteed amount is set at 2 000. K of E election held as St John’s Council Knights of Columbus installs officers and plans bazaar for December 7 and 2.
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Washington
Veterans Administration
Frank T. Hines
Hines
St. John's Council
Knights of Columbus
Charles E. Corcoran
James A. Swannon
Rack Creek
Farmers Degree Awarded to Raymond Poole
Raymond Poole of Poolesville received the Maryland Farmers Degree for leadership and project work at the State F F A Banquet held in Frederick.
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Raymond Poole
Poolesville
Frederick
Woently
Pacific Front Memoir From Fitzpatrick At Rotary
Lieutenant Commander John R. Fitzpatrick, back from a 30 000 mile Pacific tour, described coral atolls and New Guinea jungles with glamour yet noted the grueling toil of troops. He spoke at the Francis Scott Key hotel on weather heat rain and mildew and the varied housing from Quonset huts to hotels in the Pacific.
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Frederick
Cammander John R. Fitzpatrick
South Pacific
New Guinea
Rotary Club
Francis Scott Key
Pacific
Cam. Fitzpatrick
Bargate
Tarawa
Fitzpatrick
Marshall Islands
Lord Baltimore
Navy
Hawa
Palmer House
Fitzpatrice
Cam
Anes
Com. Fitzpatrick
William
Bennett
Rokkaike
G.O.P. Gains Shown in Frederick County Registration
Net Republican gains appear in 39 of 60 precincts as registration figures show the GOP reducing the Democratic majority to 7 824. Democrats total 16 574 voters to 15 459 in 1942, while Republicans rise to 12 746 from 12 079. Major gains include Walkersville 47 and Emmitsburg 78. Brunswick and Woodsboro show several increases.
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Frederick County
Walkersville
Linganore
Tuscarora
Johnsville
Jackson
Hanvers
Jefferson
Liberty
Emmitsburg
Buckeystown
Frederick 1-A
Middletown
Brunswick
Woodsboro
Petersville
G.O.P
New Market
Hauvers
Juuneville
Frederick
Jay
Creagerstown
Acad
Catoctin
Urbana
Woodville
Lewistown
Washington
Burkittsville
Ballenger
Fifth
Braddock
John J. Sheehan
U. S
Bureau of
Patton narrowly escapes a German railway shell
General George S. Patton Jr. survives a near miss when a massive 700 pound railway shell lands eight feet from him on the Third Army front in France. The shell, a dud, underscores German harassing fire as Frontline dispatches reveal the gun’s era-old origin and wide drift across Nancy Metz regions.
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Third Army
France
George 5S. Patton, Jr
Patton
Pont-a- Mousson
Nancy
Metz
Berkeley Springs man wins bronze star for action in France
Gets Medal 73 Cain son of Mr and Mrs Brent Cain of Berkeley Springs West Virginia employed by Potomac Edison Company before entering service in October 1942 awarded bronze star for meritorious conduct in action in France July 1 Corp Cain maintained wire installations at his command post waves of enemy bombers disrupted communications he left his post to reestablish the wire network under fire in the war zone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cain
Brent Cain
Berkeley Springs
W. Va
Potomac Edison Company
France
Corp
Dead fish seen again in Monocacy river below disposal plant
Regional Game Warden Benjamin Phebus reported fresh fish kills in the Monocacy River near the city disposal plant. Workmen recovered bass and carp from a tub near Jug Bridge while a trail of dead minnows and larger fish appeared upstream and downstream, prompting a formal complaint to the State Conservation Department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benjamin F. Phebus
Monocacy
Phebus
Jug Bridge
Frederick County Fish and Game Protective Association
Worman
State Conservation Department
Jews Suffer in Hungary Refugee Plight Warned
Washington reports about 200000 Hungarian refugees, nearly all Jews, may not survive the coming weeks. War Refugee Board executive secretary John W. Pehle warns the current military and political turmoil threatens their lives as German forces reshuffle government control.
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Washington
Hungary
John W. Pehle
War Refugee Board
Manderane Harn
English birth rate rises to 19.3 per thousand in latest quarter
England's birth rate stood at 19.3 per 1 000 population for the three months ending June 30, announced by the registrar-general's office. This compares with 17.5 in the same period last year and 17.9 in the first quarter of the year.
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London
England
Registrar-General
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