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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1957
Page
2
Fragments indicate a brief item from The News in Walkersville with mentions of Liberty PTA and a Tuesday date. The readable text is sparse and unsettled, offering few concrete details about events or outcomes.
The piece highlights how US Department of Agriculture research turns hog fat into practical goods. It credits hog byproducts with soap in the interwar era, ammunition in WWII, then plastics, reducing surpluses. Experts note ongoing hog breeding aims to ease fat excess and support peaceful progress.
Fragmentary report notes the illness of Mr Ric Cherokee 2 with pneumonia and flu at Frederick Memorial morning. Mentions Daniel J Utz of New York and Mrs P Luther Rice on West Third Street with hospitalised patients and a church minister leaving for a hospital for surgery.
Readers urge limits on use of eminent domain by states for public roads and pipelines. Letters discuss preventing private harm from public good, studying procedures for acquisitions, compensation, and deterrence of speculation, with calls for legislative action and school funding concerns.
Busy Fairgrounds with expositions as tents rise and entries pour into the Household Department. Prohibition Mass Meeting on Market Space led by county chairman Jacob L Engelbrecht with W W Fritz delivering a gubernatorial speech. Cardinal Gibbons conferred at Braddock and Petersville with 107 con firmations. North Market Street School Literary Society debated whether fire is more destructive than water with G Lease G Glessner A Seerer vs H Gilberti and R Worthington. Mr Douglass went to Philadelphia and returned by fine automobile to Fre.
The Board of Aldermen adopts an ordinance establishing parking meter zones and votes to total 150 meter units funded by a material basis purchase. The action faces veto concerns from Niaz over the purchase of the authorized meter type. The report also notes city leadership remarks and unrelated historical items.
Two weddings were held on October 5. Mr. and Mrs Fugie Taneywo and Ben Aurroughs announced the marriage at Ridge Lutheran with Moyer officiating, as Emmitsburg residents attended. Barbara Shoemaker and Shirley Ann Shoemaker were among the brides in Jackson County settings, with Rev. Albert Burks presiding.
Jeffersonian Democratic Ladies Auxiliary hosts Charter Night at the Francis Scott Key Hotel with guest speaker J Ferdinand Sybert attorney general. About 200 attendees expected, social hour at 6 30 dinner at 7 20. Local and state Democratic figures attend and a committee leads arrangements.
A fragmentary social column lists neighbors and relatives in Brunswick Frederick and nearby towns. Mentions engagements visits houseguests roasts and dinners with names and streets and notes travel and wartime service references among local families and guests over a recent week.
Frederick police report the death of Grayson Stine Abrecht 58 of 28 Trails Avenue Airs from a heart attack. He left home, returned shortly, then collapsed in the basement while repairing a chair. An ambulance and Dr. James Thomas confirmed death. Survived by wife Viola, son Grayson M., brother Robert N., three grandchildren, and nieces and nephews. Funeral services set for Thursday at 2 PM at the East Patrick Street funeral home with Mt. Olivet cemetery burial.
William G Seipler 47 died suddenly at home in Lantz after illness. Survived by wife Dorothy Jane Rupert Seipler and three children Vietor Ronald and Judy. Also surviving siblings and other relatives. Funeral at Thurmont funeral home with Friday 2:30 p.m. service by Rev Elmer Andrews. interment United Brethren cemetery. Also notices: Carroll Franklin Bittner six, James Monroe Weedon 76, and Barbara E Colliflower funeral services noted. Corin Fox and Rohua Fox services listed. multiple local obituaries with details of survivors and burial plans.
Side Glances shows U S Army proto scientific activities and William M L Gaver urging Col on colonel Moore to donate to reach the $5,000 target. Grothaus joins Moore urging all individuals to give from their hearts to keep Fort Derrick over the top in all drives.
The murder trial of Robert Jett Van Horn in Towson Maryland was delayed at the request of Baltimore County State's Attorney Frank Newell III to next Monday. Van Horn, a 32 year old Baltimore lumber executive, is charged with slaying his wife Bernice Ward Van Horn near their Shawnan estate last June 1. Police say she was beaten to death and found on a dirt road off the Baltimore Harrisburg Expressway. Van Horn pleaded innocent claiming insanity at the time. The postponement was due to unavailable doctors and 23 witnesses have been summoned for the state and defense.
The government party candidate declared victory as president of Guatemala while his main opponent alleged fraud.
The 23rd annual Hallowe en masquerade party will be held at the Braddock Heights roller rink on Saturday evening October 26 from 8 to 1 P M. Prizes for prettiest funniest and most original costumes. Refreshments will be served and prizes given to all skaters.
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