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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1956
Page
5
The National Geographic Society data show Europeans ahead in life expectancy. Dutch women average 72.9 years and American women 72.7. American men at 66.6 years rank seventh, behind Dutch, Norwegians, Swedes, New Zealanders, Danes, and Czechs, reflecting ongoing heavy labor demands.
The Kiwanis Club of Mount Airy presents Kiwanis Kapers a two act show with new songs jokes dances and acts at Mount Airy High School auditorium on October 25 and 26. Proceeds go to the club welfare fund featuring local talent led by Eddie Parlett. A separate note reports a state police investigation into a breaking and entering at Tuscarora Red and Goo Club near Point of Rocks prompted by a report from Lloyd Jones of Dickerson.
Francis T Rhodes a well known Frederick resident who started the city's first soda fountain died at his West Second street home at age 71. He long served as Evangelical Reformed church sexton and later as chime ringer, organized the Frederick Cornet Band, and held roles with the Junior Fire Company and City Opera House.
An ordinance authorizing Potomac Edison Company to discontinue trolley service and substitute bus operations was adopted by the mayor and aldermen. A peace meeting at Mt. Vernon Place Methodist heard Rev. Dr. Albert Edward Day discuss war alternatives, with women predominating in attendance. Obituaries note the passing of Allen James of Detroit, a former county official.
At McMurdo Sound Antarctica a group of sailors voted in the U S presidential election while others found their mail envelopes contained ballot applications only. Ballots already cast for those voters were flown to New Zealand and forwarded home. An advance party travels toward Little America as a crevasse detector accompanies the ground expedition.
Washington dispatch notes Moscow backs Adlai Stevenson call to halt H-bomb tests as part of a disarmament plan. Soviet delegate Sobelov says Russia would join stoppage without broader pact, while US and British leaders seek an overall agreement with inspection to ensure compliance. The piece stresses bipartisan politics and Soviet propaganda use of US election outcomes.
West Virginia State Assembly of the Daughters of the American Colonists and the West Virginia Society, Daughters of the American Revolution meet in Martinsburg. DAC opens a two day session tomorrow while DAR begins a three day session on Tuesday with national and state officers as speakers.
In Fairmont West Virginia the Hanna case neared its end as government witnesses testified regarding income tax evasion charges against Homer W Hanna a leading state Democrat. Special agent F Leo Bumgardner described Hanna Insurance Agency tax filing gaps from 1930 to 1954 and disputes over who filed. The clerk of the Southern District U S Court Edgar McCandless is on trial in the Northern District U S Court.
Flickinger and others faced jail terms after a magistrate found Blank guilty for resisting officers and fighting in the jail. John E. Harper was acquitted of public intoxication. Hazel Denmark and John Potts received jail time or suspensions, with several defendants forfeiting collateral for public intoxication or interfering with an officer.
Miss Rhoda Cullelan of Emmitsburg and Leaking were admitted to Anni Warner Hospital Gettysburg Pennsylvania. John Jordan of Emmitsburg was discharged from the same hospital.
Trial Magistrate’s court Monday forfeited collateral for numerous traffic offenses. Benjamin W. Salt of Harrisonburg and Douglas E. Lamond of College Park paid fines for speeding and expired licenses. Several others from Hagerstown Baltimore Frostburg and nearby areas were cited for reckless driving speeding and disobeying traffic devices with fines listed, including earnings for plates and extreme right deviations.
The Associated Press reports a mix of rain and fair conditions nationwide. Rain impacted the Northeast and Far Northwest with heavy totals in Pennsylvania, including 14 inches in Philipsburg during a six hour span. Showers clouded the Middle Atlantic today while the South and Atlantic states saw fair, mild conditions and fog lingered in the eastern Great Lakes and Ohio Valley.
Maryland State Police report a warrant for 27 year old Virginian Wilson Otis Atwell in a Tidewater Fisheries Commission inspector shooting on the Potomac River. Atwell is said to be apprehended and held by Virginia State Police as of the report. John W. Stone, 60, was sentenced to 60 days in county jail for public intoxication after court hearings. Lester Clark, son of Union Bridge residents, serves at Naval Auxiliary Air Station Chula Vista. Keystone Shoe Store marks 25th Frederick anniversary with local manager Leroy Remsey continuing the family business on North Market Street.
The Youth Fellowship of the Ev angelical Reformed church volunteered a day’s work in Middletown last Saturday and donated $110 to the church benevolent fund. Participants cleaned yards and washed windows, then offered the earnings at church services as part of the denomination’s national youth program. Also noted is Valley Memorial Am vets Post No 9’s 10th anniversary banquet and dance, with installation of officers led by Commander John H Hedges and a renovated Post Home, detailing past commanders and current officers.
Ansel B. Solenberger, 49, in a wheelchair, was sentenced to 72 years in prison with 16 years to be served, for illegal financial manipulations totaling 66,027 and a false sworn statement to the State Corporation Commission. The case involves nine indictments. notes indicate total gains may reach 232,226. Solenberger, former building and loan firm official, pleaded guilty October 12 to multiple counts. The judge noted concurrent terms reduce the total time served.
A midnight explosion at the Magnolia Refinery in Beaumont Texas ignited a gasoline fire that raged for about ninety minutes. Two workers were critically burned as flames rose 100 feet high from roughly 16000 gallons of gasoline. Public relations officials said the unit is vital to gasoline production and damage may force a shutdown for an undetermined period. The refinery ranks among the largest on the Texas Gulf Coast.
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