Fifty Years Ago News from The News-Post October 24 1913
Fifty years ago items note child scalding from boiling water, a man found dead with a chin wound, and Franklin Heck two year old. A Brunswick window display by HLF Shipley, a massive 205 ton locomotive moving toward Cumberland for tests, Frederick police in summer attire, large crowds at the fair grounds, a theft of shoes, frost at 34 degrees, county commissioners inspecting Adams to Buckeystown road, poultry losses at the fair, and A C Payne critically injured by a brick in Knoxville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin Heck
Webster Heck
Randolph Cooper
Brunswick
Hlf. Shipley
Rosenour
Market
Church Streets
Cumberland
Frederick
William O. 8Uter
Buckeystown
Adams, Town
Buckeystown Pike
Nevilla Brish
A.C. Payne
Frederick City Hospital
Biggest Airlift Demonstrates U S Readiness to Aid Allies
More than 200 air transports carried the U S Second Armored Division from Texas and Oklahoma bases while Maine refueling planes supported the mission on the way to Germany. The exercise, costing about 20 million dollars, aimed to show swift U S power to aid allies and deter Soviet rivals.
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U.S. Second Armored Division
Texas
Oklahoma
Maine
Germany
Atlantic
Soviet Union
United States
U.S. Third Armored Division
Tax Rise Boosts NYC Sales Volume Despite Higher Rate
New York City observed a 34.66 percent increase in revenue after a sales tax rose from 3 to 4 cents per dollar on June 1. Officials note the tax hike coincided with more than five percent higher sales volume, suggesting higher rates may not deter buying and could justify raises elsewhere.
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New York City
Freedom of Speech Letter From Frederick Readers
A letter to The News argues freedom of speech should not be stifled within the Methodist pulpit. Mr and Mrs Marshall Dick of 1401 Pinewood Drive sign the Oct 23 1963 correspondence praising open discussion and referencing John Wesley's 1738 founding.
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John Wesley
Methodist Church
Frederick
Marshall Dick
Pinewood Drive
Disney Star Annette Funicello Turns Twenty One
AP reports former Mousketeer Annette Funicello, once under contract with Walt Disney, collected 46 950 in savings bonds at 21. Bonds covered 20 percent of her Disney contract earnings. She plans to buy her parents a new car and then some clothes.
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Los Angeles
Annette Funicello
Superior Court
Walt Disney
Miss Funicello
Disney
Rivers and Monogsey Rivers Run Low in Maryland Report
The Potomac at Point of Rocks is clear and very low while the Monocacy River at Buckeystown remains dirty and very low, indicating unusually low water levels in the region.
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Potomac
Buckeystown
Twenty Years Ago Items From The News Post Files
The 1943 items recount German forces near entrapment in the Dnieper area and a wartime coal appeal for Frederick city. Local draft boards plan Fort Meade inductions, war bond book registrations set for October 28 and 29, Florida citrus crops expected to meet last year’s volume, and mayor Gittinger weighing a tax abatement veto. Also notes on a Frederick YMCA dance for 100 plus youths, upset bids filed with the NLRB by the Teamsters Union over Western Electric worker elections, and a 17 year old injured in Catonsville industrial accident.
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Dnieper
Frederick City
Solid Fuels Administration
Fort Meade
Florida
Hugh V. Gittinger
Board of Aldermen
Frederick County Agricultural Society
Ames Dosh
Dorothy F. Desh
North Market Street
St. Agnes Hospital
Baltimore
Catonsville
Missionary Leader to Speak at Second Annual Conference
Rev. Joseph McCaba founder director of Evangelical Baptist Missions will headline the Second Annual Missionary Conference at People's Baptist Church this evening through Saturday. He has 30 years in missions, notably Niger Colony and Djerma language work. A film The Niger Nomad airs Saturday at 7 30 p.m. sponsored by Teens for Christ.
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Joseph McCaba
Evangelical Baptist Missions
People’s Baptist Church
McCaba
Niger Colony
French West Africa
Djerma
Hausa
Algeria
French West Indies
Canada
Syria
France
United Staes
Baptist Bible Seminary
Johnson City
New York
Western, Baptist Bible College
el Cerrito
California
British and Foreign Bible Society of
London
England
F For Christ
U S Plane Crashes In Viet Nam
An Air Force transport plane crashed and burned about 65 miles south of Saigon, killing all four American crewmen and four Vietnamese airmen aboard. It followed another fatal air accident weeks earlier near Saigon.
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Saigon
Viet Nam
South Viet Nam
U.S. Marine Corps
Local health updates and legal notes from the region
Among The Sick Mr Bernard Sier of Reichs Ford road is in satisfactory condition at Frederick Memorial Hospital after surgery Monday. Mrs Catherine Main improves at her North Court street home following a stroke Saturday. In Baltimore a 54 year old nightclub operator Solomon Goodman is acquitted of helping arrange an illegal abortion linked to a teacher’s death. A London committee urges Britain to spend 4 billion to nearly double university enrollment by 1981, boosting from 32 to 60 institutions and 560000 students. Dick Sleichter wins the Middle Atlantic PGA title at Chartwell CC with 139 for 36 holes, one stroke ahead of Paul Haviland and Cos Tiso tied for second at 140.
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Bernard Sier
Reich's
Ford Road
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Catherine Main
North Court Street
Baltimore
New Jersey
J. Harold Grady
Solomon Goodman
Goodman
London
Britain
United States
Ebritain
Hagerstown
Dick Sleichter
Sleichter
Chartwell Country Club
Paul Haviland
Maryland Golf and Country Club
Cos Tiso
Base View
Baltimore Symphony Plays To Large Audiences Here
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra performed three concerts in Frederick County, drawing standing room only crowds. Conductor Peter Herman Adler led Berlioz Rome Carnival Overture Liszt Piano Concerto in A major and Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition with Agi Rado as soloist. The reviewer praised the soloist and the orchestra but urged more new music and longer conductor tenure for lasting style.
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Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Tivoli
Frederick County
Frederick
Maryland
Peter Herman Adler
Berlioz
Liszt
Moussorgsky
Agi Rado
Agi Kado
Pearance
America
Baltimore Symphon
Adler
Cleveland Orchestra
George Szell
Baltimore
John D. Ramaley
American student says he was well treated in East German jail
Robert Mann, 20, of Sepulveda California, reports 21 months in Communist East Germany left him nervous but physically well. He described being jailed on a “luring away” charge and appeared pale and halting at a news conference in West Berlin’s U.S. mission after his release yesterday.
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U.S
Mann
Red
West Berlin
Notable Figures Comment On Peace And Politics
AP reports from multiple bureaus on Erskine Caldwell meeting Bulgarian writers during a three day stopover in Sofia and Jackie Robinson pledging support to New York Governor Nixon. Bob Hope plans to entertain American troops in South Vietnam. Nelson Rockefeller critiques California growth and U Thant reflects on 18 years of UN progress in a birthday message.
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Associated Press
Sofia
Bulgaria
Erskine Caldwell
Caldwell
Moscow
Buffalo
N.Y
Jackie Robinson
Brooklyn Dodgers
New York
Robinson
Connecticut
New York State
Hollywood
Bob Hope
Santa Claus
South Viet Nam
Hope
Australia
San Francisco
Nelson A. Rockefeller
United Nations
U Thant
U.N
U.n.s
Thant
Storage tips and egg quality from Q Corner
Readers learn canned goods keep nutrients best in cooler spots but not always available. Eggs: size does not indicate quality. grades AA and A are best for frying and poaching while Grade B is suited for scrambling and baking.
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U. S. Dept. of Agriculture
U.S.D.A
Capacity audience for Aldersgate celebration at Calvary Methodist
A capacity audience is anticipated this evening for the Aldersgate celebration at the Calvary Methodist Church. All Methodist churches in the city and county participate, and members of other churches are invited. The service honors John Wesley’s spiritual conversion and begins at 8 p.m. Bishops W. Earl Ledden and Edgar A. Love will speak. Charles J. Warner will direct a 100-voice Wesley hymn choir.
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Aldersgate
Calvary Methodist Church
John Wesley
W. Earl Ledden
Edgar A. Love
Charles J. Warner
Wesley
Drunken Driving Charge Dropped After Delayed Test
A Montgomery County man had his drunken driving charge dropped after testimony showed a preliminary test was administered more than two hours after the arrest. The case centers on timing of the field test related to the arrest in Ow Hill Maryland.
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OW Hill
Montgomery County
Deaths Mrs Daisy Barr former Charles Town native
Mrs Daisy Devolia Barr widow of Robert McKeage Barr died early Monday at Tripler Army General Hospital Hawaii after a lengthy illness. Born in Charles Town West Virginia she was 70. Surviving: son Commander Robert McK Barr Jr. two sisters two brothers and a grandson. Funeral Saturday at 10 am at her brother’s home 1201 North Market Street Charles Town with interment in Edge Hill Cemetery.
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Robert McK. Barr
Daisy Devolia Barr
Robert McKeage Barr
Army General Hospital
Oahu
Hawaii
Charles Town
W. Va
Robert Lee
Ruth Earl Dailey
Robert McK. Barr Jr
U.S. Navy
E. Barr Forward
High Point
N.C
John C. Long
Hagerstown
Robert £. Dailey
Frederick
Joseph E. Dailey
Blue Ridge Summit
Barr
Methodist Church
Robert E. Dailey
North Market Street
Ralph M. Sharpe
Calvary Methodist Church
Edge Hill Cemetery
Multiple Obsequies Recited For Region Residents
Funeral services were held for Roger R. Rothenhoefer Sr. at 2 p.m. Friday with interment in Lewistown Methodist Cemetery. Miss Mary E. Hine's services followed at Jefferson United Church of Christ with Homemaker's Club and other groups attending. Clyde B. Johnson was laid to rest in Fredrick Memorial Park Cloister after services in Seattle. Horace Clark Simpson's rites took place at Union Bridge funeral home with interment in Uniontown Lutheran cemetery.
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Calvary Methodist Church
Martin Ritchie
Raymond Ford
Ritchie
Blanche Jackson
Earle Bowers
Albert Powell
Margaret Bell
Grace Stup
Edna Myers
Howard Gerrich
Roger R
Barney) Rothenhoefer Sr
East Church Street
Lewistown Methodist Cemetery
M. R. Etchison and Son
Mary E. (Mollie) Hine
Jefferson
Jefferson United Church of Christ
Bronson Staley
Homemaker's Club of
Toilers Bible Class
Womens Club
Samaritan Rebekah Lodge
Louis
Henry Hine
Carl Keller
John Lindsay
Edward Baumgardner
Henry Keller
Reformed
Horace Clark Simpson
Uniontown
Union Bridge
D. D. Hartzler
Ship attacked off Cuba by Cuban planes during 61 minute strafing
Captain Gerhard Krause of the ore ship SS J. Louis recounts a night-long assault off the Cuban coast. He describes gunfire as waves of planes strafed the vessel for about 61 minutes, with two-inch holes along the right side and deck. No crew were reported wounded.
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Bob M. Galloway
Corpus Christi
Tex
Gerhard Krause
Cuba
Krause
J. Louis
Cuban
Will Urbanus
Netherlands
U.S. Coast Guard
Urbanus
Coast Guard
Galveston
Havana
Hamburg
Germany
Fiantra
Universe Tankships, Ind
New York
Caribbean Steamship Co
Reynolds Metals Co
Greek Poet Seferis Wins 1963 Nobel Prize in Literature
The Royal Swedish Academy awarded Giorgos Seferis the 1963 Nobel Prize in literature for his eminent lyrical writing inspired by Hellenic culture. Seferis, 63, becomes Greece’s first Nobel laureate in this category, receiving 285000 crown prize.
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Stockholm
Giorgos Seferis
Seferis
Royal Swedish Literary Academy
Selenis
Academy
Anders Osterling
Morocco King Offers to Meet Ben Bella Anywhere
King Hassan II said he would meet Algerian President Ahmed Ben Bella anywhere with no prior conditions to end bloodshed between Morocco and Algeria. He urged Ben Bella to quit undermining the Moroccan regime as fighting erupted near Hassi Beida in the contested Northwest Sahara zone. Hassan warned against Algeria's socialist shift, calling it a dangerous virus in North African politics while asserting readiness to use peaceful means to stop the fratricidal conflict.
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Marrakesh
Morocco
Hassan II
Ahmed Ben Bella
Ben Bella
Hassan
Saharan
Hassi Beida
Sahara
Algera
France
Algeria
Big Lift Nears Completion In Historic U.S. Troop Airlift
Frankfurt dispatch reports Exercise Big Lift advancing rapidly with 162 of 234 transports carrying 10,109 troops of the 2nd Armored Division to bases in West Germany and France. Officials expect finish before the 72 hour deadline as plans call for most of the airlift to be complete by 10 p.m. Eastern time.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Texas
Iron Curtain
2Nd Armored Division
West Germany
France
Bergstrom Air Force Base
Austin
Tex
Army
Air Force
U.S
Bergstrom Base
R. H. Safford
Predicts Trouble For Johnson
Senator Thruston Morton hints at a Democratic purge of Vice President Lyndon Johnson amid Washington oddities noted at the Federation of Republican Women of Maryland convention in Baltimore. He cites the abrupt departure of Secretary of the Navy Fred Korth and the resignation of Bobby Baker as suggesting stirring times.
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Baltimore
Thruston B. Morton
Lyndon Johnson
Washington
Morton
Federation of Republican Women of Maryland
Navy
Fred Korth
Bobby Baker
Senate
Lyndon
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