Halloween Parade Prizes Spark Local Debate in Frederick
Letters to The News criticize the $35 first prize for civic bands in the Frederick Halloween Parade while Senior High School bands earn $150. Citizens argue tax-supported school bands deserve equal respect and funding, and civic bands should be valued for community service as Browningsville Band highlights its 1884 origins and 80 years of public entertainment.
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Uates
Robert L. Shipley
East Third Street
the News
Frederick
Browningsville Cornet Band
Merhle P. Pickett
Basil B. Day
Dwight T. Walker
Steel Price Clash Spurs Grand Jury Probe
The Kennedy administration weighs new actions on steel prices as a U.S. grand jury subpoenas major producers. Critics say government should let market forces decide, not pursue selective price control, framing a fresh clash after past industry tensions.
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White House
U.S
Kennedy
U. S. Steel
Computers Track Taxpayers in Seven Southern States
The IRS used electronic computers in the Atlanta office to process seven million returns as part of a new data processing program. Despite numerous mistakes, honesty prevailed with only one case deemed prosecutable, while district collections rose 83 percent in the year ending June 30.
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Internal Revenue Service
Southeastern
Atlantic
Atlanta
Letters To The Editor Praises Aldersgate Service At Calvary Church
A reader praises the Aldersgate service at Calvary Methodist Church on Oct 24 noting the Wes- ley conversion commemoration and the uplifting preaching by Bishop Edgar Love. The event featured a 100-voice choir under Charles J Walker and reinforced church efforts toward racial integration through fellowship and song.
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Aldersgate
Calvary Church
Calvary Methodist Church
John Wesley
Earl Ledden
Wesley
Edgar Love
Jesus
Charles J. Warker
Ralph M. Sharpe
Frederick City
Christian Fellowship
1963 Browningsville Band Engages 27 Concerts and Parades
The Browningsville Band completed a 1963 season with 27 engagements including 18 concerts and nine parades across Maryland from June to October. Organized in 1884 by William A. Walker, the volunteer group marks its 80th year of service and stresses member attendance for quality performances.
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Browningsville Cornet
Maryland
William A. Walker
Browningsville
Browningsville Band Sees Strong Attendance and Prizes in 1913
With 48 active members the 1963 season averaged 83 percent attendance, four members at 100 percent, and over 92 percent for 23 others. Highlights included a Baker Park concert before a capacity crowd and a Mullinix Park performance. The band won first and second prizes in two parades. Directed by Basil B. Day with Dwight T. Walker as assistant, funds support musical supplies and instruments for the non profit group.
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Baker Park
Mullinix Park
Browningsville
Basil B. Day
Dwight T. Walker
Twenty Years Ago A Weather, War, and City Update
Rainfall of 2.05 inches fell in the city, then winds chilled the air. Admiral Nimitz called New Guinea-Solo Mon area a sinkhole for the Japs and said Allied victory seemed certain. War notes report Air Force loss under five percent since July 1942 from Britain bases. Books in city and county schools await reissuance of War Emergency Book 4. Dimout restrictions to be abolished November 1. American planes claim 58 Japanese planes down at Rabaul. Britons unbothered by October 8 Luftwaffe assault on London. Yeoman Harry L. Decker reports to his mother. City Opera House lease extended to Warner Bros. Stanley Co. to Sept 30, 1950 at $6,800 yearly.
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New Guinea - Solomons
Chester W. Nimitz
United States Pacific Fleet
Stimson
U.S. Air Force
Great Britain
Pacific
Atlantic Gulf
Pacific Coast
Rabaul
New Britain
London
Harry L. Decker
Mary H. Decker
Board of Aldermen
City Opera House
Stanley Co. of America
Warner Bros
Widow Pleads For Belongings From Dying Husband Victim
In Virginia a double fatal Route 15 crash spurred a widow to beg for the return of her husband Eugene Haynes suitcase and boxes of personal belongings. Police seek a Negro man in a two tone Chevy with Maryland plates who fled the scene after taking items valued mainly for family sentiment. Mrs. Haynes offers no questions asked and asks information be sent to 187 Kentucky Street Buffalo New York. The rest of the page notes 4-H club activity and local military family moves.
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Route 15
Virginia
Eugene Haynes
Buffalo
N. Y
Maryland
Betty Sue Haynes
Kentucky Street
Buffalo 4
Dickerson Man Shot By His Wife
A 38 year old Dickerson man was shot in the left shoulder by his wife while in bed at about 6 45 a m He was reported in satisfactory condition at Suburban Hospital Montgomery County Police said William T Davis was shot as the couple had returned home about two hours earlier The weapon appeared to be a .22 rifle authorities stated Cabbage palm is noted as a common name for the palmetto palm in the southeastern United States.
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Frederick
A. Atlee Radcliff
Hammond Clary
Rockwell Terrace
Ruth St. Mullinix
R.E. Delaplaine
Elizabeth Rumpf
East Fifth Street
Potomac River
United States
Brunswick
Point of Rocks
W.C. Langswet
Engineering Corps
Carlton Palmer
Myersville
Marshall L. Etchison
Edward J. Winebrewer
South Market Street
Glenn H. Worthington
Katherine Blumenauer
William Best
Oliver Best
Buckeystown
T.C. Routson
Young Best
Methodist Episcopal Church
Pearl
B. F. Rubley
Charles W. Zimmerman
Dickerson
Montgomery County
William T. Davis
Davis
Virginia
William Morrison
Ofc
Joseph Ganley
Southeastern
River Conditions Report at Point of Rocks and Buckeystown
The Potomac runs clear and very low at Point of Rocks while the Monocacy is dirty and very low at Buckeystown, indicating drought conditions and limited water flow on both streams. Observers note clarity and turbidity differences between the two waterways in this regional update.
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Potomac
Buckeystown
Funeral services for Jerry D. Miller to be held in Littlestown
Funeral services for 9 year old Jerry D. Miller of near Taneytown, killed in a farm accident, will be held Wednesday at 10 a.m. from Little Funeral Home in Littlestown, with Rev. Dr. Paul E. Rhinehart and Rev. A. W. Garvin officiating. Interment in Union Cemetery Keysville. Friends may call at the funeral home this evening.
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Jerry D. Miller
Taneytown
Donald B. Miller
Little Funeral Home
Littlestown
Paul E. Rhinehart
William Raymond Wilson
Annie M. Warner
Gettysburg
O. Fuss and Son Funeral Home
Wilbur M. Whalen
Donald Six
Francis Sharrer
Reginald Lowman
Gus Shank
Homer Degroft
Russell Adkins
Uniontown Church of God
Benjamin C. Howard
Olivia Larkins Howard
Parkwood Place
N. W
Washington D. C
Washington Hospital Center
Frederick
Maria Butler Larkins
Grayson Larkins
Freedman’s Hospital School of Nursing
Washington
First Missionary Baptist Church
Bethel Baptist Church
Florence Spriggs
Woodford and Morrow Funeral Home
Lth Street
Hicks Funeral Home
E. T. Houston
Fairview Cemetery
C. E. Hicks III
Elmer B. Soloman
Constitution Ave
N.E
Washington, D. C
Casualty Hospital
Mabel Z. Soloman
Mary Alice Soloman
Lambert Faulk
William Press
Marie Fairchild
Lee
4Th
Massachusetts Ave
Frederick Memorial Park
Hubert F. Smith
Ardella F. Smith
RFD 1
Middletown
Washington County Hospital
Keedysville
Otis R
Esther Roland Long
Zittlestown Church of God
Hubert R. Smith
Charles Smith
Roscoe Hutzell
Boonsboro
William Glass
Francis Shafer
Rohrersville
Lloyd Martz
Hagerstown
Otis R. Long
Irvin R. Long
Martinsburg
East Funeral Home
William A. Herpich
Harry Angle
Prominent Woman Is Found Dead in Midland Home
Mrs. Fred Turner wife of oilman and race horse owner was found dead at her Midland home. Neighbors alerted after the maid reported entry trouble. A young Black intruder fled after striking Mrs. Scharbauer. Turner was away in Las Vegas. Turner owned the Derby winner Tomy Lee in 1959.
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Midland
Tex
Fred Turner
Clarence Scharbauer
Scharbauers
Toor Company Expands Shoe Plant at Hanover Pa
Contracts signed for an addition to the H O Toor Shoe Corp plant in Hanover Pennsylvania extending the one floor factory by 166 feet. About 200 more workers will be needed when complete. The expansion brings total space to 30 000 square feet including the warehouse. The Emmitsburg plant was recently doubled in size as part of a broader expansion across plants in South Beloit Illinois Read ing Annville and Bernville Pennsylvania.
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H.O. Toor Shoe Corp
Hanover
Harold Q. Toor
Freeman- Toor Corp
Toor
Emmitsburg
South Beloit
Reading
Annville
Bernville
Frostburg Issue Brought to the Board in Political Bickering
County commissioners face criticism over refusing revenue bonds to fund a 40 million plant to be leased by Revere Copper and Brass Co. The plan pledges no cost to the county. Governor Tawes urges end to partisan bickering and careful consideration. Separate notes report a magistrate case and a death-sentence commutation in Montgomery County.
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Revere Copper and Brass Co
Maryland
Tawes
Anne Arundel
Baltimore County
Howard Muhl
Montgomery County
Local health notes and a former tax official obituary
Among the sick at Frederick Memorial Hospital are A B Collmus from College Place and George Lewis Sr of West Fourteenth street, both receiving treatment with visitors limited for the heart patient. 13 year old Martha LaRue Etzler near Fengaville is confined with hepatitis. Frank B Coakley, 66, former New York City tax commissioner under Mayor Walker, died after a brief illness in Princeton New Jersey.
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College Place
Frederick Memorial Hospital
George Lewis Sr
West Fourteenth Street
Martha LaRue Etzler
Elmer Etzler
Fengaville
Princeton
Frank B. Coakley
New York
Jimmy Walker
Eisenhower Elected Chairman of English Speaking Union
Philadelphia AP Dwight D. Eisenhower was chosen as chairman of the National Board of Directors of the English Speaking Union of the United States. He said he was happy to help foster friendship between Americans, the Commonwealth, and Britain. The piece also notes Jan Struther, author of Mrs. Miniver, was Joyce Anstruther Maxtone Graham.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Feton
United States
Eisenhower
The
Commonwealth
Britain
Jan Struther
Mrs. Miniver
Joyce Anstruther Maxtone Graham
Deaths in Maryland and Pennsylvania Obituaries
Multiple obituaries from Maryland and Pennsylvania list deaths of Mrs. Isabella Jane England 84, Ralph Wm. Green 57, Mrs. Olivia Larkins Howard 59, Howard J. Harner 78, Mrs. Lucy E. Kidwiler 55, Carroll A. Kelbaugh 59, Charles Riley 57, Elmer B. Soloman, and Mrs. Ardella F. Smith. Reflected are birthplaces, families, church ties, and funeral arrangements. services set at various chapels and churches with interments in local cemeteries.
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John Robert England
Isabella Jane England
Darrow Street
Silver Spring
Maryland
Lillian England
Rising Sun
East Church Street
M. R. Etchison and Son
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Austin Kline
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Wolfsville
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Glenn A. Green
Genevieve Grimes
Howard J. Harner
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Adam L. Kidwiler
Lucy E. Kidwiler
King’s Daughters Hospital
Shepherdstown
G. W. Griffith
Sharpsburg
Rosie Myers Griffith
Lutheran Church
Avilla
Shepherd College
Bertie Reedy
Allen Jimick
Greencastle
Charles Stump
Herbert Renner Sr
Harry Blackford
Wade Kidwiler
Shenandoah Junction
Harry M. Griffith
Eackless
Harpers Ferry
Edge Hill Cemetery
Charles Town
Lh. C. Riley Hayward
Charles Riley
St. Agnes Hospital
Baltimore
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John Blake
Alice Wildin Webb Riley
Lois Menefee Riley
Milton Riley
American Can Company
Methodist Church
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Harold McClay
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