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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1957
Page
2
A collection of letters and notes from 1907 and 1957 recounting local commerce courtesy at Frederick shops, teen dances recommencing in North Frederick, city government actions, and a Brunswick Jabor Day parade with details on attendees and activities.
Two marriages reported in Maryland area newspapers. Ruth Adee Ensor and Andrew Theodore Ridgely Jr. wed at St. Pauls Church New Windsor with a 200 guest reception and family attendants. Shelby J Bennett and Thomas F Hawkins married in Browningsville Bethesda Methodist Church with a reception and plan to reside with in law families.
Readable text is limited to fragments from a 1357 dated Frederick Maryland page. The visible items mention The News and Associated Press with no coherent events, names, dates, or outcomes to summarize.
The piece argues that Soviet influence in Syria risks spreading across the Middle East. It cites President Eisenhower on war’s reach in internal affairs and warns that Syria’s proximity to the Soviet bloc could threaten anti Communist states like Saudi Arabia and others aligned with the West. The author notes no stable lines and predicts ongoing struggle with no guaranteed Western victory in every phase.
Readers praise the Urbana Hiking Club for provocative actions in Frederick and commend Frederick’s firefighters for brave service during six major city fires. The letters emphasize public safety, civic energy, and community pride, highlighting volunteers and fire crews who respond instantly to emergencies.
Twenty years ago reports from September 4, 1937 note illnesses at local centers. Gardner C. Quill of Old Braddock and Walter E. Sinn, focal attorney, are listed as patients or under care. Several residents recoveries and moving notices appear among school and city updates.
The personals note several Greenville area residents visiting family and moving homes. Kenneth Warrenfeltz and son Hay from Green ville S C arrived in Woodsboro to spend a two week vacation with his parents the Warrenfeltzs. William Long relocated from College Park to Stewart Manor. he is Hood College News Service director. George A Devilbiss and family returned from a two week visit in Leavenworth Kansas. Melvin Palmer and daughter Virginia Lee of Gambrill Park road report Florida vacation. The King and Green families traveled to Virginia visiting Yorktown Williamsburg and Jamestown.
Armed National Guardsmen blocked a lone African American girl from entering Little Rock Central High School as Gov. Faubus faced calls to avoid violence. Federal judges had ordered gradual integration, prompting guards to cordon the line while the girl attempted to cross.
The Braddock Heights Auxiliary sponsors the First Annual Amateur Pony Show at Braddock Heights Park. The free event runs the first three Saturdays in September at 12 30 with ponies under 50 inches and a $1 per class entry. Prizes and ribbons awarded. features include the trick horse Trigger from Paradise Farms. Funeral notices follow for April Diggs and Samuel Wilson with services in Winfield and Gist respectively.
Death notice for Seda Grant Compher 65 a retired railroad engineer from Lovettsville. Survived by wife Mary Biser Compher a daughter Mrs Leroy Moore four sons two granddaughters sister and two brothers. Graveside rites at Union Cemetery Lovettsville Thursday at 2 pm EST with Masonic and church service conducted by Reverends Bowler Kreisinger Wade. R E Brown funeral director.
Soloman Frederick Weidman 85 of Frederick died Thursday at 4 45 p.m. in City Hospital Martinsburg after a two year illness. He was born Nov 26 187 to the late John Calvin and Rebecca Heironimus Weidman. Surviving are six sons and two daughters plus a brother and 27 grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren. Services were held Saturday at 2 30 p.m. at Brown Funeral Home with Rev Howard Fuir officiating. Burial in Rosedale Cemetery Martinsburg.
At Fort Meade on Sept 4 the 202nd Signal Battalion Construction officers and enlisted men, all Frederick Army Reservists, reached the halfway point of their summer training. In week one the 302nd Signal Bn completed reserve training missions, with admin clerks handling forms, stenography and check-ins while network crews installed poles and spliced cables. The motor pool keeps equipment in good running order as the second and final week of training introduces a field problem to assess military efficiency of each unit member.
Four more conspiracy charges were dropped in the Portland vice investigation. Mayor Terry Schrunk former District Attorney William Langley Teamsters official Clyde Crosby and Sheriff’s Deputy George Minnelly were freed of plotting to obtain wiretap evidence from a raid on Raymond Clark home last year. The case previously charged illegal attempts to access taped recordings. The report also notes Schrunk was once sheriff and references a year round Army Reserve training program and fort Meade barley and grain price figures.
A long OCR list details Lincoln High School and nearby elementary schools totals, principals, and numerous grade by grade scores for students. It notes Lincoln High School with principal Charles E. Henson and a large roll of students across seventh to twelfth grades, along with several other elementary schools and staff.
Miss Marion Georgina Harris from North Devon arrived to spend two weeks with Mr and Mrs George Nicholson at their farm near Ladiesburg. The 4-H International Farm Youth Exchange program, run by the National 4-H Club Foundation and the Cooperative Extension Service, places youths to learn stock judging poultry horses and farm operations during fair time.
Dover reports two Russian vessels passing four miles off shore headed toward Yugoslavia on a goodwill mission. Admiralty observers note a cruiser and a mine laying destroyer in motion with a Saber Jet seen over the cruiser and a Danish cutter nearly colliding amid unfolding events.
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