Fifty Years Ago In The News Post Files September 16
A rescue near a railroad caboose averted a major blaze after discovering a fire at a factory along East street. H.R. Lampe installs an attractive sign on East Fifth street. Mrs Crain tends a blue and red chinaaster bed with 82 blooms on one stalk. Fredericktonians endure a drenching mist and wrap clothing. C E Duvall, 30, dies walking along B&O tracks near Hog Pen Grade. Robert Mullinisz, near Mt Airy, injures knee in a Shenandoah Valley freight wreck. Middletown to get a new evaporated cream plant employing about 30. Braddock Heights Fire Department fire test deemed satisfactory but alarm system sought. Brunswick to receive 2000 for street improvements. Meier's bakery clock sign on North Market. Fireworks at Pen Mar park spark roof fire quickly extinguished.
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East Street
John Sharer
Northern Central Railroad
Henry Mehrling
H.R. Lampe
East Fifth Street
George Crain
Carroll Street
Baltimore and Ohio
Hogpen Grade
Cumberland
Robert Mulliniz
Mt Airy
B. and
Middletown
Braddock Heights
Brunswick
Meier
North Market Street
Fifth
Pen Mar Park
American Children Outperform in Mental Health Study
Delegates at the Paris Congress on Mental Health report American children show healthier mental outlooks and higher honesty than peers in other nations. Michigan State University doctors tested youths from 10 countries over 15 years, finding stark contrasts between authoritarian and free societies. American children scored 71 percent while a Mexican village reached 4 percent, with oppressed societies showing lower cooperation and fair play.
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International Congress On Mental Health
Paris
Michigan State University
East Germany
Congressional payroll grows as non essential label bites
A Senate House committee estimates federal civilian payrolls in 1961 at over 13.6 billion dollars, an all time high, up 8 percent from 12.6 billion the prior year despite fewer workers. July shows a 16 700 rise over June, signaling turnover that may not last.
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Congressional Committee
Senate House
Committee On
Washington
Hood College adopts infantile paralysis precautions
Hood College officials and Frederick County health authorities require students from certain Pennsylvania counties with infantile paralysis to follow precautionary measures. A Thurmont rifle accident hospitalized Thomas Stottemayer after a hunting season opening. Local guard units were mustered, and county ministers resumed meetings with Rev. W. C. Royal delivering an address. Hospital notices list patients at Charles Town General and Annie Warner in Gettysburg, plus new births and discharges from various facilities. Premiere showing of 1962 Plymouth and other cars announced for Philadelphia dealers. Local grain prices reported by the Farmers Co-Operative Association.
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Frederick
Hood College
Frederick County
Hood
Pennsylvania
Thomas Stottlemayer
Thurmont
Frederick City Hospital
Hamburg
Adolf Hitler
Western
Russia
W. C. Royal
Burail Backs YMCA Site For Frederick Civic Needs
Alderman Burail urges approving the YMCA proposed site over a Civic Center plan. He notes the public already uses the YMCA freely and argues the YMCA provides needed facilities at lower cost, while criticizing five years of study with no financing plan from opponents.
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Burail
YMCA
Civic Center Group
Frederick
Burall
Homemaker Clubs Study Chile In September Meetings
Rosedale Unionville and Yamsville Homemakers clubs met in September with talks on Chile by Miss Beatrice Fehr home demonstration agent. Guests attended and plans for October and next year were announced, including Chile studies and a family life theme.
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Rosedale
Rosedale Homemakers Club
Francis Putman
Paul Carmack
Grant DeShazer
Ernest Taverner
Bernard Smill
Raymond Smith
Claire Julian
Carl Dillinger
Beatrice Fehr
Chile
C. Vincent Biser
Unionville Club
Unionville Homemakers Club
Linganore Grange Hall
Everett Garver
Florence Yost
Land
Merton Forney
Frederick Fair
Ralph Ripley
Robert Sammis
Maureen van Sant
George P. van Ejiff Sr
Jamsville
Adele Miller
Yamsville
Gordon Smith
Tommy
Ann Smith
Hollingsworth
Ijamsville
Edith Keeney Hospital Observation in Frederick
Miss Edith Keeney of Thurmont is in Frederick Memorial Hospital for observation today and is doing as well as can be expected. A note mentions Homer’s Nose in Sequoia National Park was named in 182 when surveyors jokingly likened the mountain to the nose of Joseph Homer.
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Edith Keeney
Thurmont
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Homer
California
Sequoia National Park
Joseph Homer
Weddings Tie Draper Biser in Smithsburg Church
Miss JoAnn Draper and Ronald Wayne Biser were married September 9 at 2 p.m. in the Church of God Lantz. Rev. Clarence McGaha officiated. The bride wore white. bridesmaid Nancy Draper wore pink. best man Edmund Saunder Jr. attended the groom. The couple resides in GOP WOMEN MEET.
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Ruth Ann Roberson
Wilson L. Roberson
Middletown
Vernon M Cassell Jr
Vernon M. Cassell Sr
Braddock Heights
Christ Reformed Church
George H. Klinefelter
Ronald Remsburg
Betty Jane Roberson
Biser
Draper
JoAnn Beulah Draper
Smithsburg
Ronald Wayne Biser
Cascade
Church of God, Lantz
Miss Draper
Charles Lee Draper
Mr. Biser
Charles Delbert Biser
Clarence McGaha
Nancy Lee Draper
Edmund Saunder Jr
Waynes
Mrs. Draper
Lutheran Mission Parish in Belfast Highlighted in GOP Talk
A speaker described serving a Lutheran Mission Parish in Belfast with an itinerary covering Ireland Switzerland Austria Germany Holland Belgium France and England. She praised Switzerland’s beauty Germany’s progressiveness and farm land while noting warm European welcome to American tourists. Next GOP Women’s Federation meeting is the second Wednesday in November at Hotel Frederick unless notified.
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GOP
GOP Women’s Federation
Frederick County
Hotel Frederick
Jacob
Romilie
Cora Cut
Preudert
Baltimore
Ocal Sheraton-Bellimere Frounty
Helen Remsburg
Jacob Ramsburg
Joan Derr
Hilda Croghan
Booth
Frederick Fair
Virginia White
Europe
Emmett Bowlus
Port of
Neer
Boston
Belfast
Ireland
Ohio
Faucettstown
Barbara
East
Liverpool
Switzerland
Austria
Germany
Holland
Belgium
France
England
Umless
Personal birthday and travel notices from local area
Miss Pauline E Bell of Shooks town will celebrate her birthday Sunday. Dr and Mrs James B Ranek Jr of Seattle Wash will be leaving for their home Sunday after a vacation east including a stay with Dr Ranek's parents in West College Terrace. Dr Ranek a UW Medical School faculty member. James David Hagan and Walter Gray Buckley III depart for North Scituate after a Maryland stay to attend the Eastern States Exposition then return to study at Peabody Conservatory of Music and Michigan State University.
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Pauline E. Bell
Shookstown
James B. Ranek Jr
Seattle Wash
Dr. Ranek
James B. Ranek Sr
West College Terrace
Ranck
Bloomington
American Physiological Society
New York City
Medical School
University of Washington
James David Hagan
Walter Gray Buckley
North Scituate
Rhode Island
Maryland
New England
West Springfield
Mass
Peabody Conservatory of Music
Baltimore
Michigan State Universty
East Lansing
Funeral services for George M. Palmer Held in Thurmont
Funeral services for George M. Palmer, who died Tuesday at his Lewistown home, were held Friday at 11 a.m. at M. L. Creager and Son funeral home in Thurmont. Rev. Miles Reifsnyder officiated with assistance from Revs. Wallace Beiber and Guy P. Bready. Interment followed at Mt. Olivet cemetery. Pallbearers were Randolph Stull, Jacob Ramsburg, David Snook, Jack Stowell, Meredith Young, and Carroll Seibert. Associates of the State Game and Inland Fish Commission served as honor guard.
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George M. Palmer
Lewistown
M. L
Presence of a Lady at Mount Vernon During the Civil War
Dorothy Troth Muir recounts Sarah C. Tracy's role as secretary to Mount Vernon Ladies' Association's first regent Miss Ann Pamela Cunningham. Tracy's letters describe seven peaceful years 1861-1868 near warfronts, preserving the mansion and guarding sacred ground.
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Mt. Vernon
Dorothy Troth Muir
Wallace Muir
Boyds
Sarah C. Tracy
Troy
New York
Mount Vernon
Potomac Interlude
George Washington
Regents
Billhimers
Robert S. Billhimers
Sanford, Fla
Mrs. Muir
Washington Grove
Gaithersburg
Bob
Ruth Billhimer
Montgomery County Assessment Office
Ruth
Montgomery County Sentinel
Montgomery
Lower Frederick
Miss Tracy
Mr. Vernon
Upton H. Herbert
Mr. Herbert
Fairfax
Washingtons
Godey
Vernon
Lewises
Herbert
General Washington
New York Herald
Alexandria
Washington
Virginia
Miss Cunningham
Deaths in Westminster and Vicinity Reported in Obituary Notes
Sterling M Flickinger 68 of Mayberry area died Thursday at Annie M Warner Hospital Gettysburg after a short illness. Survived by wife Bertha Myers Flickinger two stepchildren foster son and extended family. Funeral Sunday 2 p.m. at Church of God Mayberry Littlestown. Burial St Mary's Cemetery Silver Run. Armistead A Mock 55 of Pt Rocks died suddenly at Frederick Memorial Hospital from a heart attack. Survived by wife and mother and several children siblings and grandchildren. Friends may call at 1201 North Market Street funeral home. services Tuesday at 11 a.m. Interment St Paul's Cemetery Pt Rocks. Mrs Nance M McKay 66 of Wakefield near New Windsor died suddenly at Nag's Head Beach NC while vacationing. Survived by one brother and one sister in Canada. Nurse and church member. Service Tuesday 10:30 a.m. New Windsor funeral home, interment Presbyterian Cemetery. John H Neal III 68 of Kingsville died Thursday at Waynesboro Hospital after years of ill health. Survived by brother Rev Clarence A Neal and sister Mrs Bessie Snider and others. Funeral Monday 10:30 a.m. Grove Funeral Home Waynesboro. Interment Green Hill Cemetery. William E Reed 74 of Damascus died Friday morning at home. Survived by wife Rhoda and daughter Ethel Atkins and son Johnsville and siblings. Funeral details to follow.
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Ella V. Fisher
Lime Kiln
Falkie
Mabel Carter
Carter
Lime Kaln
Fisher
Sibstic Ber
Lutheran Church
Pythian Sisters
Pocahontas Lodge
Buckeystown
Alub
Sterling M. Flickinger
Mayberry
Westminster
RFD
Annie M. Warner Hospital
Gettysburg
Milton
Elizabeth Miller Flickinger
Bertha Myers Flickinger
Nellie Angell
Taneytown
Paul Bemniller
Silver Run
John F. Marsh
Jacob Hahn
Taneytown Rfd
Daniel Bair
Hanover
Preston Blank
Carvin Flickinger
Burnett Flickinger
J. H. Hoch
Church of God
Littlestown
St. Mary’s Cemetery
Armistead A. Mock
Mary Ellen Mock
Pt. of Rocks
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Lena Mozella Mock
Oscar F. Mock
Alex H. Repass
Wheaton
Ralph L. Lamm
Lee
Nance M. McKay
Roderick Alexander McKay
Wakefield
New Windsor
Manteo
N. C
Nag’s Head Beach
James Vannote
Annetta Rider
Baltimore
Dingwell
Scotland
Canada
John H. Neal
John Henry Neal III
Kingsville
Neal Mermorial
Waynesboro
Clarence A Neal
Chambersburg
Myersville
Bessie Snider
Frederick
F. D. Johnson
Fredericktown
Grove Funeral Home
Even J. Bartell
Green Hill Cemetery
William E. Reed
William Edgar Reed
Rhoda J. Reed
Damascus
Samuel P
Matilda Lydard Reed
Ethel Atkinson
Johnsville
Oliver C. Reed
Rachel Musgrove
Infant Sarah Ellen Mentzer obituary notice
An infant daughter of Allen H and Shirley Dodson Mentzer of Hagerstown died Friday morning at Washington County Hospital. Graveside services were held this afternoon with interment in Montgomery Methodist cemetery Clagettsville. The infant is survived by maternal grandparents John W Dodson of Airy and paternal grandparents Roland C Mentzer of Williamsport RFD 2.
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Sarah Ellen Mentzer
Allen H
Shirley Dodson Mentzer
Hagerstown
Washington County Hospital
John W. Dodson
Airy
Roland C. Mentzer
Williamsport
Rfd
Frederick Memorial Hospital School of Nursing awards list
Three members of the graduating class received special awards at Elm Street School last Sunday. P David Youngdahl urged nurses to show gleam in the eye voice in the ear a sword in the hand and a song in the heart. Awards went to Brenda Joyce Fagan Nancy Louise Hildebrand Patricia Ann Reynolds and Nancy Louise Hilde for various categories. Additional graduates included Mary Magdalene Alexander Frances Delores Barber and Kay Virginia Crawford. The event marked the hospital’s fiftieth anniversary and included a reception on the Georgiana Houck Simmons Nurses Home lawn.
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Frederick Memorial Hospital School of Nursing
Elm Street School
P. David Youngdahl
Dorothy Filter McBride
Brenda Joyce Fagan
Elizabeth Craigmile Schroeder
Patricia Ant Reynolds
Paul S. Michael
Estelle H Collins
Youngdahl
Georgiana Houck Simmons
Mary Magdalene Alexander
Frances Delores Barber
Kay Virginia Crawford
Rev Rich to Wed Miss Abrolat in November
Mr and Mrs Ernest Abrolat Scranton announce the engagement of their daughter Ardelle to Rev William Daniel Rich son of Mr Edgar M Rich and the late Mrs Mildred R Rich. Ardelle Abrolat works for the Board of Christian Social Concerns and will marry at St Luke's Methodist Church Washington on November 25.
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Ernest Abrolat
Master Street
Scranton
Ardelle
Wiliam Daniel Rich
Edgar M. Rich
Mildred R. Rich
Lowell Avenue
Washington, D.C
Abrolat
Keystone Junior College
la Plume
Board of
Christian Social Concerns
The
Methodist Church
Rich
Ohio Wesleyan University
Beta Theta ‘Pi
Boston University School of Theology
Bowen Mass
Singanore-Libertytown
Frederick County
St. Luke's Methodist Church
Washington, D
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