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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1954
Page
2
The Frederick News of September 28 1954 details daily publication schedules and subscription rates. It lists prices for single copies and prepaid periods and notes its status with the Audit Bureau of Circulations.
U S Secretary of State Dulles opens the ninth U N General Assembly with a 30 minute address likely touching on Eisenhower s nine month old atomic pool proposal. He will review world affairs including Indochina, the Pacific defense pact and German rearmament as broadcasts air. Also notes a W S C S church meeting with fourteen members and planned Week of Prayer events.
The American Statistical Association, meeting in Montreal, signs of sustained expansion in the economy, praising economic policies and reduced deficits. Analysts warn a pre-election boom could become a major campaign argument as politics heat up.
Mrs Donald Leatherman vice president notes gratitude to the Frederick News and Post for comprehensive coverage of the Frederick Community Concert Association membership campaign. She cites a sell-out audience and largest artist budget, with praise for civic volunteers and Harold Welch of Community Concerts in New York for boosting publicity value. Frederick Md Sept 21 1954.
Funeral services for Lewis James Crawmer were held at New Windsor funeral home with Rev. Lewis Robson officiating and interment in Winters cemetery. Also remembered are services for Franklin Leonard Woinagle at 106 East Church Street with interment in Mount Olivet Cemetery. Joseph G. Marshall, Thurmont, and Frank William Byers of 94 Carver Apts. were honored in rites at local funeral homes with speakers, pallbearers, and burials at nearby cemeteries.
Fifty years ago items from The News Columns dated September 25 1904 report city officials returning from Big Tuscarora proclaiming water intake conditions satisfactory and not polluted. A well known pretzel vender William Hilton suffered a double forearm fracture at Frederick City Can Factory. Lewis Wineberry displayed what he claimed was a mastodon tooth found by his son Alexander in Baltimore. A remark about gout near Montevue references fishing. Edward M. Eader of this city was named district president of the P Q O of A Maryland. A large bank barn owned by Wiley Leam W Wenner near Brunswick with wheat crop harnesses and farming equipment was destroyed by fire. causes suspected from a threshing-machine engine.
Heavy rains continue and hinder late crops with the month’s total precipitation at 8.85 inches. Frederick county law limits on sale of liquor in dry districts. liquor by the drink not allowed except at incorporated clubs. Albert Lane struck by a truck on West Patrick street sustaining a slight injury. Frederick Police Department enlarged to eighteen officers, with Marion Carmark James Marks and Frank Dorsey joining the force.
The Frederick area reports multiple deaths and obituaries. William Robert Coster Jr died at 16 after months of illness on Reid's Ford road. Daniel Miller Woodward, 69, of Fengaville, died at Frederick Memorial Hospital after an illness. he leaves six children and many relatives. Mrs. Esta M. Koogle, near Middletown, widow of George W. Koogle, died in Boonsboro nursing home aged 87. Garland Smith, 37, a former General Motors Frigidaire salesman and resident of Myersville, died at home after service in WWI. Mrs. Virinte R. Wright, 79, of Plane No. 4, Frederick County, died at Frederick Memorial Hospital. survivors include several children and grandchildren. Funeral arrangements and obituaries are listed with local funeral directors. Deeds recorded show transfers in Thurmont and Brad dock districts.
SAN FRANCISCO A broken axle was listed as the probable cause of yesterday's derailment of the Santa Fe Railroad streamliner San Francisco Chief near Orwood Crossing 40 miles east of San Francisco. All 191 passengers escaped serious injury while 20 to 30 others aboard the Oakland to Chicago Wain were shaken up. three crew members and no passengers remained hospitalized overnight. Santa Fe estimated damage around 250000 dollars. The train began to slow for a drawbridge when it derailed, marking the San Francisco Chief's second derailment in months following a Lomax Illinois event on August 22 in which five were killed and 53 injured. Roadmaster Walter Johnson cited a dragging broken axle on a diesel unit as the probable cause.
In Rockville Maryland Herman Horowitz 45 killed himself by stepping in front of the Baltimore and Ohio Capital Limited near here. He parked his car beside the tracks then ran onto the line. Engineer J C Myers applied brakes but could not stop in time. A note found said Waiting at 5 15 p m Carry on. Death by own action certificate issued. Train delays: Capital Limited 55 minutes, Columbian 52 minutes.
Mr and Mrs Landon M Proffitt of Linden Hills welcome a son named Michael Landon at Frederick Memorial Hospital. Dr and Mrs Rex R Martin announce a daughter Sue Ann at Frederick Memorial Hospital weighing six pounds eleven ounces. Colonel and Mrs John R Holt return from a ten day trip to the Great Smoky Mountains. William Duggan Jr and Mary announce a daughter Jane Seton born at Frederick Memorial Hospital. Elmer J Shelton and Pauline Fauble are parents of a son David Allen born September 13 at Emergency Hospital. Gary Lee Fauble born September 15 at Emergency Hospital to Mr and Mrs Robert E Fauble. Barbara A Miller enrolls as freshman at Bridgewater College after Hood College work. Mrs Virgil Kefauver returns home to Pensacola after two months with her parents.
Among The Sick Mrs. Charles Eyter of East Church Street is a surgical patient at University Hospital Baltimore and is reported improving. Mrs. Howard Dillec of Union Bridge broke her ankle. Miss Maude Hale of Jefferson with Mrs. Alva Conway helping in the same home. Mrs. J Marshall Staub of Casa Loma Braddock Heights is a surgical patient at Frederick Memorial Hospital.
Three Maryland duck hunters from Baltimore will visit Winnipeg to scout a site for Lake Chesapeake aimed at boosting the winter duck population for Chesapeake Bay. Donnell Smith Charles Allen and Carle Jackson of the Maryland chapter Ducks Unlimited will seek a suitable location with help from Canadian Ducks Unlimited field staff. The project is to be financed entirely by duck hunters from Maryland and the District of Columbia, totaling over 27,000 supporters.
Nine flimsy stalls on the site of the old Lafayette Market burned in a three alarm blaze that drew spectators from over two miles away. Cause undetermined. Firefighters added extra alarms to protect 11 wood structures. Officials plan a new market south of the site with 219 stalls, matching the old total.
The Grand Jury reports 25 indictments and urges addressing school bus overloads. It commends State's Attorney Charles A. Price and extends thanks to clerk Charles R. Albaugh, inner doorkeeper Willard C. Rudy, and bailiff George & Summers for their assistance.
Governor McKeldin announced steps to revive Western Maryland coal and Baltimore shipbuilding during a Baltimore Association of Commerce speech. He directed Dr Joseph T Lingewald Jr to study synthetic coal fuels and cited a governor conference discussion on low temperature coal distribution.
David T. Horning of Harrisburg Pa was held under 550.80 for a hearing after a disorderly conduct charge by Officer Tregoning. Millard P. Good of Pennsylvania Avenue was summoned by Officer W Boone for exceeding 30, and James E. Vence of Bridgeton New Jersey was charged with exceeding 50 and posted 16.45 for a hearing.
A compilation of brief Q A items includes questions about the FBI National Police Academy the bird of paradiseMoelle wine Rhodes scholar and Civil War service as well as a training note for Pvt Robert de Main RA 13503429 son of Mr and Mrs Main entering basic training at Camp Gordon Ga His pre enlistment employment and address are listed for Company A 2nd Inf Trag Regt Camp Gordon Ga
Babson urges young couples to start life insurance and bank accounts, build thrift and references with bank officers, and consider local bank stocks as a long term investment while noting bank directors' borrowing and asset quality under supervision. He stresses safety, wills, safe deposits, and church attendance alongside finance.
In Peoples Court this morning Magistrate HH Reese Shoemaker Jr presided over forfeiture of collateral for motorists charged on Braddock mountain and U S 40. Names include Thomas G Frank Norman Lea Peters Robert O Engels Rachel E Smith John F Beache Martin Cohen Priscila Lo Pagano Rudolph W Brlansky Ralph A Tilchman and state trooper V J Guilmine led the arrests. Also report Chou En Lai urged liberation of Formosa and removal of the American fleet in a National People's Congress session.
President Eisenhower must rally disaffected Republican workers and turn out voters in six weeks, amid calls from insiders that his camp should heal party rifts. The piece cites Maine and Connecticut correspondents warning that factional splits and McCarthy-Taft tensions threaten November gains, with loyalty and unity seen as crucial to a possible Democratic House and Senate victory.
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