Billy Shifflet Sees Annapolis Visit and Ferry Ride
Billy Shifflet a nineteen year old paralyzed youth from 641 West Washington Street enjoyed a visit to Annapolis. He was hosted at Government House by Mrs William Preston Lane Jr and Miss Dorothy Lane, toured the State House and historic sites, rode the ferry, and viewed the Wye Oak. He spends time weaving crafts, selling cards, and reads eagerly while awaiting his high school diploma. He is active in St Mathews Evangelical Church and plans to attend Brotherhood Conference in Central Oak Heights Pennsylvania. The article ends with a note that Prussia rulers were once margraves of Brandenburg.
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Annapolis
Billy Bhither
John W. Shifflet
West Fhington Street
Billy
Goverment House
William Preston Lane
Dorothy Lane
Maryland
State House
St. Mathews Evangelical Church
Brotherhood
Central Oak Heights
John Brinwood Huyett
Big Pool girl wins county farm queen honors
Shirley Mason, a 4-31 girl from Big Pool, was named Washington County farm queen at the Farm Bureau meeting in Shafer Memorial Park Boonsboro. She edged runnerup Beverly Smithsburg among teen farm residents. Other contestants including Betty Beckley Slagerstown Janice Middlekauff Clear Spring Joyce Kretger Clear Spring Jean Harrall Benevola Shirley Wagner Keedysville Eleanor Walrath Clear Spring Janet Barkdail St. James. Mason will advance to a wider competition potentially reign at Timonium Fair if she wins. Event featured appearances by Farm Bureau officials and L P Hartley of the B&O Railroad agricultural department.
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Shirley Mason
Washington County
Farm Bureau
Shafer Memorial Park
Boonsboro
Clarence Mason
Beverly Setler
Smithsburg
Betty Beckley
Slagerstown
Route Two
Janice Middlekauff
Clear Spring
Joyce Kretger
Jean Harrall
Benevola
Shirley Wagner
Keedysville
Eleanor Walrath
Janet Barkdail
St. Jame
Misa Mason
Timonsium Fair
Boonsboro Youth Serves Aboard USS Catfish
Boonsboro resident Robert Merle Forrest, serman apprentice in the US Navy, serves aboard the submarine USS Catfish with the Pacific Fleet. A Boonsboro High School graduate, he entered naval service in February 1949 and trained at Great Lakes. Unclear sentence about TfL Belgium and area size. omitted as fragment.
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Serman
USN
Route 2
Boons
Born
Catfish
Forrest
Boonaboro
Naval Service
U. S. Naval Training Center
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Tfl
Manor Visits and Family News Across Martinsburg and Hagerstown
Various family visits across Martinsburg Washington and Hagerstown are listed. Names include Taylor Keller Files Dehart Zimmerman Hoffmaster Waters Haines and Evans. Kenton Johnson of the U S Army is home on furlough.
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Samples Manor
Thats ‘Taylor
Dallas, Jr
Bonnie Lee
Washington
Taylor
Edward Keller
Donte
Tommy
Dickie
Martinsburg
Mervil Files
Leon
Donnie
Myers
Alfred Haines
Wo J) Grim
Annie Wright
Frank Keiberger
Gardeter Taylor
Earl Zimmerman, Jr
J. A. Loeffler
Snyder's Landing
Millard Haines
Isadora
J. A. Haines
Kenton Johnson
U. S&s. Army
Pauline Waters
Robert Waters
Leslie Wiles
Alvin
Harry Evans
Baltimore
J. W. Kloffmaster
Virginia Dike
Esther Houser
Florence Shingler
G. B.parsons
Ivan Shingler
Daugh
Pioneer President to Face Opposition in September Election
Charles E. Daley Jr. will be opposed for Pioneer Hook and Ladder Co. president by Leroy Ruth in the September 8 election. Nominations were set at last night’s fire hall meeting for eight positions with five directors to be elected. Competition noted for first assistant director with two candidates. slate includes Ruth and Daley for president and several nominees for other posts.
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Charles E. Daley, Jr
Pioneer Hook and Ladder Co
Leroy Ruth
Bunning
Walter R. Hutson
Gordon Phillipy
Robert Miller
WD. Cunningham
D. W. Kratzer
al. BR
Rummel
Lindy
Auto stunt drivers aid science in collision study
In Los Angeles on August 4, stunt drivers entertain crowds by crashing cars to provide data on auto collisions. University experts planned to use the visible wrecks and photographs to analyze the shocks the human body endures in crashes, as researchers gathered information from these staged impacts.
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Los Angeles
Speedy Zoning Action Urged By City Attorney
City Attorney Francia Urner told the Mayor and Council it is extremely urgent to speed up zoning in Hagerstown as commercial developments threaten areas not covered by the northwest plan. He cited a $2,000,000 shopping center planned on Northern Avenue near Leitersburg Pike and a confectionary at Pennsylvania Avenue and Beechwood Drive in Hamilton Park, noting no provisions exist for these in the proposed zoning. Urner outlined the sequence: zoning commission proposal, public hearings, then final council decision.
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Francia Urner
Nothern Avenue
Leiternburg Pike
Jack Abbott
Pennsylvania Avenue
Beechwood Grive
Hamilton Park
Urner
Busi
Public hearing eyed on Northwest zoning plan in two weeks
Plans for commercial developments in the Northwest section including North End shopping center and Hamilton Park confectionary store may be discussed at a forthcoming public hearing. Mayor Mills said the hearing could occur in two weeks after consulting the Planning Commission. Also notes steady living costs with meat driving a 2 to 3 percent rise in the month ending July 15.
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Nessmen
North End
Hamiltton Park
Mills
Northwest Section
Zoning and Planning Commission
Washington
When You Patronize Your Triangle Grocer
A message urging local support for Triangle grocers to keep money circulating in the community benefiting schools churches and charities, arguing patronage strengthens local institutions and civic well being.
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Bush News
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