Youth Group Told How It Can Aid Problems Here
Washington County Commission for Youth discussed becoming a resourceful center for information on children and youth work. Dr. E. Preston Sharp outlined three needs for children birth to 14: security standards and discipline. The 24 member panel aims to survey needs for the mid century White House conference on December 3, with subcommittees on health education recreation employment and more. Capt John G. Churchill plans to leave Hagerstown August 20.
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Washington County
White House
Washington
Hotel Alexander
C. Austin Gardner
Jack Hellane
Joseph M. Hoffman
Perry F. Prather
Wilburt M. Phillips
W. A. Deavers
Woodford Norment
Harold Peters
Katherine McCulloch
Alvin Kronethal
Raymond Mueller
Harvey M. Miller
Janice Welch Dorsey
County Youth Commission
Bechter
McCulloch
Dorsey
Gardner
John G. Churchill
Hagerstown
Births Rise at Washington County Hospital in July
The Washington County Hospital reported 132 births in July, up from 96 in June and 11 in July 1949. For the fiscal year through July, cumulative births total 1,134, slightly below the prior year’s ten month tally of 1,185.
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Washington County Hospital
House debates wage price controls as inflation war looms
Washington. The House voted to make hoarding a prison offense but adjourned before a showdown on inflation measures. Senate Banking Committee approved discretionary wage price control authority for President Truman, rejecting automatic controls. Debate centers on whether to grant the President mandatory or discretionary power to curb rising prices and wages if inflation persists.
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Washington
House
Capitol
Sparkman
D.-Als
Senate Banking Committee
Truman
Fulbright
D-Ark
Congress
Rep. Short
R.-Mo
Rep. McKinnon
D.-Calif
Korea Temperature Extremes and Rice Shower Traditions
A brief note states Korea experiences high summer temperatures around 75 degrees and winter lows near 33 degrees. It also mentions an unusual tradition where about 500,000 pounds of rice is showered on American brides each year.
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Korea
Braddock Heights Resort Ad Promises Scenic Leisure
Braddock Heights Maryland promotes Topo the Blue Ridge mountain resort with swimming golf summer drive-in theaters and breathtaking scenery. Advertises genuine Maryland cooking and superb Sunday dinners with hotel room rates and daily/weekly options.
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Vindobona Io
Braddock Heights
Blue Ridge’ Mountain
Simi
Croonan
Discarded Cats Find Way Back to Hott Family
Mr and Mrs Harper Hott of 14 Snyder Avenue reported abandoning a mother cat with three kittens six miles out of town. A month later the same cats appeared in their backyard. The Hotts are unsure how the animals returned or what to do with them.
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Hotts
Mrs. Harper Hott
Snyder Avenue
Mrs. Hott
Needlework pattern catalog and purchase request
An old advertisement offers Pinespore embroidery motifs and a pattern T7237 with crochet and knitting directions. Readers are urged to send twenty cents to The Hagerstown Daily Mail Household Arts Dept for pattern numbers and a needlework catalogue with illustrations and accessories.
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hedseLor
Pinespore
Hagerstown
Daily Mail
Chelsea
New York
N. Y
Alice Brooks
Ennis
Hnok
Old Home Week Opens Sunday in Greencastle
Greencastle prepares for its 17th triennial Old Home Week with a full program. The town stages a parade a concert by the Army Field Band and chorus at King Playground plus memorial services sacred songs receptions dances and games. Registration runs through Aug 11 badge admission applies to all events with headquarters at Cumberland Valley Electric Co.
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Greencastle
Mountain Theatre
U. S. Army
Old Home Week
Cumberland Valley Electric Co
Itd
King Playground
Army Band
Col. M. L. Driscoll
Letterkenny Depot
Watson Craig
Walter Grove
Chester Adams
Waynesboro
S. E. Phillips
Charles Eckatine
S. E. Phillips, Jr
Odelle Leiter
Hagerstown
Vernon B. Kellett
St. James School
Edmund C. Wingerd
Franklin County Court
Fashion pattern ad for washable kimono jacket No 2404
The pattern catalog offers a washable kimono sleeve jacket with four deep tucks to slim the waist, available in sizes 12 to 48. Pattern No 2404 and a Fall Winter Fashion Book with 125 easy to sew designs are advertised with ordering details and prices.
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Haeeretown
Marvssland
Daily Mail
Chelsa Station
New York 11
New York
Former Local Man H- Big Atom Post
William A. McAdams, a former Richland area resident, has been named assistant superintendent of General Electric’s health instrument operational division at the Hanford Works plutonium plant in Richland Washington. He and his wife and two children reside in Richland with his parents in Hagerstown.
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General Electric
Hanford Works
Richland, Wash
McAdams
Richland
M. L. McAdams
Hageratown
Corners Point
Memphis
Old Spur Found At Sharpsburg
A cavalry spur from the 1862 Battle of Antietam was found in Sharpsburg by Byrd DeLauney while plowing his potato patch on Main Street. The spur was partly covered by a potato, with fighting in Sharpsburg cited as the reason it remained buried until now.
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Antietam
Sharpsbure
Byrd Delauney
Main Street
DeLauney
Sharpsburg
Local Births and Visits Reported in Washington County Area
Several births announced at Washington County Hospital including a son for Pinesburg residents Mr and Mrs Roland Palmer and a son for Mr and Mrs Lloyd Crilley. A daughter is noted for Mr and Mrs Monroe Martin. Multiple visits and travels are listed, with families from Westernport Funkstown Hagerstown and Ocean City among those mentioned. Ronnie Teach celebrates his fourth birthday. Charles Hose is listed as ill with a heart condition.
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Lloyd Crilley
Washington County Hospital
Monroe Martin
Joseph Kreps
Mary Mason
Hagerstown
Paul Charlton
Battle Creek
Mich
William Toma
Isaac N. Grove
Jacob Teach
Ohio
North
Hubert Fowler
Wayne Reed
Loi
Westernport
Betty McKee
College Park
Joseph Banzhoff
Robert Hardford
Funkstown
Dolores Fowler
Lois Reed
Ronnie Teach
William Teach
Charles Hose
Joan
Richard Snyder
Donald
Nawakwa
Ardendtsville
la Rue Ann Snyder
Downsville
Irene Clopper
Williamsport
Gloria Higgins
Kenneth Teach
Ocean City
Birth of a son at Washington County Hospital
Park Head announces the birth of a son at Washington County Hospital. Visitors include Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Younker Darwin Younker and Frank Shives with Mr. and Mrs. John Shives. Columbus Ohio visitors Mr. and Mrs. Walter Staley to Mrs. Esther Shapp.
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W. E. Miller
Harris Trumpower
William Kline
Catherine Reed
Edward Trumpower
Robert Carson
Marines
North Carolina
Wilbur Miller
Walter Kline
Deputy Attacked During Service at Shoe Repair Shop
Deputy Sheriff Leister Isanogle was scratched and bruised in a tussle with L. H. and Virginia M. Johnson who run a shoe repair shop on West Franklin Street. He arrested them for assault on an officer after they allegedly attacked him when he tried to serve legal papers at their home adjoining the shop. The couple posted $500 bond each and await a city court hearing Tuesday.
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Leister Isanogle
West Franklin Street
Isanogle
L. H
Virginia M. Johnson
Widow Loses Suit Against Railroad
Franklin County Judge Edmund Wingerd overturned a 1949 jury verdict awarding Mrs. Helen Ambrose 12000 for the death of her husband Robert Ambrose, a Letterkenny inspector, crushed by a rail car door. The suit alleged negligence by Western Maryland Railway. verdict reversed in favor of the railroad firm.
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Franklin County
Western Maryland Railway
Edmund C. Wingerd
Helen Ambrose
Robert V. Ambrose
Letterkenny
Ambrose
WMRR
James To Attend Insurance Meet At Equitable Convention
Charles C. James special agent for Equitable Life Assurance Society and Mrs. Jones will attend the Equitable Life convention at the Greenbrier Hotel White Sulphur Springs West Virginia next week. James has 44 years of club membership and a 34 year span with five Million Dollar level groups based on annual paid business. He has attended many conventions and meetings as a result of this record.
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Charles C. James
Equitable Life Assurance Society
U. S
Jones
Equitable Life
Greenbrier
White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
James
Cushwa Engine and Truck Collide at Williamsport Crossing
A Cushwa truck collided with a Potomac Edison switch engine at the Williamsport railroad crossing near the Conococheague Creek bridge at Conomac Park yesterday afternoon. No injuries reported and only minor property damage. The PE engine handles coal car switching at the Williamsport power plant sidings.
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Cushwa
Potomac Edison
Williamsport
Conococheague Creek
Conomac Park
Hidden Identity of the Man in the Iron Mask
The so called man in the iron mask spent 42 years in French prisons with his face hidden by an iron mask. Only a few high government officials knew his true identity. He died in prison wearing the mask, and his name remains a secret to this day.
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Man
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