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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1957
Page
15
James Marlow argues Khrushchev’s remarks reveal an impulsive pivot away from recent denouncements of Stalin toward praising the late dictator. He says the shift signals Moscow’s tactic to reestablish Stalinist rigidity amid Cold War pressures and internal Communist party tensions.
The Hagerstown Hawanis Club screened a film made in the county by the State Department to illustrate democracy in action. Entitled A Fair Chance, the picture shows local health efforts and community cooperation, including Burgerstown highlighted as a model city. Dr W Ross Cameron appears in the film and Kiwanis committee head James Cannon arranged the program. Albert Powell announced a January 31 meeting at South Hagerstown High School to view the new television teaching program.
Annapolis lawmakers push Sen. James B. Monroe for Maryland motor vehicles commissioner as 24 senators back his appointment. Gov. McKeldin weighs endorsements after a 30 minute meeting and also considers rival William Voyce. A few senators withhold support.
A pickup truck collided with an auto on Dog Street near Keedysville, injuring a passenger. Ray Babbington of Boonsboro required four stitches for an eyebrow cut after the 1 20 p.m. crash reported by State Trooper Elmer Baum. Frank Wade of Keedysville was driving the car involved. The incident occurred on a Seventeen Thousand Persons Calldirt Road, per the report.
A 1956 report shows the Hagerstown Social Security office assisted 17 000 people and replaced 2579 lost or name changed cards. More than 6 490 sought general information, 11 533 called in person, and 5 400 used telephone contact. The office plans for greater 1957 demand, with visits to Hancock Frederick Emmitsburg and Thurmont by a regional representative.
Students at South High School formed a Dramatics Club at a meeting yesterday. Fifteen members elected officers: Don Ries president, William Helmer vice president, Roxanna Neikirk corresponding secretary, Laurie Dudley secretary, Dolores Marquiss treasurer, Judi Horn assistant treasurer. Mrs. Stewart Baywman named faculty advisor. The group will meet on the first and third Wednesdays.
A call to donate coal or wood burning stoves to furnish a seven room house for Hungarian refugees in Washington was issued by a local committee aided by Goodwill Industries. Call Regent 37330 for pickup and delivery. In Charleston West Virginia a separate item notes the Retailers Bureau meeting with tax receipts up sharply in the first four months of the fiscal year, showing higher totals than 1955.
Charles Mercer reports from the White House that ABC CBS and NBC plan full inauguration coverage. The event includes the presidential procession, oath by Chief Justice Warren, and Vice President Nixon swearing in before the parade.
Annapolis officials report state and county assessors pushed for higher salaries during a House Ways and Means hearing. Stephen Kahoe Harford County supervisor testified that current pay from 2 500 to 4 600 5 6 00 ranges Generous increases would raise brackets to as high as 11 500 13 500 with state funding at 60 percent and counties covering the rest.
Rev and Mrs Richard W W Rubright will speak at Christ s and Salem Evangelical and Lutheran Church on Sunday January 20. They will give morning services at both churches and present slides and articles of interest from Japan in the evening. The Rubrights are veteran mission workers of five years in Sendai and Yokohama. They traveled to the United States via Singapore India and the Middle East last spring. People in the United States consume 475 million tires of death paste annually.
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