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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1963
Page
2
A brief quotation recalling a Biblical verse about seasons of life, birth and death, growth and harvest. The line reflects a moral meditation on time and purpose drawn from an early Christian oratory cadence.
Summer statistics celebrate outdoor dining with 81 percent of American families hosting cookouts and 1.3 billion meals eaten outside. Outdoor activity drives $100 million in cooking equipment sales and a $750 million fond bill, alongside vast beverage and food totals. Separately, Maine debated editorials carrying author IDs. the bill failed, defending unsigned editorials as collective institutional voice rather than single opinion.
The writer laments the July Fourth traffic deaths as a disgrace and urges drivers to obey rules, show courtesy, and replace frenzy with common sense. They suggest one simple rule aligned with the Golden Rule could save lives, proposing action before Labor Day weekend.
In Korea a young private Jim Garner smelled garlic and survived a botched enemy raid. He rose from a timid recruit to Hollywood star after producer Paul Gregory urged him to act. Garner learned by watching peers during The Caine Mutiny Court Martial tryouts and later gained fame on television’s Maverick.
The Rev Dr Walter Byron Stehl declined a call to a Williamsport church. Inu Long left for Yoehow China to teach in the Reformed mission. Trager vacationing at Herald Mail Clubhouse found a 235 pound unexploded shell in the Potomac. Charles Cummings died after a fall from scaffolding at the Williamsport shipbuilding plant. Webster Groh Elmer Piper and Samuel Stouffer were named to a board to plan a road from Bridgeport to Antietam Creek.
Twenty years ago eight year old Ralph Butts was critically injured when struck by a freight car in the Western Maryland Railway yard. Waitresses at Hotel Hamilton formed a dollar a week club to buy war saving stamps with Dorothy Hendrickson organizing. Ceril S. Haines of Rohrersville was Republican registrar of voters awaiting a successor to the late Thompson A. Brown. G Moore named Harpers Ferry health officer, succeeding C C Johnson. Albert R. Brooks, 16, drowned in the Potomac near Iskaid Park while on Navy leave. Hendrika Weekhout, a Dutch exchange student, left for Washington after living with Mr and Mrs Silas Petra. A large furnished clubhouse owned by Paul Bowers on North Mulberry Street burned. The third heat wave of the season produced pool temperatures around 90 degrees.
A reader from Hagerstown argues for desegregation and equal rights, praising a relative in the Armed Forces and criticizing HB for promoting division. The writer dismisses segregation, asserts God’s non-segregation, and urges ending racial bondage while noting Ohio roots and a desire to contribute as an American in the atomic space age.
A reflective verse exploring how emotion, nature, and art move the speaker beyond music. The speaker values landscapes, kind looks, and beauty in places and objects, finding joy and ecstasy in nonmusical forms while acknowledging music’s deep pull in other forms of loveliness.
A health column explores crocodile tears in relation to facial paralysis Bell's palsy and other conditions. It reports that tears occur after meals due to nerve changes and that severing a nerve near the ear can relieve the symptom in some patients.
A vandal slashed tires on more than 50 cars in a six‑block Gloucester area one winter night. Vehicles in driveways and lots, including a parked Palka car, suffered four tires slashed, torn cushions, damaged radio, bent antenna, and stolen rearview mirror. A Wailea man’s reflection on destruction and encouragement to build rather than destroy appears in a broader moral passage.
President Kennedy urges former President Eisenhower and other Republicans to publicly back the nuclear test ban with the Soviet Union. He hopes Eisenhower will testify before Senate committees, boosting bipartisan support for ratification amid Joint Chiefs opposition and Senate resistance. The report notes continued appeals to leaders like Lodge Clay and Wadsworth, while detailing foreign and domestic reactions and related diplomatic moves.
Jim Bishop sketches golf as nature's tranquilizer and a battleground with wives, crowds, and nerves. Cartoons by Dick Brooks and punchlines about freedom from home draw laughter as readers meet exaggerated fears, half serious advice, and aging players striving for a simple swing in a comical landscape.
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