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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1957
Page
2
Reporter Bob Thomas notes Mary Costa appears poised on TV while hard working sponsor saleswoman Molly Wood admits the on air flow is tough. Costa and sidekick Bill Lundigan fix a price error of 32,735 dollars, drawing public sympathy and mail.
Sandra Owen of Navarre Ohio and Dana Bennett from the Rockies shared first prize after a tense final rounds contest. Each wins $1000 a New York visit a trophy a cup a gold medal and plaque for their schools.
The Summer Playgrounds Committee set a June 24 opening for an eight week season in Hagerstown with 12 sites including Surrey School grounds replacing Westview Homes. Operations run through August 16. Applications pour in for leaders from college students and teachers. A leadership workshop at the YMCA runs June 18 to 21 to train new and returning leaders.
Franklin County Court ruled the 1985 Sunday Motion Picture Act constitutional on appeal by State Line Drive-In manager Robert J. Grochowiak. He was fined 56 dollars for Sunday showings and plans to appeal. The case, argued by John W. Keller, centers on police power to regulate exhibitions on Sundays in counties voting against them.
City parking meter receipts for the first five months of this year were about 3.9 dollars higher than the same period in 1956. Growth comes from new parking lots and increased downtown meter use, with totals for the Rochester, Church Street, and Market House lots and street meters shown alongside 1956 comparisons.
E W Butler longtime business representative of General Teamsters Local 992 was re elected vice president for Hagerstown and vicinity at the convention under the Maryland State and D C Federation of Labor in Washington D C Harry Cohen Teamsters 355 was elected president for the tenth year by a 4 1 vote All other incumbents re elected except Baltimore vice presidents New officers include Norval Bowen Clapper Michael Post James Norris Ann Jackson etc Entries are open in the parade and a bicentennial celebration with $1400 in prizes will be staged at the civic grounds from June 24 to 2 Valley echoes show planned at night with numerous local labor officials attending.
Cumberland June 8 A city transit bus carrying 22 passengers struck a utility pole in the northern section. Mrs Pearl Hinkle 60 of Cumberland was taken to Memorial Hospital with arm shoulder and face injuries admitted for x rays. The center section ten feet long was pulled from the pole which carried power and telephone lines. The bus driver said brakes locked causing the accident at 619 Shriver Ave. Power and telephone officials would not permit moving the broken pole or debris to avoid power line damage.
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