Tragic Deaths Of Dr and Mrs Wayne Crider
Obituary reflects on Dr Wayne Crider and his wife killed in an unexpected Sunday crash. Crider, a Maryland chiropractor and aviation pioneer, helped revive the Har Kerners Township CAP squadron after World War II and fostered youth careers in aviation. The piece honors their civic, business, and religious contributions and contemplates fate and divine recall.
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Wayne F. Crider
Thames
Criders
Maryland
Har Kerstown
Civil Air Patrol
Tts
Crider
Hagerstown
Hyer
Jnst
Earth
Charles W Boyer Dies, Hagerstown Mourns Local Baseball Pioneer
Over the weekend Hagerstown reflected on Charles William Berer known as Charlie Boyer famed as Mr. Baseball of the city. He helped shape local and national vaudeville era and early organized baseball leaving a lasting memory in the community.
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Charlie Boyer
Hagerstown
Charles Hoyer
Boyer
Muete
Kow
Right Or Wrong Johnson shifted Pentagon to taxpayers control
Washington column argues Johnson’s ouster aimed at palatable defense spending. It credits his push for a unified budget, hospital cuts, and improved Korea era logistics while warning against military leaders using his reforms to push broader control over the country. It notes rising taxes and prices as mobilization grows.
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Ashington
U. S
Korea
Tsut
Pentagon
Johnson
Louis Johnson
State Department
Tey
Solmson
Slow Flying Gypsies Battle Koreans in North Korea Scene
HAL BOYLE reports on American Cub spotter planes flown with South Korean Third Division near Pohang. The tiny aircraft, hampered by base distance and advancing Rok troops, struggle to stay effective as Korean infantry push Reds back toward North Korea, leaving crew fatigued and demoralized at a abandoned airfield.
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Hal Boyle
North Korea
Wright
Republic of Korea
ROK
Axmond J. Worth
James W.M
Ladora
Iowa
Edward B. Ledford
Empire Road
Oakland
Calif
Clayton Johnson
Portland
Me. Te
Cpl
Lawrence C. Boucher
Marin City
William Clark
Battlefront
Korea
Korye
Gs Uso
Yowiles
Parated
Boks
Ledford
Johnson
Barbs by Hal Cochran a playful quip piece
A humorous column by Hal Cochran comments on a series of roving thoughts about artists movies and a pun on a golfer’s clubs. The fragment hints at memory and a gag about a pocket radio replacing a conscience. The piece reads as a light editorial sketch with quick one liners.
Jottings From Yesteryears 40 Years Ago
A fragment from Edgar A. Guest column notes slang and phrases in ads and legal talk. Mentions Tunemady elephant ads, lawyer debates, and local business growth in Hagerstown with Fletcher organizing a big league, Jefferson garage expansion, and associated figures.
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Yesteryears
Water shortage alarms Smithshark residents amid crisis
Twenty years ago Smithshark residents faced water shortages as wells and cisterns ran dry. Unemployment rose due to the shutdown. Halfway area parents complained Wilkes Park Pike became unsafe for schoolchildren and state troopers addressed speeding. Political notes mention W Preston Gane Jr as possible successor to J Robinson for Attorney General. The rural theaters showed John Barrymore, William Powell, and Ronald Coleman in listed films.
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Smithshark
Tully
Ehoge
Wilkes Park Pike
Speedway
Ste
Chere Fe Park
W. Preston Gane, Jr
Fie Lite
Thety J. Robinson
Attoreney General
Watchbird keeps watch over poultry in South America
A sepoamer, a spmyred bird the size of a turkey, is kept as a watchbird by some people to defend their poultry, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica.
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Britannies
How to Keep War Against Germs With Antibiotics
A medical column explains antibiotics from penicillin to streptomycin and aureomycin, noting how these medicines defeat bacteria, their capsule form advantage, and limits with viruses and rickettsia, plus cautions on cost and digestion.
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Man
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Wayne Criders
Charles W. Boyer
Washington
Douglas Larsen
NEA
Boyle
Hal Cochran
Just Folks
Edgar A. Guest
Lawere
TD. A. Fletcher
Uyims
Mr. Hletcher
Siagerstown
William
Atta
Thor Automobile Corporation
Washington, D.C
Thurst
Phex
Nat
John Barrymore
William Powell
Ronald Coteman
Pratt and Lambert's
Harry C. Garvin
Cor
Franklin & Prospect Sts
Theodore R. van Dellen, Md
J. K
Heart and Lung L. Kk
B. V
Dale Carnegie
Hazerstown
Winn Office Service
the Hattimore Institute
E. Antietam Street
Sylvania
Ringer
Frederick Street
Danzer Metal Works
W. Lee St
May
Washington Street
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