The News from Frederick, Maryland • Page 12

THE NEWS, FrefleHck, Maryland Wednesday, September M. 1M4 THE NEWS IM3 Evtry Afternoon Cxcwt Sunday by VKEAT SOUTHERN PTG. MFG. Hortb Phont 4tt-im Prtdtrlck, 21701 SWSCRIPTON RATES tlnglt copy 5 By mall, payable advancr: Ont month months J3JO; Six months tt.SO; Ont year S1200. By carrier: 30 cents per week; 11.30 per month; 115.48 per year.

Member 'Audit' BureaiTof Circulation; The Asioclattd Prtis entities the use tor republlcatlon ot all the local news printed In tfiis newspaper as well all AP newt dispatches. Entered at the post office at a second-class matter. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 16, 1964 Operation Quagmire Prophecies of quick victory in South Viet Nam are no longer in fashion. Last October Maxwell Taylor, then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, sat in on a white House conference which envisaged a military triumph within two years, if there were no unduly severe political crises.

Washington announced 1,000 men would be brought home within two months and the remainder of the 14,000 by the end of 1965. Instead, 18,000 Americans are there now and 3,000 more are scheduled to arrive by Dec. 31. And Mr. Taylor, now ambassador to South Viet Nam, brought no sanguine predictions back to Washington.

On the contrary, the impression created is that military victory cannot be achieved in the foreseeable future. Ambassador Taylor also believes negotiated peace can come about only when the communists to the north realize their depredations in South Viet Nam aren't worth the heavy cost. But that day is farther off then ever. If the North Vietnam- Fifty Years Ago Items from the News-Post Filei September 16, 1914 A DISPATCH TO THE EXCHANGE Telegraph company from Petrograd says that after the capture of Opole and Tourobine, the Russian forces have hemmed the enemy into the angle formed by the junction of the River Vistula and the Rover San. The message continues: It is impossible for the Austrians to escape." EVERYTHING IS BEING PUT in readiness for the opening of the school year of the Hood College, the Maryland School for the Deaf, and the Visitation Academy, in this city.

Classes commence at the Hood College tomorrow, and tomorrow morning also sees the beginning of activities at the Maryland School. WITH THE COOL NIGHTS AND occasional frosts in the mountains that Frederick county has been experiencing, one is reminded that the chestnut season is near at hand. So far none of the toothsome nuts have made their appearance in the city, however. ON MONDAY MORNING A deer, apparently a young one, was seen on the farm of William C. Mercer, near Braddock Heights.

The animal was only about 100 yards away from the Mercer residence when seen, but when it caught sight of a person soon bounded for the mountains. Twenty Years Ago Items from the News-Post files September 16, 1944 BREAKING GROUND--E. H. Sears, project manager at the Atlantic Division of Aerojet- General Corporation, breaks loose the first shovel of ground to mark the start of a new building at the local Aerojet Plant. Assisting and supervising the groundbreaking are, left to right, S.

W. Kerkering. manager. Operations Department; H. Macrum, Assistant Manager, Operations Department: I.

M. Atanasoff, production support, and P. E. Henninger, head of manufacturing Aerojet-General Corporation is a subsidiary of The General Tire and Rubber Company. ese communists believed their LT.

GEN. GEORGE S. PAT-' goal was unattainable or not worth the cost, no negotiated peace would be necessary. BreakGround (Concert) Drive Opens One of the most successful community endeavors has been the Frederick Community Concert Association, which this week is holding the annual membership campaign for its 28th season. The series of four musical programs presented locally by this association has brought to Frederick over the years some of the nation's outstanding musical talent.

The association has bad a record of 12 successful campaigns in as many years, and is striving to make a new record for the community. Continued support for the membership drive will bring to many in the community the programs they look forward to year after year. Letters To The Editor Leagne Urges Women To Register For Vote To the Editor of The News: Women have had the right to vote for 44 years--yet 20 million women in the United States still don't bother to vote. Women have a vital role to play in politics and government. What happens in the local council chambers and the halls of Congress affects us--our children and our families.

TON'S armored spearheads i I crossing the Moselle in advanced eight miles in twoj hours under fire today, flush-1 ing Germans from woods a rain of explosives from waiting American a planes, and outflanking the Nazi river defense bastion of Pont-a-Mousson. CONSTRUCTION OF proposed Washington and Lincoln Memorial highway from' Washington to Gettysburg through this section would be a feasible post-war federal highway construction project, Reno Su Harp, prominent local attorney and Republican, said today he had written to Congressman J. Glenn Beall. DROUTH LIFTING RAINS, which brought more than an inch of precipitation up to mid-morning and were continuing in steady fashion, boosted water supplies, aided fields, pastures, lawns and some late truck crops and were gradually i streams that had been un- Ground breaking ceremonies were held last week marking the start of a new building at the local Aerojet-General Corporation plant Located adjacent to existing Aerojet buildings at the Frederick Municipal Airport, the new ---mco steel building covering an area of 12,640 square feet. The new building which will be completed in December by the Waynesboro.

Pa Construction Companj. represents an additional step to acquire increased manufacturing capacity in support of Aerojet materials handling systems. Mrs. Walter C. Ambrose Mrs.

Alinda Scott Ambrose, wife of the late Walter C. Ambrose, died Tuesday at her residence, Brunswick. She was a daughter of the late Americus and Lena Perry Bateman. Surviving are the following children: Mrs. Florence Beam, Baltimore; Mrs.

Alinda Flutie, Baltimore; Mrs. Columbia Menken, California; two stepsons, Carlos Front Royal, Va. and Howard Frederick; a son, Chester Riland, New Jersey; bi others and sisters, Mrs. Stella Bateraan, N.J., Mrs. Verna Jacobson.

N.J., Mrs. Amelia Templeton, N.J., and William Bateman, N.J.; 15 grandchil dren. Services will be held from the Feete Funeral Home in I Brunswick Thursday at 2 p.m. The Rev. James Senseny will officiate, and interment will bej in Park Heights Cemetery.

Lucy Harbaugh Mrs. Lucy Harbaugh, 64, RFD Company, the first of this Supreme Court was in jail 2 Frederick, died at Frederick Memorial Hospital at 7:15 p.m Tuesday. She had been in failing health for the past two Convict Kills TH More On 2d Chance With Awards For Service Two members of the local Peoples Life Insurance Com- A man ose sentence for pany office were presented ser- fe vicz awards by H. R. Franklin, of the under the Gideon decision of the Deaths Robert N.

Abrecht 8r. Robert Miles (Rah) Abrecht 68, husband of Mrs. Helen A. Marsden Abrecht, a nurse's aide at the Frederick Memorial Hospital, of North Market Street, died at the V.A. Center in Martinsburg, W.

Ve. Monday at 10:40 p. m. (EST). Mr.

Abrecht was born in Frederick City the son of the late Miles and Josephine Smith Abrecht. Surviving in addition to his wife are three sons, Robert N. Abrecht Washington, D. Norman E. Abrecht, Austin Edward Abrecht, of Frederick; six grandchildren and a number of nieces and nephews.

Mr. Abrecht was the last of his immediate family. Mr. Abrecht was a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, the Independent Hose Co. He was a veteran of World War 1, and served with Battery 58th Artillery.

The body is at the funeral home, on East Church Street, where friends may call after 7 p. m. a Funeral services will be held at the funeral home Friday at 2 p. m. Interment will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery.

M. R. Etchison and Son, funeral directors. TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) Up From the Deep Toms, Williamsport, Ellen Long, Qunicy Mrs.

Josephine Wy- call, Chatam, N.J., and Mrs. Madeline Frederick, eleven grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. Friends may call at the Bittie Funeral Home, Myersville. Funeral services will be held from the funeral home on Friday at 2 p.m. The Rev.

Charles H. Cameraon will officiate. Interment will be in United Brethren Cemetery, Myersville. Mrs. Ernest M.

Shank Mrs. Katie L. Shank, of E. South Street, died a morning in Frederick Memorial Hospital where she had been a patient for the past five weeks. She was born Feb.

8, 1918 in Frederick County and was a daughter of the late William N. and Lillian Jane Gilbert Garber. Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Wachter.

Those attending were: Guy P. Bready, Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Stambaugh, Eugene, Richard and Wayne, Mr. and Mrs.

Harvey Stambaugh, Luther Stambaugh. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Stambaugh, Larry and Shirley, Mr. and Mrs.

Marvin Stambaugh, Catherine Ann, Alice and Lee Mrs. Minnie E. Engle, Mr. and Mrs Melvin M. Engle, Earl L.

Powell. Albert Powell, Dennis I. Powell, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Flanigan and Teresa, Edith Flanigan, Mr.

and Mrs. H. Levi Lenhart, Harold, Brenda and Bobby. Mr and Mrs. Sterling Lenhart Denton and Ronald, Mr.

and Mrs. Carroll Wachter and Evelyn. Mr. and Mrs. Sterling Lenhart Mr.

and Mrs. Monroe E. Stambaugh, Melody. Patrick and Hope, Mr. and Mrs Luther Powell, I George C.

Stull. George W. Surviving her is her Mr and Mrs. Alton C. Ernest M.

Shank, a son. Ralph 0 Donnie, Ronnie, Bonnie, Agent G. T. Pope, who began i Tuesday charged with killing in 1944 as an agent in the Dam-1 two more persons ascus-Woodfield was pre- 1 Wallace Pless, 65-year-old Ne- sented a diamond-studded 20- ro was charged with killing Eugene Shank, Frederick and a sister, Mrs. Clara Stall, Frederick and several nieces and nephews.

Mrs. Shank was a member of a i a Lutheran Church. She formerly was employed at the Muse Tailoring Company and later at the Price Electric Co. Friends may call at the fun- and Carroll, Mr. and Mrs.

Alton P. Powell, William C. Powell, Mrs. Mabel Wilhide, Mr. and Mrs.

Austin Trout, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Seiss, William Seiss, Marlene Cook, Mr. and Mrs Charles W. Powell, Mr.

and Mrs. Marlin S. Green, Eric and Randy, Mr. and Mrs. Norv-al Stull, Eula Finneyfrock.

Mr. and Mrs. Willis Smith, Mr. eral home, on E. Church and Mrs.

George Fleagle, year service pin Pope, who was a two Negro carpenter stinson, 50 women, a and Precious Rol- months. She was born in Frederick before joining Peoples, will be ii ns 47j in a shooting here Mon- eligible to retire on a full pen- a sion in one year pi ess was fu-gt sent to prison Teenager (Continued i'rom Page 1) of Maryland Hospital employe, heve five other children from 10 to 20 One is Mary's identical! Pennsylvania, twin, Martha. Following a meeting the Among the hundreds who office, located at Court and The other employe receiving for fj ve years or manslaughter an award was D. H. Beard, who i 1917 began his service as an agent In 1933) ne was sentenced to in Westminster in 1949.

He was 2 years for assault with intent promoted to the position of as- to murf and was out on pa- sistant manager 1958 and now role in 1956 wnen ne kl ed two supervises a staff of seven agents located in this city, Carroll and Howard counties in Negroes, Pearly Hall, and John Lee. Pless pleaded guilty to the Maryland, and Adams County in scooting and was sentenced without an attorney to life imprisonment. Last year, the US. Supreme Court ruled that usually low before the down- gather ed about the Ott home af- Church streets, the 22-member a of an attorney was pour started. ter discovery of the bodv were sales force of this district, was denial a person constitution- entertained at luncheon at the, al rights Tne ruling came in th Kit Thurmond (Continued From Page 1) We women can help our com-) a Washington munity by registering to vote comment, said Carolina will bolt the Democrats.

The senator himself, asked by ter discovery of the body were Gov. J. Millard Tawes of Maryland and George Mahoney, former state racing commissioner, who visited the stunned parents. Mahoney had offered a reward for return of the girl. He Francis Scott Key by Franklin case of Clarence Gideon, a i i Vf- This luncheon was given as an Flonda man sentenced to five award to the district for an out- awara ro me aisirici lor an out- on charges of breakuig standing record of service PI pr production for the year to date tion of handbills bearing her pic-jBlood Unit and reporter state employs and hundreds of (Continued From Page 1) 'I will neither five years proba- deaths after he during Women Voters Week' deny nor confirm any specula(Sept.

13-19). We can look i tion about my statement until I around among our friends a i present it to the people if South encourage the non voters to register at the Board of Election Carolina on television tomorrow evening Supervisors Winchester a The South Carolina Republi- -t A before September 22.1964. Let's all join the each one reach one campaign sponsored by the League of Women Voters. Find the women who do not vote and convince them that their vote makes a difference! MRS. SIDNEY HALLE Voters Service Chairman League of Women Voters of Frederick County September 13.

1964 Personals George Ritter, Walkersville, son of Mr and Mrs. Nichals Ritter, will celebrate his 17th birthday tomorrow (Sept. 17). Mrs. I.

J. Zimmerman, East Patrick Street, and Mrs. Mattie Stull of Bethel and Mr. Robert Miller of East Patrick Street are vacationing in Quincy, Massachusetts. Competing Groups Meet Separately WASHINGTON (AP Two- Maryland area groups competing for a big new federal environmental health center will have separate meetings in the capitol Thursday.

At the first meeting, in the office of Sen. Daniel B. Brewster, a group from Washington County, will tell him ad officials of the public health service why the center should be built there. An hour later, representatives of Harford, Carroll and Baltimore counties will meet" in the office of Rep. Clarence D.

Long, to urge location of the new center in that area. Congress has voted for $1 million to begin the center and specified it must be located at least 50 away from Wash ington, D.C, jLWSPAPLR can chairman, J. Drake Edens, had no comment on the reports Industrialist Roger Milliken of Artanburg, another GOP leader, said he knew nothing about them. Thurmond, once governor of South Carolina, ran for the Senate in 1950, but lost to Sen. Olin D.

Johnson, a Democrat In 1954, he ran as an independent against Democratic nominee Edgar A. Brown in the general election and was elected to the Senate by a write-in vote. If Thurmond does switch parties, he will be the first senator to do so since 1954, when Morse of Oregon left the Republicans for the Democrats. Two years earlier. Morse had supported Democratic presidential candidate Adlai E.

Stevenson over Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower. taxicab drivers. Public interest in Mary's disappearance became so great that the Baltimore News-American sent reporters Pete Schneider and Mitchell Clogg to interview Mrs Sternfels. 'She claimed to see a cellar." they wrote nearly two months tober 7j at Calvary Methodist and entering.

Pless appealed under the court's new ruling and was sentenced to tion in the pleaded guilty to second degree murder instead of the old a very good response charge of first-degree murder, on Friday and feels certain that the quota of 153 pints will be exceeded. At the present time, there is a deficit in the annual quota of 74 pints. The next Bloodmobile visit to the Frederick area will be Oc- County, a daughter of the late Harry T. and Orpha Shank Anders. She was a member of St.

Johns United Church of Christ, Woodsboro. Friends may call at the Barton Funeral Home in Walkersville after 7 Thursday. The body will be moved to St. Johns United Church of Christ Friday at 10 a.m. for service there at 11 a.m.

Interment will be in the Mt. Hope Cemetery, Woodsboro. Surving are two daughters, Mrs. Margaret H. Martin and Mrs.

Pauline H. Wilcom, both of Frederick, one brother, William Anders, Lewistown; three sisters, Mrs. Helen Johnson, Taneytown, Mrs. Alice Stitley, Union Bridge and Mrs. Laura Patchen, Ovid, N.Y.; three grandchildren, Lana Martin, and Sandra and Stephen Wilcom.

after 7 p. m. today. Funeral services will be held at the funeral home Friday at 11 a. m.

Interment will be in Mt. Olivet cemetery. M. R. Etchison and Son, funeral directors.

John C. Remsberg Funerals Funeral services for Franklin H. Whitmore, who died Saturday in the VA Hospital Center. Martinsburg, W. were held Tuesday at 11 a.

m. from the funeral home, on E. Church St. The Rev. Charles A.

Pollard, a of Creagerstown-Utica Lutheran Church, was the officiating clergyman. Pallbearers were Guy McKenzie, Harry E. Main, Wro. Naille, Lewis E. Moberly, G.

Donald Weddle and Henry Filler. Interment was in Mt. Hope Etchison and Son, funeral directors. ago, "and urged us to search a cellar very close to the Ott home." Church, West Second and North Bentz streets, from 10 a until 3:30 p.m Notices for this visit Three States Agree On River Improving HUNTINGDON, Pa. (AP) A three-state compact on conservation and utilization of the Susquehanna River basin is expected to be completed by the end of the year, it was reported Tuesday.

The progress report on design of the compact came at a meeting of the Interstate Advisory Committee on the Susquehanna River basin. Dr. Frederick Zimmerman, professor of political science at Hunter College, and chairman of the subcommittee making up the draft of the compact, said his group is "moving ahead." The IAC is a temporary agency formed to coordinate activities of New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland, the three basin The only police comment on are being prepared now and will this point was a statement last month by Acting Chief Inspector Julian Forrest. He said Rawlings and Patrolman Donald Raley saw the woman and were "investigating every avenue, every thought she expressed." NO CABLE CARS SAN RANCISCO (AP) The cable cars won't be chasing up and down San rancisco's hills between next Dec. 15 and Jan.

15. The Public Utilities Commission has ordered a month-long shutdown to install new equipment. be in the mail soon. Those receiving these notices are once again asked to return the confirmation cards as soon as possible indicating their wishes regarding appointments. Among The Sick Mrs.

Preston Fogle, East Church street, entered Frederick Memorial Hospital, Tuesday, and will undergo surgery, Thursday. The amount of radioactivity in food is far too small to be considered a health hazard. Wins Second For 4 Statioii Of The Year' Charles Middletown, won second place in Maryland's 1964 "Service a i of the Year" contest. He operates the Gulf station at Seventh a Market streets. The contest is sponsored annually to determine the cleanest and most attractive of the 2,700 service stations in the state.

Presentations were made at the annual convention of the Maryland Petroleum Association at Turf Valley Country Club, Ellicott City, on Monday. John E. Clark, Chairman of the Governor's Committee To Keep Maryland Beautiful, made the awards. PP Tampa, Florida, died there Monday evening. A son of the late George W.

and JoAnna Derr Remsberg of Middletown, he is survived by a son, David McMillian Remsberg of Pittsburgh, three grandchildren and several nephews. Friend may call at the Gladhill Funeral Home in Middletown Thursday morning. Graveside service will be held Thursday at 2 p. m. Interment will be made in the Lutheran Cemetery in Middletown.

Funeral services for Herman West, who died Saturday evening in an auto accident near Thurmont, were held Tuesday at 2 p.m. from the Creager Funer- Annie C. Toms Mrs. Annie, C. Toms, 85, widow of Claude Toms, Myersville, died early Wednesday morning at her home after an extended illness.

She was born near Myersville. daughter of the late Tilghman and Salone Grossnickle. Mrs. Toms was a member of the Myersville Church of the Brethran. She was the last surviving member of her immediate family.

She is survived by her children; Mrs. Mabel Bittle of Haines City, Mrs. Nora E. Sheeley, Myersville, William E. LIGHT SITE--Erection of a radar-controlled traffic light at Pearl and Jefferson streets is now under way, and the light is expected to be in operation by the first of October.

The light Photo by J. Castiemai will control traffic entering Prospect Park Plaza apartments, Prospect Shopping Center, and the Howard Johnson's restaurant in addition to traffic on Pearl and Jefferson streets. and Mrs. Harold F. Late, Dwayne, Pamela, Mrs.

Nettie Late, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Powell, Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Kelly, Mr.

and Mrs. Kenneth Powell, Pamela and Keith, Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Late. Mr.

and Mrs. Raymond Powell, Laura and Dennis, Mrs. Stella Geasey, Mrs. Howard Fisher and Alice May, Mr. and Mrs.

Ralph Burdette, Mr. and Mrs. Harold E. and Sandra, Mr. and Mrs.

Charles E. Green and Randolph, Mr. and Mrs. Merhl Powell and Douglas, Mrs. Alice Diller, Mr.

and Mrs. Edwin D. Bales, Donna, Jimmy and David, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lenhart and Debbie, Mr.

and Mrs. Marshal Leatherman, Mary Eigenbrode, Bertha Frushour, Mrs. Nancy Winningham, Billy, Bob and Monty, Mr. and Mrs Robert D. Leatherman, Mr.

and Mrs. R. Dwight Leatherman and Bobby, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Speak, Jay, Mark and Kathy, Mr.

and Mrs. John Sipes, Mr. and Mrs. G. E.

Powell, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Porch, Mr. and Mrs. Claude L.

Smith, Barbara Krenzer and Ralph Krenzer, Mr. and al Home in Thurmont conducted' Mrs. G. E. Powell and Linby the Rev.

Richard A. Ruof. Serving as pallbearers were employes of hte Thurmont Con- truction Company, where he worked- Merhl Shriner, Merhl Shriner Donald Creager, James Miller, Richard Weant and William Lookingbill. Interment was made in Blue Ridge Cemetery in Thurmont. Funeral services for James Fuller Hobbs, Frederick, who died Saturday at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore were held Tuesday at 2 p.

m. from the Waltz Funeral Home, Liberty Road, Winfield. conducted by the Rev. Paul L. Althouse.

Serving as pallbearers were Elmer Chick, Arthur Lynch, Howard Wagner, Emory Cain, Harvey McCutcheon and Mifflin Pickett. Interment was made in Oak Grove Cemetery in Glenwood. da, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Leatherman, Timothy Lee.

neth II, and Robin Scott. Beatle Visit Brings Response At All BALTIMORE (AP) It's incredible, but a Beatle visited a school for girls and not a soul swooned. Sister Mary Michelle, principal of Mercy High School, said it was because the girls just couldn't believe it was George Harrison. "They probably thought he was just another visitor," said the nun. "He was sort of out of context to them." Harrison visited the school Monday before the Beatles flew off to Pittsburgh after being "in context" at the Civic Center Sunday.

POWELL REUNION The 24th annual Powell reunion was held August 30 in the Mountaindale picnic (grove. A picnic lunch was served after which the following program was presented: invocation, Rev. Guy P. Bready; scripture, Albert M. Powell vocal selections by Mrs.

Raymond Powell, Mrs. Alton C. Powell and Mrs. Harold Powell accompanied by Mrs. Howard Fisher; baton twirling, Laura and Sandra Powell; readings by Mrs.

Clifford Kelly; selection, "Nobody Loves Me," by Ronnie, Donnie, Bonnie, Pamela, Sandra, Laura and Dennis Powe and Randolph Green. The program ended with group singing. A short business meeting was held after which prizes awarded: oldest man, Dennis Powell; oldest lady, Mrs. Minnie Engle; couple married longest, Mr. and Mrs.

George Fleagle; most recently married, Mr. and Mrs. Alton C. Powell; largest family, the Harvey Stambaugh family; longest distance Albert L. Powell; youngest child Evelyn Wachter, daughter ol HEAVY DAMAGES GUATEMALA (AP) An earthquake Monday caused heavy damage in the town of Sacapulas, on the Mexican border, authorities there reported Tuesday.

Details were lacking because of poor communications. WILLING WORKERS MEET The first meeting of the Willing Workers of Grace Rocky Hill Church, was held in the church social room Sept. 4. Mrs. Belma Barton served as hostess.

A short business meeting was held. The next meeting will be held Oct. 9. SALES CLINIC A one-day sales clinic will be held by the Maryland Association of Real Estate Boards for Western Maryland Realtors and their sales representatives at the Fort Cumberland Hotel, Cumberland, September 24. Short evening -drestw an back after a season's absence.

There's no need invest in a long gown unless a very special formal event is forthcoming..