Thursday, September 24, 2015

Westminster Fallfest was packed this evening. And the parade was great.

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Oxen driving demo on the grounds of the Carroll County Farm Museum in Westminster Tuesday, August 18, 2015.


Oxen driving demo on the grounds of the Carroll County Farm Museum in Westminster Tuesday, August 18, 2015.

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By Michel Elben Carroll County Times contact the reporter

With firm commands, Don Hoff and Karen Butler guided the Carroll County Farm Museum's team of oxen around the yard Tuesday as the two beasts of burden pulled a large tire behind them.

Jack and Jim, a pair of 3-year-old Devon oxen, were donated by the museum's Hoff Barn Committee. The team, with the guidance of drivers, will demonstrate what farm life was like in the 1790s, according to Bob Shirley, education chair for the Hoff Barn Committee.

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John 7:33 Jesus said, “I am with you for only a short time...


John 7:33 Jesus said, “I am with you for only a short time, and then I am going to the one who sent me. NIV
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Carroll County Maryland Commissioner Stephen Wantz: District 1


Carroll County Commissioner Stephen Wantz: District 1

Revised September, 2015 https://ccgovernment.carr.org/ccg/commiss/District1.aspx  

Email:
swantz@ccg.carr.org   

Carroll County Office Building
225 North Center Street
Westminster, Maryland 21157

Phone:
410-386-2043

Fax:
410-386-2485

Stephen Wantz is in his first term as County Commissioner. He retired from Baltimore County after serving as a firefighter for 30 years.

He is currently the owner and operator of Wantz Lawn Care.

He attended McDaniel College (formerly Western Maryland) and the University of Maryland Baltimore County.

Mr. Wantz was awarded Fire Fighter of the Year by the Dundalk VFW in 1983 and again by the Pikesville Chamber of Commerce in 2003 and 2012. He has been a member of the Pleasant Valley Community Volunteer Fire Department since 1976 and has served the company in many leadership roles including Chief of the Fire Department. He is the immediate Past President of the Carroll County Volunteer Emergency Services Association.


Mr. Wantz is an active member of the Crossroads Community Church. He and his wife, Kathy, have 2 daughters and 3 grandchildren and live in Pleasant Valley. District 1 stretches across northern Carroll County. It includes the towns of Manchester and Taneytown.
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Wednesday, September 23, 2015

More Liberty ship research notes September 18, 2015



Merchant Marine Stamp

More Liberty ship research notes September 18, 2015

A merchant marine stamp, designed by V.S. Closkey, Jr. was issued on February 26, 1946 in the District of Columbia [Scott # 939]. It shows a Liberty ship loading cargo

Merchant Marine Stamp of 1946, Steamship Stamp of 1944, and First Day Covers

On December 8, 1941, the United States Congress officially declared war on Japan and Germany. Americans were exhorted to enlist, recycle, work hard, buy war bonds, and sacrifice to avenge Pearl Harbor. Patriotism was in! Even ordinary postage stamps reminded Americans about the war effort.

Find out much more here; http://www.usmm.org/fdc.html

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And be sure to go here for much-much more information: http://www.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/116liberty_victory_ships/116liberty_victory_ships.htm

Liberty Ships and Victory Ships, America's Lifeline in War

The officers and men of the Merchant Marine, by their devotion to duty in the face of enemy action, as well as natural dangers of the sea, have brought us the tools to finish the job. Their contribution to final victory will be long remembered.

--General Dwight D. Eisenhower on National Maritime Day, 1945¹
In the nearly 20 years following the end of the World War I, America's merchant fleet, including its cargo and passenger ships, was becoming obsolete and declining in numbers. A shipbuilding program began with the passage of the Merchant Marine Act of 1936. However, World War II provided the impetus to intensify those efforts eventually leading to a ship-building program that produced 5,500 vessels. Among them were 2,710 mass-produced ships known as Liberty ships. While reviewing blueprints of the Liberty ships at the White House, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who loved naval vessels and had an eye for design, mused aloud to Maritime Commission administrator Admiral Emory S. Land, "I think this ship will do us very well. She'll carry a good load. She isn't much to look at, though, is she? A real ugly duckling."² Thus, the Liberty ships received their second nickname, "the ugly ducklings."

When the United States entered World War II at the end of 1941, it had the beginnings of a great merchant fleet. But the lethal U-Boats, submarines of the German Navy, prowled the shipping lanes hunting American merchant ships. The Liberty ships proved to be too slow and too small to carry the tons of supplies the United States and her Allies would need to win the war. In 1943, the United States began a new ship-building program. These new ships would be faster, larger, and able to carry cargo long after the war was finished. These were the Victory ships.

The Liberty and Victory ships fulfilled President Roosevelt's prophetic words, serving the nation well in war and peace. Today, of the thousands of Liberty ships and Victory ships built during World War II, only a handful remains.

¹ War Shipping Administration, Press Release 2277(W), Maritime Day 1945--Military Leaders Praise Merchant Marine (18 May 1945).

² John G. Bunker, Liberty Ships: The Ugly Ducklings of World War II (Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1972) p. 6.

http://www.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/116liberty_victory_ships/116ABOUT.htm

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U.S. Merchant Marine Academy https://www.usmma.edu/

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Welcome aboard the Liberty Ship the S.S. JOHN W. BROWN

http://www.ssjohnwbrown.org/ Retrieved September 18, 2015

Welcome aboard S.S. JOHN W. BROWN, one of only two remaining, fully operational Liberty ships that participated in World War II. This wonderful piece of history provides an educational and historical opportunity for the public to experience 1944 all over again, without the dangers of being sunk by a submarine or a torpedo bomber!

Through the efforts of talented and dedicated volunteers, coupled with the generous financial support of members and friends, S.S. JOHN W. BROWN continues to educate by operating as a historic museum ship, furnishing visitors with a unique opportunity to experience "living history" of the World War II merchant marine.

http://www.ssjohnwbrown.org/

Liberty Ships, Italy, March 31st, 1948. Photo taken by Tony Linck, Time Life. http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/2015/09/liberty-ships-italy-march-31st-1948.html

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And go here, http://www.usmm.org/faq.html for frequently Asked Questions about the Merchant Marine

Click on these links at http://www.usmm.org/quotes.html for quotes about American Merchant Marine by Presidents, Military Leaders, National Figures, and others http://www.usmm.org/quotes.html

Quotes about American Merchant Marine by Presidents

Franklin D. Roosevelt, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, John Tyler, Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Calvin Coolidge, James K. Polk, Rutherford B. Hayes, Chester Arthur, Benjamin Harrison, Grover Cleveland, William McKinley, Herbert Hoover, William Howard Taft, Warren G. Harding, Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon, Jimmy Carter

Quotes about American Merchant Marine by Military Leaders

Dwight D. Eisenhower, Douglas MacArthur, Jonathan Wainwright, George C. Marshall, Chester W. Nimitz, Ernest J. King, Alexander A. Vandegrift, T. C. Kinkaid, Sir Bernard Montgomery, Edward Macauley, Harold R. Stark,Howard L. Vickery, Paul W. Tibbets, Colin Powell, John M. Shalikashvili, Henry H. Shelton, Georgi K. Zhukov, B. H. Ramsay, Royal E. Ingersoll, John J. Pershing Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan

Quotes about American Merchant Marine by World and National Leaders

Winston S. Churchill, Rufus King, James G. Blaine, Nelson Dingley, Thomas Benton, Elihu Root, Wesley L. Jones, Herbert Hoover, Lewis B. Hershey, Ellis Arnall, Cordell Hull, Eleanor Roosevelt, Fisher Ames, Emery S. Land

Quotes about American Merchant Marine from Newspapers

New York Times

Quotes about American Merchant Marine by Famous People

Bob Hope, Carole Landis, Ernie Pyle

Proclamations, Resolutions, and Statements on National Maritime Day by Presidents, Governors, and National leaders 

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U.S. Navy Armed Guard and U.S. Merchant Marine in World War II - A Little-Known Story

http://www.armed-guard.com/

The U.S. Navy Armed Guard was a service branch of the United States Navy that was responsible for defending U.S. and Allied merchant ships from attack by enemy aircraft, submarines and surface ships during World War II. The men of the Armed Guard served primarily as gunners, signal men and radio operators on cargo ships, tankers, troop ships and other merchant vessels. Disbanded following the end of the war, the Armed Guard is today little known or remembered by the general public, or even within the Navy. But without the courage and sacrifice of the men of the Armed Guard, victory in World War II would have been much more difficult and taken much longer.

The merchant marine is collectively those non-naval ships that carry cargo or passengers or provide maritime services, and the civilian crewmen and officers who sail those ships. During World War II the ships and men of the United States merchant marine transported across the oceans of the world the vast quantities of war materiel, supplies, equipment, and troops needed to fight and win that war. The men of the U.S. merchant marine were civilian volunteers who nonetheless died proportionally in numbers that rivaled or exceeded any branch of the uniformed military. Like the Armed Guard with whom they sailed, the men of the merchant marine made possible the Allied victory in World War II.

The Armed Guard and the merchant marine were uniquely dependent upon one another; they were literally in the same boat. One cannot tell the story of one without telling the story of the other.


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Richard Henry Bollinger died September 12, 2015 at Hope Hospice at Health Park in Fort Myers, FL.



Richard Henry Bollinger died September 12, 2015
at Hope Hospice at Health Park in Fort Myers, FL.

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He was born on November 30, 1924, in Hanover, Pennsylvania, the eldest of nine children born to Percy and Pauline Becker Bollinger.

He grew up on the family's farm in Taneytown, MD and graduated from Taneytown High School in 1941.

He married the former Ruth Ellen Eckard of Westminster, MD, on April 3, 1948.

He was employed at Union Trust Company in Baltimore and later at Maryland National Bank from which he retired in 1989.

He was an active member of Grace Lutheran Church in Westminster where he served two terms as President of the Church Council, taught Sunday School, was Chairman of the Bloodmobile for 18 years, Treasurer of the Shepherds Staff, and assisted in organizing the first Soup Kitchen.

He served as the first President for the Carroll County Luther League which he helped to organize in 1947.

He was also a volunteer at Carroll County General Hospital and was a member of the Westminster Elks Lodge.

He and his wife moved to Fort Myers, FL in 1997 and joined Zion Lutheran Church where he served as an usher, a member of the Social Committee and as a Stephen Minister.

He also volunteered at the Southwest Regional Hospital. He was a volunteer for many years with the Community Cooperative Ministries, Inc. (CCMI) in Fort Myers, serving meals to those in need and packing Meals on Wheels.

He was passionate about feeding the poor and homeless. In his spare time he enjoyed reading the Bible, playing golf, Baltimore Orioles' baseball games, and family get-togethers.

He is survived by his wife, Ruth Ellen, of Fort Myers, his daughter, Susan (Barrett) Genson of Fort Myers, FL, and Grafton, WI; three grandsons, Scott (Anna) Oakes of Brookfield, WI; Stephen Oakes of Grafton, WI; and Ryan (Staci) Oakes of Wauwatosa, WI; five great-grandchildren; brothers Robert of Taneytown, MD; Lester (Dorothy) of Union Bridge, MD; Maurice (Betty) of Hanover, PA; sisters Evelyn (Harry) Newlin of Frederick, MD; and Doris (Kenneth) Crouse of Taneytown, MD. He is further survived by sister-in-law Frances Duttera of Littlestown, PA. and many nieces and nephews.

He was predeceased by his parents; brothers Glenn and Donald, and sister Pearl Sell, all of Taneytown, MD; and by sisters-in-law, Arlene Bollinger, Charlotte Bollinger, and Mildred Bollinger, all of Taneytown, MD; and brothers-in-law Eugene Sell of Taneytown, MD, and James Duttera of Littlestown, PA.

A memorial service and celebration of his life will be held on Saturday, September 19, at 11am at Grace Lutheran Church, 21 Carroll St, Westminster, MD 21157.


In lieu of flowers, donations in memory of Richard Bollinger may be sent to CCMI, 3429 Dr Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Fort Myers, FL 33916; Zion Lutheran Church, 7401 Winkler Rd, Fort Myers, FL 33919; or Grace Lutheran Church at the address above. The family wishes to thank the staff at Brookdale at the Lakes Senior Living Center and Hope Hospice at Health Park for their loving care. - See more at: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/carrollcountytimes/obituary.aspx?n=richard-henry-bollinger&pid=175848719&fhid=11209#sthash.ETSM9x9e.dpuf
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“Pastor’s Study” Grace Lutheran Church by Kevin E. Dayhoff September 20, 2015

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“Pastor’s Study” Grace Lutheran Church by Kevin E. Dayhoff September 20, 2015

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Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church
21 Carroll Street
Westminster, MD 21158
(410) 848-7020

The Reverend Kevin Clementson, Senior Pastor
The Reverend Martha Clementson, Senior Pastor

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Carroll County Board of Commissioners names Patty Whitson acting director of Carroll County Citizen Services


Carroll County Board of Commissioners names Patty Whitson news acting director of Carroll County Citizen Services http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/2015/09/carroll-county-board-of-commissioners.html

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Westminster, Friday, September 18, 2015 – The Board of County Commissioners today named longtime Community Services Supervisor, Ms. Patricia Whitson, as Acting Director of Citizen Services.

She will be taking on the responsibilities and duties previously performed by Ms. Madeline Morey.

Ms. Whitson has served the county for 14 years. She is familiar with the various programs Citizen Services works with every day and will fill the role of Acting Director very well. She can be contacted by phone at 410-386-3800 or by email pwhitson@ccg.carr.org.

The Board wishes Ms. Morey the very best and asks for everyone’s understanding as Ms. Whitson settles into her new role.

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USMM.org: Liberty Ships built by the United States Maritime Commission in World War II

USMM.org: Liberty Ships built by the United States Maritime Commission in World War II

http://www.usmm.org/libertyships.html

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"Liberty ship" was the name given to the EC2 type ship designed for "Emergency" construction by the United States Maritime Commission in World War II. Liberty ships were nicknamed "ugly ducklings" by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

The first of the 2,711 Liberty ships was the SS Patrick Henry, launched on Sept. 27, 1941, and built to a standardized, mass produced design. (2,710 ships were completed, as one burned at the dock.) The 250,000 parts were pre-fabricated throughout the country in 250-ton sections and welded together in about 70 days. One Liberty ship, the SS Robert E. Peary was built in four and a half days. A Liberty cost under $2,000,000.

The Liberty was 441 feet long and 56 feet wide. Her three-cylinder, reciprocating steam engine, fed by two oil-burning boilers produced 2,500 hp and a speed of 11 knots. Her 5 holds could carry over 9,000 tons of cargo, plus airplanes, tanks, and locomotives lashed to its deck. A Liberty could carry 2,840 jeeps, 440 tanks, or 230 million rounds of rifle ammunition.

Liberty ships were named after prominent (deceased) Americans, starting with Patrick Henry and the signers of the Declaration of Independence. 18 that were named for outstanding African-Americans.

Any group which raised $2 million dollars in War Bonds could suggest a name for a Liberty ship, thus, one is named for the founder of the 4-H movement in Kansas, the first Ukrainian immigrant to America, an organizer for the International Ladies Garment Union, and the woman who suggested the poppy as a symbol of American soldiers who died in World War I. The Francis J. O'Gara was named after a mariner who was presumed dead, but who in fact, was a Prisoner of War. He was the only person to visit a Liberty ship named in his honor.

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About 200 Libertys were lost to torpedoes, mines, explosions, kamikazes, etc. during WWII. Two Liberty ships, the SS Jeremiah O'Brien in San Francisco and the SS John W. Brown in Baltimore, survive as "museum ships" open to the public for tours and occasional cruises.

Read much-much more here: http://www.usmm.org/libertyships.html

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Welcome aboard the Liberty Ship the S.S. JOHN W. BROWN

http://www.ssjohnwbrown.org/ Retrieved September 18, 2015

Welcome aboard S.S. JOHN W. BROWN, one of only two remaining, fully operational Liberty ships that participated in World War II. This wonderful piece of history provides an educational and historical opportunity for the public to experience 1944 all over again, without the dangers of being sunk by a submarine or a torpedo bomber!

Through the efforts of talented and dedicated volunteers, coupled with the generous financial support of members and friends, S.S. JOHN W. BROWN continues to educate by operating as a historic museum ship, furnishing visitors with a unique opportunity to experience "living history" of the World War II merchant marine.

http://www.ssjohnwbrown.org/

Liberty Ships, Italy, March 31st, 1948. Photo taken by Tony Linck, Time Life. http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/2015/09/liberty-ships-italy-march-31st-1948.html

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