News from 50 years ago in The Baltimore Guide
by Jacqueline Watts
editor@baltimoreguide.com
March 20, 1958
A Canton girl filed a $50,000 lawsuit against the driver of a car that ran her down at S. East Ave. and Gough St. Her father filed a companion suit for $15,000. The 11-year-old girl was walking across East when she was hit by the car on November 24, 1957. The impact knocked her unconscious, and she was placed in a full body cast. She went back to school on Feb. 3.
Police chasing a suspected stickup man cornered him in an alley between the 900 blocks of Linwood Ave. and Streeper St. The 22-year-old suspect pulled a gun on arresting officers Henry Kalter and Charles Baer. The boys in blue subdued him and booked him into the Eastern District station house.
A Canton man was taken to City Hospitals after a chain-reaction wreck at Broening Highway and Cardiff Ave. Clifford Steward of the 1000 block Paca St. hit the rear of a car, which hit the car ahead of it, which hit the car ahead of it. The four-car pileup sent Steward and his passenger, William Bukowski of the 2600 block Foster Ave., to the hospital for treatment.
A gunman who held up Lillian Goraliski’s tavern in the 1800 block Aliceanna St. had to have been disappointed with his haul—$12 from the till and $2.10 from two customers at the bar.
Dundalk police were scratching their heads over a stolen auto-auto accident-carjack-holdup incident. First, a stolen car overturned near the Colgate Creek bridge. As the cops were sorting that out, traffic backed up on Broening Highway. At the same time, other cops were chasing another car, which piled into the traffic jam on Broening—and meanwhile, a man called the police to say that he had been forced out of his car and held up near Harbor Field. “How all these events fit together still has Dundalk police puzzled,” the Guide reported. “Wouldn’t you be?”
Irene Jane Charchut was closing the gap down the stretch of the Miss Guide beauty contest. Ruby Sheldon was still in the lead, but her margin had shrunk to 128 votes with a week to go. In third, but quite a way back with 2,117 votes, was Elizabeth Biernadski, a secretary and singer in the Damenchoir; then Lillian Horne, a Sparrows Point High School senior, and Shirley Ann Creamo, an Our Lady of Pompei grad. The winner was to get a night on the town and a trophy, and the runners up would get a deluxe scrapbook of clippings of the contest.
William Sebastian Hart, conductor of the Number 1 Municipal Concert Band, announced a free concert to be performed at the Patterson Park High School auditorium. The band and four young soloists were to perform.
Not to be outdone, the Surf Club on Pulaski Highway advertised Daisy Mae and her Hepcats, “The Original Recording Stars of ‘Hounddog’” plus Al “Madman” Baitch and the Big Toppers Sundays from 4:30 p.m. to 2 a.m. Murray Schaff and his Aristocrats opened on the 25th.
Nick and Lou’s Eastpoint Sinclair offered a lube for 95 cents with every oil change.
Father Stanley J. Janaites of St. Patrick’s Parish designed the winning display in the citywide Catholic Youth Organization fair. Titled “The Diocesan Priesthood,” its Sputnik-inspired theme was “Scientists Can Take Us to the Stars but a Priest Can Lead Us to Heaven.”
Dundalk High School’s Glee Club was finishing rehearsals for “The Mikado” under the direction of Miss Lucille Hill, vocal music instructor. Most of the lead roles were double cast. Yum Yum was to be played by Rose Fortino on opening night and Jackie Eggleston on closing night; Peep Bo by Jean Jackiewicz and Carole Simms; and Pittising by Marlene Lannan and Helena Stratton.
Nick Staffa and George Moxley were cast as KoKo, Charles Stroble and Mervin Dietz as Pish Tush and Jocelyn Jones and Diana Dillon as Katisha.
Richard Steinhoff played Nanki Poo, Frank Smith played Pooh Bah, and John Van Cura the Mikado.
The Dundalk High School wrestling team took the Baltimore County championship at a meet held at Milford Mill High School. The Owls dominated the competition, 23-13. John Sudbrink and Larry Stevanus, who had been undefeated all season, led the way by scoring falls.
The Owls and Milford Mill finished the regular season tied at 5-0-1, warranting the playoff. Earlier in the season the teams wrestled to a 19-19 tie.
