Cement Plant

It is a picture-perfect lesson in history.2 "If you don't want to get hooked, don't look."*St. Paul's Lutheran Church, 3330 Uniontown Road in Uniontown, will sponsor a flea market and craft fair to benefit the church from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.Antiques, crafts, flea market items, jewelry and yard sale items will be sold.Turkey salad sandwiches, barbecue, hot dogs, chili dogs, vegetable and noodle soups, and baked goods may be purchased.Rain date is Sept. 18.3' Information: Elsie Baust, 848-9415.

Union Bridge man faces sentencingA Union Bridge man is to be sentenced in Frederick County on Nov. 10 on arson charges for burning insulation off $23,000 worth of copper wire that could be sold as scrap, authorities said.John Wayne Brooks, 25, denied stealing 25,750 feet of electrical wire from Lehigh Portland Cement Co. but admitted burning the insulation off the wire.He told police he found the wire while he was fishing last January near Rocky Ridge.The wire and a van had been stolen hours before from the cement plant in Carroll County.

75 years agoThrough some mistake, a foreigner was given a pay checkbelonging to someone else on the last payday at the Cement Plant. As he could neither read nor write our language, he got someone else to endorse it who used the name as was written on the face, the foreigner making his mark. Payment was refused upon presentation to the bank and later he was arrested and placed in jail. He was given a hearing on Thursday, when the case was dismissed for lack of evidence. The consensus of opinion is that he was innocent and the question, therefore, naturally arises as to why was he locked up at all?

New positionsAmericom appoints two to its wireless divisionAmericom announced appointments in its wireless services division of Charles Rosenberg to group vice president for operations, and Lindy Scarborough to director of training and team development.Prior to joining the Timonium-based cellular/wireless communications company, Mr. Rosenberg was a regional vice president for Metrocall, a paging company, and Ms. Scarborough was a trainer and former store manager for Bell Atlantic NYNEX Mobile.

After studying the impact of quarrying and stopping some development in mineral-rich areas, the county came closer this year to developing a plan to regulate mining.By next summer, the county expects to complete a mining plan to help deal with expansions planned by three quarry companies in the Wakefield Valley area.One of the companies -- Lehigh Portland Cement Co. -- received permission last fall to mine land off Route 31 in New Windsor.Efforts by the Arundel Corp. to develop a quarry in Medford remain mired in state courts.

A tractor-trailer driver was seriously injured and trapped in the cab of his rig for 75 minutes after it overturned about a mile outside Union Bridge at 2:30 p.m. yesterday.Charles Cave, 33, of Broadway, Va., a driver for Dayton (Va.) Transport Co., was flown by state police Medevac helicopter to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore with head, leg, wrist and possible internal injuries.He had just loaded his tank-type trailer with 20 tons of cement at the Lehigh Portland Cement Plant in Union Bridge and was driving south on Route 75 into Frederick County when he encountered a sharp curve at Clemsonville Road, state police said.

If the 465-foot Lehigh Heidelberg Cement tower were in downtown Baltimore, it would be the fifth-tallest high- rise, an unassuming structure in a busy skyline. But the structure dominates Union Bridge, a pastoral Carroll County town of just over a thousand people that's known for its quaint antique stores. "At night, they light the tower up like Cape Canaveral," said Union Bridge Mayor Bret Grossnickle. "Opinions vary on whether it's an eyesore. It's been around so long that people are used to it."

THE CALENDAR says summer is a month away, but recent temperatures, and tradition tell us the season starts on Memorial Day weekend.Locally, two parades, the first carnival and the opening of the Taneytown swimming pool are signs of summer.The Taneytown pool opens on a weekend-only schedule until schools close for summer break. Hours are noon to 8: 45 p.m., weather permitting, Saturday, Sunday and Monday and May 30 and 31. The pool opens daily on June 6.Information on daily and seasonal fees, pool rentals or swimming lessons: city offices, at 410-751-1100 or 410-756-2677.

Late every fall, C. Edward Reddick totes his guns westward.To get away from the stresses of life and the heat of cement kilns, he hunts in Montana.His basement, a menagerie of stuffed game, is a scrapbook of his travels. He proudly shows off the bounty on his walls, which includesa bear, antelope and mountain goat.At 67, Reddick is the oldest employee at the Lehigh Portland Cement Co. He's robust with a big smile and skin tanned from hours in his garden. He has no intention of giving up hunting or working any time soon.