Ralston

On December 20, 2006, RALSTON ST. GEORGE HOLDER. Friends may call at the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME, WEST, 4300 Wabash Avenue on Wednesday, after 11 A.M. The family will receive friends at Pikesville 7th Day Adventist Church, 4619 Old Court Road on Thursday at 9 A.M. Funeral Services will follow at 10 A.M.

Ralston is one of the oldest neighborhoods in Pikesville, an area in northwest Baltimore County. The Bromley Atlas of 1898 shows only Ralston and Sudbrook Park, the first of many communities to grow in Pikesville, according to the 1982 book, A Pictorial History of Pikesville by Beryl Frank. The book notes that the name Ralston has "gradually been forgotten" - a fact borne out by many who had to consult their maps to locate the boundaries of the neighborhood. Ralston is bordered by busy Reisterstown Road on the east, Sudbrook Road on the north and west and Slade Avenue on the south.

NEW YORK -- Dennis Ralston's coaching contract with Gabriela Sabatini ran through the end of the U.S. Open and apparently it won't be continued.Ralston, the former U.S. Davis Cup star, couldn't be reached for comment and Sabatini would say only that "we haven't talked." But sources close to Ralston said he has decided not to continue with Sabatini.The source said Sabatini is negotiating with former world No. 2 Guillermo Vilas, also an Argentine, to replace Ralston.Ralston was hired just before the Lipton tournament this year and laid out a three-phase program to move Sabatini up in the rankings.

The caskets were a mirror image of each other, the brothers inside them dressed in black suits and fedoras and the floral arrangements atop them done in the Rastafarian colors of red, yellow, green. Outside the church, matching light-colored hearses idled side by side. Ralston "Roy" Holder and Everton "Cliffy" Holder, Jamaica natives and East Baltimore auto shop owners, were shot to death hours apart on the same day last week. Yesterday was their double funeral. The two ran the Eveready Towing & Repair shop in the 3300 block of E. Fayette St. They had a reputation for generosity, giving steep discounts to customers who were paying out of pocket and letting a homeless employee sleep at the shop for a time.

WASHINGTON -- The candidacy of an Air Force general to become the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff seemed increasingly imperiled yesterday as a growing number of senators said the officer's adulterous affair in the mid-1980s should disqualify him.Defense Secretary William S. Cohen met yesterday morning with a dozen senators from the Armed Services Committee, which would vote on the nomination, to explain his decision to consider Gen. Joseph Ralston for...

Ralston is one of the oldest neighborhoods in Pikesville, an area in northwest Baltimore County. The Bromley Atlas of 1898 shows only Ralston and Sudbrook Park, the first of many communities to grow in Pikesville, according to the 1982 book, A Pictorial History of Pikesville by Beryl Frank. The book notes that the name Ralston has "gradually been forgotten" - a fact borne out by many who had to consult their maps to locate the boundaries of the neighborhood. Ralston is bordered by busy Reisterstown Road on the east, Sudbrook Road on the north and west and Slade Avenue on the south.

NATIONAL PREOCCUPATION with sex in the military has now reached the point where a general who was first in line to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has become unacceptable. Many officers may sympathize with Gen. Joseph W. Ralston, as does Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen. But realities in Washington, where Senate confirmation is required, probably dictate that his career is over. It is time for Mr. Cohen to accept the fact that the nation's top military officer cannot be subject to derision or derogation that will undermine his position.

VEVEY, Switzerland - Nestle SA agreed yesterday to buy Ralston Purina Co. for $11.2 billion in cash and debt, becoming the world's biggest pet-food maker by adding Purina Dog Chow and Meow Mix to its Alpo and Friskies brands. Nestle will pay $33.50 a share, 36 percent more than Ralston's $24.63 closing price Friday, and will assume about $1.2 billion of Ralston's debt. The Swiss company expects to recoup about $900 million by selling Ralston's stakes in several companies, including DuPont Co. Nestle Chief Executive Officer Peter Brabeck held off making acquisitions last year as European and U.S. rivals spent more than $140 billion buying companies such as Nabisco Holdings Corp.

WASHINGTON -- After months of upheaval in the military over sexual relationships, Defense Secretary William S. Cohen drew "a line" yesterday and decided to forgive a top Air Force general's adulterous affair in the mid-1980s, saying it did not disqualify him as a leading candidate for chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.Cohen said Gen. Joseph Ralston admitted to him under questioning that he had carried on a yearlong relationship with a civilian woman while the two were students at the National War College in 1983 and 1984.

WASHINGTON -- The leading choice to be the nation's top military officer, until he admitted to an adulterous affair, will meet with Defense Secretary William S. Cohen tomorrow amid expectations inside the Pentagon that he will withdraw.The officer, Air Force Gen. Joseph W. Ralston, was returning from an official trip to Central Asia, and his fate will not likely be decided until the meeting, a top Pentagon official said."He'll wait to get back and assess the situation," the Pentagon official said.

On December 20, 2006, RALSTON ST. GEORGE HOLDER. Friends may call at the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME, WEST, 4300 Wabash Avenue on Wednesday, after 11 A.M. The family will receive friends at Pikesville 7th Day Adventist Church, 4619 Old Court Road on Thursday at 9 A.M. Funeral Services will follow at 10 A.M.

Both brothers loved to fix cars. They labored side by side at their garage in East Baltimore. Both came to the United States from Jamaica looking for a better life. Both were forgiving, almost to a fault. "They worked real well together. They would tell jokes about each other," said Samuel Murdock, a relative. "They were close." But five days before Christmas, Ralston and Everton R. Holder were killed. First, the older brother, Ralston, 52, was fatally shot at 10 a.m. in the parking lot of his Northeast Baltimore apartment complex as his 3-year-old son sat in a truck.

On July 29, 2006, ALDO P. BRIGIDE, beloved husband of Patricia Ralston Brigide; dear father of Robert Paul Brigide, Susan Ceresini and husband Gerry, Lynne B. Peters and husband Michael; loving step-father of Patricia, Jim, Jane and Tom Ralston; cherished grandfather of 7 grandchildren; Tina Ceresini-Baker and husband Brian, Jennifer Ceresini-Nuessle and husband Michael, Paul Jason (P.J.) Ceresini, Amanda E. Peters, Erin N. Peters, Joseph (Nate) Peters, and Luke T. Peters; and 2 great grandchildren; Alexandra and Samantha Baker; dear brother of Eva Kerr.

Aldo P. Brigide, a retired wholesale foods sales manager and World War II veteran, died of circulatory surgical complications Saturday at St. Agnes Hospital. The Ellicott City resident was 81. Born in DuBois, Pa., he was drafted into the Army shortly after his high school graduation and sailed to England aboard the SS Scythia, a British-flag Cunard passenger liner that had been converted to troop-carrying service during World War II. Part of an anti-aircraft unit, he helped defend the south coast of England near Dover from German flying bombs.

WASHINGTON - A top assistant to White House deputy chief of staff Karl Rove appeared last week before the federal grand jury investigating possible criminal wrongdoing by the Bush administration in the exposing of a CIA operative, a person familiar with the case said yesterday. The interest in Susan Ralston, Rove's longtime executive assistant, was unexplained, but it comes as special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald has been focusing on differences in witness statements made to federal agents and the grand jury investigating who revealed the identity of Valerie Plame.

On August 10, 2003 MARGARET M. SCHLEUPNER (nee Ralston) of Salisbury, MD. Formerly of Baltimore. Beloved wife of Michael N. Schleupner, loving mother of Michael N. Schleupner, Jr. and his wife Cathy of Rosedale, MD, Margaret S. Blair and her husband David of Leesburg, VA and Joseph G. Schleupner and his wife Annetta of Mardela Springs, MD; loving grandmother of Patrick Blair and Joshua, Michael, Christopher, Elizabeth and Matthew Schleupner. Devoted sister of the late James W., John H. and David T. Ralston.

WASHINGTON -- Air Force Gen. Joseph W. Ralston withdrew from consideration as the nation's top military officer yesterday, having concluded that he could not win Senate confirmation because of an adulterous affair he had 13 years ago while separated from his wife.Ralston's decision followed a tumultuous week in which he became a flash point for a debate on adultery in the military and whether a double standard excuses the highest-ranking male officers while punishing female or lower-ranking officers.

John Ralston, a former head football coach for Stanford University and the NFL's Denver Broncos, will coach a team of Russian players against Western Maryland College when the Green Terrors visit Moscow this week.Ralston will be the head coach of the Euro-Asian League All-Stars when they face Western Maryland in an exhibition contest Tuesday at Moscow's Olympic Arena.The Green Terrors, who will also have three joint practice sessions with the Russians, will be the first American collegiate team to play in Russia.

On Monday, March 23, 2003 BURKE. Friends may call at the CHATMAN-HARRIS FUNERAL HOME, 5240 Reisterstown Road, Thursday after 12 noon to 8 P.M. The family will receive friends at the above chapel Friday 12:30 P.M. Funeral Service will begin 1 P.M. Interment Mt. Zion Cemetery.

VEVEY, Switzerland - Nestle SA agreed yesterday to buy Ralston Purina Co. for $11.2 billion in cash and debt, becoming the world's biggest pet-food maker by adding Purina Dog Chow and Meow Mix to its Alpo and Friskies brands. Nestle will pay $33.50 a share, 36 percent more than Ralston's $24.63 closing price Friday, and will assume about $1.2 billion of Ralston's debt. The Swiss company expects to recoup about $900 million by selling Ralston's stakes in several companies, including DuPont Co. Nestle Chief Executive Officer Peter Brabeck held off making acquisitions last year as European and U.S. rivals spent more than $140 billion buying companies such as Nabisco Holdings Corp.