Yesterday, Items From The Files of THE FREDERICK NEWS POST

54 Years Ago Today - Monday, April 24, 1972

Rescue volunteers found a drowned man Sunday in the Potomac River at Noland’s Ferry, 12 miles from where his boat capsized April 15. The body of the Knoxville man was lodged in bushes 25 feet southwest of Noland’s Island, police reported. Harry F. Barnhouse Sr., a Brunswick Rescue Squad volunteer, found the body, ending an eight-day search. A whitewater expedition has left one canoeist in critical condition at Frederick Memorial Hospital. Eugene D.

Mills, of Milford, Del., was one of two men injured in a canoe mishap in the Potomac River near Harpers Ferry, W.Va., and pulled from the swift stream by an Explorer Scout. Mills and Robert Farley, of Lincoln, Del., Washington County Sgt. Lawrence Fiorita of the State Department of Natural Resources said, were injured shortly after noon when their canoe shot over Dam No. 3, a 4-foot barrier across the river.