Toddlers Tragedy Prompts Call For Pool Safety Fences
A month old Mary Ann Zanella drowned in a 12 by 3 foot portable pool at a home on Faculty Row Emmitsburg. NASPS president Mary Ford urged county pool fence ordinances noting Frederick City already has one and Adams County lacks such protections. The tragedy prompted local funeral arrangements and renewed calls for lawful safety measures.
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Emmitsburg
National Association for Swimming Pool Safety
Joseph P. Zanella
Mary Ann Zanella
Warner Hospital
Adams County
Roy W. Gifford
Mary Ann
Mary Ford
Adamstown
NASPS
Frederick City
Zanella pool
Scouts Feted At Fairfield Awards Night
Fairfield Troop 76 held an awards night at Lions Park. Scouts received Canal patches for 184 miles along the canal, center patches, rocks segment, and locks tunnel aqueduct segments. Classification awards went to several Tenderfoot through Life Scouts. Merit badges covered electricity arts atomic energy electronics gardening astronomy drafting lifesaving citizenships and conservation. Scout Master Robert Fissel led the event with the scouts and parents in attendance.
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Fairfield Boy Scouts
Fairfield Lions Park
C and D Canal
Dave Hammett
James Small
Charles Shindlederker
Dave Weatherly
Bruce Neely
Richard Shindledecker
Steve Thornton
Richard Orner
Dave Harbaugh
locks
aqueduct
Tenderfoot
Tim Orner
Barry Pecher
Dave Metz
Charles Shindledecker
Steve Wyatt
Mike Fissel
Robert Fissel
James Michael Fissel
Robert H. Fissel
Fairfield
Iron Springs
Fissel
Robert
Alden P. Gleason
Black Walnut
York-Adams
James Hammett
James H. Hammett
Fairfield Lions Club
Hospital Report Details Admissions and Discharges
Hospital report lists admissions for Mrs. Anna Delau ter Thurmont Percy McKay Rocky Ridge Md Miss Mary Wagner New Oxford Mrs Emanuel Gunner Mc Knightstown Discharges include Mrs Robert Potter Gettysburg Robert Houck Fairfield Sterling Myers Emmitsburg Mrs Bevla Shark Arendisville.
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Wannen IuSPITAL
Anna Delauter
Thurmont
Percy McKay
Rocky Ridge R. 1
Mary Wagner
New Oxford
Emanuel Gunner
McKnightstown
Robert Potter
Gettysburg
Robert Houck
Fairfield
Sterling Myers
Emmitsburg
Bevla Shark
Arendisville
Local Weather Archive Update
Yesterday’s high not listed. Last night’s tow not recorded. Today’s forecast segments show 8:30 am and 1:00 pm readings unavailable.
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Niewepaper ARCHIVE
Lions Host Lions Little League Members at Meeting
Fifteen players and coaches from the local Lions Little League were guests at a Lions club meeting at Ree Park pavilion. Thomas E. Metz presided as 29 members and guests attended. Coach Frederick Filsinger thanked the Lions for their support. plans were made for a September 20 trip to Charlestown race track and an indoor meeting September 13 with football coaches from Gettysburg Area High School and Gettysburg College as guests.
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Lions
Ree Park pavilion
Thomas E. Metz
Piederick Filsinger
Ray Dreider
Thomas Myers
Filsinger
Charlestown
Michael Haverlock
Gettysburg Area High School
Gettysburg College
More Voters Enrolled At Bonneauville
Travelling registrars conduct a registration tonight from 6 to 9 at Bonneauville Fire Hall as part of a six session county board effort. Total county registrations reach 370 since May 24 with 231 over 21 and 139 under 21. GOP 167 including 64 under 21. Democrats 162 with 53 under 21. non partisans 41. constitutional 15, American Independents 11, one Socialist.
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Bonneauville
county board of elections
Littlestown Fire Hall
Ditzler’s
Biglerville
Fairfield Boy Scout Committee Seeks Administration Letters
Harold J. Miller and Fairfield Troop 78 Boy Scout committee applied for letters of administration in the county court regarding the $5,500 estate of Richard Harold Miller who died August 19. The committee will meet Wednesday at 8 PM at the Times Cabin off Fairfield Road Jer. 20, Fairfield, all along Marsh Creek.
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Harold J. Miller
Fairfield R
Boy Scout committee
St. Francis Xavier
Richard Harold Mil- Cabin
Fairfield Rd
Jer
Fairfield
Marsh Creek
Agust
Adams Bond Sales Ahead in Adams County and Statewide
Adams County sales of Series and U S savings bonds run slightly ahead of statewide totals. Statewide July sales rose 29.8 percent year over year to 46 750 000, with Adams County July sales at 140 560 and total to date 574 428 toward a 1971 quota of 782 000. Extended E Bonds from 1941 to 1952 and later E and H issues now pay at least 5 percent to the next maturity.
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Adams County
U.S. savings
Philadelphia
U.S. Savings Bonds Division
Treasury Department
Stolen 1961 White Chevrolet Corvair Sought in Hanover Area
County police seek the whereabouts of a 1961 white Chevrolet Corvair owned by Paul E. Weaver of Bonneauville. The vehicle was stolen from Hanover on Monday night.
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Bonneauville
Hanover
Paul E. Weaver
Attacks Decline Sharply as 3 Americans Die in Ambushes
North Vietnamese and Viet Cong attacks fell to 14 on the 24 hour period ending at 6 am. Three Americans were killed and nine wounded in ambushes south of Da Nang. The Americal Division faced four major ambushes in five days as nine more American casualties were reported. The U.S. Command lifted a weeklong alert with local commander options remaining.
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GEORGE ESPER
Associated Press
SAIGON
Da Nang
Americal
U.S
Shapp Signs 2.3 Percent State Income Tax into Law
Gov. Shapp signs a 2.3 percent flat income tax the second tax he has enacted in six months. The law aims for constitutional stability and funds a $3.2 billion state budget. Expects $900 million this year with $147 million in offsets from credits. Exemption and local tax reform plans are to follow.
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Shapp
HARRISBURG
ture
Pennsylvania
State Supreme
Car Struck Tree Injuring Boy and Stolen in Hanover
A 1961 white Corvair Monza owned by P Emory Weaver was stolen from 281 Third St Hanover after Mrs Weaver parked it 9 PM Monday. Police investigate. A 13 year old New Oxford youth was admitted to Hanover Hospital with facial lacerations and a broken nose after a car driven by his brother crashed off Route 94 following a fight in Dicks Dam. Dow Jones dipped at noon as stock market weather softened. Martha Shaw resigns as Gilliland Presbyterian Church deacon. Chamber committee session scheduled for York Street.
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P. Emory Weaver
Gettysburg
Hanover police department
New Oxford area
Hanover Hospital
NEW YORK
Hanover
Joseph A. Noel
Dicks Dam
New Oxford R. 1
Noels
Arthur A. Noel
New Oxford
hee
Noel
New Oxford fire company
Free Lunches Available in All Gettysburg Schools
Gettysburg Area School District offers hot lunches in all schools with free or reduced prices for families with limited income or special circumstances. Primary lunches cost 385 cents daily and secondary 40 cents. Eligibility depends on household income and special needs, with applications required per building and review by principals and the superintendent on appeal.
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Gettysburg Area
Pepi
John R. Haubert
Haubert
Pigeons Stolen In Vandal Break-In At Two Homes
Vandals broke into garages and pigeon pens at the rear of LeRoy H. Winebrenner on Baltimore Street and Robert Weikert on Steinwehr Avenue. They pried a latch, took five racing pigeons, one of Winebrenner's birds, and placed them in a small cage with feed scattered around. Police logged the incident Sunday night with complaints filed Monday at 10 30 a m.
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LeRoy H. Winebrenner
Baltimore St
Robert Weikert
Steinwehr Ave
Winebrenner
Weikert
Winebremner
Fire Committee Plans Meeting at Gettysburg Fire House
The Gettysburg Fire Department Renovation Committee will meet Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the new fire house on York Street. Chairman Julius Swope said plans for an open house and dates to present to the board of officers will be finalized this month.
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Gettysburg
York St
Julius Swope
Swope
August Rains Bring Year To Near Normal In Gettysburg
Generous August showers totaling 6.06 inches push Gettysburg year to within a tenth of an inch of normal. The month had eight readings below normal temperatures with 10 rainy days and the heaviest rain over two inches last Friday. Year to date rainfall reaches 27.76 inches, 0.79 inches shy of normal. August averaged 71.46 degrees, 2.3 below normal, with 90 degree days on three dates and 40s on as many.
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Gettysburg
Gettysburg Times
Adams County Farmers Report Peach Boost Despite Corn Losses
Adams County farmers report a strong peach crop with about 26 percent higher production than last year while corn yields suffer from southern leaf blight. Extension agent Laurence Yager notes improved peach market as southern harvest ends. County Agent Thomas Piper says most corn growers face some blight damage. early plantings and resistant seed lessen losses and spraying may help the rest. Dr. Carroll Voss's Ag-Rotors helicopters are mentioned in the context of spraying options.
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Adams County
Extension
Laurence L. Yager
Thomas E. Piper
Piper
Carroll Voss
Buses Blown Up Ahead of Pontiac School Openings
Ten empty school buses parked in a Board of Education lot were exploded late Monday night in Pontiac Michigan near downtown. Police report entry via a fence hole and six charges under buses with detonations igniting flames up to 100 feet high. No one injured as the city braces for a court ordered desegregation plan affecting 8000 pupils.
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Michigan
PONTIAC, Mich
Pontiac
Board of Education
John DePauw
Pontiac police
Pontiac Fire Department
Charles Marion
Udall Attacks Interior Over Gettysburg Tower Deal
In a York Daily Record column Udall and Jeff Stansbury accuse the Interior Department of ill serving the nation by backing Thomas Ottenstein’s tower plan at Gettysburg. They detail a July agreement, noting shifts of location, a donated three acre site, a battlefield road right of way, and a funded restoration plan amid Interior praise.
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Stewart Udall
Department of Interior
Thomas Ottenstein
Jeff Stansbury
York Daily Record
Udall
Pickett
Gettysburg
Interior Department
Thomas R. Ottenstein
Shapp
Adams County
BRYANT
Park Service
George Hertzog
Hertzog
Ottenstein
Interior
Herbert Bryant Jr
Andall
Udall-Stansburg
James Adair Takes Scout District Trainee Post
James G. Adair of Gettysburg R1 will assume duties as district executive trainee for the Mason-Dixon Boy Scout District, succeeding Richard Porter who left after nine years. A Peace Corps veteran, Adair also serves as district commissioner for the Black Walnut District and helped form Ethiopian troops. He taught at Gettysburg High School last year.
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James G. Adair
Gordon Adair
Gettysburg
R. 1
Mason- Dixon
Richard Porter
Red Lion
Mason-Dixon
Adair
Black Walnut
regula
Boy Scout Committee
West St
Gettysburg National Bank
St. Francis Xavier Catholic School
Delone Catholic High School
Gettysburg College
Ethiopia
Peace Corps
Gettysburg High School
Local News Summary Missing Core Details
Fragmentary OCR text from a Times page shows sections on deaths amusements and classifieds but lacks coherent events, names, or dates. Readable lines offer little factual substance to summarize a specific news item or outcome.
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Elizabeth Ann
Robert Rothermel
York Springs
Chestnut Grove Lutheran Church
Latimore
Scout
Eagle
ADAMS
legisla
New York Stock Exchange
Martha Shaw
Gilliland Presbyternfective
Edwin Cole
Legislative committee of the
Gettysburg Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
James Adair
Inside The Times
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