Town Receives 6400 Grant for Rat Eradication Effort
Gettysburg is awarded a $6400 state grant to fund a rat control program. Borough Manager Charles E. Kuhn says a state health official will meet with him to plan next steps, with funds covering salaries poisons and public information. Robert Aughinbaugh, newly assigned to the highway crew, is named to lead the effort.
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Gettysburg
Pennsylvania
Charles E. Kuhn
Ellsworth R. Browneller
state Department of Health
William Wills
state health department
Kuhn
Robert Aughinbaugh
borough highways force
AWOL Soldier Romano Detained After Surrender at Hotel
Danny L. Romano, 18, was taken into custody at the James Gettys Hotel Wednesday afternoon by county sheriff Bestar V. Miller and borough police. He was jailed and later turned over to Army MPs for being AWOL.
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Danny L. Romano
James Gettys Hotel
Bestar V. Miller
United States Army military police
Local Weather Update Brief
Weather notes show yesterday's high and last night's low with forecasts for today at 8 30 am and 1 pm. Rain overnight is reported with limited readable details.
Gettysburg College Class of 1920 Plans Golden Reunion
The 1920 class at Gettysburg College will mark its Golden anniversary during commencement weekend. Class officers and the reunion committee facilitated the return of 86 members for a campus procession and a 58 member dinner in the college dining hall.
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Gettysburg College
Baptists Back Nixon Policy Backing Southeast Asia Peace
The Southern Baptist Convention, about 12 000 members, unreservedly supported President Nixon and aims to accelerate Vietnam troop withdrawal. It urged prayer for the president and cited Scripture to justify respect for government officials.
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DENVER
Colo
Southern Baptist Convention
Nixon
Southeast Asia
Vietnam
America
Fatal motorcycle crash on Rt 851 in Railroad Borough
James Edward Palmer of Hereford Maryland died in a motorcycle collision when his bike left the curve and struck a bridge abutment. He was found in a stream at 6 30 a m, not wearing a helmet. Coroner cites crushed skull. He left Gettysburg area months ago, survived by family and children. funeral Friday at Hartenstein Mortuary New Freedom with burial at Lake View Memorial Gardens.
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Gettysburg
Rt. 851
Railroad borough
York County
James Edward Palmer
Hereford
H. Malcolm Read
Palmer
C. Earl
Pearl E. (Tripplett) Palmer
Allen
Jeff
Becky
Russell E. Palmer
Horace E. Palmer
Monkton, Md
Ruth Kibler
Betty R. Green
Finksburg
Hartenstein Mortuary
New Freedom
Herbert Muller
Lake View Memorial Gardens
Peru Shaken as Aftershock Cuts Access to Quake Zone
A 5.6 aftershock rattled Lima amid rescue flights for Huaylas Canyon quake survivors. Helicopters ferried aid to Yungay where 2,500 people shelter in a cemetery as roads remain blocked and land strips unusable. Paratroopers were dropped to repair Huaraz runway. air routes are the only link to the devastated area.
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ISAAC LEVI
Associated Press
LIMA
Peru
U.S
Huaylas Canyon
University of California seismographs
Berkeley
Andean valley
Yungay
Huaraz
U.S. Air Force
Chim
New Oxford Names Agency As Collector
New Oxford Area School directors approved appointing the Adams County Earned Income Tax Collection Agency to collect the one percent earned income levy for one year. The board elected two new teachers, accepted a resignation, opened bids for supplies, and named President Sleighter as district representative on the tax collection agency board. It also authorized sending a tax clarification letter to taxpayers and approved summer use of Peters Street School for recreational programs.
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New Oxford Area
Adams County Earned Income Tax Collection Agency
Robert Sleighter
Sleighter
tax collection agency
Lora Paxton
Lynchburg College
Linda Snyder
Millersville State College
Darrell Crooks
Oxford borough
Peters St
Berlin Ave
Richard Huffnagle
New Oxl
Resumes His Old Business Timmins Veteran Electrician Returns
Gettysburg electrician William Timmins, long inactive, will resume repairing small electrical appliances. With 50 years of experience, he wired major local buildings and served in two wars, including World War I and World War II.
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William Timmins
Gettysburg
The Times
Timmins
Warner hospital
YWCA
M. A. Hartley Co
ain
Navy
army
France
Pacific
American Legion
Albert J. Lentz
Kessel Seeks Divorce From Naomi E Kessel
Andrew Wayne Kessel of Abbottstown files for divorce from Naomi Elaine Kessel of Dover Route 2. Married December 23 1966 in Westminster. Indignities alleged. Proceedings listed in Prothonotary office through attorney Ronald J Hagerman.
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Andrew Wayne Kessel
Abbottstown
George F. Weaver
Ronald J. Hagerman
Kessel
Naomi Elaine (Shreve) Kessel
Dover R. 2
Westminster
Scientific Breakthrough by Nobel Winner Khorana in Madison
Nobel Prize laureate H Go Bind Khorana announced the first total synthesis of a gene and works in his Madison Wisconsin laboratory. The AP wirephoto notes the development as a landmark in molecular biology.
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H. Gobind Khorana
Madison, Wis
Church School Set To Open Next Monday
Christ Lutheran St. James Lutheran and Trinity United Church of Christ sponsor Vacation Church School opening Monday June 8 for two sessions through June 19. preregistered 172 students by Wednesday with 20 three year olds 61 kindergartners 35 from first or second grade 29 third and fourth graders 21 fifth and sixth graders and 10 seventh or eighth graders. Junior high attend only June 8 to 12 under Mrs. Roger Gobbel with focus on Christian care and group participation.
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Community Action Agency
Vacation Church School
Christ Lutheran
St. James Lutheran
Trinity United Church of Christ
Christ Lutheran Church
Trinity Church
Roger Gobbel
Claire Knoche
Block Dance at Gettysburg Senior High School Tonight
Gettysburg Senior High School hosts a block dance in the parking lot from 7:30 to 11. Jay Granger and the New Society provide music. Admission is 50 cents stag and 1.50 a drag. casual dress with shoes required. sponsored by Maroon and White school paper.
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Gettysburg Senior High School
Jay Granger
the
New Society
Maroon and White
Praise for Rutledge at Adams County GOP meeting
Richard Emerson, executive director of the Adams-Hanover Sheltered Workshop, commended Elizabeth Rutledge Gettysburg for excellent planning and two years as board president. He noted the workshop has been a community goal since 1966 with a 1988 public meeting and a goal of about 140 workers by July 1 on a 100000 dollar annual budget. The nonprofit serves handicapped workers through varied tasks from bow making to appliance repairs.
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Adams: County Council of Republican Women
Holiday Inn
Richard Emerson
Adams-Hanover Sheltered Workshop, Inc
Elizabeth Rutledge
Gettysburg
sheltered workshop
Emerson
GOP woren
Fairfield Fire Carnival Announces Week of Entertainers
The Fairfield Fire Co. set the lineup for its June carnival beginning June 22 with The Country Lads as featured entertainers on opening Monday. Other acts include Tom Adams and The Adams Brothers, Jean Shepard and The Second Fiddles, Crazy Elmer and George, Adams and Skinny Clark, Don Reno and Bill Harrell and The Tennessee Cut-ups, and a Fairfield High School Band finale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairfield Fire Co
Country Lads
Tom Adams
Adams Brothers
Jean Shepard
Crazy Elmer
George
Adams
Skinny Clark
Don Reno
Bill Harrell
Tennessee
Fairfield High School
Nixon asserts major U.S. gains in Cambodia withdrawal plan
President Nixon declares all major objectives in Cambodia achieved and outlines a phased pullout. He says 17,000 of 31,000 U.S. troops have left, with 14,000 to depart by month’s end, and all air support and advisers to depart from South Vietnam by then. He warns future strikes abroad only if needed to shield forces in South Vietnam.
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Nixon
U.S
Cambodia
JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON
Vietnam
South Vietnam
falso
PCBL
Father Corby
Knights of Columbus
York St
Franklin Two Elementary holds 55 graduates in 1976 pledge
Fifty five sixth graders graduated from Franklin Two Elementary School in exercises Wednesday evening. Superintendent M Francis Coulson gave the commencement urging graduates to see themselves as the future class of 1976 and citing the Spirit of 76. Awards were led by the John Elwood Chapman Award to Amy Jo Slapinski and the Robert C Marckley Award to Eileen Hileman and Margaret Frantz.
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M. Francis Coulson
John Elwood Chapman
Amy Jo Slapinski
Robert C. Marckley
Eileen Hileman
Margaret Frantz
William Timmins
Adams County National Bank
American Legion
Cytha Grissom
John Seamens
Robert Lezenby
Arendtsville
lOTHER
Hobart E. Benchoff
Patricia Topper
DAR
Sandra Hammann
Carol Sue Norman
David Lower
Ardis Lobaugh
Michelle Topper
Mary Loose
Jamie Slapinski
Melinda Adelsberger
Brian Kane
John Caufman
Bruce Strasbaugh
Rick Tressler
YMCA Camp Seeks Ten More Youths For Summer Session
Adams County YMCA aims to enroll ten more boys aged eight to twelve in a two week summer day camp from June 15 to 26 at Camp Waybright along Marsh Creek near Natural Dam. Twenty youths are signed. daily bus leaves Gettysburg High School at 8 30 and returns at 4 30 except final night.
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Adams County
Gettysburg High School
H. Edgar Riegle
Camp Waybright
Roy Ivy
Gettysburg College
Ag-Rotors
Mason-Dixon Dairy
Edgewood pool
Caledonia
Gettysburg
Vocational education subsidies totaling 27488.85 paid to seven districts
Vocational education subsidies totaling 27 488.85 have been paid by the state for the 1968 69 school year to seven county districts. Bermudian Springs 1876.89 Conewago 109.46 Fairfield 2470.16 Gettysburg 9916.70 Littlestown 391.70 New Oxford 2222.11 Upper Adams 10501.83.
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Bermudian Springs
Conewago Township
Fairfield Area
Gettysburg
Littlestown
New Oxford Area
Upper Adams
4-H Youth Camp at Nawakwa to Bring Hundreds Together
About 300 4-H members and 41 adults from Adams York Franklin and Cumberland counties will camp at Camp Nawakwa near Brysonia starting June 10. Junior counselors from the four counties attend workshops June 2 to 6 to learn skills for guiding campers. Helen Tunison leads the handicraft workshop as part of the four‑day program at the Lutheran leadership site.
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Nawakwa
Brysonia
Adams County
York County
Franklin County
Cumberland County
Bruce Smith
Lutheran Leadership
Helen Tunison
Harry R. Miller Dies Suddenly in Gettysburg Area
Harry R. Miller, 80, Gettysburg RB 6, died at Warner Hospital after being stricken at his Butler Two home in Adams County. Deputy Coroner Robert Lefever ruled the cause a coronary artery occlusion. Miller was a building contractor.
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Harry R. Miller
Gettysburg
Biglerville
Warner Hospital
Butler Two
Adams County
Robert Lefever
Fairfield Girl Wins Essay Award
A Fairfield ninth grader won first place and $25 in the Adams County Bar Association essay contest for "My Impressions of the Courthouse." Debra L. Sanders, daughter of Clyde W. Sanders, Fairfield Route 1, advances to statewide judging for a chance at $250.
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Fairfield
Adams County Bar Association
Debra L. Sanders
Clyde W. Sanders
Fairfield R. 1
Nancy Weikert
Allen A. Weikert
Gettysburg R. 2
Joan Stock
Lloyd J. Stock
Sanders
Pennsylvania Bar Association
Donald G. Oyler
Churchwomen Vote $100 For Mission Work
Members of the St. James Lutheran Churchwomen executive board voted to donate 100 from the Ka tie Houck fund to Rev. Dr. Ludwig Stumpf for missionary work among Chinese in Hong Kong. Mrs. Horace H. Waybright led the meeting, her last as president, with Mrs. Jack Crist to succeed in September.
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St. James Lutheran
Katie Houck
Ludwig Stumpf
Hong Kong
Horace H. Waybright
Jack Crist
Vestal Stallsmith
Crist
Paul B. Fox
Robert E. Miller
St. James
North Vietnamese seize Set Bo near Phnom Penh as fighting rages
North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces captured 4 towns 10 miles southeast of Phnom Penh and pressed toward a provincial capital in central Cambodia. The assault on Set Bo marked the closest major fighting to the capital, while Kompong Thom remained contested 80 miles north with Cambodian defenses and calls for air bombardment.
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JOHN T. WHEELER
Associated Press
PHNOM PENH
Cambodia
Set Bo
Kompong Thom
Angkor Wat
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Miss Rutledge
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YMCA
Mr. Lane
Ivy
Howard Bream
James Fox
C. P. Keefer
Richard Way
bright
Mel Etern
Harry Miller
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