Warner Hospital to Dedicate New Wing on 50th Anniversary
The Annie M. Warner Hospital will dedicate its new obstetric and maternity wing at 1 30 Saturday on the front lawn. Hospital President Allen Stauffer notes the $3 million facility is largely funded by Adams County residents and honors 50 years of service. Judge John A. MacPhair will be principal speaker, with other speakers from the medical staff and Women's Auxiliary. Public inspection follows from 2 to 4 p.m.
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Annie M. Warner Hospital
Adams County
Allen
Stauffer
little hospital
Warner Hospital
John A. Mac.Phair
James H. Hammett
S. David Solomon
Harold R. Hand
Women’s Auxiliary
County Medical Society
James E. Bangerd
Local Weather Snapshot
Yesterday’s high and last night’s low are listed. The report also notes conditions for today at 8:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. with no further specifics on temperature or precipitation provided.
Five Gettysburg teens vie for Fire Company Queen
Five local teen agers compete for the 1970 Gettysburg Fire Company Queen title at 8 p m Monday during the Firemen s Carnival opening at Gettysburg Recreation Center. Contestants include Charla Bender Debbie Carver Teresa Woodward Rose Melhorn and Dianna Knight.
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Gettysburg Fire Company
Gettysburg Recreation Center
Charla Elizabeth Bender
Charles W. Bender
York Sr
Debbie Mae Carver
Donald L. Carver
Gettysburg R. G
Gettysburg Area High School
York
Teresa Mary Woodward
Charles A. Woodward
West St
Gettysburg high school
Rose Marie Melhorn
George Henry Melhorn
Gettysburg R. 2
Dianna Blanche Knight
William Shorb Jr
Breckenridge St
Leslie
Orner
Orville B. Orner
Fairview Ave
Adams County Volunteer Firemen’s Association
Bendersville
Vietnam tolls ease but American wounded jump in week
U S Command reports light American deaths in Vietnam and Cambodia for the week of June 14 20 the lowest in nine weeks yet American wounded rise from 364 to 643. South Vietnamese losses totaled 366 dead and 1 071 wounded while enemy casualties climbed to 2 093 killed. In Cambodia U S casualties since April 29 total 331 killed and 1 477 wounded. A Cambodian base near Phnom Penh faced renewed attacks three miles from Kompong Luong near a key ferry crossing on the Tonle Sap River.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
RICHARD PYLE
Associated Press
SAIGON
Vietnam
Cambodia
U.S. Command
U.S
Phnom Penh
Kompong Luong
Tonle Sap
Baltimore death of former Gettysburg resident F K Schwartz
Freder ik K Schwartz, 76, died of a stroke in Baltimore. A Gettysburg College alum and former Public Utility Commission analyst, he retired in 1965. He lived with a daughter in Baltimore and is survived by his widow, three children and four grandchildren. services were in Baltimore with burial in Worthington, Pennsylvania.
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Frederik K. Schwartz
Gettysburg
Baltimore
Mace Nabb Funeral Home
Butel
Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church
Worthington Cemetery
Worthington
Schwartz
John W. Schwartz
Gettysburg College
Public Utility Commission
Gettysburg Moose
John Schwartz
Lenore Schwartz
Phyllis Singer
Lutherville
Biglerville Fire Co launches coin card fundraiser
Biglerville Fire Company begins its annual fund drive by delivering coin cards to residents. Proceeds will go to the debt reduction fund for the 1969 fire truck costing $30,000. Residents may place quarters on the front or bills in an attached envelope on the back.
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Biglerville Fire Company
Biglerville
Youths Shine at 47th State Grange Leadership Session
At Gettysburg College the closing session of the 47th Pennsylvania State Grange leadership school honored youths for motivation and service. Dr. Hagan Staack of Muhlenberg College praised students as future reformers whose focus shifts from money to societal impact and urged them to drive change in religion, politics, and community.
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Pennsylvania State Grange leadership school
Gettysburg College
Hagan Staack
department of religion
Muhlenberg College
Allentown
Grange
Service Station Burglarized In Fairfield Larceny Case
State police investigate a larceny at the Fairfield Esso Service Station on the east edge of Fairfield. Thieves took a bumper jack lug wrench and cushions from a 1949 Plymouth and siphoned gasoline from a 1966 Cadillac, both owned by operator Randy Ramer of Orrtanna. Just received new sweaters at the shop.
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Fairfield
Esso
Randy Ramer
Orrtanna
eell and Hershey’s
Local Pastor Honored by Pope Paul VI in Harrisburg
Pope Paul VI elevates 19 Harrisburg diocese priests to honorary prelate with the title Reverend Monsignor. Rev. Alphonse Marcincavage of St. Francis Xavier and Rev. Joseph P. Kealy, former pastor, receive certificates dated May 27, 1970 signed by Cardinal Villot. Investiture date to be announced. Msgr. Keeler gains expanded honorary status.
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Alphonse Marcincavage
St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church
Joseph P. Kealy
Harrisburg
Paul VI
George L. Leech
Jean Cardinal Villot
Msgr
William H. Keeler
Father Marcincavage
J C s Launch Drive Against Junked Cars
Upper Adams Jaycees and government officials meet in Arendtsville to set guidelines for removing junked and abandoned automobiles from public and private property across Upper Adams. The Solid Waste Committee collaborates with Arendtsville Bendersville Franklin Butler Huntington Twp to mobilize owners to remove vehicles, addressing safety and health concerns from roadside eyesores and rodent risks.
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Upper Adams
Timely Plant Here On Regular Two Week Vacation
Rumors a Dolly Madi son furniture plant in the community closing were denied by manager John Rothgerber. He said the plant is on its annual two week vacation with maintenance ongoing and production to resume at period’s end.
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Dolly Madison furniture
John Rothgerber
Rothgerber
Gettysburg Times
Cherry picking workers to help with county harvest
Adams County fruitgrowers will hire about 225 local youths for the cherry harvest starting July 6, with bus service from New Oxford Littlestown and Gettysburg. The migrant labor force this year is expected to be 1200 Negroes and 400 Puerto Ricans, while unemployment peaks in June at about 1400.
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Baltzley
Red Cross cancels adult Learn-To-Swim classes
The Red Cross announces no adult Learn-To-Swim instruction this year due to no available pool space. The program was slated to be held at the Country Club pool.
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Red Cross
Israeli warplanes raid Syrian camps near Damascus in retaliation
Israeli air force hit camps at Qatana and Kiswah near Damascus and another near Suwayda in retaliation for an earlier Syrian attack on Israeli posts in the Golan Heights. Syria claimed higher casualties. Israel reported one dead and seven wounded. Officials tied the strikes to U.S. Middle East settlement proposals.
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MICHAEL GROSS
Associated Press
TEL AVIV
Damascus
Golan Heights
Qatana
Kiswah
Seijen
Suwayda
Al Baath
Syria
Baath Socialist party
U.S
Middle East
U.N. Security Council
Kennedy Memorial Dedicated Near JFK Shooting Site
A box-like monument honoring President John F Kennedy was dedicated in Dallas beside the kilo bullet site. About 250 attendees attended the ceremony near the memorial designed by Philip Johnson with Kennedy family invited but not present.
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DALLAS
John F. Kennedy
New York
Philip Johnson
Kennedy
Robert Cullum
Kennedy Memorial Commission
Borough Offices Relocate to New Site this Friday
Borough officials led by Mayor and Borough Manager Charles Kuhn will move to a temporary office room at 34 E Middle St while renovation proceeds. The lease change requires quick move before District Attorney’s Office occupies the Baltimore St location on July 1. Work crews clear a sidewalk path to the new building side entrance.
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Middle St
Charles Kuhn
McCoy Insurance Agency
Baltimore St
Troxell apartments
District Attorney’s office
Kuhn
E. Middle St
counci
Electric League hears historian at Lions Pavilion
The Adams Franklin Electric League met at Recreation Park with thirty members and two guests. Eugene Sickles recounted the events leading to the Battle of Gettysburg, after which members toured the battlefield and enjoyed a picnic supper.
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Adams - Franklin Electric League
Lions Pavilion
Recreation Park
Eugene Sickles
Gettysburg
Robert Leedy
Edward Heiser Jr
Martin Crabill
Alvey Ford Jr
County 4H Swine Club Demonstration Friday Evening
Members of the county 4H Swine Club will add a showing and judging demonstration Friday evening at 7 30 o clock at the Thomas Trone farm near East Berlin, according to Jared K Tyson assistant county agent.
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Thomas Trone farm
East Berlin
Jared K. Tyson
U.S. Pushes Talks Over Arms to End Middle East War
Secretary Rogers outlined U.S. plan under U.N. mediation to stop fighting and begin negotiations for a Mideast peace. The outline calls for a 90 day cease fire and Israeli withdrawal from territories seized in 1967 in return for Arab recognition and security guarantees. Egypt Jordan and Israel would enter talks under United Nations auspices. jets request not addressed.
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WASHINGTON
U.N
tary
William P. Rogers
Gunnar Jarring
United States
Mideast
Middle East
U.N. S
Israel
United Nations
U.S
Egypt
Jordan
Rogers
Straban Two School District Petition Heard in Adams County
A hearing in Adams County examined residents of Straban Township seeking to form an independent district joined to New Oxford Area School. About 163 signatures backed court approval for the move as students now attend Gettysburg and New Oxford alternately. Anna Crabill testified shorter travel to New Oxford benefits families and afterschool activities. Hash, New Oxford supervising principal, and Adams County superintendent Coulson testified about district liability and acceptance of roughly 100 students.
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Adams County
Straban Twp
New Oxford Area
Gettysburg Area
New Oxford
Anna Crabill
New Oxford R. 2
Gettysburg
HASH
Charles Hash
Francis Coulson
Planning Board Endorses Rt. 34 Reroute in Adams County
Adams County Planning Commission endorsed a relief routing for Route 34 northeast of Gardners and Idaville pending Huntington Twp supervisors approval. The plan would use existing roads to create a minimum cost two lane reroute while keeping Rt. 34 as a traffic carrier.
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Adams County Planning Commission
Gardners
Idaville
Huntington Two
board of supervisors
Clifton E. Rodgers
John J. Callenbach
Harry F. Biesecker
Rt. 34
Callenbach
Bendersville
Torway Rd
Adams
Cumberland
Oxford Rd
Old Town Rd
Petersburg Rd
Carlisle
Rodgers
Biesecker
Table Rock Rd
Gettysburg
upper county
Cumberland County
Nemeentrenae South Middleton
Breight
Holly Springs
York Springs
posal
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Frank Noble
Hershey’s Men's Shop
queen
Joseph Robinson
Helen White
Adams County Red Cross
Lake Heritage Pool
F. K. Schwartz
Bigler Fire Co
Pope Paul VI
FR, MARCINCAVAGE
J.C
Boro
Electric League
Mid-East
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Straban
Ray K. Breighter
2nd Pennsylvania Regiment
Bloody Angle
Pennsylvania
Nieweon von RACHIVE
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