Fallout shelters adequate for county residents
Adams County plans for fallout shelters approved by the state and stocked with food and medical supplies. Total public shelter capacity is 1,525, about three percent of the county population of 52,000. Supplies total seven and a half tons, with two weeks of rations per shelter, including candy, crackers, water drums, sanitation kits, and medical kits.
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Adams County
William G. Weaver
Weaver
U. S. Navy Bureau of Yards and Docks
Seminary
Bankers Mutual Insurance
Biglerville Rd
Musselman
Warner Hospital
Gettysburg National Bank
York St
Gettysburg
Albert J. Lentz American Legion
National ‘Guard
York Springs
Biglerville
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Elementary shelters stockpiled across county meet need
Six county buildings including Biglerville will stockpile food and supplies for residents. Navy guidance notes shelter from radiation is limited and may not fully protect the 873 people across the area while distributing the 2,213 pounds of supplies to communities.
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Coun- Biglerville
Walmer Spends $992 In Race For District Attorney
Attorney Gerald R. Walmer filed his campaign expense report showing $993.88 spent for the district attorney bid. The largest cost was a $700 donation to the Adams County Republican Committee with smaller contributions from local donors.
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Gerald R. Walmer
County Election Board
Adams County Republican Committee
Gettysburg Senior High School shelters area described
The area under the gymnasium of Gettysburg Senior High School is noted as specially designed for shelter purposes along with other new structures. This space reflects construction planning to serve as safe areas within the school buildings.
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Gettysburg Senior High School
Justice of the Peace in Hamilton and Lupp Named Auditor
Ibana Twp Justice of the Peace in Hamilton and Gilbert K. Lupp appointed auditor for the Gettysburg Merged School District as part of local government reorganization and oversight duties.
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Hamilton
Ibana Twp
Gilbert K. Lupp
Gettysburg
York driver charged after one way crash
York police charged 21 year old John B Wolf of 24 Hanover Street with driving the wrong way on a one way street and leaving the scene after his car struck a parked vehicle owned by James E Hinds of York early Saturday.
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York
New Oxford
John B. Wolf
Hanover St
James E. Hinds
Sheltered workshops reach only a small portion of mentally retarded population
Vocational rehabilitation programs show limited progress as only about three percent of the retarded population benefits. In 1961 estimates indicate 42 states had merely 200 sheltered workshops serving the mentally retarded.
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West York
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Abbottstown
State Bank
Abbottstown, PA
Purina Pet Care Center
Purina
Bill Stambaugh
East Berlin
The
Gettysburg Times
Annunciation Elementary School
McSherrystown
Delone Catholic High School
Littlestown Hardware and Foundry
Bendersville
Gettysburg College
Republican Party
John Maslowski
John's Discount Barn
Ditter Wiermman Incorporated
Hanover, Pa
Gertysours News & Spearns Goons
Chambersburg Street
Gettysburg, Pa
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Santa
Cole's Cycle Center
Gnance
Hanover Street
Carliste
Russell Stover
Candies
Staub's Drug Store
Coffman Jewelers
Baltimore Street
Francis E. Klum
Electrica
Arigo’s Quality Green
Hanover
Gettysburg Retail Merchants Association
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