Agriculture Department Taking Part Of Fort Detrick
U S Senators report Fort Detrick will transfer 20 research and technical staff to the Agriculture Department and operate at Detrick in a new unit. The move aims to open long range uses for Detrick with USDA's Epiphytology Research Laboratory to study plant diseases and strengthen containment and lab capabilities. NIH consideration of NIH takeover looms with potential to affect 1000 plus workers.
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Agriculture Department
Fort Detrick
U.S
Charlies McC
Mathias Jr
J. Glenn Beall Jr
Department of Defense
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Detrick
Mathias
NIH
DOD
Department of Agriculture
USDA
Agricultural Research Service
Epiphythology Research Laboratory of
The
ARS Plant Science
County Man Killed In Flaming Truck Crash
A Frederick county man Glen Lee Everly 38 died after his burning 1970 pickup collided head on with a North Carolina tractor trailer on U S 15 south of Thurmont at about 9 26 p m. Everly was trapped and died after fire crews cut him from the wreckage. Two North Carolina men in the tractor trailer were injured Donald Lee Sechler 36 suffered facial cuts and a broken right leg while Donald Ray Smith 45 had burned feet and ankles. A third vehicle driven by Douglas Everett Williams was damaged by debris. no injuries reported. State Police said rescue was aided by the Thurmont Fire Department and Thurmont Police.
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George Dorsey
U.S. 15
Thurmont
Glen Lee Everly
RFD
Frederick
Everly
Brwck
North Carolina
Donald Lee Sechler
Kannapolis
N.C
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Sechler
Donald Ray Smith
Gastonia
Douglas Ev
Erett Williams
College Park
Williams
Th. Gordon Smith
Glen
Lee Everly
RFD 5
Charles Hahn
Firemen battle brush blazes near St Anthony's area
More than 30 Thurmont and Emmitsburg firefighters responded to a pair of brush and mountain fires reported near St Anthony's. Smoke was visible for miles as crews struggled through dense brush with no access roads. The alarm rang at 10 28 a m with a first fire near Mt St Mary's College reported earlier at 4 28 a m.
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Thurmont
Emmitsburg
St. Anthony’s
Hemler
Kelbaugh
Mt. St. Mary’s College
St. Anthony
Forest Service
Stock Market Dips After Delayed Dow Rally Slump
New York prices slipped in active trading as Wall Street gave up Monday's rally attempt. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrial stocks fell 0.56 to 903.81 by 10:30 a.m. and the NYSE tape ran two minutes late. Advances held a slight edge over declines.
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New York
Wall Street
New York Stock Exchange
SRC Awards Bush Creek Bridge Contract
The State Roads Commission awarded a Frederick County contract to Wolfe Bros Inc of Myersville for a two span steel beam bridge over Bush Creek on relocated Md 75 at Monrovia. Contract amount is 134,901.50 dollars.
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State Roads Commission
Frederick County
Wolfe Bros., Inc
Myersville
Bush Creek
Monrovia
Clemency Pleas For Calley Swamp Nixon's Office
Telegrams to President Nixon run about 100 to 1 against Calley conviction as clemency pleas and protests grow. Ronald Ziegler cites 5,000 telegrams, backlog of 20,000 awaiting transmission. Agnew, Kennedy, Wallace react as public demands clemency and war morality debate expands across states. A Mobile resident proposes ransom fund with $1 per person to free Calley.
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Associated Press
Nixon
William L. Calley Jr
Ronald L. Ziegler
Calley
My ‘Lai
Spiro T. Agnew
My Lai
Chicago Tribune
Agnew
Edward M. Kennedy
Kennedy
Southeast Asia
Alabama
George C. Wallace
Elizabethton
Tenn
Nance County
Neb
Tucumcari
N.M
House
Senate
Oklahoma
Higher milk costs looming as U S hikes supports
Washington AP reports retail milk prices, already high, likely rise further as government dairy price supports take effect. The 6 percent increase to farm milk used for butter and cheese may raise prices of ham burger and other inexpensive beef. The move follows a White House meeting between President Nixon and dairymen, after earlier resistance from the Agriculture Department.
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Washington
White House
Nixon
Agriculture Department
Clifford M Hardin
Weather shifts as April Fool ends public forecasts
News-FPost stops publishing weather forecasts as the U S Weather Bureau suspends public predictions due to past inaccuracies. Forecasters will record predictions but not share them publicly. Despite the April Fool, the day remains mild with upper 60s highs and a 50 percent rain chance late tonight into Friday. Easter break details for local schools included.
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Quita Hague
News-Fpost
U.S
Frederick Community College
Hood
Protester hijacks Eastern jet over Calley conviction
A white haired passenger on Eastern Airlines Flight 939 to Havana hijacked the DC8 two hours after takeoff from New York, carrying a plastic clacker and envelopes to threaten the crew. He claimed solidarity with Lt. William L. Calley Jr. after his My Lai murder conviction. The hijacker identified himself as Diego Ramirez and remained in Havana. 74 passengers and crew were aboard.
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Miami
Easterns Airlines
Havana
William L. Calley Jr
Eastern
New York
San Juan
P.R
Hilda Estay
Edward L. Foss
Foss
Fort Lee
Eastern Airlines
Diego Ramirez
Cancer Drive Begins Today In County
The Frederick County Unit of the American Cancer Society opens its 1971 April Cancer Crusade with a $25,000 goal and a push to have Fort Detrick facilities used for a national cancer research center. Crusade Chairman Sterling E Bollinger says about 1,500 volunteers are in eight divisions and work is underway. A crusade-eye report shows nearly $3,000 raised so far. President Francis W Bush Sr. launched a county-wide appeal to support the Crusade and the year-long effort.
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Frederick County
American Cancer Society
Nixon
Fort Detrick
Cancer Crusade
Sterling E. Bollinger
Cancer Society
Francis W. Bush Sr
Vietnamese fire base falls to North Vietnamese assault
A North Vietnamese regiment crossed from Laos into South Vietnam and overran Firebase No. 6 after a dawn rocket and ground assault by more than 2,000 men. South Vietnamese forces pulled back, spiking 105mm howitzers, as heavy U.S. air support and helicopters supported the defense. The U.S. weekly casualty tally reported 58 American deaths and 158 wounded.
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Saigon
Laos
South Vietnam
Cher
Ho Chi Minh Trail
U.S. Command
No. 6
28Th
Ben Het
le Trung Hien
Hien
U.S
U S Death Toll In Viet War Rises to 58 This Week
Saigon reports 58 Americans killed in combat last week and 542 in a month, with 756 South Vietnamese killed and 1,726 wounded. Allied counts show 3,574 enemy deaths, down from the prior week. US totals reach 44,788 dead and 296,911 wounded. South Vietnamese 124,150 killed, 268,079 wounded. enemy 726,961 killed.
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Saigon
U.S
Mary Ann
Laotian Panhandle
South Vietnam
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Beall
HEW
Richardson
Fort Detrick Laboratory
Office of Science and Technology
Research Division
Congress
PRI
SRC
Germany
Dan O'Connor
Coos Bay
Ore
Judy Wheeler
U. S
Culler Lake
J. Rolfe Castleman
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