Space Travelers Selected for Project Mercury Team
NASA announced seven men as the final Project Mercury space flight candidates. The group includes three Air Force pilots, three Navy fliers and a Marine test pilot. each has long flying backgrounds and parental approval to be first to orbit Earth. The seven are Carpenter, Cooper, Glenn, Grissom, Schirra, Shepard, and Slayton, with training to begin for the first manned satellite mission planned for 1961.
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Washington
SAP
America
Earth
Navy
Malcolm S. Carpenter
Garden Grove
Calif
Fe Rene
Natonal Aeronautics and Space Administration
Air Force
Carpenter
Icludes
Leroy G Cooper Jr
Carbon
Sparta
Wis
API Avon
C.ty
Amn
NATO commander backs no retreat line at Berlin
General Lauris Norstad urged Congress to maintain foreign aid for NATO to counterbalance small Allied forces. He told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that replenishing weapons and modern arms is essential, and cited allied ministers meeting last week who supported a tough stance with the alliance’s aims.
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Washington
NATO
Strongh
Thursaa
Berin
Alliance
Lauris Norstad
Ased
Europe
Congress
Norstag
Fcreen Affaiirs
Esenhower
Aaith Committee
Strick
Thomas E Morgan D-Pai
Norstad
Maryland Students Rally In Spring Bonfire Scene
About 300 University of Maryland mates lit bonfires and set off water bags and firecrackers from dorm windows. Campus and state police intervened with firm words as showers began, sending the crowd fleeing as the rain started. Temperature reached 92 in Baltimore.
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College Park
Maryland Tate
Dan Wieseman
Ins Force
Mine Union Charged With Reign Of Terror
In eastern Kentucky the United Mine Workers Union faces accusations from nonunion coal operator Mrs. H C Combs that the UMWW fomented terror. She recounts threats, telephone tapping, and violence including beatings and property damage as seven county strike tensions escalate over wage demands. One operator has died amid the strike.
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Whitesburg
United Mine Workers Union
Kentucky
H. C Combs
UMW
Hazard
Comos
Isom
Combs
Ri Huss
Anniversary Held At Carroll Manor Grange Meeting
Paul Geisbert presided as toastmaster for Carroll Manor Grange's fifteenth anniversary at Adams town Community Hall attended by 60 people. A covered dish supper, two-tiered cake and ice cream were served, with Harry Kanade giving the invocation and Richard Zimmerman, with Mrs Charles Butcher on piano, presenting two vocal selections.
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Paul Geisbert
Carroll Manor Grange
Adamstown
Harry Kanade
Richard Zimmerman
Charles Butcher
Insurance event in Adamstown hosts grange gathering
At 7 30 p m April 20 Mr Holter Mrs Paul Geisbert and many guests attended the Adamstown Grange meeting in State Hall. Notables included Master Austin Reno Mrs Bern Pomona Master Charles l Kang Mrs King and daughters and numerous families. Past masters Monroe Thomas Earl Remsberg Harry Kanode Howard Fry Clark Gibson Chester Cissell Wilks Remsberg and Robert Fry were recognized. Announcements invited attendance at Wac oau Grange dedication in Washington County April 22 and Friends Night at Ballenger Grange April 24 as Pomona Grange meets April 25 with sewing contest led by home economics committee.
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Jem Insurance
Holter
Paul Geisbert Om
Adamstown
State Hall
Austin Reno
Bern
Pomona
Charles l Kang
King and Daughters
Howard Quinn
Tobias Zimmermag
Herbert Snyder
Brece Crum
Edgar VanFossen
Kamiy
J T Mel Guffin
Carroll Blanor Grange
Monroe Thomas
Earl Remsberg
Harry Kanode
Howard Fry
Clark Gibson
Chester Cissell
Wilks Remsberg
Robert Fry
Mastershio i
Geisbert
Wacoau Grange
Washington County
Fat Bop
Ballenger Grange
Pomona Grange
Mullsburg
Alvin Fry
Gordon Beam
Allee Compher
Third death after Maryland chemical plant blast
ELKTON Md AP the third victim of a chemical plant explosion last week died Thursday at Elkton Union Hospital. Fred Williamson 37 died after clearing a condenser at Stauffer Chemical Co plan with two other victims William Manwell 35 and Otis Forrester 26 both from Elston dying Wednesday. The incident occurred at the Stauffer plant in Elkton Maryland.
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Elkton, Md
Elkton Union Hospital
Fred Willamson
Te Stauffer Chemical Co
Maryland
William Manwell
Otis Forrester
Elston
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Baltimore
Mine Union
Pat 3
Exley
Wren
Whitesell Pharmacy
Frederick, Md
Mikt
Sesbis
ITTER
Forest Buhrman
Mary “Raving
Laska
Pat
L. Remsberg
Elmer
Janet Kolb
Linda Sue Aichael
Paul Kolb
Vernon Holter
Roupr
Ind
Charles Swisher
Swisher
Frederick
West Patrick Street
OX Garden
Wright Way
Farmers Co-Op Assn. Petroleum Division
South Wisner
St. Frederick, Md
Herb Robbins
Middletown, Wi
Renner
North Market St
City Hall
J. W. Kolb
Libby Hooper
Mildred Kelly
E. Patrick St
General Electric
Hotpoint Refrigerator
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