Expect 90 Degrees On Trout Open
Thousands of anglers hit area streams as trout season reopened after stocking. Crowds totaled about 1 500 with 724 cars plus one motorcycle counted on streams like Fishing Creek and Big Hunting Creek. Weather stayed warm with highs near 90 and scattered afternoon showers forecast.
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Fishing Creek
Big Hunting Creek
Middle Creek
Owens Creek
Friends Creek
Frank Bentz
Carroll County
Rock Creek
Montgomery County
Patuxent River
Howard County
Weather Bureau
Five Men Arrested After Fight in Front of North Market Restaurant
City Police arrested five men after a fracas in front of a North Market Street restaurant. Charles Edward O'Brien of West Fourth Street faced intoxication charges. Others including James R. Pullen, David J. Parker, Thomas C. Wilder faced disorderly conduct charges. Arresting officers were Sgt. Harry Philips, Lt. Ralph Potts, and several other officers. None required hospitalization.
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North Market Street
Charles Edward O’brien
West Fourth Street
Harry Philips
Donald Tracey
James R. Pullen
Rockville
David J. Parker
Detroit, Mich
Thomas C. Wilder
Gaithersburg
Ralph Potts
Kenneth
Crucifixion retold beside empty tomb in Jerusalem Good Friday
In Jerusalem Good Friday services at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre unfold in multiple ancient liturgical languages representing diverse Christian communities while Easter is celebrated simultaneously for Orthodox and Western rites this year. Modern tongues accompany sermons as pilgrims bear crosses along the Way of the Cross ending at the 13 Stations.
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Jerusalem
Jordan
Holy Sepulchre
Interna
Bethlehem
Paul I
Christ
Jesus
Pilate
City Transforms Into a French Flower Mart Downtown Frederick
Downtown Frederick blooms into a French style flower market with sidewalk stands, colored Easter chicks, rabbits, and birds sold by enterprising youngsters. Vendors report brisk demand for rabbits and dyed chicks with flowers, daffodils, and potted plants also drawing shoppers as warm spring weather boosts sales and hope builds for a busy Saturday.
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Frederick
C. Lease Bussard
Registration To Vote Ends On Saturday
The May 17 primary is near as the county registrar notes last day to register is Saturday with office hours nine to noon. Democrats lead in registrations with 15 439 total and Republicans at 11 492 while 405 voters are unaffiliated. The office reports daily registrations and a Democratic presidential primary contest with only a Republican congressional nomination.
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Russell House
Board of Elections
Court House
House
Nipe
German General Hans Roettiger Dies at 64 in Bonn
Lt Gen Hans Roettiger, 64, chief of staff of the West German army, died today in Bonn after a brief illness, according to AP. The German general held a senior leadership post in the military staff.
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Bonn
Germany
Hans Roettiger
Baltimore Marshal Takes Armored Robbery Suspect Graves
A federal marshal from Baltimore seized Charles R. Graves, an armed robbery suspect, after bond was posted to release him from the local jail. Graves faces Washington charges from April 1959 for house breaking and assault with a deadly weapon, with a new bond likely at arraignment. Toland, released on $20,000 bond, and three other prisoners held on armed robbery charges from a Spartan Club theft await further action as the Cadillac and money remain under state custody for eventual grand jury use. US Treasury agents also recovered the unregistered sawed-off shotgun linked to the case.
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Baltimore
Charles R. Graves
Graves
U. S. Marshal's Office
Washington
Stuyvesant Insurance Company
New York City
Maryland
A. A. Bail Bond Co
Lkely
James Charles Toland
Spartan Club
Glenn Crum
Toland
Robert Rothenhoefer
GU. S&s. Treasury
Montgomery County
U. S. 240
Georgetown
Bank Retains Officers After Board Reorganization
Freder icktown Savings Institution reorganized with a new board on Thursday and promoted three staff to official ranks. W. Meredith S. Young remains president, aided by G. Hunter Bowers and Joseph T. Griffin as senior vice-presidents and Howard M. Albaugh as vice president and treasurer.
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Fredericktown Savings Institution
W. Meredith S. Young
G. Hunter Bowers
Joseph T. Griffin
Howard M. Albaugh
Gerald G. Remsberg
R. Monroe Feaga
Feaga
Robert E. Gearinger
M. Margaret Gardner
Holden S. Felton
Helen B. Young
Virginia C. Derr
Teller
C. Monroe Keeney
Mary C. Willard
Mary Jane Lenhart
Barbara F. Cramer
Shirley R. Wetzel
Shirley R. Rosenberry
Elaine G. Bridges
Sarah A. Ann Ramsburg
Nancy A. Jenkins
Charles F. Trunk
Wayne L. Eyler
Robert W. Humm
Ike Commutes GIs Death Sentence
President Eisenhower commuted former M. Sgt. Maurice Schick’s death sentence for strangling and drowning the daughter of an Army officer in Japan. The sentence was reduced to life imprisonment without parole, effective March 25, and Schick remains at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Maurice Schick
Japan
White House
Canonsburg
Schick
Jacquard Rothschild
Court of Military Appeals
Ft. Leavenworth, Kan
Fugitives Caught In Baltimore After High Speed Chase
Two escapees from the Maryland Reformatory for Males near Hagerstown were captured by State Police after a pursuit reaching 90 mph. The suspects, Robert Philip Washington and John M Brown, stole a 1969 Olds sedan, led police toward Baltimore on Route 40, and were halted when a tire blew and the car drifted into a curb. They were detained in Baltimore County jail and face charges of auto larceny and jail breaking, with additional reviews by Frederick and Hagerstown officials. The car and stolen status were under investigation.
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Reformatory
Hagerstown
Charles F. Smith
Randallstein
Robert Philip Washington
Washington
John M. Brown
Baltimore
Hhe (Smith
Rolling Road
Smith
Montgomery
Edmondson Village
Brown
Baltimore County
James McLean
Frederick County
Frederick
Texas
Taxidermy craftsman dies after long life of art
Austin Daniel Wachter, renowned Maryland taxidermist, died early Friday at Frederick Memorial Hospital at age 69. A life devoted to the outdoors, he surrounded his Bloomfield home with mounted wildlife and ran a fruit and vegetable farm. Surviving are two sons Willard and Howard, one brother, two sisters, a grandchild, and ten nieces and nephews. Services will be held at 11 a m Monday at Zion Reformed Cemetery with Rev E Koontz Helwig officiating. Funeral directed by Robert E Dailey and Son.
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Austin Daniel Wachter
Maryland
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Wachter
Delphy
West Patrick Street
Maryland Game and Inland Fish Commission
Wachier
Fredericktown Savings Institution
Bethel Lutheran Church
Independent Order of Redmen
Isaac Walton
Willard L. Wachter
Glenn L. Martin
Baltimore
Howard W. Wachter
Frederick
Delphey's
Henry L. Wachter
RFD
Calvin W. Wachter
Frederck
Erma Cramer
North Market Street
E. Koontz Helwig
Zion Reformed Cemetery
Charlesville
Floating city of Soviet fishermen off Alaska ships year round
In the Bering Sea off Alaska a Soviet fishing fleet operates a floating city of about 2,500 people year round despite the ice. They say they take only fish passed up by Americans and would withdraw if fishery problems forced a choice between friendship and fish, according to their commander speaking to visiting Alaskans.
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REDS
Anchorage
Alaska
Bering Sea
Goodwill Opens Frederick Retail Branch in Old Market Building
Goodwill Industries plans a Frederick store on South Bentz Street in the former Market building. The outlet will offer renovated toys, clothes, furniture and appliances at budget prices, using work by local handicapped workers and a trained manager. Open planned for early May with about 6 local hires and interviews for about 40 handicapped applicants.
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Goodwill Industries
Neal W. Healy
South Bentz Street
William S. Hood
Healy
Baltimore Goodwil Industries, Inc
Red Feather
Goodwill
Baltimore Good
John H. Ramessar
Ministry of Trade and Industry
British Guiana
South America
Ramessar
Georgetown University
State Office of Vocational Rehabilitation
Veterans Administration
Department of Welfare
Hunt For Kidnapers Intensified
Paris police widened the nationwide hunt for Eric Peugeot abduction suspects after a false Paris News Agency report claimed capture. Four year old Eric, unharmed and upset, was found on a sidewalk near home after ransom discussions reportedly tied to a playground kidnapping at St. Cloud Country Club. He said two men took him briefly, then left him in a ground floor apartment. he was examined, in good health, and reunited with his family.
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Paris
Eric Peugeot
Eric
St. Cloud
FrenceSoir
Roland Peugeot
Peugeot
Field Fire Near Ford Road Draws Fire Crews
The two engines of the Inde pendent Hose Company were called to a field fire along the Ford Road at Yellow Springs shortly after one o'clock today.
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Independent Hose Company
Ford Road
Yellow Springs
June Remains Peak Month for Marriages in 1959
Licensing data from Frederick County shows 1959 had 135 June licenses, up 15 from 1958, with August next at 96 and May the low at 56. Total yearly licenses reached 930, up from 912 in 1958, while divorces declined to 96 from 102. Chief Deputy Arthur Lambert notes cross state travel to Frederick for licenses due to varying laws.
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Court House
Ellis C. Wachter
Circuit Court
Frederick
Arthur Lambert
Frederick County
Pennsylvania
Washington, D.C
Virginia
West Virginia
Belgian Prince Born in Brussels
Italian-born Princess Paola wife of Prince Albert of Liege gave birth to a son this morning making him second in line for the throne.
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Belgiam
Brussels
Belgium
Paola
Albert
Liege
Montgomery Tax Rate Set At $2.53 With Budget Increase
ROCKVILLE Md AP Montgomery County voted a tax rate of 2.53 per 100 of assessed value for the new year and approved an 83.5 million dollar budget, up 17.3 thousand from this year. A homeowner with a 10 thousand assessed value would pay about 35 more next year.
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Rockville
Aid
Montgomery County
Five Day Forecast From AP Predicts Showers and Warm Spells
The Associated Press forecast calls for scattered showers Saturday or Sunday and again Tuesday with about half an inch of precipitation. Temperatures will run 8 to 12 degrees above normal with warm Saturday and Monday, cooler midweek. Normal highs range from the low 60s in Western Maryland to the upper 60s in the east. lows from mid 30s to low 40s by region.
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Maryland
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U. S
Ike
Aliquippz
Constance Philips Cartwright
Debra Cartwright
Austin D. Wachter
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