Worden Walks In Space 200 000 Miles From Home
Apollo 15 astronaut Alfred Worden stepped into space nearly 200 000 miles from Earth to retrieve film canisters for high resolution images of the moon. Worden, Scott, and Irwin wore pressure suits as a 25 foot lifeline carried Worden to the rear equipment bay.
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David R. Scott
James B. Irwin
Irwin
Worden
Earth
Moon
S. Worden
Aran
Endeavour
Pacific Ocean
Hawaii
Scott
SAS Denies Plan to Fly 187 POWs from Laos
Stockholm AP reports SAS denies a Swedish newspaper claim that U S officials asked the airline to charter a flight from Vientiane Laos to Rome for 187 American POWs. SAS says preliminary talks occurred but no contract and no military passenger category were mentioned.
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Stockholm
Laos
Europe
West Germany
Rome
SAS
Paris
Truong Gia Nhan
Thuy
Nixon
U.S
Vientiane
Boy 12 Struck by BB At Baltimore Field
Frederick youth Anthony Rippeon, 12, was hit in the eye by a BB while playing with four others at Harmon Field. He received emergency care at Frederick Memorial Hospital and then Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Clinic in Baltimore. Police say four youths were detained and the incident prompts calls for parental supervision as BB guns remain illegal in the city.
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Frederick
Wilmer Eye Clinic
Baltimore
Anthony Rippeon
Winchester Street
Harmon Field
Anthony
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Wilmer
Johns Hopkins
Charles V. Main
Major Main
Storms End After Five Inches Rain Deluge
Winter thunderstorms dumped more than five inches of rain over the county and ended this morning. Flooding river and stream levels and muddy roads prompted warnings as crops face blight risk especially in corn and peaches. Extension Service urged spraying and noted soybeans benefited. forecast calls for partly cloudy skies with warm temperatures into the weekend.
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Margaret Hindman
Frederick County
Food Prices Drop and Raw Goods Hit Fifteen Year Peak
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports July wholesale food prices fell three tenths of one percent, the largest drop in eight months, while industrial raw materials and manufactured goods rose, led by lumber and steel, pushing the overall wholesale price index up three tenths of a percent. The July index stands at 114.6 with $100 four years ago costing $114.60, and is 3.3 percent above the previous year.
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Washington
Nixon
Congress
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Lottery For Draft Held Today
Washington AP reports the 19 year old draft lottery assigned birth dates to determine call up order. Dec 4 births are No 1 and Jan births No 2, with draws continuing into the hundreds as calls dwindle under potential extended authority.
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Washington
Tew
Congress
Mystery Madrigal Returned to DC After Ward of State Involvement
Patty Jo Wood a 15 year old from Adrian Michigan known as Madrigal Tropez was apprehended by police in Georgetown Washington after running away from a private foster home. Authorities weigh returning her to Michigan or to her mother amid court action and social services involvement.
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Jim Skillington
Washington
Patty Jo Wood
Maryland
Adrian, Mich
Metapolitan
Miss Wood
M Street
Georgetown
Frederick County Department of Social Services
Arthur L
Partment of Social Services
Michigan
Frederick
Madrigal Tropez
Detroit
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Frederick County
Social Services
FMH
Detroit Free Press
Libertytown
Allpoints
Gerrgetown
Baltimore
News- Post
Arthur L. Muck Jr
Muck
Patty
District of Columbia
Madrigal
Tropez
Blind woman to teach TJ English in fall
Debbie Carey twenty three year old is hired to teach English at Gov Thomas Johnson High School. If confirmed she would be the first blind Maryland public school teacher. Carey, from Pocomoke City, studied at Salisbury State College and UVA while earning a B plus. She will use audio visual tools and rely on student participation to teach.
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Debbie Carey
Gov. Thomas Johnson High School
Maryland
Miss Carey
Frederick County
Richard Lewis
Pocomoke City
University of Virginia
Charlottesville
Salibury State College
Baltimore
Eastern High School
Seaton Named to Head Local Consolidated School
The Frederick County Board of Education named George Seaton to head the newly merged West Frederick Junior High and Frederick High School complex. Seaton, principal of Frederick High since 1968, will become head administrator this fall. An associate principal and vice principals for each school will be appointed soon.
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Frederick County
Seaton
County
Elm Street
Prin
A. Delmar Rippeon
Green Valley
Waverley
Lewistown
State funds to create 20 local jobs under EMAP program
Frederick County will receive 117,500 to fund about 20 public service jobs under the federal emergency employment act. Maryland’s share totals 4.7 million with nationwide spending of 2.25 billion for 200,000 jobs over two years.
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Frederick
Maryland
Rita Davidson
State Department of Employment and Social Services
Baltimore
Davidson
Marvin Mandel
Labor Department
Montgomery County
Prince Georges
Allegany
Washington
Cor
Stock Market Edges Up in Moderate Trading
New York AP reports stock prices rose in moderate trading with the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 2.19 points to 847.11 at 10:20 a.m.
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New York
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