Driver Survives Runaway Dump Truck Crash
A Thurmont area truck driver James Howard Anders fought the runaway dump truck for miles along Ball Road Maryland 353 and survived with a knee injury after the vehicle crashed into a tree. Brakes failed as the truck gained speed and struck a power pole cutting power to nearby areas for about an hour.
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Thurmont
Ball Road
Maryland
James Howard Anders
E Alderton Anders
Elmer Anders
Anderswold
Alderton
Potomac Edison
Anders
Charles Poole
Potomac _ Edison Company
Western Maryland Railway to add 41 percent at Elkins car shop
Western Maryland Railway will boost its Elkins West Virginia car shop workforce by 41 percent on Sept 5. Vice President George Leitich said 35 new workers will join 44 existing staff in the mechanical department and program work for overall car maintenance. The initial task is to fit new bodies on hopper cars used to haul coal ore, then proceed to gondola cars for steel products.
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Baltimore
Western Maryland Railway
Elkins, W. V
George Leitich
Elkins
French runaway forced DC8 to land in Havana
Albert Charles Caden 27 a French immigrant identified as the man who hijacked a DC8 with 81 aboard forcing a Havana landing Cuba returned passengers and plane safely Cuban authorities held him He toured as an itinerant artist and worked in New York restaurants He was sent to Bellevue Hospital for mental observation and faces four federal charges on the high seas in New York City federal court
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Albert Charles Caden
U. S
France
Havana
Cuba
Caden
New York
Bellevue Hospital
High Seas
Miany
Jury awards $2000 in land condemnation case
A three woman nine man jury in Circuit Court awarded Miss C Beattie Stauffer 2000 for 183 acres sought by the State Roads Commission for a Walkersville bypass. The commission valued the land at 8925.
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C. Beattie Stauffer
North Freedrick
Walkers Ile
Robert E Clapp Jr
State Roads Commission
Moss Stauffer
Walkersville
Mt. Pleasant
Woodsboro
Brann
Maryland cigarette tax receipts fall short of estimates
Annapolis AP reports fiscal year tobacco tax collections totalled 16 782 746, down from 1960 and below the official estimate by 835 253. The rise to six cents a pack and advance stamp sales shifted revenue. July receipts rose to 2 871 812 with 1 010 467 from advances credited to fiscal 1962. Funds go to 23 counties and Baltimore City on a population basis starting October. Citizens of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden may travel without passports between their countries.
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Annapolis
Comptroller’s Office
Fnday
Louis L Goldstein
Comptroller
Goldstein
General Assembly
Baltimore City
Wall Paper Find Reaches White House For Scenic Room
In Thurmont a $50 wallpaper purchase by Peter Hull, a Washington enthusiast and lay preacher, yielded a $12 560 sale to the National Society of Interior Designers. The NSID plans to place the historic Scenic America paper in the White House Diplomatic Reception Room after Mrs Jacqueline Kennedy approved the piece. Hull, formerly of Dartmouth and Harvard Business School, bought the panels from a demolished Thurmont house and traded them to fund his religious missions.
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Washington
John F. Kennedy
Peter Hull
Dartmouth
Harvard Business School
National Society of Interior Designers
New York
NSID
Scenic
America
White House
Young Hill
Thurmont
Hills
Hill
St Albans and Friends School
John Newton Pearce
The
Smithsonian
Mildred
Hull
Wiliam J. Stoner
Pearce
Ingre
Anne Marie
Society Reduces Price for White House Donation of Paper
The Diplomatic Reception Room was chosen for the donation of the paper to the White House. Mrs Kennedy pressed the society to donate, and on Hill's 33rd birthday the deal closed. The invoice showed 17500 dollars, but the society paid only 12500 dollars. Hill said on the open market the paper could fetch 5000 dollars more, calling the discount his contribution to the White House. It was learned Friday that several local residents...
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NSID
Kennedy
White House
Ss Society
Hill
Bids on Historic Wallpaper Fall Short Amid Removal Doubts
Interest arose in a historic wallpaper piece but bids stayed under $50 as potential buyers hesitated over the likely difficulty of removal. The report notes several bidders lowered offers due to expected removal challenges.
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Rpwepa
Denmark
Finland
Norway
Sweden
Boston Harbor
Stoner
Thurmont House
Smithsonian Institution
Frederick
Kaempf & Harris, In
Frederick, Md
Blue Ridge
East Patrick Street
Melvin M. Engle
N. Carroll St
Frederick County
Farm Bureau
Claggett Center
Buckeystown
Lars
Fredericktown Savings Institution
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
North Market St
West Frederick Branch
West Patrick and
Stoffer-Sanner Insurance Agency, Inc
Marion D. Carmack, JR
Carmack
BROWN
West Patrick Street
Colonial Jewelers
R, M, Brown
Cavetown Planing Mill CO
Europe
Cunard
Boyer Travel Agency
Service
Glass& Mirror
East Street
Walter Snow
Optometrist
Phone Monument
Kodachrome
Ektacare
Kodacola
E. Ray Wachter Photo Center
South Market St
Market St. Frederick
Mad
N. Market
Coblentz & Main
Exclusively Insurance
North Court Street
Eastern All Metal
Reline Furniture Co
South Market St. Monument
Nipw
Spay
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