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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1966
Page
3
A Washington advisory committee urges continuing oral contraceptives while launching studies on possible harms. It calls to end time limits on pill use, notes uncertain data on safety, and stresses physician evaluation of risks versus benefits. FDA plans expand side effect research and uniform labeling.
London detectives closed in on suspects after seizing a blue station wagon linked to the killing of three policemen near Wormwood Scrubs. A tip led officers to a garage near Waterloo Station where fingerprints were tested at a police lab as 18,000 officers were mobilized. A ruby laser is described as a compact tool for power sources.
New Orleans AP reports Dudley LeBlanc a former patent medicine king and John R. Rarick an ardent segregationist forced two Democratic veterans, Edwin E. Wills and James H. Morrison, into runoff primaries. Wills trails by 4,448 votes in the 3rd District. Morrison is 2,210 short in the 6th District. LeBlanc leads in the 3rd District with 22,561 votes.
Northeast Airlines says war in Viet Nam caused copper shortages delaying seven FH 227 prop-jet aircraft from Fairchild-Hiller of Hagerstown. Deliveries to Manchester and Lebanon New Hampshire and Keene NH as well as Kennedy Airport New York are pushed back. Boston Worcester service now set to start September 7 with other routes by November 15.
Clarence W. Miles declares Carlton R. Sickles unfair for failing to propose specific revenue-raising plans in the Democratic gubernatorial nomination race. Miles blasts Sickles as an opponent who does not present concrete funding ideas to the public.
Maryland politics segment shows Miles accusing Sickles of avoiding tax reform stance until federal aid details are known while Sickles denounces fear campaigns in the primary. Sickles notes his Civil Rights Bill vote and warns against arousing passions that threaten state peace. Also a brief note credits Philipp Reis with the first pneumatic remote shutter release in 1862.
US Navy doctors aboard the USS Repose off Da Nang saved the life of 16 year old Phan Thi Truong of Da Nang with an unprecedented open heart procedure. The four surgeons led by Dr Kenneth Neugebauer performed the operation last week as Viet Namese patient faced likely death within a year. The team included Dr Mitchell Mills Dr John Dennis Noonan and Dr Theodore H Wilson Jr.
In Pasadena and Bethesda, scientists celebrate Lunar Orbiter’s successful insertion into lunar orbit. The 850-pound craft slowed by 1510 mph to enter a near egg shaped path from 119 miles to 1160 miles above the moon’s surface.
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