Six Inch Water Main Breaks Downtown Frederick
A six inch water main broke in downtown Frederick near West Patrick Street beside the Frederick County National Bank. The geyser flooded the bank basement about four inches while crews replaced a 12 foot pipe section. Water use hit a record four and three quarters million gallons as canneries run long shifts. service restored by noon.
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Frederick
Forth
West Patrick Street
Frederick County National Bank
William J. Davis
City Water
Charles Casnour
Davis
Patrick Street
Braddock
Rangers Rescue Boy Stranded On Ledge
Rangers battled rock at Kings Canyon California to rescue 16 year old Ed Baye stranded 3501 feet above Paradise Valley after 26 hours on a narrow ledge. He and two companions, John Lynch and Charles Gibon, were saved as rescuers moved toward them through dark terrain.
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Kings Canyon National Park
Calif
Los Angeles
Paradise Valley
Ed Baye
Louis Hallock
John Lynch
Charles Gibibons
Hallock
Brothers Hospitalized In Similar Accidents
Robert Poore aged 24 suffered head and arm injuries when a car struck a pole and he was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. His brother Harvey, 28, was later injured in a separate crash en route home and also admitted, both listed in satisfactory condition.
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Baltimore
Robert Poore
Harvey
Johns Hopkins Hosspital
Robert
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Hammarskjold set for Arab backed peace mission to Middle East
United Nations leaders approve a unanimous Arab backed plan sending Dag Hammarskjold to coordinate early U.S. troop withdrawals from Lebanon and British forces from Jordan. The mission aims to safeguard Jordan and Lebanon’s integrity and promote regional economic development with Arab consultation.
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United Nations
N.Y
Dag Hammarskjold
Middle East
U.N. General Assembly
Ily
Hammarskjelé
Lebanon
Jordan
Dominican
Russia
Norway
Hammarskjold
Soviet Tourists Visit New York Stock Exchange
Fourteen Soviet tourists toured the New York Stock Exchange, the first group of Soviet citizens to visit since the Bolshevik Revolution. They photographed eagerly and asked many questions as Alexander V Rubovev watched the trading floor and noted the nervous pace.
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NEW York
New York Stock Exchange
Alexander Vrubovev
Russia
Old Hill Church To Be Renovated
Old Hill Church near Lewistown will get a volunteer renovation with funds from the Lewis town Cemetery Association. Work starts Saturday with roof painting and plaster repairs, before bad weather. The project aims to convert the church for burial chapel and community use, led by Alva Rice, with volunteers and financial contributors from local residents.
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Old Hill
Mount Prospect
Lewistown
Cemetery Association
H. Clifford Kelly
Alva Rice
Kelly
Rice
Robert
Wachter
George Martin
Catoctin Furnace
NAACP seeks Supreme Court to overrule school integration ban
In Little Rock, the NAACP asks the U S Supreme Court to lift a stay blocking Central High School’s integration. Gov. Faubus readies a special session as district officials plan for an all white reopening Sept 2 pending court action. local leaders debate closing Central if federal forces push integration.
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Little Rock, Ark
National Assn. For the Advancement of Colored People
U.S. Supreme Court
Central High School
Orval Faubus
NAACP
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Supreme Court
Little Rock
Central
Horace Mann
8Th Circuit Court of Appeals
St. Louis
Circuit
U.S
Central High
Gon. Faubus
Maryland mothers hurt in Alaska plane crash
In Juneau two Maryland women, Mrs. Esten Mehner and her daughter Ruth Crawford, were among eight aboard an Alaska coastal amphibian that hit Lyon Canal waters. Mehner, 75, regained consciousness. Crawford, 45, rallied. Seven others and the pilot were injured.
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Juneau
Alaska
Maryland
Lyon Canal
Esten Mehner
Severna Park
Baltimore
St. Ann's Hospital
Ruth Crawford
Notre Dame Academy
Mehner
Miss Crawford
Mildred Ruth
Balimore
Roger Hurlock
Haines
Iito
Alaska High
Five Day Forecast From The Associated Press Interesting Temperatures
The five day forecast shows temperatures about three to five degrees below normal. Expect cool conditions over the weekend, warmer Monday and Tuesday, then cooler again on Wednesday. Showers and thunderstorms are possible Monday or Tuesday with total rainfall around half to one inch. Normal highs are in the upper 70s to low 80s, while overnight lows range from the 50s in the mountains to 62 to 68 elsewhere.
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Associated Press
Eisenhower ready to suspend nuclear tests for year
President Eisenhower announced the United States is ready to suspend nuclear weapons tests for one year starting Oct. 31 if the Soviet Union keeps its test ban and agrees to negotiations toward a permanent ban. Britain would join under the same conditions.
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Washington
Eisenhower
United States
Russia
Soviet Union
White House
Great Britain
Geneva
U.S
Jobless Pay Claims Drop in Maryland
Baltimore AP reports claims for unemployment benefits in Maryland fell last week ended Aug 16 to 33,622 from 38,980 prior. Of these, 29,436 drew benefits while 6,226 filed first-time claims. Employers rehired 18,575 workers, down 11 percent from the prior week, and 716 claimants exhausted 26 weeks, totaling 25,607 since last Oct 1. Benefits paid totaled 59,40274, a 3.3 percent drop from 972,337 a week earlier.
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Baltimore
Maryland
Department of Employment Security
DES
Lost Youth Returns Home After Hideout
A Maryland National Guardsman, David Houstle, 28, was found safe at home after two days of police searches. He had been missing since Tuesday and was believed to be in a wooded area in Baltimore County near Lake Roland following his car being found by the lake. He had failed to report to the Indiantown Gap camp in Pennsylvania for a two week summer encampment.
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Baltimore
Maryland National
Housile
Lake Roland
National Guard
New Hours For Window Service At Post Office
Postmaster James A Grove announces new Frederick Post Office hours starting Monday August 25 for window services. Stamp window runs daily 7 36 a m to 3 p m Saturday 7 30 a m to 12 noon. Parcel Post daily 7 30 a m to 5 p m Saturday 7 30 a m to 12 noon. Registry COD daily 8 00 a m to 3 p m Saturday 8 00 a m to 12 noon. Money Order daily 9 60 a m to 5 p m Saturday 9 00 a m to 12 noon.
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James A. Grove
Frederick
Registry & C.O.D
Sairday
Living costs rise to new July high in AP report
The government said the July cost of living reached a record high with the consumer price index up two tenths of a point to 123.3. The 1947-49 average is 10 in the index. Nomination confirmed: Eisenhower’s pick Carlton G Beall of Maryland is approved by voice vote for a new four year term as U.S. Marshal for the District of Columbia.
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Washington
Senate
Eisenhower
Carlton G. Beall
Maryland
U.S
District of Columbia
Pearl Harbor Marine Held In Widow's Death
Honolulu police detained a Pearl Harbor Marine, 21, in the slaying of widow Helen Melvina Peoples, 55, whose nude body was found in a Waikiki alley. Investigators traced the victim to a bar with a check the Marine used, found three pairs of women’s panties in his locker, and described a violent struggle ending in strangulation with the victim’s own garments.
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Honolulu
Pearl Harbor
Waikiki
Helen Melvina Peoples
Cameron, Tex
Girl Falls 150 Feet To Death On Ledge
Mount Washington Massachusetts AP reports Eileen Reiter 16 from Bronx NY fell 150 feet to her death on a ledge during a Basi Bish State Forest outing. Companion Nola Zirin 15 Jericho NY narrowly escaped plunge by grabbing brush and pulling herself back. State police reached the body after climbing near vertical gorge walls.
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Mount Washington
Mass
Eileen Reiter
The
Bronx
Basi Bish State Forest
Nola Zirin
Jericho
N.Y
Basi Bish Falls
Miss Reiter
Miss Zirin
Reiter
Camp Try-Woodie
Hyde Park
Check Charge Brings 30 Days
Charles W Nusbaum found guilty in Magistrate's court of passing a bad check was sentenced to 30 days in jail by Magistrate H Reese Shoemaker Jr. Nusbaum wrote a $100 check at a Liberty town store and asked to work off the debt but was told this was not his first offense. Lynwood C Clark appealing the charge. A Ridgeville youth, 17, was sentenced to 20 days for tampering with a Runkles Junk Yard vehicle near Mt Airy on July 29 after pleading guilty to a charge by Trooper Carl R Mauzy.
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Charles W. Nusbaum
H. Reese Shoemaker Jr
Nusbaum
Libertytown
Shoemaker
Lynwood C. Clark
Ridgeville
Runkles
Maryland
Paul Delmar Tabor
RFD 3
Marion
Lester Ruben Paetz
el Dorado
Ark
Mims Richard Moore
Baldwin
Mich
Kelly-Morrris Circus
Pennsylvania
Route 40
Jefferson Street
George C. Forster
Maryland Truck Patrol
Moore
Douglas E. Rogers
Jewel Alarm Clears Crown Jewels Standoff
London AP reports the alarm at the Tower of London triggering a swift police response, but Scotland Yard confirms the crown jewels were not stolen. The 16 ton steel cage protecting the royal gems dropped automatically as intruder fears prompted the Flying Squad to rush to the scene. The jewels remain on display to the public. In other dispatches de Gaulle tells Madagascar and other French colonies they may leave the French Union as independent nations by referendum in 1958. The report notes river conditions in Monocacy and Potomac areas with muddy and clearing observations.
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London
Britain
Jscares
Peter Blood
Tower of London
Scotland Yard
Thames
Tananarive
Madagascar
de Gaulle
France
Ion Hig
Congress Near Adjournment Amid Major Funding Bills
Congress pressed toward adjournment on Saturday as House and Senate moved major measures including a $3.068 billion foreign aid bill, a $6 billion federal appropriations package, and a $25,000 annual presidential pension plan. Eisenhower vetoed a civil service retirement fund provision.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
House
Eisenhower
Civil Service Retirement Fund
Senate Appropriations Committee
Middle East
Senate Finance Committee
Senate Committee
Supreme Court
Senate Judiciary Committee
U.N. General Assembly
Atomic Energy Commission
Space Agency
Stung by Bee Sends Man to Local Ambulance
An ambulance was sent to 251 West Patrick Street around 1 PM after a man reportedly stung by a bee passed out. responders treated him on site and transported him for further care.
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United Ambulance
West Patrick Street
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