Steel Walkout Looms as Talks Stagnate at Midnight
Pittsburgh AP report says steel negotiators resume bargaining with FMCS chief Simkin warning the gap remains large. With four days left 450000 United Steelworkers could strike at midnight Tuesday, halting 20 percent of U.S. steel output. Union seeks 53 cents an hour over three years. industry offers 40.6 cents final package and vows to bargain within it. A shutdown would begin Sunday, mills taking about 10 hours to close a blast furnace. Local Pittsburgh plants vary in size from four to seven furnaces.
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Pittsburgh
United Steelworkers
William E. Simkin
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
Finan Eyes Court Reapportionment If Legislature Fails
Maryland Attorney General Thomas B. Finan said he would seek court action to reapportion the Maryland Legislature rather than allow at large statewide elections. He warned such a ballot would cause chaos and be nearly unreadable, urging courts to draft a plan if needed to meet one person one vote. The Supreme Court requires equal voting weight, noting current setup gives 14 percent of Maryland's population power to elect over 30 percent of state senators.
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Ocean City
Thomas B. Finan
Maryland
Supreme Court
Finan
Maryland County Commissioners’ Association
Eral Assembly
City Firemen Burn House On Rosemont
Frederick's four fire companies conduct an all day exercise at the old Putman farm on Rosemont Avenue between A W Rest Beer Drive In and the Montevue Home. A three story house and sheds were scheduled to burn to train basic techniques and demonstrate high expansion foam. Arson suspected in a prior failed exercise on East Patrick Street. investigation ongoing.
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Frederick
Old Putman Farm
Rosemont Avenue
Montevue
Millard Mastrino
United Fire Co
Sanner Realty Co
East Patrick Street
At Least 60 Cong Killed In Viet Nam
Vietnamese ground forces killed at least 50 Viet Cong in heavy Mekong Delta fighting described as a multi battalion operation. The clashes occurred Friday and today about 100 miles southwest of Saigon with moderate government casualties.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Mekong Delta
U.S
NAACP Charges Racial Bias in Babe Ruth League
The Frederick NAACP chapter executive committee accuses the local Babe Ruth League of racial discrimination for a third time. Samuel C. Hamilton says directors did not name Clarence Cooper, a Black manager of the All-Star team after Rotary won the league title. Babe Ruth directors deny race as a factor, noting Cooper’s wife sits on the board but was absent at the meeting.
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Babe Ruth League
Frederick
National Association of the Advancement of Colored People
Samuel C. Hamilton
NAACP
Clarence Cooper
Cooper
Rotary
Lewis E. Crutchley
Babe Ruth
Mother's Try Proves Futile in Ventura
In Ventura California AP reports a grieving mother, Sharin Evans, exposed her leukemia stricken daughter Joy Evans to chicken pox in a bid to prolong life. Doctors had given Joy less than a month to live when the risk was taken on August 1. Joy died Friday at the bedside.
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Ventura
Calif
Joy Evans
Sharin Evans
Aquanauts To Descend To Ocean Sealab Today
Navy plans the descent of 10 aquanauts including Astronaut M Scott Carpenter to Sealab 2 off La Jolla California. Three teams of 10 will stay 15 days each at 205 feet in a 12 by 58 foot steel cylinder, working outside twice daily to study marine life and map the ocean floor. Carpenter aims for a 30 day stay as the crew tests human endurance under six times surface pressure. A porpoise named Tuffy will aid two divers with tools and rescue tines, if needed.
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Carpenter
L. Gordon Cooper Jr
Space Agency
Bermuda
California
Tuffy
559th Signal Company Returns From Camp Indiantown Gap
Army Reservists from the 559th Signal Company, about 100 from Frederick, returned home after two weeks of training at Indiantown Gap Military Reservation, Pennsylvania. Led by Captain Henry A. Groff Jr., they helped repair and construct power lines on post and trained on admin and supply duties. The unit earned a superior rating in 1964 and aimed to match it this year. They conduct weekly evening meetings and a Sunday drill at Mtair US Army Reserve Center on Rocky Springs Road.
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559Th Signal Company
Indiantown Gap
Pennsylvania
Frederick
559Th
Henry A. Groff, Jr
RFD
Meadow Road
Gap
Groff
Mtair US
Army Reserve Center
Rocky Springs Road
Ideal Dairy Plans Waste Plant Near Fort Detrick
Ideal Farms Dairy Inc plans a waste treatment facility along Md 26 near the Fort Detrick disposal system. The plant would discharge into the Monocacy River with Health Department approval and aims to reduce Frederick County streams pollution using a modern, harmless method. Current septic tanks at the dairy on North Market Street extend outside city limits. Van Deuth and Weidner of Baltimore are the architects and engineers for the project.
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Ideal Farms Dairy, Inc
Sterling E. Bollinger
MD. 26
Fort Detrick
Bollinger
Mono Eacy
Health Department
Frederick County
North Market Street
Pinecliff
Frederick
Van
Maryland Farm Queen Contest Set For Monday
County women from Frederick Carroll Montgomery and other counties will compete Monday at Timonium for the Maryland Farm Queen title and a $1000 scholarship. Contestants include Cynthia Mathews Johnsville Mary Griffith Derwood Charlotte Rhine Sykesville Virginia Jones Westminster and Suzanne Beard Hagerstown. The four runners up receive gifts. all get charms and fair passes. prizes donated by the Maryland State Fair and Agricultural Society.
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Maryland
Timonium
Maryland State Fair and Agricultural Society
Gemini 5 astronauts near end of world record space mission
Space Center Houston reports Gemini 5 crew L Gordon Cooper Jr and Charles Conrad Jr are cleared for final orbits and a splashdown off the Atlantic coast near San Salvador. Weather and fuel readings are closely watched as mission wraps up after a 121 orbit flight.
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Atlantic Ocean
San Salvador
Gemini Control
Houston
Conrad
Jane
mid-Atlantic
Gemind
Cooper
Anaffer
Duane Catterson
Cuban Ambassador to London Resigns in Protest
Cuban Ambassador to London Dr. Luis Ricardo Alonso Fernandez resigns his post in protest of Fidel Castro's dictatorship. He has been ambassador since 1963 and calls for an end to totalitarian rule and Cuba's neutrality under UN guarantees. He went into hiding after delivering his resignation letter.
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London
Cuba
Luis Ricardo Alonso Fernandez
Fidel Castro
Alonso
Castro
Fulgencio Batista
Osvaldo Corticos
London Times
United Nations
Foreign Office
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509Th Army Co
State Farm
Twinkle Gemini
Christopher C. Kraft
Betsy Horn
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