Candle Sale Supports Frederick Retarded Children Drive
The Frederick County Association for Retarded Children sells hand decorated scented red and green candles to fund a day care center by January 1966. Jacob R. Ramsburg aims to raise $6,000 with house-to-house sales and at local shops including Rice's Color Center Safe Way Village Hardware and Young Men's Shop. Donations are tax free and volunteers assist at the Jeanne Bussard Workshop and other local groups.
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Frederick County
Frederick County Association
Jacob R. Ramsburg
Ramsburg
Jeanne Bussard
Charles Glick
Seminole Road
SMU
South End
Woman Loses $845 In Medical Fraud
An elderly Rockville woman reported a gypsy woman, 55 to 65 with a wrinkled face, stole $845 during a medical scam. The money, placed in a sock and later in a trunk, was promised to double and cure illness but disappeared after the gypsy departed.
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Rockville
Bathroom Accessory Trends and Ancient Bronze Discovery
Terry cloth is hailed as a perfect bathroom accessory and poncho robes are praised for comfort and absorbency during grooming. History notes bronze likely emerged when copper and tin were melted together and cooled into hardened alloy.
Ford Foundation Grants Study On Vocational Ed In Frederick County
The Ford Foundation awards Frederick County Board of Education 4300 to fund two survey teams studying vocational education trends in the San Francisco Bay area and central Michigan, with University of Maryland staff. The project leads to in service training at Governor Thomas Johnson High School and aims to develop a comprehensive vocational program integrated with general education.
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Ford Foundation
Frederick County
Edward C. Hamilton
Karl
Manwiller
Eugene F. Wood Jr
Edward J. Meade Jr
Marvin Feldman
Foundation
Governor Thomas Johnson High School
Carnochan
Thomas Johnson
Fund For the Advancement of Education
John J. Scanlon
Community College
Carnachan
Montgomery Bank Thief Photographed
A teller’s case camera captured a young man suspected of robbing a Silver Spring bank of 1240 dollars. FBI said witnesses identified the man in the photo as the robber who hit Citizens' Bank of Maryland last Saturday.
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Baltimore
Silver Spring
Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBI
Citizens’ Bank of Maryland
Man Gets Four Months For Bad Check Charges
A Montgomery County man Marvin Radcliff, 40, of Dickerson pleaded guilty to issuing three bad checks for 46.23 each at Glick's Shoe Store, Haines Shoe Store and the Frederick area store. Magistrate Stanley Y. Bennett sentenced him to four months in Frederick County Jail after a prior Virginia sentence.
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Montgomery County
Frederick
Stanley Y. Bennett
Marvin Radcliff
Dickerson
Frederick County
Virginia
Radcliff
Glick’s
Haines Shoe Store
Hargett Hardware Store on Market Street 1963
The court heard the case involving Hargett Hardware Store on Market Street in 1963. Court appointed attorney David Aldridge admitted the charges and requested mercy from the judge.
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Hargett Hardware
Market Street
David Aldridge
West Virginia utility seeks rate reduction
The Potomac Light and Power Company asks the Public Service Commission to cut electric rates by about 270 430 bringing lower bills for 40 815 customers. President Charles D. Lyon cites higher sales and efficiency as reasons. if approved the new rates would take effect on the January 1 bill.
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Potomac Light and Power Company
West Virginia
Public Service Commission
Charles D. Lyon
Cuban Refugee Seeks New Life In United States
Oscar Poveda, 38, former sugar plantation owner from Camaguey Cuba, arrives in Edgewater New Jersey with his family. Refugees receive meals, money, and transport from Freedom House in Miami and plan to start anew, willing to take any work. About one third stay in Miami while others head to New Jersey and beyond.
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Miami
Fla
Cuba
United States
Oscar Poveda
Camaguey
Fidel Castro
Poveda
Edgewater
Leonila
Eduardo Sousa Gomez
Sunny Los Angeles
Freedom House
U.S
Inmates Unfit For Society
Baltimore update shows a Patuxent Commission report that one in ten inmates released are deemed unfit for society. It urges changing Maryland’s 14 year old law to restrict admission to those likely to benefit, and calling for an extended sentence up to 30 years for those found dangerous by psychiatric exam. The plan would keep Patuxent as a diagnostic center while extending confinement for certain offenders.
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Baltimore
Patuxent
Gov. Tawes
Maryland
Birth Control Injection Under Study
A new one a day birth control pill that may become a yearly injection is under development. It aims to prevent egg and sperm from meeting rather than blocking ovulation, promising easier use and lower costs. Dr Hay Rudel, Syntex Laboratories, reports at a University of Utah seminar. The pill is not yet on the market. James Madison Randolph, Thomas Jefferson's grandson, was the first White House baby born.
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Salt Lake City
Hay Rudel
James Madison Randolph
Thomas Jefferson
White House
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Rice’s Color Center
Safeway
7Th Street
Village Hardware
Young Men’s
Erick
Frederick iCenter
Prospect Shopie Oe
Montgomery
W. Va
Toronto
Ontario
Ajoudei
Maria Mendoza Marti
Union City
Rafael Gandara
New Jersey
Georgia
Wisconsin
Christy
Dunham
Milano
Wendy Village Green
Mea Couet
Java
Malay Archipelago
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Magnavox
Hiltner-Roelke
East Patrick St
Orson
Sew & Save _ Center
Clarksburg, Md
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