North Viet Power Plant Bombed in Air Strike Near Haiphong
U S Air Force F105 jets hit the Uong Bi steam power plant 14 miles northeast of Haiphong in North Viet Nam. The raid knocked out 15 percent of the region's electric power. One plane was shot down. Captain Harry D. De Witt survived with a broken leg and facial injuries.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Haiphong
North Viet Nam
Red River Delta
Uong Bi
U.S
Hanoi-Haiphong
Harry D. de Witt
Moscow
Idaho
Viet Nam
Big On
South
Enterprise
I Can Tho
Mekong Delta
Thurmont Man Hurt In U S 15 Crash
A Thurmont area man was seriously injured when his car collided head on with a tractor trailer on U S 15 north of Frederick. Ellis Morris Jr. 38 of Thurmont was admitted to Frederick Memorial Hospital with head and chest injuries then transferred to Washington County Hospital in Hagerstown. He was driving south and tried to pass when an oncoming truck forced him to cut back into his lane, losing control and hitting the northbound trailer driven by Robert Lee Wood 46 of Ickesburg. Damages totaled 200 to the tractor trailer and his 1961 station wagon. Junior Fire Company ambulance transported Morris. No charges have been filed.
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Thurmont
U.S. 15
Frederick
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Washington County Hospital
Hagerstown
Ellis Morris Jr
RFD 1
Morris
Tfc
Jack L. Forsythe
Robert Lee Wood
Ickesburg
Junior Fire Company
McNamara Warns NATO China Threat Could Grow
Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara told NATO ministers that Red China could have a small nuclear stockpile in two years and may deploy intercontinental missiles by 1975. He urged Western Europe to plan now against a potential five year threat, while insisting the United States will not redeploy major forces from Western Europe to Vietnam. China’s vast force includes about 2.3 million combat troops and 1,500 airliners, and Beijing blocks a South Vietnam settlement.
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Paris
Robert S. McNamara
China
McNamara
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Alliance
Dean Rusky
U.S
South
Viet Nam
Europe
Southeast Asia
United States
NATO
Peking
Rusk
Emmitsburg to Begin Water Pumping Thursday
Emmitsburg officials plan to start pumping water from Tom's Creek Thursday morning to replenish reservoirs. Rain and snow tonight could force a cancellation if Tom's Creek remains turbid or temperatures rise. The town has halted Camp Pioneer pumping and now relies on limited reservoir supplies as weather forecasts warn of continued precipitation.
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Emmitsburg
Norman Flax
Public Works
Tom's Creek
Ralph F. Irelan
Camp Pioneer
College Mountain
Tom’s Creek
College Receives $500 Gift for Paper Dishes Costs
Parents of a freshman at St. Joseph's College in Emmitsburg sent a $500 check this week to the college to cover the cost of paper cups and plates used on campus.
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St. Joseph’s College
Emmitsburg
Thieves Steal 100 Christmas Light Bulbs
Vandals took more than 100 Christmas light bulbs from in front of two Frederick homes and a business. Fifty bulbs were taken from 302 Fleming Ave, home of Mary F Shaff, and 48 from The 670 students at the women’s college and eight faculty members have used paper plates since Dec 5 to conserve water. The Jami sons of Poolesville contributed. Laura Jami son, a St Joseph’s freshman, is among the community. Emmitsburg officials plan to resume Tom’s Creek water pumping by January 6.
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Frederick
Rs. Mary F. Shaff
Fleming Ave
Women's College
Charles H. Jamisson
Poolesville
Jamisons
Laura
St. Joseph’s
Walkersville Sewer Plan Hearing Questions Raised
Walkersville Sanitary District opponents pressed 11 questions at a county hearing Tuesday. Commissioner A Irvin Renn stated the panel would not answer or argue and would wait for full testimony and the State Health Department review on effects to Frederick City water supply. James Peters of Hampton Place, Glade Village, who organized a petition with over 110 names, read his questions, some answered by Francis Cook.
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Walkersville Sanitary District
A. Irvin Renn
Renn
Sanitary Commission
Walkersville
State Health Department
Frederick City
James Peters
Hampton Place
Glade Village
Francis Cook
Pink Elephants Ice Balls Warned Hazard in Frederick Stores
Dr Burgess county health officer says pink elephant shaped ice balls and plastic teething rings found in Frederick areas contain cloudy water possibly dirty or bacterially contaminated. Hong Kong coolers are being confiscated. stores told not to sell. Separate AP report notes stock market opened mixed in New York.
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Frederick
Forbes H. Burgess
Hong Kong
Forbes 2. Burgess
U.S. Public Health Service
Burgess
Gemini 6 Starts Chasing Gemini 7 in Historic Rendezvous
Gemini 6 astronauts Walter Schirra and Thomas Stafford launch from Cape Kennedy aboard a Titan 2 and chase Gemini 7 in orbit. Frank Borman and James Lovell aboard Gemini 7 report gaining altitude as the two craft race toward a planned rendezvous over the Western Pacific. The mission aims to bring the pair within 100 feet at about 2:26 p.m. as they maneuver toward a dramatic in-space meet.
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Walter Schirra
Thomas
Cape Kennedy
Fla
Walter M. Schirra Jr
Thomas P. Stafford
Earth
Gemini 7
Frank Borman
James A. Lovell Jr
Cape
Dio
Mis@i
Sion Control
Schirra
Stafford
U.S
Titan
Christopher Kraft Fet Schirra
Rars
Kraft
Borman
Mission Control
Gemini 6
Marianas Islands
Pacific
Wilson On Way For Talks With LBJ
London AP says Prime Minister Harold Wilson departed for the United States to meet President Johnson and address the U N General Assembly. Vietnam and Rhodesia are expected as his main topics of discussion during the visit.
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London
Harold Wilson
United States
Johnson
U.N. General Assembly
Viet Nam
Rhodesia
City Zoning Board Okays New Offices
The Frederick Medical Center won a waiver from the city zoning appeals board for off-street parking to add a new 90 by 29 foot building on Toll House Avenue housing two doctors’ offices and a larger lab. The existing lab will be expanded, and no further buildings are planned without more parking. Architect Charlie F. Bowers of Frederick designed the project.
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Frederick Medical Center
Toll House Avenue
Board of Zoning Appeals
Charlies F. Bowers
Frederick
Christmas Star Project A Success
More than 1300 pounds of small Christmas presents for American servicemen in Vietnam were collected through Project Christmas Star in Frederick. Gifts were shipped by army truck to the Air National Guard base at Martinsburg West Virginia earlier this week. Project officer Edward L Pease said the effort was a measurable success though it operated only about two weeks and could have been larger with more time.
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Viet Nam
Project Christmas Star
Frederick
Edward L. Pease
Fort Detrick
Air National Guard
Martinsburg
W. Va
Christmas Dwayyo and Frederick County Monster Lore
Frederick County readers hear of the Dwayyo and a cast of local legends from South Mountain. If no Dwayyo appears, children might seek a Snarly Yow or Dog Fiend, all part of the 19th century lore tied to South Mountain and chronicled in Mrs. Madeline Vinton Dahlgren’s South Mountain Magic.
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Santa Claus
Frederick County
Middletown Valley
South Mountain
Frederick - Washington County
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Red
San Francisco
Berlin
DADA
New York
City Zoning Board
Dwayyo
Chris
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