Reds Violate Cease-Fire In Vietnam
In the first day of a 48 hour Christmas truce a U S Marine unit near Da Nang faced about 1000 rounds of small arms fire and 20 mortars from unknown Viet Cong. Artillery fire was called in with reported good results. Casualties were light on the U S side while enemy losses were not confirmed. Additional incidents near Binh Thuan and an aerial recon mission damaged by ground fire were reported with one U S trooper wounded. Authorities described the day as promising but with several clashes during the truce period.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
5Th Marine Regiment
da Nang
Esman
5Th Marines
Binh
Thuan Province
U.S. 1St Cavalry Airmobile
U.S
Frederick's Christmas blends music and Santa in town shopfronts
A Christmas day vignette captures Frederick County shoppers and charity scenes. A harmonica and guitar performance by a blind man near a tin cup accompanies children greeting Santa on Market and Patrick Streets. Salvation Army fundraisers bustle among store displays, while witnesses describe last minute buys, weather hopes, and quiet church reverence.
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Santa Claus
Market
Patrick Streets
Santa
Frederick
Mary Douglas
Market Street
Salvation Army
Brunswick
Haneuls
Sig
Welfare Unit To Handle Foster Care In Frederick County
Frederick County will move all long term foster care cases from the Children's Aid Society to the County Welfare Department by next July. About 112 foster homes will transfer as part of aligning with state and national policy. The change enables access to state and federal aid and allows placing children in non county foster homes if needed. The Children's Aid Society will continue providing adoption services and family support, while staff size impacts are not yet known.
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Frederick County
Children’s Aid Society
County Welfare Department
Geneva Barthel
United State Social Security Act
Welfare Department
Children’s Aid
Barthel
Maryland
Public Welfare Department
Private
Children’s Aad
White Christmas Comes With Heavy Snow Warnings Across Maryland
Maryland counties including Frederick faced heavy snow with 4 to 6 inches forecast as state police activated the Snow Emergency Plan at 11 a.m. Traffic was heavy but moving after an initial jam on U.S. 40. Temperatures to drop to the teens tonight, with potential for subzero readings elsewhere as the storm shifts northward.
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Frederick
Maryland
Frederick County
Baltimore City
U. S. 40
Weather Bureau
Virginia
Baltimore
Friendship International Airport
Santa
la Plata
la Plata At 7:17 Pm, the Weather Bureau
Montgomery County
Montana
Great Lakes
Lousiana
Texas
Oklahoma
Missouri
Frederick News skips Monday issue for Christmas Day
In keeping with tradition no Frederick News edition will publish on Monday to allow staff to enjoy the holiday. Editorial offices will open Monday afternoon and the business office will reopen Tuesday at 8 AM.
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Frederick News
Kennedy Book Revised Amid Out of Court Settlement Talks
In New York the chief counsel for Mrs. John F Kennedy reviewed a revised manuscript of The Death of a President proposed by Harper & Row as talks to settle the controversy out of court continue. The changes reportedly affect personal life and emotions. The Look magazine serialization proceeds with modifications and Johnson unfriendly sections may stay.
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New York
John F. Kennedy
Harper & Row
Simon H. Rifkind
Rifkind
Kennedy
Look Magazine
Look
Formosa
Manchester
Joseph Wurzel
Henri Nannen
Stern
Wurzel
Johnson
Rats For Christmas Ad Shocks Clevelanders
A full page Cleveland ad by the Council of Churches features a life size rat with the caption Merry Christmas kids. It urges public welfare reforms by shocking readers to prompt letters to Gov Rhodes and action from the Ohio General Assembly. The campaign notes Ohio’s wealth and low welfare support, citing 150000 Ohio children on starvation diets and 73 cents a day in aid. Protests say church sponsors overstepped taste.
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Cleveland, Ohio
Church Council
Cleveland
James A. Rhodes
Ohio General Assembly
Charles Rawlings
Metropolitan Affairs Commission
The
Ohio
Specialist In Arson Probes Assigned Here
State Police assign a full time arson specialist and intensify patrols to catch the barn arsonist in Frederick County. Capt William E O Hara says Sgt Leo Sullivan will be stationed at Frederick Barracks until the problem is cleared up after a barn fire at Richard Delauter’s farm off Route 40 near New Market at about 12 15 am Friday.
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Frederick County
Wiliam E. O‘hara
State Police
Western
Leo Sullivan
Frederick Barracks
O'Hara
Col. Carey Jarman
Richard Delauter
Route 40
New Market
W. N. Godenour
James R Hahn
New Market Fire Company
Marsland
Detrick Road
John Lewis
Montgomery County
Mt Airy Estates
Franklin Staith
James McSherry
New London
Dr. V. S. Lame Bros
Old Annapolis Road
Harold F. X
Fugitives From School Captured By Police
Two 15 year old fugitives from Maryland State Training School in Baltimore County were captured by Frederick City police on North Market Street Friday. They were driving a stolen car when apprehended at 12 15 pm.
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Maryland State Training School
Baltimore County
North Market Street
Frederick City
Frederick County
Arson Plague Hits Frederick Counties in Virginia and Maryland
In Virginia and Maryland Frederick Counties face a spate of fires linked to suspected arson. Police connect a 23 year old to multiple blazes, while courts have freed suspects amid evolving rights rulings. Fire inspectors note weeknights and late hours as common patterns, with barns and storage buildings repeatedly targeted and millions in damage across the region.
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Virginia
Frederick
Frederick County
Maryland
Winchester
Supreme Court
Robert I. Dehava
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