Man Held In Death Of Child Near Ijamsville
A three year old girl, Marcia Rene Smith, died after what investigators say was fatally beating. Her stepfather Charles Lester Jackson, 35, is charged with manslaughter and held on 2500 dollars bond. Autopsy began at Baltimore City Morgue with full report pending. The death occurred at the Jackson home on Big Woods Road near Hyattsville area. The body rests at Hicks Funeral Home with graveside services planned at St John’s Cemetery in Frederick Monday at 9 a.m.
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Big Woods Road
Ijamsville
Charles Lester Jackson
Henry I. Stafford
Marcia Rene Smith
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Frederick County
B. C. Thomas Sr
Baltimore City
Baltimore
Carroll E. Cook
Rockville
Jackson
Frederick
Student Stabbed At School Dance
A 16 year old Walkersville area boy was cut in the side with a knife by another juvenile after a fight outside a teenage dance at Walkersville Elementary. Arthur A. Leveronne of Dublin Road, Walkersville High School student, received a small flesh wound on the left side and was treated at Frederick Memorial Hospital. The incident occurred around 11 45 p m and the assailant had not been picked up as authorities await Leveronne s parents to pursue a warrant.
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Walkersville
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Arthur A. Leveronne
Dublin Road
Walkersville High School
Leveronne
Paul C. Crutchiey
Crutchley
Post Office Tracks Uncured Raccoon Skins Mystery
ATLANTA AP postal workers seek the sender of eight raccoon skins mailed in an unclaimed parcel. Under postal rules the post office must hold such parcels, here in a gunny sack, for a period but the skins had not cured and carried a strong odor.
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Atlanta
Ang Tany
Frederick Retail Boom Seen as Consumer Spending Rises
A Special to the News reports Frederick's retail activity for the year ending June 30 1963 reached 52 692 000 up from 50 959 000 with per capita spending or household capacity at 7 145. New car sales and big-ticket items led the rise as residents regained confidence and residents and non residents shopped locally amid rising incomes and steady prices. Local merchants anticipate a strong 1964 with expected auto growth industrial expansion and government outlays.
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New York
Frederick
Standard Rate and Data Service
Four Injured In Morning US 15 Head-On Crash
Four people were injured when two cars collided on US 15 near Motter Avenue exit at 1 a.m. Rose mary J. Beckley 13 of Thurmont and George T. Ambush 37 of Urbana were hospitalized with serious injuries. Gene Allen Stull 30 of Woodbridge and Susan C. Keller 18 of Thurmont had minor injuries. Ambush was driving the 1962 Mercury. Stull drove the 1963 Buick convertible. Charges pending.
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US. 15
Motter Avenue
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Rosemary J. Beckley
RFD
Thurmont
George T. Ambush
Urbana
Gene Allen Stull
Woodbridge
Susan C. Keller
RFD 1
Stull
U.S. 15
Miss Keller
Miss Reckle
Top E. Barnes
United Ambulance
Holter
Jefferson
David W. Creed
RFD 5
Frederick
Creed
Roy J. Reed
Explosion Probe Over Two Homes Destroyed on East Fifth Street
Investigation continues into the Christmas Eve explosion and fire that leveled two homes on East Fifth Street. No confirmed gas line break. Victims Mrs Kings and Mr Kings hospitalized in Baltimore. John O Davises improving at Frederick Memorial. Sears store plate glass window damaged by heat and a brick fracture.
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East Fifth Street
Fifth Street
Raymond C. Brehaut
Charles V. Main
Henry King
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore
Baltimore City Hospital
John O. Davises
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Sears Roebuck and Company
West Patrick Street
Frederick
Stronghold Expands With 74 More Acres Along Sugarloaf Mountain
Stronghold Inc adds 74 acres to its park near Urban a on Sugarloaf Mountain at Frederick, buying 30 wooded acres from William White and 44 acres from James Ruppert for about 28 000. The holdings now top 2 300 acres to shield against development. The park, 5 miles south of Frederick, is funded by Gordon Strong benefactions and attracts more visitors each year.
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Stronghold, Inc
Sugarloaf Mountain
Urbana
Court House
William Marshall White
James Ruppert
White
Ruppert
Stronghold
Frederick
Montgomery
Gordon Strong
Holiday Mail Increases at Frederick Post Office
Frederick Post Office reports a 7.1 percent overall rise in mail from December 1 to Christmas Eve, driven by parcel post growth of 48.2 percent. Total pieces reached 3,621,003, while machine cancellations fell 4.7 percent and 999,885 to 953,151 letters were processed this season. Parcel post totals jumped to 63,514 from 42,867 last year as many sent packages instead of greeting cards. About 7,000 letters could not be delivered due to insufficient or illegible addresses and undeliverable third class mail awaits destruction.
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Frederick
James A. Grove
Grove
Parcel Post Up
Mr. Grove
Light Snow Possible Across Local Area Today
The weather bureau warned of light snow flurries this today or tonight with no snow accumulation. Clouds should break to sunshine this afternoon with cold weekend temperatures highs in the 30s and upper teens lows.
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Weather Bureau
Mercury
If Men Were Like Mice Motivated by Challenges Not Rewards
Cleveland AP report on UC Los Angeles zoologists Brant and Kavanau presented at AAAS VI meeting about wild deer mice in a complex maze preferring exploration over food or social rewards. They suggest humans may be motivated by tough problems rather than tangible rewards, noting mice repeatedly ran maze routes for challenge.
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Cleveland
Daniel Brant
J. Lee Kavanau
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Univers of California
Los Ange-s
Sa Watory
Island Tensions Rise Over Turkish Jets In Cyprus
In Nicosia the island remains tense after midnight invasion jitters and dawn Turkish air force jets buzzed rooftops heading north. British minister Duncan Sandys arrived to probe Greek Turkish clashes that have left at least 50 dead, as US ambassador Wilkins and British officials met Archbishop Makarios. Cyprus accused Turkey of warlike moves while the UN Security Council met in New York.
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Nicosia
Cyprus
Turkey
Duncan Sandys
Sandys
London
Frazer Wilkins
Denis Cleary
Makarios
Spyros Kyprianou
U.N. Security Council
New York
Why Of Conflict: Cyprus Independence and Safeguards
Cyprus gained independence from Britain three years ago yet Britain remains a guarantor alongside Greece and Turkey. Greek Cypriots seek constitutional reform while Turkish Cypriots, the minority, warn that changing the constitution without safeguards would undermine minority protections.
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Associated Press
Cyprus
Britain
Greece
Turkey
Uniformity Favored Maryland Crime Reporting Plan
The Baltimore Criminal Justice Commission urged Maryland to adopt a uniform crime reporting system similar to the FBI national program, aiming for standardized data across jurisdictions.
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Baltimore
Baltimore Criminal Justice Commission
Maryland
FBI
Rusk Sees 1964 as Probing Period for Peace
Secretary of State Dean Rusk, in a Japan broadcast, expressed modest optimism that 1964 would be a period for probing peace. He warned of hostile world revolution by Communist China and outlined major issues with Berlin, Cuba, South Vietnam, and the Soviet Union, urging patience in diplomacy and distrust of rapid revolutions.
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Washington
Dean Rusk
Rusk
China
Berlin
Germany
Cuba
Viet Nam
Japan
State Department Today
Pos
United Nations
Soviet Union
Red China
U.S
Body Of Wall Victim Returned To East Berlin
Paul Schultz, 15, shot Christmas Day trying to flee East Berlin, was returned to Communist territory for burial. West Berlin observers faced a government refusal to recognize the Red regime and marked the moment with solemn scenes at the wall.
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West Berlin
Wall
East Berlin
East Germany
ADN
Newsboy Left $10,000 Estate by Customer
In Cleveland an AP report notes 13 year old Alfred Thurman, a newsboy on a route, was left an estimated $10,000 estate by a customer who died last June. He said he would use the money to go to college and become a doctor, and that he treated the benefactor as he did others on his route.
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Cleveland
Alfred Thurman
William Stovall
Pope Receives Orthodox Envoy For Historic Meeting
Pope Paul VI met Metropolitan Athenagoras of Constantinople in a historic audience the first time a pope received an Orthodox representative since the Great Schism. They discussed a possible Roman Catholic summit in the Holy Land next week and reportedly recited the Angelus together.
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Vatican City
Paul VI
Constantinople
Holy Land
Vatican
Athenagoras
Paul
Johnson Welcomes Erhard in Texas Visit for Berlin Peace
President Johnson greeted German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard at Bergstrom Air Force Base near Austin amid renewed U S commitment to freedom and self determination for Germans. The two leaders planned two days of talks at Johnsons Texas ranch focusing on East West relations and continued Atlantic partnership.
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Austin
Tex
Johnson
Ludwig Erhard
West Germany
U.S
Lufthansa
Erhard
Germany
Houston
Bergstrom Air Force Base
Herbert Hoover
Harry S. Truman
West Berlin
Texas
Freedom
United States of America
Wall
East
Hagerstown Gas Revising Rates
Hagerstown Gas Co filed revised rate schedules with the Public Service Commission to cut annual revenues by about 35000 dollars. About 28000 dollars would affect roughly 8000 residential customers, with the rest charged to commercial accounts. Minimum-service customers remain unchanged.
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Hagerstown Gas
Hagerstown
Hagerstown Gas Co
Public Service Commission
Commission
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Data Service Reports
Parcel Post
Ludwig
Bergstrom Afb
Lyndon B. Johnson
Miami
Fla
Central Intelligence Agency Today
Siguanea Bay
Isle of Pines
News-Post
Sara
Tremont
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