Student Seriously Injured in High School Woodworking Accident
James Metcalf a 16 year old student at a Singapore high school was seriously injured while shaping a wooden bowl in shop class. A piece of wood struck his forehead causing a severe skull fracture and he remained unconscious after being transported by ambulance to Washington County Hospital. A portable skull film was ordered to assess the injury.
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Singapore
James Metcalf
Charles Metcalf
New Windsor
Washington County Hospital
Hagerstown
Metcalf
al Lathe
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Damascus Fire Company
Fire Company
Mt. Airy Fire Company
Maryland General Hospital
Baltimore
Frederick Memorial
United Fire Company
Welfare Exceeds Allotment To Meet Welfare Costs
ANNAPOLIS AP The State Welfare Department can exceed its monthly fund allotment by 237000 this month to cover rising welfare payments. Raleigh C Hobson director told the Board of Public Works the extra is needed mainly for aid to dependent children. This marks the second month of draws after a 148000 addition for January and Hobson warned the end is not in sight. He estimated a need for 1049971 more state funds than budgeted for the six months ending in June. The board approved February increase and warned Hobson to seek supplemental state appropriations from the legislature opening Wednesday for the next four months.
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Annapolis
State Welfare Department
Raleigh C. Hobson
Board of Public Works
Hobson
Food Stamp Plan Shelved By House
The House Agriculture Committee voted to shelve a bill to expand and make permanent the food stamp program, a key part of President Johnson's farm plan sent to Congress last week.
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Washington
House Agriculture Committee
Johnson
Congress
Cancer Detection Kit Sent To 1000 County Women
Maryland Division of the American Cancer Society and Frederick County Medical Society sponsor mailed cancer detection kits for cervix cancer screening. Miss Amy Day RN aids as Nursing Service assistant director at Frederick Memorial Hospital. Frederick County is third nationwide to join. Washington and Kent counties were earlier participants. Women complete a sample and mail it to Johns Hopkins Cytological Laboratory in Baltimore.
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Amy Day
R.N
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Frederick County
News-Fest
United States
Washington County
Kent County
Johns Hopkins Medical School
Baltimore
Ican Cancer Society
Cytological Laboratory of
Denmark
Cancer Detection Kits Mailed To 1000 Frederick Women
The Maryland Division of the American Cancer Society says Frederick County will send kits to about 1,000 women aged 30 to 45 as part of a do it yourself cervical cancer screening program. Participants collect samples for Pap tests and mail them to Johns Hopkins for analysis, with results shared with their physicians.
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Maryland
American Cancer Society
Frederick County
United States
Amer
Washington
Kent
Washington County
Fire alarm answer at field fire near bowling alley
Independent Hose Company responded to a small field fire at 10:45 AM on property between Carroll Parkway and the Terrace Lanes Bowling Alley West College Terrace area. Sparks from burning trash caused the blaze with no damage reported. Mayoral funeral to be held Wednesday for Daniel W. Shaw Jr. former Poco moke City mayor.
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Independent Hose Company
Carroll Parkway
Terrace Lanes
West College Terrace
Pocomoke City, Md
Daniel W. Shaw Jr
Pocomoke City
Shaw
Pennsylvania Railroad
Farm Bureau and Sportsmen Back Open Doe Season Proposal
State Farm Bureau and wildlife groups backed legislation to lengthen Maryland doe and buck hunting seasons. The proposal calls for three days of statewide doe hunting, at least six days of buck hunting, and opening doe season the Monday after the close of the previous season, with no hunting permit. Discussion addressed rural road funding and a potential one percent income tax increase offset for counties. Mt. Airy fire calls and a Dover General Foods plant opening are also noted.
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Maryland Farm Bureau
State Wildlife and Sportsmens Associations
Maryland
Farm Bureau
Isaac Walton League
Francis Scott Key
Holiday Inn
Maryland Wildlife Federation
Maryland Game and Inland Fish Commission
Bureau
The
Frederick County to exhibit at New York World's Fair
Frederick County Maryland commits 1500 dollars to join 18 other counties in the state pavilion at the New York World's Fair. A mural focused on Francis Scott Key and Fort McHenry anchors the exhibit with themes of history farming industry and Civil War heritage. The county chamber promotes the effort and seeks additional donations to fund the mural.
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Frederick
Frederick County
Maryland
Maryland Commission
George T. Harrison
Montgomery
Washington
Calvert
Garrett
Francis Scott Key
Carroll County
Mt. Olivet
Fort McHenry
Key
James Pearl
Chamber
Richard Hammond
Chamber of Commerce
For Rent Fourth Room Apt Jefferson Call Fast
Classified ad offers a first floor modern four room apartment at 709 NW Market St with bath electricity heat refrigerator stove TV antenna and furnishings. Rent includes possession in February. Units available for the first caller only.
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Jefferson
Market St
Jury To Get Gambling Cases
Thirty residents charged in a Saturday gambling raid will likely have their cases heard by a jury in the February term of Circuit Court. State's Attorney Rothenhoefer plans for a jury trial Friday morning at the preliminary hearing in Magistrate's Court. Bond for Circuit Court was set at 500 dollars for 29 defendants. Clifton Burns faced 1,000 dollars for book making.
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Circuit Court
Robert S. Rothenhoefer
Stanley Y. Bennett
Magistrate’s Court
Magistrate Court
Clifton Burns
Edwin & Nikirk
Murray H. Fout
Rothenheefer
Cuban Fishing Boats Held Off Dry Tortugas
Four Cuban fishing boats and crews were detained near Dry Tortugas and escorted 65 miles to Key West as Cuba and the United States prepared protests. Havana charged the vessels were detained on the high seas and forced into U.S. waters. the State Department said it would protest intrusions on U.S. territorial waters.
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Key West
Fla
Cuba
United States
Raul Roa
U.S. Coast Board
Havana
Roa
U.S. State Department
United Nations
State Department
U.S
Fidel Castro
Delegates Favor Redistricting but See It as Unlikely
Frederick County delegates to Maryland's General Assembly say redistricting is favored in principle but unlikely this session. Byron calls it extremely difficult to craft equitably due to population spread and political boundaries. Other delegates express mixed views, with several endorsing action if an equitable plan emerges.
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Frederick County
Maryland
General Assembly
Goodloe E. Byron
United States
Byron
The
Maryland Citizen’s Committee For Fair
C. Clifton Wirts
Annapolis
Joseph Payne
Brunswick
E. Earl Remsberg
Buckeystown
Charles Collins
Urbana
William M. Douckland
John A. Derr
Armed Men Rob Bank of $15,322 in Maryland
Two gunmen ambushed at a Citizens Bank branch near Andrews Air Force Base in Camp Springs Maryland and robbed tellers Dorothy Rice H Alton Swiger and David Bowers of 15322. They tied the three employees and escaped just before opening time at 8 35 a m.
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Camp Springs
Dorothy B. Rice
Andrews Air Force Base
H. Alton Swiger
Robert M. Sweeney Jr
Sweeney
Sweene Ts
David H. Bowers
Cyprus Accepts Allied Peacekeeping Plan With Qualifications
London AP reporting that President Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus accepted in principle the British American plan to send an Allied peacekeeping force. Foreign Minister Kyprianou delivered the Cypriot reply to British ministers and U.S. Ambassador Bruce. Cypriot leaders want the force linked to the United Nations Security Council.
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London
Markarios
Cyprus
Spyros Kyprianou
Nicosia
U.S
David K. Bruce
Racial Trouble Renewed In Jackson
In Jackson Mississippi a traffic injury to a Black pedestrian sparked the citys first racial demonstrations in over six months Police used tear gas and warning blasts from shotguns to break up a protest of about 1000 Black youths including students Tuesday night Earlier officers had dispersed a march by shouting through bull horns and barking commands
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Jackson
Miss
Mississippi
Maryland Legislature Faces Possible Statewide Redistricting
The Maryland Legislature opens tomorrow amid federal judges warning that equalizing population among eight congressional districts may become inevitable. Gov Tawes clashes with calls for new redistricting while deadlines loom for nominations on March 10 and a May 19 primary, with previous bills rejected or awaiting ballots.
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Baltimore
Maryland
J. Millard Tawes
Maryland Citizens Committee For Fair Representation
Thomas B. Finan
Tawes
Congress
Maryland Legislature to form watchdog committee on government branches
The General Assembly will be asked to create a five member panel to continuously review operations of all government branches. The move, urged by Del. Thomas Lowe, cites recent executive actions as undermining legislative intent and calls for annual reports with recommendations to improve governance under Maryland law.
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General Assembly
George Bowen
Associated Press
Annapolis (Ap
del. Thomas
Hunter Lowe
D-Talbot
Cnmittee
Maryland
Jeanne
Low
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