Gas House Pike To Be Reopened
The Gas House Pike will reopen to traffic early Monday after a bridge collapse on January 4. A temporary four pipe bridge at Linganore Creek costs nearly 8000 dollars and will support two way traffic. permanent fixes on Park Mills road and Gas House Pike are projected at about 75000 dollars each with federal aid sought for Bennett's Creek bridge.
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Gas House Pike
Linganore Creek
Southey T. Nottingham Jr
Bennett
Nottingham
Bennett’s Creek
Park Mills Road
Work Program For Welfare Approved In Hagerstown
Washington County Board of Commissioners approved a proposed work program for persons on welfare in Hagerstown. The county welfare department will seek state approval, while the Roads Department, Sheriff’s Office and Sanitary Commission may use workers from the program. The accompanying report notes continued welfare can foster dependency as a way of life.
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Hagerstown
Washington County Board of Commissioners
County Welfare Department
State Department of Public Welfare
Washington County Roads Department
Sheriff’s Department and Sanitary Commission
Frederick DAR to sew replica of Star Spangled Banner
The Frederick Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution will sew a 42 by 24 inch stripe and part of another stripe to form the Star Spangled Banner replica for the Maryland pavilion at the New York World’s Fair. About 150 members from 20 groups in Maryland will complete 400 yards of bunting by February 18. Work moves from Friendship House to Trinity Chapel due to historic ties to Francis Scott Key. Maryland Legion Auxiliary members and the Baltimore Weavers Guild contributed labor and materials.
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Frederick
Daughters of the American Revolution
Francis Scott Key
Key
Maryland
DAR
C. Lease Bussard
Joseph C. Hemp
Friendship House
Bussard
Trinity Chapel
Evangelical Reformed United Church of Christ
West Church Street
Frederick Lewis Henop
State House
Baltimore
American Legion Auxiliary
Area Legion
William H. S. Miller
E. J. Fisher Sr
Francis Scott Key Post
Agnes King
Glenn W. Eyler Post
Woodsboro
Baltimore Weavers Guild
W. J. Dickey and Sons, Inc
Textile Mills
County Officials To Inspect Jail Monday
County Commissioners will inspect the County Jail at 10 am Monday at the request of Sheriff Horace M. Alexander. They plan a general tour, review wiring upgrades, and will be served lunch on site following concerns raised by the February Grand Jury regarding jail wiring and building frontage on West South Street.
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Board of County Commissioners
A. Irvin Renn
Horace M. Alexander
Grand
West South Street
Fire Destroys Center Stores in Silver Spring
A three alarm fire in Silver Spring destroyed the Drug Fair and a Household Finance Corp office near Georgia Avenue and Colesville Road. The roofs collapsed injuring two firefighters. damage estimated at nearly 300000 as about 200 firefighters from two counties fought the pre-dawn blaze.
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Silver Spring
Georgia Avenue
Colesville Road
David B. Gratz
Office of Household Finance Corp
Montgomery County
Charles H. Howe Jr
West Virginia convenes unusual session over districting
The West Virginia legislature reconvenes in an extraordinary session to redraw districts after the State Supreme Court voided the 1963 reappointment plan. Gov W W Barron ordered the session as lawmakers face the task of legislating some members out of their seats.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virgina
W. W. Barron
State Supreme Court
Wilcoxson Receives Life Sentence in Bank Robbery Case
In New York Bobby Randall Wilcoxson was sentenced to life with parole possible after 15 years for a bank robbery in which a guard was killed. FBI agents captured Wilcoxson in Baltimore on November 10, 1962, with his 19 year old girlfriend Jacqueline Ruth Rose. Albert F. Nussbaum, tied to eight robberies, received 40 years in Brooklyn Federal Court.
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New York
Nussbaum
Buffalo
N. Y
Brooklyn
Lafayette National Bank
Wilcoxson
Henry Kraus
Annual World Day of Prayer Planned in Frederick
Frederick Council of United Church Women announces World Day of Prayer observance next Friday February 14 at 2 p.m. at Evangelical Lutheran Church. Fifteen churches sponsor the service with Dr Madeline Barot of Geneva Switzerland delivering the theme Let Us Pray. Co chairs and a large local committee organize rentals readings prayers and a children's service at Calvary Methodist Church.
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Frederick
Barot
J. Arthur Throne
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
Thomas Williams
Evangelical United Brethren Church
Charles H. Conley, Jr
All Saints Episcopal
Ida G. Brown
Asbury Methodist
Russell Dudrow
Calvary Methodist
Frank Higinbotham
Evangelical Reformed United Church of Christ
Alton Bennett
Walter Comer Jr
Evangelical Lutheran
Roy Okan
First Baptist
Arthur Remsberg
Edythe Sigmund
Grace United Church of Christ
F. P. Brose
Parkway Church of God
George Ambush
Quinn A.M.E
Edward Winpigler
Trinity Methodist
Thomas Barksdale
United Presbyterian
Charles Sheffield
Church of the Brethren
Earl Howard
United Church Women of Frederick
Charles F. Trunk Jr
Evangelical Lutheran Church
Trinity Chapel
West Church Street
Calvary Methodist Church
Robert O. Holley
Olive Engle
United Presbyterian Church
Austin Rhoades
Evangelical United Church of Christ
Burkittsville
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
Church Hill
St. Matthew's Lutheran Church
Jefferson
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Lewistown
Middletown
New Market
Point of Rocks
Walkersville
Woodsboro
Evangelical Lutheran’ Church
New Leader Takes Over In Viet Nam
Saigon reports Maj. Gen. Nguyen Khanh forms a new government with himself as premier and Maj. Gen. Duong Van Minh as chief of state. Khanh vows to repel communists and secure the countryside while noting heavy casualties in a late Viet Cong attack near the border. Coin pickup announced for Kennedy Memorial Medals at Frederick County Civil War Centennial headquarters Monday.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Nguyen Shanh
Khanh
Minh
Gia Long
Ngo Dinh
Diem
U.S
Frederick County
Francis Scott Key Hotel
Ghana Deports Four American Professors
ACCRA Ghana announced the deportation of four University of Ghana professors on charges of subversive activities. Two additional American faculty were ordered to leave, as protests and violence erupted near the university amid Ghana's one party state tensions. U.S. Ambassador Mahoney was summoned to Washington for consultations.
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Accra
Ghana
University of
Louis H. Schuster
Rome
Kwamej Nkrumah
Convention People’s Party
University of Ghana
Legon
Workers’ Brigade
Kwame
Eveing News
Nkrumah
U.S
William Mahoney
Washington
State Department
Soviets Enter Crisis In Cyprus
The Soviet Union warns the United States Britain to stay out of Cyprus. Khrushchev calls a proposed NATO peace force an armed invasion and accuses the alliance of blocking a U.N. Security Council solution. He cites the decision as a crude attempt to control Cyprus.
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Nicosia
Cyprus
Soviet Union
United States
Britain
Makarios
Khrushchev
Moscow
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
France
Greece
Turkey
Atlantic Alliance
U.N. Security Council
Republic of Cyprus
NATO
Princess Irene to Wed Spaniard in royal engagement
The Spanish radio quoted Prince Carlos de Borbón y Parma announcing engagement to Princess Irene of Holland. A wedding date awaits relations with the Dutch royal family, with Carlos planning a Holland visit to set a date. Irene and Carlos arrived in Madrid with her father Prince Bernhard greeting them warmly.
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Madrid
Spain
Carlos de Borbon Y Parma
Irene of
Holland
Carlos
Juliana
Irene
Prince Bernhard
Bernhard
Prince Carlos
Prince Xavier
Tax Cut Provisions Move Toward Final Action in Senate
The Senate approved an 11.6 billion tax cut bill 77 to 21, with final action targeted for February 19 or 20. Major elements reduce individual rates, adjust withholding, alter corporate rates, cap capital gains, limit itemized deductions, repeal stock dividend credits, and introduce a new minimum standard deduction. The plan phases in benefits from March, with retroactive starts to January 1 in several provisions. The measure mirrors a companion House bill.
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Washington
Johnson
U.S
Senate
House
Johnson tells Cuba to keep water in Cuban crisis
Washington appeals to Allied governments to tighten an economic noose around Cuba after Johnson separates the Guantanamo naval base from Cuba's water supply. The White House warns of Castro provocations and notes Western Hemisphere and NATO consultations. State and Rusk frame Castro as pressuring the US over the base.
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Washington
United States
Cuba
Johnson
Guantanamo
State Department
Fidel Castro
Naval
White House
Kremlin
Western Hemisphere
Organization of American States
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Dean Rusk
Castro
Castro Only Wants His Men Back
Havana AP Fidel Castro refused to use force to remove the United States from Guantanamo Bay. He said Cuba halted water to the U S base only to pressure the release of Cuban fishermen seized off Florida. He rejected Dean Rusk’s view of a broader eviction campaign.
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Havana
Fidel Castro
Cuba
United States
Guantanamo Bay
Guantanamo
Castro
U.S. Navy
Florida
Dean Rusk
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