New Year Opens Amid Light Wintry Showers in Frederick
Frederick county welcomed the new year with a brief wintry spell as light snow fell around 10 p.m. before turning to rain. Temperatures ranged from 29 to 35 degrees with about a tenth of an inch of precipitation. State road crews spread salt and cinders overnight. No traffic delays or snow emergency activation reported. Forecasts predict occasional rain and a high near 45 to 50 degrees later today with lingering clouds and cooler air Sunday.
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Frederick County
Frederick
State Roads Commission
Motorist Pulls Driver From Burning Car
State Police say a 43 year old Washington man was pulled from a burning wreck by an unidentified passing motorist on New Year’s Day about 3 35 am along U S 40 five miles west of Frederick He was treated for fractured ribs and scalp lacerations at Frederick Memorial Hospital and discharged.
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Washington
Frederick Memorial Hospital
George W. Seals
Seals
U.S 40
Frederick
CR Group Protests Police State Methods
Baltimore civil rights group Interdenominational Ministers Alliance sends telegrams to Gov Tawes and Mayor McKeldin protesting police methods in a manhunt for Samuel Veney 25 and Earl Veney a Christmas Eve liquor store hold up and a police lieutenant wounding. The brothers are also accused in the killing of Detective Jack Lee Cooper. Police have checked dozens of Baltimore homes based on tips in the most intensive manhunt in the city.
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Baltimore
Tawes
Theodore McKeldin
Ministers ‘Alliance
Samuel Veney
Earl
Set
Jack Lee Cooper
Four Babies Born On New Year's Day At Frederick Memorial
Frederick Memorial Hospital welcomed four newborns on New Year’s Day 1965. Melissa Ann Stup arrived at 1:23 am, followed by David Eugene Fossett at 1:30 am. Roxanne Lee Coates was born at 3:30 am, and Ronald Lee Legg arrived at 6:40 pm. Parents listed include Stup, Fossett, Coates, and Legg families. Overall births on New Year’s Day were lower than 1963 and 1964, with four babies also born on Christmas Day.
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James M. Stup
RFD 2
Frederick
Melissa Ann
Frederick Memorial Hospital
James M Stup
RFD
Melissa Ann Stup
Stups
Stup
Louise H. Huffer
David Eugene Fossett
Irvin Fossett Jr
New Market
Charles P. Coates
Old Mill Road
Brunswick
Roxanne Lee
Coates
Diane Holland
Gene Legg
West Patrick Street
Courageous band hauls injured climber from Mt Monadnock in darkness
Gary Sylvester, 22, of Watertown Massachusetts, suffered a brain injury after an 80 foot fall on Mt Monadnock. A rescue party of six carried him down an icy slope in near zero temps with flashlights, reaching safety after a three hour descent. He was rushed to a Boston hospital in poor condition.
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Jaffrey
Mt. Monadnock
Gary Sylvester
Watertown
Mass
Boston
Sylvester
Grafton Burke
Dublin
Burke
Associated Press
Chase Wreck Leads To Five Charges
A former Frederick resident Lanty E. Lochner 26 of Columbus Ohio was charged with five motor vehicle violations after a New Year Eve chase and a head on collision on Gas House Pike. He faced reckless driving driving on a revoked license passing on a curve and exceeding 30 mph by city police and failing to drive to the right of center by state police. The three mile chase ended when Lochner's 1959 sedan crashed into a 1963 sedan near the Monocacy River Bridge.
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Frederick
Lanty E. Lochner
Columbus
Ohio
Lochner
Gas House Pike
Monocacy River Bridge
Wisner Street
Richard Lewis
East Church Street
New Year's Day Vehicle Crashes Kill One Hog and Two Deer
A 300 pound hog and two does were killed in three separate auto crashes on New Year’s Day. George F. Young of Cleveland, Ohio struck the hog on U S 40 west of Frederick at 4 45 AM. Samuel T. Rover III of Thurmont hit a doe on Md 81 at Kelbaugh Road at 1 10 AM. Margaret H Brown of this county struck a deer on U S 340 at 4 05 AM. No charges were filed. Trooper P R Sanders investigated.
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U.S. 40
Frederick
George F. Young
Cleveland
Ohio
Young
Kelbaugh Road
Samuel T. Rover III
RFD 2
Thurmont
Rover
U.S. 340
Margaret H. Brown
Emergency Landing Sparks No Serious Injuries at Frederick Airport
A Beech Tri-Craft C-185 with pilot James L Miller and three passengers from Martinsburg W Va landed at Frederick Airport with no landing gear after electrical failure delayed takeoff and fog prevented a Martinsburg landing. The craft belly-landed and caused a fire escort but no injuries were reported.
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Frederick
James L. Miller
Tubert Grzeski
Lothar
Ranier Grzeski
Martinsburg
W. Va
Miller
Paul W. Massburg
Roanoke
Mossburg
Holiday road deaths mount in county with fourth more expected
A 62 year old Philadelphia man, Francis C. Goldsborough, died from injuries after a New Year Eve crash at the intersection of U S 15 and Md 97 near Emmitsburg. In Union Bridge, James Flohr, 41, was killed when struck by a car on Md 73 while walking along the highway. No charges filed. Flohr leaves a large family. The toll marks the sixth holiday fatality in the area. The incidents prompted police and medical examiner statements.
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Pennsylvania
Annie Warner Hospital
Gettysburg
Francis C. Goldsborough
Philadelphia
Goldsborough
U.S. 15
Emmitsburg
Th. Neil F. Bechtel
Galdsborough
Ger Ws T. Zangair
Lancaster
James Flohr
Union Bridge
David L. Coleman
Flohr
MD. 73
Bernard G. Thomas Sr
Frederick County
A. E. Swope
Lula Otto
Clifford G. Flohr
Elsie Lamm Flohr
Adamstown
James K
Clifford L
Robert M
Steven W
Ronald L
Larry E. Flohr
Debora A. Flohr
Roland H. Flohr
Frederick
Edgar L. Flohr
Lester E
David L. Flohr
Carroll R. Flohr
Poolesville
Catherine E. Gregg
Margaret E. Heaven
Holtville
Calif
Mil
Fidel Castro marks sixth anniversary with troops in Havana
In Havana thousands gather for a military parade of Soviet and Czechoslovak equipment as Fidel Castro delivers what is billed as his most important annual speech yet. Cubans seek signs of economic relief amid a $309 million balance of payments deficit and two years of sugar crisis.
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Fidel Castro
Havana
Soviet Union
Czechoslovakia
United States
Hoy
Cuba
Battle ends at Binh Gia in Vietnam War with heavy casualties
The Binh Gia battle concluded after nearly a week of fighting in which about 500 government troops were killed or wounded, including many Marines. Estimates of enemy deaths exceed 100, while five Americans were reported dead at Binh Gia with others wounded or captured.
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Binh Gia
South Viet Nam
U.S
Saigon
First Nation To Withdraw From United Nations Crisis
The Indonesian deputy chief at the U.N. signaled Indonesia may withdraw from the United Nations if Malaysia is seated in the Security Council, a move that would be unprecedented in U.N. history during a tense dues crisis. Sukarno warned he would quit if Malaysia gains the seat, linking the step to West Irian plebiscite issues and a broader U.N. mediation dispute with the Netherlands.
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N.y.ap
Indonesia
U.N
World Organization
Soviet Union
General Assembly
Sukarno
Mlaysia
Security Council
Czechoslovakia
Malaysia
U.S
Russia
Jakarta
Indonesian Herald
Foreign Office
Sumarjo Sosrowardojo
Lambertus N. Falar
Alex Quaison-Lackey
Ghana
U Thant
Herald
West Irian
Far West Hit by Bitter Cold and Snowstorm
Five western states faced renewed floods and storms as gale winds and heavy rain swept from Washington to Nevada. At least 21 people died in California floods since December, including a year-old girl struck by a dump truck and a Red Cross official fatally hurt by a helicopter blade. Winds up to 84 mph damaged infrastructure, and the ship Catalla sank southwest of Seattle.
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Associated Press
Washington
Oregon
California
Idaho
Nevada
Weather Bureau
Gil
Red Cross
Washington State
Tatoosh Island
Catalla
Seattle
Highway Patrol
Bradford M. Crittenden
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