Roads Clear As Ice Storm Loses Punch
Frederick reports show an ice storm dropped .99 inch of freezing rain since Saturday night causing more than a dozen automobile accidents. Schools closed and many local meetings canceled with church attendance halved. Highs near mid 40s today, warming to mid 50s tomorrow as crews clear major roads. Damascus and Union Bridge hit hardest by icy limbs but power restored.
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SRC
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Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
George Martin
Potomac Edison Company
Damascus
Union Bridge
Martin
Frederick County Education Budget Hearing Canceled
The Frederick County Board of Education canceled the first budget hearing for the next fiscal year's proposed budget. The 7:30 p.m. meeting at East Church Street offices was called off due to icy roads and will be rescheduled for next Monday night. New York AP report notes the stock market rose in early active trading.
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Wrecks Tied to Ice Storm Clobber Local Roads
Police logged a busy weekend as ice storms sparked multiple crashes. Faith J. Simons, 27, Takoma Park, skidded into farmer William Buchanan's fence on Md 80 near Urbana causing $150 damage to a 1965 sedan. Two hours later William E. Powell, 21, Washington, hit the same fence with $300 damage to a 1964 sedan. Earlier, Walter Randolph, 21, of Hockingport Ohio, left U S 40 west of Ridgeville, damaging a 1959 car by $25. Continued on page 5.
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Ohio
Steiner’s Hill
Woman Fined For Misuse Of Telephone
Miss Elizabeth Ann Copeland near Mt Airy found guilty in Magis trate's Court of misuse of a telephone. Magistrate Byron W Thompson suspended a six month term in the House of Correction and fined her 50 dollars with a stern reprimand. She threatened the life of Mrs Gertrude Johnson Fountain Mills after repeated calls. Copeland was arrested November 18 by State Police Corporal William J Davis. She had prior conviction for disorderly conduct related to an assault on a state police officer at Sportsmans Inn near Mt Airy, with a 30 day jail sentence.
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Johnson
William J. Davis
State Funeral for Churchill Planned by Churchill
London AP reports Sir Winston Churchill died at 8 a.m. on Sunday at 28 Hyde Park Gate aged just under 90 after a stroke nine days earlier. Presidents and monarchs are expected at his state funeral with a Thames procession recalling Nelson’s route. Parliament convened to hear tributes and approve Queen Elizabeth II’s request for the mourning rites.
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Lawrence Shehan Elevated to Cardinal in Vatican Move
Pope Paul VI named 27 new cardinals including one from the United States Archbishop Lawrence Joseph Shehan of Baltimore Md the only American prelate among the new cardinals The consistory is set for February 22 raising the US total to six cardinals and expanding the college to 103 members with the largest membership in history.
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New York
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Myersville Meeting Tonight Debates Zoning and Annexation
The Myersville mayor and town council meet tonight to discuss meter contract estimates insurance revisions and several zoning issues tied to the proposed land use plan. The meeting will also cover options with property holders regarding future annexation and related community projects.
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Poverty War Group To Meet
The Frederick County Commissioners named a 21 member group to study poverty program applications under the Economic Opportunity Act. George D. Wood, named chairman, says the first meeting tomorrow will outline act provisions and determine guides to measure poverty and how to collect needed information.
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Frederick County
Home Builders To Hear Commissioners On Sub Rules
Frederick County commissioners will present their views on the proposed subdivision regulations at the Frederick County Home Builders Association annual dinner. The meeting is Tuesday at 7 20 p.m. in the Francis Scott Key Hotel main ballroom, preceded by a social hour. The commissioners approved the tenth draft of the subdivision regulations by the Frederick County Planning Commission.
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Record Budget Forecast for Great Society Year
President Johnson told Congress the first year of the Great Society will cost a record 99.7 billion dollars. The budget calls for 1.75 billion in excise tax cuts, 2.1 billion more Social Security benefits, hospital care for aged Americans, quadrupled poverty programs, and education spending up over 75 percent to 2.7 billion. Defense would drop to 49 billion while space spending is reduced, with revenues seen at a record 394.4 billion and a lower deficit of 5.3 billion.
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Johnson Recovers as Churchill Funeral Attendance Hopes Rise
Johnson’s condition today was described as quite good fueling speculation he may attend Sir Winston Churchill’s funeral. He told reporters he hopes to attend next Saturday’s rites depending on his recovery from a heavy cold and sore throat while Press Secretary George E. Reedy said no decision had been made on a London trip as the President rested well with a temperature near normal.
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George E. Reedy
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Reedy
Johnson asks Congress for 12.7 million for National Park Service
President Johnson asked Congress for 12 718 000 Congress funds for the National Park Service for the new fiscal year. The request covers construction of buildings utilities and trails across multiple sites including Maryland Baltimore Washington Parkway Greenbelt Catocin Mountain Park Paw Paw Tunnel Fort McHenry Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Harpers Ferry and National Capital Parks in the District of Columbia with allocations listed for restoration development and interpretive facilities. District locations include Antietam and Virginia Avenue parks.
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Ball loving chicken subject of imprinting study
Riverside a p report on Herman the rooster chick raised with a rubber ball as his mother in a University of California Riverside psychology project. researcher Joan Berkoff describes imprinting as a social bonding process and notes Herman may be imprinted on the ball if he later treats hens as nonpreferred. He follows, sleeps with, and becomes distressed without the ball.
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