Looters Roam Chicago Streets After Blizzard
Chicago and surrounding states faced a record blizzard with 37 deaths across the region. Police canceled leaves as temperatures plunged toward zero, looters targeted shops, and widespread closures halted schools, courts, and travel. Chicago endured the worst impact with thousands snowed in, O Hare closed for 36 hours, and relief efforts deploying by rail and road.
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O'Hare International
Gary
Burns Harbor
Ind
New York Central Railroad
Cleveland
Danny Thomas
Mercy
South Bend
Greyhound
Lansing
Winter Weather Returns After Mild Midwinter Spell
Winter weather returned with snow flurries and a sharp 32-degree drop after a week of warmth. Highs reached 61 Friday, then fell to 29 overnight. 1.10 inches of rain swelled rivers. Northwest winds drive cold through Sunday as the Midwest storm system blends with a prior high pressure center.
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Frederick
Monocacy
Potomac
Social Security Unfair To Fairer Sex
Washington reports Martha Griffiths, the sole woman on the House Ways and Means Committee, argues the Social Security system disadvantages women. She plans to push changes removing inequitable provisions for working wives and to back Johnson’s proposed benefit expansion. The committee will consider the bill next month.
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ASP
House
Ways and Means
Johnson
Martha W. Griffiths
Dmich
Aliens in County Yet Unregistered with Four Days Left
Frederick residents and officials report 150 aliens still unregistered in Frederick County with less than four days remaining to file. Post office clerk Roy Sundergill notes about 100 address reports collected. 150 more are believed unaccounted. Immigation forms are sent to the INS in Baltimore for state totals. county breakdowns occur every decade.
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Frederick County
Roy Sundergill
Department of Justice
Immigration and Naturalization Service
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Sundergill
Immigration Service
Maryland
H. L. Woolwine
Apollo 1 Tragedy Kills Three Spacecraft Crew
Houston mourns as Apollo 1 crew Grissom White and Chaffee die in a deadly Cape Kennedy fire. Families await news and space officials prepare releases while security limits access to homes. Astronauts Schirra Collins and Armstrong offer support to grieving spouses and children.
Catoctin High School funding vote slated Monday
The Frederick County Commissioners plan a Monday vote on funding to build Catoctin High School south of Thurmont at an estimated 3.1 million dollars. President Charles E Collins said the vote would be in the early afternoon after a public 9 am meeting and a previously held hearing at Winchester Hall.
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Catoctin High School
Thurmont
Charles E Collins
Board of County Commissioners
Winchester Hall
Mao Vows To Crush Province
Peking radio reported Mao Tse tung's followers in rebellious Sinkiang Province vow to seize government from Liu Shao chi appointees. Red army troops in full battle dress paraded in Taiyuan Shanghia Peking Fukien Paoting Lanchow to show loyalty. About 140,000 of 160,000 Sinkiang army divisions loyal to Gen. Wang En-mao amid tense frontier conditions.
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Sinkiang
Liu Shaochi
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Paoting
Lanchow
Wang En-mao
Soviet Union
China
U S B52 Bombers Rain Fire on War Zone Near Cambodia
U S B52 bombers raided a Viet Cong jungle sanctuary near the Cambodian frontier, the second incendiary strike this month. In the Mekong Delta, gunship helicopters destroyed 33 sampans and killed 44 Viet Cong during night fire fly missions. North Vietnam raids focused on the southern areas as weather limited northern operations. An F4C Phantom was shot down, the two-man crew rescued after drifting at sea.
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Baker Case To Jury Today
The Bobby Baker case heads to the six men and six women jury in Washington with potential sentences up to 48 years and $47,000 fines if convicted on all nine counts. Judge Oliver Gasch will deliver final instructions as deliberations are expected by nightfall. The defense denounced the "marble-hearted tycoons" while prosecutors urged the jury to view Kerr’s alleged $100,000 bribe as the core crime.
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Louvre Museum
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Sues State For His Lost Buffaloes
Delmer Dangers, a farmer near Fort Ridgley State Park, seeks $2,500 from the Minnesota Legislature for damages to his crops caused by golfers chasing lost balls. A buffalo bull escaped and was among the losses cited in a senate bill proposal.
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Delmer Dangers
Minnesota
Dangers
Ft. Ridgley State Park
Fairfax
State Senate
Miami Springs Hawks on Dove Avenue in Miami
Miami Springs high school sits on Dove Avenue in Miami. The Hawks are the school football team, and the AP notes the location and team name with casual emphasis.
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Hawks
Dove Ave
Miami, Fla
Miami Springs
Dove Avenue
Apollo astronauts Grissom White and Chaffee die in Pad 34 fire
CAPE KENNEDY Fla AP tragedy cuts into the moon program as Virgil I Grissom Edward H White II and Roger B Chaffee die in a flash fire during a test at Pad 34 They perished in a pure oxygen cabin and the craft was not fueled NASA officials say the mission to the moon will continue with renewed dedication
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Virgil I
Gus) Grissom
Edward
Cape Kennedy
H. White II
Roger B. Chaffee
Fla
America
Pad
U.S
Virgil I. Grissor
Edward H. White II
Grissom
White
Chaffee
Paul Haney
Johnson
NASA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Gordon Harris
Kennedy Space Center
High School Scoreboard shows varied results across games
Frederick defeated Atholton 71 to 47 while Walkersville beat Brunswick 67 to 60. Thurmont posted 64 over Middletown 60. St Johns won 74 to 38 against Lingapore, Mt Airy 31 over FSK 37. St Francis routed St Josephs 91 to 76 and Peoplesville edged Gaithersburg at Sherwood 77 to 58.
Trio of Astronauts Dies in Apollo Fire Tragedy
Houston honors Air Force Lt Col. Virgil S. Grissom and Lt. Col. Edward H. White II plus Navy Lt. Cmdr. Roger B. Chaffee, all slated for an early Apollo voyage. Grissom, a Mercury veteran, had become a pioneer of space, White walked in space for 21 minutes, and Chaffee was a rookie on the cusp of his first cosmic flight. The three died Friday in a studio fire that halted the mission prep for up to 14 days around Earth.
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Edward H. White II
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Roger B. Chaffee
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Houston
Cape
Betty Grissom
Scott
Mark
Michael Collins
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Stephen
Cheryl
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Neil A. Armstrong
Patricia White
Edward
Bonnie
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Gus
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Virgil S. Grissom
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Mercury
Mitchell
Ind
Betty Moore
Purdue University
White
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