East Germany tightens controls amid West Berlin crisis
Berlin dispatch reports East Germany moving to guard against Western trade reprisals. Paul Werner demands border-crossers face decrees while measures curb West Berlin workers, apartment access, and costly goods. Honecker calls for self-sufficiency, streamlined industry, and export emphasis to the Soviet bloc, signaling fewer consumer goods for East Germans.
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Berlin
East Germany
West Berlin
East Berlin
Paul Werner
Communist Party
Werner
Politburo
Eric Honecker
Communist Youth Movement
Soviet Bloc
Soviet Union
Honecker
PTA Officers Instructed by Frederick County Council
The Frederick County Council of Parent-Teacher Associations met at North Frederick Elementary School to train PTA officers in duties. Mrs. A K Ramoser and Mrs Brown led sessions for presidents, vice presidents, treasurers, and secretaries. A follow up workshop for local PTA committee chairs will occur after September. The goal of 100 percent membership neared fulfillment, with George C Stauffer named president and others in key roles.
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PTA
Frederick County Council of Parent - Teacher Associations
North Frederick
A. K. Ramoser
Maryland Congress of Parents and Teachers
Brown
Maryland Congress
Frederick County
George C. Stauffer
George Barthel
Clement Gardiner
Frederick Kreissig
Kerry Weldon wins Mt Airy FFA junior speaking title
Kerry Weldon of Mt Airy FFA won the junior public speaking contest at the Marland FFA convention held June 28 29 at the University of Maryland College Park. His speech Safety on the Farm urged D etection and prevention of Maryland farm accidents, highlighting losses due to fire. Weldon earned 25 dollars a gold medal and a banner for his local chapter. he is Franklin E Weldon’s son, 15, in 10th grade at Mt Airy High School.
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Kerry Weldon
Mt. Airy
Future Farmers of America
Marland Ffa
University of Maryland
College Park
Kerry
Montgomery
Howard
Carroll
Franklin E. Weldon
Cool Spring Farm
New Civitan Club President C Edward Smith Jr Installed
C Edward Smith Jr of near Doubs was installed as president of the Civitan Club last week. He attended Frederick County public schools, earned a B S in civil engineering from Gettysburg College, and has 23 years with M J Grove Lime Company where he is superintendent of construction. He serves in the Evangelical Lutheran Church, leading the church school and Bible study groups, sits on church council, and participates in the Western Conference Maryland Synod stewardship program. He is a member of the Maryland Association of Engineers and the Society of Professional Engineers and the Catoctin Club Inc.
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C. Edward Smith Jr
Near Doubs
Civitan Club
Frederick County Public Schools
Gettysburg College
M. J. Grove Lime Company
Evangelical Lutheran Church
Church Council
Western Conference
Maryland Synod
Maryland Association of Engineers and Society of Professional Engineers
Catoctin Club Inc
Tawes Urged To Probe Gas Prices
Baltimore city councilman Peter G. Anglos urged Gov. Tawes to appoint a study commission to investigate Maryland gasoline prices. He cited last week's one cent per gallon Esso increase and warned of possible retailer and consumer price hikes, calling for a thorough investigation into potential price fixing or collusion.
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Baltimore
Tawes
Maryland
Peter G. Angeles
Angelos
Shether
Amvets Set Annual Kiddies Fishing Party at Culler Lake
Amvets Posts 2 and 5 join to sponsor the kiddies fishing party at Culler Lake on Wednesday from 1 pm. Maryland Fish and Inland Game Commission will stock the lake. Contest prizes include Huckleberry Finn, largest catch, and a best sport prize. Free frankfurters and drinks at 4:30 pm. Children under 12 in Frederick invited. Thomas Stockman of Post 2 chairs the event. past participation exceeded 500.
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Amvets
Culler Lake
Amvets Posts 2
Frederick
Thomas Stockman
Amvets Post 2
Marine held in box during pretrial post on Okinawa
Pvt. Stobo C. West, 31, of Union County South Carolina, serving a five year term for black market ing, was imprisoned in a 5 by 7 foot windowless box between 6 and 7 feet high for 43 days on Okinawa while awaiting court martial. His defense argues the treatment was cruel and barbaric and cites 10 errors in the general court martial.
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San Francisco
Okinawa
Stobo C. West
Union County
S. C
Treasure Island
James E. Stauffer
West
Robert Hannon
Castro Valley
Calif
Marine Corps
Stauffer
To Recruit Negroes For Teaching Jobs In Md County
AP reports Prince Georges County Teachers Association plans to recruit Negro teachers starting in September. An all white group will drop the color bar, revise its constitution to remove white as a membership qualifier, and anticipate the Negro education association to vanish since Maryland state rules recognize only one integrated county group. The two groups total about 2,580 members.
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Upper Marlboro
Prince Georges County Teachers Association
Mary Agnes Law
Frince Georges County Education Association
Maryland State Teachers Association
The
Teachers Association
Maryland
Baltimore City
State Teachers Association
Discoverer 26 capsule recovered by USAF plane
At Vandenberg AFB California a Flying Boxcar recover ed the Discoverer 26 capsule in air over the Pacific near Hawaii. It was the fourth air recovery in the 26 mission series. Pilot Captain Jack R. Wilson of Toledo Ohio flew the recovery. Discoverer 26 circled the globe 32 times after launch Friday making the 18th successful orbit in the 26-shot program. Also noted is a late corn crop near Utica and a coyotes speed fact from Britannica.
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Vandenberg Air Force Base
Calif
API
Air Force
Jack R. Wilson
Toledo
Ohio
Vandenberg Air Forces Base
Pacific
Hawaii
Ernest Utterback
Utica
News-Post
Utterback
Two Army Performance Award recipients named Onley and Main
George P Onley and James E Main received Department of Army Performance Award Certificates at a Fort Detrick ceremony. Everett Hanes Jr presented the honors with immediate supervisor Charles O Glick in attendance. Main was cited for initiative and safety testing to deter hazards. Onley for mastering new techniques and improving standard lab procedures.
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George P. Onley
All Saints Street
James E. Main
Bowers Road
Department of Army
Fort
Detrick. Everett Hanes Jr
Charles 0. Glick
Main
U.S. Army
Onley
Purdue names Trachtman new executive secretary
Leon E. Trachtman PRF science editor and administrator at Purdue University Lafayette Ind named executive secretary of the Office of Research Contracts and Grants. He will carry out first office duties and coordinate the foundation's grant programs with university divisions.
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Leon E. Trachtman
PRF
Purdue University
Lafayette
Ind
First Office
Trachtman
Purdue
Washington
National Institutes of Health
Hood College
Johns Hopkins University
Hamilton College
Clinton, N.Y
Ex-Leader Named in Traitor Plot in South Korea
Seoul AP report says Lt. Gen. Chang Do young, 38, former premier and spring coup figurehead, faces charges of traitorous activity possibly punishable by death. Junta spokesman accuses Chang and 44 officers of seeking to use American troops to aid revolutionaries and of conspiring to kill coup planner Maj. Gen. Pak Chung-hi. An intelligence briefing outlined a plot to seize government control and Chang’s leadership since the May 16 takeover.
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Seoul
South Korea
Chang Doyoung
Chang
John M. Chang
Pak junta reshuffles after failed counter coup
Pak moved from deputy chair to chairman of the Supreme Council for National Reconstruction after Chang resigned as premier. The regime said 45 people, including five junta members, were seized the same day after a failed coup and plans for a second. Also notes real name of poet Joaquin Miller as Cincinnatus Heine Miller.
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Pak
Supreme Council For National Reconstruction
Chang
Joaquin Miller
Cincinnatus Heine Miller
New Yorker Leads Dive Study Of Ancient Galleys Near Athens
Edwin Link, 58, of New York, teamed with the Greek Department of Antiquities to study two pre Christian era galleys in the Saaronic Gulf about 15 miles southeast of Athens. A seven member crew and eight frogmen assist from the research yacht Sea Diver I.
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Athens
Greece
Edwin Link
Department of Greek Antiquties
Saaronic Gulf
Link
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