Heavy Rain Boosts Frederick County Crops and Streams
Nearly three inches of rain drenched Frederick County over the weekend, lifting drought damaged crops and swelling the Monocacy and Potomac rivers from record lows. Official totals reached 2.86 inches, filling Mountaindale reservoir and spilling Sunday afternoon. Local agent Kenneth E. Shifflet called the rain immeasurably beneficial though he urged more rain for sustained crop health, noting about one inch every 10 days is ideal. Other areas reported varied totals, with Hagerstown 0.58, Westminster 2.0, Cumberland 0.4, Rockville 1.73, Salisbury 2.41 inches, while temperatures were to rise from Sunday’s 69/65 to highs in the low 80s and fair conditions.
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Frederick County
Monocacy
Potomac
City
Mountaindale
Kenneth E. Shifflet
Shifflet
Mid- Atlantic
Hagerstown
Westminster
Cumberland
Rockville
Salisbury
Education Program For Parents Starts Tuesday
A four week weekly education program for parents of children in Projects Head Start and Opportunities begins Tuesday. Seven centers nationwide host hour sessions taught by Health and Welfare and Extension Service representatives. Adele Miller outlines two weeks on meal planning and the four food groups plus low budget meals with Homemakers volunteers assisting.
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Health and Welfare Departments
Extension Service
Adele Miller
Home Economics
Lindon Engelbrecht
Braddock Homemakers
Russell Dudrow
Ballenger Homemakers
Ray Smith
Jug Bridge
Roy Magaha
Merryland Tract
William Browning
New Market
Harry Zentz
Thurmont
Jesse Fifer
Buckeystown
Brunswick Planners to Consider Sewer and Water Survey
Brunswick Planning Commission will consider a sewer and water survey for the area. Philip Childs, commission head, says the survey will be discussed at the 7:30 p.m. meeting in the Library building with county planning officials in attendance.
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Brunswick
Brunswick Planning Commission
Ton‘h’ Philip Childs
Commission
Eight Bodies Recovered Ten Rescued From U S Plane Down In Atlantic
Coast Guard and allied ships recovered eight bodies and rescued ten airmen from a U S Air Force EC121 radar plane that ditched off Nantucket Island in dense fog. The crash occurred Sunday night 145 miles east northeast of Nantucket as helicopters and German vessels aided the rescue. Survivors were taken aboard U S and German ships, with debris and an oil slick spotted as dawn broke.
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Falmouth
Mass
U.S. Air Force
North Atlantic
Coast Guard
Boston
U.S
Nantucket
Barry
Newport
R.I
Wasp
Anthony
Ringgold
Wadsworth
Blotter
Air Force
Otis Air Force Base
Atlantic Ocean
Nantucket Island
Wreckage sighted in Maryland area of missing Morgantown flight
CAP officials report sighting what appeared to be an engine in a ravine about six miles south of Mercersburg Pennsylvania, near Fairview Mountain, as searchers probe the missing Cessna 310 with four aboard. No survivors reported. Passengers listed include Stanley R. Cox, Marilyn Cox, and their eight year old daughter. pilot John Westfield. Flight departed Morgantown WV for Hagerstown PA area, last heard at 21 15 Sunday. Ground teams dispatched from Hagerstown amid dark and fog.
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Hagerstown
Civilia Air Patrol
Morgantown
W.va
E. G. Trams
Maryland
CAP
Mercersburg
Trams
Ralph Edolf
Fairview Mountain
Stanley R. Cox
Marilyn
Chambersburg
John Westfield
Clarksburg
W. V
Key Hotel Training Employes in Frederick County
The Francis Scott Key Hotel runs a private vocational course for forty hotel staff including waitresses bus boys and bartenders. Instructor Charles Jackson leads a four week one hour daily session in the Wedgwood Room with hotel department heads assisting. Robert Russell says the program is independent of federal school courses and aims to improve service with a forthcoming health department food handling class.
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Francis Scott Key
Frederick County
Wedgwood
Charles Jackson
Jackson
Charles Palmer
Alice
State Election Officials Open Meet at Holiday Inn
About 50 state election officials meet today and tomorrow at the Holiday Inn to discuss changes in voting methods. James Messersmith of the Board of Election Supervisors says changes will modernize old laws to current practices. Sessions start at 2 p.m. Officials will recommend changes to the Maryland Legislature.
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Holiday Inn
James Messersmith
Board of Election Supervisors
Maryland
Jackpot Days offers five couples world’s fair trips
During the annual Jackpot Days from July 29 to 31 the Downtown Merchants Association will award five weekend trips to the World’s Fair. The prize includes two night stay at the Hotel Astor Times Square two fair admissions round trip bus travel travel and medical insurance VIP pavilion visits and baggage tips. Winners announced July 31 at 6 pm.
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Merchants’ Association
Frederick County
Maryland
Boyer Travel Agency
Hotel Astor
Times Square
Libertytown Woman Charged After Mt Pleasant Crash
A Libertytown woman Miriam C Himes was charged with failing to reduce speed to avoid a collision after a three car crash on Md 26 near Mt Pleasant at about 1130 am. John E Tritt 28 of Shawnee Drive drove east into Himes rear ending her car. Tritt’s 1964 station wagon struck Mehrl V Stull Jr 38 of RR 2 Myersville. Minor damage to Stull’s 1955 sedan. Damage to Himes new car estimated at 300 dollars and 150 dollars to Tritt’s vehicle.
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Libertytown
Mt. Pleasant
Tfc
Ronald C.lewis
Miriam C. Himes
Mehrl
W. Dennis Drumm
Luther E. Harmon
Thurmont Council to Discuss Mandatory Retirement at 65
Mayor Lookingbill calls a Thurmont town council special meeting tonight to discuss the retirement plan and other business. Four other town meetings in Walkersville Woodsboro Middletown and Burkittsville are held tonight with no major business expected.
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Thurmont
Roy W. Lookingbill
Walkersville
Woodsboro
Middletown
Burkittsville
War over antipoverty funds to dominate Congress action
Congress launches major week with the House poised to double antipoverty funding as voting rights and Social Security bills advance. Key actions include a silver coin redesign fight, housing and coinage measures, and Senate plans on three appropriations bills. Conferees to reconcile voting rights and Social Security medical care measures.
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Washington
Congress
House
Senate
U.S
Department of Agriculture
United States
Stock Market Opens With Irregular Sluggish Trading
In New York, stock market activity showed an irregular pattern as trading began slowly with investors assessing early moves. The session opened with muted volume and scattered price swings across major indices.
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New York
Space officials weigh 14 day Gemini flight without suits
Space officials consider sending Frank Borman and James Lovell on a 14 day Gemini mission without spacesuits due to time limits for study. Borman says he would not push for it unless studies show safety, noting suits would be lighter but still backup protection. The plan hinges on risk, with Apollo era pace and other crews planned for late 1965 or early 1966.
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U.S
Houston, Tex
Frank Borman
James A. Lovell
Borman
Air Force
Tucson
Ariz
L. Gordon Cooper Jr
Navy
Charles Conrad
Lieve
Edward H. White
Bosman
Lovell
Titan
Walter M Schirra Jr
Air Force Ma
Thomas P. Stafford
Mad Bomber Strikes Twice More in Chicago
In Chicago early today two explosions hit the West Side parking lot of an ice cream firm, damaging three trucks and shattering windows. No injuries were reported as police chased two men seen fleeing, with five blasts in the area since Wednesday including a downtown strike near the Tribune and the Wrigley Building, motive undetermined.
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Chicago
West Side
The
Chicago Tribune
Wrigley Building
Chicago River
C R Leaders Plan New March at Bogalusa
Civil rights leaders in Bogalusa La announce new demonstrations with hundreds of volunteers including clergymen as CORE calls for support from Protestant Jewish and Roman Catholic representatives. Rival marches occurred Sunday with about 350 police guarding a downtown route as two state helicopters monitored the scene.
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Bogalus
la API
James Farmer
Congress of Racial Equality
CORE
First US infantry landings begin in Viet Nam war
1st Infantry Division troops land at Cam Ranh Bay prompting total US forces in Viet Nam to reach 71,000. Brigade commander Col James Simmons says initial mission is to protect harbor works for the 35th Engineer Group as heavy air strikes against Viet Cong continue north and inland.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
Viet Nam
Cam Ranh Bay
Hanoi
Yen Bai
Yen Se
Hon Nieu Island
Vinh
Phat Diem
Lyap Han
Tri Dong
Sanctuary dead in Viet War Rusk tells AB program
Secretary of State Dean Rusk warned that sanctuary for Communists in North Vietnam is dead and that any nation entering the war must face this. He said bombing raids show attackers cannot live in safety in the north and attack South Vietnam from sanctuary. Rusk cited Red China and others as included in this warning.
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Washington
Dean Rusk
China
Viet Nam
Rusk
North
Hanoi
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