Jefferson Raritan Club Plans Park and Civic Center
Members voted to buy five acres east of Jefferson school playgrounds for a community civic and recreational facility. The plan includes a civic center with fire company equipment storage, meeting rooms, ball diamonds, shrubbery, and a picnic area. The project aims to support club and community activities and a carnival fund.
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Jefferson Raritan Club
Daniel Poole
James Ingram
Jefferson School
Poole
Ingram
Fire Company
Raritan Club
Jefferson Fire Company
Braddock Heights Company
Land Committee
Luther Remsburg
Joceph Long
Emory Baker
Donald Plunkard
Nathan House
William Hemp
Civic Center
Raritan
Jefferson Junior O. U. A. M
Eugene Cox
Cox
Austin Angleberger
City Civic Center
Angleberger
Jefferson Raritan
Daniel, Poole
Norman Hines
Rural Church Committee
Gathland State Park
Peter Pan Inn
Urbana
Home and Garden Committee
Russell Smith
Paul Smith
Jefferson
University of Maryland
Charles Keller
Lewistown
Hamilton
Lumumba thanks UN for Congo action amid withdrawal drive
Premier Patrice Lumumba expressed gratitude to the United Nations for its swift Congo action and said Soviet military aid is no longer needed. He spoke at a news conference before departing for UN conferences in New York aboard a Comet liner provided by Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah, with L. Edgar Detwiler joining to discuss a 50 year development plan.
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Leopoldville
The
Congo
Patrice Lumumba
United Nations
New York
Belgium
Ghana
L. Edgar Detwiler
Roosevelt son backs Nixon for president in 1960 race
John A Roosevelt, son of the late Franklin D Roosevelt and a New York investment banker, said at a Thursday night event that he will support the Republican party this year. He praised Vice President Nixon's training and ability as the best for the presidency.
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GOP
Cincinnati
Franklin D Roosevelt
John A. Roosevelt
New York
Nixon
Wildcat or bobcat in county draw reveals dispute
A reported bobcat kill along Boyer's Mill Road sparked public protests and expert checks. Regional Game Warden Guy Garheart said the animal resembled an ordinary cat with no bobcat or wildcat traits, while locals debated its true breed and origin.
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Boyer’s Mill
Lester Z. Rippeon
Airy
Rippeon
The
News
Rippeen
Guy R. Garheart
Garheart
Virginia
Garrett County
County to Choose Farm Queen at Petersville Picnic
Six contestants entered with four more considering the event to select Frederick County Farm Queen for representation at the Timonium Fair. The pageant, a joint Petersville Farmers Club and Farm Bureau project, crowns the 16 to 18 year olds living on three acres or more. Peggy Heflin Woodsboro will crown the winner. judging covers appearance poise manners community work home economics and 4H. The picnic starts at four with a country dinner at six and judging at 7 30 in the pavilion. Sixteen to eighteen year olds wear daytime dresses and spectator shoes.
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Frederick County
Petersville Farmer's Club
Frederick County Farm Bureau
Associated Women of the Farm Bureau
Herbert W. Duvall
Uere
Peggy Heflin
Woodsboro
Farmers’ Woods
Petersville
Robert Remsburg
Thurmont
C E. Pruitt
Brunswick
Richard
Queen contest kickoff at Associated Women event
Hammond, executive secretary of the local Chamber of Commerce, notes the queen contest is a project of the Associated Women with Mrs Duvall as youth chairman. The annual picnic gathers several hundred attendees with afternoon games and two programs, dinner at four, dancing from nine, and Johnny Norris and his orchestra providing music.
Rees Pleads Innocent in Kidnap Murder Case
Melvin Davis Rees Jr. appeared in a three minute federal hearing in Baltimore to enter an innocent plea on charges of kidnapping and murder of a Virginia mother and daughter. He stated his age as 31 and his lawyers prepared the plea before Judge R Dorsey Watkins. The judge allowed two weeks for motions after the defense receives the bills of particulars before a jury or judge trial.
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Baltimore
Melvin Davis Rees Jr
Virginia
Rees
R. Dorsey Watkins
U.S
Watkins
Fire Day Forecast From The Associated Press
Temperatures will average about two degrees above normal with a warm Saturday and a cooler Sunday. Rainfall will be light averaging a quarter inch from scattered thundershowers Saturday night into the early week. Normal highs in the 80s, lows 65 to 70, cooler in mountain regions with 53 to 61.
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Sv the Associates
Ledge May Be Mate To Nixon
Conservative Republicans debate Henry Cabot Ledge Jr as Nixon’s possible running mate at the Chicago convention. Taft backers oppose Ledge citing internationalist views while Morton and Dirksen backers push Midlands balance. Goldwater supporters advocate for Goldwater though he likely won’t secure the nomination.
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Chicago
Henry Cabot Ledge Jr
Lodge
United Nations
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
B. Carroll Reece
Tennessee
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Taft
Reece
Rave
Texas
Eisenhower
Ralph F. Gates
Indiana
John ‘. Diederich
Kentucky
Sen
Thruston B. Morton
GOP
Diederich
Midland
Morton
William G. Stratton
Hlllnois
R-Ariz
Gold
Freighter reports Soviet patrol vessel stop in North Pacific
An American freighter captain says an armed Soviet patrol vessel halted his ship about 350 miles from the Rumle Islands in the North Pacific on July 7. Admiralty lawyers call the incident a violation of international rules.
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New York
North Pacific
Soviet
Rumle Islands
Western wildfires devastate forests and homes across states
Fires raged from British Columbia to Mexico and from the Pacific to the Rockies, with hundreds of blazes described as the worst in 20 years. Idaho declared a major disaster, arson probes began, and federal and state crews fought 900 men battling in nine states plus one Canadian province.
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Associated Press
British Columbia
Mexico
Pacific
Rockies
Interior Department
Canadian
Pennsylvania
Robert E. Smylie
Idaho
Eisenhower
Floyd Iverson Fof Ogden
Utah
Iverson
FBI
Los Angeles
California
Oregon
Nevada
Wyoming
Montana
Washington
Arizona
Tell
Boise National Forest
Howard Ahiskey
Boise
Thao
Payette National Forest
Idaho-Oregon
Rattlesnake Mountain
Shoshone National Forest
Great Timber
Cody
Wye
Ed Pierson
Bureau of Land Management
Bitter Root National Forest
Lest Trail Pass
Missoula
Gold Creek
Yellowstone National Park
Oregon Line
Sunland-Tuguage
Verduca
San Gabriel
Soviet Union files U N Security Council charge over spy plane
The Soviet Union seeks condemnation of the United States as an aggressor in a Security Council appeal detailing alleged U S airspace violations. Washington promises a strong response as the clash over the Barents Sea RBZ reconnaissance incident unfolds.
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United Nations
N.Y
Soviet Union
U. N. Security Council
United States
Eisenhower
U. S
Henry Cabot Lodge
Washington
Kremlin
Deii
Ter Vasilly V. Kuznetsov
Sion
RBZ
Barents Sea
Tough New Line By U S
Secretary of State Christian A Herter denounced Soviet threats to intervene in the Congo as a reckless bluff and said the United States will press ahead with full moral and material support for United Nations efforts to end the violence despite Moscow warnings.
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Christian A. Herter
Congo
Herter
Moscow
New African Republic
United States
United Nations
Toronto city loses money on American coins
The AP reports Canadian banks refuse wrapped rolls of coins containing U S silver. Mayor Nathan Phillips says sorting out American nickels and dimes paid into the City Treasury has cost $1,380 in three months.
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Toronto
U. S
Nathan Phillips
United States orders expulsion of Soviet diplomat over espionage
The State Department expelled Petr Ezhov a Soviet Embassy third secretary for spying including paying over $1000 for aerial city photographs. Cmdr Vladimir Glinsky an assistant naval attaché was involved as well. At the UN the Security Council demanded Belgian withdrawal from the Congo backing a UN force. Belgium pledged phased pullout and defended its actions as noninterference while Congo seeks its own fate.
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Washington
United States
Petr ¥. Ezhov
State Department
Ezhov
Department
Nikita Khrushchev
Vladimir S. Glinsky
Ginsky
Moscow
United Nations
U. Security Council
Congo
U. N
Soviet Union
Vasily V. Kuznetsov
Belgium
New
African Republic
Council
Katanga
Pierre Vigny
Leppsidville
Wigny
Truck Not Loaded Charge Dismissed in Rural Court
Arnold Lewis Rice of Poolesville faced a charge of exceeding 40 mph on Route 28 based on a 35 mph pacing by Trooper Richard Alderson. Magistrate Joseph J. Coady dismissed after learning the farm truck was not loaded, noting trucks heavier than 7,500 pounds must travel 16 mph below posted limits.
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Arnold Lewis Rice
RFD i
Poolesville
Joseph J. Coady
Rice
Richard Alderson
Coady
Collzieral
North Miarket
Sion
Rges
Ram Mutchner
Fragmentary AP Snippet About Fine and Grocery Money
An unclear AP wire fragment shows Maxine hasbar reaching into his i and paying a dollar fine. The quote notes taking the money from grocery funds and mentions an hour. The incomplete text lacks full context or identifiable events.
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Wang
Maxine Hasbar
Wheat Farmers Vote to Continue Market Quotas
Wheat farmers nationwide backed marketing quotas and acreage controls for 1961 by a 148 74 to 21 631 vote, surpassing last year’s 80.6 percent. The plan sets 1.78 dollars per bushel as minimum support, with consequences if rejected. State results show Maryland and Delaware in favor, West Virginia and Pennsylvania against.
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Washington (P
Ezra Taft Benson
Maryland
Delaware
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
New York Stocks Face Continued Decline In Quiet Trade
Blue chips fell several points as the stock market kept a quiet discouraged downturn this afternoon in New York.
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New York
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