Diamond Jubilee August 6 Observed at Fort Detrick Ceremony
Frederick J. Lawton U S Civil Service Commissioner will speak at August 6 ceremonies at Frederick Fairgrounds honoring Fort Detrick federal employees with Length of Service awards and Diamond Jubilee of the Civil Service Act. Certificates of Achievement and lapel pins for 10 20 and 30 years of service will be distributed. Colonel Joseph C Prentice Deputy Commander and General Chairman announced. Lawton began as a clerk in 1922 and rose to senior budget roles before becoming Commissioner in 1937 for six more years.
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Frederick J. Lawton
U.S. Civil Service Commissioner
Frederick Fairgrounds
Fort Detrick
Civil Service Act
Department of the Army
Joseph C. Prentice
Lawton
Civy
Treasury Department
Bureau of the Budget
Four Drownings Reported Around Baltimore Area
AP dispatch details multiple drowning incidents in Baltimore region. Brenda Davis aged 3 and Evelyn Borton aged 12 died in Crustis Creek, Anne Arundel County, despite Coast Guard efforts. Raymond Virginia, 7, vanished near Clements Cove, Turner Station area. George W. Kearney, 5, was recovered from Baltimore Harbor by police.
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Brenda Davis
Evelyn Borton
Baltimore
Crustis Creek
Anne
Six Hurt In Two Car Crash Near Easton
Six men were injured in a two car collision on U S 150 three miles north of Easton. Maurice William Frizzell 47 of Ellicott City sustained severe head injuries and was in critical condition. James Wilbur Liggett 20 of Queen Anne was in serious condition with facial lacerations. Passengers Frank Edward Jay 20 of Easton and John Davidson 12 of Queen Anne were admitted with contusions broken foot and facial cuts. Two others were treated and released. The left side of Frizzell’s car peeled away and Liggett’s car overturned as the vehicles traveled in opposite directions.
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Liggett
Frank Edward Jay
Easton
John Davidson
Queen Anne
William Hartigan
Cordova
John Martin Keller
Ellicoiti City
Frizzell
U.S. 150
Five Day Forecast From The Associated Press
Temperatures will average two to four degrees below normal turning cooler Friday and warmer about Monday. Thunder showers Thursday and Friday possible again late Sunday or Monday. Precipitation totals expected from four to one inch. Normal highs 86 88 with near 80 in the mountains. Normal lows vary from 65 to 70 except in the mid 50s in the mountains.
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Associated Press
Thousands Of Bushels Of Wheat Harvest Delayed By Weather
Wheat shipments surge as a recent weather break allows delayed combining across the county. The crop, three weeks late, is light and high in moisture with the Farmers Co-Operative Association jammed and prices briefly removed from the board. Open market returns lag government loan storage, last quotation at the Co-Op was 1.71 per bushel. July weather hatchets temps with many days above normal and a hazy humid spell.
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Farmers Co-Operative Association
Farmers Co-Op
Customer shelves stamps as postage rises to four cents
In Colby Kansas AP reports a postal clerk warns a customer that first class letters will need four cents postage after August 1 while the shopper asks what she is stocking up for. The exchange highlights the upcoming postage increase and consumer reaction.
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Colby. Kan
Colby
John Herris
Dickerson man pays fine by stapling dollar to ticket
A Dickerson resident improvised a postage payment for a Frederick parking ticket by stapling a dollar bill to the ticket and mailing it with the word To Frederick Police Department. The item traveled Rockville by star route and back to Frederick where Chief Main offered a dollar to settle the fine and frame the ticket. Postmaster Grove urged standard methods such as money orders or checks.
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Dickerson
Frederick
Fred
Erick Police Department
Rockville
Joseph ST. Royal
Charles V. Main
James A. Grove
Eisenhower plans U.N. summit on Middle East in two weeks
President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Macmillan propose a Security Council summit on the Middle East within Aug 10 to 15. Drafts sent to the Atlantic Pact Council in Paris. France favors a Geneva firepower conference rather than a U.N. session. Khrushchev urged a five power meeting but Tass says he remains willing to attend a U.N. meeting. U.S. officials stress the conference must be an extraordinary U.N. session with private talks among Eisenhower, Khrushchev, Macmillan, De Gaulle, and Nehru.
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Washington
Eisenhower
U. N. Security Council
Minster Macmillan
Khrushchev
Atlantic Pact Council
Paris
London
NATO
Moscow
Esenhower
Macmillan Beth
de Gaulle
Geneva
Security Council
Middle East
U. N
Tass
U.N
U. S
Dulles
United States
U.N. Security Council
Great Powers
United Nations
Il-nation Council
Macmillan
Nehru
India
JR. A Butler
House of Commons
Large contract awarded for U S 301 road work in Charles county
The State Roads Commission awarded a 690613 dollar contract to T Edgie Russell contracting firm for the construction of about five miles of the southbound lane of dual U S 301 in Charles county. The work extends from north of the Popes Creek branch of the Pennsylvania railroad to roughly a mile north of the Potomac river.
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State Roads Commission
T. Edgie Russell Contracting
Charles County
Tom
Popes Creek
Pennsylvania Railroad
Potomac River
City police vow to end loitering near Market and Church
Police said youth loitering at Peoples Drug Store on Market and Church streets will stop after management complaints. One juvenile was brought before County Probation Officer Mrs. Wm. C. Roderick on a disorderly conduct charge stemming from loitering in the area.
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Peoples Drug Store
Market
Church Streets
Wm.c. Roderick
Designer Laro che elevates waistline in new Paris line
Paris AP report details Guy Laroche's collection with a high waist silhouette combining trapeze and baby doll shapes. Skirts hover near knee, belts sit under bust lines, and fullness stays in back. Necklines range from boat to deep scoops, gold lame suits appear, and formals vary from floor to short fronts.
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Paris
Guy Laroche
Laroche
Morin and Ochiltree Attacked by Rebels
Associated Press reporters Relman Morin and Tom Ochiltree were fired upon by rebels while traveling from Beirut to Damascus along the Syrian-Lebanese border. They sought safety at a United Nations post five miles from the border as bombing and shooting damaged nearby buildings.
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Damascus
Syria
Associated Press
Relman Morin
Tom Ochiltree
Beirut
Morin
Bert
United Nations
Ghiltree
Quiet Campfire Mistaken For Patrol Alarm In City
A fire in a vacant lot west of College Estates was reported to police as a campfire by two sleeping youngsters aged 15 and 16. They said the fire was built for warmth while they slept, and the blaze was extinguished by police with no injuries.
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College Estates
Lebanon elects Gen Fuad Shehab president predicted
AP reports Speaker Adel Osseiran said Lebanon's Parliament will elect Gen Fuad Shehab president with a quorum of 60 deputies present for Thursday's session. He would be elected by a unanimous vote to replace Camille Chamoun, who cannot succeed himself. The National Front backs no candidate unless immediate U.S. troop withdrawal is demanded, while Shehab’s camp doubts any conditions will be accepted.
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Beirut
Adel Osseiran
Fuad Shehab
Lebanon
National Front
Osseiran
Shehab
Camille Chamoun
Chamoun
U.S
Robert Met Clintock
McClintock
U. S
U. N
Robert Murphy
Amman
Hussein
Cyprus
Nasser
United Arab Republic
Police Shootout Quieted Crummitt After Arson Arrest Attempt
Grayson Fritz Crummitt, 32, attacked his mother before police arrived to arrest him on assault and battery charges. A gun battle ensued at 450 West South Street as Crummitt fired on officers, then took cover behind a trellis and was fatally shot in the stomach by Sgt. Sherman Boone. Six city officers and a State Trooper joined the operation. Crummitt wore a loaded pocket with dozens of 45-70 bullets and several other guns found in the house, though not loaded. The incident followed threats noted by Chief Charles Main and marked by a history of weapon offenses and a prior six month sentence for carrying a concealed revolver. Crummitt's mother had warned of a room full of knives and weapons.
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Grayson Fritz Crummitt
West South Street
Crummitt
Charles ‘V. Main
Mitt
Mabel Crummitt
William Boone
James Stockman
William Mafchner
C. AM. Wolford
Chief Main
A. Norman Dietz
Sherman Boone
Drummitt House
Main
Grayson
Crummit
Crumamitt
House of Correction
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Frederick ¥. Lawton
Baltimore Area
N. Market ST
Frederick, Maryland
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Mer
Fritz Crummitt
Fhoto
Frank Keefer
Morin and
Ochiltree
Haiti
Port AU Prince
Francois Duvalier
Duvalier
Miami
Fla
Arthur Payne
Paul Magloire Magloire
New York
Island
Magloire
Frederick County Bar Association
Gamipbrill State Park
Goodloe E. Byron
iWilbur F. Sheffield
Stedman Prescott
Court of Appeals
Thomas Anderson
Horace M. Alexander
Ellis C. Wachter
Arthur Lambert
Walter Davis
Richard E. Zimmerman
Potomac
Brunswick
Cape Canaveral, Fla
Air Force
Grayson F. Crummitt
Mother
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