New London Barn and Hay Destroyed by Fire
A large frame barn on Old Annapolis Road between Mount Pleasant and New London burned late last night. It was destroyed along with hay. the barn’s owners were Mr. and Mrs. Carl F. Mealey of New Market, who had bought it about two years earlier and also owned the adjacent residential property. Indicates substantial property loss with no immediate injuries reported.
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Old Annapolis Road
Mount Pleasant
New London
Carl F. Mealey
New Market
Lodge Elects New Officers For Samaritan Rebekah Lodge
The Past Noble Grands Association of Samaritan Rebekah Lodge No. 51 met at Mrs. Ruth Eyler’s home with Miss Pearl Skeggs presiding. Nineteen members attended and officers for the year were elected: president Miss Edna Watkins, vice president Mrs. Edith Pearl, secretary Miss Pearl Skeggs, and treasurer Miss Jessie Webster.
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Noble Grands Association of Samaritan Rebekah Lodge No. 51
Ruth Eyler
Eva Stride
Pearl Skeggs
Odd Fellows Home
Frances Jones
Helen Wachter
Elizabeth Carlin
Helen Webster
Fannie King
Ethel Gardner
Mary Elworthy
Margaret Wachter
Edna Watkins
Edith Pearl
Jessie Webster
Alice Ford
Hallie Harvey
Byler
Stride
Hagerstown Prison Seeks Two Escapees
AP reports Arthur C. Bitzer age 19 of Brandywine West Virginia was found and captured in Hagerstown after going missing in a head count at Maryland Correctional Institution. State Police say two other inmates who slipped from work details remain at large.
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Hagerstown
Arthur C. Bitzer HI
Brandywine
W. Va
Maryland Correctional Institution
Fire destroys hay barn near Frederick county homes
Fire crews from New Market Libertytown Mount Airy and the Independent Hose Company of Frederick responded to a blaze across from bars near metropolitan real estate. Mrs. Joan Baer of New Market reported the alarm about 10 miles away. Guy Butts said mowing finished at 1030 p.m. and he did not know of the fire. State Police said no oil or gasoline was stored in the barn and it had no electricity.
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New Market
Libertytown
Mount Airy
Independent Hose Company
Frederick
Joan Baer
Guy Butts
Mealey
the. W. L. Newcomer
West Frederick Students Tour News-Post Plant
West Frederick Junior High eighth graders toured the Frederick News-Post plant led by Mrs. Barbara L. Rickman. A second group will visit today. The list includes numerous students such as Jay Bartlett Robbe Biggs Ronnie Butler Bill Cole Dave Corum Jack Craw Larry Cresap Faith Baldwin Jenny Bartgis Linda Carson Linda Conway Sharon Cramer Susan Cromwell Leona Crouse Coleen Fields Jean Gulley Reba Hargett Debbie Kinsey Maureen Matovich Linda Pritchett Roxanna Riggles Marsha Schwartz Linda Shupe Robbie Strozier Barbara Tobery Hope Whipp Paula White Leslie Jones. Today’s group features Debbie Brode Patty Carbaugh Donna Couch Barbara Eaves Barbara Green Betsy Johnson Ada Lawrence Wanda Masser Natalie Onley Pam Remsburg Sylvia Sears Susie Shaffer John Bonner Lee Boyer Fred Clemson Jerry Colliflower Robert Costantino Claude Cregger Barney Hawkins Bobby Hoffman Dwayne Howard Bill Jackson Ronnie Kaempf Torr Keller Lee Korrell Carl McKnight Jon Phelps Daryl Reutzahn Dana Sensenig John Thomas Frank Wastjler Charles Fox.
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West Frederick Junior High School
Barbara L. Rickman
Frederick
Faith Baldwin
Jenny Bartgis
Linda Carson
Linda Conway
Sharon Cramer
Susan Cromwell
Leona Crouse
Coleen Fields
Jean Gulley
Reba Hargett
Debbie Kinsey
Maureen Matovich
Linda Pritchett
Roxanna Riggles
Marsha Schwartz
Linda Shupe
Robbie Strozier
Barbara Tobery
Hope Whipp
Paula White
Leslie Jones
Debbie Brode
Patty Carbaugh
Donna Couch
Barbara Eaves
Barbara Green
Betsy Johnson
Ada Lawrence
Wanda Masser
Natalie Onley
Pam Remsburg
Sylvia Sears
Susie Shaffer
John Bonner
Lee Boyer
Fred Clemson
Jerry Colliflower
Robert Costantino
Claude Cregger
Barney Hawkins
Bobby Hoffman
Dwayne Howard
Bill Jackson
Ronnie Kaempf
Torr Keller
Lee Korrell
Carl McKnight
Jon Phelps
Daryl Reutzahn
Dana Sensenig
John Thomas
Frank Wastjler
Charles Fox
Education standards seen as high by Hershey
Baltimore witnesses Selective Service director Lewis B. Hershey urge lowering admission thresholds for military service advocating literacy and rehabilitation. He says schools fail when 20 million a year cannot pass simple tests and notes attempts to remove color from records in 1948.
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Hershey
Baltimore
Lewis B. Hershey
National Selective Service
Secretary of Defense
Cassius Clay
Tawes And Funk Accused Of False Bridge Facts
Rep. Clarence D. Long accuses Gov. Tawes and Roads Chairman John Funk of faking statistics to justify a parallel Chesapeake Bay bridge. He leads a voter petition drive to place the issue on the November ballot, arguing congestion facts are manufactured and urging a Baltimore area or southern Maryland alternative.
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Tawes
Funk
Washington
Clarence D. Long
D-Md
State’ Roads Commission
Chesapeake Bay
Maryland
Baltimore
Bay
Bay Bridge
John B. Funk
Roads Commission
Red China Aid Kabul Textile Mill Deal Report
Communist China and Afghanistan have begun formal talks to fund and construct a textile mill near Kabul. The project envisions a factory financed by a $28 million interest-free loan from Peking to support Afghan industrial development.
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RED China
Kabul
Afghanistan
China
Peking
Japan unveils Tanegashima space centre blueprint
Government scientists released a plan for a new satellite and rocket launching center on Tanegashima Island south of Kyushu. The project aims to enable Japan to launch its first stationary satellite from the facility by 1970.
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Jsap Rocket Center
Tokyo
Japan
Tanegashima Island
Kyushu
Etchison to Lecture on Art at Asian History Institute
Mt. St. Marys College art professor W. Richard Etchison will lecture to about forty Institute members from Maryland the District and Pennsylvania at Western Maryland College this summer. He will also teach a Far Eastern Art course in the summer session and has held previous fellowships and nominations for programs on Asia and China.
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Etchison
Asian History Institute
W. Richard Etchison
Mt. St. Mary’s College
Institute In
Western Maryland Colege
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Western Maryland College
Ford Foundation
Southeast Asia
University of Michigan
China
Gettysburg College
Sidwell Friends School
Washington, D.C
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Richmond
Wiliam Pearra Etchison
Alice M. Etchison
Inmates Out Of State Used To Move Association Furnishings
Baltimore AP The state correction commissioner said he authorized four inmates and a guard from State Penitentiary to haul furniture from New York to College Park on March 7 for the American Correctional Association. Vernon L. Pepersack said the action was proper as Maryland has long belonged to the nonprofit group. The truck used is a regular State Use Industries delivery vehicle operated by the Department of Correction.
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Baltimore
State Commissioner of Correction
New York
College Park
American Correctional Association
Vernon L. Pepersack
Maryland
Department of Correction
Pepersack
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New London Barn
Lodge
West Frederick
Middletown
U.S. 40
Nelson Brooks
Noah Edward Kefauver III
Nancy Saunders
Frederick Beauty Academy
East
Patrick Street
Frederic
Frederick City
John A. Derr Was
Frederick County
John C. Derr
Frederick High School
Bridgewater College
University of Baltimore
New York University Law School
United States Coast Guard
Derr
T. Edgie Russell
McKeldin
House of Delegates
Horace M. Alexander
Louis L. Goldstein
GOP
Church of the Brethren
Olive B. Brandenburg
Rosemont Avenue
Sandra Faye Derr
Garland P. Feaga
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