Property Assessments Rise in Monocacy Village Row
Ten residents of Monocacy Village and their attorney W Jer ome Offutt pressed the Frederick County Board of County Commissioners about a 25 to 30 percent assessment increase citing up to 175 percent in lot values. Lumen Norris, assessments supervisor, noted statewide reassessment since July 1 1959 and said Monocacy Village is being reassessed this year while current sales imply assessments remain below full value.
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Monocacy Village
W. Jerome Offutt
Board of County Commissioners
Offutt
Norris
No Award Yet On Postal Station Bid
The U S Post Office Department has not awarded the College Estates postal station contract. Wendell J. Chesser said bids were reviewed but no decision until after June 30, as negotiations may occur on open bids.
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U.S. Post Office Department
College Estates
Wendell J. Chesser
Post Office Department
Chesser
College’ Estates
Woodsboro Grants 3500 in Street Work and Tank Painting
Woodsboro approved two bids totaling 3500 for street repairs by Ralph Stonesifer of Keymar and painting of the town water tank by Universal Construction Co of Pennsylvania. A delegate urged safer traffic on Md 194 with no parking signs along one side to ease passage. Burgess Carroll Wickless said the council would consider the request.
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Woodsboro
MD. 194
Burgess C. Carroll Wickless
Welcome Campaign Planned by Frederick Chamber of Commerce
The Frederick Chamber of Commerce will run a Welcome To Historic Frederick campaign from July 1 to July 20. About 7 500 pocket pamphlets will promote historic sites such as the Francis Scott Key Monument and the Barbara Fritchie Home. Hotels, motels, restaurants and service stations will distribute them with guest cards to collect tourist names and home states for analysis of summer visitor patterns. Prizes will go to firms submitting the most completed cards to Winchester Hall offices.
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Frederick
Chamber
Winchester Hall
Man borrows auto leaves apology note to owner
William H. Bradley of Myersville reported his 1957 sedan disappeared about 5 45 p m Monday. A note found on another vehicle explained the car had been taken to Buhrman’s Store in Foxville where it was left after the battery ran down. The note signed by R E Randles asked Bradley to send the bill.
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Baltimore
Myersville
William H. Bradley
RFD 1
Bradley
Buhrman
Foxville
R. E. Randles
36Th Ave
Tfc
Ronald C. Lewis
Randles
Four Frontiers In Divided World Frontiers Named By Episcopalians
Rev Canon Douglas Webster told about four frontiers Berlin Jerusalem Hong Kong and Pakistan as symbols of world division during a Hood College speech to the Episcopal Province of Washington. He described crossing the Berlin Wall and viewing the East from West and said Jerusalem is another divided city symbolic of barbed wire and Arabs and Jews. He noted Pakistan borders with Afghanistan the USSR and China and Hong Kong stands near mainland China. He said Christians exist on both sides and that the four frontiers illustrate deep divisions in the world.
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Hood College
Episcopal Province
Washington
Douglas Webster
Berlin Wall
Jerusalem
Hong Kong
Pakistan
Four Frontiers
Webster
West Berlin
East Berlin
Wall
East
Afganistan
Ussr
China
Rev. Webster
Chamber Proposes Lighting for Frederick Freeway Interchanges
Frederick Chamber proposes illuminated interchanges on the Frederick Freeway to improve safety, citing the Rosemont Avenue interchange where dual lanes narrow to a single lane. The board also urges stop signs on side streets, signals at East Fifth and East Streets, and blinking operation of East Street lights during light traffic.
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Frederick
Fort Detrick
Rosemont Avenue
West Seventh Street
East Fifth
East Streets
East Street
Boy Hit By Car Suffers Broken Leg Emmitsburg youth injured in street incident
A 10 year old from Emmitsburg was struck by a station wagon on West Main Street after darting into the road between parked cars. He is in satisfactory condition at Annie Warner Hospital Gettysburg with a fractured left leg. Alan F. Davis, the driver, was not charged. Officer Law confirmed the incident and identity of those involved.
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Emmitsburg
Annie Warner Hospital
Gettysburg
Patrick E. Eckenrode
Patrick Eckenrode
West Main Street
W.E- Law
Alan F. Davis
Stock Market Edges Through Morning Trading In NY
In New York the stock market opened with mixed activity and little decisive movement. Traders watched early price shifts as the market meandered, with little net change evident across major indices.
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New York
Magistrate Criticizes Road Design in Frederick
Frederick area highway design comes under fire from Magistrate Byron W. Thompson who cites interchanges with U.S. 340 and Rosemont Avenue as contributing to accidents. He exonerates Alvin Junior Marquess, a Baltimore investigator, of crossing a solid line after a car merged from an interchange ramp.
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Frederick
Byron W. Thompson
U.S. 340
Rosemont Avenue
Thompson
Baltimore
Alvin Junior Marquess
Tfe
Scott W. B. English
Marquess
Edwin F. Nikirk
Walkersville votes to keep tax rate steady at 50 cents
The Walkersville Town Council kept the tax rate at 50 cents per $100 assessment, identical to prior years, and voted to sell a town house with bids to be sought soon. Junior commissioners Edward C. Hedges and Walter L. Zimmerman took their oaths of office.
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Walkersville
Edward C. Hedges
Walter L. Zimmerman
Hel helicopters collide over Ft Benning two miles from airstrip
Bulletin from Columbus Georgia reports two Army Arms helicopters collided in the air over Ft. Benning shortly after takeoff. The crash occurred in a swampy, wooded area about two miles from the air strip, and the Army says casualties are expected to run high.
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Columbus
Ft. Benning
Army
Colleges Get Student Loan Grants
U S Rep Charles McC Mathias announces federal grants to Hood College Mt St Marys and St Josephs for student loan funds. Hood $6482 Mt St Marys $9526 St Josephs $5935. Funds available for the coming academic year with possible additional allocations in fiscal 1966 for students in good standing needing aid.
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U.S
Charles McC. Mathias
R-Md
U.S. Office of Education
Hood College
Mt. St. Mary’s
St Joseph's
Mathias
Military Pay Bill Approved by House Armed Services
The House Armed Services Committee approved a 1 billion military pay bill with a 10.7 percent average annual pay hike. The vote was 33 to 1, Rep. Samuel Stratton dissenting. The measure adopts parts of the administration plan including a variable reenlistment bonus and yearly pay reviews, seen as addressing retention concerns.
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Washington
House Armed Services Committee
Johnson
Samuel
Stratton
Dn.y
L. Mendel Rivers
D-S.c
Rivers
Pentagon
Irvin Stride’s Snake Study at Reels Mill Displays
Fort Detrick technician Irvin F. Stride spends evenings seeking snakes and preserves eight jars of formaldehyde specimens plus five live snakes in display cases. He explains band water snakes are only mildly mean, shows a pilot black snake that constricts and suffocates prey, and notes a chain king snake can kill a rattlesnake without venom.
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Irvin F. Stride
Motter Avenue
Stride
Reels Mill
Frederick
Florida
Fort Detrick
Ky Named Premier as Vietnam War Cabinet Forms
Brig Gen Nguyen Cao Ky was named premier in a new war cabinet to replace Phan Huy Quat. A committee of 10 generals led by Maj Gen Nguyen Van Thieu will supervise until a civilian government can be elected after Communist forces are defeated. U S Navy planes hit bridges near Hanoi and targets in North Viet Nam while Viet Cong attacks continued in the south.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Hanoi
North
Viet Nam
South
Red Capital
Ninh Binh
Nguyen Cao Ky
Nguyen van Thieu
Phan Huy Quat
Phan Khae Sun
Thieu
Quat
Committee of Generals
U.S
U S Jet Crashes At Paris Air Show
A U S Air Force B58 bomber crashed on landing at Le Bourget during a Paris air show. Lt Col Charles Hubbs was killed, Maj Vincent Carabas injured, Maj Harold Covington and another survivor reported later by a French hospital. The crash followed a demonstration run with one engine reportedly detached.
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Paris
le Bourget
Air Force
Harold Covington
Jacksonville
Ark
Charles Hubbs
Vincent Carabas
Little Rock
Air Force Base
Torrejon
Spain
America
United States
U.S
Charles E.bohlen
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Montgomery County
James A. McDivitt
Edward White
University of Michigan
Harland Hatcher
George Romney
Ann Arbor
Chamber of Commerce
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Berlin
Episcopalians
North Viet Bridges
Bulletin
Irvin Stride
Anne Marie Gibbons Rears Wesler
Eda
Anne Marie Gibbons
Boa
Gen. Ky
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