Basements Flooded By Heavy Rain In Frederick Area
Nearly two inches of rain and severe electrical storms Saturday night closed roads and caused basement flooding for downtown Frederick merchants. Trees fell near Bartonsville. power lines and telephone services temporarily disrupted. Flooding affected Carroll Creek intersections and basements of Fort Detrick residences. Monocacy and Potomac rivers rose, with Potomac rainfall contributing to the total June amount.
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Frederick
Potomac Edison Company
Bartonsville
Carrol Creek
Church and
Bent Streets
East Patrick Street
Lafayette Bridge
Bauchman
Emmittsburg
Potomac
Politically Hot Weekend Looms Over Capitol
Washington faces a busy political week as Congress considers billions more for veterans pensions, school construction, foreign aid, and defense. A vast interstate highway program and related taxes loom, with a likely final House and Senate vote by midweek. The session also weighs civil rights legislation and an antisegregation amendment amid election-year tensions.
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Washington
Congress
Congressional
Senate
House
Lues
House Veterans Committee
Teague
Texas
Rayburn
Eisenhower
Ram A
Veterans Organizations
Saidi
Brigadoon
Western Development
V. Weakley
C and P Man-Ager
Senate battles over civil rights and school aid loom
Southern Democrats push to block a school aid bill and an omnibus civil rights measure as the Senate anticipates clashes over air force funding and foreign aid restoration. The House faces further action next week as rules delays continue and Northern Lights study planned from Greenland observatories proceeds during the IGY.
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Dili
House Battlers
Rules
Rules Committee
Crimachts
Capid
Senate
Senate Foreign Relations
House
McAvoy Named State Commander of VEW
Baltimore auditor A J William McAvoy elected state commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars at the close of the 36th annual encampment in Cumberland. Weldon Leroy Maddox and Martin Lindheamer named senior and junior vice commanders respectively. Roy Chamber of Westminster to eighth term as quartermaster and adjutant. Irvin Maiders judge advocate. Auxiliary officers chosen include Lottie Schwartz president and Chise Reynolds senior vice president. About 2400 delegates attended the three day encampment. Domestic accidents in Washington claim six lives and injure 160 others.
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Cumberland
Jirvin Maiders
Baltimore
Arthurt Agnew
Landover Hills
Thomas K. Whalley
Lottie Schwartz
Baltmore
Chise Reynolds
Hallie Smith
Dundalk
Twining in Moscow tours Soviet air show and toasts leaders
General Nathan S. Twining on a Moscow visit described the U S as peaceful but pledged not to disarm without solid world arms control. He toured Tushino Airport with Soviet and British officials, saw seven new fighter designs and a jet transport, and heard Zhukov and Khrushchev praise peace efforts while Bulganin toasted Eisenhower.
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Moscow
Nathan S. Twining
Crs
United States
U. S
Defense Ministry
Eisenhower
Ewining
Georgi K. Zhukov
Geneva
Ike
Twining
Zhukoy
Zhukov
Nikita S Khrushchev
Communist Party
Nikolai Bulganin
Thony) Eden
Russia
Tushino
Bulganin
Nikita Khrushchev
Korea
Fanine
Sovie
Roland Irelaw -Chapman
Yilhe
Albert Boyd
US Air Research and Development Command
Xihe
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Charles W. Poole
Potomac Edison
Clarksburg
Edgewood
Rocky Springs
Libertytown
Jefferson
Blue Ridge
Mit
Francis
Dailey’s Funeral Home
N. Market St
Ambulance Service
Ical
Kehne Furniture CO
South Market St
Monument
Copenhagen
Greenland
Vindobona
Skyline
Graddock
Maryland
McAvoy
VEW
E& F Pest Control Co
Downsville Pike
Hagerstown
Ener
Better Homes Equip. Co
E. Patrick ST
Chatham's
Chatham
Miami
Hendrickson
Fashion Academy
Winnes
Nise
White Swan Dacron
White Swan
Red Air Force
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Allen
Magnavox Cinematic TV
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