Takes Top Two State FFA Honors
E Alan Heflin of near Woodsboro wins Star State Farmer and Maryland FFA president at the Maryland FFA convention at the University of Maryland. He joins peers Wayne Wachter Lawrence Bidle H David Harshman and James Burall as Maryland Farmer Degree recipients. Heflin leads FFA activities and prepares for a national livestock contest in Kansas City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. Alan Heflin
Woodsboro
Future Farmers of America
University of Maryland
Maryland Future Farmers of America
Young Heflin
Edgar Heflin
Walkersville High School
Alan
FFA
Heflin
Wayne Wachter
Walkersville High
Lawrence Bidle
Middletown High
H. David Harshman
James Burall
Linganore High
Star State
Kansas City
American Institute of Cooperation
Lincoln
Neb
Maryland
George Remsberg
Harold E. Reiley
Frederick County
Thurmont Budget Hearing Set for Monday Night
Thurmont to hold a public hearing Monday at 7 30 p m to review the proposed fiscal year budget. The town with a 60 cent tax rate per 100 assessed value plans revenues of 322 736 66 and expenditures of 272 386 19 with light and water as three budgets in one. The meeting in the town office precedes a tax rate vote as the fiscal year begins July 4.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thurmont
Walkersville Woman Reelected Maryland LCW Treasurer
Mrs. Oren W. Strine of Walkersville was reelected treasurer of the Maryland Lutheran Church Women at the unit's Gettysburg convention. Longtime LCW organizer and educator, Strine has served since 1955 and holds multiple church and school roles. new officers include Mrs. G. Paul Lottich and Mrs. Charles Steinbeck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oren W. Strine
Walkersville
Maryland Lutheran Church
Gettysburg
Strine
United Church Women of Maryland
Bennett
LCW
Alton Y. Bennett
North Market Street
Alberta R. Fischer
Baltimore
Rural Resource Workshop Highlights Family as Community Core
Evelyn Nantz of the University of Maryland urged that national well being hinges on productive family polity economy and national interchange. The five day Maryland Rural Resource Development Workshop concluded at the Francis Scott Key Hotel with Margaret Oliver presiding. James L. Reid and Edward W. Ailen led sessions on vocational education and cooperative extension service interpretation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evelyn Nantz
University of Maryland
Maryland Resource Development Worshop
Francis Scott Key
Margaret Oliver
Nantz
Edward W. Ailen
Cooperative Extension Service
Search continues for missing civil rights workers in Mississippi
In Philadelphia Mississippi presidential fact finder Allen Dulles says no likely explosion is suspected as U S sailors join state and federal officers in an east central Mississippi search for the three missing civil rights workers. President Johnson orders sailors from Meridian naval air auxiliary station to assist with the hunt. About 200 sailors, FBI agents, and Mississippi troopers wade through swamp mud with more sailors on standby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Miss
Allen Dulles
Mississippi
Johnson
Meridian Naval Air Auxilary Station
FBI
Hood College Receives Federal Loan for New Dormitory
Hood College wins a FHA Housing and Home Financing Agency loan exceeding 550000 toward a new 129 bed dormitory on campus. The project, under construction, targets occupancy by September 1965 and is part of two major Hood buildings alongside a new classroom block.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hood College
Housing and Home Financing Agency
Federal Housing Administration
Carlton R. Sickles
Hood Grounds
J. Harold Hooper
Hooper
Horace Mann League
Hood
R. Paul Smith
Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins
Greenway
North Charles Street
Myersville Approves Water Plan with New Gravity System
The State Department of Health permits construction for Myersville water system upgrades. Elmer St Clair Maxwell and Associates designed the project to divert Little Catoctin Creek water into a holding pond and reservoir, with a full treatment plant planned. Mayor Gilbert S Stroup supports gravity flow from the Richard B Poole farm and seeks state geology and USGS input for water sources.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Department of Health
Myersville
Elmer St. Clair Maxwell and Associates
Pikesville
Little Catoctin Creek
Lof Easterday Road
Ward ‘Kline Road
Grayson Doub
Doub
Gilbert S. Stroup
Richard B. Poole
Myersville Administration
State Department of Geology, Mines and Water Resources
Department of Geology, Mines and Water Resources
U. S. Geological Survey
Maxwell
Fire on H. Lee Willis farm near Mountaindale
The Independent Hose Company responded to a field fire on the H. Lee Willis farm off Bethel Road about a quarter mile south of Mountaindale. The fire burned roughly 100 square feet of land and investigators could not determine the cause. Firemen remained on scene about 25 minutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Independent Hose Company
H. Lee Willis
Bethel Road
Mountaindale
Little Change In Living Costs in May
Washington AP reports May saw lower food and housing prices, while most other consumer goods rose. The Labor Department says the consumer price index held at 107.8 for the second month, meaning typical goods cost $10.78 in April and May versus $10 in the 1957-59 base.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Labor Department
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Scouts Headed to Philmont 26th Annual Outing
Local older scouts and explorers joined Maryland and Virginia groups leaving Frederick High School for the 26th annual scout outing at Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico. The list of riders includes J M Wallingford W T Kroh C M Dixon and others, with many leaders and patrol members named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maryland
Virginia
Frederick
Frederick High School
Philmont
Memorials workers continue finishing by mid next week
Employes from Hammaker Memorials Thurmont are shown working from scaffold. From left to right on the ground Robert Gelwicks Robert Kinnaird, on the scaffold Milton Smith Wayne Finney frock, and standing on top Milton Smith Jr. All are pictured during the ongoing project described by Frank J Keefer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank J Keefering
Hammaker
Thurmont
Robert Gelwicks
Robert Kinnaird
Milton Smith
Wayne Finneyfrock
Milton Smith Jr
All-Class Horse Show Set July 5 in Frederick
An all-class horse show co sponsored by the Frederick Junior Chamber of Commerce and the New Market Hounds Hunt Club will be held Sunday July 5 at the Frederick Shopping Center. The 58 classes will run in two rings on the outside course beginning with registration at 9 a.m. It may become an annual event replacing the Mid Atlantic all Morgan Show at the Frederick Fairgrounds. James H. Haley as general chairman with Richard H. Zimmerman in charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick
Frederick Fairgrounds
Quentin
James H. Haley
Richard H. Zimmerman
New Market
Maryland Horse Show Association
Robert H. Hartman Jr
Leroy W. Poole
Richard E. Rush Jr
Joseph C. Free
Charles C Rhoades
Charles W Mercer
Merkle H. Duvail
Walter IW. Kirk Jr
New Market Hounds Hunt Club
G. Ross Brinkley
Edward Verdi
Gilmore R Fiautt
Jerry Miller
Ralph B. Shipley
Thomas R. Taylor Jr
Community Child Care Center Opens For Migrant Kids
The center at East Frederick Elementary will welcome about 30 children ages three to 13 at 7 a.m. daily with a program of activities. 20 cots from Perry Point Veterans Hospital will be used for naps. Volunteers repair donated toys and seek more items such as small toys push-pull dolls outfits play dishes and wheel toys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Frederick
Perry Point Veterans Hospital
Ronnie Weintraub
Fleming Avenue
William H. Miller
Francis Scott Key Post American Legion
Miller
G. Richard Bucheimer
Cochairman
George J. Stup
Bucheimer
Truck Explodes Killing Six In Marshalls Creek Fire
A truck carrying 15 tons of explosives including ammonium nitrate and dynamite caught fire and exploded near Marshalls Creek Pennsylvania just before dawn. Six people were killed including three volunteer firefighters a truck driver a woman in a station wagon and a vacationing schoolteacher. Ten others were injured as the blast cratered the ground and shattered nearby homes and windows. Snakes released by the blast were hunted by responders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshalls Creek
Pocono Mountain
Albert Koda
Port Carbon
Albert Wada
Koda
Stroudsburg
Mrs. Duve Named By Gov Tawes To Hunting Grounds Panel
Gov J Millard Tawes appoints Mrs Justin Duve of Rockwell Terrace to the 13 member commission to study expanding hunting grounds in Maryland. She leads the National Council of State Garden Clubs and the Federated Garden Clubs of Maryland, with local garden and architectural committee roles in Frederick. Ex officio members include lawmakers and state officials. Additional appointments include King to state fair board and Lins to state apple commission with four year term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Justin Duve
Rockwell Terrace
Maryland
J. Millard Tawes
Duve
National Council of State Garden Clubs
Federated Garden Clubs of Maryland
Taskers Chance Garden Club
City of
Frederick
Dave
Daniel Poole
Rockville
Russ J. Neugebauer
Ernest P. Ogden
Frostburg
A. Kenneth Muller
Randallstown
Gordon M Cairns
University Park
Jerome H. Meredith
Federalsburg
H C Buckingham
State Department of Forests and Parks
Wilbert J. Coulbourne
Crisfield
del. R. Samuel Dillon Jr
D Washington
John Thomas Parran
D-Charles
Ernest A. Vaughn
State Department of Game and Inland Fish
Loring E Hawes
W. Larson King
Gaithersburg
State Fair Board
E. W. Lins
Hagerstown
Russell N. Flanagan
Thurmont
State Apple Commission
Franklin D. Schurz
Also Mentioned on This Page
Star Farmer
Alan Heflin
Lutheran Church
Oren W. Sirine
Rural Resource Workshop
Federal Agency
Myersville Water Plan
Health Department
New York
E. Ray Wachter
J. Moore Jr
T. G. Mohler Jr
Richard Lewis
Bruce Britton
R. Ott
J. A. Ebeling
M. A. Powell
A. R. L. Bussard
George Campbell
P. R. Klein
J. W. Forney
Thomas Burton
D. H. Pratt
New Jersey
MD. 355
Frederick Junction
Monocacy Battlefield
Crater
Mrs. Duve
Gov. Tawes
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