Board To Buy Site For New Valley Elementary School
Frederick County School Board met in special session and voted to purchase a 77 acre tract from the Brown Estate southwest of Jefferson along U.S. 340 for the proposed Valley Elementary School. The $700 per acre land price and site location sparked debate among Jefferson and Burkittsville communities before approval.
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Frederick County
New Valley
John L. Carnochan
Brown
Jefferson
U.S. 340
Maryland 385
Broad Run
Horine
Burkittsville
Mary Condon Hodgson
Frederick
Lavenia Hood
Brunswick
C. Gordon Smith
Ijamsville
Carnochan
Jefferson Town
Texas Girl Leads In Carling Golf Meet
Kathy Whitworth led by one stroke after the first round of the Lady Carling Golf Tournament at Turf Valley. The San Antonio native shot a 70 on the 6,460-yard course aided by five birdies and eight pars amid a quirky round. Carol Mann of Towson and Australia’s Marge Masters tied for second with 71s.
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Ellicott City
Kathy Whitworth
Carol Mann
Towson
Australia
Births Dip At Frederick Memorial Hospital In Fiscal Year
Frederick Memorial Hospital recorded 1335 births this fiscal year, 95 fewer than last year, with 683 boys and 652 girls. Doctors cite possible influences from birth control adoption, reduced marriages, and nationwide trends, noting postwar baby boom effects may still ripple through.
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Frederick County
Frederick Memorial Hospital
the Hospital
Harry Gray
Gerald Sauter
Potomac Group backs Johnson line on water plan
Dr. Spencer M. Smith Jr. says the Citizens' Conference follows President Johnson's call for a fresh look at science before dam proposals on the Potomac. A resolution urges distillation and treatment plants to clean water and protect small communities, opposing large Seneca dams. Frederick County figures participate. Anthony Wayne Smith to present the resolution.
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Spencer M. Smith Jr
Citizens’ Conference
Potomac River Basin
Johnson
Army Engineers
Potomac River
Smith
George Washington Hotel
Winchester
Potomac
Seneca
U.S
Charles McC. Mathias Jr
Secretary of the Interior
Interior Department
Iten
Army Corps of Engineers
Farm Organization
Labor UN
Ion
Frederick County
Walter Foster
Frederick
Monocacy Canoe Association
Citizens Conference
Anthony Wayne Smith
National Parks Association
Group Claims Names To Bar Districts
In Baltimore the Citizens Committee for Congressional Representation says it has collected substantially more than the 23 080 signatures needed to force Maryland 1965 congressional redistricting to a referendum. The drive seeks to prevent Baltimore City from losing a district as the plan would reduce its eight districts to seven.
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Baltimore
Maryland
Paul E. Welsh
Citizens Committee For Congressional Representation
Supreme Court
Lloyd L.simpkins
Atty
Thomas B. Finan
Baltimore City
Investigators Seek Cause Of Big Air Force Crash EL TORO
Air Force investigators focused on why the four engine C135 transport crashed near Loma Ridge California killing 84 people including 72 Marines bound for Okinawa. The jet crashed in fog and drizzle after takeoff from the Military Air Transport Service facility near McGuire Air Force Base New Jersey en route to Honolulu.
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EL Toro
Calif
Air Force
Loma Ridge
McGuire Air Force Base
N.J
Honolulu
Camp Pendleton
Okinawa
Picasa
Viet Nam
John Andre
Andre
Cover Of Book May Be Law Violation
Washington AP The Secret Service weighs whether former Postmaster General J Edward Day violated federal law with the dust jacket of My Appointed Round 929 Days as Postmaster General The jacket shows 11 postage stamps in color raising potential criminal penalties The Secret Service official said they will have to take action if the jacket infringes the law despite the book’s publication and the agency’s role in enforcing the rule.
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Washington
U.S. Secret Service 1
J. Edward Day
Secret Service
U.S
State To Start I-70 Next Year
Frederick County will see Interstate 70 construction begin by next spring. SRC head Jon B. Funk and county engineer Southey T. Nottingham announced the project from Frederick to Hagerstown should be finished by late 1967. The meeting in Hagerstown focused on Washington County work, with local officials and utility reps present.
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Frederick County
State Roads Commission
Southey T. Nottingham
Jon B. Funk
SRC
Frederick
Hagerstown
Washington County
Nottingham
Beaver Creek
Charles E. Collins
Potomac Edison Company
Chessapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
PE President Reports Higher Electricity Sales This Year
C D Lyon president of Potomac Edison told PE board in Frederick that kilowatt hour sales rose 11 percent in the first five months of 1964 across residential commercial and industrial sectors. Commercial up 19 percent residential 16 percent and industrial 10 percent. Residential use reached a record 5252 kilowatt hours mean while electric heating drives growth with 517 new connections in 1965 against 331 in 1964. The company also updated on its 15.5 million construction program this year.
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C. D. Lyon
Potomac Edison Co
Lyon
Frederick
Potomac Edison
Fireman Overcome By Smoke At City Fire
A United Fire Company firefighter was overcome by smoke and hospitalized at Frederick Memorial Hospital after battling a blaze at 20 22 South Court Street. Thomas Wiles of East Patrick Street was treated for smoke inhalation and released. John Corpolongo of West College Terrace helped rescue an elderly woman. The fire, blamed on faulty wiring and a short circuit, began in the attic of the three story building with most damage to second floor apartments belonging to Mrs. Mary E. Wilson and Catherine Holliday.
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United Fire Company
Frederick Memorial Hospital
South Court Street
Thomas Wiles
East Patrick Street
John Corpolongo
West College Terrace
Mary E. Wilson
Catherine Holliday
Maryland PTA conference approves nine point education program
The Maryland PTA Congress board approved a nine point legislative program to be proposed at the November state convention in Baltimore. Priorities include a six point plan for higher education expansion, universal community colleges, expansion of free tuition for public workers, and extended state aid to public kindergartens. Additional aims cover school standards with librarian certification by 1970, driver education, early identification and treatment of emotional problems in children, higher welfare payments, welfare protection in counties, day care expansion with standards, preschool education access beyond Head Start, and revamping vocational and technical education across Maryland.
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Board of Managers
Maryland Pta Congress
PTA
Parent Teachers Association
Baltimore
Maryland Congress of Parents and Teachers
Hood College
University of Maryland
Maryland
American Library Association
State Department of Education
Hope Fades For Gls Held As Prisoners
Communist Viet Cong forces overran a district town and a battalion command post in separate attacks near Saigon and Kontum. Military spokesmen reported 44 Vietnamese infantrymen killed and 40 wounded at the Duc Hoa post west of Saigon, and contact lost with Tou Marong defenders north of Kontum. An M48 tank accident near Bien Hoa killed one American and two Australians, with 10 wounded. An explosion at Bien Hoa Air Base killed one American and two Australians, likely due to a grenade.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Dong Xoai
Duc Hoa
Tou Marong
Kontum
Central Highlands
U.S
Bien Hoa
Stull Receives Life Term In Montgomery County Slaying
Charles Stanley Stull of Silver Spring was sentenced to life imprisonment for first degree murder in the shooting death of 67-year-old Donald Snyder, a storekeeper and antique dealer on Maryland Route 28. Montgomery Circuit Court Judge Kathryn J. Lawlor Shook denounced capital punishment and urged reform as she delivered the life term.
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Montgomery County
Charles Stanley Stull
Silver Spring
Dickerson
Stull
Donald Snyder
Quince Orchard
Maryland
Kathryn J. Lawlor Shook
Montgomery Circuit Court
Shook
Judge Shook
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Burgess
Potomac Group
LBJ
Korea
Dong Xuai
Maxwell D. Taylor
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Rockville
Newspark
J. Rolfe Castiemar
John B. Funk
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