I-70 Route Move Draws Ridge Road Owners In
State Roads Commission engineers will meet with Ridge Road property owners and Maryland State Senator Derr to discuss locating Interstate 70 through eight Ridge Road lots near Middletown. The change shaved about 600000 from road costs by shifting the line several hundred feet toward homes built recently."}
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State Roads Commission
Ridge Road
David Fisher
SRC
Annapolis
Frederick
John A. Derr
Fisher
Bureau of Public Roads
Middletown Valley
Maryland
Thomas Pickett
Pickett
Forrest C. Johnson
Stephen K. Mester
Albert B. Easter
Picketts’ Neigh
Frederick-Hagerstown
Frederick City
New School Year Begins Sept. 1
Frederick County School Board approves tentative calendar setting classes to start September 1. Early start prompts full spring break April 2 to 11, 1966. Principals and supervisors back August 25, teachers begin August 27 for a 193 day school year. students 187 days.
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Frederick County School Board
Frederick County Teachers Association
Teens Charged In Tools Theft Case
Two 18 year old boys, David L. Oden Jr. and Wayne E. Chipley, were charged with grand larceny after $250 worth of tools disappeared from a station wagon parked near Sears Roebuck. Police arrested them at 1:15 am and recovered all the tools.
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David L. Oden Jr
West South Street
Wayne E. Chipley
RFD 1
Walkersville
John Landis
Landis
Sears and Roebuck
Derr proposes roads bill to curb SRC contracting power
Maryland state senator John A. Derr urges a bill requiring state roads commissioners to approve consulting engineering contracts. He says current practice gives sole approval to SRC chairman-director John B. Funk, and notes the high cost of such work. Derr previously called to limit the chairman's powers, but the measure failed. New York AP reports mixed early trading with scattered strength and heavy volume.
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Maryland
John A. Derr
Derr
SRC
John B. Funk
Funk
Commission
Highway Department
New York
Board approves 5000 fire safety upgrades for North Market Street School
The Frederick school board unanimously authorizes immediate 5000 in fire protection improvements at the North Market Street School after the fire marshal’s directive. Superintendent Dr Carnochan says the building is the county's worst fire hazard and may later be repurposed or closed. Fire door and stairway work, furnace improvements, and an architect are planned, funded from 1963 surplus. Continuous need to protect current elementary students cited, as relocation options are limited.
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Frederick County School Board
North Market Street
John L. Carnochan
Frederick
Carnochan
Frederick Community College
Tolbert F. Sawyer
Sawyer
Dr. Carnachan
Hallar Best
14 Year Old Driver Crashes Car Into Frederick House
A 14 year old Frederick girl, Patricia A. Wiles, was charged with driving without a license and making an improper right turn after she drove White’s 1958 sedan into a house and wall at Md 144 and Md 75. White was charged with allowing an unauthorized person to operate the vehicle and Wiles received treatment for a lip laceration. The accident damaged the car about $300 and the house suffered minor damage. Sgt. Carl R. Harbaugh investigated.
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Frederick
MD. 144
MD. 75
Patricia A. Wiles
East All Saints Street
William G. White
RFD 1
Wiles
Miss Wiles
Albert R. Miller Jr
White
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Tfc
Carl R. Harbaugh
Housekeeping Bills Passed By House
The Maryland House of Delegates approved nine housekeeping bills from Frederick County to streamline daily operations. Provisions include lifting library tax ceilings, funding libraries countywide, raising roads board pay, allowing county treasurer deposits, flexible printing, ending monthly attorney payments, requiring licensed engineers, curbing bank bid rules, adding Frederick for notice of suit within 90 days, and enabling private insurance for retirements.
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Maryland House of Delegates
Senate
Frederick County
County Roads Board
Roads Board
Frederick
Louisiana gas line blast kills seventeen in Natchitoches area
A natural gas pipeline exploded near Natchitoches Louisiana injuring many and killing seventeen residents including ten children. Flames reached 400 feet as a crater formed and five houses were leveled, with extensive property damage across 15 to 20 acres. Authorities reported nine hospitalized. one woman and baby were found killed in a ditch and road respectively.
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Natchitoches
Louisiana Highway 1
Country Club
Tennessee Gas Transmission Co
William E. Ammons
Delegation Introduces Liquor By The Drink Bill in Frederick County
Six Frederick County delegates and State Senator John A. Derr introduce a bill to allow liquor by the drink for hotels and restaurants with a $1500 annual license and $25000 assessed value. Establishments must serve meals twice daily, earn more from food than alcohol, and pass annual CPA audits presented to the liquor license commissioner. Exceptions cover districts prohibiting alcohol and some towns where only beer is allowed.
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Frederick County
John A. Derr
Tuscarora
Catoctin
Hanvers
Jackson
Linganore
Ballenger
Middletown
Jefferson
Johnsville
Burkittsville
Two Arrested In School Robbery
Police charged two out of town men with receiving stolen goods in the February 22 break in at West Frederick Junior High School. Raymond James, 25, of Hagnstown and Robert Jones, 22, of Baltimore were arrested in Baltimore Sunday. A film projector, silver tray, sugar bowl and cream pitcher were stolen and later recovered.
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Baltimore City
Hagnstown
Robert J. Jones
Baltimore
West Frederick Junior High
Red China Demands Changes in Soviet Policy
Tokyo dispatch reports Peking telling Moscow to scrap Khrushchev era policies to regain unity in the Communist world. The official daily says Khrushchevism survives in spirit and cites critical Soviet propaganda as proof.
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Tokyo
Peking
Moscow
Nikita Khrushchev
N.S
Black Muslims Deny Guilt in Malcolm X Killing
Police charged Thomas 15X Johnson thirty of the Bronx with homicide as authorities say he is a strong arm member of the Black Muslims. The group again denied involvement as a third defendant is arrested in the Malcolm X murder case.
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Thomas 15X
Malcolm X
New York
Thomas 15X Johnson
Bronx
Moscow Embassy Rocks Attack Led by Students
Anti American demonstrators clashed with police at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow driving back officers with sticks and sling shots. Over 2,000 students from Moscow and Lumumba universities smashed windows and smeared walls with ink before Soviet soldiers, in heavy overcoats, halted the disorder.
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Moscow
U.S
Lumumba
Fay D Kohler
Viet Nam
Appalachia Bill Cleared Congress for Johnson Signature
The $11 billion Appalachia aid measure cleared the House 257 to 165 after GOP amendments failed. The Senate previously passed it, and President Johnson was expected to sign promptly. The bill funds programs to bolster 360 counties across 11 states in the Appalachian region with later options to add 13 New York counties.
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Washington
Congress
Johnson
House
Senate
Appalachian
Alabama
Georgia
Kentucky
Maryland
North Carolina
Ohio
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
Tennessee
Virginia
West Virginia
New York
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J. Rolfe
Braddock Mountain
U.S. 40-A
Sen. Derr
Best
Louisiana
Red China
Raelye
Butterfly Lane
Clifton Road
Myersville
Appalachia
LBJ
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