State Police Probe Two Barn Fires
State Police arson investigators probed two separate barn fires last weekend. One blaze on the Roy Thompson farm near New London caused about 535,000 damage, destroying the barn calves and feed. The second fire, on U S 15 near Frederick, damaged a dairy barn and hay. 40 cows were saved, and no injuries reported. Firefighters battled blazes from Frederick water and multiple companies.
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William L. Newcomer
Cpl
Newcomer
Carl R. Harbaugh
Set
Leo Sullivan
Pikesville
Roy Thompson
Lime Plant Road
New London
U.S. 15
Frederick
U. S. 340
Misses Constance
Anna Harding
Earl Wiles
Frederick City
Paul W. Mossburg
Independent
Citizens
Hyattstown
Carroll Manor
Fort Detrick
Robert Heller Jr
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Waters Road
Germantown
Gaithersburg
Airliner Explodes Over Ohio Killing 38 People
Kenton Ohio police and volunteers searched snow fields for 38 victims after a Lake Central Convair 580 turboprop exploded in a storm over northwest Ohio. Flight TL captain John Horn tried to climb to avoid sleet before radar contact was lost.
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Kenton, Ohio
Lake Central
Marseilles
Ohio
Indianapolis
Civil Aeronautics Board
Falls City
Neb
Air Traffic Control Center
Cleveland
John Horn
Horn
Rain to snow likely with rivers rising in area
Rain will shift to snow tonight as the weather bureau forecasts. Far western Maryland saw heavy weekend rainfall causing flooding of major streams while the Monocacy and Potomac rivers rise moderately. Monocacy at the filtration plant up about 4.5 feet above normal. Potomac at Point of Rocks up about two feet since last Friday. Continuous light rain totals about 0.48 inch by 6 a.m. today with highs 35 to 40. Tonight’s lows near freezing. Tuesday cloudy with upper 30s.
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Weather Bureau
Maryland
Monocacy
Potomac
Point of Rocks
Frederick County
Mercury
County Officials Meet Behind Closed Doors
County commissioners adjourn routine business to hold private 15 minute to half hour sessions with each county department head. Clerk James Bryan said meetings let agency directors discuss department problems freely in a closed setting.
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James Bryan
Bryan
Mailboxes Destroyed In Weekend Vandalism Probe
State Police are seeking vandals who blew up two mailboxes over the weekend. Mailboxes owned by Joseph R. Lee of Hope Hill and Fred Moxley of Mapleville Road were destroyed late Saturday night by a firecracker. No suspects have been found.
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Joseph R. Lee
Hope Hill
Fred Moxley
Mapleville Road
Market gains uneven as Dow shows slim rise
In New York, the stock market moved higher in active trading. Gainers outnumbered losers about 5 to 3, but the Dow Jones industrial average posted only a slim gain as many blue chips performed indifferently.
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New York
Two area businesses report weekend thefts
Thieves broke into Telsa Body Works on Monroe Avenue and Lehigh Portland Cement Company at Woodsboro Saturday night. In both sites a vending machine and office areas were forced open. change and money totaling about $20 were stolen with no signs of forced entry. Investigations continue.
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Telsa Body Works
Monroe Avenue
Lehigh Portland Cement Company
Woodsboro
Brazilian Plane Crash Kills 56 in Monrovia
An Varig four engine jetliner crashed into a house in fog near Monrovia Liberia. 56 dead including an American woman and five Liberians, 38 survivors. Among the injured is Spec. 4 James A. Brown on 30 day leave from Vietnam.
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Monrovia
Liberia
Vietnam
Varig Airlines
Beirut
Rome
Brazil
U.S
James A. Brown
U.S. Army
Sao Paulo
Fire Sweeps Orphans Lodge in French Alps
A blaze at a 13th century cloister converted into a winter orphanage in Taninges, Haute- Savoie, France, killed at least 14 boys and left six in critical condition. About 120 residents were housed there. 12 bodies were found in ruins and two died in hospital. Officials feared 6 to 10 others were unaccounted for while 25 more children were hospitalized with injuries. The fire began around 3:30 a.m. and burned for nearly five hours despite multiple fire brigades. The cause was undetermined.
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Irene Heckathorn
Robert
Charles O. Redding
Bonneville
France
French Alps
Taninges
Annecy
Tainges
Clus
Haute-Savoie
Marines Battle Near Buffer Zone In Vietnam Clash
A Marine company and a North Vietnamese battalion clashed about 3000 yards south of the DMZ. One enemy soldier was killed as Marines called for reinforcements and pursued an artillery aided assault amid being outnumbered by about 500 enemy troops. Air strikes hit Haiphong area Do San depot, and 24 Americans were killed, 78 wounded, four missing in 48 hours of operations.
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Saigon
U.S
Marine
da Nang
North Vietnam
Haiphong
Do San
Air Force
Navy
South Vietnam
U.S. Command
U.S. Army
Vandals Slit Tires Near TJ High School
Major Charles V. Main, chief of city police, urged residents to help solve a tire slashings spree. Thirteen cars parked near Governor Thomas Johnson High School had 16 tires punctured after 7 p.m. Friday across nine streets. Cpl. Donald E. Tracey found the damage. several more cars may have been damaged but unreported. Suspects were questioned and released as investigators continue.
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Charles V. Main
Main
Governor Thomas Johnson High School
Donald E. Tracey
NLM
Merger Approved as Western Maryland Joins C and O B and O
The ICC voted 8 to 2 to merge Western Maryland into the Chesapeake and Ohio and Baltimore and Ohio system. The ruling ends a case started in 1928 and requires attrition protection for employees, allowing transfers across the system while preserving routes and interchanges.
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Virginia Mae Brown
ICC
C&ob&o
Western Maryland
Maryland Senate weighs death penalty abolition amid budget furor
In Annapolis the Maryland Senate opened debate on abolishing capital punishment for crimes including murder and rape with life imprisonment as proposed punishment. The House plans a constitutional convention vote while budget talks pressure state finances and tax hike proposals. The session outlines a timetable for a state constitutional convention, with filing deadlines, nonpartisan delegate elections, and a May 1 next-year submission.
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Annapolis
Maryland Senate
House of Delegates
Agnew
Senate
House
Younger Men Get First Call
President Johnson called for a lottery style draft system under Selective Service and urged Congress to extend the draft law four years. He said deferments for fathers essential workers and most graduate students would end, though undergraduate student deferments may remain under review. He postponed a decision on ending student deferments and kept hardship deferments. Johnson signaled many changes would unfold over months and perhaps not until 1969. He did not commit to slashing local draft boards and ordered a study on consolidation. Draftees would be mainly 19 year olds chosen by lottery and thus eligible for a single year of service with possible escape if not needed.
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Washington
Johnson
Congress
Texas White House
Gaullists Hold Own In French Election
Paris AP reports that Charles de Gaulle’s Gaullist forces held as the largest party in the first round of the 1962 National Assembly election. With 470 of 487 seats reported, they captured about seven percent of the vote, mirroring the 1962 pattern and foreshadowing a likely majority similar to the 24 seat margin in the outgoing Parliament as overseas returns continue.
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Paris
Charles de Gaulle
France
National Assembly
Pariament de Gaulle
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