Montgomery Opens First Parking Garage Tuesday
Montgomery County Government and Public Works dedicate the first public multi level garage at Woodmont Avenue and Battery Lane Bethesda. The two level facility serves 340 cars with future expansion for 192 more. 24 hour operation and three entrances. A second three level garage is planned in Silver Spring Cameron Street Ward Place with 530 spaces and potential 738 after expansion. Bethlehem area contractors Bowling Gardiner JV led by Bethesda.
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Montgomery County
Woodmont Avenue
Woodmont Triangle
Bethesda
Silver Spring
Montgomery County Council
Department of Public Works
Battery Lane
Rugby Avenue
Stanley H. Arthur
Bureau of Parking
Farragut Builders, Inc
Kensington
Kordella
Public Works
Cameron Street
Ward Place
Bowling & Gardiner, Inc
Collins and Kronstadt
Leahy, Hogan and Collins
School Bid Opening Set For Today
Bids for a four classroom addition to Urbana elementary school will be opened at 2 p.m. in the Board of Education office. The 5,200 square foot expansion, mainly for classrooms, is estimated at about 85 000 dollars. Architects Bushey and Chapman, successors to Hagerstown planners, forecast occupancy by the fall term. Two current Urbana rooms move to the new addition and Civil Defense storage moves from the old building. The former school site will join a proposed Urbana industrial park developed by James McSherry and Joseph Ganley.
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Board of Education
Bushey and Chapman
Hagerstown
Atty. James McSherry
Joseph Ganley
Woman Gives Home To 14 Cats And 2 Dogs
In Melbourne Australia the bungalow hosts 14 cats, two dogs, a cockatoo and a parrot. The late owner Hilda Morrison left the house and funds to friends and neighbors to care for the animals for life.
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Melbourne
Australia
Hilda Morrison
Building Team Credits for Ramp Consulting Project
Ramp Consulting Services of New York City prepared the materials while H L Keller and Associates of Silver Spring served as structural designer. Kenneth Cobb and Associates, also of Silver Spring, acted as electrical consultant for the project.
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Ramp Consulting Services, Inc
New York City
H. L Keller and Associates
Silver Spring
Kenneth Cobb and Associates
Grissom Set for First Controllable Orbital Flight in Gemini
Astronaut Virgil I Grissom plans to become the first person to control an orbital flight in space along with Navy Lt Cmdr John W Young as co pilot. The 52 minute three orbit mission aims to test orbiter guidance for future rendezvous missions as NASA outlines the Gemini program details. Grissom will be 39 on April 3 and previously became the second American in space with a suborbital flight.
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Buck Rogers
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Grissom set for orbital maneuvering and landing autonomy
Grissom will perform four orbital changes and pilot a 7 000 pound capsule for most of the flight using tiny thrusters and an on board computer to pick and reach a landing about 70 miles northeast of Grand Turk Island. Engineering tests include radiation exposure on blood and sea urchin eggs and a reentry plasma blackout reduction experiment. Backup crew includes Cmdr Walter M Schirra Jr and Maj Thomas P Stafford. The Tennessee Walking Horse is described with its three gaits.
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Grissom
Grand Turk Island
Navy
Walter M. Schirra Jr
Air Force
Thomas P. Stafford
Montgomery Guardsmen Join Far East Aid Air Mission
National Guardsmen from Montgomery County will assist the Military Air Transport Service by flying a plane to the Southeast Pacific base in Okinawa. The 167th Air Transport Group based in Martinsburg West Virginia departs Saturday for a nine day cargo run. Major David S. Doyle of Bethesda and Second Lt Elwood M Wilson Jr of Takoma Park are among the volunteers.
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Military Air Transport Service
Far East
167Th Air Transport Group
Martinsburg
W Va
Pacific
Okinawa
David S. Doyle
Bethesda
Elwood M. Wilson Jr
Takoma Park
U S Woman Sets Self Afire in Viet Nam Protest
Detroit. Alice Herz a German born widow 2yearold woman sustained second and third degree burns after pouring flammable liquid on her clothes and setting herself ablaze in a protest over U S policy in Viet Nam Her condition was critical as passersby helped extinguish the flames Also mention of Buffalo Bill Cody burial near Lookout Mountain Golden Colorado.
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Detroit
U.S
Viet ‘Nam
Alice Herz
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