Gas House Pike To Be Rebuilt In Frederick County
The Frederick County Roads Board will rebuild and widen Gas House Pike this year with a new Monocacy River bridge. A 1.155 mile section from Linganore Road toward Frederick is out for bid with bids due May 24. The project uses federal aid and includes clearing, grading, draining, and paving.
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Frederick County Roads Board
Gas House Pike
Russell Zz. Horman
Monocacy River
Linganore Road
Frederick
The
Roads Board
Offfce
Horman
Southey T. Nottingham
Five Wrecks Reported In Six Hours
State Police logged five accidents in a six hour span. A milk truck overturned on U.S. 40A near Frederick after its driver Harold Musselman 18 fell asleep. The truck sustained 1500 dollars in damage and Musselman charged with reckless driving.
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P. Richard Sanders
Harold K. Musselman
RFD 2
Greencastle
Frederick
Musselman
Cardinal Shehan Dedicates Memorial Campanile at Mt. St. Marys
Cardinal Lawrence Shehan led a dedicatory day at Mt. St. Marys College Emmitsburg with the Pangborn Campanile a 26 foot statue of Our Lady of The Mountain atop a ten story tower. About 800 attendees including Archbishop O Boyle and church officials attended the 11 am provincial house ceremony. The National Shrine Grotto public 3 pm campanile ceremony drew crowds to the site near the Lourdes grotto replica designated a National Shrine in 1958.
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Lawrence Cardinal Shehan
Baltimore
Emmitsburg
Mt. St. Mary’s College
St. Joseph’s College
O’boyle
Washington
Harrisburg
Salt Lake City
Utah
St. Joseph's
National Shrine
Mt. St. Mary's College
Hagerstown
Thomas W. Pangborn
Pangborn Foundation
Pangborn
Tommasi
Pietrasano
Italy
Church of Saint Mary
John Dubois
God
Empire State Building
New York
U.S. Grotto
Spike Jones Dies in Sleep at Bel Air Home
Bandleader Spike Jones, 53, renowned for his zany music, died in his sleep at his Bel Air residence after a relapse following recent asthma treatment. He is survived by his widow Helen Grayce and three children. Born Lindsey Armstrong Jones in Long Beach in 1911, Jones started as a swing drummer and created his famous noisy spoof style beginning with the hit Der Fuehrer's Face.
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Los Angeles
Spike Jones
Bel-Air
Jones
Santa Monica Hospital
Pete James
James
Helen Grayce
City Slickers
Lindsey Armstrong ‘Jones
Long Beach
Calif
Adolf Hitler
der Fuehrer
Bronx
Three Killed In Bridge Mishap Near Newburg
Three people died and seven were injured in a two car crash on the Potomac River Bridge near Newburg Maryland. One vehicle caught fire and the high arch span halted traffic in both directions for about ninety minutes.
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Newburg
Potomac River
Miss Flood Tragedy In Last Act
The Mississippi River neared Hannibal Missouri with 25 to 25.5 feet crest expected Sunday at Quincy Illinois. Twelve deaths have occurred across Iowa Minnesota Wisconsin and Illinois and about 150 million dollars in damage reported as river front stores flooded and tourists gawked. Upstream levees deteriorate while Hannibal insurers sandbag doors and residents evacuate a few homes as the crest subsides at several Iowa and Illinois cities.
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Hannibal
Mississippi
Minnesota
Missouri
Iowa
Wisconsin
Illinois
U.S. Weather Bureau
Quinsey
Ill
Quincy
Rock Creek
Indian Grove
Dubuque
Clinton
Davenport
Moline
Rock Island
Bomb rocks U.S. consulate in Montreal
An early morning dynamite blast damaged the U.S. consulate in Montreal, shattering 78 windows and six doors and tearing through an elevated passage. No one was inside. U.S. Consul-General Richard Hawkins called it unusual and said investigators had no clue about the motive.
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Montreal
U.S
Richard Hawkins
Canada
Waitress Receives $15,000 Tip in Will Bequest
Warwick Rhode Island AP reports Mrs Joseph A Whitaker 39 was named beneficiary in the will of Earl C Mackay. She receives 15000 dollars as a specific bequest and a third of the 360000 estate after 50000 is paid, honoring a customer described as kind and courteous.
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Warwick
R.I
Joseph A. Whitaker
Earl C. Mackay
Civil Rights Leaders King and Foreman See Unity Despite Differences
Dr Martin Luther King Jr and James Foreman acknowledged differences yet agreed to cooperate on several civil rights projects. The joint statement noted plans to support voting rights legislation the Alabama boycott and challenging Mississippi congressmen seating. Harry Belafonte was invited as an observer and discussed issues with the leaders.
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Atlanta, Ga
Martin Luther King Jr
James Foreman
King
Foreman
Southern Christian Leadership
Conerence
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Harry Belafonte
Belafonte
Mmarks
SCLC
ISNCC
Alabama
Mississippi
May Day Celebration Red China Drinks Toast To Victory
Communist China urged foreign delegates in Peking to back Viet Nam's patriotic struggle against U S imperialism during May Day events. Chou En Lai hailed a global anti imperialist alliance and called for a mass movement to drive the United States from Viet Nam and other occupied lands.
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Tokyo
China
Peking
South Viet Nam
U.S
Chou En-lai
New China News Agency
Indochina
Cho
Taiwan
Moscow
Viet Nam
Action Group Plans Meet Tuesday in Frederick County
The Frederick County Community Action Committee under temporary chairman George D. Wood plans its next session Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the Magistrate's Courtroom. A statistics report on education, income, and economic conditions will be presented, and a preliminary draft of proposed by laws will be issued to members.
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Frederick County Community Action Committee
George D. Wood
Frederick County
Wood
Edward D. Storm
CAC
Dropout quits poverty program in Michigan town
A 16 year old high school dropout dropped out of a work study program after six weeks and earning 120 dollars. He enrolled in woodwork and worked as an assistant janitor at the high school. He said he had enough money to make a down payment on a motorcycle.
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Paw Paw
Mich
Southwestern
Michigan
USSR calls for urgent U.N. session on Dominican crisis
Tass reports Moscow demanded an emergency Security Council meeting to examine U.S. armed intervention in the Dominican Republic. The agency condemned the move as imperialist, noting Johnson ordered troops to land on April 28 and Marines increased to 1,700 the next day.
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Moscow
Tass
Soviet Union
United Nations Security Council
Dominican Republic
Ussr
United Nations
Security Council
U.S.A
Viet Cong Arms Cache Captured Near Saigon
Saigon reported a large capture of Viet Cong arms including precision flame throwers and East German heavy machine guns believed from China. In three days of coastal mangrove sweeps 152 Viet Cong were killed, 35 captured, 42 suspects rounded up, with 3 Vietnamese casualties and 11 wounded. Civilians fled to government zones as U.S. airstrikes and leaflets warned of danger.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
China
U.S
Contrat
Cease Fire Fails To Halt War In Dominican Republic
In Santo Domingo heavy fighting continued despite a 5 30 p m Friday cease-fire. Rebels led by Hugo Conde and Col Fausto Caamano cannot fully control armed followers including civilians and dissident officers. One US Marine was killed and 14 Marines with 4 paratroopers were wounded in clashes near the U S Embassy and other areas as international moves unfold. The Soviet Tass agency called the U S intervention an act of imperialism as the OAS moves to arbitration and a peace mission heads to the capital.
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Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Juan Bosch
U.S
Defense Department
Washington
Amercan
Tass
Soviet Union
U.N. Security Council
Domincan
U.S. State Department
W. Tapley ‘Bennett
Johnson
Bennett
Organization of American States Commission
OAS
Hugo Conde
Col
Fausto Caamano
Francisco
Elias Wessin Y Wessin
Army
Air Force
Navy
Lost 1961 color slide of Frederick girl seeks owner
A color slide of a smiling young girl, slightly older than in the photo, lost since 1961, is held by the News-Post editorial office. Frederick residents Mrs Joseph Graves and a former resident in Florida hope the owner or parents will claim it and be contacted for return.
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News-Post
Frederick
St. Petersburg
Fla
Joseph Graves
News- Post
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Richard E. Cook
Carroll E. Sulcer
Jefferson
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Cook
Fr. Lippold
Earl Nusbaum
Call
Montgomery County Sales
HIVE
Cardinal Shehan
Lourdes
France
Holy See
Hugh J. Phillips
Red Square
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Red China
U. S
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Russia
U.N
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