Circus Time Again The Big Top Comes To Town
Clyde Beatty Cole Brothers Circus at Frederick Fairgrounds today offers two shows at 4 and 8 p.m. Family sideshows start an hour prior. Ringmaster Dave Hooper leads a lineup of lions and tigers, aerial acts, clowns, and a high wire display with the French trio. Elaborate acts include trapeze, equestrian feats, and a finale across a three-high stack with performers from India.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Grady
Clyde Beatty-Cole Brothers
Frederick Fairgrounds
Dave Hooper
Clyde Beatty
Hoover
P.T. Barnum
Piccadilly Circus
Maurice Berry
Moxico City
India
Fire log notes multiple regional calls in a 48 hour span
Fire logs show calls at 9:07 p.m. Sunday lamppost fire with Uniteds, 1:13 p.m. Saturday smoke in vestigation Brunswick, 4:36 p.m. Saturday shed fire with Inde pendents Braddock Heights Juniors ambulance, 3:02 p.m. Sunday field fire Mt. Airy New Market with nearby responders. Ambulance calls noted Emergency-9 Brute 1. Jail population listed males 25 females 2. Nivuspaper RAChlye.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wyngate Drive
Uniteds
Old Receiver Road
Braddock Heights
Bill Moxley
Mt. Airy
New Market
Brute
SRC Plans Major Improvements To U S 15 40 This Summer
The State Roads Commission outlined a $10 million upgrade of U S 40 and further dualization of U S 15 in Frederick County this summer. Work from Harmony Grove to Old Frederick Road will include adding a second land and improving junctions, with ecology surveys delaying some sections. I-70N upgrades will make U S 40 a six lane limited access road east of the Carroll County line, including a tunnel under I 70N and a new service road network.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Dorsey
U. S. 40
U. S. 15
Frederick
Frederick County
State Roads Commission
Harmony Grove
Kelly Store
Catoctin Furnace
Cunningham Falls State Park
Thomas G. Mahler
U. 15
Frederick Road
Mohler
SRC
Old Frederick Road
MD. 355
Guy Ramsburg
U.S. 15
Carroll County
Ijamsville Road
Baltimore
Mt. Airy
Bill Moxley
Woodville
Bathelows Road
Lynn Burke
Jury accepts guilty plea in Jefferson burglary case
Larry Bruce Jury, 19, of Jefferson pleaded guilty before Circuit Court Judge Samuel W. Barrick on breaking and entering larceny and receiving stolen goods. The plea was accepted and a pre sentence investigation was ordered. Jury was represented by public defender William R. Leckemby Jr.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Larry Bruce Jury
Jefferson
Samuel W. Barrick
William R. Leckemby Jr
Prisoner Spoons Way Out Of County Jail
A 19 year old youth awaiting trial escaped from Frederick County Jail by moving mortar around the ancient brick walls using a spoon. Sheriff Baumgartner cites inadequate facilities and limited night staffing as factors in security gaps. In other news a three year old boy was injured by a car on Magnolia Avenue. the driver faced no charges. George Hawkins, 56, will stand trial June 2 for negligent driving and impairment.
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Frederick County
Bowers
Magnolia Avenue
James Edwin Elser
Chambersburg
Frederick Memorial Hospital
John
Slezak
George William Hawkins
RFD 4
City Awaits Federal Grant To Improve Sewer System
Frederick City seeks a federal grant to fund about a mile of 54 inch interceptor sewer in the western sector. The project, with a total cost near $928,943, includes a city share of $195,959 and federal and state portions of $503,926 and $229,058 respectively. The first phase would relieve overload by connecting from the treatment plant to East Patrick Street and from College Avenue to west of Culler Lake, enabling ~300 more dwellings and future growth. Federal approval hoped by July 1 with construction starting this fall and completion about next summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick City
Michael E. Pue Jr
Gas House Pike
Patrick Street
College Avenue
Culler Lake
Baker- Webberley
Carroll Creek
Butterfly Lane
Pue
East Patrick Street
Potomac Valley
Environmental Protection Agency
Maryland State Health Department
Department of Water Resources
State Health Department
U.S. Troops In Viet Lowest In Five Years
The United States announced the withdrawal of another American division from Vietnam, cutting 6,300 troops and deactivating a major command. The Americal Division battalion south of Da Nang and the Da Nang Marine logistic command were removed, pushing overall U.S. strength to about 267,100 with a plan to reach 184,000 by December 1. In the week, 66 NVA and VC attacks occurred during Buddha's birthday ceasefires, with 56 South Vietnamese killed and 36 wounded, including 41 civilians from a sampan mine incident near the DMZ.
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Saigon
U.S
Vietnam
da Nang
Sth
46Th Infantry
U.S. Marine Logistic Command
Cen
Tral
Marine Corps
Nixon
U.5
Pacific
Americal
Americas
Quang Ngai
Quang Tin
7Th Fleet
Sunny mild weather with weekend rainfall summary
Sunny skies and mild temperatures are forecast after weekend storms dumped 0.78 inch in the county. Highs near 70 today and in the low 70s Sunday, with a 41 degree low last night. Precipitation for the month totals 1.68 inches while normal is 3.91 inches. Weather stations note traces and 0.78 inch readings across Friday to Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mercury
Frederick
WIMD
Frederick County Commissioners Continue Budget Deliberations
Frederick County Commissioners plan to meet with heads of county financed departments late next week to discuss the tentative fiscal year 1972 budget. They continue reviewing the 23 million in budget requests in executive session and near completion of the Board of Education budget, aiming for a final county budget review later in the week. Public hearings likely not held before finalization. budget and tax rate must be signed by June 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick County
John A. Derr
Board of Education
Derr
Stock market declines drag Dow at noon in cautious trade
New York stocks slipped as investors weighed international monetary concerns. Trading remained moderate with little selling pressure as the Dow Jones average of 36 industrials fell 7.52 points to 929.45 at noon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Nine Appeals Scheduled By Tax Court in Frederick County
The Frederick County Appeal Tax Court will meet Wednesday at 9 a.m. in Winchester Hall to hear nine assessment appeals. Judges Lloyd Jake Steiner W. Smith and Herbert Snyder preside with Gordon Palmer as alternate. Appeals include property owners Daniel Wight, Eldridge Fox, John Guy, Charles and Nellie Wiles, Charles Stocks, Richard Goodrich, James Main, Woodrow Souder, and John J Wilcom across locations in Urbana and Brunswick.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick County Appeal
Steiner W. Smith
Herbert Snyder
Gordon Palmer
Daniel E. Wight
MD. 355
Urbana
Eldridge B. Fox
Edgewood Church Road
John A. Guy
Park Mills Road
Charles and
Nellie Wiles
Brunswick St
Brunswick
Charles Stocks
Second Avenue
Richard L. Goodrich
East C St
James W. Main
Petersville Road
Woodrow Souder
Brunswick Street
John J. Wilcom
Tabler Road
Beall Undergoes Appendectomy Beall Undergoes Appendectomy
U S Sen J Glenn Beall Jr in satisfactory condition at Sacred Heart Hospital after emergency appendectomy Sunday night. He was admitted at 7 30 p m and had surgery by 10 p m. His mother said he was getting along fine and had felt unwell since Friday night after returning from Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cumberland
J. Glenn Beall Jr
Sacred Heart Hospital
Beall
Frostburg
Margaret Beall
Washington
Nancy
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Mark
Big Top
Gary Hoover
Dave Hoover
Cole Bros. Circus
Tiger
Young Hoover
J. Rolfe Castleman
Old Mill
Nivuspaper
Richard O. Baumgartner
Warren
Buzzy) Bowers
South Market Street
Baumgartnner
Joseph Slezak
Taney Avenue
Theodore Edwin Elser Sr
Pfc
Barry Horner
Viet
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