Circus Clown Beats 9 5 Routine at Frederick Fairgrounds
Clyde Beatty Cole Bros Circus arrives in Frederick for 4 and 8 p.m. shows with Jimmy James the white face clown limping from a slipped disk but slated to perform. Jimmy, nicknamed Cookhouse Louie, relies on breakfast in the trailers as he and other clowns prepare. Children help set up canvases while elephant trainer Fred Logan commands Helen Sue and Pete as the Big Top goes up.
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Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. Circus
Frederick Fairgrounds
Jimmy James
Jimmy
Louie
Hagerstown
Rockville
Frederick
Fred Logan
barks
Robert Kennedy Named Goodwill Worker of the Year
Robert Kennedy was named Goodwill worker of the year by Goodwill Industries of the Montgomery Valley Inc. on Tuesday. Despite physical and emotional disabilities he has earned an education and progressed.
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Robert Kennedy
Goodwill Industries of Monocacy Valley Inc
Kennedy
Frederick scout leader wins Silver Beaver by phone
Donald G. Schley of Myersville receives the Silver Beaver Award during the Francis Scott Key District ceremony at the Church of the Brethren on May 6. He is recuperating from a broken back after a fall at home as scouts staged a live phone presentation from his residence with a conference line to the event. The audience heard the award presentation via telephone link facilitated by the telephone company.
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Frederick
Donald G. Schley
Myersville
Francis Scott Key
Boy Scouts of America
Church of the Brethren
Fairview Avenue
Schley
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Charles Glick
Walter Roney
Neimann Brunk
C&P Telephone Co
Carl V. Weakley
Seven MIGs Down In Deep North Vietnam Raids
Saigon reports seven enemy MIGs shot down in the deepest U S air strikes inside North Vietnam in over four years. U S planes attacked Hanoi Haiphong and surrounding rail lines destroying depots and repair shops as a naval task force shelled coastal positions. Martial law was proclaimed in South Vietnam and four U S aircraft were reported lost since Sunday.
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SAIGON
U.S
North Vietnam
China
7th Fleet
Haiphong
Thailand
Gulf of Tonkin
Nixon
Hanoi
Time For Frederick Plan Now Says Man In Street
Citizens on North Market Street gather for a curbside coffee klatch with FDP leaders to voice views on the Frederick Development Plan. Dialog notes impatience with ten years of talk, calls for action on parking and eminent domain, and pressure on merchants and city government to move beyond procrastination.
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Frederick
North Market Street
Square Corner
David Bork
Richard R. Kline
FDP
Frederick County
koffee klatch
Fire Log Summary for 24-hour Period
Fire calls reported through 10 am with emergency and routine counts. Ambulance EMS numbers listed. Jail population shows 24 males and 2 juveniles with no females. City and county agencies noted for emergency responses.
Bell Ringing Weekend At Frederick’s Trinity Chapel
The event features daily bell ringing and concerts May weekend at Trinity Chapel and Baker Park Carillon. George T. Schroeder Jr. will perform on chimes with history talks while H. David Hagan plays the Baker Park Carillon. Cambridge Handbell Ringers directed by Mrs. Rosamerel Emge perform 1 to 3 p.m. in the Key Hotel lobby.
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Bell & History Days
Trinity Chapel
Baker Park
Cambridge
Frederick
Evangelical Reformed United Church of Christ
George T. Schroeder Jr
H. David Hagan
Rosamerel Emge
Francis Scott Key Hotel
Historic District Commission Plans Hearings May 11
The Historic District Commission will hold a public hearing May 11 at 4 p.m. in City Hall board room. Items include Farmers and Mechanics National Bank plan to raze four houses for a bank addition with drive up facilities. Also Fox’s Sporting Goods and Liquor Store seeks a double face sign and Brownie’s on West Patrick Street requests another double face sign.
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The
Historic District Commission
City Hall
Farmers and Mechanics National Bank
Fox's Sporting Goods and Liquor Store
Brownie
West Patrick Street
Juniors Started In 1838 As Young Men's Fire Company
Frederick City’s Bell & History Days recalls Junior Fire Company No. 2 founded in 1838 by Alexander Mantz William Carlton and George Webster. The group formed after witnessing Horatio Waters dwelling fire and sought funds for gear. First engine ordered 1839 from Baltimore with vermilion red paint and 150 foot stream capability.
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Young Men’s Fire Company
NANCY MORRIStaff
Alexander K. Mantz
William Carlton
George F. Webster
Horatio Waters
W. South Street
City Hall
Young Men’s Fire Co
Mr. Mantz
Dill house
John Rodgers
Baltimore
Dukeharts
Henry Boteler
Frederick
Market
Church Street
Farmers & Mechanics National Bank
Second
Market streets
William Pitts
Ezra Dadysman
William Gittinger
James Brunner
Samuel Canby
George L. Brengle
George Webster
James
Protests Mount As War Escalates Nationwide
Antiwar demonstrations swell across cities and campuses in a turbulence rivaling 1970 protests. Berkeley officers fire putty bullets during clashes near UC Berkeley, while a Santa Barbara bank torched in 1970 is refired. Buckshot wounds one reporter in Albuquerque as arrests top Gainesville and Boulder counts. Interstate 25 blockages end under tear gas. two injuries reported.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nixon
U.S
Cambodia
Berkeley
Calif
University of California
Santa Barbara
Albuquerque
N.M
Gainesville
Fla
National Guard
Boulder
Colo
Carolyn Babb Coburn
University of New Mexico law
Interstate 25
McGovern Wins Nebraska Primary as Humphrey Crushes Wallace in West Virginia
Senator George McGovern defeats Hubert Humphrey in Nebraska’s primary while Humphrey beats George Wallace in West Virginia. McGovern calls the win a “magnificent victory” and signals momentum ahead of California and the convention. delegates from Nebraska and West Virginia are decided separately from nonbinding presidential preferences.
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CARL P. LEABSDORF
Sen
George McGovern
Hubert H. Humphrey
Nebraska
Humphrey
George C. Wallace
West Virginia
McGovern
Omaha
Washington
Lincoln
California
South Dakota
Cavetown Man Found Dead In Car On Eyler's Valley Road
The body of 28 year old Gary Lester Jacobs was found in his car along Eyler's Valley Road near Flint at about 6 50 am by Richard Swisher who reported the scene to authorities. Police found no foul play and the medical examiner ordered an autopsy in Baltimore. Funeral arrangements are not complete.
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Eyler’s Valley Road
Flint
Ma 81
Gary Lester Jacobs
Carl Harbaugh
Richard Swisher
Swisher
Jacobs
Frederick County
Robert Thomas
Baltimore
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J. Rolfe Castleman
Helen
Sue
Pete
Goodwill
Donald Schley
Silver Beaver Award
NEW YORK
North Viet
South Vietnam
Tass
DMZ
Republic of Vietnam
Nguyen Van Thieu
Farlier
U.S. Command 1
Historic Group
Frederick City
Neb
W. Va
OLD— Junior Fire Company
W. Second St
Silsby Mig, Co
Seneca
Davis
Falls
N.Y
Lutheran Church
Peter Pirsch
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