Salas Captures World Lightweight Crown in Upset
Slender Los Angeles featherweight Lauro Salas defeated Jimmy Carter in 15 rounds at the Olympic Auditorium to claim the world lightweight title. Judges split, with Salas earning 84 2 3 to 81 2, amid loud near-riot at ringside as the Mexican challenger, a 1 4 underdog, seized the championship on national television.
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Los Angeles
Lauro Salas
Mexico
Jimmy Carter
New York
Olympic Auditorium
Salas
Frankie van
Carter
Mushy Callahan
Joe Stone
Monterey
Ike Williams
Williams
Ike
California
Juan Zurita
National Boxing Association
Maryland Bay Bridge near completion May 14 opening July 1
Engineers near opening of Maryland's 45 million dollar Chesapeake Bay Bridge above Annapolis. Crews work 10 hours daily seven days a week to place the final deck spans by July 1 for vehicle traffic, with six gaps remaining in the main deck and finishing work on toll houses and approaches continuing on both shores.
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Annapolis
Chesapeake Bay
Trst
Maryland
Bay
Idan
Toll House
Water crossings mark eight mile span on bridge approach
The route to the bridge extends nearly eight miles with over four miles of it running above water from abutment to abutment, forming a substantial water passage sequence before reaching the main structure.
Teen alerts neighbors as home saved from fire near Cedar Grove
A 15 year old boy, awoken by smoke, alerted a neighbor and then Damascus fire department to a blaze at his family home near Cedar Grove. Firefighters halted spread from an upstairs bedroom of the two story frame house, with damage estimated at 2000 dollars. The cause was not determined.
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Cedar Grove
Gilbert Lowe
Damascus
Gaithersburg
Detour Youth In Accident At Rocky Ridge
Clarenee Calvin Burkier Jr 19 sustained a compound fracture of the left arm and was charged with failing to drive to the right of center after a collision about 7 20 o clock Wednesday evening a mile west of Rocky Ridge He was taken to Frederick Memorial Hospital by State Trooper Kenneth Bond who filed the charge The officer said Burcier s car collided with a car driven by Mrs Elsie F Peiffer 61 Waynesboro Pa on a curve Damages were about 150 to Burcier s car and 100 to Peiffer s car
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Clarenee Calvin Burkier, Jr
Rocky Ridge
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Kenneth Bond
Burther
Elsie F. Peiffer
East
Second
Waynesboro
Burcier
Local Social Notes From Taneytown and Nearby
Taneytown society figures visit and host in early summer scenes. Walter Fringery of New York visits Miss Mary Fringery and Mrs. Clyde Hessin. Clarke family and Hester join Misses Amelia and Elizabeth Annan. Mrs. Koontz of Frederick spends the summer with her daughter. Emma Ecker returns to New Windsor from a winter stay with Miss Grace Witheraw. Grace Reformed Church’s Brotherhood hosts a meeting with singing scripture and a Bible quiz won by the older men.
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Emma Ecker
New Windsor
Grace Witheraw
Grace Reformed Church
Roland Reaver
George Motier
Pine Hill group concludes season with fund drive and camp plans
The Pine Hill Planning group held its last meeting at the Meunier home, approving a Father’s Day bulletin and a $50 donation to the church building fund. Officers were thanked for supporting legal monthly meetings, plans to sponsor two girls to Western Maryland College youth camp June 23 to 27, and the recreation prize. In Elkins, Army brass arrived for Pine Ridge mountain warfare maneuvers to start in late July, led by Maj Gen Norman E. Hendrickson. Also, Russia seized three Danish fishing boats and towed them to a Soviet Baltic port, according to Copenhagen authorities.
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Pine Hill
Maurice Meunier
George Brachey
Austin Kelly
Harold McDevitt
Earl Kelly
Edna Masser
Methodist
Russell Dudrow
District Life
Elkins
W. Va
Army Brass
Pine Ridge
Norman E. Hendrickson
Viking Division
Camp Ruber
Ala
Frederick
Copenhagen
Denmark
Foreign Office
Russia
Baltic
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Iran
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Fawzia Square
Mars Opticians
N. Markei Street
Chestnut & Locust Streets
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Bowlus, Realtor
Taneytown
Albert C. Palmer
Go. Amu Wrst
Relby
the News
Frederick, Md
Thorsday
Keven
Masser
M. Harris
Edward H. Brooks
George Brumanding
Fort Meade
Cey. Md
Superior Bottled Gas Service
Frederick Bottled Gas Co
N. Market Street
RHEEM
Market St
Rainbow Casuals
Paste
Thane Peice
Chevrolet
KEY Chevrolet Sales, Inc
East Patrick ST
Monty
Ipenney
Batiste
Moon
Penney
Havana
Aterestes
S-M-L
Rayon
Mern‘s
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