Frederick City Flushing and Painting Fire Hydrants
Frederick City water department cleans and inspects fire hydrants this spring, with flushing mostly after 10 PM to reduce sediment. City engineer says cloudy water is not dangerous due to purification. Crews focus on the southern hydrants while a new 12 inch main on Baughman’s Lane boosts service, completing the western water loop for better pressure and reliability.
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Frederick City
Robert A Whiteford
City
Baughman’s Lane
Whiteford
WF. Delauter and Son Construction Company
Thurmont
Rock Creek
U S Bombs North Viet Island and Bridges
U S war planes dropped 12 tons on Hon Nieu Island 130 miles north of the 17th Parallel destroying an antiaircraft battery two buildings and a radar tower. Six F105s and supporting jets retreated after a 20 minute strike amid heavy ground fire. Navy planes also damaged bridges and barges 160 miles south of Hanoi before returning to carrier. Viet Cong attacks spread in the northern 1st Arms Corps raising fears of a major offensive.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Hon Nieu Island
17Th Parallel
U.S
Hanoi
Oriscany
Brunswick Men Told To Grow Beards
Brunswick mayor James E Cummings bans shaving from June 3 to September 6 as part of the Diamond Jubilee observance. Men who comply will be named Brothers of the Brush and receive official recognition. The event marks Brunswick’s 75th anniversary with a carnival parade and activities from August 28 to September 6.
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Brunswick
James E Cummings
Brunswicks
Brothers of the Brush
Cummings
Goa
Buck Rogers Action Astronaut To Try World First Rendezvous
Cape Kennedy Fla AP Astronaut Edward H White II will exit Gemini 4 and use a spacegun to move within 20 feet of an orbiting spent rocket in the first space rendezvous. Space agency officials announced the plan saying success would surpass Soviet limits. Gemini 4 technicians replaced a faulty battery and prepared the Titan 2 launched mission scheduled for next Thursday morning. White and James A McDivitt, Air Force majors, will conduct a four day flight to orbit.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Edward H. White
White
Space Agency
George E. Mueller
Pad 19
Cape Kenne
Federal Housing Aid Delayed in Frederick
The Frederick Housing Authority cannot obtain federal funds to build public housing until a workable city plan for health, construction, housing and enforcement is approved by federal authorities. The agency seeks funds for 50 units now on a three acre Carver area site and 150 more later, with only 35 units possible on the Carver-adjacent tract and another site chosen for the remainder.
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Frederick Housing Authority
Frank Mann
Housing Authority
Housing and Home Finance Agency
Frederick
Carver Apartments
Deaf School Sermon Set Sunday
Baccalaureate services for the Maryland School for the Deaf Frederick graduating class will be held Sunday at 3 pm in the auditorium. Commencement exercises follow next Friday at 10 30 am in the school gym. Rev Eugene McVickers of Gallaudet College will deliver the sermon. Dr Francis Andrews of the Maryland School for the Blind Overlea will give the featured address. Larry Wessels will read The Value of Scouting by Louis Bowie. Diplomas will be presented by Lloyd A Ambrosen. Invocation and benediction by Rev Carroll L Boyer.
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Maryland School For the Deaf
Frederick
Eugene McVickers
Department of Religion
Gallaudet College
Washington
Francis Andrews
Maryland School For the Blind
Overlea
Larry Wessels
Louis Bowie
Lloyd A Ambrosen
Frederick School
Carroll L Boyer
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
Bloodmobile Visits Set in Frederick at Church June 2 and 22
The Red Cross Bloodmobile will visit Evangelical Lutheran Church on East Church Street in Frederick on June 2 from 5 30 p m and June 22 from 10 a m to 3 30 p m These drives mark the end of Frederick’s third fiscal year with the National Red Cross Blood Program James A Grove chairman of the Frederick County Blood Program expects another successful year meeting the annual quota and providing blood protection for all residents.
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Red Cross
Frederick
Evangelical Lutheran Church
East Church Street
Tite
James A Grove
Frederick County
Holiday Traffic Deaths Report Near Normal Level
The Associates Press notes Memorial Day weekend traffic deaths are near normal for a non-holiday period. A preliminary log shows 0 boating incidents, 1 drowning, and a total of 57 fatalities across the early hours of the long weekend.
No Paper Monday Observance at Frederick News
The Frederick News will not publish on Memorial Day. The business office closes for the day while editorial offices reopen after 4 p.m.
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The
Frederick News
Head Start to Expand Across Seven Frederick County Schools
Mrs Charlotte K Smith is named director of Project Head Start, a federal program aiding underprivileged preschoolers. The expanded scheme runs June 28 to August with 21 classes in seven schools, serving 15 to 20 pupils each and prioritizing books and learning materials. Toys collection drive organized by the Womans Club of Frederick runs through June 15, with drop offs at North Market Elementary and Steiner House.
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Charlotte K Smith
North Market Street
South Frederick
East Frederick
Urbana
New Market School
Brunswick
Thurmont
Womans Caic Club of
Frederick
North Market
Steiner House
West Patrick Street
Glenn Swisher
C. Edward Hamilton
Bitter Viet Nam clash shatters Soviet Chinese peace
MOSCOW AP The Soviet Chinese alliance over Viet Nam appears fractured after a sharp exchange. Pravda urged averting a world war while China accused Moscow of aiding US peace efforts. The dispute may affect future Southeast Asia policy and raise hopes for a world Communist showdown conference.
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Moscow
Viet’ Nam
Peking
Southeast Asia
Soviet Union
Viet Nam
Kremlins
Pravda
New China News Agency
Aleve N Kosygin
Asia
China
Griffin Named Head Coach of U S Women’s Track Team
Griffin Jack Griffin coach of the Frederick Track and Field club has been chosen head coach of the United States women’s track and field team for a Europe and Russia tour this summer. The decision was announced in the Amateur Athletic Union Women’s Track and Field Committee newsletter.
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Jack Griffin
Frederick
United States
Europe
Russia
Amateur Athletic Union
West Frederick
U. S
Nel Jackson
Normal
Brazilian Commander Takes Over In Dominican Republic
Inter American peace force gains Brazilian commander as Lt Gen Hugo Panasco assumes command of 21 000 US troops with 1170 Brazilians and mixed forces from Costa Rica Honduras and Nicaragua. Gen Palmer says US will retain tactical control while following government guidance and weighing future troop reductions and ongoing negotiations for peace and cease fire. President Johnson orders further withdrawal of 3700 US troops bringing recalled total to 3300 as Rusk notes some troops may remain weeks or months amid persistent communist activity. Da Cunha backs Johnson plan for new peacekeeping machinery to counter subversive action in the hemisphere.
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Santo Domingq
Dominican Republic
Inter American
United States
Hugo Panasco
Palmer
Alvim
Jose A Mora
OAS
Inter-American Defense Board
Washington
Johnson
U.S
Dean Rusk
Vasco Leitao da Cunha
Hagerstown Men Hurt In Rt 40 Wreck
Two Hagerstown men were injured when a tractor trailer jackknifed and hit their car on US 40 near Frederick early today. James Myers Mivers and Francis Poe were admitted to Frederick Memorial Hospital with lacerations contusions and abrasions. The truck driver James Whitlock 26 of New Market Tennessee faced a charge of speed too great for existing conditions.
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Hagerstown
US 40
Frederick Memorial Hospital
James Jo Mivers
Francis Poe
Tre Edward Wo Lennox
Frederics
Art
Lennos
James 1 Whitack
New Market
Tenn
Traffx
Myers
Whitlock
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Buck Rogers
Mrs. Smith
Charlotte K. Smith
Richard A Twigg
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U.S. 40 West
Rush
Rt. 40
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