Countians Win State PTA Honors in Baltimore
Frederick Countians earned multiple Maryland PTA honors at the Maryland Congress of Parent-Teacher Association convention in Baltimore. The Bourland family of Walkersville was named Maryland PTA family of the year, with a convention film by WJZ-TV to mark the 50th anniversary. George J Barthel of Braddock Heights received an honorary life membership in the National PTA for improving conditions for children. Lewistown PTA won a state project award and a $90 Sears-Roebuck Foundation prize for listing all college scholarships for Frederick County high school students. About 36 Frederick County PTA members attended the event at the Lord Baltimore Hotel.
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Frederick
George J Barthel
Braddock Heights
PTA
Frederick County
Barthel
Howard
Carroll
Lewistown
Sears - Roebuck Foundation
Randolph Putman
County Council of
Ptas
Lewistown Group
Lord Baltimore Hotel
Mrs Lucille Wolford Wins Women’s State Rifle Title Again
Lucille Wolford, a Hagerstown shooter from Hershell Rifle and Pistol Club, wins the Women’s State Rifle Championship without much practice. A noted competitor who also shoots with men at Fort Detrick, she has set 16 records and was part of the 1956 International Women’s Rifle Team.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anne Marie Gibbons
Wolford
East Patrick Street
Mar-La
Johnson signs federal aid to education bill in Texas
President Johnson arrives at Southwest Texas State College to sign a 26 billion education bill pledging 140,000 more students will enroll next year with federally financed scholarships. He calls education a necessity and vows a National Teacher Corps funding push in January to aid impoverished areas.
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San Marcos
Tex
Johnson
Southwest Texas State College
Congress
Offices To Observe Veterans Day In Frederick
The Frederick Post will observe Veterans Day with a holiday schedule on Thursday. City and county offices close, local banks open as usual, no city or rural mail delivery, collections on holiday schedule. Mail will be worked to the boxes, lobby open, regular deliveries resume Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick
Grinage Kindergarten pre-schools county children in Frederick
Esther E Grinage Kindergarten trained for pre primer learning opens for a new school year on the first Monday in October. Children from Bartonsville Centerville Flinthill Liberty town Braddock Urbana and Frederick enroll under supervision to learn social skills through games while parents contribute to United Appeal. The program seeks toys books paints crayons paper and craft materials in addition to funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Esther E. Grinage
Frederick
Esther Wise Grmage
Bartonsville
Centerville
Flinthill
Libertytown
Braddock
Urbana
United Appeal
U S Pilots Hit Viet Nam Missile Sites Amid Losses
U S pilots report heavy damage to North Viet Nam missile sites 60 miles east of Hanoi while four planes were lost in search and rescue. Five fliers rescued, six missing. South Vietnamese village bombing by mistake kills one woman and injures ten. 500 Viet Cong overrun a hamlet east of Saigon. 71 dead and 200 wounded reported.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
APV
North Viet Nam
U.S
Hanoi
Plei
U.S. 1St Cavalry
Plei Me
Camboual
Thanh Hoa
Park Projects Planned Locally and C&O Canal Backdrop
U S Representative Charles Mathias Jr. backed a large Potomac River park under joint federal state local control and echoed Interior official Kenneth Holum against a Seneca dam. He urged public ownership to support a Potomac Valley park centered on the C&O Canal. In Frederick area, ambitious $7 million 3,321 acre Little Bennett Regional Park plans emerged with land purchases and potential public use in coming years.
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U.S
Charles McC. Mathias Jr
R-Md
Potomac River
Kenneth Holum
Secretary of the Interior
Seneca
C&o
Cops of Engineers
Potomac
Holum
Potomac Valley
Great Falls
Cumberland
Potomac Basin
C&q
C&o Canal
Little Bennett Regional Park
Frederick
Montgomery County
Byron Sedgewick
Maryland National Capital Park and Planning Commission
Sedgewick
Montgomery County Council
Everett R. Jones
Commission
Damascus
Jones
Frederick County
Frederick Land
Hyattstown
MD. 355
John P. Hewitt
Hewitt
Louis Gravelle
John H. Hiser
Mailboxes Destroyed Shelter Burned By Vandals
Vandals damaged eight Middletown mailboxes and burned a children’s shelter near Bollinger Road in Emmitsburg over the weekend. The shelter valued at 30 dollars was dragged into the roadway and set ablaze. Investigations by Tfc. Byron L. Hubble and Tfe. Richard E. Cook are ongoing with no suspects yet identified.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middletown
Lawrence Bassler
Bollinger Road
Emmitsburg
Tfc
Byron L. Hubble
Phillip Coblentz
Herman Piper
Donald Huffer
Millard Leatherman
Bernard Palmer
Terry Rouzee
Ellen Boutlee
John A. Wiles
Tfe
Richard E. Cook
Norman Luboff Choir Opens Season With Standing Ovation
Norman Luboff directed his world renowned choir in Frederick’s opening concert drawing an overflow crowd at Frederick High School. The audience, from exchange towns, gave a standing ovation after three encores as the choir staged lively folk spiritual and popular selections amid Luboff’s quick humor and engaging stage presence.
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Norman Luboff
Frederick
Frederick Community Concert Association
Frederick High School
Frederik
Ludoff
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Orley Bourlands
Walkersville
Lucille Wolford
Mrs
Vietnam
Lucille
China
United Nations
N.Y
General Assembly
Huot Sambath
Cambodia
Halim Budo
Albania
Peking
Liu Chieh
Arthur J. Goldberg
United States
New York
Wall Street
United Appeal Agency
Grinage Kindergarten
Frederick County United Appeal
Esther ”. Grinage
Joy Dert
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