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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1961
Page
14
Burgess Grayson Doub announced a proposal to build a second reservoir to relieve Myersville's long standing water shortage. A bond issue would finance the project with construction possibly starting this winter or by early spring.
Summary of 18th and 19th century events including Montgomery's occupation of Montreal in 1775 and near Fort Laramie Wyoming mail wagon raid by Sioux Indians. Notes 1864 Hood army clash at Bull's Gap with 241 casualties and a 192 Supreme Court ruling on Japanese aliens. Also mentions restraining order on New Orleans school integration and various historical birthdays and deaths.
A gas heater ignition caused a blast at the Twin Twist Drive-In near Mt. Airy Sunday morning. Firemen say the automatic heater leaked gas and ignited, shattering plate glass up to 400 feet and leaving the interior a total loss. Mt. Airy firefighters arrived with three trucks to quell a small fire around a heater pipe and a bamboo curtain. no injuries were reported. The Esso station nearby also suffered glass debris, and owners A Calvin Isaacs and spouse expect total loss per insurer notes.
CAPE CANAVERAL Fla AP U S hopes of putting a man into earth orbit this year faded with the indefinite postponement of a planned orbital flight by a chimpanzee The ape shot was key to the U S man in orbit effort originally set for Tuesday Walter Williams Mercury operations director said the launch had some problems Lt Col John Powers NASA spokesman noted a delay of about one week to 10 days
Joseph B. Prentice, current superintendent of Popewell Village National Historic Site, is named acting superintendent of Harpers Ferry National Monument. He will assume duties in December after visiting in November and replaces Frank H. Anderson who is out ill. Prentice, 50, has 20 years in the National Park Service and led restoration at Hopewell Village. He was born in Nebraska, raised in Montana, and is a World War I veteran with seven children.
Vim Laboratories Inc projects annual business around one million dollars after moving from Rockville to a former cannery in Adamstown Frederick County. About 60 percent of output is aerosol products with a growing trade line described as perhaps the fastest in America. The firm employs about 40 staff and covers four states with room to expand at the Adamstown plant.
Demonstrators in Baltimore's Little Italy tried to enter a restaurant in a racial segregation protest but were barred. Owner Pasquale Chiapparelli offered pizzas to the crowd, which left as pies remained untouched, prompting the proprietor to question the protesters motives.
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