Freezing County Weather Slows Plants as Frost Deepens
Sub freezing conditions moved into the county with a thin white frost covering fields and windshields. Official low hit 30 degrees at the weather station, with colder temperatures forecast tonight. Some garden plants were killed and ice appeared on water containers. Sunlight today gave way to a predicted upper 40s this afternoon and a night drop into the upper 20s, with continued cloudiness and cold through Tuesday. Tuesday's high was only 54 degrees, the coldest in over a week.
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Weather Bureau
Work Starts On School At Adamstown
Construction begins on Carroll Manor Elementary School at Adamstown with the first dirt turned at 1 30 p m by Clarence C C Thomas president of the Board of Education. E E Stuller Company of Taneytown builds the $550000 facility with 15 classrooms library and other rooms. plans echo Urbana Elementary adapted for the site.
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Carroll Manor
Adamstown
Clarence C. C. Thomas
Board of Education
E. E. Stuller Company
Taneytown
Urbana
Bushey and Chapman
Hagerstown
Rocksville Crushed Stone Company
John Thomas
Commission Bill Aims At National Agricultural Policy
Sen J Caleb Boggs introduces a bill to create a commission on national agricultural policy. He says overproduction problems have baffled agriculture officials for decades and calls for a broad view of the agricultural system beyond single issues.
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Washington
Commission On National Agricultural Policy
J. Caleb Boggs
R.del
Agriculture
Congress
Boggs
Senate
Veterans Day visit at Martinsburg VA Center honors those who served
On Veterans Day the Newton D. Baker Veterans Administration Center in Martinsburg West Virginia hosted visitors and programs for about 1400 residents. American Legion groups organized celebrations in the Domiciliary and a Main Chapel ceremony titled Peace with Honor reflected the day’s theme.
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Sandy Stender
Newton D. Baker Veterans Administration Center
Martinsburg
W. Va
V. A. Center
American Legion Department of West Virginia
Frederick
H. Q. Miller
Thurmont
Three category grading discussed at Parkway Elementary PTA
Dr. John Carnochan urged Parkway Elementary parents and teachers to adopt a three level grading system good satisfactory and needs improvement. He said progress and effort matter more than letter grades and that students should be led not driven. The Freder ick County plan aims to show each child’s progress relative to classmates. Glenn Main introduced the speaker and Richard Hudson led the meeting.
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John Carnochan
PTA
Parkway
Carnochan
Frederick County
Carnachan
Glenn Main
Richard Hudson
Calvary Church Eyes $8000 Goal For Chest Day
Calvary Methodist Church aims to raise $8000 this Sunday as its annual Calvary Chest Day seeks to finish paying off a $208,000 educational building opened in 1961. Rev Ralph M Sharpe notes the event began 30 years ago and includes a chest procession at the 11 am service with five carriers and 60 pew hostesses.
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Calvary Methodist Church
Ralph M. Sharpe
Mr. Sharpe
West Second Street
Oliver Englebrecht
Martin L. Summers
Francis Gaither Sr
Thomas O’hara
Ralph L. Shipley
Big Lift Troops Begin Return From Germany
BERGSTROM AIR FORCE BASE Texas AP troops leading the homeward move from Germany include 2nd Armored Division soldiers. The first C135 jet landed near Frankfurt with 16,000 men flown to Europe during October and November. Flights will continue at Gray AFB and Connally AFB until 222 flights have returned the personnel.
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Bergstrom Air Force Base
Tex
Germany
2Nd Armored Division
Frankfurt
Gray Air Force Base
Killeen
Connally Air Force Base
Waco
Europe
Middletown Students Tour County Offices for Youth Week
About thirty Middletown High students toured eleven county offices in observance of Youth Appreciation Week. The Optimist Clubs sponsored the morning visit from 10 to 12, with groups visiting offices including Register of Wills, Clerk of the Circuit Court, County Treasurer, Commissioners, Assessor, Sheriff, Trial Magistrate, Board of Elections, Orphans Court, Circuit Court and Welfare. A luncheon followed at Town and Country Restaurant, and essays will rate each visit.
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Middletown High School
Optimist
Braddock Heights
Frederick
Register of Wills
Circuit Court
Board of Elections
Orphan's Court
Welfare Office
West Patrick Street
J. Arthur Mette
Mt Airy Seeks Ambulance With Offer From Two Firms
Mt Airy Fire Company plans a November 21 meeting to consider purchasing a new 1964 Cadillac ambulance. Bids from Miller Meteor Towson and Superior Body Wilmington will be opened and discussed. If approved, a new ambulance could be in service by early next year, replacing the 1958 model.
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Mt. Airy Fire Company
Fire Company
Cadillac
Miller Meteor
Towson
Superior Body Corporation
Wilmington
Del
Delaine Hobbs
Oscar Baker
Ten Inch Snowfall Hits Northeastern Ohio Roadways
The Associated Press reports up to 10 inches of snow in Hampden Geauga County with 8 inches in Kirtland Lake County. Snow spread to Ashtabula and Geauga counties while New York and northwestern Pennsylvania lanes saw 1 to 5 inches. Roads were slick and schools closed in affected areas as the storm moves toward lighter flurries.
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Associated Press
Ohio
Lake Erie
Lake, Ashtabula
Geauga
Hampden
Geauga County
Kirtland
Lake County
Great Lakes
Atlantic Coast
New York State
Pennsylvania
Erie County
Mrs Nhu Leaves Bitter Departure for Rome
Mrs Ngo Dinh Nhu left Los Angeles for Rome with three younger children after a bitter written statement blaming the United States for the Vietnamese tragedy. She defended her husband and brother in law, deposed South Vietnamese leaders, as martyrs and vowed to awaken world conscience against Communism.
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Los Angeles
Ngo Dinh Nhu
Rome
United States
South Viet Nam
Ngo Dinh Diem
Nhu
Ngo
Viet Nam
NAACP Official Delivers Civil Rights Talk at Hood College
A representative of the NAACP spoke at Hood College as part of Political Emphasis Week. Edward Hailes urged end to racial superiority myths and stressed employment as key to Negro advancement. He noted NAACP work across civil rights and declined to comment on Cambridge referendum voting.
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National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Hood College
Edward Hailes
Washington
NAACP
Hailes
Cambridge
John Prugh
Rockville
Surburban
Maryland Fair Housing Committee
Pel
Pedro Sanjuan
U. S State Department
Coffman Chapel
Martin Agronsky
NBC News
Daniel Brewster
Maryland
Clarence Long
Second
Fire guts buildings in San Francisco Cliff House complex
A general alarm fire gutted four buildings in the Cliff House complex in San Francisco. The three story museum suffered the heaviest damage while 300 firefighters saved the Cliff House Restaurant. Flames came within 50 feet of the historic restaurant which has burned previously.
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San Francisco
Cliff House
Middletown students tour county offices during Youth Appreciation Week
Thirty Middletown High School students visited eleven county government offices to observe operations as part of Youth Appreciation Week. The photograph shows participants posed in front of the County Court House with Optimist-sponsored organizers and chaperones.
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Middletown High School
Spellman Opposes National Bishops Conference Powers
Vatican City reports Cardinal Spellman opposed granting binding powers to national episcopal conferences at the Vatican Council. He argued such decisions should stay with limited regional councils presided by a papal delegate, while Cardinal Frings urged only limited powers. American cardinals split on the issue.
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Vatican City
Francis Cardinal Spellman
Vatican Ecumenical Council
Episcopal Conference
St. Peter's Basilica
Cardinal Spellman
Joseph Cardinal Frings
Cologne
New York
Cardinal Frings
Albert Gregory Cardinal Meyer
Chicago
U.S
Cardinal Meyer
Joseph Elmer Cardinal Ritter
St. Louis
James Francis Cardinal McIntyre
Los Angeles
Richard Cushing
Boston
iCardinals Spellman
Frings
Employes Vote To Strike At Covington Plant
Covington Local 675 of United Paper Workers and Paper Makers reported 95 percent approval for a strike in a Tuesday vote. Harry E. Scott said he asked headquarters to authorize a strike starting 12:01 a.m. Sunday as the old contract nears expiration. About 3,400 workers at Covington plus facilities in Luke, Md., and Williamsport, Pa., are affected.
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Covington, Va
West Virginia
Washington
Covington
Luke, Md
Williamsberg
Yale Scholar Barghoorn Held by Soviet Union
U S Ambassador Fay Ko hler demanded Barghoorn’s immediate release and access to the Yale political science professor held on spy charges in Moscow. The ambassador pressed for full charges, noting the long gap since arrest and seeking details from Soviet officials.
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Moscow
Fay Kohler
Frederick C Barghoorn
Yale University
Valerian Zorin
Barghoorn
Barhoorn
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Foreign Ministry
Prof
Yale
Walter Stoessel
Soviet Union
Stoessel
Mikhailo Smyrnovsky
Foreign Office
Arguments In Civil Case Final in Circuit Court
Final arguments were heard this afternoon in Circuit Court in a damage suit over a 1959 home on Carroll Parkway. Plaintiffs Joseph and Rose Coady seek 4620.26 against contractor Charles S. Tregoning for alleged unskilled carpentry and brick work. The jury of ten men and two women heard testimony from plasterers and carpenters about the quality of work and timing.
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Carroll Parkway
Charles S. Tregoning
Joseph Coady
Tregoning
Luther K. Powell
Mountaindale
Elmer Toms
Franklin Street
Coady
Frank Whitmore
Motter Avenue
Guy McKenzie
East Seventh Street
Bernard C. Wright
RFD 2
Royce R. Rice
Cavetown Planing Mill Company
Carl ‘Culler
Floyd Culler Con‘tracting
Patrick M. Schnauffer
Maryland approves 432-acre site for UM campus
The Board of Public Works approved a 432-acre site in Baltimore County as the location for a new University of Maryland branch campus. Plans call for the campus to receive students by 1066.
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Annapolis
Baltimore County
Board of Public Works
University of Maryland
Stu
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