Apprenticeship Training Offered to Frederick Industries
John J. Burns of the U S Labor Department outlined a complete apprentice training program for Frederick manufacturers. Operated under federal guidance, the program would run in plant facilities across 500 employment classifications, with a pilot at the American Optical Company near Frederick Airport. Burns urged all local industries to adopt the program to fill skilled vacancies created by automation and promised brochures to Winchester Hall for the chamber office.
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John J. Burns
Baltimore
Bureau of Apprenticeship Training
United States Labor Department
Frederick Manufacturers
Frederick
American Optical Company
Chamber National Industry Committee
Burns
Frederick Chamber of Commerce
Winchester Hall
U Thant urges nuclear disarmament talks in 1965
UN Secretary-General U Thant calls for progress in disarmament and talks among nuclear powers including Communist China. He outlines a 1965 agenda in his world report to the General Assembly, flagging UN financial strains and peacekeeping arrears amid aims to curb the arms race.
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United Nations
N.Y
U Thant
China
Thant
U.N. General Assembly
U.N
Congo
Middle East
U.S
General Assembly
Soviet Bloc
Snow in Oakland and steady stock market report
Snow covered fields in Garrett County Maryland after a light overnight fall but roads stayed clear. The low reached 28 degrees in Oakland and Accident. In New York the stock market opened fairly steady with moderate trading activity.
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Oakland
Garrett County
New York
Frederick City Reopens Mountain Watershed After Rain
The Frederick City watershed, closed for drought, re opens as a light shower reduces fire risk. Officials note the reservoir remains low and Emmitsburg faces severe shortages, with plans to enlarge the reservoir and drill a new well to add about 100 gallons per minute. Deer hunters loom as fire danger lingers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick City
Marion W. Rice
Emmitsburg
J. Norman Flax
Flax
United Fund Drive Totals Revealed by Frederick County Leader
Frederick County United Appeal executive director Harry A. Harper released a list showing divisions that met their goals during the regular drive and those still short of goals with the extended deadline of December 2. He called on county residents and workers to increase pledges, noting 62 percent of the County Areas Division goal has been raised and that doctors reached 90 percent while dentists remain short.
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Harry A. Harper
Frederick County
Ford Production to Cease in Local Plant Strikes
Ford Motor Co may halt all automobile production by tonight due to local plant strike tie ups. The Mustang remains the only model produced after Tuesday as 75,000 to 80,000 workers are laid off nationwide and about half the workforce is idle this week. Strikes began Nov 6 over local agreements supplementing the national Ford UAW deal reached Sept 18.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Co
Ford
Calif
Dearborn
United Auto Workers
Newspaper Strike Settled in Detroit After 129 Days
Union and management reached settlement terms in the Detroit News and Free Press strike with help from Walter P. Reuther UAW president. Representatives of the papers and Pressmen's Union Local 13 announced the agreement about 1 a.m. after a four hour secret meeting at UAW headquarters.
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Detroit
Walter P. Reuther
United Auto Workers
Detroit News
Detroit Free Press
Freeman Frazee
Pressmen's Union Local 13
UAW
Teens Ordered to State Correction Homes Over Purse Theft
In Rockville Maryland a 14 year old girl and her 15 year old brother were placed in correction homes after a supermarket purse snatching linked to their parents who allegedly encouraged the crime. The parents 37 from Sykesville faced possible delinquency charges to be heard December 2.
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Rockville, Md
Rockville
Alfred D.noyes
Montgomery County Juvenile Court
Sykesville
Noyes
Johnson Defends Great Society Visit at San Marcos
President Johnson returned to San Marcos Texas to inaugurate James H McCracklin as college president and publicly defend his Great Society program as realistic not utopian He outlined two goals expanding educational opportunity and widening Americans horizons while stressing the test of a society lies in the quality of its people.
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San Marcos
Tex
Johnson
Johnson City
San Marcos State
James H. MccCracklin
Man kills wife then takes own life after failed prosecution
In Washington a man who had faced a possible prosecution for shooting his wife 12 days earlier killed his wife Lottie Johnson with two or three shots and then killed himself. Police say Edwin C. Cop page identified the suspect as 40 year old Howard Johnson. Officers recovered the initial gun and said he obtained another afterward.
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Washington
Set
Edwin C. Coppage
Howard Johnson
Lottie
Johnson
Aldermen Seek Easier Path to Zoning Changes in Frederick
Frederick's Board of Aldermen proposes to simplify the process to override Planning Commission recommendations by requiring four of five votes on the board. Attorney Zimmer man recommended the change two weeks ago. The move mirrors a unique setup giving an appointed board majority overruled by a four member al derm an vote. The board also asks rezoning for 15 acres behind the College Estates Freder ick Shopping Center to R 4 for apartments.
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Vatican City
Vatican Ecumenical Council Today
Paul VI
Council
Frederick
Board of Aldermen
City Planning Commission
Planning Commission
Richard E. Zimmerman
Richard L. Shipley
College Estates-Frederick
Manuel Weinberg
Harry Rosenfeld
Weinberg
McNamara Defends Base Shutdown Plan
Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara defends the decision to shut down 95 obsolete and surplus bases and plants as absolutely, unequivocally safe and irrevocable. He said only new evidence could alter the plan, and the chances are very small. The announcement followed anguished reactions from lawmakers and officials.
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Washington (Ap
Robert S. McNamara
McNamara
Maryland to Gain From Military Cutback Plan
Washington reports Defense Department consolidations will shift 450 jobs from New York First Army HQ to Fort Meade and add 190 to the Second Army base. The plan, affecting 8 U.S. bases and 15 overseas, aims to save about 477 million dollars annually and cut payroll by 63 401 without harming military strength.
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Washington
Maryland
Defense Department
Carlton R. Sickles
Dmd
Ft. Meade
Second Army
Sickles
Ft. Jay
N.Y
First Army
Meade
U.S. Second Army
Portsmouth
N.H
Navy Yard
McNamara
United States
Europe
Western Hemisphere
City Watershed Closed Amid Deer Season Debate
The Board of Aldermen voted 3 0 to close the Mountaindale watershed to the public during the antlerless deer season and to seek state legislation to ban target shooting there. City officials debated deer numbers and conservation, with two aldermen abstaining.
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Anfd
Weiler
Mountaindale
Board of Aldermen
Richard L. Shipley
Maryland
Game and Inland Fish Commission
Alderman Shipley
E. Paul Magaha
Emmett R. Bowlus
William B. Bartgis
Richard R. Burpee
Maryland General Assembly
Frederick City
Congolese Forces Advance Toward Stanleyville
Congolese troops and white mercenary leaders push north from Kindu toward rebel Stanleyville with no rebel resistance reported. They enter the Puna district 150 miles from Kindu and face a 180 mile road march, crossing the Lowa River at Yumbi. American missionary Paul Carlson faces a threatened execution, postponed to Monday, as Gen. Mobutu vows to seize Stanleyville.
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Kindu
The
Congo
Stanleyville
Puna
Lowa
Yumbi
Christophe Gbenge
Paul Carlson
Carlson
Joseph Mobutu
Wef
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Don Edison
East 14Th Street
Vatican
Eugene Cardinal Tisserant
Cardinal Tisserant
Pope Paul
Joseph Cardinal Frings
Germany
Theological Commission
McNamara Firm
C. Millard Filer Jr
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