Three Hurt In Bridge Smashup On Route 20
Three New York residents were injured when their late model Chevrolet crashed on US Route 20 at Steiner's Hill. John Richard Anderson, 32, and Miss Mary Laurenia Belcher, 25, were admitted to Frederick Memorial Hospital. Damon Delano Scott, 26, treated and released. Anderson sustained a dislocated fractured left ankle and facial and chest abrasions. Belcher had groin and hip pain. Scott suffered abrasions and minor facial cuts. The car ripped out guard rails and struck the bridge abutment over Catoctin Creek. the Brunswick ambulance transported all three to the hospital.
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Steiner's Hill
Frederick Memorial Hospital
John Richard Anderson
Jamaica
N. Y
Mary Laurenia Belcher
New York
Damon Delano Scott
Brooklyn
Anderson
Miss Belcher
Catoctin Creek
R. H. McClear
Scott
Brunswick
Ghana Forces Leave Camp In Congo
United Nations forces from Ghana move out of Camp Leopold II at Congolese request led by Col. Joseph Mobutu. Ghana troops shift to a new encampment outside Leopoldville while Mobutu cites room for his own troops and accuses them of favoring Lumumba. Tunisia set to relieve Ghana forces. Mobutu cites a Chinese offer rejected as irrelevant.
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Leopoldville
the Congo
United Nations
Ghana
Leopold IL
Congo
Joseph Mobutu
Mobutu
Patrice Lumumba
Lepoldville
Red China
Lumumba
Peoples
Chou En-lai
China
Umumba
Record Friday Attendance At Frederick Fair Reaches 10170 Paid
Weather was ideal as the Frederick Fair drew more than ten thousand attendees on Friday. Paid admissions totaled 10170 vs 9632 a year earlier, with total attendance by Friday evening at 20011. Grandstand shows starred Alice Low and Jack Kochman, with a canvas of prizewinners including George Droneburg and Rebecca Bower. Incidents included a damaged midway stand from a garbage truck and a minor fight ending without arrests.
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Frederick Fair
Alice Low
Lawrence Welk
Jack Kochman
Fred Flohr
Emmitsburg
Rocky Ridge
Deborah
Henry N. Eberly
Bladensburg
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Walkersville Youths Win Farm Honors
Walkersville Future Farmers of America teams captured two of three first places at the Central Maryland Regional FFA judging contest during the Frederick Fair. About 200 boys from 15 schools in five counties competed in livestock, dairy, and poultry judging. Francis Scott Key School won poultry team honors. Walkersville led in livestock and dairy. Individual top honors went to James Linthicum Glenelg for livestock, Harvey Clem Walkersville for dairy, and K Rinehart Francis Scott Key for poultry.
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Walkersville
Future Farmers of America
Maryland
Frederick Fair
Francis Scott Key School
Union Bridge
James Linthicum
Glenel
Hagerstown
Middletown
Gaithersburg
Frederick
Peelesville
Washington
Montgomery
Carroll
Howard
Frederick High School
Harry Miller
John Thompson
Dale White
Addiiton
Linthicum
George Kuhn
Tommy Fisher
Mahion Esler
Howard Buhrman
Thurman
Ronald Zecker
Roberts Lawson
Poolesville
Donald Matthews
Ronald McGaha
Poolesvlle
George Norris
Daryl Sheiss
Smithsburg
Robert
Blair Stiles
George Smith
Straford Lawyer
Tourmont
Earl Allnut
Edward McAuchlin
Williamsport
Earle Miller
North Carroll
Wayne Reeder
Daniel Hammond
Paul Bowman
Glenelg
Rinehart
Robert Rish
Robert Graybill
Leonard Kershner
Fred Goldthorpe
Russell Miller
Gerald Long
Ben Ahalt
Steven Hull
Mark Miller
Solicitor Kept From Door After Cancer Funds Plea
A young solicitor claiming cancer funds faces four fines of 30 each for illegal solicitation after Theresa Faulkner, a Baltimore Cancer Society captain, called police when he asked for a contribution. Albert Dotterer, 21, of Washington, was tried Friday.
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Baltimore
Theresa Faulkner
The
Cancer Society
Albert Dotterer
Washington
Two Juveniles Held After Moose Club Break-In
Police arrested two juveniles shortly after a Moose Club break in on West South Street. About $100 in cash and cigarettes were stolen after entry through a back window. A second overnight break in at Parkway School netted no obvious losses. investigators say the juveniles likely not implicated. A Fort Detrick serviceman, Robert James Smith, faces a charge of driving under the influence after a Friday night crash at Fourth and Beniz streets. Smith reportedly ran a red light, colliding with a car driven by Herman B. Brust. Brust and his wife Myrtle were injured, she treated for facial lacerations.
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Moose Club
West South Street
Parkway
Fort Detrick
Fourth
Beniz
Robert James Smith
Smith
Beniz Stre
Herman B. Brust
RFD 7
Brust
West Fourth Street
Myrtle Brust
Fred Morial Hospital
Education Board Opens Special Meeting on Budget Input
The Frederick County Board of Education will hold a special meeting Monday at 7 30 p.m. in the second floor conference room to hear community views on the coming year’s school budget. Dr James A Sensenbaugh urges school principals PTA members and parent groups to attend with concise written delegations for orderly consideration.
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Board of Education
James A. Sensenbaugh
Frederick County
Sensenbaugh
PTA
Principal Collapses And Dies At Gas Station
William Thomas Yost 53, principal of Cascade High School, collapsed and died Friday at a service station on Caretown Pike. He lived at 428 Belvedere Road Haswn. Deputies and rescue workers rushed him to Washington Ceints Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. An autopsy will be performed. the Yosts planned to attend a college homecoming with one child a student.
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Willian Thomas Yost
Cascade High School
Caretown Pike
Mr. Yost
Belvedere Road
Haswn
South Hagerstown High School
Sherif
Donald Aton
William Mason
Washington Ceints Hospital
Abo 2 30. Mr. Yost Had Been Farmed To the Hospital From Mesner
Seaice
Cavetown Pike
Community Rescue Service
Alten
Yost
CRS
Alton
Yosts
Somerset County farmers arrested in East Coast marijuana case
State and federal agents nabbed three Somerset County farmers John Woolford 66 of Venton Doane 76 and Herbert 54 all accused of growing marihuana for markets on the East Coast. Two others George S Copes 40 and Jary E Copes 25 from New York were later identified.
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Baltimore
Somerset County
John Woolford
Venton
Doane
Herbert Is
Princes Anne
Morris
Irving
Salisbury
Joseph Carroll
Baltimore Narcotics Bureau
George S Copes
Jary E. Copes
New York
Maryland
Irving Greenfeld
Federal Narcotics Bureau
Philadelphia
Greenfeld
Catoctin Bridge Bids Advertised
The State Roads Commission invites bids for a five span modern bridge on U S Route 340 over Catoctin Creek. The structure includes three 88 foot spans and two 73 foot spans with two 27 foot roadways and an eight foot median. Bids due noon October 18 will be opened at the commission offices in Baltimore.
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The
State Roads Commission
Catoctin Creek
Commission
Baltimore
Six Die In Army Plane Crash Near Oakland
A single engine Otter plane crashed in fog near Oakland killing six aboard including Maj Gen Carl Fritzsche of Fort Ord and Brig Gen Thomas Hayes of Macon. The crash occurred on a hillside near the East Bay water tank, sparking a brush fire as flames consumed the wreckage and firefighters battled the blaze. Witnesses described a loud roar and a dying engine before the collision.
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Cali AP
Car F. Fritzsche
Bedford
Ohio
Fort Ord
Calf
Thomas H .Hayes
Macon
Fritzsche
Orimdas
John Barron
East Bay
Khrushchev Seeks Talks as UN Debates Neutral Pace
The United Nations General Assembly enters an extra session amid bitter debate on China’s admission, Hungary actions, and a possible Eisenhower Khrushchev meeting. Nehru Sukarno Nasser Tito and Nkrumah back a neutralist resolution urging a summit. Eisenhower weighs Washington talks with Macmillan.
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United Nations
N.Y
UG. N. General Assembly
Khrushchev
Eisenhower
Red China
U. N
U. S
Hungary
Britain
Harold Macmillan
Washington
White House
Soviet Union
U.N
U. N. General Assembly
Nexsmen
Afghanistan
New York
Esenhower
Frederik H. Boland
General Assembly
Nehru
India
Sukarno
Indonesia
Nasser
United Arab Republic
Tito
Yugoslavia
Nkrumah
Ghana
China to Defend Formosa as Militia Mobilizes
Communist China’s foreign minister Chen Yi urged the militia to get ready to defend Formosa. A mass Peiping parade marked the 11th anniversary of the Communist takeover with Mao Zedong reviewing the display. Leaders Lin Shao-chi Chou En-lai Chu Teh and others addressed arms cuts and nuclear bans while maintaining adversarial notes toward the West and Khrushchev.
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Tokyo
China
Chen Yi
Formosa
Peiping
Square of Heavenly Peace
Peiping Radio
Red
Mao Tze-tung
Mao
U jXu
Algeria
Ferhat Abbas
Lin Shao‘chi
Chou Entai
Chu Teh
Asia
Africa
Latin America
Khrushchev Skews New York as Concrete Center Critique
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev spends limited time on Glen Cove estate and in Manhattan after government curbs. He criticizes New York’s lack of greenery and fires back at Waldorf-Astoria praise, hinting at a stay into the new year.
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New York
Khrushchev
Glen Cove
Long Island
Manhattan
United States
Afghanistan
Waldorf-Astoria
Shchev
Moscow
Ciy Ae
East River
Cuban firing squad executes Roberto Cruz Alfonso
Roberto Cruz Alfonso was executed by firing squad in Havana for the attempted assassination of Jose Pardo Lilada, a progovernment radio commentator and ally of Fidel Castro. Pardo survived an anti-American attack on his car last July, while companion Jose Antonio Matos suffered neck wounds. The La Cabana fortress execution occurred at 2 30 p.m. and marked Castro era’s first since June 15 and the 561st since January 1, 1959, by unofficial tally.
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Havana
Roberto Cruz Alfonso
Jose Pardo Lilada
Fidel Castro
Pardo
Jose Antonio Matos
la Cabana
Nigerians Celebrate Freedom Independence Day marked in Lagos at midnight
Nigeria hailed its independence as Britain lowered the Union Jack and raised the green white flag before about 40,000 cheering Nigerians at Lagos Race Course. Prime Minister Balewa led the plan to join the United Nations while Britain retains the Commonwealth amid international observers and a cautious U S stance on future alliance.
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Lagos
Nigeria
Africa
Britain
London
Princess Alexandra
Elizabeth
New York
Nelson A. Rocheller
Eisenhower
Rockefeller
United States
Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa
United Nations
Sleepy bailiffs cost conviction in Georgia case
Two bailiffs' sleep deprivation led the Georgia Court of Appeals to reverse the involuntary manslaughter conviction of W. H. Fisher. The court ruled the bailiffs failed to monitor the jury, constituting misconduct deserving a new trial. Fisher was tried in Dodge County at Eastman.
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Atlanta
Georgia Court of Appeals
W. H. Fisher
Jawake
Fisher
Eastman
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