Fair opens largest Frederick Fair week on campus
Sunny opening day brings record crowds as the 93rd Great Frederick Fair welcomes visitors from county and beyond. Over 600 cattle entries fill the grounds with space exhausted. officials note the event will feature harness racing, grandstand acts, and expanded midway dining and entertainment through the week.
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Frederick
Clyde W. Smith
Hawthorns Bears
Marijeces
Les Cardinals
Sanger
Ross
Andrea
Elkins
Smith
Frederick High School
George Hamid and Son
Proll
Holstein
Ayrshire
Hereford
Aberdeen
Fair
Austin Fraser
Thurmont
Stock Market Makes Vigorous Recovery in Opening Session
New York stocks rebounded after a cautious start as Chrysler jumped to 51.50, General Motors rose to 103.0, and US Steel gained 0.30. Bethlehem Steel and Anaconda also advanced while many issues fluctuated, and weather forecasts promised fair skies for the county fair days ahead.
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New York
Gams Tan
Frsentowers
Denver
Chrysler
Bethlehem Steel
General Motors
US Steel
Lion Cartide
Sears
Open Bids On New School Work Wednesday
The Board of Education will open bids on October 12 for the new Yellow Springs school with eight classrooms and a gym mall and other quarters and for a Middletown High School addition with 13 classrooms. Bids open at 11 a.m. with hoped award soon after and completion for Fall 1956.
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Board of Education
Yellow Springs
Middletown High School
Middletown
Coul
Lime Burns 27 Football Players
Twenty seven Army football players were seriously burned by lime on the Ft. Lee inter service game field. Notable injured include John Lattner formerly of Notre Dame and Lowell Perry of Michigan and the Pittsburgh Steelers. Eleven players hospitalized with burns, eight in serious condition. Army promises full investigation and says the lime was locally purchased and mislabeled unslaked.
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Fy, Lee
Army
Ft. Lee
Johny Latiner
Notre Dame
Lowell Perry
Michigan
Pittsburgh Steelers
Lattner
Perry
Bolling Field
Ray Martine
University of Maryland
John Troha
Maryland
Don Chell
University of Lows
Baltimore Colts
Kiesling Fined $500 by NFL Chief Bell
Philadelphia report states NFL commissioner Bert Bell fined Pittsburgh Steelers coach Walt Kiesling $500 after a Sunday Pittsburgh Los Angeles game dispute with officials. Bell cited Kiesling's long service and clean record as factors in the decision. The Steelers lost 1 point on a late field goal.
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Philadelphia
Bert Bell
National Football League Today
Pittsburgh Steeler
Walt Kiesling
Pittsburgh
Los Angeles
Los Angles
Kiesling- Bell
Kiesling
NFL
Steelers
Dodgers Lead Brooklyn in World Series Game Six
Dodgers Lead Brooklyn held a 2 0 lead over the Yankees in the seventh and deciding game of the World Series at the end of six innings.
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Dodgers
Brooklyn
Yankees
U S Paying 50 000 As School Aid
The Frederick County Board of Education receives about 50 000 annually from federal funds due to government installations in the county. Camp Detrick and other sites influence aid, counted as in lieu of taxes. Superintendent Eugene W. Pruitt notes federal aid relates to per pupil costs and the program aims to maximize funds. Some 800 government-impacted children attend local schools. The aid origin reflects tax loss from government acquisitions.
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Fredenck County
Signal Corps
Eugene W. Pruitt
Pruitt
Commissioners’ State
Frederick
Policemen Tied to Shakedown Probe Before Grand Jury
Nine persons were summoned for questioning by the grand jury over an alleged attempt by three policemen to shake down a tavernkeeper. The panel also may probe if officers took protection money from racketeers as State's Atty. Anselm Sodaro plans a Friday talk with Police Commissioner Hepbron.
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Baltimore
Grand Jury
Anselm Sodaro
Nathan Blaker
Sodsre
James M. Hepbron
Hepbron
Philadelphia
Legion repudiates support for Education for Freedom program
The Executive Committee of the American Legion in Bloomington repudiates any backing of the Education for Freedom program. It disowns the American Heritage Council Ford Foundation and Fund for the Republic and warns units to divest or return any funds. Commander Irving Breakstone of Chicago had asserted a $59,009 grant funded the effort but the Legion says no such grant was received.
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Bloomington
Execuive
Fill Now
American Legion
Ots Legion
Enner
Sam
Ford Foundation
Fund For the Republic
The
Legion
Chicago
American Heritage Council
Mar the Legion
Connect
Abraham Lincoln
Thomas’ Jefferson
France Expands Troop Push From Fez Toward Moroccan Border
Moroccan reinforcements pour from Fez toward the Spanish Moroccan frontier to quell a Berber uprising. About 60 rebels attacked Taforalt near Oujda. 11 Europeans were killed earlier at Immouzer-ies-Marmoudia. Over 1,500 rebels on both sides of the frontier. Algerian spillover and unrest rise after a U N vote on Algerian debate. France faces strain as most forces are in North Africa and Algeria draft calls rise.
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Rabat
Morocco
Fez
Immouzer-ies- Marmoudia
Taforalt
Oujda
Algeria
U. N
U.N. Assembly
Antoine Pinay
France
North Africa
Germany
Die Ulois
Bridges Open Next Tuesday Across Potomac River
The State Roads Commission announced a day long program of parades speeches and ribbon snippings for the opening of two new Potomac River bridges in Western Maryland next Tuesday. The Cumberland to Ridgeley West Virginia bridge will be dedicated at 4 PM with Gov. McKeldin and Commission Chairman Russell H McCain among speakers. a luncheon follows in Kitzmiller.
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Baltimore
Potomac River
Maryland
State Roads Commission
Kitzmiller
Garrett County
West Virginia
Mineral County
Cumberland
Ridgeley
W. Va
McKeldin
Russell H McCain
Northern
Southern
Oakland
Kitzmiller Bridge
Woodlen Plank Bridge
Neil C. Fraley
George W. McAlpin
West Virginia Road Commission
McAlpin
Charles M. Lee
Allegany County
Roy W. Eyes
Charles H. Fryer
Five Day Forecast Look for showers and warmth through Sunday
The forecast calls for showers on Thursday and again over the weekend with continued warmth through Sunday. Temperatures will run 3 to 7 degrees above normal. Afternoon highs will be in the 60s to 70s while overnight lows vary from the upper 30s to the low 40s across western to central and southern counties of Maryland and Delaware.
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Five
Ba Marth
iMaryland
Delaware
Weather maps forecast averaged in long range for October 11
The weather maps provide the U.S. Weather Bureau's long range outlook for October 11 but do not give a specific forecast. It remains a general estimate of the period's expected average temperature and precipitation.
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Lb. S Weather Bureau
Deserter Woods Sentenced To 33 Years In Berlin Court
Pvt. Tommy R. Woods of Rogersville Illinois was sentenced to 33 years in prison by a U S Army court martial after pleading guilty to desertion to East Germany. The max penalty included a dishonorable discharge and is subject to higher review. Woods disappeared from his West Berlin unit March 1 1954 and spent eight months in East Germany before being repatriated.
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Woods
West Berlin
East Geremany
ADN
Himsel
U.S
Gerard R. Pepin
Auburn
Maine
Army
Pepin
Ife
United States
White Youth Slain At Fair
At the Alabama State Fair a 17 year old white student Forney Waldrap was shot in the temple and killed. Alfred Moore a 19 year old Negro was charged with murder and jailed after authorities detained him near police headquarters. The shooting followed a dispute at a concession stand as crowds filled the midway.
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Birmingham
Ala
Forney Waldrap
Sharon Kay Rutchie
Mass America
RB Garden
Alfred Moore
Moore
Sur Oc
Matteo
Atk Elute Souths
Far
Towa Cie
Aussol Z
Waldrop
Mudrway
Body recovered as two still missing after boat capsized
In Newport News Virginia the body of Albert Marvin Lancaster 45 of Richmond was found while his wife Mildred Finney Lancaster 41 and Warwick businessman W D Richardson 37 remained missing. James Watney 48 of Roanoke Rapids survived nine hours in the water after the 14 foot motorboat overturned Sunday returning from Phoebus near Hampton Roads.
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Newport News
Richmond
Coast Guard
Hampton Flats
Junes Watney
Roanoke Rapids
N. C
Fanney
Lancasters
Hampton Roads
Virginia
Ie Internal Revenue Service
Virginia Hospital Service Assn
Richardson
Taxi Driver Killed On Susquehanna Bridge
A Port Deposit taxi driver, Gibson, was killed early today on the Susquehanna River toll bridge after his cab collided with a tractor-trailer. The truck driver Thurmond of Knoxville was not charged immediately.
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Havre DE Grace
Port Deposit
Susquehanna River
Asept Gibson
Gibson
Wilbur T. ‘Thurmond
Knoxville
Eisenhower Rested And Refreshed
President Eisenhower was reported to be rested and refreshed after a good night’s sleep at Fitzsimons Army Hospital. A 7 am medical bulletin said he slept from 9:30 p.m. to 3:30 a.m. and his condition progresses satisfactorily without complication. He conveyed to Nixon to carry on cabinet and NSC meetings while he convalesces and could be flown to Gettysburg in two weeks for recuperation.
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Denver
Eisenhower
MST
National Security Council
Paul Dudley White
Boston
Fitzsimons Army Hospital
John ‘S. Doud
Gettysburg
Sherman Adams
Nixon
Cabinet and Security Council
John B. Hollister
International Cooperation Administration
Pennsylvania Railroad
County Road Plan Submitted for 1956 Review
County Engineer Roger Willard has filed a proposed 1956 county road construction program with the County Commissioners. The Roads Board will discuss it at the upcoming monthly meeting on October 11. Adoption by the commissioners is expected late in the month, with funding limited by the Legislature’s failure to raise motor vehicle licenses. Some planned projects will be deferred to 1956 due to rights of way and funding shortfalls.
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Rhythmi¢e Swimming Club
Ihockey
Hood
Akiko Yamamoto
Tokyo
Japan
Linda Kelly
Pittsburgh
Frances Gilchrist
North Haven
Mary Jane Harkness
Mutual
Vici
Althea van Boskirk
Scarsdale
Jane Atmore
Havertown
Hood College Mothers Club
Andrew G. Truxal
Brodbeck Trail
Fathers Club
Meyran Hall
Carson
Campus Ywca
Gambrill Gymnasium
VMI
Coffman
William Sprigg
Truxal
Roger H. Willard
Frederick County Roads Board
Roads Board
General Assembly
Correction on City Officer Involved Crash
The News corrects a Monday report to say Officer William Boone Jr. was in the motorcycle dog collision, not Officer William Bopst Jr. The News regrets the error.
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William Bopst Jr
William Boone Jr
Officer Bopst
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