One Point-One Inch Rain Ends Frederick Dry Spell
Rainfall of 1.1 inches ends a two month dry spell in Frederick county. Monocacy and Poo ma Rivers rise, Fishing Creek reservoir gains 1.4 inches of water. water restrictions likely eased this week. Mild temperatures return with highs in the upper 60s and lows near 50, with rain remaining off and on through today.
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Frederick City
Monocacy
Pooma
Fishing Creek
Middletown
Frederick
Mathias Responds To AP Boos At Beall Dinner
Maryland Senator Charles Mathias rejects AP notes that he looked startled by boos at a $100-a-plate Beall fundraiser at the Lord Baltimore Hotel. He defends the GOP as broad and inclusive and cautions against allowing the incident to affect the Senate race.
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Lord Baltimore
J. Glenn Beall Jr
Mathias
Republican Party
Agnew
J. Glenn Beall
Asia
Supreme Court
Maryland
Nixon-Agnew
U.S. Senate
Palestinian Guerrilla Push Into Jordan Across the Border
About 1,800 Palestinian guerrillas crossed from Syria into northern Jordan near Moghayer backed by 14 TANks from the Palestine Liberation Army. Jordanian Brig. Atta Gasib said the Saika fighters entered Jordan amid Syrian crackdowns after Hafez al Assad seized control.
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Moghayer
Jordan
Syria
Atta Gasib
Palestine Liberation Army
Torra
Ramtha
Damascus-Amman
Gasib
Saika
Hafez Assad
Damascus
Lebanon
Shajara
Yasir Arafat
Hussein
International Arab Peace Mission
UGF Drive Reaches One Third Mark
United Givers Fund nears one third of its 1970 goal with 71619 in contributions. Campaign leaders report nearly 100 percent participation by Frederick City groups and five new quota busters including Capital Milk Producers Cooperative and Eastalco Aluminum Co. A next report meeting is planned for Tuesday Oct 27 at Federated Charities Kindergarten.
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United Givers Fund
UGF General
F. Lawrence Silberangel Jr
Capitol Milk Producers Cooperative Assa
Corning Packaging Co
Eastalco Aluminum Co
Meadows van and Storage Co
Frederick
Stock Market Drift Falls On Investor Uncertainty
New York stock market opened with a slight decline as analysts cited uncertainty about the economic outlook. By 10:30 a.m., the Dow Jones average stood 0.89 points lower at 758.76 after the session began.
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New York
Aged Man Charged In Carroll Death
Walter N. Storm, 72, is charged with homicide for shooting Steven Spivey, 19, in Westminster Maryland. Spivey, from Abington Virginia, taunted Storm before the street shooting witnessed by six townspeople. Storm, released 10 years ago from Springfield State Hospital, was arrested nearby. A psychiatric examination was ordered by Judge Edward O Weant Jr.
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Carroll
Westminster, Md
Walter N. Storm
Springfield State Hospital
Steven Spivey
Abington
Storm
Edward 0. Weant Jr
Fifth Circuit
Trials Go On Despite Leaky Circuit Court Roof
Circuit Court in Frederick County soldiered through a crowded day as rain leaked through the roof. A waste paper basket caught dripping water behind the Deputy States Attorney while two jury trials overlapped from 9:40 to 4:45 p.m. with jurors shifted in the corridor during deliberations.
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Circuit Court
Frederick County
Plipker - Plip
Montgomery County
Ralph Shure
Counseling Service To Open Friday In Frederick
Senator Charles McC Mathias announced a special counseling service in Frederick to help people facing federal employment problems. A staff member will be in room 208 at the Frederick Post Office Friday 12:30 to 5 pm and Saturday 9 am to noon. Mathias will visit about 2 pm Friday to address the Chamber of Commerce. The service aims to connect job seekers with government employment information amid budget cuts.
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Charles McC. Mathias
Frederick
Chamber of Commerce
Nixon and Gromyko Meet on East West Issues
President Nixon meets Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in Washington to discuss pursuing negotiations on major East West questions. Talks touch on the Middle East, Cuba, and Vietnam while both sides show caution over a possible submarine base and Berlin talks.
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Washington
Nixon
Kremlin
Sera
Andrei A Gromyko
United States
Moscow
Mideast
Gromyko
U.N. General Assembly
U.S
Cuba
William P. Rogers
White House
Rogers
Ronald L. Ziegler
Indochina
Vietnam
Berlin
Hop
Lyon Heads Hood College Board of Trustees
Charles D. Lyon of Hagerstown was elected chairman of Hood College Board of Trustees succeeding Richard C. McCurdy. Vice-chairmen are Joseph E. Workman and Lawrence Marxer. Lyon, a 40 year Potomac Edison veteran, Yale graduate, active in Washington County charities, joined Hood in 1967.
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Charles D. Lyon
Hagerstown
Potomac Edison Company
Hood College Board of Trustees
Richard C. McCurdy
Shell Oil Corporation
NASA
Joseph E. Workman
Latrobe Steel Company
Latrobe
Lawrence Marxer
United Merchants and Manufacturers, Inc
New York City
Lyon
Hanoi Calls Nixon Peace Plan Swindle
Paris AP report says Viet Namese Communists call Nixon peace plan a swindle and plot. Mrs Nguyen Thi Binh accuses U.S. rhetoric of aggression while Xuan Thuy says the program is aimed at votes. Both sides back the Sept. 17 peace initiative calling for unconditional U.S. troop pullout by June 30 and removal of key South Vietnamese leaders.
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Paris
Nixon
U.S
David
E. Bruce
Bruce
Nguyen Thi Binh
Viet Cong
United States
Binh
Thuy
Mrs. Binh
Nguyen van Thien
Nguyen Cao Ky
Tran Thien Khiem
Forty Americans Killed in Vietnam Last Week
The U S Command reported 40 Americans killed in action in Vietnam last week, the second lowest weekly toll in 44 years, with 33 other deaths from non battle causes. Allied forces killed 1 033 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong, 119 fewer than the prior week, while 432 U S troops and 58 South Vietnamese soldiers were wounded./Cambodian clashes near Phnom Penh produced no casualties in a two hour fight, and U S disengagement noted as casualties decline.
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Saigon
Vietnam
U.S
Cambodia
Phnom Penh
Chilean Army Chief Shot by Assassins in Santiago
Unidentified gunmen in Santiago wounded Gen. Rene Schneider, commander of Chile's army, with three bullets. He was taken to a military hospital for surgery. doctors described his condition as serious. The attack occurred two days before Congress would elect Marxist Salvador Allende as president. Three cars blocked Schneider's route to the Defense Ministry, and officials said assailants opened fire with pistols. Outgoing President Eduardo Frei Montalva visited the hospital.
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Santiago
Chile
Rene Schneider
Defense Ministry
Schneider
Congress
Salvador Allende
Eduardo
Two Generals Feared Plane Crash Victims
ANKARA Turkey AP Turkish planes and ground forces search for two U S Army generals believed missing after their six passenger plane disappeared in very bad weather on a one hour flight from Erzurum to Kars. Maj Gen Edward C D Scherrer commander of the Joint US Military Mission to Turkey and Brig Gen Claude M McQuarrie Jr head of the mission's Army section were on a tour of Turkish military installations when the plane vanished. An unidentified Turkish escort officer was also aboard. Scherrer 57 a Shawneetown Illinois native heads the mission since December 1968 and is a West Point graduate. McQuarrie 45 was born at Fort Benning Georgia and graduated from West Point in 1945.
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U.S. Army
Edward C. D. Scherrer
Claude M. McQuarrie
Turkey
Ankara
Claude M. McQuarrie Jr
James P. Russell
Comtross
Erzurum
Kars
Scherrer
Shawneetown
West Point
Pacific
Euroe
South Korea
Washington
Joint Chiefs of Staff
McQuarrie
Ft. Benning
Vietnam
178Rd Airborne Brigade
Army Support Command
Fire log summary from 24 hour period ending 10 am
Fire log records calls including electrical fire at City 615 Chapel Alley with units Juniors and Uniteds at 8 09 pm. Wires at County Route 550 near Independents responding at 2 15 am. House fire at Klinehart residence at Woodsboro and New Midway reported at 11 36 pm. Ambulance calls noted.
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Chapel Alley
Uniteds
South Wisner ST
Klinehart
Woodsboro
New Midway
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