Frederick's Fishing Creek reservoir near 47 million gallons below capacity
The Frederick's Fishing Creek reservoir runs about 47,000,000 gallons below full, with the big mountain storage dam at 40 percent and 15 feet from the top. Hurricane Hazel dropped rain a ten days ago, easing October shortages. Forecasts expect little change until Thursday with a warming trend and weekend highs in the 70s. Water conservation remains urged as domestic use bans stay in effect and residents cooperate.
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Frederick
Fishing Creek
Big Mountain
Hazel
Two more men to be arraigned in Wilcom's Inn robbery
Two additional defendants from Baltimore, John Kelly Whitt and Billie Cornwell Murray, face arraignment in Circuit Court Wednesday for the September 26 Wilcom's Inn burglary near Monrovia. State's Attorney Price filed criminal information, with alleged theft of guns, cigarettes, a wallet, and cash totaling 3364.68. Frederick Fields pleaded guilty and is jailed awaiting sentence. Carl Underwood received a suspended sentence.
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Wilcom’s Inn
Monrovia
John Kelly Whitt
Billie Cornwell Murray
Baltimore
Murray
Whitt
Charles A. Price
Whitt and Murray
Frederick Fields
Charles F. Wilcom
Fields
Carl Underwood
Murrau
Wilcom
Edison Light Anniversary Show Prompts TV Cost Debate
The electrical industry spent a million dollars for a ten hour TV tribute marking Edison’s invention anniversary. The event aired on all major networks with 300 sponsors and no commercials. Eisenhower praised faith and the American worker as guiding ideals. A vintage Edison voice noted pride in contributing to electrical history while reviewers highlighted George Gobel as the standout performer with a robot brain bit.
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Holly Wood
Thomas A Edison
Edison
Eisenhower
George Gobel
Vandals Trigger Auto Crash in Unionville Section
Halloween pranks in Unionville caused multiple disturbances. Ernest L. Hitchens of Pikesville struck a barricade on Maryland 26 about 9.30 p.m. east of Libertytown, causing about 200 dollars in damage to his 1959 Ford. Trooper Muir noted hay fires, moved road signs, and redirected arrows as additional incidents.
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Hallowe'en
Unionville
Ford
Ernest L. Hitchens
Pikesville
Hitchens
Maryland
Libertytown
Robert ‘Muir
Muir
Hallowe’en
Johnson’s
Red Feather Week In Frederick Schools
Frederick schools host Red Feather Week with community speakers from Chest agencies visiting upper grades to explain civic benefits. Students receive booklets and bookmarks while a door to door campaign winds down. The Red Feather goal rises ten percent to 39,650 dollars.
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Red Feather
Frederick
Community Chest
United Campaign
Avive
East Frederick
Eugene Thomas
H. Thomas Summers
North Market’ Street
Chester Childs
Boy Scouts
North Frederick
Frances Hunter
Girl Scouts
Washington Street
John A. Derr
Community Chest Campaign
Frederick High
Harry E. Powell
Salvation Army
Elm Street
Alice Delauter
Lincoln High
Linco
Chest
Marion N. Kehne
John A. McCabe
Drive for Olympic funds reaches nationwide scope
Frederick Junior Chamber of Commerce joins Faycees in a campaign to raise funds for sending U S Olympic teams abroad. The drive, authorized by President Eisenhower declaring National Olympic Day, aims to gather over 81 million for U S athletes heading to the Pan American Games in Mexico in 1955 and to Australia in 1956. Containers will be placed at local stores for donations via VAT CLA. Fatally Shot Laurel: Mrs Marian Elizabeth Walker, 32, was found shot in the chin and neck at Ft Meade area home. Her husband, Sgt Reford Walker, claimed he was in the bathroom when the shot occurred as two daughters slept nearby.
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Frederick
Mexico
Australia
Snarts
Laurel
Ft. Meade
Marian Elizabeth Walker
Dansville
Reford
D. Walker
Five Hurt In Series Of Accidents
A weekend of crashes across the county left five people injured. Bruce G. Lamm, seven, fell from a car rear door and suffered a possible skull fracture, taken to Frederick Memorial Hospital. The other four sustained various injuries and were treated and released. Sandusky, Payne, Spurlock, and Rexroad were involved in separate incidents on U.S. 240, Maryland 75, and Maryland 26. Police reports cite driver licenses, guard rails, and weather as contributing factors with multiple Troopers investigating.
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Bruce G. Lamm
Howard Lamm
Point of Rocks
Frederick Memorial Hospital
James Hardy
Charles M. Sandusky
Helen .L.payne
Monrovia
James W. Spurlock
Joseph E. Rexroad, Jr
Libertytown
Sandusky
Sunder
Frederick
U. S. 240
Hardy
Howard Junior Weedon
Weedon
Spurlock
Miss Payne
Bush Creek
Maryland
Donald Bowser
Rexroad
Charles L. Hammond
Raymond J. Haines
RFD 4
Air
Grace R. Johnson
Washington
Rothwell C.’ Axler
Hagerstown
Petersville
U. S. 340
Ancy Grams
Brunswick
John Penwell
Harpers Ferry
Kline
Myersville Man Injured in Sunday Car Crash
Franklin Eugene Kline, 17, of Myersville roared south on a state highway when his 1949 Chevrolet struck a guard rail and overturned two miles south of Wolfsville. He suffered a severe laceration to his right arm and was transported to Washington County General Hospital in Hagerstown. State Trooper Robert T. Storer identified him as the injured driver. The car was demolished in the 1.30 p.m. Sunday crash.
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Myersville
Washington County General Hospital
Hagerstown
Maryland
Robert T. Storer
Franklin Eugene Kline
RFD 1
Kline
Storer
Wolfsville
Wreckage Found of Plane on Corsica
The two engine plane believed to be a missing American Air Force C46 was sighted on Corsica by the French News Agency. A new trial was requested in Circuit Court by Kenneth D. Bartgis administrator of Albert Bartgis estate. A jury previously awarded Mollie Dougherty $7 in a suit for services and $8,300 for the late Mr Bartgis. Bartgis says the verdict was against the evidence and excessive, with other grounds cited.
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Paris
Corsica
Cieuit Court
Kenneth D. Bartgis
Woodsboro
Alibert Bartgis
Mollie Dougherty
Ladiesburg
Bartgis
Mathias
Kenneth Bartgis
Carroll County Girl Wins Apple Dessert Contest
Eight county winners competed at Hood College for the Maryland championship in 1954. Doris Barnhart of Manchester, Carroll County, a Manchester High School student, won the competition with an apple totten dessert using Grimes Golden annies. She earns a trip to New York for all expenses paid, with sightseeing, theater, and media appearances, before competing in the All Eastern contest.
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Hood College
Maryland
Doris Barnhart
Manchester
Carroll County
Manchester High School
Miss Barnhart
New York
Hood
Frederick County
Bonnie Grimes
Johnsville
Jeannette Townsend
Howard County
Lisbon High School
4-H
Freda Messersmith
Little Orleans
Albany County
Flintstone High School
Joyce Lee
Phoenix
Baltimore County
Sunnybrook
Yowson
Laura Lynne Davis
Cecil County
iCecilion
Frances W
Hancock High School
Lois Stang
Montgomery County
Gaithersburg High School
Appalachian Apple Service
Martinsburg
W.ya. Carroll R. Miller, Jr
Bernice Gross
Wilson P. Ard
Hagerstown
Elizabeth Messersmith
Home Service
Westinghouse Electric Company
Dumcheon
Francis Scott Key Hotel
E. D. McCain
Wm. T. Delaplaine
Maryland State Horticultural Society
Wachine
Wastinzist Fo
Campaign for Congress Enters Final Week in 1984 Race
The 1984 campaign enters its final week as Republicans plan 250 speeches in 36 states led by President Eisenhower's turnout push and Vice President Nixon speeches in key states. Democrats counter with Adlai Stevenson and House and Senate leaders. Nixon says GOP is in the right position to win the Senate and retain the House. Senate Leader Lyndon Johnson notes a 10-state swing suggesting a Democratic wresting of Congress from Republicans.
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Associated Press
URE US
Republican National Committee
GOP
Eisenhower
Washington
Nixon
Nevada
Arizona
Idaho
Adlai Stevenson
House
Senate
Salt Lake City
Lyndon Johnson
Texas
Minneapolis
Iis
Congress
Free Vietnamese flee by sea from North Indochina
About 115000 Vietnamese Roman Catholics escaped Communist North Indochina by small rafts and junks heading to sea from Van Ly near Bai Chu and Phat Dien. French naval vessels and U S LSMs towed survivors after crossing the three mile limit. The mass exodus followed the French withdrawal last summer amid armistice talks. Also a Coast Guard cutter raced to assist a sinking Honduran ship off Miami with 13 men aboard.
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Saigon
Indochina
North Indochina
van Ly
Bai Chu
Phat Dien
Tanxin
Miami
Fla
Coast Guard
Andhroscoggin
Mendes-France Pushes Plans In Assembly
Paris reports Premier Pierre Mendes-France pressed plans for broad economic pacts with West Germany to solidify the Saar accord and integrate German strength into the Western defense. He urged lasting accords to secure French markets for wheat sugar and dairy and boost Franco German business links.
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Paris
Pierre Mendes-France
West Germany
France
Germany
Wetern
Soviet Union
Russia
Mendes-France
Konrad Adenauer
Saar
Prenzier
Stolen Change From Woodshore Garages
Small sums were taken from Windsor's Garage and Myers Service Station in Woodshore during Saturday night or Sunday morning. Doors were forged, and less than $3 was stolen from each. Windsor is the Windsor garage proprietor. Myers runs the service station. London 2 reports a four week waterfront strike idle 44 000 of 76 000 cargo handlers with no settlement, and wholesale grocers warn low stocks of bacon cheese butter and canned fruits amid the stoppage.
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Woodsboro
Robert Dishong
Windsor
Myers
Woodshore
Hedees Windsor
London
Britain
National Federation of Wholesale Grocers
Field Freed After Being Held Five Years in Poland
VIENNA U P Hermann Field a U S citizen who disappeared in Red Poland in 1951 has been cleared of all charges and released from prison Polish authorities said Field will receive full compensation and action will be taken against those responsible His brother Noel Field also vanished in Prague in 1949 and his wife Herta later disappeared officials noted Swiatlo a Polish secret police official said Field’s arrest was framed by an American agent and that Field once attempted suicide in his Warsaw prison cell and went on hunger strikes highlighting the harsh treatment he faced during captivity.
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Vienna
Austria
Hermann Field
U. S
Poland
Warsaw
Fields
Field
Washington
Jozef Swiatlo A
West
Noel Field
U. S. State Department
Prague
Herta
Hungary
Radio Warsaw
Polish Security Service
Jozef Swiatlo
Swiatlo
London
Cleveland
Ohio
Swiatle
Sviatlo
Court orders accreditation report disclosure in Baltimore
Baltimore court action seeks board of regents to reveal a disputed accreditation report ahead of the November gubernatorial election. Whitworth requests show cause by Nov 12 why the report should not be made public. Meanwhile a separate crime case notes a grocer’s fatal shooting with a witness mentioning two Black men.
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Baltimore
Delacrace P. Whitworth
Maryland Board of Regents
Gay McKeldin
Hoc
Bud
Midce
James Ko Callen
Whitworth
Eisenhower to Televise Historic Cabinet Meeting Tonight
President Eisenhower arranged a nationwide telecast of a Cabinet meeting at 7 p m to report on Paris conferences and the European defense accord. Secretary Dulles arrives noon and will be greeted planeside. NBC CBS and TV networks will carry the session from 7 to 7 30 p m with ABC rebroadcast at 9 30 p m EST.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Dulles
White House
Europe
Stmce
CBS Radio and Television Networks
ABC
Police Alert for Halloween Vandalism in City
Police and the public are urged to curb property destruction during Halloween as vandalism rises in prior years. Chief warns of enforcement and auto window markings hoping to limit nuisance in neighborhoods, with adults also involved and calls for careful door-to-door soliciting by children.
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Hallowe'en
Prap Af Dalvin Charlane Main
Waehley Pail
Foue Department
Tall Cedars Ladies Night Program At Urbana
The Frederik Forest No. 192 Tall Cedars of Lebanon hosts Ladies Night on Wednesday October 27 at Peter Panino Urbana with 125 expected guests. Dinner at 6 59, Little League champions will be presented with trophies, transportation provided, and guests prize drawings. Frank Adams named Past Grand Tall Cedar and district committee chair assists by members’ wives.
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Frederik Forest
Tall Cedars
Lebanon
Peter Panino
Urbana
Ant
Frederi Forrest Sall
Missing Crosby Boys Found After Nightlong Search
Bandleader Bob Crosby’s three sons Tim Wellman 13 Christopher 12 George Robert Jr. 12 and Stephen 8 were found safe in Brentwood Hills three miles from home after an all night search by police and volunteers. Tim Wellman, son of director William Wellman, led the discovery with his dogs and the boys reported seeing police during the night. The family had feared abduction after a threatening note to Crosby months earlier.
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Christopher
Bing Crosby
Teresa Flynn
Wellman
Crosby
Tim
Motorcyere
Paice
Della Denounced For His Statement
Baltimore. George W Della president of the Maryland State Senate was denounced by Democrat James H ysack Pollack for a campaign speech alleging white supremacy in schools and police stations Pollack condemned racism in politics and noted ongoing district power struggles between Pollack and Della both backing the Democratic ticket
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Baltimore
George W Della
Maryland State Senate
James H.ysack Pollack
Pollack
Della
Watch For Vandalism In Washington County
Washington County Sheriff Edward L Rolland assigns special deputies to monitor youthful vandalism on roads amid a recent wave of misdeeds including burned cornfields damaged aerials on cars and related destruction by youngsters.
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Washington 4
Washington County
Edward L. Rolland
Market Upturn Amid Broad Declines In Early Trading
Reported market activity in New York shows a higher opening with notable negative indicators across sectors. Investors watched for steeper declines as breadth remained weak and several key stocks trended lower.
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New York
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