Frederick CROP Walk for the Hungry Nets $2,500 plus
More than 100 Frederick volunteers finished a 10 mile CROP Walk for the Hungry along the B and O Canal from Harpers Ferry to Shepherdstown despite light rain. Sponsors pledged over $2,500 for East Pakistani victims of last year’s tidal wave and civil strife, with Shane Hutton first to finish after 7.3 miles. Funds go to Church World Service programs including food for survival, literacy, roads, irrigation, and flood control projects.
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Frederick
Joe Young
B & O Canal
Harpers Ferry
Shepherdatown
Shane Hutton
Wally Hutton
Shane
Young Lee Shane
Community Hunger Appeal
Church World Service
Walker
Tree Planting Contract Awarded Gilmore Plant and Bulb Co.
David H. Fisher of the State Highway Administration announced a $203,595 contract to Gilmore Plant and Bulb Company Inc of Julian NC for furnishing planting and caring of trees and shrubs along I-70 from east of US 40 interchange near Hagerstown Washington County to east of Valley View Road Frederick County. Work begins immediately with planting in medians roadsides interchanges with MD 66 and MD 17 and partial landscaping of two safety rest areas. Also notes a dinner party hosted by Claude E. Brown for former Brown's Goodie Shop employees (1925-1938) at the Francis Scott Key Hotel in Ridgeville where guests received gifts.
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David H. Fisher
State Highway Administration
Gilmore Plant and Bulb Company, Inc
Julian
N. C
Hagerstown
Washington County
Valley View Road
Frederick County
Maryland 66
Maryland 17
Wedgwood Room
Francis Scott Key Hotel
Claude E. Brown
Brown
Goodie
Ridgeville
Mark Leatherwood
Winfred Watkins
Carlton Grimm
Arthur Beall
Charles Scheel
Trains Clash in Japan Tunnel. Seven Dead, 178 Hurt
In central Japan two express passenger trains on the Kintetsu line collided head on in a tunnel between Nagoya and Osaka. At least seven people were killed, 178 injured, including the motormen. About 600 passengers were aboard. Both trains derailed with several coaches overturned. Police deployed 200 rescuers, but extraction was difficult. Hotels and inns aided by providing buses and station wagons to move injured to hospitals.
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Tsu
Japan
Kintetsu Railways Co
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mid - Atlantic
New ‘Windsor
Mils
None
Paul Fogle
Middletown
Fogle
Shepherdstown
Bill Grady
Nagoya
Osaka
M&m
Market St
Mars Opticians
West Second Street
Coblentz & Smith, Inc. Insurance
ALL Kin
J. Vernon Coblentz- Roberts T Smith
N. Court Street
Southern States
Frederick Coop., Inc
Frederick, MD
Southern States Woodsboro Coop., Inc
Woodsboro, MD
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