County Reports $240,000 Surplus in Six Month Budget
Frederick County officials announced a $240,000 surplus for the first half of the year with $70,000 above state estimates in utilities taxes and $40,000 over real estate tax collections. The largest share, $42,000, came from departments under budgeted allotments. An additional $12,000 came from interest on funds. The audit covering January 1 to June 30 is pending final release next year.
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Frederick
A. Irvin Renn
Cleark
Randolph B. Rosencrantz
Rosencrantz
Forest Fire Hazard On Watershed Warns of Drought Risk
Frederick’s maintenance chief Marion W. Rice warns the city watershed is tinder dry and a single careless cigarette could ignite a major fire. He urges hunters and mountain visitors to avoid campfires as two towers are manned at Gambrill State Park and Foxville while Hamburg and Salamander Rock remain unused.
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Frederick
Marion W. Rice
Court halts certification on statewide equal service vote
Baltimore AP says Circuit Judge Wilson K. Barnes orders the Secretary of State not to certify referendum results on equal public accommodations until ruling on challenges. If voters approve a 1964 act extending the 1963 law to 11 counties, the injunction ends. If rejected, Barnes will review petition signatures.
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Baltimore
Circuit
Wilson K. Barnes
Secreatary of State
Barnes
Market steadies in moderately active New York trade
The New York stock market opened with a steady tone as moderate activity characterized early trading. Investors watched key gauges and company shares while seeking direction amid light volume and mixed early results.
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Active Market
New York
Engineer proposes new Monocacy bridge on Gas House Pike
Frederick County officials open a two day county roads tour led by County Engineer Southey Nottingham who proposes a new bridge over the Monocacy River at Gas House Pike. The 70 year old bridge remains standing but aged while planners study replacing the old crossing to remove three sharp right angle curves and improve primary routes for possible industrial development. The tour also notes a temporary pipe bridge across Linganore Creek used after a county bridge collapsed nearby.
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Southey Nottingham
Monocacy River
Gas House Pike
Nottingham
Frederick County
Frederick City
Advisory Roads Board
Delinquency Linked To TV Crime Shows
A Senate subcommittee report links televised crime and violence to juvenile delinquency while noting television is not the sole cause. Sen. Thomas J. Dodd cites 25 million children under 12 watching daily as evidence of television’s broad influence and time spent beyond school or church.
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Washington
Senate
Thomas J. Dodd
Dconn
Millon
Johnson targets Goldwater in Northeast swing
President Johnson campaigns in the Northeast after touring the Deep South where he denounced Barry Goldwater by name and called for ending North-South strife. He plans stops in Boston, Pittsburgh and Evansville before an Albuquerque overnight, following a Florida Georgia South Carolina trek.
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Washington
Johnson
Northeast
Deep South
Barry Goldwater
Goldwater
Boston
Pittsburgh
Evansville
Ind
Albuquerque
N.M
Florida
Georgia
South Carolina
White House
Barry Goldwater slams Johnson as power hungry
Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater accuses President Johnson of race and religion baiting to secure a White House mandate. He says Johnson seeks total trust and total power, calling him the most power hungry man in American politics as he campaigns in Bristol Tennessee.
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Bristol
Tenn
Barry Goldwater
Johnson
America
White House
Arizona
Goldwater
Frederick City Holds Broad One Mile Belt Zoning Powers
Frederick City claims unusually wide authority over planning, zoning and subdivisions within a one mile belt beyond its corporate limits. County planners note Frederick is unique in Maryland for such control under its charter, with Walkersville and Brunswick planning similar moves. officials propose a joint city county commission to oversee belt zoning and development.
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Frederick City
Maryland
Frederick
Robert Wirgan
Walkersville
Brunswick
City of
Four Oclock Whistle Signals End Of Ox Fibre Brush Day
The Ox Fibre Brush Company sounds the 4 o'clock whistle as machines wind down and workers prepare to leave. Footsteps quicken, lockers slam, doors swing, and the plant shifts from busy to quiet until the next shift begins.
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Ox Fibre Brush Company
Sit-Down Riots Persist At Maryland Prison
Maryland corrections chief reports weeding out about 36 ringleaders of unrest at the Jessup facility after a cell by cell search found knives clubs and chains. A sit-down strike idled 500 inmates in the laundry and workshops as grievances over guards money and commissary were aired.
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Jessup
Maryland House of Correction
Vernon L. Pepersack
State Commissioner of Correction
Pepersack
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Right
Ronald Zumbrun
Steiner
Monocacy
Linganore Creek
Glisan Mill
Woodville
Oak Orchard
Spring Gardens
Keymar
Deerfield
Lantz
Stottlemyer
Harp Mill
ABC New York
American Broadcasting Co
Goldwater Exchange
Barry
LBJ
C. Millard Eiler “Hest Writer
J. Rolfe Castleman
House of Correction
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Bath
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