Frederick County Schools Open With Sixteen Thousand Enrolled
Enrollment totals show 16 486 students attending on the first day across city and county schools. City elementarys and high schools report 3 181 and 3 608 students respectively with county elementary schools adding 5 791 and high schools 3 906. North Frederick leads grade schools with 693. Harmony Grove is lowest at 73. Frederick High School tops city and county with 1 618 students. West Frederick High 1 457. Elm Street Junior High 537.
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Frederick County
Paul Fogle
Board of Education
City
North Frederick
Harmony Grove
South Frederick
Parkway
East Frederick
Elm Street
North Market Street
Frederick High School
West Frederick High School
George May
Debra Brandon
Sandra K. Brandon
East Fifth Street
Warner Hahn
Frederick man held for grand jury in wife murder
Winston Leveyne Watkins of Frederick is jailed on $10,000 bond after a preliminary hearing in Magistrate's Court charged with second degree murder in the stabbing death of his wife Gloria Jean Watkins 21 of Clarksburg. Nurse Avalon Orris testified she saw blood on the victim and heard her say her husband was trying to kill her.
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Frederick
Byron W. Thompson
Winston Leveyne Watkins
Lincoln Apartments
Frederick County
Watkins
Gloria Jean Watkins
Clarksburg
Avalon Orris
Gene Camp
Toll House Avenue
Orris
New Brunswick High School Opens With Air Conditioning
County schools opened for the new year with Brunswick High School and a Sabillasville elementary opening. Brunswick, a $3.5 million site, houses 1200 students and is first in the county with year around air conditioning and team teaching. Dedication Saturday drew 800 attendees with James Hess given the keys by contractor Lemuel Keller. Principal James Sensenbaugh addressed the event as schools reported smooth enrollments and orderly morning operations.
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Board of Education
John L. Carnahan
C. Edward Hamilton
New Brunswick High School
Sabillasville
New Brunswick
Brunswick School
Brunswick
Lemuel D. Keller
James A. Sensenbaugh
George Littrell
Hoyle
Littrell
Frederick High
Warren C. Smith
Woodsboro rezoning approved for Oren Stein development
Frederick County Commissioners granted a rezoning to allow an 18 lot housing project on 10 acres at Gravel Hill Road and Old Mill Road west of Woodsboro after a public hearing in Winchester Hall. The change corrects an administrative error that had treated land as industrial.
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Frederick County
Woodsboro
Winchester Hall
Oren Stein
Gravel Hill Road
Stein
Planning Commission
Gravel Hill
Hildebrand
Pennsyvania Railroad
Luci Johnson Flies Through Frederick Early Monday
President's daughter Luci Johnson was briefly in Frederick around 3 15 a m traveling on U S 40 and 70 S en route from Hanover Pennsylvania to Washington State Police escorted her from the Pennsylvania line to Frederick County and Trooper Gordon H Smith led her to the Montgomery County line.
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Luci Johnson
Frederick
Miss Johnson
U.S. 40
Mt. St. Mary’s College
Hanover Pa
Washington
Hagerstown
Pennsylvania
Frederick County
Gordon H. Smith
Frederick Police
Montgomery County
Hanover
New Steel Contract Signed in Pittsburgh
A 35 month steel industry pact ends labor tension. J W Abel of the United Steelworkers and R Conrad Cooper signed after White House pressure. Wages rise about 50 cents per hour for 450000 workers, surpassing 3.2% annual guideline and nearing 3.5%.
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Pittsburgh
Washington
Johnson
J. W. Abel
United Steelworkers Union
R. Conrad Cooper
White House
Boy Loses Finger In Dynamite Cap Blast
A seven year old Mt. Airy boy suffered the loss of part of his right index finger when a dynamite cap exploded as he hammered it. The accident occurred Labor Day in his home and hospital reports note lacerations to the forehead and right thumb. Police say the cap was found in a junk box and the boy was the son of Ralph and the late Gladye Gladhill. Byron L. Hubble investigated.
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Labor Day
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Samuel K. Gladhill
RFD 1
Mt. Airy
Ralph FE. Gladhill
Tfe
Byron L. Hubble
Betsy Threatens Nassau As Florida Braces For Storm
Hurricane Betsy hovered near Nassau with the eye looming over the 50,000 resident city while Florida faces a second day of anxiety. Power outages cut Nassau's communications as winds near 80 mph and tides surged. Forecasters warned of possible 150 mph gusts if in the eye wall, and Cuba issued alerts as Betsy stalls off the Atlantic then may turn toward the Gulf or north.
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Miami
Fla
Betsy
Nassau
Bahamas
Florida
Weather Bureau
Abaco
Bahamas Islands
Eleuthera
Palm Beach
Florida East
Florida Keys
Everglades City
Cape Kennedy
Gulf Coast
Punta Gorda
Grand Bahama Island
Sarah Elizabeth
Tress
Coast Guard
Atlantic
Gulf of Mexico
Cuba
National Observatory
Flora
Holiday Traffic Toll Near Record
The Labor Day weekend traffic toll neared the record with 538 deaths in 78 hours ending midnight. The National Safety Council warned totals could rise toward the 1963 high of 537, with late reports possibly setting a new record.
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Associated Press
National Safety Council
Veterans form Western Maryland Pearl Harbor Survivors chapter
A ceremony at the Frederick Amvets Club organized the first Western Maryland chapter of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association. Grover Harper of Hagerstown was elected leader, with Marvin Spencer named vice president. The group, chartered July 31, aims to memorialize December 7 and hold quarterly meetings across Maryland Pennsylvania Virginia and West Virginia.
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Pearl Harbor
Western Maryland
Frederick
Pearl Harbor Survivors Association
Marines Stage Major Viet Attack Near Chu Lai
US Marines and Vietnamese troops launched Operation Piranha on the Batangan peninsula south of Chu Lai. Helicopters evacuated wounded. Casualties described as light. About 5000 Marines and heavy Viet Cong positions involved in the largest battle of the war to date.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Batangan
Chu Lai
da Nang
U.S
U.S. Navy
7Th Fleet
van Tuong
Central Highlands
Nations seek pause as India and Pakistan rage across subcontinent
U Thant heads to Pakistan and India to urge a ceasefire as bombing spreads to major cities. Pakistan claims 46 Indian planes destroyed, while India says it repelled air attacks and struck several bases including Rawalpindi and Chittagong. Both sides report ground clashes with growing resistance near the frontier.
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New Delhi
India
Subcontinent
East Pakistan
Sargodha
Rawalpindi
Karachi
Pakistan
Dacca
Chittagong
Kurmi
Kurmitola
Jessore
Lalmunirhat
Chaklala
West Pakistan
Amritsar
Punjab
Kalaikunda
Calcutta
Lahore
U S Neutral In Pakistan India Fight
The United States kept a neutral peacemaker stance amid the India Pakistan clash and may review aid programs if the conflict lasts longer. U S officials noted no Red China move was known, while Pakistan’s ties with Beijing loom large. In New York, the stock market edged higher in moderately active trading.
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Washington
United States
Pakistan
CENTO
India
Johnson
U.S
Red
Kashmir
Peking
New York
Tony
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Fogle
Middletown
Emmitsburg
Linganore
Thurmont
Walkersville
Jefferson
Carroll Manor
Wolfsville
Urbana
Liberty
New Market
New Midway
Myersville
James T. Hess
Luci
Palms Bend
Pearl Harbor Veterans
United Nations
U Thant
U.N
Thant
U. S
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