Pakistan Jets Attack Airports and Supply Lines
New Delhi says Pakistani jets attacked strategic airports near Tibet and led to hundreds of paratroopers landing. Reports claim strikes on Gauhati in Assam and a Brahmaputra bridge at Pandu, with heavy fighting noted near the northwest frontier and near Ferozepore. UN Secretary General Thant arrives for peace talks after meetings in Rawalpindi.
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India
Tibet
Pakistan
Guahati
Assam
Ints
Red China
Brahmaputra River
Pandu
Northwest Frontier
Peking
Tani
Ferozepore
B. Chavan
Feerepore
West Pakistan
Indian Radio
U.N
U Thant
Subcontinent
Thant
Rawalpindi
Mohammed Ayub Khan
Z.A. Bhutto
Mental Tests Ordered For Walkersville Woman
A Walkersville woman Mary Ellen Ramsburg Frantz was sent to Springfield State Hospital for psychiatric examination after she attacked her son with an axe. Police reported 15 year old Mark William Frantz suffered a fractured skull and severe wounds. he was listed in satisfactory condition at Washington County Hospital in Hagerstown. The mother’s arrest followed the early morning assault as state police were alerted at 1 45 a m. Gordon H Smith reported finding the boy bleeding in bed with a blood coated double blown axe nearby. The youth had just returned from Spring Grove State Hospital where he had been a patient since June.
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Walkersville
Robert Kennedy
Mary Ellen Ramsburg Frantz
Springfield State Hospital
Sykesville
Mark William Frantz
Washington County Hospital
Hagerstown
Harry William Frantz
Frantz
Tfe
Gordon H Smith
Smith
Spring Grove State Hospital
PE To Join In Nuclear Power Plant
Potomac Edison Company joins 13 other electric utilities to form the East Central Nuclear Group with General Dynamics to study an advanced nuclear power station. The nine month study aims to evaluate preliminary design and cost for a large scale plant planned for the late 1970s. Charles D. Lyon discloses the project aims to produce reactor fuel rather than consuming it.
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Potomac Edison Company
East Central Nuclear Group
General Atomic Division
General Dynamics Corporation
Charles D. Lyon
Lyon
Viet Cong Raids Hit Towns Near Saigon and Mekong Delta
Viet Cong guerrillas overran a village and shelled Xuan Loc, capital of Long Khanh Province, with about 35 mortar rounds and small arms fire causing light government casualties. In Gia Tan defenders lost contact, while Gia Kiem faced a VC assault with no casualties reported. Air strikes and artillery targeted areas near Soc Trang and a battalion estimated at 300 to 500 men. U S jet bombers conducted a 21st strike on a suspected guerrilla stronghold in the central highlands.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
Xuan Loc
Long Khanh
Gia Tan
Gia Kiem
Mekong
Soc Trang
Mathias To Moderate Potomac River Conference Panel
Frederick congressman Charles McC. Mathias Jr. will moderate a panel on land management at the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin meeting in Winchester Virginia September 15 and 16. Senator Brewster will speak at the banquet on September 15. The event is free and open to Frederick residents and Potomac Valley citizens.
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Frederick News
A. T. Brust
Daniel B. Brewster
Maryland
Winchester Va
Potomac River
Frederick
Potomac Valley
The
Potomac
This Year's Congress Is Generous
Washington reports that Congress is on pace to set peacetime records for total appropriations, likely around 120 billion dollars. The body has moved 103.8 billion in controllable outlays, with a projected net cut near two percent, while funding Viet Nam and foreign aid flags loom.
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Washington
Congress
Johnson
House
Senate
Grand Jury To Convene Monday For Fall Term
The Frederick County Grand Jury will convene Monday to consider 35 indictments against 19 people. The most serious case is a first degree murder charge against 26 year old Winston Leveyne Watkins for the fatal knife slaying of his wife Glor ia Jean Watkins. Also to be presented are 12 breaking and entering and larceny charges against six Emmitsburg boys and 4 forgery and false pretense charges against four people. The panel will also review a manslaughter case burglary robbery and assault and battery charges, 20 appeals from Magistrate Courts, and about five paternity cases weekly. After the presentments, inspections of the county jail and Montevue Home will follow, with the session ending midweek.
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Frederick County
Grand Jury
Frederick J. Bower
Winston Leveyne Watkins
Frederick
Watkins
Lincoln Apartments
Glor Ia Jean Watkins
Clarks‘purg
West Seventh Street
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Robert Senhoeffer
Emmitsburg
Bower
Thurmont Brunswick
Montevue
Rothenhoefer
New Brunswick High School Cooling Plant Fails Students Dismissed
The new Brunswick High School faced a breakdown as air conditioning failed on a hot Friday forcing students to leave at midday. Officials cited equipment shortages in shop and vocational courses and admitted textbook shortfalls, while Principal Hess granted dismissal powers during heat.
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New Brunswick High School
Brunswick
Princial
James T. Hess
Hess
Vachoo
Defenders Day Holiday Shuts State Offices Monday
Defenders Day observance leads to closures of state departments in Baltimore and Frederick along with all state agency offices. Schools and School Board offices remain open while appropriate exercises occur in schools to mark the anniversary of the Fort McHenry bombardment. County offices in the Court House and Winchester Hall also close.
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Fort McHenry
Baltimore
State Department of Education
Frederick
Courthouse
Winchester Hall
Vatican Ecumenical Council Convenes Final Session
World bishops gather in Rome for the fourth and last council session. Pope Paul VI is expected to release an encyclical on the Eucharist. Key topics include the Church in the modern world, religious liberty, and relations with non-Christian religions.
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Vatican City
Rome
Vatican Ecumenical Council
Vatican Press
Paul VI
Castel Gandolfo
Death Toll 34 in Betsy Floods as Rescue Races On
In New Orleans and surrounding areas a vast rescue effort using pirogues, boats, and helicopters operated through floodwaters. The disaster prompted declarations of major disaster areas in Louisiana, with about 30 000 people evacuated and 10 000 more awaiting rescue as the death toll reached 34 across four states. The storm caused extensive property and crop damage, especially to cotton.
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New Orleans
Louisiane
Washington
Peronalington
Louisiana
Arkansas
Mississippi
Florida
Betsy
Postmaster Announces Higher Prices for Stamped Envelopes
Frederick Postmaster James A. Grove says stamped envelopes cost more starting today. Plain stamped envelopes under 500 cost one cent more. four cent and air mail envelopes rise to seven and ten cents respectively. larger lots also increase. The change covers costs to meet legal minimum sale prices and reflects lower contract costs reducing overall rise.
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Frederick
James A. Grove
Grove
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