Great Frederick Fair attendance expected to peak
The Great Frederick Fair on its final day is forecast to draw record crowds. Officials cite 12,580 general admissions on Thursday and 23,390 by Friday night for the 109th running. Highlights include Hell Drivers at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. and a Dunk-A-Dignitary tank benefiting Jaycees projects.
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Jack Koch
R. J. Ashton
Hank Williams Jr
Cheatin’ Hearts
Frederick
Goodloe Byron
Frederick Jaycees
Charles Mathias
Byron
Wallace Hutton
Richard Baumgartner
Ronald Young
Millard Mastrino
WFMD
Norm Dynn
Jaycess
Hell
Frederick Fair
J. Rolfe Castleman
Absenteeism Chills Senate Sat Sessions On 21B Military Bill
Senate leaders weigh Saturday sessions to rush a $21 billion military hardware bill as absenteeism limits weekday proceedings. A bare quorum voted 39 to 12 against Humphrey's MIRV amendment while key presidential hopefuls and top Republicans were missing. Senate Mansfield urged contenders to calm campaigns and attend sessions.
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Washington
Senate
U.S
Hubert Hi
Humphrey
John Sherman Cooper
R-Ky
Oregon
Robert W. Packwood
Mike Mansfield
Mansfield
George McGovern
D-S,d
California
Fred R. Harris
Dekla
Edmund S. Musie
Maine
Henry M. Jackson
Wash
Pennsylvania
Hugh Scott
Robert T. Giffin
Michigan
Gop
Gordon Allott
Colorado
FBI Probes Arms Build-Up in Hancock County Georgia
Governor Jimmy Carter asked the FBI to investigate reports of an arms race in Hancock County where blacks and whites are said to buy shotguns rifles and submachine guns. John McGown, a black county commissioner, heads the new Hancock Sporting Rangers aimed at black gun ownership. Georgia Commission on Human Relations head McGown says efforts seek preparedness, not escalation.
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Atlanta
Georgia
FBI
Hancock County
Sparta
Jimmy Carter
Hancock Sporting Rangers
John McGown
McGown
Georgia Commission On Human Relations
Atlanta Constitution
T. M Patterson
Justice Hugo Black Dies at 85 in Sleep in Washington
Former Chief Justice Earl Warren mourns a towering figure in U.S. law as Justice Hugo L. Black dies at Bethesda Naval Hospital at 1 a.m. EDT. He retired Sept. 17 after 34 years on the Supreme Court, known for strict constitutional interpretation and a landmark 1962 school prayer ruling.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Hugo L. Black
Bethesda Naval Hospital
Black
Earl Warren
Warren
White House
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Marshall Harlan
Nixon
High Court
Nixon Flies To Alaska To Meet Japan's Emperor
President Nixon plans a four state tour with stops in Montana Oregon Washington and Alaska for nonpolitical activities and a meeting with Emperor Hirohito in Anchorage The trip aims to project goodwill amid U S Japan tensions as Hirohito refruels near Anchorage and Nixon joins an Anchorage reception hosted by former governor Walter J Hickel with the two men last meeting amid Hickel's book About ownership of America and decor remarks
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Washington
Nixon
Alaska
Japan
Hirohito
Montana
Oregon
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Glacier National Park
Libby Dam
Portland
Anchorage
Empress Nagako
United States
Hirorndorf Air Force Base
Aleutian
Walter J. Hickel
Hickel
White House
America
Richard Nixon
Govt Claims Price Roll Back In Petroleum
The government says it has forced down 144 petroleum price increases without court action and aims to roll back 269 more. Arnold Weber of the Cost of Living Council says industry cooperation is expected as the 90 day wage freeze continues. Senator Proxmire accused fuel hikes of pre freezes and urged Nixon to roll them back.
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Washington
Arnold R. Weber
Cost of Living Council
Nixon
William Proxmire
West Cracks Down On Soviet Spies
London orders expulsion of 90 Soviet officials and bars 15 more from Britain after a KGB defector provided a detailed map of espionage networks. The move targets embassies, Narodny Bank staff, Intourist, and Aeroflot, and may chill East West relations amid plans for sabotage.
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London
Britain
KGB
United States
Europe
Moscow
Kremlin
Narodny Bank
Intourist Travel Organization
Aeroflot
Air Strikes Continue Across Vietnam and Laos
U S war planes continued strikes inside North Vietnam for the fifth straight day and faced antiaircraft fire near the Mu Gia pass. Ground attacks hit allied positions in South Vietnam and a U N dam project in Cambodia as bombing raids increased on Hanoi's supply trail through Laos.
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Saigon
U.S
North Vietnam
South Vietnam
U.N
Cambodia
Hanoi
Ho Chi Minh
Laos
Air Force
Mu Gia
Demilitarized Zone
Chester Hanson
Man Injured On Sept. 5 Succumbs
A Knoaville man, 47 year old George Robert Scott, died at University Hospital Baltimore after sustaining multiple head injuries when the car he rode in skidded on Md. 75 and plunged over a guardrail into Linganore Creek. He was treated at Frederick Memorial Hospital before being flown to the shock trauma unit.
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Knoaville
University Hospital
Baltimore
George Robert Scott
Linganore Creek Bridge
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Scott
Tto University Hospital
Peking demands expulsion of Taiwan at UN
Peking repeats stance that Taiwan must be expelled for China to join the United Nations. People's Daily denounces U S two China plan as grace to Beijing and asserts restoration of PRC rights includes all UN seats. Washington faced narrow early success listing its two China resolutions separately on the agenda.
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Tokyo
Peking
Washington
U.N
New China
United Nations
Taiwan
World Organization
U.S
People’s Daily
United States
China
Security Council
People's Republic of China
Chiang Kai-shek
1Ea
New China News Agency
General Assembly
Pressure Mounting to Devalue the U S Dollar
Worldwide pressure on the United States to devalue the dollar mounted as finance ministers and central bankers from 118 nations gathered in Washington for the upcoming annual IMF World Bank meeting.
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Washington
United States
International Monetary Fund
World Bank
Ex County Archivist Pierce Gaver Dies
Pierce H Gaver 1904 198? Freeman of Frederick County Maryland died Friday at Washington County General Hospital Hagestown after a three week illness caused by a subarachnoid hemorrhage His wife Catherine Bond predeceased him in 1957 He founded Gaver and Son Insurance with his son Stanley in 1947 He served as archivist at the County Courthouse and educated school children on local history He played tennis and sang in 1920s dance bands He was a Republican official and church member Surviving: three sons twin brother two nephews two nieces twelve grandchildren Funeral arrangements at M R Etchison and Son Funeral Home with services Tuesday at 2 PM in Mount Olivet Cemetery"}
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Pierce H. Gaver
East Patrick Street
Washington County General Hospital
Hagerstown
Catherine Louise Bond
Middletown
Leslie W
Luella Kefauver Gaver
Gaver
Potomac Edison Company
Board of Election Supervisors
Gaver and Son Insurance Agency
Stanley
Frederick County
Frederick
Mr. Gaver
Middletown High School
Evangelical Reformed United Church of Christ
Robert F. Woodward
First Baptist Church
Mount Olivet Cemetery
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Pamela Sue Miller
Woodsboro
J. Relfe Castleman
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Pierce Gaver
Pierce H. Gaver Jr
Reston
Stanley V. Gaver
Jack L. Gaver
Honolulu
Hawaii
Roland M. Gaver
Bethesda
Austin L. Gaver
Wheaton
Howard T. Gaver
Winifred G
Kline
Wilmington
Del
Elizabeth G. Breeden
Gapland
Joseph O. Gaver
M. R. Etchison and Son Funeral Home
East Church Street
Pierce H. Gaver Sr
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