Seven Arrested in Biggest Haul of Heroin in U S
Federal agents nabbed seven suspects in what they called the largest single shipment of heroin ever seized in the United States. A 202 pound cache was found at the trailer court home of CWO Herman Conder, 45, a retired Army man. The operation tied to Frankis Dio of Miami and four foreign nationals. Value claimed ranged from 18.5 million to 100 million on the underworld market, with Conder implicated as courier and others held in New York, Miami, and abroad.
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Columbus
United States
CWO Herman
Conder
Ft. Benning
Orleans
France
Frankis Dio
Miami
Henry L. Giordano
Ert
M. Morgenthau
Giordano
J. Morgenthau
Army
Senator Aiken urges pursuing Viet peace feelers
Senator George D. Aiken of Vermont told reporters the United States must diligently pursue any Vietnam peace feelers, no matter how tenuous, warning the alternative could be a long costly war with heavy loss of lives and resources. He spoke as he serves on the Foreign Relations Committee and echoed in comments by a leading House Republican, Rep. Melvin.
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U.S
Jack Bell Washington
George D. Aiken
R-Vt
United States
Aiken
Senate
Feretm Relatars Committee
Vermont
House
Rep
Melvin
Wisconsin
John F. Kennedy
Cuba
Viet Nam
Laird
North Viet Nam
Hanoi
State Department
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Obituaries and memorial notices from Hagerstown area
Local obituaries note Sam Shepherd of Lynchburg Va death and funeral plans in Lynchburg at Whitten Funeral Home. Other notices include Anna May Whitmer of Hagerstown living at 58, Mount Zion Lutheran Church members and Roy Myers of Hancock, LeRoux Williams of Sharpsburg, and J R Laird comments on Vietnam policy. Multiple families mourn, with calls and services arranged at local chapels and churches.
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James Henry
Jacob Valentine
Hagerstown
Sam Shepherd
Lynchburg
Whitten Funeral Home
Fountaindale School Christmas Bulletin Correction
The Christmas bulletin board pictured by Christopher Schosn is at Fountaindale School, not Salem School as previously reported. The confusion arose from a Daily Mail feature on elementary decorations. Christopher's mother teaches at Fountaindale School.
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Christopher Schosn
Daily Mail
Fountaindale School
Salem School
Chriistopher
Fountaindale Schon
Power Plant Specialist Dies At 78
William Dean Canan 78 of 115 Linden Ave retired Rust Engineering Co. executive in Pittsburgh Pa. died Monday afternoon at Avalon Manor after a six month illness. He was a Penn State graduate in electrical and mechanical engineering and earned MS degrees from Harvard and MIT. He served as a power plant specialist and was a World War I Navy lieutenant commander. He belonged to ASME and IEEE and authored many papers. He leaves his wife Ruth Sell Canan daughter Donovan R Beachier Jr and three grandchildren all of Hagerstown. Services Wednesday at 2 pm at Rouzer Funeral Home with Rev J Russell Butcher. Burial Rest Haven Cemetery.
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Floyd T. Shoemaker
Hancock
Route 2
John Shives
Calvin Myers
Mary Jane Pierce
Hig Pool
Rosaline Knable
Orchard Ridge
Grove Funeral Home
Auns Whitmer
Anna May Whitmer
North Locust St
Zion Lutheran Church
Sylvan
Washington County Hospital
David Hoover
St. the Church
Mark's Lutheran Church
Beachley Furniture Company
Edward E. Heinze
Rest Haven
Sharpsburg
LeRouw Williams
W. Main St
Baltimore Hospital
Maggie E
John Allen Wilsion
Merdian
Mies
Williams
167Th Infantry
Douglas McArthur
Williams Esso
St. Mark's Lutheran Church
Maggie Dobson
Sherman
Tex
Leaf Funers
Charles Hirx
Buria
Mountain View Cemetery
William Dean Canan
Linden Ave
Rust Engineering Co
Pittsburgh
Avalon Manor
Penny State
Phi Kappa Phi
Eta Kappa Nu
Harvard
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Canan
Navy
Army Transport Service
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Amecan Institute of Electrical Engineering
Presbyterian Church
Jaffa Temple
Altoona
Harvard Club
Baltimore
Tyrone
William T
Mary Catherine Myers Canan
Hagerstown
Ruth Sell Canan
Donovan R. Beachier Jr
Haglerstown
Rouzer
J. Russell Butcher
Rest Haven Cumzilery
Informer Fink Found Deed By Holly Hunter
Police probe into the death of Louis Fink Jr. 36, whose body was discovered buried near Pasadena Maryland by a woman searching for Kolly. Fink had been shot in the head and back and likely dead for months. He had a long record of convictions dating to 1946 and testified in 1955 he had been a police informer for two years.
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Pasadena
Louis Fink Jr
Anne Arundel County
Kolly
Fink
Stock Market Edges Higher in Uneven Opening Trades
New YorkAP The stock market moved irregularly higher in fairly active trading at the opening. U S Steel Bethlehem Jones Laughlin and Republic Steel rose fractionally while Eastman Kodak and IBM gained a point. Du Pont Union Carbide and others posted small gains with many large names showing little change.
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New York
U.S. Steel
Bethlehem
Jones & Laughlin
Republic Steel
Eastman Kodak
IBM
du Pont
Unio Carbide
America Motors
Raytheon
Ksuglas Aircraft
American Tobacco
Consolidated Edison
General Electrc
Westinghouse Electric
Allied Chemical
Air Reduction
Kennecott
American Telephone
Texaco
Woolworth
Sears, Roebuck
United Aircraft, Radio Corp
Zenith
Ford and
General Motors
Winter Comes Tonight Snow Forecast Based on Almanacs
Associated Press writer Jerry Buck notes conflicting winter forecasts from caterpillars and almanacs. Perch and moon signs predict mild start, while fog counters and forecasts from various readers anticipate heavy snow. Predictions vary widely across regions with emphasis on Tennessee and the Cumberland Plateau areas.
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Jerry Buck
Associated Press
Bonne
George
Crab Orchard
Tenn
Helen Lane
Crossville
Mathon
Waukegan
Cumber- UK
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Summan
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Smithsburg
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Kendall) Buhrman
Leon Delauter
Clear Spring Rt. 1
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Cumberland
A. K. Coffman Funeral Home
Roy P. Myers Hancock
Roy Pantelon Myers
Mary Viola Myers
Shermen Grant
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Mt. Zion Lutheran Church
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Grant Myers
Rautor Funeral Home
Albert Lucas
Rose Ill
LeRoy Williams
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Johnson Administration
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Fountaindale
William D. Canan
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