Admits Killing Young Sweethearts Added Charges Hurled At Hussein
Cairo reports allege King Hussein covertly deals with Israel as Egyptian and Syrian presses intensify a propaganda campaign. In Damascus 10,000 Palestinian refugees protest and vow no pacts with imperialism while Hussein defends Jordan and criticizes new attacks as lies. Continued on Page 2 Col. 4.
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Air Force eyes more B 52s amid flare sighting reports
Washington reports say contracts may total about 1 million for Boeing B52 and Convair B53 components with Fairchild Aircraft Division as the largest sub contractor. The Navy and Coast Guard search near Honolulu for Pan American Stratocruiser survivors continues as flare sightings are investigated.
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Washington| Dispatch
Wall Street
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Honolulu
Pacific
Coast Guard
Alwa
Anethar Hanofirl Rannet
Coldest Of Autumn Sees Mercury Dip To 19 Here
A Maryland region endures a hard freeze with Oakland Garret County recording 13 and Cumberland 18 as the coldest spots. Winds drop to chilly levels with a forecast of easing temperatures and possible showers by midweek.
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Waldorf
Towson
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Raniand
Bridgeport
B. Paul Oswald
Maryland
Oakland
Garrett County
Lavale
Cumberland
Frostburg
Little Savage Mountain
Thacanthar Law Nestlinges
Finance Company Office ransacked over weekend with two shot
The General Acceptance Corporation office on Summit Avenue was broken into over the weekend. Thieves escaped with over 2100 in cash after ransacking the premises. Det. Sgt. Wigfield said records were scattered and equipment damage could reach 1000. Entry gained via roof. an inner door was forced open.
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General Acceptance Corporation
Summit Avenue
Aloay
Grayson Wigfield
Veterans Day Service At Court House Headlines Court Heist
A break in at the Court House during the Veterans Day service revealed a cabinet safe pried open and cash missing totaling 2187.98. Detectives Lowry and Hannon investigated the South Potomac Junior High School break in and theft losses included 489 in silver dollars 200 in Liberty half dollars a 1934 class ring and two wrist watches. The memorial service led by Rev Wilbur Hogewell featured a poem oration urging peaceful strength and moral courage as wreaths were placed at the Court House memorial.
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A. C. Lowry, Sr
Richard M. Hannon
South Potomac Junior High
Lice
Frantes Sponseller
Franklin Street
Wilbur S. Hogewell
First Christian Church
Morris Frock
Ohio man admits killing two sweethearts in love triangle
In Dayton, Robie Crites 31, a Navy veteran and father of four, told detectives he killed Beverly Eldred 17 and Deanna Fouch 16 to protect his wife from discovery. He planned to move the bodies to Colorado and kill his wife’s sister, then abandoned the plan. Prosecutors were to receive charges as authorities described the affair and Crites background including work at General Motors Moraine plant.
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Beverly Ann Eldred
Deanna Jean Fouch
Yester
B.C. Beckett
Sheriffs’ Office
Robie “Grites
Crites
Beckett
Tals
Colorado
Kettering
Deanna
Beverly
Dexine
Thorities
Korea
Veterans’ Administration
Frigidaires Division
General Motors
Moraine City
Board Plans Joint Session On School Money Problems
Washington County faces a financial squeeze for school construction as the Board of Education seeks a $1.5 million boost and county commissioners weigh borrowing limits. Officials discuss funding, budgets, and potential state action ahead of 1960 deadlines.
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Chester F. Delphoy
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Boonsboro High School
Charles Downey
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Delphey
Hospital Notice Reunites Cousins After 42 Years
Mrs D W Kendall found a hospital patient list and identified Lettie Grimm Shawyer. The two cousins, once separated after Lettie married Julian Shawyer in 1915 at the home of Kellmas Day, reunited at Kendall's Washington Avenue residence. They had not seen each other since the wedding and spent an entire afternoon reminiscing.
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D. W. Kendall
Washington Arenne
Washington County Hospital
Sharpsburg Pike
Lettie Grimm
Julian
Ken Only
New Residents Urged to Transfer by Election Supervisors
An advisory from the Board of Election Supervisors targets residents in recently annexed city areas to update registration. The notice mentions contacting the Court Howse tee and tree Teeeuseaphor for guidance, with references to the 1400 block of West Cherck and surrounding Pang Jeffersen Beskeyards areas.
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Board of Election Supervisors
West Cherck
Jeffersen Beskeyards
Three Tips Win Him A Top Prize
An East ad resident with a noted absence of activity returns with three clever tips. The first prize of $4.00 is earned for stories about two squirrel families dispossessed by an intruding opossum, covered wells and cesspools, and the sanitary inspector’s issues with a muscovy duck. A Smithsburg rector wins second prize for a tip about a church theft. Third prize goes to another entrant.
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East Ad
Smithsburg
Flags Decried As Ground Clutter In Downtown Protest
Vigorous protests erupted this morning over how the American Flag was treated in two downtown blocks on West and East Washington Streets during Veterans Day ceremonies. W M Cookman and L H Taylor voiced anger at finding Stars and Stripes on the ground, citing the law against letting the flag touch the earth. Cookman spoke of his son Lt Donald M Cookman, a Marine killed in action in the South Pacific and buried in Arlington. Taylor, a longtime Marine and member of the Marine Corps League and VFW, joined the grievances amid the ceremony near the Court House.
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W. “M. Cookman
Beachwood Drive
L. H. Taylor
Court House
Cookman
Donald M. Cookman
Marine Corps
South Pacific
Arlington National Cemetery
Taylor
U. S. Marines Corps
Marine Corps League
V. FW
Treasure Town subject highlights Hagerstown feature
Journalist Richard Gehman will profile Hagerstown in an early spring Wo man’s Day article. He arrives to research with a photographer to document the town’s historical sites, antique shops, and dining spots. The series already includes Litchfield, West Chester, Carmel, and Asheville.
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Hagerstown
Litchfield
Connecticut
West Chester
Pennsylvania
Carmel
California
Asheville
North Carolina
Man Brutally Attacked by Hitchhikers in Maryland
Baltimore County police reported high school janitor Jack Gillespie in critical condition after a beating by two hitchhikers who robbed him of $100 and a wrist watch. The suspects, aged 20 and 22, were arrested in Wythe County Virginia and to be returned to Maryland.
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Virginia
Baltimore County
Jack G. Gillespie
Union Memorialital
Hereford Hish School
Wythe County
Maryland
William Powers
Gillespie
Powers
Maryland Machine and Foundry Works Remodel Permit Granted
A permit was issued for the Maryland Machine and Foundry Works at 99 West Lea Street for extensive remodeling of the steel fabricating shop and a steel and masonry addition, estimated to cost $30,000.
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Maryland Machine and Foundry Works
West Lea Street
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