Frederick News-Post (Newspaper) - February 9, 1998, Frederick, Maryland Weather Highs around 50. Complete forecast and national map on The Great Southern Printing and Manufacturing Company Good Of course there is no for- mula for success an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings Rubinstein Vol. 88 No. 51 32.6OO 1 ToUd February 9. 1998 21705 begin Lawmakers work on ag controls outbreak prompts calls for cuts in farm nutrient runoff ANNAPOLIS The Maryland ture will get to work this week on the issue with hearings in both House and Senate committees on proposals to control the killing The House Environmental Matters tee will get first crack at the Delegate Ronald the committee scheduled a hearing for Wednesday on ing bills proposed by Gov. Glendening and a group of rural The governor's would impose mandatory controls on runoff from farm fields and would subject fanners to fines if they use excessive amounts of phosphorous and nitrogen on their Delegate Bennett said 80 of the 141 House members have signed onto a drafted by rural lawmakers that would use a voluntary program with no fines to reduce The Senate Economic and Environmental Affairs Committee has set aside Thursday and Friday to hear testimony on what the state should do to avoid future outbreaks of which is blamed for killing fish and causing health problems in some people on the lower Eastern Shore last Scientists believe phosphorous and two key can trigger to change from a harmless stage to one where it emits a powerful seems to be a growing agreement that nutrient loading of the bay must be I think that bodes well for the passage on Page Local f armers rallying behind voluntary controls By REBECCA LONG CHANEY Staff Nearly 100 agriculturists and local and state elected officials attended the annual Frederick Farm Bureau and Pomona Grange day on drawn by controversies proposed nutrient controls on farmland land a proposed dairy is the largest crowd we'd had in five said John master of the State large attendance due to two main state issues this the mandatory nutrient management and the Northeast Dairy They will both affect farmers in the Frederick County Farm Bureau president Michael Wilcom said that Farm Bureau and Grange members will be going to Annapolis on Wednesday to testify on behalf of an alternative nutrient management The the Nutrient Management Practices Improvement Act of would make efforts to reduce the amount of nutrient runoff from and ultimately the soil voluntary instead of as they would be in a proposed on Page Eastern Shore grower tries but still can't stop all runoff pollution For Eastern Shore farmer Temple Rhodes has tried to pre- vent his family's farm from harming the Chesapeake He's spent about of his own money and nearly in taxpayer money to stop fertilizer and cow manure from polluting the Chester Despite all the money and effort it probably won't be Maryland farmers would be stymied if the General Assembly enacts Gov. Parris N. plan to help prevent The plan would require Maryland farmers to limit the amount of nutrients such as rus and nitrogen in their soil by 2002. no farmer I know now that can be applying poultry manure in such way that they would be the governor's reduction said Russell B. director of the Wye Research and Education a private scientific research center on the Eastern Some farmers say they are not sure what they can do to keep harmful nutrients out the got to do the right said Mr. a Talbot County native whose fore- bears have farmed the Shore for so many that he has lost try to do something new every year to protect the Trouble it costs on Page Staff photo by Green Sunday stroll A stroller took advantage of Frederick's sunny weather Sunday to walk Ms dog at Baker The sunshine brought out plenty of browsers and diners in downtown The high temperature was 48 degrees and the overnight low was according to The Sound Source er Saturday's high was 45 and the low was 31. National Weather Service forecasters are predicting more sun for the beginning of the week but wet weather later Today will be sunny and with a high around 50 degrees and a low in the upper 20s. State proposes increased deer ki Associated Press The state may double the number of deer hunters are allowed to kill in some areas to cope with an dance of deer that are feasting on crops and posing a ger to motorists Bigger bag hired guns and community input are key elements of Maryland's new white-tailed deer management according to Maryland Hunters and animal rights advocates have tions about the but farmers support The developed from a series of public hearings last could be published this week and then made available for review in public libraries and on the Internet for a 30- to 45-day comment period before final officials Hunting remains the favored method of deer tion under the plan But officials said it also gives citizens more say over how many deer they want in their and how to deal with not for the department to dictate what that lation level should said Thomas the Department of Natural chief game the plan seeks to stabilize the statewide deer Damascus man killed in accident From Staff Reports DAMASCUS A 23-year-old Damascus man was killed early Saturday morning on Md. 27 near Gue Road when a car in which he was a passenger skidded out of control and was hit by another according to Montgomery County James Patrick Davidson was killed police The accident occurred when the car in which Mr. son was a Dodge was traveling south on Md. 27 approaching Gue police and skidded out of control into the northbound The car was struck on the passenger side by a Ford Bronco traveling north on Md. police Dorothy Phine of who was driving the was treated and released from Suburban Hospital in police said The person driving the and another passenger in the were taken by ambulance to area hospitals for non- life threatening police Their names were not Letters Sports Snow plays havoc with the Winter ing many See News An informal survey of Frederick County residents indicates that many think beset by of sexual should be allowed to get on with the business of being Mr. Clinton was at Camp near for the second weekend in a Story on Portions of The Frederick Post are printed each day on recycled paper The also Is recyclable limit would be doubled in effort to limit burgeoning population which has doubled to more than in the past five according to Michael director of the wildlife and heritage division He said the plan addresses those points by proposing to double the bag limit to four per season everywhere but and western Washington where deer populations are relatively More bag limits would apply regionally rather than theoretically enabling a skillful shooter to kill 14 deer per season by hunting in each of the four In suburban and urban areas where deer are a sance and hunting isn't the plan envisions using sharpshooters and euthanasia administered by teams of veterinarians to and efficiently remove a large number of Mr. Slattery A sharpshooter proposal endorsed by the DNR was rejected last month by the Gaithersburg City which instead chose a plan devised by the Humane ety of the United States to route about 200 threatened deer to nearby open Mr. Mathews said the Gaithersburg case was an example of rather than the deciding how to deal with nuisance said the DNR also plans more research on deer which the Humane Society is ing at another site in people who don't happen to hunt but rely on us as managers of the state's wildlife resources have asked us to investigate that more Mr. Slattery The Bund for an group based in Silver liked that aspect of the but frowned on the lethal hasn't worked as a management tool to reduce deer populations in any other so they're dmg themselves if they think it will work in spokeswoman Heidi Prescott Hunting advocate Alan on Page Amelia and Samuel Weinberg are shown seated at right in this old family Their son Henry is seated next to and behind them are children Leo and Whirlwind romance founded one of Frederick's old families This is one in a series of stories looking at the tory of Frederick County as it brates its 250th anniversary this By KATE LECKIE Staff As Valentine's Day might be inspired romantically by one couple who settled here nearly 135 years Spangled Stories The story of Samuel Weinberg and Amelia Lowenstein lends dence to the phenomenon of love at first sight The two met one after- noon in Baltimore and became engaged that very same After an engagement of less than a they on Oct 1863. Two days they boarded a train for Frederick He was she was 20 When Amelia died in their marriage was nearly 47 years Ten dren were born to the with a number of Weinberg descendants still in Frederick County It's fortunate that Samuel berg had the foresight to jot the on Page
