Calley mercy and the My Lai court ruling debate
An editorial argues President Nixon should exercise clemency in Lieutenant Calley’s My Lai case. It casts Calley as a product of the military system, urges commutation of the life sentence, and condemns the broader war’s civilian toll while invoking Shakespeare and Kipling to frame the justice debate.
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Avon
William Calley
Richard Nixon
Calley
My Lai
America
Indochina
Pentagon
White House
Vietnam
United States
You
Armed Services
Washington County
Luis
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Combat
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Catley
Kier
Shakespeare
Rudyard Kipling
Fund drive aims to upgrade McCurdy Field in Frederick County
A major fund raising effort seeks to raise about 300000 to improve McCurdy Field with new facilities for football and baseball, plus lighting for night games. The plan supplements city and county funds to raise a stadium on par with neighboring communities, hoping to curb juvenile delinquency by promoting competitive sports and character development among local youth.
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Frederick County
McCurdy Field
Frederick City
Thoughtful Echoes of Wisdom and Longing
A compact reflection weaving Ecclesiastes on wisdom shining a face, Locksman’s quip about knowledge’s shore, and Psalms longing for God. It ponders interpretation, desire, and the soul’s quest for divine presence across ancient texts.
Nixon calls for release of POWs in Vietnam war
President Nixon appeals for nearly 1600 American servicemen and civilians held in Vietnam over seven years. He cites the Geneva Prisoner of War Convention and urges world opinion to influence the Soviet Union and Red China, noting broad international commitment to humane treatment.
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David Lawrence
Washington
Soviet Union
Red China
Nixon
Vietnam
Congress
United States
North Vietnam
International Red Cross
Hanoi
House of Representatives
United States Congress
Moscow
South Vietnam
Peking
Teachers Smoke Debate Prompts Letters to the Editor
In letters to the editor, Joseph D. Mish Jr argues the school board misstates facts about a smoking ban for teachers at Westminster Sr High, contending it weakens teacher morale and ignores legal protections. Thomas M. Geiser criticizes Maryland beer tax messaging, urging clarity on cost per case and stressing taxes. A third item discusses a national week of concern for prisoners of war and missing in action, urging humane treatment and international pressure.
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Sic
Carroll County Education Association Representative Assembly
CCEA
Board of Education
Westminster Sr. High School
Maryland
Odd Fellows Home Site Visit Sparks Local Interest
Fifty years ago on April 2 1921 a Grand Lodge committee visited Frederick County to view the Gittinger Farm site on North Market Street extended offered by local lodges. A welcome committee hosted them at the City Hotel before a dinner and site tour. The spring property transfer season was underway with clerks filing instruments, surpassing activity from 1919. A tree planting ceremony at Braddock Grange Hall honored WWI casualty Franklin Luther Staley Shookstown with Braddock district pupils singing America.
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Odd Fellows
Grand Lodge
Frederick County
City Hotel
Gittinger
North Market Street
Grange
Braddock
Franklin Luther Staley
Shookstown
Braddock District
Braddock Public School
America
Sunday cinema bans and a bridge project in 1951 county news
A 1951 General Assembly session failed to advance county wide Sunday movie referendum and Sunday alcohol ban bills, while a Brunswick bridge plan died in committee. The Potomac Edison board approved $10,000 600 principal bonds to Equitable Securities. A Defense of Democracy convocation at Hood College features Mrs Marguerite Wykoff Zapoleon. Humphrey predicted a standstill cease fire in Vietnam in a 1969 memo to Kissinger, urging no draftees for combat and praising Nixon’s leadership, amid a backstage feud between Burns and Shultz over wage controls. Subcabinet gripes at White House led to a briefing on reorganizing plans.
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Frederick
General Assembly
New Brunswick
Marguerite Wykoff
Zapoleon
Hood College
Women's Bureau
U. S. Department of Labor
Potomac Edison Company
Francis Scott Key Hotel
Equitable Securities Corporation
Washington
Hubert Humphrey
Vietnam
Humphrey
White House
Nixon
Henry Kissinger
Kissinger
Lewis Hershey
Hershey
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Portia
Ralph W. Lockman
Clergyman
Hachive
Giak Zoord Ger
Joseph D. Mish JR
Carroll County Education Association
Thomas M. Geiser
Nova Ave
Federal Reserve
Arthur Burns
George Schultz
Burns
Shultz
University of Chicago
Bob Haldeman
Berry
Orchivers
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