County roads on budget as winter storms hit on weekdays
Frederick County officials credit a weekday storm pattern for keeping road and salt costs within budget. County Roads Director Ron Linton and Commissioner Charles C. Smith praise crews for around the clock work to keep highways open and safe, though spring repairs will require extra spending.
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Fredenck
Charles C. Smith
Ron Linton
Roads Department
Smith
Linton
Winter
Hal Keller
Tom Fox
Frederick County
Frederick Post
the News
County Roads Department
Crick Links Dream Unlearning to Schizophrenia Theory
Nobel laureate Francis Crick of the Salk Institute suggests that brain dreaming reflects reverse learning to prune faulty associations. He warns that if this unlearning fails the system could overload, producing fantasy or obsessions resembling schizophrenia. Crick, with Graeme Mitchison, notes memories remain while links fade, preserving networks of neurons that map to related images across a memory web.
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Francis Crick
Crick
Salk Institute
la Jolla
Calif
Graeme Mitchison
Medical Research Council
England
Dreams May Let Brain Clean House In REM Sleep
Crick and Mitchison propose dreams during REM sleep help the brain prune patterns and discard weak associations. REM is marked by active brain signals with relaxed muscles and rapid eye movement while external input is blocked.
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Crick
Mitchison
Unis
Nakasone releases KAL 007 tape in era of Cold War tensions
The piece recounts Japan Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone deciding to publish the intercepted Soviet transcripts tied to Korean Air Lines Flight 007 in 1983. It outlines the timeline from radar hits to tape release and Soviet response, noting the impact on intelligence access and future interception capabilities. The report cites Japanese officials and associates, including Masaharu Gotoda and Shinzo Abe, describing the political pressure and alliance considerations.
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Washington
Kennedy
Yasuhiro Nakasone
Korean Air Lines
Tokyo
Dale van Atta
Nakasone
Wakkanai
Hokkaido
Moscow
Sakhalin Island
Kakasove
Masaharu Gotoda
Gotoda
United States
George Shite
Pavlov
Foreign Ministry
Tass
Goroda
Miniater
Abe
Maviov
Maryland 300th memories and a high school game salute
Letter writers recall Maryland’s 300th anniversary from a 1934 Parkway News issue. A community note thanks Thomas Johnson High School PTSA for a faculty basketball game, which TJ won 69 to 45. A teacher laments retirement reform bills and defends public education funding and representation in the General Assembly.
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Gov Thomas Johnson High School
PTSA
Frederick High Schools
Local Dick Harp Combo Makes First Phone Tribute
Twenty years ago on April 6 1964 members of the Dick Harp Combo performed at area and out of town venues then made their first telephone dedication to bedridden Thurmont resident Mrs Helen Willard who had followed the band since its fourth year. Fr David Youngdahl Frederick Memorial Hospital administrator was elected to the Maryland Blue Cross Plan board of trustees at a Baltimore meeting. Wayne Steven Smith twelve year old safety advocate in Jefferson Boys 4 H Club received a U S Savings fund from the Maryland Association of Mutual Insurance Companies for his fire prevention effort and a local sporting goods store showcased his home danger exhibit during National Fire Prevention Week.
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Maryland
Parkway Elementary
Parkway News
St. Clement Island
Frederick
Barbara Fritchhie
Roger Brooke Taney
St. Mary's City
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Parkway
Eleanor Frances Delaplaine
Dick Harp
Thurmont
Helen Willard
Shamrock Inn
David Youngdahl
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Maryland Blue Cross Plan
Baltimore
Youngdahl
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis
Wayne Steven Smith
Jefferson Boys
U.S
Maryland Association of Mutual Insurance Companies
Wayne Smith
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Fercdliyy. Quirke, Dmn
Fred J. Archibald
Frederick, Wal
Robert Locke Copley
Stan
Jack Anderson
Safe House
U.S. Synthetic Fuels Corp
Synthels
Congress
Synfuels
Energy Department
DOE
Gests
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Boca Raton
Fla
Susan Phillips
United Feature Syndicate
Western Maryland Trust Company
Thomas M. Linthicum
Gaither Leatherman
Elmer Leatherman
Ellerton
Dietrich and Gambrill
ARMAG
Atlantic
Kennash
Lowman St. Frederick
Chuck Nichols
Larkin Hohnke
Dave Markoe
Paul Stroup
TJ Jazz Ensemble
Tom Silliman
TJ National Honor Society
Tom
Michael Grunwell
Ron Rudy
Ron Tyergar
Heath Covey
Pat Simpson
Stuart Berger
Bruce Huffer
Seventh Street Safeway
Frederick High
Carol K. Martz
Marie H. May
House of Delegates
General Assembly
del. George Littrell
Littrell
Thomas Hattery
Robert C. Brown
Gallorette Court
Perth
Foundarick
Wen
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