Need for Frederick Memorial Hospital Expansion
Frederick County residents face a pressing need for a larger and more efficiently organized hospital. Over 60 years of service, the hospital has opened its doors to all, but expansion costs require voluntary contributions totaling at least 850,000 toward a 4.3 million modernization program. Admissions have risen 25 percent in ten years, with emergency cases up two-thirds, underscoring the community’s need and urging collective giving.
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Frederick Memorial Hospital
Frederick County
Mercantilism in the Soviet led system and captive Europe
The piece argues that Soviet policy toward East Central Europe resembles mercantilism, extracting $12.8 billion in illegitimate profit from 1955 to 1964 through higher export prices and lower import prices. It notes overcharges of $7.3 billion and underpayments of $.5 billion, with observers at the 23rd party congress perceiving stability and a risk-averse leadership. The tone links communist organize to colonial-era exploitation and notes no signs of unrest among colonies.
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Khrushchev
Soviet Union
Europe
Albania
Bulgaria
Czechoslovakia
East Germany
Hungary
Poland
Romania
Assembly of
Western
U.S.S.R
Us.s.r
Moscow
Panama Canal Facing End as Sea Level Route Debate Rises
A panel of officials agrees the aging Panama Canal is near obsolescence and may be replaced by a wide sea level canal. Army engineers study the Darien region for a potential new route while Colombia and Nicaragua consider similar surveys. Estimates place the conversion cost around 22 billion dollars with completion debates spanning to 1980 or beyond.
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Panama Canal
Army Corps of Engineers
Darien
Panama
Colombia
Nicaragua
Suez Canal
Puppy Love Then and Now in a Seventh Grade Call
Hal Boyle recalls his daughter Tracy Ann's seventh grade gossip over phones and media while noting that real puppy love is silent and soulful. He recounts a 1918 memory of a boy selling papers to buy candy for a girl, who later married another, and reflects on how puppy love has declined since then.
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New York
Ellen
Jason
Tracy Ann
Judy
Rodger
Susie
Spencer
Christine
Dong
Rover
Frances
Frederick War Claim Faces House Battle In 1916 Filer
Fifty Years Ago items note Fredrick’s 200000 war claim halted by two House reports from the War Claims Committee. New issues question Civil War paid ransom validity and whether Early’s retreat saved Washington. Federal and state surgeons continue school medical surveys in Frederick County with about 4,000 children examined and 1,000 more expected.
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Frederick
National House of Representatives
House
Committee On War Claims
Jubal A. Early
Washington
Early
Frederick County
Taliaferro Clark
Noonday Services In Tivoli Theater Easter Week
Twenty Years Ago notices report Protestant churches in Frederick announcing noonday services at the Tivoli theater from Monday through Thursday before Easter. Daily sessions run 12:00 to 12:30 PM. Bids for paving part of the Hagerstown Frederick highway near Myersville are set for April 23 as the State Roads Commission considers junction with Route 40. Frederick County orchards largely escaped frost damage as temperatures dropped to 2 1 2 degrees during another cold snap.
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Tivoli Theater
Frederick
Hagerstown - Frederick
Myersville
State Roads Commission
Catoctin Country Club
Frederick County
Rioting teens mar Easter in Washington area
Washington policy and civil unrest are scrutinized after hundreds of youths rioted at a nearby amusement park and then attacked homes businesses and cars in the city. Police from multiple jurisdictions restored order with strong force amid accusations of civil rights influence and dwindling respect for law and order.
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Washington
America
Walter Gold
Washington Evening Star
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NEA
Drysdale
Koufax
Panama City
Canal
U.S
Hal Boyle
News-Post
Washington Today
By David Lawrence
Free America
Congress
Jess
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