Bold Plan for Jobs Faces Sudden SST Layoffs
The piece argues for urgent government and private industry action to avert mass unemployment from SST program cancellation. It highlights Boeing and sub-contractors in Germantown and Hagerstown, notes 12 percent jobless in Washington County, and urges Sen Mathias’s bill to require conversion planning and allocation of contract funds for new manufacturing use.
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Congress
Boeing Aircraft Company
North American Aviation
General Electric
Fairchild Hiller
Germantown
Hagerstown
Vietnam
Maryland
Frederick County
Washington County
Charles McCmathias
Mathias
Senate
Indochina
Common Shame Over Drunken Driving Yet Persists in Courts
A public appeal by John Edgar Hoover urges swift and certain action against drunk driving, calling for licensing revocation, stiff fines, and significant jail terms to curb a yearly toll of over 25,000 deaths and hundreds of thousands of injuries. The piece critiques jurors and public apathy toward intoxicated driving. It also notes a related college campus trend report on hair length, highlighting mixed attitudes toward “longhairs” in a Gallup survey.
Wasting Morey Go Ke and by Ica
Washington The world wide military commissary system the third largest grocery chain in the world has been plagued with scandal. The Pentagon has hushed up stories of conniving and corruption costing customers and taxpayers more than 100 million dollars a year. We reveal food brokers arranging wild weekends in Paris Cannes and Nice for commissary managers with credit cards cars and drivers plus posh hotel rooms and playgirls.
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Washington
Pentagon
Senate
Pxs
Paris
Cannes
Nice
A&p
Safeway
Sutherland
Army
Italy
Europe
Defense Supply Association
Andy McNamara
Jennings Randolph
D-W. Va
Defense
Mel Laird
Saigon
Bill Rogers
Idar Rimestad
Geneva
U.S
Louis Stein
Letters To The Editor Join War Tax Balk
Readers react to Helen Alexander and March editorials praising war tax refusal and urge others to join. Letters praise Alexander’s courage, discuss Love Story backlash, and note broader civic concerns from Capitol hazards to 18 year old suffrage and public figures.
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Helen Alexander
Tom
New Market Organizes Its Own Baseball Team
In 1921 New Market fans formed a town baseball team with Roger Brandenburg as manager Howard Tregoning as captain Lucian Falconer as treasurer Robert Hopkins as secretary and coaches Donald Hogarth and Fred Beall. Also notes Mt Airy Rebekah Lodge No 68 instituted with 103 charter members. Quoins defeat Mallets 32 pins in News-Post Bowling League at YMCA alleys with top scores Delaplaine 287 Brust 290 Zimmerman 279 Shafer 284 Shoemaker 278 David 262.
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New Market
Roger Brandenburg
Howard Tregoning
Lucian Falconer
Robert Hopkins
Donald Hogarth
Fred Beall
Dorsey Rebekah Lodge
Mt. Airy
Queen Esther Rebekah Lodge
Baltimore
Lillian F. Stickels
Rebekah Assembly
Quoins
Mallets
News-Post
R. E. Delaplaine
Brust
Zimmerman
Shafer
Shoemaker
David
Frederick Opens Private Parking Lot by Former Alderman
Twenty years ago on April 14 1951 Frederick opened its first privately owned parking area run by former Alderman Charles P Staley. The lot behind his West Fourth Street property near Klinehart's Alley was an experimental venture preparing for future parking sites. The article also notes the annual Athletic Association show at Hood College in Brodbeck Hall and Civil Defense clerical training planned by the Frederick Red Cross with Mrs. Harry D Radcliff leading staff assistant services.
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Frederick
Charles P. Staley
Mr. Staley
West Fourth Street
Klinehart
Athletic Association
Brodbeck Hall Hood College
The
College Athletic Association
Red Cross
Harry D. Radcliff
Withdrawal Trend in Vietnam Dominates Washington Outlook
Washington observers note the gradual U.S. troop pullback from Vietnam, led by Melvin Laird, lowering forces from 543,400 to below 300,000 and possibly 284,000 by May. The plan aims to cap mid 1972 force levels around 50,000, shifting focus to Vietnam’s defense reliance on air power. The move could lessen war as a political issue by next year, while economic concerns and tax-cut prospects shape domestic policy debates.
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Vietnam
Melvin Laird
Defense Department
Southeast Asia
Nixon
United States
Hanoi
America
Washington
Capitol Hill
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