Farming The Year 2000 Planning Survey Foresees Frederick County Shift
A Planning and Zoning Commission survey projects agriculture remaining two thirds of county acreage by 2000 but with farm employment dropping by half. Manufacturing will grow to 12,000 workers, service industries expand, and one third of the workforce may live in the county while many seek work in Washington and Baltimore regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick County
Washington
Baltimore
Eastalco
Why Permissive Dress Codes Fail and Women in Power
A column by Fred Bo Lifton of Niles Township HS in Skokie argues permissive dress codes fail education and urges letting students set standards. He notes student codes can be stricter and that rules may reflect respect and self image in school life. The piece cites a 20 year old women’s recognition debate in a national association and questions gendered titles in Congress and state legislatures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Bo Lifton
Niles Township Community High School
Skokie, Il
Lifton
Quick Quiz Q and A From a Historic FAQ
This short item lists trivia style questions and answers. It notes Karl Marr’s burial at Highgate Cemetery in London and gives brief facts about bees wax color change, John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera, the term smog, and the Carolina parakeet once native to the southern United States but now nearly extinct.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Carolina
Food brokers thwart cleanup of commissary corruption
Washington reports brokers offered perks to influence commissary officers. A plan to create a master food list was blocked by the Defense Supply Association led by retired Lt Gen Andy McNamara. The effort would have cut brokers out and saved about 100 million yearly. opposition came from top brass and a broker linked to Trinity Marketing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Anderson
Washington
Paris
Defense Supply Association
Daniel Munster
Andy McNamara
Earl Hedlund
Defense Supply Agency
Harry Goldsworthy
Air Force
Joseph Heiser
Army
Kenneth Wheeler
Navy
Munster
Association
Philadelphia
McNamara
Coronel
Les Whitten
Trinity Marketing of
Wayne, Pa
Robert Hackett
Whitten
Hackett
Maryland Judges Adopt Expanded Canons of Judicial Ethics
The Maryland Judicial Conference adopted a tighter set of Canons and rules clarifying conduct for Circuit Court judges and related courts. Judge Robert E. Clapp Jr. led the study, with guidelines covering decorum, conflicts, campaigning, private business, gifts, publicity, and courtroom photography.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maryland Judicial Conference
Circuit Court
Supreme Bench of
Baltimore
Courts of Appeals and Special Appeals
Robert E. Clapp Jr
Frederick County
Court of Appeals
Orphans Court
District Court
Couurts
Loomes
U.S
Clapp
Harry Ef, Clark
Matthew S. Evans
Walter R. Haile
David Ross
Robert B. Mathias
Irvine H. Rutledge
William W. Travers
Fish Distribution and Local Sports From April 1921 Post
In Lewistown area, 900000 brook and rainbow trout hatched under state supervision were sent to Washington and Garrett counties. The cadet baseball team features players from previous high school nines in upcoming special games. Prohibition officers confiscated an eight gallon illicit still and five gallons of molasses mash in a Sandy Hook cellar. owner claimed manufacture in Hagerstown and is held by US Commissioner Hagner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewistown
Washington
Garrett
Bill’ Notnagle
Lester Feuga
Reds” Ranneberger
Poss
Heuck
Tom Kennedy
Lew Fleischman
Tim'' Myers
Ham"’ Welty
Tommy Ordeman
Sandy Hook
Hagerstown
United States
Hagner
Frederick County Farm Trends From 1950 Census
Twenty years ago on April 15 1951 readers learn that Frederick County farm characteristics shifted with fewer farms and larger average farm sizes based on 1950 census data released recently. A wild chase ends with two juveniles in a stolen car wrecking at Blackburns service station on Route 40 before being returned to Slagerstown. The Carolers a five member group will close the Community Concerts season at Frederick High School auditorium exclusive to association members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick County
Blackburn
Snow Park
Baltimore
Brookland Park
Anne Arundel County
Slagerstown
Community Concerts Association
Frederick High School
World war guilt and nuclear risk urged in Washington editorial
Washington calls Calley case a spur to condemn war makers while warning on nuclear weapons and civilian casualties. The piece contrasts Soviet denouncements of Nixon with Viet Cong attacks, urges abolition of wars, notes U S use of atomic bombs on Japan, and cites past editorials acknowledging moral guilt over wartime civilian deaths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Calley
Nixon
William L. Calley Jr
Hanoi
Creighton Abrams
South Vietnam
United Press International
Saigon
Hoang Dieu
Quang Ham
Soviet Union
Cuba
Cuban
United States
Moscow
Red China
United Nations
South Korea
North
Vietnam
Southeast Asia
Senate
Asia
Japan
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Letters on Calley verdict and book store notice in Frederick
A letter writer protests the military court sentence for Lt. Calley and questions higher officials while urging war opponents to refuse further violence. Signed by Ruth Wright, Clara Jackson, Martha Lynch, Marilyn Hurwitz, and Mary Zimmerman, it also includes a separate note about an adult bookstore bringing disrepute to Frederick and endorses Mr. Berger for wholesome books, urging shopping further down Market Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calley
General Westmoreland
Pentagon
Vietnam
Ruthe Wright
Clara Jackson
Martha Lynch
Marilyn Hurwitz
Mary Zimmerman
Charles Mathias
Glenn Beall
Goodloe Byron
Frederick
Market Street
Berger
Also Mentioned on This Page
American School Board Journal
Congress
House of Representatives
NEA
Fort Lauderdale
Karl Marr
London
England
Highgate
John Gay
Cashion Morus Ie
By the
Way
George B. Delaplaine Jr
Ams
News-Post
Margaret M. Harless
West
Friendship, Maryland
Noewepaper Grchivee
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