Hour of triumph in Frederick All America City year
Frederick earns All-America City status in the Bicentennial year. Mayor Ronald N Young hails citizen activism and revitalization efforts led by Operation Town Action and the city board. The piece celebrates collective effort while noting downtown business challenges, tax pressures, and finite finances as the award's lasting test. Equally Guilty: a Cleveland woman sues two male officers and a female officer for police misconduct in a traffic dispute.
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Frederick
National Municipal League
Fredericktown Association
Frederick Improvement Foundation, Inc
Marcou
Town Action
Young
Operation Town Action
Ronald Young
NML Chairan
Cleveland
Men In Blue
Space shuttle risk warned by engineers over weak fasteners
Jack Anderson reports Washington mourns a space program built on potentially unsafe screws. NASA officials warned of looser joints since 1973, while Rockwell and Johnson Gage flagged weak standards and widespread vendor variability. Industry resisted retooling cost, though tests showed faulty threads could endanger launches and space operations.
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Washington
America
National Aeronaucs and Space Administration
NASA
Ween
Johnson Gage
Bloomfield, Conn
Rockwell International
Rockwell
Canoga Park
Calif
Pentagon
Johnson Imuee
Detroit
American National Standards Institute
Senate Antitrust Subcommittee
CIA
Central Intelligence Agency
Stray dogs blamed as kitten savaged in Frederick City
A letter details a midnight attack by three large dogs on a stray kitten at a Frederick residence. The writer faults owners for not keeping dogs leashed, asks for stronger laws and penalties, and notes a local animal control effort. The piece also includes a brief, tangential note about a Kennedy assassination memo and CIA contacts.
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Frederick
Frederick City
Warren Commission
John F. Kennedy
Lee Harvey Oswald
CLA
Oswald
Clay Shaw
New Orleans
Jim Garrison
Kennedy
Carlos Bringuler
CIA
Howard Osborn
Garrison
Clay L. Shaw
Carlos Bringuier
Shaw
Bringuier
United States
Germany
GSA
Debate on capitalism and the entrepreneur amid crisis
Don Oakley cites Hyman Lumer in World Marxist Review arguing corporations control U.S. life for the superrich while Fletcher Byrom warned capitalism may not survive beyond five years as government intervention grows. Shapero and Schad describe entrepreneurship as independent and essential, with many startups failing but still driving the economy. The piece notes April 16, 1974 as the 29th anniversary of Texas City ammonium nitrate disaster and Army response.
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World Marxist Review
Hyman Lumer
Central Committee
Communist Party of the
U.S.A
America
Fletcher Byrom
Koppers Company
Leesburg
United States
Byrom
Albert Shapero
University of Texas Graduate School of Business
Shapero
Theodore G. Schad Jr
Lou Ana Foods, Inc
Henry Fords
George Eastman
Andrew Mellons
Texas City
Tex
Texas
Army
Army Air Corps
Maryland forestry class learns timber measurement on Tuscarora Creek
On April 16 1926 forester Harry R Trenk and Cyra Riein instructed 25 Frederick High School agricultural students in measuring trees along the Tuscarora Creek watershed. Trenk lectured on farm woodlot care and demonstrated calipers Baltimore stick log rules for estimating standing timber. The class gained practical timber measurement skills and woodlot management insights.
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Maryland
Harry R. McDonald
Frederick High School
Cyra Riein
Tuscarora Creek
Trenk
Baltimore
Wenzel
Brunswick High School
Frederick County
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Fredericktonian
Ronald N. Young
Francis Scott Key
Barbara Fritchie
Thomas Johnson
Mayor Young
Frederick, Md
Jack Anderson
Linda Stine
West Seventh Street
Les Whitten
Don Oakley
News-Post
Frederick County Tuberculosis and Public Health Association
Francis Scott Key Hotel
Stanley H. Macht
Washington County Hospital
Hagerstown
Macht
University of Virginia
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
Boston
Jefferson Hospital
Philadelphia
Court House
Board of County Commissioners
Soteersete Ald Clark
James H. Falk
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