Economy runs smoothly for nation except farms and oil fields
The column notes oil price swings create regional pain in Texas Oklahoma and California while US inflation trends improve toward zero. It credits lower oil and grain prices with lower interest rates and stabilizing deficits though warns on military spending and Nicaragua contras. The piece contemplates Reagan doctrine US Soviet relations and possible arms talks amid budget debates.
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Saudi Arabia
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Washington
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Mikhail Gorbachev
Soviet Union
U.S
Dreelings Oy Aiei
Nicaragua
Caspar Weinberger
Maryland and Virginia testing debate on teacher certs
A column critiques state education boards over testing for teachers. It contrasts Maryland limiting tests to new hires with Virginia's harsher, 14 part battery outcome showing many fail. The piece defends basic knowledge exams and questions reliance on heavy testing for teaching. It also parks a tangential note on parking at the Weinberg Center and a roaming ice cream truck.
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Maryland Board of Education
Hornbeck
Georgia
Texas
Timbuktu
Annapolis
Maryland
Virginia
Old Dominion
Richmond
Virginia State School Board
Well-Specified Army Purchases Highlight Everyday Items
Washington column mocks military specs that govern coffee pots, doughnuts, cocoa, gum, marshmallows, athletic supporters, olives, and prophylactics. Highlights show endless pages of rules, from doughnut cuts to pH levels and insulation of taste. The piece also notes FDA FOIA delays and praises an adopted-activity investigator.
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Washington
Stewart Harris
GI Joe
Joe
Greece
Community women praised for Frederick Women's Fair success
Letters celebrate the Second Freder ick Women's Fair in Frederick County on Sunday April 6. Twenty six organizations sponsored the event with 700 participants, 50 workshops, 30 exhibiting groups, and support from women owned businesses. Donations of 521.05 were given to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Special thanks to FCC Hood College Farm Bureau and several local outlets and volunteers.
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Frederick County
Frederick
Farm Bureau
Waders
FCC
Iacinty
Hood College
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
Montgomery United Methodist Church
Farm Family
Frederick News. Post
the Courir of
Damascus
WTRI
WFMD
WFRE
WZYQ
Baltimore youths win final title to recovered coins
The Maryland Court of Appeals ruled that Theodore Jones aged 16 and Henry Grob aged 15, both from poor Baltimore families, are the final owners of gold coins valued at 28 000 to 30 000 dollars dug up from a Baltimore house cellar. A cache of hoards was found in an old maple tree in Court House Park during tree removal. Local officials planned a new sewerage project including an incinerator with an estimated 160 000 dollars in cost. The Frederick County Welfare Board, executive secretary J Sheldon Turner said the state provided an emergency allotment for aid to dependent children and unemployables for April amid pending relief legislation.
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Baltimore
Theodore Jones
Henry Grob
Court House Park
Frederick
Uemayor and Board of Aldermen
J. Sheldon Turner
Frederick County Welfare Board
Catoctin Coin Club Plans Fifth Annual Show in West Frederick
Twenty years ago final plans outlined the Catoctin Coin Club's fifth annual show at West Frederick Junior High School with J Arthur Throne as program chairman. Brouse tables would host dealers from the eastern United States and offer unlimited time for trading buying selling and viewing coins and currency. Eighth grade students from West Frederick High School visited Senator Robert F Kennedy at his office, whose desk once belonged to John F Kennedy. The students included William Six Helen Radcliffe Susan Halditch Mary Watkins Denise Sooner Stephanie Andrews Donal Roessler Roy Haupt Jack Solar Martin Crabbs Jacqueline Staley and Michael Wahl. Burkittsville youth Charlie Thornton Jr Middletown High School tenth grade student who won the Braddock Heights Optimist Club's oratory contest the previous week later won top honors in Central Maryland at Hagerstown.
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Catoctin Coin Club
West Frederick Junior High School
J. Arthur Throne
Brouse
United States
West Frederick High School
Robert F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
Robert L. Pitts
William Six
Helen Radcliffe
Susan Halditch
Mary Watkins
Denise Sooner
Stephanie Andrews
Donal Roessler
Roy Haupt
Jack Solar
Martin Crabbs
Jacqueline Staley
Michael Wahl
Burkittsville
Charie
Thornton Jr
Middletown High School
Braddock Heights Optimist
Central Maryland
Hagerstown
Teens at Chatham High School face extra credit for dressing up
A New Jersey school sparked debate after two teachers awarded five extra points for students wearing jackets and ties or dresses. The superintendent denounced the practice as indefensible educationally and instructed teachers to stop immediately. The column also includes reader letters on contraception and marijuana.
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Chatham
N.J
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