Fires Doubling Air Pollution in Everglades Smoke
Florida officials warn that wildfire smoke from the drought parched Everglades has doubled air pollution counts over South Florida. Pollutants exceed standards and irritate those with respiratory illness as hospitals report more cases. Over 6,000 fires have scorched 400,000 acres this year, with a 50,000 acre blaze in northern Dade and a 12,000 acre timber fire creeping toward Everglades National Park.
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Miami
Florida Everglades
Kleeman
Milton Saslaw
Dade County Public Health Department
Los Angeles
Everglades
Dade County
Nomestead Air Force Base
Florida Everglades National Park
Accidents injure two on U S 40 and LeGore Bridge Rd
State Police report two separate crashes injuring two people. Alfred V Keys of Newark Del struck deer on U S 40 near Barth low Kemptown Rd causing $400 damage to his car. Ernest C Reichel of Woodsboro sustained facial lacerations and hand abrasions after swerving to avoid a center lane vehicle. his injuries were not treated.
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Delaware
Barthlow-Kemptown
Alfred Virgil Keys
Newark
Del
Keys
LeGore Bridge
Ernest Conrad Reichel
Rt. 1
Woodsboro
Reichel
le Gore Bridge
U.S. Rt. 15
U.S. 40
Earl C. Hobbs
Dayton
Roger Lee Cullers
Hyattsville
U.S. 15
Cullers
Real Estate Broker Challenges Frederick County Highway Plan
At Frederick Community College a public hearing on the outer feeder road portion of the Frederick County master highway plan drew about 50 attendees. County planner Lawrence Nelson and Paul Ganley sparred over plan knowledge, expressway status, and long term construction timing with Nelson stressing the plan is a 2000-era blueprint and not near-term binding.
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Lawrence Nelson
Frederick
Paul Ganley
Frederick County
Frederick Community College
Frederick County Planning and Zoning Commission
Ganley
Nelson
State Roads Commission
U.S. 15
John Derr
Derr
Study Discusses Building Conditions in Downtown Frederick
This third article on a Marcou O Leary Associates study analyzes urban renewal views and building conditions in central Frederick. It notes varied conditions with worsening trends in Middle Alley and All Saints areas while core and nearby residential streets show good, even excellent, maintenance and ongoing renovation. Historic nineteenth century structures span the downtown, with Maryland Historic Trust surveys shaping future impact discussions.
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Frederick
Marcou
O’ Leary Associates
Middle Alley
Fourth
Sixth Streets
All Saints Street
All Saints
Market Street
Third Street
Patrick Sreet
Carroll Creek
Church
Second
Third Streets
Maryland Historic Trust
Nixon outlines Vietnam pullback tied to prisoner releases
President Nixon says some US ground and air forces will stay in Vietnam until prisoners are released and Saigon has a fighting chance. In a wide Q&A at the American Society of Newspaper Editors banquet, he also covers China diplomacy, Calley, Hoover, the economy, and forecasts for 1971 and 1972.
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Washington
Nixon
Vietnam
U.S
Sai
Gon
American Society of Newspaper Editors
White House
United States
China
Peking
United Nations
My Lai
William L. Calley Jr
J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Hoover
FBI
Frederick sheriff accused of civil rights violation by resident
Frederick man Robert H. Lee filed complaints with the FBI and the Maryland Commission on Human Relations accusing Sheriff Richard O. Baumgartner of civil rights violations, home disruption, and a neighborhood disturbance after a reported illegal search seeking a jailbreak suspect. The sheriff, hospitalized in serious condition with stomach pains, could not reply. Carried details include deputies surrounding the home, lights and weapons drawn, and a claim that no warrant was shown. The FBI and state commission received separate complaints. an FBI agent reportedly questioned Lee under oath.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
State Commission On Human Relations
Frederick
Richard O. Baumgartner
Baumgartner
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Robert H. Lee
S. Bentz Street
Lee
Caroline Hall
FBI
Ronald Lichtinger
Lichtinger
Civil Rights Division
Washington
Kiser Barnes
Mandel Appoints School Committee
Governor Mandel announced a 15 member panel to develop rules for state funding of public school construction. The group will oversee cost assumptions for 24 subdivisions with work due by May 15 and first meeting set for April 22 in Annapolis. The plan shifts $1.3 million in debt service from Frederick County to the state while 21 projects totaling $9.5 million are planned for 1972. The committee includes Lt. Gov Blair Lee III and officials from education, budget, and planning agencies.
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Marvin Mandel
Frederick
Maryland
Mandel
General Assembly
Board of Public Works
Blair Lee HI
Annapolis
Frederick County
John L. Carnachan
Board of Education
Carnochan
John Derr
Blair Lee Ill
George A. Myers
Department of Education
Ambrose J. Chlada Jr
Baltimore City
Jack Kussmaul
Somerset County
Charles W. Willis
Association Boards of Education
John R. Downs
Anne Arundel County
Civilians Balk At Transfers At Fort Detrick Edgewood Move
A group of 52 Fort Detrick civilians oppose an Army move to reassign them to Edgewood Arsenal before July 1 1971. The action affects 61 civilians and 30 military personnel in a decontamination and protection program with nine civilians and nine military to Dugway Proving Grounds Utah. Congressmen Mathias Beall and Byron have been contacted and a meeting occurred Friday with Goodloe Byron amid the dispute.
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Fort Detrick
Edgewood Arsenal
Department of the Army
Biological
Dugway Proving Grounds
Utah
Edgewood
Charles McC. Mathias Jr
J. Glenn Beall Jr
Goodloe E. Byron
Detrick
Railpax To Bypass Frederick County
George B. Delaplaine Jr recalls the loss felt as Railpax drops the C&O B&O west through Western Maryland and chronicles his family trip on the afternoon Capitol Limited from Silver Spring toward Harpers Ferry amid timetable confusion and lingering memories of classic trains.
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George B. Delaplaine Jr
Railpax
C&o
Silver Spring
Harpers Ferry
B&o
Francis Scott Key
Frederick
Washington
B&o Railroad
Pax
Capitol Limited
Capital Limited
Capitol
Martinsburg
Cumberland
Connellsville
McKees
Port
Pittsburgh
Youngstown
New Castle
Akron
Willard
Tiffin
Fostoria
Deshler
Defiance
Garrett
la Paz
Gary
Chicago
John Delaplaine
Frederick County
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