Frederick City to Act on dilapidated housing
Mayor Magaha and the Board of Aldermen support enforcement of building codes after a survey showing 43 structures uninhabitable and 100 needing repairs. The NAACP earlier pressed for action, with housing condemned or renovated under a new fund for condemnation. The piece urges providing shelter for affected tenants and tax incentives to encourage repairs.
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E. Paul Magaha
Board of Aldermen
Frederick City
Charles W. Mack
J. Gordon Alexander
Frederick County
NAACP
Mr. Meek
Mack
Donald B. Rice
Ronald Young
Tobacco Road
Mock
United States
East Patrick Street
Charles V. Main
Helen Alexander
Magaha
Downtown Merchants Association
Clean-Up Campaign Urged For Frederick County Roads
Calls for a county wide effort to clean highways amid spring debris. Notes Governor Mandel proclaims Clean Up Month and cites Loudoun County’s volunteer drive with hundreds of volunteers, scouts, and civic groups. Urges Frederick officials to mobilize residents to remove bottles cans old cars mattresses and other litter to attract tourists.
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Frederick County
Marvin Mandel
Vihar Lind
Board of County Commissioners
Frederick City
Loudoun County
Virginia
Linwood Holton
Mandel
Keep Loudoun Beautiful
Boy Scouts
Jaycees
Board of Supervisors
Catoctin Mountains
Timely Quotes on Supersonics and World View
A selection of opinions on aviation and politics. John W. R. Taylor notes that U S progress may spur a native SST, Rep. Wilbur Mills jokes about presidential runs, a biblical proverb emphasizes contentment, and Arthur Schopenhauer contrasts world views with a thoughtful remark.
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John W. R. Taylor
Readers protest Calley verdict and lampoon justice
Letters to the editor feature veterans urging President Nixon to reverse Lt Calley's murder verdict while others condemn the release margins. The page includes critiques of Angela Davis and Manson followers, questions about U.S. justice, and college student responses on press access and gendered public events at Hood College.
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Richard MM. Nixon
Calley
Korea
Vietnam
Lt Calley
United States of Ameries
Tam
Angela Davis
California
Nuremburg
Charles Manson
Patricia Krenwinkel
Leslie van Houten
Susan Atkins
Manson
Frederick Has Landed and Fire Apparakus Plans
From the News-Poat 50 Years Ago April 19 1921 reports the Odd Fellows Home initial cost set at 100000 with Frederick lodges recommended to the grand committee for acceptance. A special Aldermen meeting allocated funds next year for a new fire apparatus for Independent Hose Company after a delegation led by Thomas A Chapline urged equipment. In Congress Maryland delegates delay harms Renee Harp fisheries department bid, with Republican leaders seeing little progress.
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Frederick
Odd Fellows
Baltimore
Frederick City
Grand
Board of Aldermen
Pres
Thomas A. Chapline
Maryland
Congress
Renee S. Harp
Department of Fisheries
Frederick recreation chief reelected in city hall vote
Robert L. Smith was returned as chairman of the Frederick Recreation Commission for the coming year, with treasurer Mrs. Paul S. Michael also reelected. Grading and seeding work at Kidwiler Park in the Rosedale development aims to deliver a first class park within weeks. Frederick High School band earned multiple A ratings at the Tri-state Music Festival in Martinsburg, the first participation for 23 bands. Washington reports recount a $1.1 billion commissary scandal, with officials alleging mismanagement, theft, and waste across multiple overseas facilities ending in questionable accounting practices and widespread abuses.
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Robert L. Smith
Frederick
City Hall
Paul 5. Michael
Smith
Kidwiler Park
Rosedale
Grant Street
C. Cyril Klein
Martinsburg
W. Va
U.S. Naval Music School
Washington
Army Comptroller General
Defense Department
Review of Army Commissaries
Saigon Commis
Bangkok
Royal Thai
China Ping Pong Politics as Usual
Washington dispatch argues Mao Zedong’s regime uses table tennis invites to US as strategic leverage. It notes China seeks openings with Nixon while balancing Sino Soviet rivalries, stating ideology yields to national interests in dealings with Mao Lin Piao and Chou En-lai.
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Washington
Nea
Red China
Mao Tse-tung
Peking
China
Mao
Lin Piao
Russia
Pakistan
United States
Soviet Union
Middle East
Asia
Nixon
Chou En-lai
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
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Wilbur D. Mills
De-Ark
Arthur Schopenhauer
INEA
Ted
Earl R. Grinder
Union Bridge
Calley Free
Vincent P. Greenwald JR
Vinus’s College
Fnumitsburg
Sadie Brown
Hood College
Hood
Frederick News-Post
WFMD
Rosenstocks
Rosenstock Hall
Lebherz
Aldan Weinberg
Weinberg
Leicher
Leichert
Deborah Parsons
Richard Leichert
Women's Consciousness Committee
YWCA
Mess Hall
Fort Dix
Noe
Inchon
Saigon
Seoul
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Ind
Fort Richardson
Alaska
Japan
Heers
Si William Calley
God
My Lai
Cooper-Church
John Sherman Cooper
R-Ky
Frank Church
D-Ida
U.S
Cambodia
Laos
Indochina
Church
White House
Cooper
Senate
By Jack Anderson
Berry
Mr. Hoover
Ray Cromley
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