Floating nuclear plant rejected in Maryland study
Maryland officials rejected a $103 741 study by a Philadelphia firm on whether a floating nuclear plant could be built in the Chesapeake Bay. The Board of Public Works said the state is not considering such a plant and would waste tax funds. The meeting also set the 20 cent property tax rate for next year, down three cents, reflecting bond retirement fund support and budget adjustments.
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Annapolis
Maryland
Board of Public Works
Department of Natural Resources
Philadelphia
Bay
Blair Lee Iil
Exclusion of teens by tavern tested in Maryland
In Anne Arundel County a test case seeks to decide if Maryland bar owners may bar customers under 21. Clarke's Bar in Severna Park, open last year with a 21-or-older policy unless accompanied by family, faces a liquor board ruling and possible license suspension or a $100 fine.
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Annapolis
Maryland
Anne Arundel
George M. ‘‘Reese
King
County Liquor Board
Attorney General's Office
The
Liquor Board
Clarke's Bar
Severna Park
Philip D. Hale
Clarke's
Severna Park High School
Duncan Bradbury
Court upholds continued Nazi bookstore sales in Baltimore
In Baltimore a judge ruled the city violated Wolfgang Schrodt's First Amendment rights by denying a Class A bookstore license for an Eastern Avenue shop. The case, aided by the ACLU, argued the store's inventory and operation did not cause the expected violence. city officials said the area was not zoned for bookstores.
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Criminal Court
David Ross
Schrodt
Lcense
Eastern Avenue
ACLU
Travelers seeks 8.5 percent rate cut in Maryland
Travelers Insurance Co becomes the second major Maryland auto insurer to seek a rate reduction of 8.5 percent while the state Insurance Division rejects proposed surcharges for personal injury protection and sports cars. The firm cites lower claim costs as driving the cut, joining State Farm which already cut premiums about 13.4 percent.
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Baltimore
Travelers Insurance Companies
Maryland
Travelers
Thomas R. Jones
State Farm
Roland F. Marston
Wilson Boat Line in bankruptcy but summer cruise service offered
Wilson Boat Line, a Potomac River tour operation, faces Chapter 11 bankruptcy after a 1977 filing. Judge Glenn Goldburn allowed operations to continue while Trustee Charles A. Docter seeks to sell the line as an ongoing business. Goldstein disputes the bankruptcy status, citing assets, and faces scrutiny over a high-value mortgage on Star Enterprises.
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Wilson Boat Line
Hyattsville, Md
Joseph J. Goldstein
Potomac River
Goldstein
Maryland
Louis L. Goldstein
U.S
Glenn Goldburn
Star Enterprises
Lewes
Del
Goldburn
Galdburn
Charles A. Docter
D-Montgomery
Wilson One
Star Community Industries Inc
Commercial Credit Business Loans Inc
Commercial Credit
Wilson Line
Joseph Goldstein
Marshall Hall
Life term for man convicted of 1971 murder of Elizabeth Ann Metzler
Richard M. Chaney was sentenced to life imprisonment for the strangling of 10-year-old Elizabeth Ann Metzler in Severn. The Calvert County Circuit Court jury convicted him after less than two hours of deliberation. Chaney confessed, saying he remembered seeing the girl and that he was drunk when he attacked her.
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Prince Frederick
Elizabeth Ann Metzler
Richard M. Chaney
Anne Arundel County
Calvert County
Beth
Agnes Metzler
Chaney
Elizabeth Ann
Severn
Thomas J. Mack
Severn Road
Mock
Mack
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Penn Central Railroad Co
U. S. District Court
John Fullam
Penn Central
Northern Central Railroad
Northern Central
Wolfgang Schrodt
American Civil Liberties Union
William H. Zinman
Civil Liberties Group
Frederick
West Patrick Street
Thurmont
Suburban Bancorporation
Main Street
Beeder
West
Patrick Street
Cacade
Pedesal Weverve System
Bank /Sal
Marban Trost
Patrick A.A. Opara
Francis 8. Burch
Opara
Burch
U.S. District Court
Opsara
Public Defender's Office
Nelson R. Kandel
Kandel
Montgomery Ward
Boonsboro
Hagerstown
Valley Interiors
Tristate
Valley Mall
Navy
DC Comics
Man of Steel
Super Sneaker
Kid Power
Ernest Berger
N. Court St
N. Market ST
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