Firemen battle mountain blaze in Gambrill State Park
About 15 acres burned in Gambrill State Park as red coasted teams from five Frederick County fire companies battled a mountain woods fire. Up to 200 personnel, including state forestry units and Mt Saint Mary's College Fire Brigade, fought the blaze after an Etzler Road alarm at 3:21 p.m. Fire units worked until 8:43 p.m. while volunteers provided food and drinks for exhausted crews.
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Susan Nicol
Park Rangers
Gambrill State Park
Frederick County
Etzler Road
Walkersville Fire Company
Braddock Heights
Middletown
Libertytown
Frederick
Washington
Mt. Saint Mary's College
Rangers
Gambrill Park
Independent Hose Company
The
Independent Hose
Woman Injured In Frederick Wreck At 13th And North Market
A Frederick City woman was treated and released at Frederick Memorial Hospital after a two car crash at 13th and North Market Streets. James R. Smith 30 of Thurmont and Kenneth G. Howser Jr. 30 of Taney Avenue were involved. Howser’s passenger Karen M. Howser was also treated and released. Smith faces a failure to stop charge with District Court set for May 28. Other police notes report a four year old struck by a car on West Church Street with no serious injuries. Multiple arrests for disorderly conduct drunk driving speeding and other offenses are listed.
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Frederick City
Frederick Memorial Hospital
13Th
North Market Streets
West 13Th Street
James R. Smith
Thurmont
North Market Street
Kenneth G. Howser Jr
Taney Avenue
Howser
Karen M. Howser
East Seventh Street
Junior Fire Company
Smith
West Church Street
Kenneth L. Shafer
Middletown
Teresa Lynn Hildebrand
E. Patrick Sr
United Ambulance
Hollow Road
Richard Stotelmyer
John W. Bennett
Fairfax
North Bentz Street
Bennett
Richard E. Stine
West Second Street
Franklin Street
East South Street
Wayne S. Millberry
West All Saints Street
William Hildebrand
Rt. 6
Frederick
Richard J. Hartle
Sharpesburg
Gerald R. Virgo
Rt. 9
Thelma J. Klipp
West South Street
Francis J. Sullivan
Fleming Avenue
C P bid to double pay phone cost stalls at PSC
Baltimore AP report says Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co faces PSC skepticism over a proposed 20 cent dime call rate.Staff engineer Ismail doubts justification while chairman Sullivan warns higher charges burden the poor. Public hearings set in Towson Frederick Annapolis Havre de Grace Salisbury and Baltimore between May 6 and May 21.
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Baltimore
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co
State Public Service Commission
H. Joseph Ismail
PSC
Robert Sullivan
Commission
C&p
Frank R. Just
Towson
Frederick
Annapolis
Havre de Grace
Salisbury
Inflation Data Shows Mixed March Movements in Prices
Increase continues from Page A-1 with mixed March shifts. Mortgage rates and home service costs moderated while medical care, gas and electricity, and auto repair charges rose. Gasoline prices edged up in early 1975 after a downward 1974 trend. Labor report notes earnings gains offset by fewer hours and CPI uptick. Average hourly earnings for production workers rose but weekly hours fell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Labor Department
Holt Named First Lady of Pro-Gun Lobby
Washington AP reports Rep Marjorie Holt of Maryland named the first lady of the pro-gun Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. The designation honors her advocacy within the gun rights movement and political lobbying efforts.
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Holt
Washington
Majorie 8
R-Md
Citizens Committee For the Right To
Ford warns of oil embargo if Middle East war resumes
President Ford tells CBS a new oil embargo would be inevitable if a Middle East war restarts. He weighs policy options including Geneva talks, Step by Step diplomacy, or Israel Egypt talks, and signals possible talks with Rabin and Arab leaders while stressing cautious reassessment.
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Washington
Ford
Middle East
CBS
United States
Israel
Vietnam
Yitzhak Rabin
Geneva
Henry A. Kissinger
Egypt
Ford urges aid for South Vietnam as Thieu resigns
Congress supported 165 million in arms and equal humanitarian aid after Army Chief Weyand warned South Vietnam is no longer defensible. Ford criticized missing funds as risking Communist takeover while deflecting 1976 campaign usage. He spoke during a White House interview about Vietnam and the Middle East peace process.
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Ford
Army
Frederick C. Weyand
South Vietnam
Nguyen van Thieu
Vietnam
Thieu
White House
CBS
Walter Nee Eric Sevareid
Bob Schiefer
Three firms fined for water pollution violations in Maryland
ANNAPOLIS AP Three firms were fined 500 each by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources for water pollution regulation violations. Bethlehem Steel Corp was penalized for slow response to an oil spill at its Sparrows Point complex on January 22. J&L Industries Baltimore oil spill containment firm was fined for mishandling a cleanup on December 22. Showell Poultry Worcester County was penalized for a discharge permit violation.
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Annapolis
State Department of Natural Resources
Bethlehem Steel Corp
Sparrows Point
J&l Industries, Inc
Baltimore
Showell Poultry, Inc
Worcester County
Pechiney to take 40 percent stake in Mexican steel complex
Pechiney Agine Kuhlmann plans to hold 40 percent in an $80 million steel complex to be built in San Luis de Potosi, Mexico. The first stage includes a cold rolling mill outputting 40,000 tons of flat stainless steel annually, with service expected in late 1977 and future expansion planned. Fundidora Mexicana holds 20 percent. banks hold the rest. Eastalco Aluminum, a Pechiney subsidiary, is near Adamstown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pechiney Agine Kuhlmann
San Luis de Potosi
Mexico
Pechiney
Fundidora Mexicana
Eastalco Aluminum Company
Adamstown
Frederick man acquitted on two bicycle charges
A Frederick Circuit Court jury acquitted Robert L. Walters Jr. of driving a bicycle while intoxicated and receiving stolen goods tied to an Aug. 16 incident. Walters claimed test riding a $170 10-speed he planned to buy for $30 from a teenage seller. He admitted beer consumption before the 8:45 p.m. crash and defense argued unawareness of theft and medication effects.
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Frederick
Robert L. Walters Jr
Barbara Fritchie
College Avenue
Fleming Avenue
Walters
North Bentz Street
Mary A. Stepler
Calvin Stone
Frederick City
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Ronald C. Biigerman
Stone
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Melvin Trail
Independents
Richard
Dick) Metcalf
Ladies Auxiliary
Metcalf
C&P’s
Equitable Trust Bank i
Equitable Bancorporation
Frederick County Square
Baughman's Lane Fcs
He News Media
Eno Chou
Uae
West Main St. Dept
Buckhannon
W. Va
Val Pous
Ender
Frederick Man
Biigerman
Samuel W. Barrick
Joan D. Boone
Forelady
George E. Hamilton
Theodore R. Quay
Marguerite W. Colliflower
Frederick O. Oland
Tina A. Slowe
Laura W. Fornwald
Dorothy P. Mohler
Adolph S. Koski
Esther V. Martz
Afra C. Collier
Lissa L. Whittington
George R. Summers
Jefferson
Charles
Minnick
Edward C. Gance Jr
East Sixth Street
Karen Rippeon
Barrick
United Humanitarians
Metropolitan
United Humanitarians, Inc
Springfield
Tues
Ichen
Bris
Vermont
Misner’s Tile Shop
Water ST
Routzahn’s
Interbank
Waynesboro
Winchester
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