Crime Solvers boosts Frederick County crime tips program
Residents urged to call the Crime Solvers line to provide information anonymously on crimes in Frederick County. The nonprofit program offers rewards up to 1000 dollars for tips leading to arrests, with media releases titled Crime of the Week and a hotline number 663-3200. Community leaders praise the effort as a helper to law enforcement and a shield for witnesses and families.
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Robert G. Yinger
B. Frederick
Yinger
Walkersville Farmers Supply
Singanore High School
Richard J. Ashton
Frederick
Ashton
M. Albert Morningstar
Frederick County
Morningstar
Gene Farmer
Brunswick City
Carroll County
Montgomery County
Gasoline price outlook and market factors in the early 1980s
A reader outlines causes of a gasoline glut from over a year of production surpassing demand after the 1973 oil embargo. He cites refinery shutdowns, low capacity use, shifting energy sources, and price forecasts, then notes actual prices and rebates, with taxes possibly hindering a drop below 99.9 cents.
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OPEC
United States
West Coast
West
Feds
Amerco World
U-Haul
John Huemmrich
Corporate Welfare Grows as Reagan Cuts Bite
The piece argues big business benefits from federal tax breaks and subsidies while the poor face cuts, noting estimates of corporate welfare around 100 billion dollars annually. It critiques policy as skewed toward industry with elevated deficits and costs passed to taxpayers, and cites food stamp reductions and other incentives as examples.
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Washington
Big Business
Ronald Reagan
Uncle Sam
David Stockman
Ralph Nader
Congress Watch
Reagan
White House
Matt Berke
Tax loopholes and subsidies cost billions in national aid
A scrutiny of tax breaks and subsidies shows billions vanish from the Treasury through deductions and credits for meals, entertainment, mining, energy, and exporters. Federal supports include oil, synthetic fuels, nuclear, and maritime subsidies, with large corporate benefits from tax leasing and below market loans.
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Treasury
General Electric
Reagan
United Feature Syndicate Toe
Yesterday Items From Files of the Mews Post
Snippets recounting April 22 1903 notes from the Mews Post including water line progress two miles laid over five months. Mentions Gen J W Reifer death in Ohio and vocational agriculture students at a Maryland university competition won by Merril Ifert with subject Cooperative Milk Associations. Also April 2 1917 Frederick Transit lines extended to Braddock Heights and a new Frederick County summer school at Frederick High School with Warren C Smith as principal. Democrats host Jefferson Jackson Day dinner with speakers George P Mahoney and Samuel W Barrick.
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Rene Teeth
Spe
University of Maryland
Semease
Merril Ifert
Co-operative Milk Associations
Frederick County
Frederick
George P. Mahoney
Samuel W. Barrick
Salem witchcraft trial of 1692 remembered
On this day in Black History April 22 1692 Mary Black a enslaved woman of Nathaniel Putnam was tried and convicted of witchcraft in Salem Massachusetts The passage also notes a line about a Bernsen Une any stane and a doorway question What's cookin' not What's thawin' This adds cultural color to the item.
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Mary Black
Nathaniel Putnam
Salem
Mass
Grass Roots Defense Opposes Halt-in-Place Nuclear Freeze
Readers criticize the halt-in-place freeze as unverifiable and risky while aligning with Jackson-Warner style long-term arms restraint. The letter cites AFSC links, Soviet and NATO tensions, and calls for signatures on a local petition at the FSK Mall on April 22 23.
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Grass Roots Committee For Strong Defense
New Republic Magazine
Russia
American Friends Service Committee
AFSC
Massachusetts
Senate
Randy Kehler
America
NATO
Wan Gollars Oo
American Opinion
Moscow
World Peace Council
WPC
Soviet Union
Time
Peacenik
United States
USA
Joseph Stalin
Jackson-Warner Senate
Fsk Mall
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