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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1969
Page
2
Brief items from Frederick Maryland dated April 29 1969 cover local happenings. Citizens noted weather, community events, and small-town updates typical of a midweek newspaper page.
Brint Dillingham, a former probation officer, was sentenced to six months for selling a Washington Free Press issue with a nude cartoon of a circuit judge. The piece criticizes Montgomery County activism calling for rights and police abolition while demanding tougher council action.
About 120 Congress members back a Betts bill limiting census questions to six core items name age sex race marital status and relation to head of household. Critics warn it would strip essential data used for economic and demographic planning. A House subcommittee plans public hearings as the 1970 census date May 1 looms, with warning that delays could push the count to 1971.
About 90 of 100 Harford County highways employees walked out this week in a push for union recognition. Picket lines formed at four county garages and a sanitary landfill with no violence reported. AFSCME official says wages lag behind Baltimore County by 50 to 70 cents per hour and six years to top pay versus three elsewhere. County commissioners declined to comment. public works director cites no wage appeals. The conflict could be eased by open talks with the workers.
Patricia Ann Smith argues that previews for an M rated Romeo and Juliet played before a G rated Dr. Doolittle matinee misled parents. She says management should omit adult scenes from children’s showings and defend parental discretion. The letter cites confusion over ratings and calls for clearer screening practices.
Nixon proposals for textile import quotas could raise clothing and fabric prices by 15 to 25 percent. retaliation risks hit soybeans, wheat, and other exports, worsening farm incomes and fueling inflation. Congress pursues protectionism, with broad agricultural and economic fallout across U.S. crops and markets.
A Maryland reader defends a newspaper letter writer, arguing the Weitzel piece does not call Romeo and Juliet a dirty movie and criticizes calls that young children should be kept from certain previews. The letter questions media claims and urges readers to reread the original letter, stressing parental concern over what children see in films.
A February 1919 Maryland case shows Frederick County banks purchasing the entire county quota of Victory Bonds, drawing wide notice from Virth Preserve District dispatch. The State Tax Commission is set to act on county commissioners refusal to reassess real estate affecting about YOU properties. Independent voters win Thurmont corporation election. C W Lidie elected board president over Joseph A Weddle by 48 161 votes.
Clerks report clues to a white female infant abandoned on a bench on Weal Second street. The baby, about weeks old, was found in the custody of emergency hospital nurses. She was described as well dressed and well nourished.
A Foreign News Analysis argues Moscow urges support among U S students to lead and radicalize campus protests. It cites SDS figures like Daniel Cohn-Bendit and notes Kremlin aims to turn student movements into a strategic force in the world communist struggle and to align with labor class rhetoric.
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