Congress vows to curb post office furniture thefts
The Baltimore Sun reports former House Speaker James Wright and other ex leaders took public office items from the Capitol after stepping down. Desks chairs couches and drapes were moved home with long term taxpayer ownership cited as official loan. Critics say such pilfering mirrors broader congressional abuses and isolation from constituents.
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James Wright
Baltimore Sun
Wright
House
Tip O'Neill
Carl Albert
Fernand St Germain
D-R.i
Congress
Capitol Hill
Misguided musings on missiles and forms for debt
A column riffs on a missile industry insider and a supermarket scene with food stamps, mocking a proposed public list of recipients. It jokes about EPA fines for form errors, imagines a revenue plan from bureaucratic fines, and lampoons government complexity and hypothetical abuse by officials.
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Department of Defense
John
Secretary of Agriculture
Dole
Block
Lalo
Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
Uncle Sam to cancel old uncashed government checks
Nearly 3 million dollars in uncashed federal checks sit forgotten in drawers and pockets from pennies to thousands. Some dating back decades are finally being considered, but starting October 1 1889 issued checks will be canceled and no longer carried on the books.
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Washington
Federal Treasury
Uncle Sam
Massachusetts
Michigan
Nebraska
Treasury
Treasury Department
Mississippi River
Government to void old Treasury checks after one year
Treasury plans to stop honoring uncashed federal checks after September 30 1990. About 5.7 million old checks worth 2.7 million dollars will be voided unless presented for payment within a year. Agencies will issue fresh ones only if requested, reducing long term bookkeeping and deficits.
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Treasury Department
Treasury
Scott Sleek
W.E. Douglas
Financial Management Services
Rewrs Post natives recall yesterday AA event
A fragment from the Rewrs Post recalls an event labeled yesterday AA by natives, dated August 5, fifty years ago. The text is incomplete, with few readable details beyond the reference to August 5 and a long-ago native community context.
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Rewrs
Big Show Circus Thrills Frederick Crowd At One Day Stop
The Russell Brothers three ring act lit up Frederick fairgrounds with trapeze performers and a spinning bar routine. Joy Brown dazzled on a suspended bar while a drummer pounded the beat. Other acts included trained animals, aerialists, and clown acts drawing cheers from the audience. Nearby, CCC relocation objections stirred fears of disturbance, but officials saw value in the camp. Meanwhile the 29th Division Aviation unit prepared for a two week summer encampment at Detrick Field. Corn canning season began early at Frederick and Mount Airy plants, with crop prospects hinging on timely rain.
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Russell Brothers Three Ring Circus
Frederick
Frederick Fairgrounds
Joy Brown
Budy
Vivian White
Mount Airy
G. Frank Thomas
Colt-Dixon Canning Co
East South Street
Baltimore labor talks end in tentative two year contract
Twenty years ago negotiations in Baltimore produced a two year contract easing the threat of a supermarket strike as labor and management came to a tentative agreement. Shoppers stocked up early amid fears of a food stoppage while GOP figures honored Vice President Spiro Agnew at a fund raising party for Louise Gore, who signaled a Senate bid if her first choices declined.
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Baltimore
Spiro T. Agnew
Potomac
Louise Gore
Miss Gore
U.S. Senate
Joseph Tydings
J. Glenn Beall Jr
Rogers C.B. Morton
Editorial critique of sexism in Frederick News-Post language
Marie Anne Erickson argues that the Frederick News-Post regressed to gendered language in editorials dated July 6 10 and 25 1988. She cites wheelchair access bandshell and school district entries as male only and urges inclusive wording citing the AP Stylebook guidance.
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Frederick News-Post
Yesteryear
Board of Education
Baker Park
Frederick County
Associated Press
Jackson
A Dangerous Attitude Across the Nation
A letter to the editor argues that a sweeping dangerous attitude urges leaving the country if unhappy with the system. It warns against exclusionary aims like purging dissenters, contrasting with historic struggles to confront change and noting echoes with Hitler and Stalin. The piece cites Max E. Metral Frederick as the author.
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United States
Hitler
Stalin
Letter prompts responsibility for pets and road safety
Sam replies to Kim Cook's July 27 letter urging pet owners to accept responsibility for their animals. He recalls his own losses and highlights risks to others from free roaming pets, the need for vaccination, and keeping cats indoors. Vern Beall Merry shares a motorcycle accident warning after his granddaughter Denice Merry was killed when a handbag strap snagged a chain.
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Sam
Kim Cook
Ats
Denice Merry
Poolesville
Monrovia
Denice
Hello Frederick County special insert reader letter
Patricia Camarra of Downingtown writes that she enjoyed The Frederick News-Post July 18 Hello Frederick County insert and its oral history sections. She notes pride in Frederick roots and fondly recalls reading about the area.
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Frederick
Frederick County
Junk the Congress by direct representation proposal
A reader proposes scrapping Congress for direct national voting. Each morning a TV show calls for public input, creating a daily Bill. Americans would vote yes or no via Social Security number entry, with Vanna White updating results. Evening analysis replaces sitcoms, leaving politicians with maintenance roles.
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Congress
D.C
Today Show
America
Vanna White
Vanna
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