Frederick Museum receives $1 million gift and Fort Detrick tie in
The National Museum of Civil War Medicine in Frederick gains a $1 million donation from a charitable trust run by the late Judge Edward Delaplaine, unlocking state matching funds for renovating the Carty Building. A fifth Hood College conference on Civil War medicine highlighted disease on par with battle injuries. A proposed Aug 19 partnership with Fort Detrick would expand medical services, education, and access to new technology.
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Museum of Civil War Medicine
Heck
Edward §. Delaplaine
Carty
East
Patrick St
Frederick
Hood College
National Museum of Civil War Medicine
Fort Detrick
Jim
Responsibility for the children begins at home letter response
Patti Busche of New Market explains her July 23 letter about child care and parental sacrifice. She defends her views on keeping children first, staying home, a home business, and the heated responses it provoked, apologizing for any offense to working parents and urging support for children’s value.
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Asa Ely
Everal
Talso
Path Busche
Escalating Middle East violence tied to Israeli occupation
Palestinian suicide bombing in Jerusalem follows a pattern of Israeli settlement expansion and expulsions that critics say fuel terrorism. The piece links 30 years of occupation, American support, and international criticism, urging President Clinton to push a balanced peace effort and curb actions by both sides.
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He Jong
Jerusalem
Israel
U.S
United Nations
Clinton
East Jerusalem
Benjamin Netanyahu
Land of
Euphrates River
Syria
Nile River
Egypt
Middle East
United States
Ehud Olmert
Netanyahu
Yasser Arafat
Scripps Howard News Service
MacArthur reminiscence and local industrial shifts in Frederick county
General Douglas MacArthur's remark I will return is recounted by Col. Charles Moorehouse in an address to the Frederick Rotary. Jacob Goldberg of Frederick Iron and Steel buys over a million pounds of scrap steel rails from a trolley line ending service from Hagerstown to Williamsport. City engineer W Raymond Wallet notes a Frederick firm plans a Wisner Street factory. Sheriff Guy Anders cites about 50 unlicensed dogs seized under a new law. Eastalco labor talks show progress as 700 United Steelworkers Local 7386 strike enters a sixth day. County voters oppose electrician licensing amid public outcry. Jail burns near miss reported as ashes in a dum waiter.
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Douglas MacArthur
Pacific
Col
Charles 4. ‘Moorehouse
Philippines
Bataan
Corregidor
Islands
Frederick Rotary Cluir
Francis Scott Key Hotel
Jacob Goldberg
Frederick Iron & Steel Inc
Hagerstown
Williamsport
Potomac Edison Company
W. Raymond Wallet
Frederick
Wisner Street
Eastalco
United Steelworkers of America
Hula Hoop Golf Becomes Family Win Amid Dry Lawn
In a dry spell the lawn stays uncut and weeds rise while a family tests a new game called Hula Hoop Golf. Participants fling a hoop to encircle distant weeds, mailboxes, wells, and even dads, aiming for Par as the win for all.
Fiscal blunders cost taxpayers in Frederick County
A history of wasted funds follows the failed plan for a permanent Sheriff's Office headquarters. From a $2.45 million proposed renovation at East Frederick Elementary to a costly leased option and mounting lease payments, critics argue mismanagement drained public dollars while delaying a centralized facility.
Letters on consolidated facility and tax dollars
Karl W. Bickel argues against spending 7.6 million on a centralized police headquarters claiming no solid plan for support services consolidation. He warns Sheriff Hagg’s fiscal missteps and urges decentralized offices linked by computer to serve citizens better. John C. Webb Jr. weighs naval dairy farming and regional cooperation on Chesapeake pollution and organic milk.
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Hagg
Gore plans to sell Naval Academy dairy farm in Maryland
The article notes Vice President Al Gore aims to reinvent the United States Navy by selling the 865 acre Dairy Farm at Gambrills Maryland, established in 1913 after a typhoid epidemic linked to tainted milk. It contrasts the organic milk movement with Gore’s anti organic stance and mentions House approval of related legislation.
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Naval Academy
Potomac
Chesapeake Bay
Maryland
Wayne Gilchrist
Steny Hoyer
Roscoe Bartlett
Virginia
Navy Farm
Gambrills
Vee
al Gore
United States Navy
Rachel Carson
House of Representatives
Legisla
Honor roll bias angers reader over front page choice
Kathleen Christner of Frederick criticizes The Frederick News-Post for front page coverage of Brian Wooldridge’s honor roll while other Frederick County students’ achievements are buried. She argues the paper neglects community volunteerism and college admissions news, calling reporting quality into question.
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Wooldriige
Honor Rel al 'Tj High
News-Post
Brian Wooldridge
Frederick County
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Frederick
Frederick News-Post
Letters to The Frederick News Fest Accept Submissions
The Frederick News Fest invites letters but requires inclusion of author name, home address, and home telephone numbers for verification. Submissions may be mailed to The Frederick News Post, faxed, or emailed, with space constraints noted and nonpublication of poetry or religious verse.
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Frederick
Frederick News-Post
E. Patnck St
Fredericknewspost.com
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Tom Wheatley
Jefferson
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East Frederick
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Jim Hagy
Hagy
State Police
Karl W. Bickel
Mobr Avia
John C. Webb Jr
Gaithersburg
Kathleen Christner Frederick
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