Ford Becomes 38th President With Plainspoken Oath
Gerald Ford takes the oath at 11 35 am on August 9 1974 becoming the 38th U S President. He promises a nation listening to straight talk among friends and pledges to bind up Watergate wounds and restore the Golden Rule in politics.
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Gerald R Ford
Michigan
United States
Richard Nixon
Ford
America
Mr. Ford
Madison Avenue
Osmen
Gerald Ford
Frederick Babe Ruth League lauds regional tournament success
Frederick Babe Ruth League president thanks Frederick City and County for supporting the 1974 Middle Atlantic Regional Babe Ruth Tournament. He praises Foster Parents, McCurdy Memorial Park, and local officials, notes 135 players, and congratulates the winning team bound for Abbeville Louisiana for the World Series. Also included are tax poll and census notes on government benefits and mobility.
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Friends of
Frederick
Babe Ruth League, Inc
Babe Ruth League
Harper's Ferry
W. Va
Washington, D.C
Gettysburg
Ronald N. Young
Robert Strine
Russell Castle
Lawrence Powell
Marion Rice
Skin Massh
McCurdy Memorial Park
McCurdy
Sonny Blank
Tom Sherald
Larry Ahalt
Frederick News-Post
WFMD
WMHI
WTHU
WTRI
Jim Bowers
Roy Comer
Craw full of unresponsive county government drawn to critique
Citizen letters harshly criticize the Election Board for resisting mobile voter registration and dismissive service. The writer urges public action and proposes advertising, while urging accountability in local governance. A second letter supports ethics and delinquency debates and cites laws from England and Pennsylvania as models, signed by Robert Edwin Fisher.
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Election Board
Mr. Messersmith
League of Women Voters
Mssrs
Charles Smith
Garen Cragger
Tom Slater
Leon Enfield
Board of Supervisors of Elections
Winchester Hall
Cypriot Crisis Reveals Limits of World Peace Promises
Don Oakley argues that international arms trade and external meddling sharpened the Cyprus dispute between Greece and Turkey. He notes how outside powers MPs and NATO allies influenced events, risking a broader war, yet he sees slow progress toward a world where major wars become unthinkable.
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United Nations
Cyprus
Turkey
Greece
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
United States
Soviet Union
France
Realpolitik
Makarios
Athens
Russia
NATO
Britain
Construction Aims at Red Bridge Extension Toward McKaig
Farmers in the area begin work on a tag and turn hard reed extension from the Red Bridge on the Gashaune Pike toward McKaig to improve traffic. County officials focus on essential duties as courthouse painters near completion in Frederick County Maryland. August 1 194 FARMERS FROM MANY SECTIONS OF Maryland joined Thursday with Frederick County dairymen on a tour of four farms supported by the Maryland Artificial Breeding Co-Operative Inc. Speeding arrest tied to a bank robbery at Andrews Air Force Base with a $124 638 haul. one of three gunmen charged tonight.
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Mathias
Pennsylvania
England
Maryland
Frederick City
Pace
USA
Europe
Red Bridge
Gashaune Pike
McKaig
Frederick Couey Dairymen
Frederick County
Frederick
Maryland Artificial Breeding Co-Operative, Inc
Andrews Air Force Base
Oil giants cited for lying over natural gas finds
Senate Commerce Committee staff reports accuse oil companies of false reporting on offshore gas discoveries to push prices higher. The piece notes dropped drilling success in Louisiana from 7.9 9.4 percent (1969 1971) to 2.4 percent (1972) and 1 percent (1973) while criticising the FPC and Exxon linked allocations. A side item covers misused welfare funds, pet overpopulation issues, FBI spy shop bust, and radar related VA FAA awards.
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Washington
Warren Magnuson
D-Wash
Senate Commerce Committee
Federal Power Commission
FPC
Nixon
Naed John Nassikas
Louisiana
Gordon Zareski
Magnuson
American Petroleum Institute
FEA
Exxon
John Vernon
Vernon
America
FBI
Robert Dorsen
G-men
Dorsen
Veterans Administration
Sabor Department
Federal Aviation Administration
Chris Speros
Atlanta
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Friends of Youth Baseball
Commerce Clearing House
Advisory Commission On Intergovernmental Relations
North Central
Census Bureau
NEA
Curtis’ Craw
Richard C. Curtis
Mountville Rd
Adamstown
Robert Edwin Fisher
Carroll Parkway
Frederick, Md
Don Oakley
By Don Oakley
Inewopadek Bat Rinehise Assn
Konce Freya
Shore
St. Mary's
Harford
Carroll
Montgomery
Henry R. Showmaker
Jack
Federal Energy Administration
Ine Mana
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