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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1968
Page
3
The article weighs the surge in higher education since 1945 with over 380 new colleges, rising endowments, and tripled operating costs, against funding shortfalls, private gifts slowing after 1960s peaks, and state support shrinking. It notes private dental schools at risk, calls for federal subsidies, and describes blurred lines between public and private funding.
President Johnson ordered government steel purchases shifted to prompt price rollbacks. Republic and Armco lowered prices on shell casings and stainless steel to pre raise levels, with Armco still lifting shell steel by 86 per ton. Civilian agencies joined the Pentagon in cancelling large orders from firms holding price rises, suggesting more rollbacks to come as analysts estimate modest hourly cost impacts and productivity adjustments.
Letters to the editor praise Wolfe Bros of Myersville for completing a road segment ahead of schedule near Hagerstown on Route 7 and question why out of state firms lag behind. The writer cites Wolfe Bros. as the most efficient local contractor while Jerome Wolff of the State Road Commission notes the new interstate between Frederick and Hagerstown should open November 15, 1968.
Wednesday night in New Market honored Judge Charles E. Moylan of Trumsville with a 50-year Masonic pin presented by Philanthropic Lodge 18 AP Masons. The event recalled Moylan’s Baltimore connections where a late 1920s law firm produced future Maryland leaders, including Moylan and Ted Agnew, who started as young lawyers alongside notable figures.
Ferreereed eyes and tangled lines appear in a fragmentary theater note about early days and actors. The garbled text references theater panels and a cautionary phase, with scarce readable names or dates.
NEA Washington correspondent Ray Cromley analyzes the looming defense shakeup a new president must lead. He argues United States delays in creating a major defense system risk ceding military leadership to the Soviet Union and warns that U S programs run years behind Soviet efforts due to institutional inertia and cost growth.
The Frederick City finance committee proposes lowering the lite budget rate to 74 cents per hundred dollars, enabling a new city rate. The Exemption Board appeared at the State Armory to participate in drill and close-order practice as commissions and officers of local companies direct maneuvers. Districts along with Girl’s Canning Clubs plan demonstrations in the Frederick High School auditorium. The Grasshopper Army threatens Clover and corn fields near New Midway and Monrovia, prompting damage reports. A joint August meeting of Frederick City and County boards will arrange clerical support and office space to prepare for Manus. The Willer sewer connection to Camp Detrich was terminated in a special session. Hundreds of county residents will help remodel the Nellie V. Thrasher farm as part of Conservation Field Day. The Red Cross assisted Mr and Mrs John Ocher of Hagerstown whose home was struck by lightning last week.
Washington coverage argues crime and urban unrest stem from narcotics and a culture of violence. Officials cite drugs like LSD and heroin smuggling across borders, with organized peddlers driving looting and arson as police seek root causes beyond poverty programs.
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