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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1969
Page
2
British review notes a drive to ban bio warfare led by German and British officials at a Geneva conference. Draft conventions push outlawing production and use of biological methods, with a complaints system and mutual protection clauses.
A reader denounces a News-Post editor and laments a national war on youth. Helen Alexander challenges adults’ stance while quoting Emma Lazarus and the Statue of Liberty poem. The exchange endorses youth independence and criticizes elder condescension.
The Democratic Party faces severe financial strain with a $6 million NCD debt and a bankrupt New York state operation. Fundraising losses from Kennedy’s Massachusetts setback hit morale, while leadership struggles and regional splits threaten 1970 and 1972 prospects amid shifting Southern and Western loyalties.
Fifty years ago the News-Post reports a French Croix d'Hills wireless station near Bordeaux will cover 2500 miles, handle 72 000 words daily, and reach French colonies worldwide, powered by five times the Eiffel Tower strength. The Army aviation ransom case involving two pilots is noted, along with a lightning strike destroying a Hamlet Harmony Grove bank barn and vast crop losses.
Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan Dr Samuel Greens died at 6 pm. He helped found the Association of Georgia Klans which claims 25 000 members. In Frederick County cash payoffs were made on pinball machines violating licensing laws and penalties for illegal gambling were noted. Potomac Edison restored power to Beunswich at 12 55 pm after a transformer failure cut service from 6 35 am.
The National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence urges government confiscation of most handguns, arguing home ownership rarely prevents crime. It cites Detroit and New York burglary data, notes many home firearm incidents, and favors nonlethal protection and alarm systems over guns in households.
British report shows fish raised in warm cooling water at Ayrshire nuclear station reach market size in 18 months, faster than in cold water. In Oregon, researchers test heated water for crop growth, with corn taller and beans germinating faster.
A letter from a First Baptist Church member commends Frederick Memorial Hospital for excellent nursing care and praises nurses aides clerks orderlies technicians food service workers and auxiliary volunteers. The letter thanks the hospital staff for a healing ministry in the county.
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