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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1975
Page
6
Dear Abby columns discuss marital infidelity dating habits and gendered prompts. Readers share concerns about trust divorce and settlement while a party game reveals differing views on attractiveness and noticeables.
Schools close for Christmas after lunch on Tuesday December 23 and reopen January 5 1976. Central Office hours December 29 and 30. Brunswick Elementary schedules Christmas programs and a Santa visit. Brunswick High presents Scrooge December 12 13 and 14 with tickets from 2.50 adults 1.50 students and children. Various bands, field trips, PTA meetings, and Christmas concerts noted across Elm Street Middle New Market Parkway Walkersville Woolboro West Frederick Junior High and other sites with dates December 15 to 19 and related activities.
In the Mission District a predawn blaze set in an apartment building killed 12 people. About 100 to 125 residents were inside as firemen searched rubble and homicide detectives explored motive. Police cited liquid accelerant in the stairwell and questioned building owners over prior code violations.
Intense fighting rages around the 500 room Holiday Inn in Beirut as Christian Phalange gunmen hold out against a Moslem assault. Leftist militiamen encircle the building, vowing nonstop fire to force surrender or burning, as supply runners slip through.
The Henns Irvin Skip Renn and Mrs Garrett V Keefer with three grandchildren lead a March of Dimes campaign chairmanship in Frederick County praising research and birth defect progress. They urge county volunteers to join by calling 251 W. Patrick St. phone 662 7665 as Pat Schoonover begins enrollment. Irvin Renn has long public service record.
Downtown Frederick Association handles the park and shop plan with city blessing. Merchants not in DFA can still pay shoppers meters. The B&O Station Advisory Committee meets December 18 to seek input on restoring the building as a historic landmark and to decide its future use.
The text profiles Renn, a long time Frederick County official and civic participant. Appointed by Gov McKeildin to fill a term in the Board of County Commissioners in the 1950s, later served as liquor license commissioner until 1973, and ran Renn Realty. He chaired the United Way campaign, supported the 4-H auctions, and led birth defects education efforts with the March of Dimes. He is a Democrat, active in the Evangelical Lutheran Church, and supportive of the Great Frederick Fair and local birth defect centers.
Frederick area residents are invited to a free Holiday Special Presentation by the Frederick High School Choral Department at 8 p.m. in the FHS auditorium. The over 100 voice choir will perform a medley of carols and songs, with several students as soloists, and donations are welcomed.
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