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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1970
Page
7
New York AP reports many large retailers nationwide expect a weak Christmas season with overall sales down from last year. Only inexpensive items move in some department stores, while Dallas and Seattle suffer from electronics and aerospace slumps and defense cutbacks. Hotline number provided.
Montgomery County Executive James P Gleason seeks applicants for a vacant five member County Planning Board paying 7200 dollars annually. Royce C Hanson is favored by the Democratic County Council though Gleason previously opposed his appointment. Hanson heads the Washington Center for Metropolitan Studies, a nonprofit urban research institute. Letters of application must be filed by December 24 in Gleason's office. The board currently includes three Republicans and one Democrat, Esther P Gelman of Potomac.
A special exhibit of children's toys from the mid nineteenth to early twentieth century is planned by the Montgomery County Historical Society Museum in Rockville. Gaithersburg collector Frank Condrum loaned many items. The museum at 103 West Montgomery Ave. is open noon to 4 p.m. Tue-Sat and 2 to 5 p.m. on the first Sunday. closed Mondays. The show runs until mid January.
The Soviet Union increases military pilot production with two new schools at Stavropol and Saratov and a reopened Boras Oglebsk high aviation school. Training shortened by four to five months. Expansion may include more helicopter pilots as U S chopper use grows in Vietnam.
The spiny anteater or echidna and the duckbill platypus are both native to Australia and New Guinea, highlighting Australia's unique mammal fauna.
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