High School Students Win Out-To-Lunch Privileges
The Frederick County Board of Education approved a policy allowing junior and senior high school students out to lunch under school regulations. Parental consent and student council enforcement are required, with principal oversight. The policy also permits driving, a change urged by Governor Thomas Johnson High School junior students. some members opposed limiting to seniors.
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Frederick County
John Carnochan
Governor Thomas Johnson High School
Mary Condon Hodgson
Third Arbiter Named In Teacher Dispute
Jacob Seidenburg a Falls Church Va lawyer and economist has been chosen as the third member of the arbitration panel to resolve differences between the Frederick County Board of Education and the Frederick County Teachers Association over the 1970 71 master contract. The panel aims to present recommendations by March 2 after a Feb 1 impasse declared by State School Superintendent Dr James A Sensenbaugh. Seidenburg chosen jointly by Board of Education representative Jerry Hart and Teachers Association representative Robert Dexter. He has long chaired arbitration and served on presidential committees and the War Labor Board in World War I. He holds a BA from Temple University and two doctorates.
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Jacob Seidenburg
Falls Church, Va
Board of Education
Frederick County Teachers Association
James A. Sensenbaugh
Recommenda
Seidenburg
Jerry Hart
Robert Dexter
American Arbitration Association
War Labor Board
Philadelphia
Temple University
Students Need Worid Training in Elementary Vocational Education
Education advocate Michael Morton urges Frederick County schools to expose elementary students to industrial arts and home economics and to build comprehensive vocational programs in high schools with a vocational-technical center. He notes fewer than 80 percent of graduates earn a college diploma and argues text materials underrepresent vocations like plumbers and auto mechanics, shaping self-perception early.
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Frederick County
Michael Morton
Board of Education
Morton
Law Enforcement Open House Draws Only 275
Frederick City Police Station State Police barracks and Frederick County Jail hosted guided tours for 275 citizens during an open house. Sheriff Baumgartner said 119 toured the jail with groups including nurses and Boy Scouts, inspecting all cell blocks and noting jail capacity and inmate turnover. City Police headquarters drew about 100 visitors, with displays on weapons evidence in two murder cases and a film on law enforcement, including material from the Larry Lord Motherwell case.
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George Dorsey
Frederick City
Frederick County
Frederick Exchange Club
Richard Baungartner
Baumgartner
City Police
Larry Lord Motherwell
Evacuation Extended For Below Dam Area In L A
Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty extended the 48 hour evacuation for about ga 000 residents living within 20 miles of the cracked Van Norman dam as aftershocks threaten the area. The quake death toll reached 53 with 1 000 injured and 35 bodies found at the Veterans Administration Hospital wing. Estimates put property damage over 300 million dollars while pumps worked to drain the lake reservoir.
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Los Angeles
California
Sam Yorty
Veterans Administration
Yorty
San Fernando Valley
van Norman Lake Dane
Dog Alerts Former Local Woman Of Quake Danger
A Frederick woman living in California reported to her mother that her dog woke her 15 minutes before the quake began. No serious damage or injuries occurred. Local Red Cross and radio networks assist families as calls to the region are limited and efforts prepare emergency contact across communities.
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Frederick
California
Sandra Hamburg Lookingbill
Edward
Navy
Lookingbill
Lookingbills
North
Long Beach
C&p Telephone Company
Carl V. Weakley
Weakley
Red Cross
Robert T. Barrick
Radio Coor
H. Albert Dean
The
Huntington Park
Beverly Hills
Hollywood
Burbank
Viet Cong claims ten American battalions in Laos
Paris dispatch reports Mrs. Nguyen Thi Binh, foreign minister of the Viet Cong Provisional Revolutionary Government, alleging 10 U S battalions plus artillery and armor are fighting inside Laos with more U S forces massed to enter. She says fifty U S and South Vietnamese troops invaded Laos, while the U S denies ground forces there though air and logistic support is ongoing. Additional VN and South Vietnamese officials defend or counter the actions as legal self defense and insist Laos’ neutrality is preserved.
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Viet Cong
Laos
U.S
Nguyen Thi Binh
Provisional Revolutionary Government
Laces
United States
Indochina
Rogers Urges Asian Talks To Write Indonesia Peace
Secretary of State Rogers backs a proposal for an Asian conference including Communist China and the Soviet Union to craft a lasting Indochina peace. Moscow rejects a new Geneva, while U.S. lawmakers debate timing and the usefulness of capping participation. Aiken urges Delhi as a site with India, Japan, China, and the USSR invited. Mansfield cautions against premature U.S. cutoff dates.
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Indonesia
Washington
William P. Rogers
China
Soviet Union
Indochina
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Moscow
Britain
North Vietnam
Pathet Lao
Laos
Norodom Sihanouk
George D. Aiken
Vermont
U.S
Congress
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Aiken
United States
Southeast Asia
New Delhi
India
Japan
Mansfield
George 5S
McGovern
Mark O. Hatfield
Mansfield and Sons
Edmund S. Muskie
Maine
Frank Church
Idaho
Jacob K. Javits
R-N.y
Marines Return to Vietnam DMZ Standoff Watch
U S Marines of the 3rd Division return to Vietnam for possible combat near the DMZ after ships of the 7th Fleet transport a 1 500 man landing team with tanks and artillery from Okinawa. South Vietnamese forces advance into Laos to disrupt the Ho Chi Minh trail while casualties are reported on both sides.
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U.S
Dmz
Laos
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Vietnam
Sepone
Laotian Panhandle
North Vietnam
Cambodia
South Vietnam
Federal Employees Gain 3 Day Washington Birthday Holiday
Observance shifts George Washington birthday to Monday February 15 under Public Law 90 363 while Lincoln's birthday remains February 12. Across Frederick County and Maryland many workers face varied weekends as offices close, post offices adapt, banks shut, and stores hold sales.
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Federal
George Washington
Lincoln
Frederick County
Washington
Fo Detrick
Delaware
Oregon
Clinots
Randy Shelhorse Jr Veteran Of Three Wars Retires After 30 Years In Air Force
Randy Shelhorse Jr a former chief master sergeant retires after 30 years in the U S Air Force with 54 combat missions and 20 decorations He enlisted on his 17th birthday and served from 1939 through a long career including sinking a German submarine before Pearl Harbor He recalls flying as a proud but costly duty and remembers his injury a leg wound from shrapnel He also served with General Claire Chennault Flying Tigers and earned a distinguished service medal
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Quita Hague
U. S. Air Force
Randy Shelhorse Jr
Shelhorse
Shethorse
Army Air Corps
Pearl Harbor
North Carolina
Bombay
the News-Post
Fire Log Reports From 24-Hour Period Ended 10 AM
Fire calls logged during the 24 hours ending at 10 am include stove fire on Waynesboro Road at 3:48 pm with Emmitsburg responding, chimney fire on Easterday Road at 5:53 pm with Myersville responding, and an auto fire on Route 180 at 11:17 pm with Independent responders. Ambulance calls totaled four with Emergency-3 and Routine-1. Jail population lists males 30 and females 3.
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Waynesboro
Emmitsburg
Easterday
Myersville
Mt. Zion Road
Arson Suspected In Frederick Car Fire
State Police and arson investigators probe a suspected malicious burn of Rabih Khatib’s 1966 car on Mt Zion Road after it was reported stolen from Carmack’s lot on North Market Street. The vehicle was found destroyed near Md 80. Maryland Fire Marshal Top E Barnes leads the investigation as Independent Hose Company responded to the 11 p.m. alarm.
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Mt. Zion Road
Rabih Mohammed Khatib
North Market Street
Carmack
MD. 80
Top E. Barnes
Maryland
Independent Hose Company
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