USPS Promotes National Letter Writing Week With New Stamp Set
The United States Postal Service issues a three-pair stamp pane on Feb 25 to urge letter writing. Large stamps say Letters Lift Spirits Letters Preserve Memories Letters Shape Opinions with smaller stamps reading P.S. Write Soon. First day covers due by March 21. mail orders to Washington DC address with 15 cent stamps. Also notes stamp values and Minkus catalog guidance on stamp condition and pricing. Indian stamps honor fairs and agriculture issues, Grenada marks immunization with The Pistol of Peace. Hagerstown Stamp Club meets March 11 at 7:30 pm for an auction. visitors welcome.
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U.S. Postal Service
Library of Congress
Syd Kronish
U.S
P.S
USPS
Washington, D.C
Philatelist
Hagerstown
Indian Semester Program Offered by Central Pennsylvania Consortium
The Central Pennsylvania Consortium including Gettysburg Franklin and Marshall Dickinson and Wilson colleges will sponsor a summer and fall India Semester program at the University of Mysore. Orientation at Gettysburg, July departure, return around December 20. Cost 2950 dollars, 12 credit hours, contact Dr Janet Gemmill at Gettysburg College. deadline March 1.
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Central Pennsylvania
Gettysburg
Franklin and Marshall
Dickinson
Wilson Colleges
India
Gettysburg College
University of
Mysore
U.S
University of Mysore
Janet Gemmill
Belgium and Holland trip planned by Maryland Historical Society
A ten day May trip to Belgium and Holland for 40 travelers in two groups will visit Brussels Bruges Ghent Antwerp Delft The Hague and Amsterdam with a Belgian guide. A Antwerp stay includes a reception honoring descendants of Henry Joseph Stier owner of Riversdale. Reserve by March 25. call 685-3750 ext. 4 for details.
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Maryland Historical Society
Belgium
Holland
Brussels
Bruges
Ghent
Antwerp
Delft
The
Hague
Amsterdam
Henry Joseph Stier
George Calvert
Benedict Calvert
Mount Airy
Thurmont man Mor tis Gilbert Black turns 90 today
Thurmont resident Morris Gilbert Black, born February 27 1890 on the William Black farm, marks his 90th birthday. He moved to his Thurmont duplex home in 1917 after buying four lots in 1916. Black, a former railroad worker and long time canning factory employee, remains active with gardening and leaves mulching, and enjoys television in his recliner with Freddie the cockatoo as a watchdog. He and his late wife Jane had two children, two grandchildren, and two great grandchildren.
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Thurmont
William Black
Mortis Gilbert Black
Black
Morris Gilbert
Gyer Black
Maggie Byers Black
Morris
Goldie Cook
Frederick
United States
Emmitsburg
Morris G. Black
Western Maryland Railroad
Section Gang
Carpenter Gang
Baltimore and Whig Railroad
Cumberland
Baltimore
James River
Virginia
Freddie
Charles C. Stover
Morris Gilbert Black
William E. Graffam
NRC report on social and economic effects of TMI accident
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission released a contractor study by Mountain West Research Inc. evaluating the two week emergency period after the Three Mile Island accident and ongoing impacts through September 1979. It outlines regional economic, institutional, and individual effects and notes potential longer term consequences for southcentral Pennsylvania. Copies available at NRC Public Document Room and for purchase via GPO and NTIS.
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The
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Three Mile Island
NRC
Mountain West Research Inc
Tempe
Ariz
Southcentral
Pennsylvania
H Street
N.W
Washington, D. C
GPO
Division of Technical Information and Document Control
U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Washington
D.C
National Technical Information Service
Springfield
Morris A Schapiro Lecture on Eighteenth Century Southern Furniture
The Morris A. Schapiro Memorial Lecture on Eighteenth Century Southern Furniture will be held at 8:15 p.m. on March 18 at the Maryland History Society. Frank L. Horton of MESDA will lecture. A candlelight dinner precedes the event, costing $25 with reservations required. The lecture is free and open to the public. For information call 685-3750 ext 57.
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Morris A. Schapiro
Museum and Library of Maryland History
Maryland Historical Society
West Monument Street
Frank L. Horton
Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts
MESDA
Winston- Salem
N.C
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Whitney Museum of American Art
Lung Association of Mid- Maryland
Self-Help Breathing Club of
Frederick Towne Mall
FIRST FEDERAL _ Saver Savings & Loan Association of
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