03 Jan 1975
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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1975
Page
1
Maj Charles V. Main, who resigned last night as city police chief, was instantly reappointed to serve until Jan 22 1976. The mayor and board also planned to hire a Police Chief designate to work under Main and take over when he ends his 44 year career next year.
The U S jobless rate climbs to 7.1 percent as unemployment exceeds six million for the first time since the 1930s decline. Government report notes the rate reflects a deep economic downturn with widespread layoffs across sectors.
Two masked men held up Discount Liquors at West Sixth and North Bentz Streets shortly after 10 15 p m and escaped with 270 dollars. One brandished a pistol and demanded money from clerk Donald E Hanshaw while the other distracted a second employee, Joseph Meigs. A bystander fled as the robbers walked away, one reportedly injured. Authorities describe the suspects as two young men around 5 8 to 5 10 tall, weighing 150 to 155 pounds, wearing ski masks. Police investigators listed several officers and noted a possible link to a prior holdup.
George Harris of Frederick turns an aim to disprove impossibility into a demonstrable achievement. He built a six foot Titan II like model with 420 pounds thrust and working parts, using library sources, now displayed in a local library to inspire imaginative thinking. The project followed quick research and a challenge mindset, earning Smithsonian recognition for his Titan II display and prompting further explorations in perpetual motion and solar heating ideas.
County Commissioners held a joint executive session on the Metropolitan Commission. President Lawrence A. Dorsey said no stand was taken and discussed the Metro's future, a county department of public works, and personnel matters with three Metro commissioners in attendance.
Three Metropolitan Sanitary Commission members and county officials held a closed door executive session Thursday evening. The public, initially admitted for 15 minutes, was later excluded as verbal exchanges occurred between President Lawrence A. Dorsey and Metropolitan Chairman Willie T. Burall regarding the session’s status.
President Ford summoned CIA Director William Colby Defense Secretary James R Schlesinger and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to the White House for separate meetings on charges the CIA engaged in illegal domestic intelligence activities. The meetings were disclosed as Ford returned from a 12 day Rocky Mountain skiing vacation.
Masses will be offered in more than 125 parishes of the Archdiocese of Baltimore to honor the canonization of Mother Seton in Rome this September. A con-celebrated mass for Emmitsburg will be held Saturday at 9 30 a.m. and Cardinal Shehan will celebrate one at 11 a.m. in Baltimore.
State Sen. Edward P. Thomas urged DOT Secretary Harry R. Hughes to reexamine Baltimore rapid transit plans amid rising costs. He cited a jump from 470 million to 1.4 billion with projections over 2 billion by 1977 and urged consider alternative, cheaper methods of moving the public in and out of the Baltimore area. Local officials in Frederick and Carroll Counties pressed DOT for detailed highway funding data as they criticized road improvements and transit spending.
News brief reports automakers plan production cutbacks while other items note a government planned gold auction and an FBI comment on nuclear blackmail and communist activities. Weather outlook shows increasing cloudiness with mid 40s to 50s and potential rain tonight into Saturday.
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