Elvis stamp release sparks nationwide Elvis mania
Elvis stamps debut on what would be his 58th birthday as fans and post office staff belt out his songs. Priscilla Presley and Lisa Marie Keough visit Graceland while Col. Tom Parker signs autographs in Las Vegas. impersonators entertain crowds in New York at the General Post Office. Fans plan to mail bizarre addresses hoping for a Return to Sender. Elvis planned a concert with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra using archival tape and tech wizardry.
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Memphis, Tenn
Elvis
Presley
Priscilla Presley
Lisa Marie Keough
Graceland
Tom Parker
Las Vegas
Manhattan
General Post
New York
Memphis Symphony Orchestra
Obituary notices for Gerald Ronald Parks and Eugene Weedon
Gerald Ronald Ronnie Parks 35 of Monrovia died Jan 8 from injuries in an automobile crash. Born Apr 3 1957 in Olney he was a Damascus High School graduate and a car mechanic. Survived by wife Judy and two daughters, mother, four siblings, and a half sister. Funeral set Jan 11 in Frederick with interment at Resthaven. memorials to Mothers Against Drunk Driving. Eugene Israel Weedon 85 of New York died Jan 5. Born Nov 27 1907, he was self employed and a St Joseph Buckeystown parishioner. Survived by three sisters, three brothers, two sisters-in-law, two brothers-in-law. Visitation Jan 11 in Frederick with Rosary then Mass Jan 12 at St Joseph Buckeystown. interment in church cemetery.
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Gerald Ronald
Ronnie” Parks
Fingerboard Road
Monrovia
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Olney
Helen Louise Martin Parks
Gerald Raymond Parks
Damascus
Damascus High School
Hyndman
Eugene Weedon
Eugene Israel Weedon
Petersville
Dawson M. Weedon
Frederick
Robert Weedon
Bartonsville
Richard Weedon
Emmitsburg
Kathryn Olney Weedon
Ruth Rebecca Brooks Weedon
Barbara Vandrakle Weedon
Charles Sappington
Charles Smallwood
Keeney and Basford
Church St
St. Joseph’s
Buckeystown
C.E. Hicks III
Elvis fans snap up stamps at Frederick store
Elvis stamp frenzy draws shoppers including collector Waleski who bought for his daughter's stamp books. He recalled purchasing NASA commemoratives in Cape Canaveral. By 4 p.m. Frederick's acting supervisor Bob Lawrence estimated daily sales at about 26,000, a solid one day total.
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Mr. Waleski
Cape Canaveral
Fla
N.A.S.A
Waleski
Bob Lawrence
Frederick’s
Mr. Lawrence
Daniel Weinberg dies at 83 in Braddock Heights
Daniel Weinberg longtime Frederick area businessman and community leader dies at age 83. He built and ran Braddock Heights Swimming Pool Terrace Lanes Bowling Center in Frederick and helped create WARK AM radio and Frederick's first modern motor inn. He led efforts to create Braddock voting district and expanded the United Way, with extensive civic and fraternal memberships. Funeral services are private and memorials support the Weinberg Center for the Arts.
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Mr. Weinberg
Braddock Heights
U.S. 40
Weinberg
Salvation Army
Frederick
Jefferson
Middletown
General Assembly
Braddock
Jefferson Boulevard
Community Chest of
Frederick City
United Way
Community Chest
Frederick County
Hood College
Rotary Club of
Elks Lodge No
Variety Club
Washington
Circus Saints and Sinners Club
P.T. Barnum
Beth Sholom
Kazim
Adelaide Daves
Lexington
Manuel M. Weinberg
Friends of the
Weinberg Center
Weinberg Center For the Arts
W. Patrick St
Legislators Prepare Agenda With Stalking Bill And Keno Debate
Lawmakers boost the docket with a stalking felony proposal alongside discussion of keno, Frederick County gambling expansion to blackjack, school bonding, higher marriage license surcharges, and a permanent Frederick County Womens Commission. Senator Charles Smelser faces opposition on keno while counties push enabling measures for the county commission.
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Charles Smelser
Frederick Carroll
Keno
Frederick County
Womens’ Commission
Former Value Rent-A-Car Owners Indicted for Fraud
Federal indictment accuses Steven M. Cohen and two brothers of rigging Value Rent-A-Car’s computer to add five gallons to each vehicle’s capacity, creating phantom charges from 1988 to 1991 that overcharged about 47,000 customers. Also charged are Paul Corbin and others for wiretapping Mitsubishi negotiators.
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Fort Lauderdale, Fla
Value Rent-A-Car Inc
Steven M. Cohen
Sidney H. Cohen
Jeffrey A. Cohen
Cohens
Value
Paul Corbin
Mitsubishi
Detainer filed in fatal Knoxville crash involving Monrovia man
A West Virginia man faces a detainer after a single vehicle crash on Knoxville Road killed Gerald R. Parks, 35, of Monrovia. Parks died at Frederick Memorial Hospital after being pinned in a wrecked 1971 Buick Skylark. The driver fled. Mark Sheldon Buterhaugh, 34, of Shenandoah Junction, WV, was later detained in Harpers Ferry and charged with manslaughter. Extradi tion proceedings are underway. This is Frederick County's first fatal crash of the year.
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Knoxville
West Virginia
Monrovia
Gerald R. Parks
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Frederick County
Andy Smothers
Smothers
Brunswick
Mr. Parks
Brunswick Police Department
Mark Sheldon Buterhaugh
Shenandoah Junction
W.va
Harpers Ferry
Jefferson Memorial Hospital
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