Maryland farmland bill eyed for 1976 passage
Frederick area farmers raise concerns as House Bill 783 seeks voluntary agricultural districts with easement purchases. Proposals include funding via transfer tax, state buyouts of easements, and a five year wait before easement payments. Critics fear lack of funding and possible district compulsion.
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General Assembly
Maryland
Will Rogers
Boyd Smith
Frederick County
Joint Committee For Farm Bureau and Grange
Academy of Science
United States
Smith
Ade Agi
Joint Committee of Farm Bureau and Grange
Annapolis
Leon B. Enfield
Joint Committee
Maryland Farm Bureau
Enfield
January 17 1926 items from the News-Post files
A compact roundup of notable past items from the News-Post files dated January 17, 1926. The brief highlights officials events and society notes, with emphasis on individuals and local places cited in that era.
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News-Post
Maryland Roads to be numbered under national system
A national road system to be adopted within the next month will number Maryland routes as United States highways. In Frederick County, the 105th anniversary Young Men's Bible Society meeting featured Mrs. Almer W. Karnell of Philadelphia delivering a forceful address on moral themes. The Maryland School for the Deaf beat St. James School 31 to 24 in a fast basketball game in Hagerstown. Frederick County Planning & Zoning Commission chief task is protecting existing assets against future development, per Julian Tarrent’s remarks at the Courthouse. County Commissioners reappointed James L. Rimier as auditor for 1953 accounts. fee terms to be negotiated. Building permits in Frederick County for 1955 totaled about 2.535 million dollars based on A. Lamar Barrick’s records.
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Maryland
United States
America
Almer W. Karnell
Philadelphia
Young Men's Bible Society
Frederick County
First Baptist Church
William C. Royal
Maryland School For the
St. James School
Hagerstown
Silentees
Frederick County Planning & Zoning Commission
Julian Tarrent
Richmond
Commission
James L. Rimier
Rimier
Iranian Queen backs Maryland pair in world sign language project
Drs L Earl Griswold and McCay Vernon of Western Maryland College travel to Rome with a World Federation of the Deaf liaison to plan filming in Tehran. They will capture 1500 common signs for a low cost universal sign language program using diverse actors and multilingual captioned materials.
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Farah Diba
Iran
Maryland
World Federation of the Deaf
Dr. Griswold
Maryland School For the
Frederick
Vernon
Julia Saman
Bethesda
Tehran
Saman
Scientific American
MSD
Denton
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Frederick, Md
Imev
NEL
A. Lamar Barrick
David Denton
Maryland School For the Deaf
Griswold
McCay Vernon
Earl Griswold
Western Maryland
Maryland School For the Deal
Western Maryland College
WMC
Dr Vernon
Westminster
Michael Reese Hospital
Chicago
Mac Vernon
American Annals of the Deaf
Total Communication Laboratory
Maryland Center For Public Broadcasting
Public Broadcasting
Baltimore
Washington
Public Broadcasting Corporation
National Center For Deaf-Blind
New York
Israel
Ann Burnside
MSC
L. Earl Griswold
Western
Maryland College
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