Perpetual flag over Francis Scott Key grave debated in Maryland
Frederick County historians urge a legal fix to permit round the clock Old Glory over Mount Olivet for the poet who wrote The Star Spangled Banner. Judge Delaplaine notes only Congress can authorize such an exception and past presidents have rejected waivers, leaving the tribute in legal limbo amid Pentagon opposition.
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Mount Olivet
Francis Scott Key
Frederick County
Key
Baltimore
Fort McHenry
Maryland
Charles McC. Mathias
United States
Edward S. Delaplaine
Baltimore Harbor
Admiral Cockburn
Judge Delaplaine
Mount Olivet Cemetery
Thomas Johnson
John Hanson
Continental Congress
George Washington
Maryland Court of Appeals
Congress
Dwight David Eisenhower
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Frederick
Pentagon
Lord Cockburn
America
Capitol Hill
Sangster
Mathias
Kennedy Center For the Cultural Arts
Washington
Julia Ward Howe
Richard Nixon
Delaplaine
Study Finds 1 in 15 Shoplifts in Major U.S. Stores
A Management Safeguards Inc survey in Boston New York and Philadelphia from 1969 to 1970 found 109 of 1647 shoppers left with unpaid items. Women shoplifted 7.4 percent versus 5 percent of men. average stolen value was 5.26 dollars. Most thefts occurred on the main floor and arrests were not made.
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Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Management Safeguards Inc
Abortion debate and social concerns in a reader letter
Ray Redifer of Myersville argues in favor of liberal abortion and birth control, claiming it avoids unwanted births, reduces taxpayer costs, and addresses overpopulation. He uses comparisons to animal behavior and historical societies, cites hippies at Baker Park, and ends with a personal viewpoint on societal change.
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Easter Island
Baker Park
Keep The Star Spangled Banner As Our National Theme
A reader from Adamstown Maryland urges preserving The Star Spangled Banner as the nation’s anthem. She recalls schooling memory and Fort McHenry visits, cites a 1942 Etude service version for mass voices, and asks teaching youth its meaning and heritage. She signs Mrs Elmer E Michael.
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Baltimore
Fort McHenry
Maryland State Normal School
Maryland
London
America
Carroll Manor Grange
Power Struggle Dominates Kremlin
Leon Dennen outlines Russia's 1971 power struggle as Brezhnev consolidates control with allies while Kosygin fades. The piece notes a looming party congress, internal splits among Politburo factions, army influence, economic woes, and Moscow’s shaken prestige amid Cold War rivalries with China.
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New York
NEA
Russia
Nixon
Brezhnev-Kosygin
Moscow
United States
Soviet Union
Middle East
Indochina
Europe
Communist Party
Leonid Brezhnev
Kosygin
West Berlin
Kremlin
Brezhnev
Aleksandr Shelepin
Kiril Mazurov
Andrei Sakharov
Red Army
Vozhd
Red World
Rolling Stones
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Wladyslaw Gomulka
Khrushchev
Far East
Peking
Lenin
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
Frederick News-Post memorial fund tops $1000 in one day
The January 19 1923 item notes a memorial fund for Frederick City and county service men and women opened with the News-Post as depository and quickly surpassing the $1000 mark with today and past year contributions. It also mentions Fergaville’s claim to honors as a churchgoing quiet community facing opposition to a planned fifth encounter in the town west of Frederick. A new milk ordinance for Frederick is being prepared by a joint Chamber of Commerce Rotary Committee and will be sent to the Board of Aldermen.
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Frederick City
News-Post
Fergaville
Frederick
Brunswick Highway
Chamber of Commerce
Rotary Club
Board of Aldermen
Tractor Trailer Nearly Hits School Bus. Generals Change Commands
A January 19 1951 morning near East Patrick and Franklin Streets a tractor trailer narrowly avoided colliding with a city school bus carrying children. Major General John H. Church, returning from Korea, will command the Army Infantry School at Fort Benning, Ga, as announced by Army Chief of Staff Gen Collins in Washington. Civitan Club plans a 16 hour March of Dimes street collection with Basil Lewis as chairman, operating two-man teams from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. at Peoples Drug Store corner Church and Market Streets.
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East Patrick
Franklin Streets
John H. Church
Frederick
Korea
Army Infantry School
Fort Benning
Collins
Army
Washington
Far East
Civitan Club
Service Club
Basil Lewis
Peoples Drug Store
Nixon Zeroing in On Bureaucrats
President Nixon shifts policy work from federal departments to the White House staff while pursuing long term changes. He aims to reduce department influence, intensify White House control, and weed out entrenched officials as part of a broader government cleanup.
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White House
Nixon
Newspaper Enterprise Asia
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