Maryland’s Hughes Era Remembered as He Pursues Legacy
A retrospective on eight years under Governor Harry Hughes highlights education aid, Chesapeake Bay focus, new prison, port and metro funding, health care cost containment, and highway work. Critics cite a savings and loan blunder as a career blip, while Schaefer’s impending clashes with the legislature are projected but deemed manageable.
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William Donald Schaefer
Maryland
Harry Hughes
Maryland Kane
Hughes
Cole Fieldhouse
McKeldin Library
Ritchie Highway
William Preston Lane Memorial
Chesapeake Bay Bridge
Chesapeake Bay
Baltimore
Key Bridge
Schaefer
Great US leisure culture clashes with politics and design
Roy Meachum laments a nation chasing entertainment over civic duty, arguing Americans prefer leisure over engagement as voter participation declines. The column rails against a self indulgent society, then shifts to praise architect Tim Crosby for restoring the Crystal Laundry, trimming his West Patrick project, and safeguarding Frederick’s spires. It also critiques Fredericks civic planning and commerce in Westridge, praising Forstmann for his mall development progress despite traffic and governance issues.
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CBS
White House
Reagan
Johnny
Jane
U.S
Tim Crosby
Chapel Alley
Crosby
West Patrick
Black Horse Square
Baltimore Sun
Frederick
Carroll Creek
Westridge
Grant
Bradiees
Golden Mile
John Forstmann
Forstmann
City Hall
Key Parkway
Perot probes Armitage links with Vietnamese trader
Washington billionaire H Ross Perot pressed Vice President Bush over Assistant Defense Secretary Richard Armitage and his ties to Nguyet O Rourke a Vietnamese refugee tied to organized crime. FBI and Pentagon declined comment as the saga touches missing Americans and Hanoi negotiations.
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Washington
Texas
H. Ross Perot
George Bush Wieder
Pentagon
Bush
Perot
Defense
Richard Armitage
Armitage
Nguyet O'Rourke
Defense Department
Virginia
O'Rourke
Hanoi
Reagan
Southeast Asia
Vietnam
U.S
Pert
FBI
Commission On Organized Crime
Donald Goldberg
Corky Johnson
Rourke
Dan Glickman
D-Kan
National Bureau of Standards
National Security Agency
Donald Latham
Glickman
Yitzhak Shamir
Shimon Peres
Shimon Snnffer
Public meeting sought to oppose road fund diversion proposal
Fifty years ago residents opposed to Guy W Nice proposed diverting 4 million dollars in road funds to general taxes were invited to a public meeting at the Blue and Gray Room in the Francis Scott Key Hotel. Roger B Wolfe Frederick County chairman of the Maryland Petroleum Industries Committee announced the gathering.
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Guy Harry W. Nice
Francis Scott Key Hotel
Roger B Wolfe
Frederick County
Maryland Petroleum Industries Committee
Letters to the Editor on KKK Rally and Dr King
Frederick residents express disgust at a Klan rally near Roger Kelly and rebuke racist imagery. The writers condemn incitement to violence and call for better coverage of constructive civil rights efforts and unity under MLK ideals.
Readers condemn front page KKK coverage at Frederick News-Post
Local letter writer denounces the paper for giving a four column front page to a KKK rally and photo of a hooded demonstrator. He cites unequal treatment versus NAACP coverage and urges broader reporting on church efforts and pro life activities amid Frederick County.
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KKK
Frederick County
NAACP
Sare
Frederick
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George E Rendall Geers
Fagat Januars
Frederilar
Roy Meachum
Jack Anderson
O’rourke
Saigon
United Feature Syndicate
Taneytown School
Mary Louise Sharrer
Edith Sterner
Hagesti
Theuua Yup
Margaret Lampert
Katherine Dinterman
Louise Hess
June Fair
Charles Livesay
John Harner
Harry Clutz
David Bowers
Harry Frank
Paul Donnelson
Robert Airing
Wirt Crapster
L.A. Wheeler
U.S. Department of Agriculture
C.W. Holman
National Corporation Milk Producers
Lions International
Glade Valley Lions Club
Lions Club
Woodsboro Fire Hall
Fred Miller
Charles F. Miller
Walkersville
Walkersville High School
Harry E. Filler
C. Carroll Wickless
Leonard Green
Fort Detrick
Asbury Methodist Church
Harry J. McDonald
Green
Michigan
Spiro T. Agnew
John B. Funk
Brunswick
State Roads Commission
Jerome B. Wolff
Baltimore County
Funk
Fanes
Potomac Edison Company
Douhs
Virginia Electric & Power Company
Mt. Storm
Petersburg
Roger Kelly
Kelly
New England
Boston
New York
Kian
Christ
John
Matt
James Ear Ray
John Wilkes Booth
Republic of South Africa
D.S. Ballantine Frederick
Martin Luther King
News-Post
John F. Kennedy
David N. Braune
William H. Dubell
Sanctity of Life
Quentin Clingerman
Monrovia
Frederick News-Post
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