Hidden Pacmen in the 1991 Budget Proposal
Budget Director Richard Darman highlights unfunded liabilities as hidden Pacmen in the 1.2 trillion federal pie. He cites Medicare costs, rising entitlement spending, underfunded retirement programs, federal facility cleanups, and guarantees in loans and insurance as major future drains. He urges shrinking obligations, boosting revenues, and private insurance to avert a budget crisis.
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Richard Darman
Pacman
Darman
Medicare
Governor Schaefer Receives Coca Cola Prompted Souvenirs
Annapolis report recalls a press room flood of handouts from many groups while Governor Schaefer hosts a Coca Cola visit at 4 p.m. with a replica truck and hat. Dwayne Lucas will present a charity check as reporters watch a photo op in the Governor's Reception Room.
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William Donald Schaefer
State House
Legislative Reporter Corps
Common Cause
Chamber of Commerce
Conservative Union
Tryig
Annapolis, MD
Coca Cola Bottling Co
Dwayne Lucas
Maryland
Paul Schurtek
Louise Hayman
Steve
Schaefer
Cambridge
Don Schaefer
Baltimore
Annapolis
Pepsi
Ray Charies
Plastics lobby plots $150 million image fix campaign
The Society of the Plastics Industry plans a three year public information drive to counter rising anti plastic sentiment. Leaders warn a point of no return as 56 percent of Americans in 1988 and 72 percent in 1989 viewed plastics as environmental harm. Industry heavyweights push recycling and alternatives while environmental groups give mixed views.
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Washington
The
Society of the Plastics Industry
Society
Larry Thomas
Thomas
Oil and Chemical
Greg Moore
Amoco
McDonald’s
Dow Chemical
Food and Drug Administration
Bryan Bence
Greenpeace
Allen Hershkowitz
National Resources Defense Council
Bush Administration
Colombia
Coast Guard
Bush
Hawkeye
Puerto Rico
Four-bank gangsters nabbed by federal agents after Maryland heists
Fifty years ago four members of a bandit gang tied to four Maryland bank robberies including Walkersville on January 16 were captured by federal agents. Two confessed. Suspects hailed from Easton Frederick Baltimore and Highfield, with prior Maryland House of Correction sentence noted for one. A clerk at Staub's Grocery spotted an early burglar across the street, and a thief smashed a display with a ragged brick then stole whiskey. The cold snap hit Frederick with zero reading, far below forecasts. ArcticAirie Inc Frederick opened a frozen food locker on South Wisner Street, with a community demonstration by County Agent Shoemaker and Home Demonstration Agent Williams, featuring USDA meat specialist Warner.
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Maryland
Walkersville
Easton
Frederick
Maryland House of Correction
Baltimore
Highfield
Staub’s Grocery
North Market
West Fourth Streets
Arcticaire Inc
Wisner Street
Henry R. Shoemaker
Florence E. Williams
K.F. Warner
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Walkersville votes against adopting county codes
Walkersville town council led by Burgess Gilmore Trout voted unanimously to reject proposed county wide plumbing building and electrical codes within town limits while finding plumbing rules questionable though the others deemed building and electrical codes adequate. East Coast Relay Center at Fort Detrick accepted the first phase of EMOD-1 a new multi million dollar computer system by Western Union to boost AUTODIN capabilities with ceremony attendees Col Thomas W. Riley Floyd Coffin Brig Gen HA Schulke Lt Col Ralph A. Parker Col E M Gershater and Lowell F Stevens.
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Walkersville
Burgess Gilmore Trout
East Coast
Fort Betrick
Western Union
Defense Department
Thomas W. Riley
Floyd Coffin
HA. Schulke
Defense Communications Agency
Ralph A. Parker
E.M. Gershater
Fort Detrick
Lowell F. Stevens
Christmas tree recycling at zoo park thanks readers
Richard A. Hahn from Catoctin Mountain Zoological Park thanks The Frederick News-Post Greenhouse staff for the 700s Christmas tree recycling program. Over 300 trees arrived in the first two days. Pine seedling redemptions begin April 22 Earth Day 1990 as the park grows as Frederick County's environmental education center.
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Frederick News-Post
Greenhouse Page
Zoo Park
Zoo
Frederick County
Moldovia and rail gauges in Russia and Europe
Letter writer cites George Delaplaine on Moldovia and rail gauge differences. Proposes note on 1842 George W. Whistler, West Point graduate and father of artist James Whistler, who advised czar to adopt 5 foot gauge for Russian railways, dying in 1849 before Moscow Leningrad line completion.
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George Delaplaine
Moldovia
News-Post
James MacNeil Whistler
Russia
U.S
Development monster returns to Frederick County in unchecked growth
The writer recalls moving to Adamstown in 1989 after a 1975 marriage and earlier moves to rural McLean Virginia and Germantown. They protest rapid development stripping rural character, noting McLean and Germantown became cities and residents were ignored.
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Frederick County
Frederick
Adamstown
McLean
Germantown
Citizens clash with Frederick County plan claims in rambling letters
A reader accuses Frederick County of ignoring designated rural and conservation zones in the 1989 countywide plan and warns of a fight to move residents from the Buckingham Hills area. Another reader corrects misstatements about Martin Luther King Jr. and praises the editor’s homage.
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Frederick County
Tread Bow
Adamstown
Buckeystown
Doubs
Buckingham Hills
Schroder
Education's fourth R and parental duty in schools
A reader letter from Austin P. Renn of Adamstown responds to a News-Post editorial on education funding and distraction. It argues that money and facilities alone do not ensure results, calls for parental involvement, and warns about TV and sport as distractions while urging home school partnership.
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Education
The
News-Post
Germany
Japan
The unborn always pay in abortion debate column
Robert Reid asks who pays for an abortion in a rape pregnancy. He argues the unborn baby bears the ultimate cost, life itself, and frames the issue as a taxpayer, rapist, or mother dilemma. Angela Martin, Walkersville.
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Robert Reid
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United Feature Syndicate, Inc
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Catoctin Mountain Zoological Park
C.H. Slayton JR
Mount Airy
Carmen Kowalski Frederick
M.L. King Jr
Martin Luther King
Mr. King
Alabama
Georgia
Atlanta
Morehouse College
Coretta Scott
Boston
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Montgomery
Ebenezer Baptist Church
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Southern Christian Leadership Council
SCLC
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