Downtown Frederick Faces Growing Parking Crisis
Downtown Frederick struggles with limited parking as city and county offices expand and a new city administration may propose actions. Critics warn against moving courthouse functions or sacrificing Memorial Park for surface lots, urging a multi story garage or expanded downtown parking plan to sustain the area's commerce and vitality.
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Frederick
Court House
Memorial Park
Second
Bentz Streets
Frederick City
Teens Grab Record Jobs Amid Labor Boom
The Labor Department reports 83 million teenagers employed in June, up nearly 2 million from a year earlier, as the government drives summer work. Nearly all employment goes to white youths, with 1,739,000 white youths and only 270,000 Negro youths. officials cite family contacts rather than discrimination as the reason, noting Negro youths share 12.5 percent of the population.
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Labor Department
Pronunciation Puzzle Highlights Language Variations
A reader notes the inconsistent pronunciation of common words like route Caribbean and Viet Nam. Public figures often use multiple forms, with dictionaries prescribing standard sounds yet widespread variation persists, prompting curiosity about linguistic decency.
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Caribbean
Nam
Viet Nam
For My Part By Ray Cromley on Dorticos Cuba’s future danger
The article profiles Osvaldo Dorticos, Cuba’s president, noting his smooth, controlled image and past ties to the Communist movement. It describes his rise from midclass troubled youth to legal and political leadership, and his skill at manipulating others. It warns his careful restraint could lull observers into underestimating him.
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Osvaldo Dorticos
Castro
Cuba
Fidel
Dorticos
Cienfuegos
Batista
Bar Association
Mexico
Overrated Time Savers and Fads in Modern Life
Hal Boyle surveys a humorous list of contemporary comforts and cultural trends he deems overrated. He mocks home cooking with bare tools, two car garages, zip code mail, awkward fashion, stereotypes in media, and quick fixes promising richer lives, urging readers to question prevailing enthusiasms.
Open revolt looming as Carranza troops split
Military authorities warn of a potential large scale desertion by General Jacinto B. Revino and his 15 000 troops from Carranza. Brigadier General George Bell Jr. says a 500 000 cartridge train moved from Chihuahua City to Jimenez without guards, risking capture by rebels. Separately, towns and states clash over the new statewide automobile law effective July 1. City rights clash with state law as fines largely accrue to the state rather than cities, per Attorney General Ritche.
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Carranza
George Bell Jr
Jacinto B. Revino
Chihuahua City
Jiminez
E. Austin Baughman
Albert C. Ritchie
Fighting Flared In Manchuria 1946
Twenty years ago the News-Post reports ongoing fighting in Manchuria as peace talks stagger under summer heat. Seven Marines were captured north of Chinwangtao and held prisoner by an unidentified band of about 80 Chinese. Farmers across nine eastern states urged by by passing major wholesale markets to cut losses from perishable produce. A church donation of 297.50 to the United Church Service Center aids general relief efforts.
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U.S
Minnie
Viet Nam
Manchuria
North China
Marine Corps
Peiping
Chinwangiao
New York
Newark
Philadelphia
Food Producers Council
Philip C. Turner
Council
Turner
Baltimore
All Saints Rectory Episcopal Church
Frederick
United Church Service Center of
New Windsor
Johnson calls for peace in Vietnam in frank national address
President Johnson used television and radio to urge cooperation over hostility and to frame peace as achievable in Asia. He warned North Vietnam to stop its aggression, pledged not to seek conquest, and emphasized social development and diplomacy as paths to ending the Vietnam War.
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Washington
Johnson
America
Vietnam
Asia
Red China
China
United States
North Vietnam
South Vietnam
Hanoi
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