Tydings Seeks 15 Million for Fort Detrick Conversion
Sen. Joseph D. Tydings announces plan to amend the Labor HEW appropriation bill to provide 15 million dollars to convert Maryland's Fort Detrick from a biowarfare center to a health environment research facility. He cites HEW interest and aims to relieve staff uncertainty and preserve employment.
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Fort Detrick
Joseph D. Tydings
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Maryland
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Detrick
Nixon
Mobile Home Treatment Deemed Discriminatory at Hearing
County officials considered a proposed mobile home ordinance amid charges of housing discrimination. Commissioner Wallace E. Hutton urged equal housing treatment, while planning chief Lawrence Johnson warned regulations may face legal challenges. The plan restricts single mobile homes to agricultural or conservation areas, excludes them from subdivisions, and envisions a residential mobile home district mirroring R-3 with similar subdivision rules.
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Wallace E. Hutton
Hutton
Lawrence Johnson
Johnson
George Speer
Planning and Zoning Commission
Farmer Struck By Bullet On Grayson Mercer Farm
A 24 year old Frederick man Robert Russell Noell was shot in the back while herding cows on the Grayson H Mercer farm near Harmony Grove. He received a minor wound and was treated at Frederick Memorial Hospital. Police say the bullet may have ricocheted and was likely accidental with possible earlier gunfire from nearby railroad tracks. Noell works on the Mercer farm and was bringing cows in for milking when the incident occurred.
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Grayson H. Mercer
Harmony Grove
Robert Russell Noell
RFD 1
Frederick
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Tfc
Paul Crutchley
Crutchley
Noell
Tfe
Mercer
Johnson named Frederick County planning director as Crombie resigns
Frederick County Planning and Zoning Commission accepted the resignation of director Richard F. Crombie and named associate planner Lawrence Johnson as his successor. Johnson, 28, will assume duties end of August pending county commissioners' confirmation, with J. Fred Wooden also resigning as assistant planner. Johnson joined in 1967 after Iowa State University studies and prior architectural work with the Iowa Development Commission. He has contributed to federal planning programs, county general development plans, environmental impact studies, and served as Frederick City planning consultant. Crombie, six years in the role, plans a Pittsburgh area position with a large international firm and pledged a smooth transition.
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Frederick County Planning and Zoning Commission
Richard F. Crombie
Lawrence Johnson
Commission
J. Fred Wooden
Frederick County Department
Johnson
County Planning Department
Edward Holter
Crom
Sultant
Frederick County
Crombie
Pittsburgh
Urbana Mobile Home Village Wins Preliminary OK
Frederick County Planning and Zoning Commission grants preliminary plat for Urbana Mobile Home Village with conditional approval. Health department veto over private sewer plant location prompts potential halt if facility not resolved. Debate pits high density housing against master sewer and water plan. staff says plat meets current and proposed ordinances pending health approval.
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Frederick County Planning and Zoning Commission
Urbana Mobile Home Village
Edward Holter
Daniel Speer
Urbana
State Health Department
Health Department
Lawrence Johnson
Johnson
Commission
Roads Board hears total cost bidding concept discussed
Assistant Editor Larry Heslin reports county residents protested road conditions at the Roads Board monthly meeting. The board heard a description of total cost bidding for road equipment and toured a Braddock Heights road project. A Thurmont area delegation asked for county maintenance of Brice Road and five homes along the road with a 50-foot right of way.
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Roads Board
Spring Garden Estates
Mohler
Wallace Hutton
SRC
Baltimore
Collins
Jefferson Boulevard
Braddock Heights
Brice Road
Thurmont
James Harbaugh
Harbaugh
Charles G. Claypool
Alban Tractor Company
Claypool
Weather forecast for Frederick area
Overcast morning with a humid 90 degrees. Thunderstorms and showers predicted late afternoon and evening today and Thursday. Tonight cloudy with a mid 70s low. Thursday variably cloudy near 90 with showers. Friday looks fair and cooler for a pleasant weekend. Tuesday high 85, low 61 under partly sunny skies.
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Frederick
My Lai Case Coverup Charged by House Subcommittee
A House armed services subcommittee accuses Pentagon and State Department officers of deliberate coverup of My Lai atrocities. The report cites failures to circulate eyewitness accounts through 13 command levels, notes conflicting records, and calls for revised military justice standards. It references helicopter rescues, disputed civilian deaths, and dismissal of allegations as Communist propaganda.
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My Lai
State Department
Special House
U.S
Saigon
Fourman House Armed Services
F. Edward Hebert
D-La
Barker
My Lay
Hugh C. Thompson
Thompson
Ernest L. Medina
Samuel W. Koster
Koster
Medina
Study Panel Told Peace Solution To Campus Riots
A presidential commission on campus unrest told Washington that peace depends on ending the Vietnam War. Sen. Edward Kennedy and Rep. Hugh Scott were among witnesses urging humanity over demagoguery as the panel seeks full recommendations by October 1. Cochran attributed rising tension to President Nixon’s policies.
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Sen
Massachusetts
Senate
Hugh Scott
Youths Placed On Probation For Drug Abuse
Three 18 year olds facing drug charges were placed on indefinite supervised probation by Magistrate Stanley Y. Bermett. Frederick F. Costlow from Schley Avenue faced LSD possession and sale charges. William R. Walker of Barbara Street and Marc Catsail of Biggs Avenue faced narcotics and paraphernalia charges. All defendants pleaded no contest with probation recommendations from Trooper Harbaugh and Officer Mossburg after arrest on June 3. Gerald R. Bowie was found not guilty of non support of his five children.
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Frederick F. Costlow
Schley Avenue
William R. Walker
Barbara Street
Marc Catsail
Biggs Avenue
Stanley Y. Bermett
Carl Harbaugh
Paul Mossburg
Gerald R. Bowie
W. All Saints Street
Judy L. Bowie
South Viet Army Opens New Offensive
Nearly 5 000 South Vietnamese troops launched a major new sweep west of Da Nang to destroy North Vietnamese base camps in rugged jungle country. Waves of US Marines and advisers landed as three battalions of Vietnamese marines and two battalions of special forces pressed toward base areas west and southwest of Thuong Duc. A second three battalion push west of Hiep Duc near Da Nang also began with no contact reported. Saigon spokesmen said enemy activity nationwide was light, with four clashes leaving one American and 20 enemy dead and 13 Americans wounded.
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da Nang
Cambodia
United States
Green Berets
Thuong Duc
Hiep Duc
U.S
NYSE Prices Mixed In Early Trading
New York stocks opened with the Dow Jones average down 0.14 at 702.90 while advancing issues edged ahead of decliners in moderately active morning trading on the stock exchange.
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NEW York
New York Stock Exchange
Fire Log for Zion Road Incident and Ambulance Calls
A fire call logged on Zion Road at 10:42 p.m. with Independents responding. Over the 24 hours ending 10 a.m., emergency and routine ambulance calls totaled 1 and 2 respectively. Contacts for fire log inquiries: 662-6333 or 663-4100 MT.
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MT. Zion Road
Independents Responde
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