Pottstown Mercury Opens Front Page for POW Plea
A Pottstown Mercury open letter campaign urges Hanoi to honor Geneva Conventions and release about 1,500 American prisoners of war. Ross Perot funds and pilots aid to Hanoi, while local leaders and Vietnam born residents translate and publish in Vietnamese. The edition, printed with 10,000 extra copies, travels nationwide as a humanitarian gesture.
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America
Hanoi
Indochina
Peking
Moscow
Nixon
Paris
Pentagon
State Department
Asia
Texas
Ross Perot
North Vietnam
Mr. Perot
Pennsylvania
Pottstown Mercury
Tan Duc Thang
Democratic Republic of
Pottstown
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Vietnam
Teachers lose appeal over paid personal leave for antiwar protest
Six Walt Whitman High School teachers in Montgomery County were denied paid personal leave for participating in Vietnam War protests in front of the White House. The School Department and Superintendent Homer O. Elseroad upheld the ruling docking salaries and adding a reprimand. The teachers plan arbitration via the Montgomery County Teachers' Association and may seek court action with ACLU backing.
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Montgomery County
White House
Walt Whitman High School
Bethesda
Homer O. Elseroad
Board of Education
Elseroad
Richard P. Abell
Montgomery County Teachers’ Association
American Civil Liberties Union
Letter to the Editor Letter Defends Responsibility Over Welfare Policy
A reader comments on the Carroll County Times editorial Cruel Solution To Welfare, arguing that freedom implies responsibility. The writer condemns welfare recipients who have children without means, saying such actions harm themselves their children and the taxpayer.
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Carroll County Times
the News
Ecological Hope and Welfare Reform Debate Revisited
An essay argues that ecological fixes face high failure rates but showcases Penn State tests using sewage sludge to revegetate strip mined soils. It critiques welfare as moral cushion and outlines four approaches from abstention to sterilization, endorsing contraception and eventual sterilization for welfare recipients as the long term solution. The piece frames solutions in a period voice and cites author Joseph H. Towle at 17 West Second Street Frederick Maryland.
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Ecological Research Front
Pennsylvania State University
Penn State
Mardi Gras and Marshmallow Origins in Briefs
A Newsp enterprise Assn style Q and A explains Mardi Gras meaning fat Tuesday and its Paris ox parade link. It notes chlorophyll has an iron substitute in blood and links the marshmallow name to the swamp plant root used in early sweets.
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Paris
Maryland Judges and Politics Clash Over Appointed Courts
A debate dominates Maryland politics as Governor Mandel proposes non partisan commissions to recommend appellate and trial judges. The plan blends lawyers and laypeople from each circuit, aims to curb campaigning on the bench, and faces strong opposition as critics call it political maneuvering.
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Mandel
Maryland Bar Association
Clients
Security Trust Fund
Court of Special Appeals
Circuit
People's Municipal
Supreme Bench
Charles Moylan
Frederick County
Thomas B. Finan
Thomas M Anderson
Supreme Court
Tom C. Clark
Clark
C. Stanley Blair
Thomas M. Anderson
GOP
Bar
District Court
Governor- Senate
Vandals damage orchards in Garfield and neighboring towns
Fifty years ago vandals attacked the mountain orchards of Joseph Toms and Walter Wolfe in Garfield, destroying about 100 of Toms’ apple trees and 20 of Wolfe’s, ruining prospects for a promising fruit yield. A separate incident reports a two year old boy, Frank White, unharmed after a trolley accident in Thurmont where a front wheel passed over part of a carriage only. The Hagerstown and Frederick Railway gas department struggles to obtain materials for affordable heating gas. In another note, two county teens aged 16, after a five year engagement, were married in school during an arithmetic class.
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Joseph Toms
Walter Wolfe
Garfield
Thurmont
Frederick
Frank White
Frederick Red Cross names new county head in 20th century change
Charles A. Price, local attorney, was appointed to head the Frederick County Red Cross Chapter replacing Mrs. Richard Nallin who refused re nomination. The YMCA election followed. The Swampers 1893 hose reel returned home after decades at Walkersville. United Fire Company members refreshed the reel. Robert L. Smith named by Mayor Munshower to study converting Laboring Sons cemetery land into a proposed park, likely keeping it as park space. A two car collision on North Market killed one man and injured three others. the other driver escaped injury.
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Niles
Bar Association
E. Dale Adkins Jr
Mandel
Stanley Blair
Blair
Bert Millers
Blair Lee
James
Howard Wietley
Harvey Wilder
Anne Arundel
Schafer
Beer
Baltimore County
City
Harford County
Annapolis
New State Elections Office
Willard A. Morris
House
Baltimore Glass Companies
Charles A. Price
Frederick County
Red Cross
Richard Nallin
YMCA
United Fire Company of
Frederick
Walkersville
Robert L. Smith
Munshower
Laboring Sons
North Market
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God
Father
Eugene O’neill
Newspap
Joseph H. Towletl
West Second Street
Maryland
Val Hymes
India
Gwendolyn
Berry's
Hagerstown and Frederick
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