Proposition One campaign to urge balanced federal budget
A $10 million campaign named Proposition One, backed by two former presidents and five ex-Treasury secretaries, seeks to persuade Congress to balance the federal budget by 1949. Organizer Vermont Governor Richard Saelink says the effort includes 10 million volunteers and a nonprofit financing group has raised $200,000. The drive launches with a Washington news conference.
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Montpelier
U.S. Treasury
Congress
Vermont
Richard Saelink
Snelling
Washington
Quotable Woollcott Quips on Life and Vices
Inside The News compiles a witty line from critic Alexander Woollcott who quips that his favorite activities border on immorality illegality or fattening, reflecting his sharp social wit and literary persona.
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Alexander Woollcott
New Market Adult Baseball Club Highlighted on Summer Page
The Frederick County summer sports page spotlights the New Market adult baseball club as a survivor and local highlight in an era when adult baseball wanes across the county.
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New Market
Frederick County
Maryland Weather Forecast For Western Counties
A stationary front through the Carolinas brings abundant clouds and showers for the next few days. In Western Maryland including Carrell Frederick Howard Montgomery and Washington counties expect tonight showers diminishing Friday with lows 64 to 68 and highs around 76. Mostly cloudy with scattered showers over the weekend and high temperatures near 70. Maryland mountains see showers and cooler conditions today and Friday with highs near 70. Farm forecast shows winds around 10 mph through Friday with drying conditions poor. Yesterday’s temperatures list Frederick 82 to 70 Cumberland 79 to 62 Hagerstown 82 to 48 Oakland 64 to 54 Westminster 74.
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Frederick
Howard Montgomery
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Maryland Mountains
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Hagerstown
Oakland
Westminster
David Lesber
Frederick to get seven festivals next year
Frederick plans seven festivals from March to October, expanding from a festival-poor image to a yearly calendar. The centerpiece is a two day ethnic festival in August at Baker Park, with other events including In the Street and St Patrick Day Snake Chase, aided by volunteer committees and fundraising rather than direct city funding.
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Warsaw
Poland
Solidarity
Interior Ministry
Zbigniew Pudysz
Andrzej Slowik
Jerzy Kropiwnicki
Antoni Pietkiewicz
Slowik
Kropiwicki
Barczewo
Frederick
Ronald N. Young
Frederick County Fairgrounds
Baker Park
Young
Carroll Creek
Court
Market
Volunteerigin
Middletown shoe plant to close 120 affected
Hanover Shoe Co. will shut its Middletown plant affecting 120 workers. The 220 employees, mainly women, must find new jobs by October 15. Company official Warren L. Heaps cites a sharp drop in demand due to imports from Brazil Korea Italy Spain Germany and England accounting for over 70 percent of the U.S. market.
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Middletown
Hanover Shoe Co
Warren L. Heaps
Hanover
Heaps
Brazil
Korea
Italy
Spain
Germany
England
United States
Thom McAn
Reagan launches counterattack as campaign heats up
President Reagan in Atlanta denounced Mondale for ignoring the South and warned Democrats cast him as a villain in a sequel to 1980. He urged conservative Democrats to stay with a strong America, condemning liberal leadership and rallying for a broader GOP appeal.
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Reagan
Walter F Mondale
Reagan the Barbarian
Reagan the Destroyer
Ioo
Republian
Franklin Roosevelt
Harry Truman
America
Democratic Party
San Francesco
Mondale Launches South Campaign for Reagan Vote
Walter Mondale opens an eight state campaign to unseat President Reagan, planning stops in Mississippi and Texas with Geraldine Ferraro. After a Minnesota fishing break Mondale heads to Queens to rally with Ferraro before addressing the Urban League in Cleveland.
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Monn
Walter F. Mondale
Reagan
South
Mondale Wall
Mississsypi
Texas
Tim Wall
Geraldine Ferraro
Vicw
Mondale
Minnesota
Ferraro blasts administration as male bastion in campaign remarks
In Washington Ferraro portrays the Reagan era as a male dominated, insensitive government that neglects the needy and seeks to rework federal and state roles. Mondale plans a Midwest and South swing next week from Ferraro’s New York home.
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Geraldine Ferraro
Ferraro
New York
Walter F. Mondale
Ms Ferraro
Mts Ferraro
Midwest
South
City crime up in first six months of 1984
Frederick City records show overall crime rising 7.5 percent in the first half of 1984 per Police Chief Richard J. Ashton. Rape and breaking and entering surge, while murder drops to zero, with several offenses awaiting trial as May and June B and E cases close.
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Richard J. Ashton
Ashton
B&e
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