City weighs underground wiring cost for South Market
Mayor Ronald N. Young said estimates are coming on the individual costs to South Market Street property owners for burying power phone and cable lines. The $680000 project will be funded 50 percent by the city and by utility companies with the city financing its share via a bond issue.
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Ronald N. Young
South Market Street
Young
Public Service Commission
PSC
Frederick
Annapolis
Potomac Edison Company
C&P Telephone Company
C&P Telephone Co
Frederick Cablevision
Leisure Tech project stalls PWA bid in Urbana development
Leisure Technology-Northeast Inc. failed to win a public works agreement with the Frederick County Metropolitan Commission for a 4 350 unit Urbana plan. Metro postponed decision on privately funded water and sewer facilities amid disputes over ownership and proven water availability.
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Urbana
Leisure Technology - Northeast Inc
LTN
PWA
Frederick County Metropolitan Commission
Metro
Donald J. Kunkoski
PUD
Irwin W. Chess
commission
Chess
Cinquepalma
Judith Curtis
Kunkoski
William E. Burall
John R. Halloran
Leisure Tech
Smithsonian opens Americana display and Senate debates weapons bill
The entry notes an Americana display at the Smithsonian and an upcoming Senate vote on a weapons bill. It also mentions Israeli forces completing a canal pullback and a quote attributed to Robert Frost about education. Weather outlook shows highs near 80 and mild conditions tonight.
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SENATE
Mt. Airy to get second trooper
Mt. Airy will receive a second State Police resident trooper with cost shared by Frederick and Carroll counties. Mt. Airy currently has one trooper. the mayor urged county support, arguing more law enforcement is needed beyond city limits. Frederick County will cover about 9000 of the first year’s cost, with unanimous county approval for the measure.
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Mt. Airy
Frederick County
Carroll County
Lewis Dixon
Dixon
Frederick
Carroll
Ford vows to fight defense budget cuts at West Point
President Ford told the U S Military Academy commencement class at Michie Stadium that Congress should approve the full 94 billion dollar defense budget for the new fiscal year and back a 10 year energy independence program. He urged strength in alliances and noted peace talks with Egypt and Sadat as key foreign policy priorities.
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WEST POINT
N.Y
Congress
U.S
Ford
U.S. Military Academy
Michie Stadium
ehca
Europe
White House
John F. Kennedy
Kennedy
Nelson A. Rockefeller
U.S. Naval Academy
Annapolis
James R. Schlesinger
Air Force Academy
County protests over county work week extension
Larry D. Kump of the Maryland Classified Employees Association denounced the county commissioners for extending the work week for county employees from 32 to 35 hours without pay or benefits. He warned of morale decline and urged a collective bargaining contract to govern wages and hours, noting prior discussions and a missing counter proposal from James Bryan.
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Larry D. Kump
Maryland Classified Employees Association
Maryland
MCEA
Kump
James Bryan
Bryan
Sterling Bollinger
Shoemaker retires from Maryland Public Service Commission
Frederick attorney H. Reese Shoemaker Jr retires from the Maryland Public Service Commission effective June 1 after eight years of service. In his law office he praised the PSC staff and noted the commission’s role in public debate over rising utility rates. He recalls his appointment by Gov. Agnew in 1967 and a 1971 extension by Gov. Mandel and mentions a 1968 legislative amendment he supported.
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commission
Frederick
H. Reese Shoemaker Jr
Maryland Public Service Commission
N. Court St
Shoemaker
PSC
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Billy Koontz
N. Market St
Koontz
Governor Thomas Johnson High School
Neil Sandler
South Market properties
RONNIE D. SMITH
Inside The News
Smithsonian
Robert Frost
cis
wawer
NEW YORK
New York Stock Exchange
Eugene Emmett Shaw Jr
Danville
Middle East
Salzburg
Austria
Anwar Sadat
United States
Henry A. Kissinger
Sadat
Yitzhak Rabin
Washington
Fairweather
City Hall
Farmers and Mechanics National Bank
Amos L. Brown
Kn Reese Shoemaker Sr
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