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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1992
Page
6
Frederick County commissioners curb spending on nonprofit funding, increasing allocations for only three of 20 groups and keeping 17 at last year’s level. Debate centers on taxpayer stewardship versus ensuring services, with commissioner Sue Ann Yingling opposing taxpayer gifts. Preliminary decisions signal cautious stance amid tight budgets.
Arnold Sawislak of Maturity News Service notes how reporters, from disaster crime to sports, fall into familiar phrases. He cites neighbor quotes, tornado damage lines, and bills in Congress, urging fresh wording over worn expressions.
The Washington Times reveals a nuclear bunker under West Virginia's Greenbrier resort where Congress could shelter for up to a year. If an ICBM strike kills the president, the speaker could order a counterstrike. The piece notes a lack of similar refuges for poets, scientists, and journalists and mocks a sole Congress society.
The piece critiques elected leaders and administrators for overemphasizing advocacy and new programs while neglecting welfare recipients and service users. It questions how residents perceive job counseling, Medicaid care, street repair, and trash collection, urging officials to measure performance and public satisfaction.
Thomas I. Miller argues that citizen surveys across 250 cities create outcome benchmarks for services like police, libraries, and parks. The piece notes a national database for interjurisdictional comparisons and urges local, state, and federal governments to compare results to national norms to raise standards of public trust.
Fifty years back, four of seven Class of 1905 alumni earned the largest attendance cup at Hood College during Alumnus activities. Elizabeth Gilbert Heck, Mrs. McCullagh Smith, Mrs. Eli Storm Griffin, all of Frederic, plus Mrs. Virginia Smith of Owings Mills and Frederick were noted. PRACTICE workouts with flashlights under blackout cones showcased at the Frederick County Instructors' Club meeting in the Bay room of the Evangelical Lot Church. Members wore working clothes as participants in a practical problem and bandaging exercise. A Works Program sponsored by Frederick City aimed to remove old trolley tracks to supply steel for the war effort.
Dr Alfred Thackston reported Frederick County instruction funds rose by about 16 percent from 1972 to 1973. The Frederick County Commissioners added roughly 19 000 to their instructional appropriation. Officials warned the canal project could invoke eminent domain to seize private land along an 184 mile route, meeting opposition from about 250 audience members.
Stefano Pasti argues for agriculture based villages as a practical path amid urban costs and bureaucratic gridlock. He warns against greed and sensational innovations eroding simple life and urges recognizing village support centers as a bridge to local initiative.
A resident argues Oregon timber battles favor current logging but condemn the long term, warning five years of timbering left and decades of ecological and economic damage. He cites vanished streams, contour farming rise, and loss of local sawmills while noting wildlife adaptability and shifting hunting practices.
James T. Trout of Ijamsville recalls water use from the Potomac with no ill effects and notes muddy Monocacy River after rain. He asks why Monocacy stays muddy and high, citing his grandfather buried nearby as a Union soldier and pointing to possible runoff or watershed factors.
The letter condemns regret or pardon for the Rodney King verdict in Los Angeles California and urges rational response. The writer mocks hysteria and parries with caution, mentioning Hood College and News-Post, and suggests visiting a mental health clinic. He warns to obey speed limits and traffic laws, signing as Rollin W. Twigg from Smithsburg.
NEVIN B. LONG argues that while $6 million is earmarked for rebuilding in Los Angeles after riots, Appalachian residents face poverty and neglect. He urges government support for blankets, food, housing, medical care, and job creation to help mountaineers earn decent wages and avoid ruinous hardship.
In a letter Kristine S Colby of Frederick argues the Frederic County Coalition for Choice does not judge individual women's private reasons for contraception pregnancy or abortion. The coalition trusts women to make personal decisions without government interference, rejecting any framing around gender selection.
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