Loyalty to Hood College Drives Frederick County Gift Total
A record $875,522 from Frederick County contributes to Hood College Diamond Anniversary Fund as part of a national $2,112,065 total. Campaign leaders include W. Jarboe Grove and Dwight Collinus with board chair Richard C. McCurdy guiding a $3.3 million first phase toward a $14.2 million expansion and Rosenstock Hall under construction for occupancy in late summer 1970. The drive seeks $700,000 more endowment to undergird plans while continuing regionally and nationwide through the year.
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Frederick County
Hood College
Randle Elliott
Woman’s College
Frederick City
Elliott
W. Jarboe Grove
Dwight Collinus
Russell H. McCain
Benjamin L. Shuff
Charles. S. V. Sanner
Philip Wertheimer
Martha Bringy
Richard C. McCurdy
Henrietta
Samuel Rosenstock
Senate split over Nixon peace talks with Thieu deepens
Washington coverage shows Senate leaders clashing over how Nixon should conduct Paris talks to end the war. Senators Mansfield Gore Fulbright argue for restraint and policy control while accusing Nixon of trying to steer negotiations by proxy and pressuring Viet Nam policy from afar.
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United States
Pacific Ocean
South Vietnam
Mr. Gore
J. William Fulbright
Arkansas
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Mr. Nixon
Paris
Big City Riots Target Small Stores and Negro Jobs
Analysis of 1968 riots shows 80 percent of damaged Washington shops were small neighborhood stores. Data indicate many owners were elderly, with 57 percent of destroyed jobs being Negro owned. Rioters looted better off shops, while many marginal family businesses faced ruin and closure.
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Washington
NEA
Martin Luther King
Washington, D.C
Newark
N.J
State data processing chaos drives seek for control
Maryland faces a sprawling computer network with 16 separate state units, over eight million dollars yearly to operate, and an urgent call for a clear authority. A governor’s efficiency report and legislative reviews probe who should oversee the evolving system and its many incompatible machines.
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Maryland
Special Businessmen’s Survey Group
Baltimore
The
Legislative Council
George E. Snyder
D-Wash
Goodloe E. Byron
Charles H. Smelser
Del
Department of Budget and Procurement
James P. Slicher
Dynamic Calvary pastor Rev Ralph M Sharpe retires after nine years
Rev Ralph M Sharpe pastor of Calvary United Methodist Church will retire at the end of the current conference year. He has led a decade of growth adding 1 078 members to reach 2 100 and oversaw construction of a $250 000 Christian education building. He and his wife Christine Umstead plan to settle in Frederick.
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Ralph M. Sharpe
Calvary United Methodist Church
Washington
Calvary
Sharpe
Calvary Church
Frederick
Trinity Methodist Church
Calvary Methodist Church
Mount Airy
South Carolina
Wofford College
Spartanburg
Duke Divinity School
Baltimore
Methodist Church
Christine Umstead
Frederick County
State Tax Commission questions county property values
Alfred W. Gaver led a petition to county commissioners noting that the State Tax Commission finds assessments on about 1000 properties in the county improper and unequal. The House Judiciary Committee voted down a partial repeal of Prohibition, rejecting exemptions for light wines and beer. A quarry accident at Westport Paving Brick Quarries near Tramsville left foreman William Stuck seriously injured after a half ton boulder fell following a dynamite blast.
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Baltimore
State Acada Commission
DMV
Education Department
Comptroller's
Tom Taxpayer
Frederick County
Edward A. Rheb
Fiacal Research
Health Department
Department of Motor Vehicles
Alfred W. Gaver
State Tax Commission
House Judiciary Committee
Westport
Tramsville
William Stuck
Frederick City Hospital
Twenty Years Ago June 18 1949 Floods Subside at Potomac River
The Potomac and Shenandoah valley floods crest peaked at Point of Rocks around 11 p m reaching 17 feet above normal. Also notes Spring meeting of the Chesapeake Association of the Associated Press at Vindobona Hotel Braddock Heights and Sunday movies begin at Brunswick Imperial Theatre with solid attendance after church hours.
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Potomac
Shenandoah River
Chesapeake Association
Associated Press
Vindobona Hotel
Braddock Heights
Brunswick
Imperial Theatre
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Audit Bureau of Circulatiens
AR News
Frederick Rd
the News
Hood
Hussein
By David Lawrence
Senate
Nixon
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Thieu
Albert Gore
Tennessee
Ray Cromley
Washington Correspondent
Vietnam
Congress
North Vietnam
William P. Rogers
Saigon
America
Air Force Academy
Henry Cabot Lodge
Midway
United States Senate
Southeast
Anta
Val Hymes
Armapolia
Divinim of Data Procesally
Arthur L. Southard
Baye
Joseph M. Mutscheller
Annapolis
Southard
Joseph D. Buscher
State Roads Commission
National Extradition Officials’ Association
Macal
A & Cow
Rockville
Berry's
Nia
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