Frederick's first parking deck proves popular downtown
Frederick City opens its first municipal parking deck on East Church Street near City Hall. Despite a monthly operating loss of 5433 dollars during the slow post Christmas period, rising daily use by residents and visitors, affordable rates, and ample leasing spaces promise growth. The facility offers 200 spaces with 130 remaining, safe well lit conditions, public restrooms, and patrols. It aims to ease downtown parking and boost commerce as summer shoppers return.
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Annual Meeting and Hotel Sale Mark Local Transfers
The Potomac Edison Company held its annual meeting at 200 East Patrick Street with directors elected and officers named. Proaidins St. Potaise Charles Wertheimer and Cyrus F. Flock were appointed to draft resolutions. Harry Wardman’s Hotel Braddock Heights was sold to a Croghan led group, including Hotel Frederick proprietor Michael J. Croghan, in a private, recent closing.
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Proaidins St. Potaise
Charles Wertheimer
Cyrus F. Flock
Braddock
Braddock Heights
Harry Wardman
Washington
Michael J. Croghan
Frederick
City backs lighting install amid local bickering in Frederick
City officials relented on installing a downtown lighting system despite petty disputes as the public funds the project. John publicly absent, the scene reflects ongoing civic tensions. Annapolis legislative visuals were shown to Frederick Lions Club by City Attorney Charles McC Mathias Jr. portraying legislative zeal at the historic statehouse.
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Fin Cent
John
Annapolis
Lions Club of
Charles McC. Mathias Jr
Mathias
Washington doctors and drug firms clash over price cuts
Jack Anderson reports doctors, allied with the pharmaceutical industry, resist a government plan to fix drug prices for Medicare and Medicaid patients. The plan would require lowest available prices, with savings of about 75 million dollars, while doctors and drugmakers press lawmakers and bid for favorable outcomes. The piece also notes cozy ties between defense contractors and politicians, and a scandalous ski club retreat linked to Pentagon officials.
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Uncle Sam
Caspar Weinburger
American Medical Association
Herman Talmadge
D-Ga
Clifford Hansen
R-Wyo
Ford
Gaylord Nelson
D-Wise
Ben
Rosenthal
D-N.y
Congress
Eli Lilly
Joint Committee On Defense Production
John Tower
R-Tex
Tower
Rockwell International
al Rockwell
Plundering HEW's supplemental income exposed
A federal critique of the Supplemental Security Income program warns that weak controls in HEW allow easy manipulation of electronic data processing, enabling embezzlement, fictitious payments, and altered recipient data. The report highlights accessible computer tapes, unguarded facilities, and independent teams lacking separation to curb fraud. It notes poor cross-agency information exchange and may foreshadow large scale misappropriation.
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NEA
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Supplemental Security Income Programs Central Office
Welfare audit finds weak controls in HEW payments
Ray Cromley notes in California and other states that many cheaters were removed from welfare through cross checks between departments. The study says HEW controls fail to ensure manual one-time payments are properly recorded, inviting potential theft by weak individuals.
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California
HEW
Debates Over John Hanson House Demolition in Frederick
Letter writer Arthur Stine from Baltimore urges Frederick residents to oppose tearing down the John Hanson House for a courthouse complex. He cites nearby alternative sites on West Patrick Street and Montegue Farm, recalls historic preservation, and questions political support ahead of future Maryland elections.
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Lancaster Street
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