Maryland push to mandate 100 hours of student volunteering
A Frederick letter warns that forcing 100 hours of volunteer service on students amounts to drafted labor. It argues many youths already give extensive hours with parental support, and mandates would erode volunteerism, hike taxes, and undermine community groups like United Way, Jaycees, Lions, Kiwanis, and many clubs and churches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Superintendent of Schools
America
Maryland
United Way
Frederick County
Jaycees
Lions
Zonta
Kiwanis
Rotary
Civitan
Frederick Woman's Civic Club
Garden Clubs
Frederick
DAV
Disabled Citizens United
Senior Citizens
Knights of Columbus
Boy Scouts
Girl Scouts
Young Life
DeMolay
Job’s Daughters
4-H
Future Farmers
Future Business Leaders
Shriners
All America
Reagan
Hughes
Galen Clagett
Ronald Young
Cess
Green Valley
Knoxville
Carrollton Manor
Powers That Be
Free State
Austin P. Renn
Adamstown
Thai patrol boats accused in refugee danger along Gulf of Siam
Washington columnist details alleged Thai Marine Police and Navy actions under U.S. funded patrols that forced ethnic Chinese and Vietnamese refugees back to sea. Two incidents cited include a 29 refugee boat towed out and left adrift for 14 days with six women abducted and two children dying, and a 72 refugee boat with 23 drowning after tow to sea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
U.S
South Vietnam
Gulf of Siam
Thailand
State Department
Bangkok
Donald Goldberg
Cambodia
Royal Thai Navy
Malaysia
Carrollton Manor under threat from planned coal plant
Readers denounce county boards and planners pushing a 2000 acre coal fired generating plant along the Potomac by Ballenger Creek and Pleasant View. They warn of air and water pollution, health risks, eminent domain, and vast property devaluation, urging preservation of Carrollton Manor’s farms and communities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of County Commissioners
Economic and Community Development Commission
Frederick County
Guardians of Our Welfare
Tamco
Copley Cement Company
Fastalco
Ballenger Creek
Doubs
National Parkway
Potomac River
Pleasant View Road
Potomac Edison Power Company
Dickerson
Adamstown
Maryland
Allegheny Power System
Martha Schipper
Canada
U.S.A
Pleasant View
Fifty Years Ago in News-Post Items March 2 1964
Various local notices including Hood College naming Dr Henry Irvin Stabr as president to succeed Dr Joseph Apple, a land deed for a new reservoir near Middletown, HOLC bond guarantees boosting Frederick County lending, Brotherhood Week tea at Asbury Methodist Church, USDA Extension Service anniversary at Hood College campus, AMVETS Auxiliary meeting notes, and a reflective piece by Dixie Sterling about education funding and teacher salaries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick County
the Sun
Hughes
Annapolis
David Hornbeck
Boards of Education
of Prec
Hood College
Henry Irvin Stabr
Philadelphia
Stabr
Joseph Henry Apple
Frederick
The
Negro Business and Professional Women's Club
Asbury Methodist Church
Gwendolyn Henson
Alice Delauter
U.S. Department of Agriculture Extension Service
Frederick County Council of Homemakers Clubs
Austin E. Kemp
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B. Delaplaine Jr
Fred J. Archibald
Fredenck, Md
Jack Anderson
Fort Detrick
Carl T. Kidwell
Sun Papers
Maryland State Teachers Association
William L. Moore
F&m Bank
Frederick Towne
Kevin H. Mobley
White Oak Dr
Lebanon
News-Post
Middletown
Jefferson Patterson
Washington, D.C
Roosevelt
Home Owners' Loan Corporation
Congress
HOLC
Amvets
Hazel Nikirk
Amy Pazdersky
Elizabeth Staley
Dixie Sterling
Mussetter Reamsville
MHIC
Frederick, Maryland
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