County to buy Penney building for Social Services
The Board of County Commissioners voted to exercise the county option to purchase the J C Penney Building on North Market Street for 369000 dollars with 300000 dollars for renovation. The move drew opposition from two commissioners and audience members who urged independent appraisals and engineering evaluation before finalizing a purchase.
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Board of County Commissioners
J.C. Penney
North Market Street
Department of Social Services
Norman Todd
Edgar Wirts
Donald L. Lewis
Virts
Ted Ward
Cinquepalma
Ward
Sanford Blum
Blum
Richard Brady
Gerda Sherwood
Power disconnections rise statewide but Frederick County shows steadiness
An Associated Press survey notes higher nonpayment disconnections across Maryland in 1974, yet Frederick County reports about 750 disconnections with most later reconnected. Baltimore Gas and Electric saw 26,783 cutoffs and 19,481 reconnections as rates climbed. Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative reported 1,504 disconnections, with bad debts rising to .32 percent.
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Maryland
Frederick County
Associated Press
Potomac Edison Co
Lynn Keller
Keller
Baltimore Gas & Electric Co
Baltimore
Annapolis
Henry Leber
BG&E
Vernon Stricklin
Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative
Lions Club Donates 2000 for Eye Care in Frederick
The Frederick Lions Club will give 1000 to the Maryland Eye Bank and 1000 to Frederick Memorial Hospital for an Ophthalmic Cryosurgical System. Alfred P. Shockley said checks will be handed to the eye bank director next Thursday. The club raised funds from last year’s motorcycle races and pancake dinner.
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Frederick Lions Club
Maryland Eye Bank
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Alfred P. Shockley
Shockley
Lions Club
Operation Town Action
South Market Street
Frank W. Higinbotham
Richard E. Zimmerman
Higinbotham
Fred Griffith
Temperatures Plunge to 11 Degrees in Frederick County
Overnight low hit 11 degrees the Frederick weather station, 20 degrees below March norms. High Sunday reached 44 with snow flurries. week forecast stays in upper 30s to low 20s as Arctic air and a Mississippi Valley high pressure system influence conditions.
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Frederick
National Weather Service
Mississippi Valley
New England
West Virginia
Maryland
Frederick County
New prosecutor sworn in as Frederick County ASAs
Mary Ann Stepler was sworn in as the new Assistant State's Attorney for Frederick County by Circuit Court Judge Robert E. Clapp Jr. in Circuit Court. She succeeds Cleopatra Campbell as the second woman in the post for the county. Stepler, a Waynesboro native, graduated cum laude from the University of Baltimore Law School.
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Frederick County
Mary Ann Stepler
Robert E. Clapp Jr
Cleopatra Campbell
Waynesboro
Stepler
University of Baltimore Law School
Charles Keller
Cedrick H. Smith
Ford decision awaited on deferring oil import tariff
President Ford meets with Republican leaders as a decision on deferring the second and third dollars of the oil import tariff looms. Senate GOP Leader Hugh Scott signals possible action amid energy plan debates while a veto deadline nears and Congress weighs override chances.
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Ford
WASHINGTON
GOP
Senate
Hugh Scott
Scott
House
John Rhodes
Arizona
Congress
Al Ullman
House Weys and Means Committee
Ford plan may cut school lunch subsidies and enrollments
The Ford administration proposes eliminating subsidies for all but needy students in a block grant system to cut 600 million dollars from child nutrition spending next year. If approved and states do not fill the gap, school lunch participation could fall about 24 percent from 25 million to 19 million, with broader impacts on milk, breakfasts, summer meals, and aid for low income families.
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WASHINGTON
Ford administration
Agriculture Department
Agriculture
Richard E. Feltner
Congress
Feltner
Kissinger urged to push peace talks in Indochina
Oklahoma Republican Senator Dewey Bartlett says Henry Kissinger should press the Soviet Union and China to curb military aid to both sides in Vietnam and Cambodia. Bartlett and seven colleagues return from Vietnam and Phnom Penh as Ford seeks 522 million dollars in supplemental military aid, with lawmakers linking future aid to progress on prisoners and searches for MIAs. The delegation pressed Hanoi on missing Americans and faced North Vietnamese accusations of cease fire violations.
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SAIGON
South Vietnam
Dewey F. Bartlett
Henry A. Kissinger
Soviet Union
China
United States
Bartlett
Congress
Phnom Penh
dent Ford
Kissinger
Vietnam
State Kissinger
Russia
Nguyen Duc Bao
U.S
Burall and Virts oppose county coordinator plan in Frederick County
William E. Burall Metro Commission chairman sides with County Commissioner Edgar C. Virts Jr. in opposing a proposed county coordinator. He warns such a post would create another county bureaucracy and likely spawn a department of public works. Virts questions the need for a coordinator and cites potential extra costs. Burall asserts the Metro Commission can handle duties without additional tax money while questions about scope remain.
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Frederick County Metropolitan Commission
Edgar C. Virts Jr
William E. Burall
Metro Commission
department of public works
Sterling E. Bollinger
Bollinger
Metropolitan Commission
Burall
Wirts
Virts es
Virts
Food bills decline in February report
February figures show reduced food bills while anarchy concerns push events abroad. A West Germany air incident prompts evacuation of anarchists as producers plan a late winter summit. Weather calls for variable clouds and cold with light snow flurries, with highs in the 30s and lows in the teens to 20s.
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M. A. MALIK
NEW YORK
New York Stock Exchange
White House
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Ullman
Rhodes
Ways and Means Committee
Indochina
Paul N. McCloskey Jr
Calif
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Bill Chappell Jr
D-Fla
Bao
John J. Flynt Jr
Inside The News
West Germany
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