Maryland SHA lays timetable for US 15 dualization progress
Maryland officials announced a timetable to dualize parts of US 15 from Orndorff Road to the Pennsylvania line with bids opened April 10 for a 3.7 mile section near Thurmont and the project aiming to complete remaining segments within 12 to 14 months. State Rep Edward Thomas praised the plan while noting no immediate Pennsylvania-side dualization.
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Annapolis
Frederick
Pennsylvania
State Highway Administration
Orndorff Road
Thurmont
SHA
M Slade Calinder
Western Maryland Railroad
Orndorf Road
Calinder
Caltrider
Edward P Thomas
Frederick Washington
Thomas
U.S
Gettysburg
Maryland
MIEMSS seeks federal grant for Maryland paramedic program
The Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems seeks a 58000 federal grant to launch a state paramedic program under the Department of Transportation plan. The move, announced at a Mid Maryland EMS Council meeting, would train about 100 instructors in the first year and add 158 hours of coursework beyond CRT level.
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Maryland Institute For Emergency Medical Services Systems
Department of Transportation
Maryland
Mid- Maryland Emergency Medical Services Council
Bill Hathaway
Miemss
Hathaway
Frederick Conn
Carroll County
Eldersburg
Emerald Lane
Jane Lucas
John Lucas
Neil Bechial
Maryland Institute For Emergency Medical Services
Baltimore
Fire Department
Carroll County General Hospital
Bechtel
E. Graham
Robert R. Roberts
EMS
Edgar Crist
Sherman Kahan
Council
Roberts
Frederick County
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Allegany
Garrett
Mid-Maryland
Three-alarm fire hits Patuxent Institution
A three-alarm blaze struck the Patuxent Institution in Jessup Maryland late this morning. Fire units from Anne Arundel Howard and Prince George counties battled the blaze at the maximum security facility for prisoners with mental disorders. Ambulances were called and unconfirmed reports said inmates might be trapped in the hospital unit. Further details were not available.
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Jessup
Patuxent Institution
Baltimore
Rove Arundel
Howard
Prince Georges County
Ilam Patuxent
Polie
Kline to Lead Byron Re election Campaign in Maryland
Richard R. Kline, Frederick County resident and Phoenix Inc. board chair, named by Rep Beverly Byron to organize her bid for a 1060 re election in Maryland's eighth district. He praised Byron's first year in Washington noting her 95 percent voting attendance and key local projects while pledging county coordinators to be announced soon.
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Bevelry
Byron
Maryland
Gth
Kline
Fire Academy
Blue Ridge
Sixes Bridge
U.S
House of Representatives
Congress
Kennedy dominates Massachusetts returns in a primary night
The Democratic result in Massachusetts shows Kennedy with 65 percent and Carter with 28 percent as 97 percent of precincts report. Vermont yields Carter leading with 74 percent to Kennedy's 26. In Republican Massachusetts Bush and Anderson tie at 31 percent, Reagan 22 percent, with others minor. Vermont GOP shows Reagan 31 percent, Anderson 30, Bush 3, Baker 13, Crane 2, Connally 1. Agriculture exports reach a record $32 billion in fiscal 1979, doubling imports per Sperry New Holland.
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Vermont
Carter
Massachusetts
Kennedy
California
Edmund Brown Jr
New England
Maine
New Hampshire
Bush
Anderson
Reagan
Howard Baker
Tennessee
John Connally
Texas
Philip Crane
Illinois
Ford
Baker
Crane
Connally
Harold Stassen
Sperry New Holland
Allegany County School Board Considers Dental Program
The board discussed a school dental program to evaluate students with minimal paperwork. If approved, evaluations would take two to three minutes per child over one to two days, with parent consent required. Long term aims include directing children in need to dentists, private or public, while weighing classroom disruption and seeking curriculum input.
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Allegany County
Schipper
Linwood Myers
Frederick County
Maryland
A. D. Flory
Linehan
Hospital escapees recaptured in mountains near hospital
Two murderers and a woman who aided them in a state hospital escape were recaptured at a fortified mountain hideaway near the hospital after a three hour gunfight with state troopers. The trio surrendered around 2 p.m. and faced multiple charges including escape and kidnapping.
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Dunmore
State Hospital
Russell Shoats
Clifford Putch
Phyllis Hill
Shoats
Philadelphia
Futch
Pittsburgh
Miss Hill
Cheryl Harris
Farview State Hospital
Honesdale
Salem Mountain
Cat outbreak mars Salem County home in grim discovery
Police found a white two story house with 75 to 100 cats inside and garbage bags of cat carcasses outside. Cats reportedly fed on two decomposed human bodies whose ages and identities could not be determined. Humane Society volunteers planned to remove the remaining animals for sheltering or destruction.
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Carneys Point
Humane Society
Salem County
Don Siemer
Animal Humane Society of
Turnersville
Route 40
Siemer
Carneys Pont
Edward Kelly
Kelly Brothers
Irene
Albert Pedrick
Pedricks
Joyce Hildebrand
Family names of farmers sought for photo records
The notice lists several farmer ancestors with years ranging from 1889 to 1922 and asks readers who can locate photographs or reproductions of these men to contact Mrs. Greiner at City Hall by phone N61. It highlights efforts to preserve local agricultural history through archival images.
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Lewis H. Doll
Lewis Brunner
John E. Fleming
Aquila B. Yeakle
William F. Chilton
George Edward Smith
John Edward Schell
Lewis H. Fraley
Gilmer Schley
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South Canaan Township
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