Legislature stalls on lowering adult age to 18
Maryland lawmakers stalled two bills to drop the adult age from 21 to 18 over potential loss of welfare benefits for about 3,000 AFDC recipients. Del. Martin Xircher said extending the cut would trigger reductions in federal grants, and officials proposed excluding AFDC participants but faced strong opposition.
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Annapolis
Maryland
del. Martin A. Xircher
Dbalto
House
Judiciary Committee
Kircher
Marvin Mandel
Baltimore Democrat
Department of Employment and Social Services
Brain drug link found by Hopkins researchers
Baltimore AP report says Dr William Bunney and Johns Hopkins researchers found brain receptor cells that latch onto opiates to produce a high. They identified corpus striatum receptors and showed antagonists block drug effects, aiming for longer lasting preventions.
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Baltimore
Addiction Research Agency
William E. Bunney Jr
Bunney
Johns Hopkins University
Solomon Snyder
Candace B. Pert
Snyder’s
Snyder-Pert
Corpus Striatum
Snyder
Nature
State Treasurer Bill Introduced in Maryland House
ANNAPOLIS AP A bill to make the state treasurer a full time job elected by voters every four years was introduced in the House by Del Charles S Blumenthal D Prince Georges The measure would raise the treasurer salary to match the state comptroller A second Blumenthal proposal would bar a treasurer who is a banker from depositing state funds in his own name The current part time role pays 2600 and is filled by a banker The treasurer is chosen every four years by the General Assembly under current law House Speaker Thomas H Lowe D Talbot backs a plan to have the legislature select the treasurer every two years
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Annapolis
Maryland
House of Delegates
del. Charles S. Blumenthal
Prince Georges
Blumenthal
General Assembly
House
Thomas H. Lowe
D-Talbot
Truck Driver Dies In Wreck On Potomac River Bridge
A 44 year old truck driver Ralph Lenzy Johnson of Charlotte North Carolina was killed when his tractor trailer crashed and hurled him beneath a toll booth on the U S 1 bridge spanning the Potomac River Authority said brakes failed near the toll gate. Toll collector Cabell Bragg was treated for injuries and another driver James Richardson of Baltimore died at University Hospital after an Howard County accident. The state highway death toll rose to 47, ten more than a year ago.
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Morgantown
Potomac River
Charlotte
North Carolina
Ralph Lenzy Johnson
U.S. Wl
Maryland
Virginia
Cabell Bragg
Physicians Memorial Hospital
la Plata
James Richardson
Baltimore
University Hospital
Howard County
Ocean City developer defies dune court order
Ocean City Maryland AP reports Emil G Germanos of Severna Park resumes dune side construction on a Worcester County condominium project despite a court injunction issued last November. The Department of Natural Resources had halted work and filed suit alleging interference with dune continuity. Attorney General's office to seek halt until case is resolved.
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Ocean City
Attorney General's Office
Bugging Cleared State Treasurer Bill Introduced
Baltimore AP report states Attorney Milton E. Allen believed a wiretap existed but federal investigators and FBI officials found wires left by telephone company workers. A letter from Joseph Lynch of the Federal Strike Force in Baltimore indicated the dangling wires were remnants from past maintenance. Steven D. Whitefield, son of Melvin L. Whitefield, elected secretary treasurer of the TriState College Amateur Radio Club. He is a Gov. Thomas Johnson High School graduate and electrical engineering major.
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Baltimore
Milton E. Allen
Allen
Joseph Lynch
Lynch
FBI
Steven D. Whitefield
Melvin L. Whitefield
TriState College
Gov. Thomas Johnson High School
Assessment Freeze Bill Before House Proposes Property Tax Cap
A Maryland measure sponsored by Anne Arundel Democrats Elmer Hagner and Tyrus Athey aims to freeze single family home assessments at their June 30 1972 levels. The bill would roll back any increases imposed before the act takes effect, limiting future property tax rises.
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Annapolis
House of Delegates
Anne Arundel County
Elmer F. Hagner
Tyrus S. Athey
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