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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1967
Page
1
Public hearings on next fiscal year requests are set for the last two weeks of April. All hearings except the board of education occur in the Courthouse offices. the education hearing is at Winchester Hall and lasts a full day. The schedule lists dates and times for each department and agency involved.
Frederick County Commissioners consider increasing space for the welfare department at Winchester Hall due to added workload including transfers from the Children's Aid Society. Dr James B Thomas notes hallway interviews occur for recipients. current rate is 77 cents per square foot, far below other offices at 107. Four agricultural agencies plan to move by May 1 to a new East Street complex.
High school seniors may tour 26 Frederick firms at the Job Opportunity Fair at the Frederick Armory sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce with Education and Business Climate committees. The event runs 3 to 9 pm, with pre-scheduled student buses from 9 am to 3 pm.
An elevated train crashed into the rear of another train at a station in Charlestown Boston injuring more than 60 persons. Massachusetts General Hospital reported 45 taken to emergency care with no critical injuries mostly cuts strains and back injuries described as relatively minor.
Frederick County rivers and streams overflowed their banks as more than 2 inches of rain fell from Saturday through Monday. Five roads closed and many others flooded. Monocacy and Potomac Rivers cresting early afternoon. Minor damage expected. temperatures to drop with windy, cold conditions into midweek.
Commissioners heard two rezoning requests at public hearings this morning. One seeks to rezone nearly 14 acres at the U.S. 340 Lander road interchange from B-2 residential to B-2 business for a service station and possible motel and restaurant. The second requests B-1 to B-3 for Harold Summers to build a bus garage on a five acre Md 180 Md 79 site, with planning commission recommending denial.
State Police ruled that a dairy barn fire near New London on Friday night was arson after arson expert Leo Sullivan concluded the blaze had been set. The Roy Thompson farm on Lime Plant Road suffered $35,000 damage and 18 calves were killed. Four fire companies fought the fire, and no charges were filed as inquiries continue into a separate Sunday fire near Frederick. tenant Earl Wiles rescued 40 cows.
County Accounting Office reports 3 642 818 available for school construction under current bonds and 1 529 149 appropriated by the county commissioners but not yet disbursed by the school board. Of the 3.6 million, 1 142 818 is cash on hand, the rest is legislatively authorized but unsold. Disbursement delays stem from unaccepted buildings, incomplete work or pending equipment.
The Washington National Air Races will be held at Frederick again this year as announced by National Air Races Inc President Donald Butterfield. The event, moved to August, will occur in Frederick alongside races in Dallas Fort Worth Chicago Cleveland and Los Angeles. Last year the Frederick meet saw two deaths in crashes and a mid air collision before about 50000 spectators.
The County Commissioners and Frederick's mayor will meet at 1:30 p.m. in the Court House to talk about a proposed central fire alarm system and county trucks using the city sanitary landfill. The session, open to the public, will cover other issues, including landfill access and funding for bulldozing costs. Charles E. Collins notes county residents asked what can be done after trucks were barred from the city facility.
Teamsters Union President James R. Hoffa surrendered to start an eight year federal sentence for jury tampering. He was to be fingerprinted and transported to Lewisburg federal penitentiary. Hoffa maintained his conviction was political vendetta and urged labor to defend constitutional rights as he faced removal from leadership duties.
The stock market drifted with moderate volume and losses in airlines and aerospace while metals faltered. In court, Hoffa asked to be kept under 75 000 bond as new trial motions emerged, with aides describing mood as miserable at Teamsters HQ. Security moved to protect Senator Kennedy after threats linked to Hoffa.
The Frederick County Board of Education rejected a free 40 acre land offer near Thurmont for Catoctin High School and kept the existing site citing time constraints. The decision countered county commissioners chief Charles E. Collins who urged a different site due to cost concerns and potential court action. The board also voted to keep parts of the original two story design within a $2.6 million cap and to approve sabbatical leaves for two teachers while resignations at West Frederick Junior High and other teachers were recorded.
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