Local Man Accused Of Assault With Gun
A dispute at Soul Brother's Lounge on South Market Street led to a shot being fired and charges of assault with intent to kill against Weedon Wright Bowie 30 of Market Street. Louis E. Gibson was treated for a gunshot wound to the right arm. The Frederick City Police detective bureau continues the investigation.
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Soul Brother
South Market Street
Louis E. Gibson
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Weedon Wright Bowie
Market Street
Maryland
Bowie
Detective Bureau
Frederick City
Frederick
Sjamsville Road
Robert Evan Franklin
Sagner Court
L. N. Smith
Franklin
U.S. 40
Meat Boycott Claims Nationwide Support
LOS ANGELES AP Two women who started Fight Inflation Together FIT say the national meat boycott idea is sweeping the country. In three weeks about 3000 pledges to abstain from meat on Tuesdays and Thursdays and the first week of next month have arrived. FIT clubs in roughly 40 cities report rising interest and calls continue. June Foray Donovan and Arline Mathews describe the movement as nonpartisan and aimed at lowering meat prices. Donovan is also the voice of Rocky the Flying Squirrel and Granny in cartoons.
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Los Angeles
FIT
June Foray Donovan
Arline Mathews
Mrs. Donovan
Rocky the Flying Squirrel
Bullwinkle
Granny
Tweetie
Sylvester
Brunk Named Easter Seal Campaign Chairman
Jack Bonk named 1973 Frederick County Easter Seal Campaign Chairman by Maryland Society for Crippled Children and Adults. He will lead local volunteers in raising funds from March 16 through Easter Sunday. He is president of Frederick Produce Co and active in Kiwanis, First Baptist Church, and Boy Scouts.
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Maryland Society For Crippled Children and Adults
Jack Bonk
Frederick County
Brunk
Rt. 8
Frederick
Frederick High School
Goshen College
Goshen
Ind
Western Maryland College
Westminster
U.S. Army
Frederick Produce Co
Frederick Kiwanis Club
First Baptist Church
Easter Seal Society
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Byron Releases Survey Results
Rep. Goodloc Byron reports district residents favor spending limits and tax relief. Early 2000 questionnaires show three of four want a mandatory spending ceiling and majority seek cuts or no increases in federal programs. Foreign aid welfare urban renewal would be cut. most oppose universal health insurance and support using revenue sharing to cut property taxes. Four of five oppose amnesty for deserters and post war aid to North Vietnam. A full county by county report will follow.
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Washington
Goodloc Byron
Byron
Congress
North Vietnam
Nixon seeks death penalty and tougher drug laws
President Nixon announced plans to ask Congress to restore the federal death penalty for specific crimes and require life imprisonment without parole for habitual drug traffickers. The package, drafted by Attorney General Kleindienst, would also raise fines, end the insanity defense, and push harsher penalties for heroin selling and major traffickers while opposing marijuana legalization.
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Washington
Nixon
Congress
Capitol Hill
Richard Kleindienst
Supreme Court
High Court
Kleindienst
Indians Seek Court Order Against Govt
Militant AIM encampment at Wounded Knee near the reservation north of Rapid City faces a federal blockade. Gunfire pierced the village for 30 minutes as lawyers push for removal of federal agents amid stalled peace talks. Ramon Roubideaux says AIM will ask a court to end the siege while negotiations resume. There were no injuries reported despite the exchange.
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Wounded Knee
FBI
Larry Leaventhal
The
American Indian Movement
AIM
William Kunstler
New York
Justice and Interior Departments
Ramon Roubideaux
U.S. District Court
Rapid City
Roubideaux
New POW release set next week in Vietnam
Saigon reports Hanoi signaled the next release of American prisoners will occur next week with the United States expecting about 140 to be freed Tuesday or Wednesday. Maj. Gen. Gilbert H. Woodward urged North Vietnam to provide names times and places for phase three of repatriation by Sunday. Hanoi said it would comply with the cease fire. So far 299 POWs have been released since Feb. 12, about 30 percent of those held at the cease fire. To reach 75 percent completion, the communists must release about half of the remaining 286 prisoners next week.
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Saigon
United States
U.S
Joint Military Commission
Gilbert H. Woodward
Hanoi
Chinese To Free Accused U S Spy Downey After 20 Years
John Thomas Downey, a 42 year old Yale graduate and former CIA employee, is to be released Monday from life imprisonment in China on spying charges. He will cross into Hong Kong and return home as part of a diplomatic thaw. Also freed are Air Force Captain Philip E. Smith and Navy Commander Robert J. Flynn, victims of the Vietnam ceasefire and earlier captures. Downey has been imprisoned since November 1952 after a plane with Richard Fecteau was shot down over Manchuria.
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Washington
John Thomas Downey
Downey
Yale
Central Intelligence Agency
Hong Kong
U.S
Nixon
Robert J. Flynn
Houston
Minn
Smith
Gulf of Tonkin
Flynn
Vietnam
Richard Fecteau
Lynn
Mass
Manchuria
Fire log highlights multiple calls and responses
Fire calls logged for 24 hours ending 10 am at 662-4333 include a picnic table blaze at Staley Park with Juniors on scene. Other incidents: 8:26 am house fire at Myers residence with Carroll Manor and Jefferson responding. 7:55 pm brush fire on Lander Road with Jefferson responding. Ambulance calls show 14 emergencies and 4 transfers. Jail population lists 51 males and 3 females.
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Staley Park
Dours
Myers
Carroll Manor
Jefferson
Lander Road
Mt Airy Library seeks heirs for Watkins land dispute
Mt Airy residents search for heirs of Thomas E. Watkins to approve using his land for a new municipal library and parking lot. Town council seeks a legal path while library officials press for funding and a potential escape clause. The current tiny library may move into a modular building with a 70,100 dollar budget request.
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Mt. Airy
Thomas Watkins
Eric Green
Thomas E. Watkins
Watkins
Charles Beck
Carroll County Library Board
Mt. Airy Friends of the Library
Beck
Airy
Charles Fisher
Carroll County
Martha Makosky
Carroll County Library System
Makosky
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Stanley W. Burdette
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Joe
Annette
East Second Street
Larry Lipman
Govt
S.D
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Mt. Airy Library
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Mt Airy Town
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