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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1976
Page
3
Industry Week reports demographic projections showing the 15 to 29 age group shrinking by 2.6 million from 1975 to 1990 while the 30 to 45 cohort grows by 21.7 million. The coming era favors older young adults with conservatism tempered by antimaterialist tastes, luxuries, and leisure, affecting spending patterns and job prospects.
A veteran left at a bus station with misdirected luggage is assisted by two college students and Salvation Army staff. The officer locates his bags pays his Martinsburg trip costs and buys him lunch, ensuring he boards a bus to the Veterans Administration Hospital. The tale, from On The March, highlights everyday acts of help.
The first 100 Polish farmers aged 20 to 30 arrive to spend 13 months on American farms under 4-H and Massey Ferguson funding. They will train in Brattleboro and work in Pennsylvania New York Massachusetts Ohio Indiana Michigan Illinois and Iowa to later help establish American style farms back home. Gov Jerry Brown asserts his presidential bid despite low odds.
Frederick City club members and 160 invited guests joined Congressman Frederick N. Zihhmat at the Nant Men’s Republican Club annual gathering in the Francis Scott Key grill room. Zihman spoke forcefully on party organization and received a rising vote of thanks. Elmer Brown led the meeting as president. The Citizens Ladder Truck Company formed in Frederick City with 300 charter members at a YMCA meeting. Officers elected include Dudley Page as president, Walter F. Zeigler and H. Dorsey Etchison as vice presidents, Richard P. Ross secretary, and William D. Zimmerman treasurer.
Twenty years ago on May 1, 1968, the Maryland Classified Exophenes Association hosted its third regional dinner at the State Armory with D Worthington Peerre leading the session attended by presidents from 11 chapters. Officials from Carroll, Frederick, Washington, and surrounding counties were invited, with about 499 employees and performers expected and limited tickets at the door. Gov. McKeldin and Comptroller Tawes accepted invitations to speak. National Hospital Week will feature graduation events for Frederick Memorial Hospital School of Nursing alumni, with a baccalaureate sermon at Grace Evangelical and Reformed Church and commencement at Elim Street School auditorium.
A tribute features Mrs. Freda Smith Doll a longtime educator and volunteer headlining work with the Frederick County Tuberculosis and Public Health Association and Women’s Democratic League. Her efforts span PTA Cub Scouts Girl Scouts credit management and public health programs including a Victor Cullen Hospital auxiliary and a 1974 Self-Help Breathing Club.
Francis W. Bush Sr. notes a student’s five extra weeks of training under a respiratory therapist at a hospital and a $200 summer stipend. The piece lauds Freda Doll for decades of public health leadership, roles in Zonta Club and Counseling Services, and her key part in merging local health groups into the Lung Association of Mid Maryland.
A reader questions the Wolfsville Cabin Tour promoted by the Frederick County Landmarks Foundation arguing there were not hundreds of cabins in the area and defining a cabin differently. The letter contrasts historic log huts with modern log homes and urges accuracy in local tourist promotion.
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