Frederick County Charter Debate Shapes Local Government
A proposed Frederick County charter aims to create a strong elected county executive and a seven-member council with district representation and two at large members. The draft, aligning with Maryland home rule norms, will go to commissioners in July and voters will decide in November. Citizens are urged to study the document and participate.
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Frederick County
Maryland
Charter Board
Thurmont
Emmitsburg
City of Frederick
New Market
Mt. Airy
U.S
Meachum Says Frederick Teachers Deserve No Sympathy This Year
Roy Meachum vents at the Frederick County Board of Education over funding for teacher pay in a time of recession. He cites a 44.5 percent salary rise since 1985 and a 22.7 percent staff increase, while student numbers rise slower, and criticizes the board for a multi year contract and for pursuing funds amid looming layoffs. Sam Koski is noted as a restraining influence urging cost cutting.
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Board of Education
Frederick High
Frederick
Maryland
Department of Fiscal Services
Fiscal Services
Noel Farmer
Winchester Hall
Teachers’ Union
Mark Sneadner
McClure shifts to lobbying withMarianas plan tainted by doubts
Ex Senator James McClure, out of Congress, forms McClure Gerard and Neuenschwander Inc to lobby energy firms General Atomics and L.B. Industries while eyeing possible roles in a proposed Northern Marianas Improvement Foundation. Critics fear Washington control, high budgets, and Japanese investment. McClure denies high salary talk and hints at a bid to replace Energy Secretary Watkins. A side note reports Czechoslovakia delaying American lectures amid internal tensions and a mini editorial on Senate ethics after the Keating Five affair.
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Washington
James McClure
Congress
Idaho
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee
Bush
McClure
Senate
McClure, Gerard and Neuenschwander Inc
General Atomics
L.B. Industries
Marianas
Japan
U.S
United States
Hawaii
State Department
Islands
Energy and Natural Resources Committee
Frank Cushing
Northern
Foundation
Capitol) Hill
Jim Lynch
James Watkins
Frederick County 50 years ago catalogues workers for defense
Maryland State Employment Service registered 504 Frederick County high school graduates to identify skilled and unskilled workers for defense industry and farm production. Mary land official Mayella Hershberger said schools cooperated as registration expanded statewide to locate graduates skilled in shortages. Twelve CCC boys left Fishing Creek for Lonaconing camp to prep for the rest of the unit.
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Maryland State Employment Service
Frederick
Mayella Hershberger
Civilian Conservation Corps
CCC
Joseph Burk
2302Nd
Fishing Creek
Lonaconing
County office smoking ban urged by health officer
Margie Wilkins urges Frederick County to extend its smoking ban to all public buildings echoing past actions in Frederick city and hospital. She cites health risks and workplace costs, arguing non smokers deserve clean air and that public spaces should prohibit tobacco use.
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Winchester Hall
Frederick County
Frederick
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Aluminum recycling price clarification in local column
Ethel Loeb’s recent recycling note is clarified. A neighbor’s two bags of aluminum cans were paid at the advertised rate based on weight. The column’s $10 hypothetical value was not a real offer and the family business stresses long standing involvement in Frederick and the environmental importance of recycling.
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Ethel Loeb
Frederick
Ron Linton
Mr. Linton
Keeler
Hayes
Mathias
Frederick County
Letters on recycling value and public figures stirred local debate
Letters discuss recycling prices and aluminum scrap, defend a business, and critique local government actions. Other entries address PETA, animal experiments, and funding, urging informed views on animal welfare, NIH, and taxpayer priorities. The writers include Abraham Solar of Reliable Junk Company, Tina Morgan of Myersville, and Shana Hevner of Union Bridge.
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Silver Spring
PETA
National Institutes of Health
U.S
Ms. Vickers
Don’t buy Kelley’s book on Nancy Reagan
A columnist denounces Kitty Kelley’s unauthorized Nancy Reagan biography as trash and calls out a national moral bankruptcy. The piece cites a magazine survey claiming 60 percent view the book as disrespectful, 16 percent call it must read, and predicts sales of 3 to 7 million dollars, urging readers to resist.
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Kitty Kelley
Nancy Reagan
Kelley’s
Judas
Bethany’s Hill
America
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Michael Powell
Frederick, MD
Sununy Airlines
Andrews Airforce Bas
Roy Meachum
Jack Anderson
Czechoslovakia
Vaclav Havel
Lehigh University
Bethlehem
Keating Five
Savings and Loan
Charles Keating
United Feature Syndicate
State Roads Commission
Liberty Road
Worman’s Mill
Frederick Iron and Steel Inc
International Molder’s Union
Edward A. Esterly
Millard F. Lease
George Layman
Irving Smith
J. William Smith
George C. Davis
Harry Smith
Arthur Snowden
Isaac Bender
Potomac State College
Elizabeth A. Atwater
the Pasquino
Susan C. Nicol
Knoxville
Great Decisions
Frederick Community College
Richard M. Nixon
Indochina
Margie Wilkins Frederick
Abraham Solar
Reliable Junk Company
Linton
Tina M. Morgan
Myersville
Valerie Vicker
Shana Hevner
Union Bridge
Cheryl Johnson
Kelley
H. Edward Thomas
Germantown
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