Hood College to begin science link building July 15
Hood College plans a new $1 million science link building joining the Hudson Science Building and the Science Annex. The project, funded partly by a $450,000 state bond and gifts, supports biology chemistry physics astronomy and home economics labs as enrollment grows. The two-story link is part of the New Horizons campaign led by Fritz Huntsinger Jr. and will strengthen the college endowment and renovations.
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Hood College
Board of Associates
Arthur E. Read Jr
Martha E. Church
Landon Proffitt
Kurt Holter
Frederick
Hood
Henrietta and
Samuel Ene
Hudson
Department of Home Economics
Maryland
Liberal Arts College For Women
California
Fritz R. Huntsinger Jr
Lawrence Marx Jr
Mathias urges rebates if FERC finds electric overcharges
Sen Charles McC Mathias calls on state and federal regulators to order rebates if FERC confirms customers were overcharged during the nationwide coal strike. FERC preliminarily found adders of up to 40 percent as power moved between utilities, potentially costing customers about 100 million dollars with broader probes to include Allegheny Power System PJM Interconnection and American Electric Power Co.
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Charles McC. Mathias
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Mathias
Federal Regulatory Agency
Potomac Edison Co
FERC
U.S. Senate Subcommittee On Energy and Natural Resources
William V. Lindsay
Lindsay
Pennsylvania
New Jersey-Maryland
Potomac Edison
Allegheny Power System
American Electric Power Co
Virginia
Henry Jackson
D-Washington
PJM
U.S
City panel approves demolition for Fountain Medical Center site
City Historic District Commission voted 41 to allow tearing down the house at 623 423A N Market St owned by Albert Cohen to realign walls for Fountain Medical Center at Seventh and North Market Streets. Irene Kiriloff urged alternatives, citing no clear economic hardship and street disruption.
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City Historic District Commission
North Market Street
Fountain Medical Center
Albert Cohen
Medical Center
N. Market St
Cohen
Seventh and
North Market Streets
Tate
Chrysler- Plymouth
Market Street
Irene Kiriloff
Jacobs, former sheriff, seeks Frederick County commissioner
Crummell P. Jacobs, Frederick County Sheriff from 1966 to 1970, filed Thursday to run for county commissioner next term. A Democrat from New Market, he plans to stress service to the people in his campaign. He was a Woodville District farmer in his early days and served on the county roads board from 1962 to 1963, later becoming a roads department employee and assistant to the county engineer for maintenance from 1962 to 1966.
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Crummell P. Jacobs
Frederick County
Jacobs
New Market
Woodville
County Roads Board
County Roads
Frederick Toeds Jacoba
First class letters set to rise to 15 cents end of May
The Postal Rate Commission approved a rate package raising first class to 15 cents, cards to 10 cents, and higher charges for second, third, and fourth class mail. The plan aims to generate 17.5 billion annually, with final action by the Postal Service expected by May 19.
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Washington
Postal Rate Commission
Carter
Postal Service
Independent Rate Commission
Commission
Rate Commission
Pagal
Simon M. Bright
7th St truck route debate draws lines in Frederick
Citizens clash over East Seventh Street becoming a heavy truck route after a 1976 fatality near Vernon Avenue. A plan by City Police Chief Ashton and City Planner Jones would route trucks along South Patrick Market Bentz East Fourth and Seventh Streets with bans on others unless delivering. Residents warn the narrow street with cars parked on both sides is unsafe for trucks and endangers children.
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Frederick City
East Seventh Street
Vernon Avenue
East Seventh
Seventh Street
William Miller
B. 7Th St
Clarence Brown
E. 7Th St
Board of Aldermen
Danny Michael Brustad
Market
Bentz
East
Fourth
Seventh Streets
Miller testifies in racketeering probe before murder
Robert Lee Miller Jr. 44, Frederick County contractor and horseman, appeared before a federal grand jury investigating labor racketeering. Miller, president of Interstate Bridge Co. near New Market, was shot dead Tuesday night. Investigators seek motive, weighing possible ties to gambling and racing conflicts. Records subpoenaed by U.S. Attorney in Baltimore. IRS audit reported. Federal probe also touches on Excavation Construction and a possible sweetheart deal with a former local Teamsters official.
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Robert Lee Miller Jr
Frederick County
Eape Neuly
Miller
Interstate Bridge Co
Near New Market
David Weinberg
Interstate Bridge
U.S. Attorney’s Office
Baltimore
Weinberg
Internal Revenue Service
Washington Post
Mon
Tgomery
Baltimore Sun
Washington
Teamsters
Frank DeBrouse
Teamsters Local 639
Lyon Builders Inc
Strikers Reject 15 Cent Pay Rise at Cambridge Rubber
Production workers at Cambridge Rubber Company in Taneytown rejected a 15 cent hourly raise offered by management. Workers seek 25 cents across the board plus improved health benefits. Company VP Elliott Bespolka says no health-benefit changes will be discussed.
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Cambridge Rubber Company
Taneytown
Gee
Elliott Bespolka
Cambridge Rubber
Rezoning OK’d along Opossumtown Pike
Frederick County planners vote 4-? to approve Ernest W. Ausherman’s rezoning request for land along Opossumtown Pike just beyond Frederick Community College. The project would create about 18,000 square foot lots with higher east side density, prompting city concerns that annexation could be blocked if built now.
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Frederick
Clover Hill
Ausherman
Paul Gordon
City Commission
House panel votes to cut Social Security tax
A House panel advances a plan to reduce Social Security taxes. Reports note political maneuvering and potential impacts on payroll deductions and funding for benefits.
News-Post launches new Entertainment section
The News Post debuts an Entertainment section featuring reviews feature stories and a Friday calendar of area events. Plans to expand calendar listings include area movie attractions and a wide array of dramatic and creative events and a new Rock n Roll history series in Frederick County.
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The
News-Post
Frederick County
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