National Action for Foster Children Week observance in Frederick County
The article promotes National Action for Foster Children Week May 16 to May 25 across the nation and highlights foster care needs in Frederick County under the Department of Social Services. It notes 296 children in foster or institutional care and urges public involvement to support foster families and provide essential services. Call 662-6151 for more information.
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Tre Sesk
Ane Ob
Larea States
Frederick County
Department of Social Services
Frederick
America
FCU
Welfare of Vietnam and college earnings in Wisconsin
The piece argues US aid mismanagement in South Vietnam after 1973, noting $5 billion in weapons and parts lost or misused and North Vietnam gaining material power. It then cites University of Wisconsin research finding college earnings depend on student ability and background more than college type, with 2.4 percent variance tied to institution.
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America
South Vietnam
General Accounting Office
Congress
Ford
GAQ
Litem
Atilefield T
Nguyen Vian Nghi
Delta
Bancons
Lee Mas
North Vietnam
Thailand
Great Britain
Pentagon
Cam Ranh Bay
United States
University of Wisconsin
Proposal for old Monocacy Quaker Meeting House site near Buckeystown
A letter proposes relocating the old Monocacy Quaker Meeting House after reviewing Grove 1921 and Titus Atlas sources. It traces early Quaker settlers arriving in 1725 around Ballenger Creek and Buckeystown, noting the 1736 meeting house and 1745 road petition, with later abandonment and consolidation with Pipe Creek in 1775, and posits possible sites near Buckerstown Frederick Road, Davis graveyard, or Rocky Fountain area.
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Buckeystown
Carrollton Manor
William Jarboe Grove
Frederick County
Ballenger Creek
Chester County
N.J
Tracey
Ballenger
Wright
Davis
Matthews
Wells
Williams
Richardson
Beall
Josiah Ballenger
Cold Spring
Virginia
Monrovia
Monocacy
Pipe Creek
Union Bridge
Buckerstown-Frederick
Davis Graveyard
J.M. Holdcraft
Michael's Mill
Frederick
Monocacy River
Rocky Fountain
W.J. Grove
Darnell
Grove
Michael
Manor Woods
Navy Alcohol Problem Report Sparks Debate
Washington report details a Navy study showing 38 percent of enlisted men drink problematically with 12 percent tangled with the law. It notes 30,000 chronic alcoholics, $45 million annual cost, and limited recovery programs returning 70 percent to duty. Footnotes compare civilian behavior and note broader commentary.
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Les Whitten
Washington
Navy
Bureau of Social Science Research
Marlow Cook
Kentucky
Frank Moss
Utah
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Commission
Cook
Richard Simpson
Simpson
Hilton Head
D.C
Aaron Gold
Hitton Head Co
Sea Pines Co
City Hall room refurbished under late mayor’s tenure
The room at City Hall was updated with wallpaper and refurbishments completed since the late Mayor Fraley’s administration. Mayor Lloyd C. Culler was to throw out the first ball in the opening game of the semi pro Blue Ridge Baseball League at McCurdy Field. Local businesses expected a half day holiday via city proclamation. An entertainment by the Missionary Societies of Buckeystown M.P. Church was held by local members.
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City Hall
City Pele
Fraley
Lloyd C. Culler
McCurdy Field
Missionary Societies of
Buckeystown
Wreck at Weverton Halts Rail Route and Soybean Oil Loss
Twenty thousand four hundred soybean oil gallons were spilled after a BAQ Railroad wreck at Weverton. Three tank cars overturned prompting plans to block the rail right of way and U S 249. Officials attributed the crash to a faulty tank car frame. In Cumberland, Bishop James Edward Walsh of the Catholic Foreign Mission Society was reported among 40 American prisoners in Red China living under austere conditions.
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Weverton
U.S 249
James Edward Walsh
Cumberland
Red China
Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America
Maryland
Roadside ruins and a possible school site near Carrollton area
Field notes from April 1973 describe near the Titus Atlas 1873 markings by a brook south of Carrollton farm. C.S.S. may stand for Cold Spring School now ruinous, with a Monocacy Meeting House ruin as a possible dot further up the brook. No stone foundations found amid honeysuckle, a potential rocky knoll once suited for a small schoolhouse, and several springs noted along the brook.
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C.S.S
C. Hill
C.S.5
Cold Spring School
Horsehead Run
Carrollton
J.A. Trundle
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Black Panthers
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J. Edgar Hoover
Panther Party
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Fred Hampton
Mark Clark
Chicago Sun Times
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James Foreman
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