Fort Detrick fate hangs on congressional push to act
Frederick editorials urge Congress and the Nixon administration to decide the future of Fort Detrick as the new fiscal year nears. Senator Mathias presses Senate Bill 34 for a National Cancer Authority and urges using Fort Detrick as a cancer research hub, warning of wasted funds and unemployed staff without a clear mission. The piece also notes consumer advocate Ralph Nader criticizing auto bumper standards and recalls past promises about water-filled bumpers.
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Charles McC. Mathias
Congress
Nixon
Fort Detrick
Mathias
J. Glenn Beall Jr
Goodloe E. Byron
Frederick
Senate
National Cancer Authority
Beall
Mathias Well
Frederick County
United States Army
People of
Department of the Army
United States
Washington
Ralph Nader
Nader
Department of Transportation
DOT
Detroit
ACLU Fights New Smith Act Proposal in Senate Hearings
The ACLU opposes a proposed Smith Act revision at Senate Internal Security Subcommittee hearings. It argues the first amendment protects advocacy even of violent overthrow, noting the 1941 act already bans teaching or conspiring to overthrow the government.
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David Lawrence Washington
The
American Civil Liberties Union
Senate
Internal Security Subcommittee
Congress
Gov
Supreme Court of the United States
Supreme Court
Edward J. Gurney
Florida
Melvin Wulf
Washington
Peace Symbol Debate Sparks Reader Letters
A reader letters page reprints and weighs in on the peace symbol worn by youth. A bishop’s quote links the symbol to anti Christian and anti state messages, urging caution of occult and communist influences. Other letters thank local alumni for coverage and fundraising, and discuss potential new subversion legislation and Supreme Court rulings.
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Robert J. McCoy
Department of Pennsylvania
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Russia
America
Walkersville High School Alumni Association
WFMD
WFRE
WMHI
WTHU
WTRI
Consolidated Accessories Manufacturers Corporation filed
Articles of incorporation filed in the Clerk of Court's office name The Consolidated Accessories Manufacturers Corporation with $50,000 capital stock. Petitioners are Henry N. Schofield Harry E Rubottom and Elizabeth Rubottom. Milk price reports stir Frederick County dairy men as farmers say local plants pay 17 to 22 cents per gallon while city milk sells 56 to 64 cents. A special Aldermen meeting directs City Engineer Crum to estimate cost of a new thoroughfare from Jefferson Street to South Market Street near Clark Place. State Roads Commission may soon award a contract to improve old Route 40 from Catoctin Country Club to Braddock Mountain. Hood College graduation speaker Dr Edwin H Sponseller says graduation is the start of lifelong learning. Mrs Edgar H McBride and James H Gambrill III of Frederick will lead Frederick County in Hood Forward fundraising for 730000.
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Consolidated Accessories Manufacturers Corporation
Henry N. Schofield
Harry E. Rubottom
Elizabeth Rubottom
Baltimore
Frederick County
Board of Aldermen
Crum
Jefferson Street
South Market Street
Clark Place
Madison Street
State Roads Commission
Catoctin Country Club
Braddock Mountain
Edgar H. McBride
James H. Gambrill III
Frederick
Hoad
Hood College
H. Paul Smith
Navy DASH program a costly fleet embarrassment
Washington reports reveal the Navy’s DASH drone program wasted nearly 1 billion public dollars as 740 helicopters failed and 150 ships retained defective decks hangars and control rooms. Dated notes describe crashes, salvaged hardware, and continued flawed platforms on newer destroyers despite a program collapse.
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Washington
Navy
Congress
DASH
Smithsonian Museum
John Bulkeley
Bulkeley
Knox
U.S
J. P. Kennedy
Truxton
Dixie
Les Whitten
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Derrick
Susquehanna
Donald House
Union
N.Y
ACLU
New ‘Smith
PUY
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Buccaneer
P. Reeves
Motter
Frederick, Md
Walkersville
Walkersville High School
Ruth K. Holter
Bryan Covell
Liana Bowers
Carol Beard
Europe
Lawrence A. Dorsey JR
Walkersville High Alumni Association
God's Prescription
Nation
Pat Boone
St. Paul
God
Satan
Alice M. Buxton
Damascus, Mov
News-Post
Edwin H. Sponseller
Frederick Memorial Hospital School of Nursing
Ee Morus
U.S. Treasury
Harold Hughes
Iowa
Vietnam
Jon Steinberg
Hughes
John Murphy
D-N.y
Steinberg
John McClellan
McClellan
Wall Street
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