Marine Police to guard state racing course on holiday weekend
About ten percent of Maryland Marine Police will join security at the Fair Hill Race Course Memorial Day weekend along with ten inland division officers. The plan aims to cover both the event and heavy boating on Chesapeake Bay though some officers call it an injustice and understaffing. Officials say the move will cost about 2500 dollars for two days and avoids cutting other duties.
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Apolis
Apt
Harry George
Marine Division
Natural Sources Police
Sas
Fair Hill
Baltimore Sun
Marine Police
Maryland
George
Chesapeake Bay
Thomas L. Merryweather
Natural Resources
Louis N. Phipps, Jr
Natural Resource Dept
Four Smithsburg residents sue for slander and rights violations
Four Smithsburg residents Donald Curfman Rose Black Rose Johnson and Michael Johnson filed a 300000 federal suit against Washington County and state law enforcement agencies alleging civil rights violations during the May 15 1976 search for escapee Merle W Unger. They claim assault false arrest libel and slander and name over a dozen officers from Washington County Police Hagerstown City Police and Maryland State Police. The suit seeks punitive damages and notes Unger was captured a month later in Orlando Florida and later sentenced for murder.
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Baltimore
Smithsburg
Washington County
Donald Curfman
Rose Black
Rose Johnson
Michael Johnson
Merle W. Unger
Washington County Police Dept
Hagerstown
Maryland State Police
Chewsville
Unger
Curfman
U.S
Orlando
Fla
Donald Kline
Eight Maryland oyster watermen fined in Virginia court
Eight watermen from St. Marys County Maryland each paid 300 in Westmoreland County General District Court for a January handscrape oyster take in the Potomac River. Prosecution occurred in Virginia under a Potomac River compact. A ninth waterman was fined 500 earlier in the month.
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Montross
Maryland
Westmoreland County
Conrac
Sheepshead Bar
Potomac
Ihe
Maryland-Virginia
Potomaciver Fisheries Commission
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Virginia
William Stewart Morris
Walter Thomas Morris
Henry
Sylvester Faunce
James Ernest Woodall
Charles L. Morris Jr
Raymond Sylvester Morgan
Roy Anthony Bowles
Charles Leroy Blackstone
Bobby Faunce Abell
Ornamental shrubs making comeback after harsh winter
Maryland researchers report ornamental shrubs showing a strong comeback aided by warm spring weather. Plant physiologist Francis Gouin warns a dry summer could harm them, naming crape myrtle, Japanese holly, Buford hollies, Japanese privet and an evergreen hedge as among the most damaged.
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College Park
Maryland
University of Maryland
Francis R. Gouin
Gouin
Canal dedication honors Justice Douglas in memorial ceremony
The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal was formally dedicated to William O. Douglas in Georgetown with Chief Justice Burger and Justices Stewart Marshall Blackmun Powell and Fortas among attendees. Carter sent a commemorative pen and letter. Douglas spoke from a wheelchair recalling his 1974 stroke while his wife Cathy stood by. A bronze bust by Wendy Rossi was unveiled at the canal’s foot amid Park Service praise for preserving the 185 mile waterway now part of a 20200 acre national park.
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Washington
Chesapeake & Ohio Canal
William C. Douglas
Supreme Court
Georgetown
Douglas
National Park Service
Cumberland
Maryland
Cathy
Warren E. Burger
Potter Stewart
Thurgood Marshall
Harry A. Blackmun
Lewis F. Powell Jr
Tom Clark
Abe Fortas
Carter
Congress
Park Service
C&o
Henry M. Jackson
D Wash
Thomas Eagleton
D-Mo
C & O Canal National Historical Park
Maryland Court strengthens right to keep maiden name after divorce
The Maryland Court of Appeals reversed a Montgomery County ruling and ruled a divorced woman may reclaim her maiden name, Jen nifer Evans, despite a child’s custody concerns. The panel held judges may not deny a name change absent fraud or immoral purpose.
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Annapolis
State Court of Appeals
Maryland
Montgomery County
Appeals Court
Jennifer E. Klein
Jeffrey
Jennifer Evans
Wreckage hazards blamed on Potomac River pilings
Police warn pleasure boaters that a former railroad bridge pilings area near Shepherd's Landing at Marbury Point poses a constant danger. At high tide the submerged pilings hide hazards and at night confusing lights from National Airport and other facilities mislead novices. Officials demand removal by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers after years of inaction.
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Washington (Ap
Potomac River
Metropolitan Police Harbor
Shepherd’s Landing
Marbury Point
Blue Plains
National Airport
Naval Research Laboratory
T.M. McGlynn
Police
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Baltimore
McGlynn
Lottery contract renegotiated in Maryland
Maryland Lottery Commission announced a renegotiated deal with American Totalisator Company the operator of the daily Numbers Game. Under the revised terms commissions drop from 6.14 percent to 4.18 percent on weekly sales. The company will receive about 168 000 weekly instead of 214 900.
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Baltimore
Maryland Lottery Commission
Commission
American Totalisator Company
George P. Mahoney
American Tote
Mahoney
Daily Lottery
Lottery
A. Lee Milburn
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Wickes
Wickes Lumber
Frederick
Old Washington Pike
Sanday
C&o Canal
Don Edwards
D-Calif
Richard Ottinger
D-N.y
Cathy Douglas
Wendy M. Rossi
William O. Douglas
Canal
Goose Prairie
Id Wickes
Upcomin
Pridey
Seturdey
Ie Fos Coudom
Colonial Jewelers
OW. Patrick St
AYO Art Moras
Cannon
Hendrickson’s
USA
Royal Family
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