Marine Police to guard state race course on Memorial Day weekend
About ten percent of Maryland's Marine Police will assist security at the Fair Hill Race Course over Memorial Day weekend, with 10 officers from the Marine division and 10 from inland patrols. Officials say the move saves costs and helps cover expected heavy boating activity, though some officers protest.
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Annapolis
Marine
Harry George
Arine Division
Natural Resources Police
Inland
Fair Hill
Chesapeake Bay
Thomas L. Merryweather
Natural Resources
Louis N. Phipps, Jr
Natural Resource Dept
Four Smithsburg residents sue for 300000 in federal case
Four Smithsburg residents Donald Curfman Rose Black Rose Johnson and Michael Johnson file a federal civil rights suit alleging illegal search false arrest assault and libel slander by Washington County Maryland police agencies over a 1976 stakeout of escapee Merle Unger. The suit seeks 300000 in punitive damages with names of multiple agencies listed. Unger was captured a month later and sentenced to life plus 40 years for a 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 City
Maryland State Police
Chewsville, Md
Unger
Curfman
Chewsville
U.S
Orlando
Fla
Donald Kline
Hagerstown
Eight Maryland watermen fined in Virginia for handscrape oystering
Eight Maryland watermen, all of St. Marys County, were fined 300 dollars each in Westmoreland County Virginia for taking ousters with a handscrape in January on the Potomac near Sheepshead Bar. The cases arose under a two state compact allowing cross border prosecution. A ninth man, Bobby Faunce Abell, was fined 500 dollars earlier in the month.
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Montross
Maryland Watermen
Westmoreland County General District Court
Potomac
Andrew G. Conlyn
Maryland Marine Police
Virginia
Sheepshead Bar
Maryland
Potomac River Fisheries Commission
Richmond Times-Dispatch
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
St. Mary's County
Bobby Faunce Abell
Ornamental shrubs making comeback at Maryland campus
University of Maryland Extension Service reports shrubs rebounding after harsh winter with warmer spring. Plant physiologist Francis Gouin cautions a dry summer could damage weakened shrubs, especially Crape Myrtle Japanese Holly Buford Hollies and Japanese Privet. He notes heavy fall mulching protects roots and aids survival.
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College Park
Maryland
University of Maryland
Francis R. Gouin
Gouin
Canal dedicated to Douglas amid ceremony at Georgetown
The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal was formally dedicated to William O. Douglas in a Georgetown ceremony. Douglas, paralyzed on his right side since a 1974 stroke, spoke from a wheelchair as Justices Burger Stewart Marshall Blackmun Powell Clark and Fortas attended plus supporters.
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Washington
Chesapeake & Ohio Canal
William O. 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
Maryland Court of Appeals affirms maiden name rights after divorce
The Maryland Court of Appeals rules that a divorced woman may reclaim her maiden name, reversing a Montgomery County ruling that cited potential child confusion. The three judge panel states discretion to deny is abused absent fraud or illegal aim, upholding Jennifer Evans Klein's use of her premarital name.
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Annapolis
State Court of Appeals
Maryland
Montgomery County
Appeals
Jennifer E. Klein
Jeffrey
Jennifer Evans
Wrecked boats threaten Potomac river area near Shepherd's Landing
Washington AP reports a Civil War era bridge pillar area known as Shepherd's Landing along the Potomac is a growing danger to pleasure boaters. Pilings lie just beneath high tide, hidden at night amid lights from National Airport and other facilities, causing frequent impalements. Police urge 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
Maryland Lottery Renegotiates Daily Numbers Deal
Baltimore officials announce a renegotiated contract with American Totalisator Company for the daily Numbers Game. Commissions drop from 6.14 to 4.18 percent on weekly sales, cutting weekly payouts from 214 900 to 168 000, through 1979. A. Lee Milburn is named deputy director of planning for the daily lottery.
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Baltimore
Maryland Lottery Commission
Commission
American Totalisator Company
George P. Mahoney
American Tote
Mahoney
Daily Lottery
Milburn
American Tate
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Congress
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C&o
Henry M. Jackson
D Wash
Thomas Eagleton
D-Mo
Don Edwards
D-Calif
Richard Ottinger
D-N.y
Cathy Douglas
Wendy M. Rossi
William C. Douglas
Goose Prairie
C & O Canal National Historical Park
Colonial Jewelers
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