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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1983
Page
2
AP leased wires and features describe second class postage point operations at Frederick Maryland. The brief notes focus on USPS designated facility status and its role in distributing mail through AP wire services.
Police report that hostage Carolyn Hively, abducted May 10 during an armed robbery at Taneytown Pharmacy where she worked as a clerk, suffers no serious injuries and requires no immediate medical attention. Warrants posted for Hill and Simpson on robbery kidnapping and related charges.
New York AP report says presidential press secretary James Brady was named National Father of the Year before about 1000 cheering attendees. Brady, back at work part time while recovering from gunshot wounds, thanked the committee and noted his kids Melissa and James Scott Brady II.
President Reagan struggles to win a GOP majority for his budget as the Democrat led House backs a 30 billion dollar tax rise for 1984 to cut the deficit while the Senate negotiates a new tax package. He also backs a cautious approach on Nicaragua, questions Soviet compliance on arms control, and defends social program trimming aimed at aiding the truly poor while trimming benefits for others.
County officials defend a plan to fund a larger sewer system while only one taxpayer, Theodore Ward of Ijamsville, condemns it as a bailout. He warns of hidden obligations and questions county policy on private water and sewer systems. The same meeting approved upgrading over a mile of substandard streets in Point of Rocks Estates.
At a Middletown meeting residents questioned Broad Street one way changes that curb bypass potential while proponents like Burgess Kenneth Arnett argued the quiet street attracts residents. County planning officials will weigh public input before regional hearings and a late summer approval, with the plan also limiting strip development along U.S. 40 A east of Middletown.
The National Weather Service forecast calls for showers from the eastern Gulf to the Midwest and upper Great Lakes, with the West mostly clear. Cool temperatures are expected across the Plains as a broad pattern develops.
The proposal envisions moderate expansion of Middletown and Myersville while preserving the Middletown Valley’s agricultural lands. It urges the development of a new Middletown Community Park and expansion of the Middletown Branch Library. Wolfsville would be designated a rural community with limited growth and a compact urbanized core outlined by surrounding agricultural and rural open spaces, designating Middletown, Myersville and Braddock Heights as development communities.
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