Taxpayers League backs budget restraint in Frederick County
President Charles E. Callins of the board of coin commissioners supports the new Citizens Taxpayers League. Leaders led by Robert E. Dailey Sr. aim to work with the commissioners to curb budget increases and trim unnecessary expenditures while acknowledging some realty tax rise is likely. Mutual restraint and shared goals of good government are urged as the process moves to tax rate setting.
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Charles E. Callins
Board of Coin Commissioners
Citizens’ Taxpayers' League
Collins
Frederick County
Robert E. Dailey Sr
Board of County Commissioners
New Taxpayers’ League
Taxpayers’ League
Board of County Comissioners
Pipeline Progress Signals Frederick County Growth
Frederick County moves ahead on a water line from the Potomac River to Eastalco near Buckeystown as part of a multi‑million project tied to the new aluminum plant. Excavation for a river pumping station began, with full capacity expected by early next year and limited water by October. A $6 million bond issue funds the line and related facilities, including $1.5 million for the Monocacy Tuscarora sewage interceptor.
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Frederick County
Potomac River
Eastalso
Buckeystown
Francis Cook
Eastalco
Cook
Monocacy-Tuscarora
New Board of Education President Richard R. Kline
Richard R. Kline is elected president of the Board of Education, a native of Frederick County and businessman, with a career including Economy Oil in Frederick and a Korean War service as a first lieutenant. Chris T. Matthews is chosen as vice president, a University of Maryland graduate employed at Fort Detrick, and a long-time Frederick County resident.
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Richard R. Kline
Board of Education
Frederick County
Economy Oil Company
Frederick
Middletown
Margaret Mitchell
Hood College
Buckeystown
Frederick High School
Mercersburg Academy
Franklin and Marshall College
Kline
Chris T. Matthews
University of Maryland
Fort Detrick
Mary Lee Smalser
Vietnam Letter Praises Young American GI
A brother writes from Bien Hoa Air Force Base in Vietnam praising the young Marine soldiers fighting abroad. He describes them as beardless, fresh from high school, tough and brave, with basic skills from weaponry to first aid. The letter honors their sacrifice and emphasizes their crucial role for freedom.
Contention over Frederick County sex education in public schools
The Frederick County Ministerium says no pornographic material was found in pilot sex education materials used for third to sixth graders and notes opposition remains strong in Emmitsburg Wolfsville and Unionville. The debate echoes nationwide with bills to ban sex education in several states and federal funding risks. Local readers offer contrasting views on parental roles, clergy guidance, and the proper setting for such instruction amid a heated public controversy.
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Emmitsburg
Wolfsville
Unionville
Lberal
Drederick County
Clerjsy
Queministerium
McAns
Treforick
Jachin
Arizona
California
Iowa
Nevada
New Jersey
New York
Oklahoma
Tennessee
Washington
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Marvin Mandel
NETM
Congress
Leiba Ve Gena de Fey
John Birch Sociey
Noomeins
Dragmage
Merc
Fifty Years Ago Items From The News Just Files May 21 1919
Yesterday fifty years past in Frederick County reports on wool prices from a U S Bureau expert urging growers to seek twenty cents more per pound. Plans for the annual old folks meeting at United Gretchen Church Myersville include short addresses by venerable citizens and a Wey era service. Harmony prevailed at the Democratic City Convention at the courthouse as the ticket was filled for June. The peach drop near Smithsburg is expected to be light with only twenty percent of orchards sprayed, leaf curd disease causing fruit to drop.
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Frederick County
U. S. Bureau of Animal Industry
Frederick County Sheep Growers Association
United Gretchen Church
Myersville
Wey
Smithsburg
Traffic control change aims to ease city flow
Twenty years ago the News Post notes a shift from simultaneous to progressive traffic control sequencing as the first free step by city officials and local businessmen to improve city traffic. Frederick receives Civil Air Patrol gear including two VHF radio sets and 60 cadet manuals. state police move 15 people to Frederick Memorial Hospital after two head on crashes on Route 410. seven teens among the over four vehicles injured. a violent thunderstorm brings almost 1.5 inches of rain and spectacular lightning over Frederick.
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Phederick
Prederi¢h
Civil Air Patrol
Frederick Memorial Hospital
New Market
Statewide office consolidation reshapes Maryland government
Maryland plans a long range program to centralize offices in Baltimore and Annapolis. Phase one includes a $1 million Court Building and a $5.5 million Natural Resources Building in Annapolis, while Baltimore will house a Health Laboratories complex and a parking under elevated malls. The project consolidates scattered agencies to cut costs and reduce taxpayer travel, with 90 staff in Baltimore and 85 in Annapolis dedicated to maintaining the new main campuses.
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St. Mary's City
Annapolis
Baltimore
Rowe Boulevard
State House
Naval Academy Stadium
Tom
Frederick County
Parole Board
Roads and Health
Roads Commission
West Preston
Mount Royal
Preston Street
Taylor Avenue
Maryland
Vladimir A. Wahbe
Courts of Appeals and
Special Appeals
Natural Resources
Parole
Center
Debate over sex education in Frederick County schools
County Commissioners face scrutiny over sex education program funding and evaluation. Critics urge detailed accounting of expenditures and an independent cost assessment of the ongoing curriculum review amid calls for clearer budgetary oversight and process transparency.
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