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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1969
Page
3
The text states that the Associated Press is entitled to republication of local news printed in this newspaper and all AP features. It also notes that postage is paid at a Fredericksburg address and mentions second-class postage paid.
Hood College, led by Dr Randle Elliott, reaches a quiet agreement with the Student Government Association on regulatory changes. Students gain social rule relaxations such as in dorm hours and weekend access for male friends, with 99 percent of requests granted after a parent survey.
The Frederick Organization for Rehabilitation Inc forms from the Interracist Dialogue Group to address the county's low-cost housing shortage. Warren Dorsey leads the new nonprofit planning first board meeting to pursue owner occupied homes and public education on housing blight.
Delaware reports 56 000 corporations as of January 1 with a third listed on the New York Stock Exchange. A new corporate statute enacted to replace the 1899 law makes the state highly favorable to business drawing about one hundred firms weekly.
A letter to the editor pleads for good mothers to raise children rightly. The piece emphasizes church involvement, nightly prayer, kind tempered guidance, and protection from harm as essential to nurturing virtuous, nation‑strengthening youth.
The piece surveys Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson as a symbol of faltering democratic socialism, noting his shift from radical expectations to pragmatic choices. It compares his fate to other Western socialist movements and cites pressure from labor MPs and U.S. policy constraints as factors in his political decline.
A violent hail storm in Frederick County damaged crops over a wide area. Gardens were wiped out and hailstones reportedly as large as walnuts. The Roads Board plans a two mile road link from Frederick Junction toward Urbana to simplify two turns and five hills on the Georgetown pike. Salvation Army campaign momentum grew after a Frederick Armory rally where Attorney General Albert C. Ritchie spoke and received loud applause. Frederick baseball fans lament the absence of professional baseball as the Blue Ridge League collapsed.
Walter Rayo nds applications for permits for about 500000 building projects indicate a late surge in local construction. Two permits for a new police barracks and the FOE home. Thirteen post war senior and senior high track records fall as 500 plus students compete in county meet. Unemployment has tapered in Frederick with more job opportunities. Maryland Department of Employment Security official notes improved conditions. Diplomas will be awarded at Maryland State School for the Deaf with Dr Leonard M Elstad delivering the commencement address.
Joe Eisenhauer urges careful driving during Memorial Day weekend warning that most fatalities stem from human error not fate. He cites thoughtlessness speed drunk driving and showing off as common causes and recalls a Utah safety verse urging drivers to imagine broken bodies and grieving families to deter risk on the road. He emphasizes the automobile as a powerful but controllable tool and calls for a personal vow to never take a chance behind the wheel.
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