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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1969
Page
2
A damaged newspaper notice fragment mentions The Associated Press and AP dispatches with postal mailing note at Frederick Maryland. It references circulation and press entitlement language typical of wire service affiliations. No clear event or named individuals are identifiable.
Aged Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas reportedly loses a $12 000 annual salary from the Parvin Foundation that once owned three Las Vegas gambling casinos The foundation sold its stock for about 2 million dollars and remains led by Albert B Parvin amid criticism of Douglas connections to the foundation and its casino ties.
Frederick Howard Johnson Restaurant wins Employer of the Year from the Frederick County Association for Retarded Children for hiring six retardees. Dennis Wynne lauded the restaurant at the seventh annual Recognition Dinner while Wilbert Wiggs was elected president for the year.
Public-spirited residents urge the Board of Education to accelerate plans for a new Rock Creek Center adjacent to Waverley Elementary on Shookstown Road. Local attorney Jerome Offutt and doctors A M Powell and Charles Wright cite the need to replace Harmony Grove School and improve treatment of mental retardation and physical handicap. Board President Richard R. Kline agrees to do all possible to expedite the project.
The Supreme Court overturns Timothy Leary's 5 to 30 year sentence for transporting untaxed marijuana, ruling he cannot be prosecuted for the act when invoking the Fifth Amendment. The decision also rejects the assumption that Leary knew the drug was foreign grown, warning enforcement strains and political fallout in narcotics cases.
Joan M. Baker of Walkersville argues hundreds of Frederick County taxpayers oppose wasteful school spending and bloated supervisory ranks. A Damascus couple laments poverty, while readers critique sex education debates citing SIECUS and Washington DC programs.
Fifty years ago the Board of Aldermen planned a special meeting to clear pending business before the new administration takes over. The board will reconvene next week to finalize outstanding public affairs. A baggage car trunk theft en route to Frederick from Georgia saw about 300 dollars in clothing stolen from the Reichs. Salvation Army campaign reports show 2800 dollars raised in cash and pledges so far, with county reports not yet complete. Frederick County canners consider paying 22 dollars per ton for sugar corn as an voluntary higher price than growers requested previously.
About 3,700 Frederick County residents will sign in Annapolis to demand a referendum on the General Assembly act allowing Frederick Cig to condemn a strip of Frederick High School land. Hoy Scout Court of Honor will be held at Troup 206 cabin on West Patrick Street extended. Senior Junior Prom combines the two classes in one dance at the school gym. Navy Blue Angels and Army Shooting Stars to perform at Frederick Air Show postponed from May 1 due to heavy rain.
In a Washington report, Japan's economy surges beyond Britain and France in 1967 and tops West Germany in 1968. Industrial output triples in a decade as 100 million Japanese produce more than Asia's 1.7 billion combined, with high savings and heavy investment funding new plants.
Proposals to hold the convention on a major university campus and to have the nominee draft a personal platform are described as typical nuts and bolts items for funding recommendations to the next Democratic convention. The piece notes the stormy history of conventions and the limits of current scholarship, while suggesting Representative O'Hara as a potentially productive committee.
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