Dark Horse Emerges in Maryland Gubernatorial Race
Grass-roots pressure grows for William M. Houck to be considered as a potential successor to Gov. Spiro Agnew. State figures acknowledge Houck’s role as Ways and Means chair while other contenders include Harry Hughes, Thomas Lowe, Francis Burch, Dale Anderson, and J. Millard Tawes as party factions weigh the open race. The next regular session opens January 15.
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Thurmont
Maryland
Houck
House
Ways and Means
General Assembly
Dark Horse
Houeit
James
Mandel
Len. Harry R. Hughes
Upper Shore
del. Thomas Hunter Lowe
Talbot
Francis B. Burch
Baltimore County
Dale Anderson
J. Millard Tawes
City Awards Police Contracts in Frederick Meeting
The Roney Motor Company won five police cars with a bid of 5 850.35 each total 11 220.35 after trade-in discounts, beating Frederick Motor Company Key Chevrolet and Watkins Burdette. Air conditioning was rejected by a 3 to 2 vote. Frederick Motor Company won three half ton pickups for 5292.30 and Key Chevrolet four three quarter ton pickups for 6298.00.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roney Motor Company
Frederick
Roney
Frederick Motor Company
Key Chevrolet
Watkins-Burdette Motor Company
Chevrolet Company
Antietam Equipment Corporation
Slagerstown
Lowell Tire and Battery Company
Donald B. Rice Tire Company
Lowell
Rice
Coln
Ten Local Policemen Promoted by Frederick City Board
Frederick city board of aldermen approved promotions for ten policemen. Captaincy for the vacant post since May went to Ellis G. Carty, formerly detective lieutenant, with deputy chief of police duties. Detective bureau saw multiple moves including Paul W. Mossburg to Detective Lieutenant and others promoted to DSgt and Sgt.
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Frederick
Dsgts
Detective
Calvin L. Phillips
Richard E. Lewis
Pic
William Hn, Crabiller
Thomas F. Littleton
William Or. Hurt
Franklin D. Willson,Jr
Courts Will Decide School Problem In Maryland labor talks
The Frederick County Teachers Association becomes the sole negotiating agent for teachers under a 1968 Maryland act. The dispute centers on whether policy matters like hiring timelines are negotiable. the FCTA seeks to reopen talks and may escalate to the State Board of Education or the courts for a ruling under Article 77 Section 175.
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Frederick County Teachers Association
Frederick Counsty
Maryland General Assembly
Maryland
FCTA
TNA
EGTA
State Board of Education
Board of Education
Pioneer 9 launches to solar orbit in space mission
Cape Kennedy AP Pioneer 9 blasted into a solar orbit aboard a Delta rocket with a 40 pound communications satellite as a test target for ground stations. The probe will swing around the sun every 297.5 days at 70 to 93 million miles, gathering data on solar wind cosmic rays and fields to warn of radiation for future moon missions.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Earth
America
Pioneer 9
Fire Log Reports Multiple Building and Motor Fires
Fire calls in the 24 hour period ending at 10 a.m. include a building fire at AT T New Market Hyattstown Damascus and motor fire at Linganore Construction Co Apples Church Rd Thurmont. Responders from Thurmont and local stations were dispatched. Community emergency numbers CITY 663 4400 and COUNTY 662 6333 listed.
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County
Monrovia
At&t
New Market
Hyattstown
Damascus
Thurmont
Linganore Construction Co
Apples Church Rd
Hodgson to Lead Frederick Retarded Children's Fund Drive
Mrs. Mary Corkson Hodgson, Frederick businesswoman and civic leader, is named chairman of the Frederick County Association for Retarded Children's 1968 fundraising campaign. Wilbert Wiggs announces her appointment as she continues a second term as President of Frederick County Board of Education. She holds multiple local roles including chamber of commerce, Daughters of the American Revolution, Eastern Star, and Zonta Club. she also chairs the Salvation Army advisory board and has long campaigned for handicapped welfare.
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Mary Corkson Hodgson
Frederick
Horigson
Ich Chamber of Commerce
Daughters of the American Revlution
Owfer
The
Eastern Star
Zonta Club
Evangelical and Reformed United Church of Chiist
Salvation Army
Father Grinage
Frederick City
Mralodgeon
Delta Kappa Gamma
Frederick County
Maryland
County Rain Falls Short of 50 Year Average
In Frederick County 1968 trails the 50 year rainfall average despite recent showers. Only 2.77 inches have been recorded at the WFMD transmitter through the year with 8.21 inches already needed for normal rainfall in the past ten months. To reach normal levels by year end 13.83 inches must fall in November and December, possibly bringing a white Christmas if heavy rain arrives from the damps.
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George Dorsey
WFMD
Frederick County
Market Advances Amid Weather Warnings and Rainfall Notes
The opening stock market moved higher in early trading. A weather outlook forecasts possible snow flurries today and up to a quarter inch of rain over the weekend. Temperatures are expected to run below normal with highs in the 40s and lows in the 30s.
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New York
Galan
Loves
B52s Raid Enemy Bases Along Cambodian Border
Waves of B52 bombers attacked base camps along the Cambodian border near Saigon. Fifty of eighty jets dropped 1500 tons on troop concentrations, supply depots, and infiltration routes in eight missions between noon Thursday and noon today.
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Saigon
U.S
Nixon Delays Naming Appointees and Vietnam Visit Plans
Nixon plans at least a month to choose top aides and defers to Johnson on foreign trips before the inauguration. The Nixon camp forecasts possible Vietnam talks with Thieu, while final election tallies and absentee ballots continue. Electoral College reform tops congressional agenda as results show Nixon leading Humphrey across several states.
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Associated Press
Richard M. Nixon
Johnson
Saigon
Vietnam
South Vietnam
Nguyen van Thieu
Nixon
Biscayne
Fla
Washington
Emanuel Celler
D-N.y
House Judiciary Committee
Thieu Outlines New Formula For Paris Talks
In Saigon President Thieu proposed that the Paris peace conference be led by the South Vietnamese government alongside North Vietnam with the National Liberation Front possibly included. He argued the United States could take a back seat and that Hanoi would control the opposite delegation. Thieu rejected four party talks and denied agreeing to any private four way discussions with the U S ambassador.
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Saigon
Nguyen van Thieu
United States
Paris
Thieu
National Liberation Front
North Vietnam
Tiley
Hanoi
Paria
Johnson
NLF
Thiau
Hle
IH Anoi
Washington
Vigil Outside Federal Court As Nine Convicted Protestors to Be Sentenced
About 100 war protestors gathered outside a federal court in Baltimore for a vigil after nine Roman Catholic priests and laymen were convicted of burning draft records. Sentencing by Chief Judge Joszel Thomson carried a possible 17 000 fine and imprisonment. Police and hundreds watched as demonstrators and participants, including torchbearers from Goucher College, faced a vigil near Battle Monument with mayor's approval for orderly protest.
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Baltimore
Goucher College
Thomas J. D'Alesamiro
Pernome
Dieaent
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Wiliam M. Houck
Dfrederick Co
William S. James
Harford Co
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Agnew
House of Delegates
Marvin Mandel
Prague
Russia
Rubs -Edmonston
South Viet
Pioneer
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Communications
Pioneer’ 9
Mrs. Hodgson
Mra, Maryielgson
Lanow
Flaber
Creagerstown
Seow Hag
Rolfe Castleman
Cambodian
Do Cao Tri
3Rd Corps
Tri
Iland
Imubert M. Humphrey
Missouri
Alaska
Humphrey
George C. Wallace
Tumphrey
Tata
Alabama
Reds
Standing Vigil
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