Maryland lawmakers urge streamlined constitution for ballots
Baltimore legislators Mandel and Cardin call for removing purely technical amendments from ballots and seek to reintroduce a convention bill from 1960 to modernize the constitution. They condemn the current mix as a hodgepodge that lengthens voting lines and cluttered the ballot.
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Baltimore
Maryland
Dels
Marvin Mandel
Maurice Cardin
Del
Jerome Robinson
Kennedy Leads Nixon in Maryland as Ballots Counted
In Baltimore the canvass continued with 5,600 absentee ballots to be counted. Kennedy held a margin over Nixon at 559,748 to 481,365, and the tally expected Kennedy to widen his lead as absentee ballots were finalized.
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Baltimore
Kennedy
Nixon
Maryland
Rockville Leads Maryland Annexation Drive As Growth Soars
Rockville, Maryland branded the national leader in annexations, with 23 gains in two decades pushing area to 10 square miles and population toward 160,000. Officials spoke at the Maryland Municipal League convention about future expansion and the effect on costs per resident.
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Rockville
Maryland
Maryland Municipal League
Antexer
Walter Scheber
Scheiber
George M. Miler
Takoma Park
Virginia
Laurence N.woodsworth
Cheverly
Annexation votes hinge on city and town electors
Virginia court petitions reveal that both annexing voters must approve for urban renewal powers and parkland dedication. The state municipal league plans to push through two legislative proposals to enable towns to pursue urban renewal and subprovider land dedication.
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Virginia
Municipal League
Alan Beals
League
Five Perish In Fire in Chicago Tenement Tragedy
A three story brick tenement fire in Chicago Claims five lives including a mother two of her children and a playmate. Victims Rosetta Woods 37 Audrew Brown 12 Betty Brown 13 James Laufton 31 and Robert Brooks 75 perished. One daughter Janis Brown 5 survived with critical burns. A resident and state firemen were slightly injured.
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Rosetta Woods
Audrew Brown
Betty Brown
James Laufton
Robert Brooks
Janis Brown
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