Minority unity urged after Lakeland shooting shocks College Park
A Black Lakeland family facing a 20-bullet ambush near the University of Maryland becomes a call to national solidarity. Community leader Harry Braxton, his wife and 76-year-old mother hid from the gunfire as police probe who fired from surrounding woods.
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Harry Braxton
College Park
Braxton
New World
Lakeland
England
University of Maryland
Harry
Mr. Braxton
Harry Jr
Bowie State College
Curtis Thompson
Bruno
Washington Navy Yard
Lakeland Inter-Racial Committee
Independent Businesses Oppose FiveYear Estate Tax Plan
The National Federation of Independent Business reports 66 percent of independents oppose cutting the payment period for the Federal Estate Tax from ten to five years. Maryland shows 36 percent in favor, 66 percent against. The proposal aims to raise 1.5 billion dollars annually but could force many small firms to liquidate or merge. Congress awaits action amid cautious reception from small business groups.
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Nixon
National Federation of Independent Business
Maryland
Federation Research
Congress
National Association of Independent Businesses
Letters To The Editor On Fort Detrick Apathy
A Frederick reader criticizes local indifference toward the future of Fort Detrick. The letter argues the community overlooks the base's significance and potential impact, urging heightened awareness and civic interest in its fate and development.
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Frederick
Fort Detrick
Hurdles Still Up In Labor Struggle
A letter to the public discusses the union drive at Polsky's Akron Ohio across two votes and a federal certification, law delays, and the Sixth Circuit path to eventual Supreme Court review. It critiques Taft-Hartley and notes potential impacts on local industry and workers. A second letter urges citizen action to support a Frederick Maryland research facility and questions federal policy and funding.
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Polsky’s
Akron
Ohio
Allied Store
National Labor Relations Board
Polsky
Retail Clerks Union
Howard Kane
Kane
6Th Circuit Court of Appeals
Cincinnati
Supreme Court
NLRB
6Th Circuit
Glens Falls
N.Y
Frederick
Congress
White House
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
National Institutes of Health
National Science Foundation
Outrageous pork fraud shock in county history
Yesterday in Hagerstown County Agent Day disclosed that a Frederick county butcher is selling pork from diseased hog carcasses. The hogs reportedly died of cholera gangrene and pneumonia. The strong Mt Washington football team visits Frederick Athletic Club at Cadet Field at 3 30 this afternoon in a hard fought contest. The Orioles lost to the local club. Francis Scott Key Post plans a membership drive from 300 to 500. Frederick to get a new industry Lansdale Tube Company affiliate of Philco will establish a Frederick division. Republicans named for possible McKeldin appoinments as governor elect sends his green bag to the General Assembly next year. Bids for Emmitsburg school addition opened low at 167 365 by Allen F Feeser Company Taneytown.
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Washington County
Hagerstown
Frederick County
MT. Washington
Frederick Athletic Club
Cadet Field
Orioles
Peece
Mt. Washington Cu
Frederick
Frederick Chamber of Commerce
Lansdale Tube Company
Philco Corporation
Theodore R. McKeldin
General Assembly
Emmitsburg
Board of Education
Allen F. Feeser Company of
Taneytown
Thanksgiving, freedom, and a dollar's weight in life
Joe Eisenhauer presents reflections on gratitude for liberty and personal choice, celebrating religious freedom, work rights, and independence from government control. The piece contrasts thankful living with a call to maintain dignity, peace, and self-reliance. It also includes the poem A Beautiful World advising calm, honesty, kindness, and self-respect, and ends with a Dollar Speaks meditation on money's power and moral use.
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Pineciff Frederick, Md
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West
Ussr
Alkold Skalsky
Jefferson Boulevard
Braddock Heights
Beary's
NEA, Inc
Francis Scott Key
The
American Legion
News-Post
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God
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