Thanksgiving 1979 Changing times timeless spirit
The piece argues Thanksgiving endures despite social change. It notes shifts from Pilgrims to modern preprocessed foods and from grandparents’ visits to high rise homes, yet asserts the core meaning remains: giving thanks for freedom, family, home, health, and the ability to sustain them, across a changing America.
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America
There Will Always Be An America And It Will Be Free
A Thanksgiving tribute extols American freedom and opportunity, urges gratitude for traditional values, and defends the nation's progress and resilience. It contrasts US strengths with foreign deprivation, asserts faith in private charity, and invokes Lincoln and enduring liberty.
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Washington
America
Cambodia
Cambodians to receive relief as world aids hunger crisis
Jimmy Carter ordered up to 99 million dollars in food for starving Cambodians amid global hunger. First Lady Rosalynn Carter toured refugee camps, while private donors and U S Senate staffers arranged four tons of CMS corn soy milk with Pan Am transport to Bangkok. Volunteers and private firms coordinated freight from Krauser’s plant to San Francisco and on to Cambodia, aiming to ease a crisis described as among history’s worst.
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Washington
Thanksgiving Day Board
Cambodia
Jimmy Carter
Rosalynn Carter
United States
United Nations
Po Pot
Pol Pot
Khmer Rouge
Carter
Fanar
Sen J. Bennett Johnston
Dela
Aintemat Johnston
Senate
Krause Milling Co
Milwaukee
CMS
Johnston
Pan Am
Civil Aeronautics Board
Bangkok
San Francisco
American Trucking Association
ATA
Yellow Freight
Shawnee Mission
Kan
Krauser
St. Joseph
State Department
Jack Mitchell
Taxation limit push by Western Maryland retirees in Maryland
A group of Western Maryland retirees from Allegany, Washington and Frederick counties urge zero budgeting to cut state and local spending and taxes. They cite past budget growth, surpluses, and rising costs, calling for letters to legislators, the governor, and committee members to press for spending limits amid debates on gas tax and mass transit funding.
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Maryland
Allegany
Washington
Frederick
Frederick County
Julien P. Delphey
W. Lanny Hardenhorn
Charles E. Smith
Ed Mason
Del
Charles Munson
Joint Committee
Thomas B. Kernan
del. Kernan
White Oak Rd
Baltimore
Sen
Fred Markus Jr
Spring St
P. O. Box
Cambridge
Ellen R. Sauerbrey
Sweet Air
Baldwin
Francis X. Kelly
Tregarone
Timonium
James C. Simpson
P.O. Box
Waldorf
Idamae Garrett
Estelle
Wheaton
Tyras Athey
Ways and Means Committee
Shipley Farm
Jessup
State House
Annapolis
Harry J. McGuirk
Frederick Rd
Senate
Transportation Fund
Mary Margrabe
Annual Dinner of Ladies' Sewing Society held in church parlors
The Evangelical Reformed Church Ladies' Sewing Society met at the church parlors with 30 attendees. Rev. Dr. H. L. G. Kieffer delivered a brief talk. Dinner was arranged by a committee led by Mrs. Florence Doll. Mrs. G. Waring Tyson has led the society for 31 years.
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Ladies’ Sewing Society
The
Evangelical Reformed Church
H. L. G. Kieffer
Florence Doll
Jacob H. Schmidt
H. A. Herwig
Roy Ramsburg
Jesse B. Anders
Wolfe
Leonard Nothagle
G. Waring Tyson
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