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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1987
Page
4
The Great Frederick Fair closes for another year with thanks to organizers participants and attendees. Readers will soon see fair results listing winners and top finishers in various contest categories celebrating a superb event and favorable weather.
Robert G C Reid critiques Gov Schaefer’s 201 million stadium plan linking private funding, land condemnation, and a nascent NFL bid. He notes legal hurdles, potential reliance on state funds if revenues falter, and possible voter backlash by 1990. Competition for an NFL franchise intensifies with Jacksonville’s Oilers bid.
FDA doctors rated the insulation failure risk at nine on a 12-point scale for 18 615 patients with 4002 wires. Medtronic sent a minimalist warning letter to doctors, the agency later acknowledged it should have used stronger language. Critics say the warning understates danger while most patients are not pacemaker dependent.
October 1 1937 sees strong city revenue in the first days of the tax year with 35 percent of levies collected. The Frederick County branch of the Maryland Children’s Aid Society campaign raises 1355.50 so far in Winchester Hall. Lions Club hears James Gambrill on the ancient Frederick County mountains. Great Frederick Fair closes with over 27 000 attendees and total 47 000. Halloween prize money tops 2000 across 17 categories. University of Hawai 19 year old Mary Milne and University of Alberta student Barbara Cornelson join the world sing-out Up With People at Governor Thomas Johnson High School.
A reader ridicules a front page story about a $30 part possibly used personally and mocks commissioners for overreacting. The letter recalls pigeons and psittacosis fears in New York, then UFO sightings over New Mexico, arguing Frederick headlines attract attention from visiting extraterrestrials.
A letter from Roscoe G. Bartlett urges Frederick County commissioners to pass an ordinance detailing drawing and quartering or skinning alive any rat found within county lines to deter rat dumpers. The writer proposes publicizing the measure in Takoma Park and notes his wife’s animal sympathy.
Commissioners will hear zoning amendment Case R.87-2 to permit unlimited private airports on 28 acre zoned parcels with agricultural and industrial designations. It would allow storage and maintenance but not air carriers, warning of noise, traffic, pollution, and higher accident risk cited from FAA data 1984 1985. Ralph Gordon Yamsville urges opposition.
Robert E. Kennedy and Nancy Hanel condemn Soviet leaders and nuclear arms race as unjust. The text argues liberty is essential, questions the cost of promoting ideology through war, and calls for antiwar action and no readiness for conflict. David N. Braune of the Peace Resource Center advocates peace and rejects war.
A reader condemns Diane Zabetakis for opening with male oriented language in a Sept 25 Frederick Post report on quilt competition at the Great Frederick Fair. The letter argues the event is largely women’s craft, praising a female Best of Show winner and urging neutral pronouns.
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