Hood College opens doors for men within commuting distance
Hood College in Frederick County votes to admit men as day students in a full liberal arts degree program starting next January. The move allows area residents and two year Frederick Community College graduates access to baccalaureate study while Hood remains an all women residential college. The college emphasizes high standards and offers majors in arts and sciences plus pre graduate tracks with study abroad options in Strasbourg France and the Aegean Greek program. About 48 percent of Hood students receive financial aid annually through scholarships loans or campus work.
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Dargan Defiance Presses State Education Law Over School Closure
In Washington County rural Dargan parents resist closing the two room school and barring 27 children from the building. The board of education plans legal action, with 17 parents arraigned in circuit court for violating the state attendance law. Affected families have continued classes on the school grounds despite signs and padlocked doors.
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Weatherholt Responds To Welfare Right Letter In Maryland Race
George Wm Weatherholt of Araby Frederick Maryland writes in reply to a Frederick Welfare Rights Organization open letter. He says he campaigns on beliefs not special interests, questions Title I funding, school budgets, and clothing for children, and defends his working man credentials. Weatherholt will meet the group to discuss his views.
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Reds Break All Cease-Fires
Washington report notes Nixon proposals for a Southeast Asia standstill cease-fire gain support from South Vietnam’s Thieu Cambodia’s Lon Nol and Laos’s Souvanna Phouma. It argues Communists repeatedly violate cease-fires to gain time and strategic advantage, risking regional stability.
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Opening of the 69th Frederick County Fair marks October exhibit
Dense morning sun breaks through clouds as the 69th annual Fair of the Frederick County Agricultural Society formally opens. The day also reports a trolley car crash near Cherry Lane station injuring Dr. J Bernard McClellan and a police roundup leading to warnings for 24 boys amid a case involving a 16 year old and a 15 year old acquaintance. Local voting figures show Democrats leading Republicans by 1 600 in Frederick city after new registrations. the 19th annual American Legion toy drive is set with Key Post cadets and scouts aiding, and 140 delegates from 48 Western Maryland Evangelical and Reformed churches gather for the Potomac Synod fall meeting for information and instruction.
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All Right Hanoi Peace Path or . . .?
Hanoi may face a stock like choice as Washington offers a cease fire and full withdrawal. Nixon moves toward disengagement while Hanoi weighs surrendering bases and limits. North Vietnam aims to preserve gains and investment in reunification despite U.S. pullout. The issue invites careful consideration from both sides.
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