Frederick Historic Sites Consortium kicks off annual Museums Month
Volunteers drive Frederick County history push as Tourism Council-backed group promotes visiting sites like Schifferstadt, the Taney home, Rose Hill Manor and the Barbara Fritchie Museum. Call 663-8687 for details and join Historic Museums Month activities.
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Historical Society of
Roger Brooke Taney
Rose Hill Manor
Brunswick Railroad Museum
Tourism Council
Labor Day column lost to computer mishap and mood on tech
A writer laments a Labor Day column written using a laptop and modem, only to have the file vanish when the office computer refused it. He recalls family pets and surroundings, praises modern gear, then rewrites the piece after the digital mishap, blaming the unreliable machine and vowing to avoid future tech woes.
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Rusty
Corinne
Pepi
Dini
America
Waikiki
Tandy Radio Shack
Johns Hopkins Audit Finds Questionable Overhead Costs
Federal auditors reviewed Johns Hopkins University billing for FY 1987 and questioned 828000 in overhead charges including 109000 in entertainment expenses. They found about a quarter of the questioned costs funded by federal research money, amid broader concerns over allowable overhead rules.
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Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore
China
Stanford University
Johns Hopkins
Johns Hopkins Brain Trust
Health and Human Services
Richard Kusserow
Jim Lynch
Johns Hopkins spending audit reveals lavish and questionable costs
Auditors flagged high end expenses at Johns Hopkins including a $23 143.57 farewell bash for a departing Provost in 1986 and a $7 601 banquet. Travel and non research funds drew scrutiny with airfare to Los Angeles for Chinese visitors and a $27 666 trip to Nanjing while a $157 941 PR budget was deemed off limits to federal money. University plans tighter billing and says improper allocations may total under $90 000.
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Indianapolis
Los Angeles
China
Germany
Nanjing
Maryland Jockey Club
Dennis O’shea
O’shea
Bus schedules resume old route in Feagaville area
Superintendent Eugene W. Pruitt said new bus schedules allow restoring the old routes in Feagaville after parents complained of early departures and late returns. Parochial pupil pickups had required double runs for more than 0 Frederick County buses, easing the burden on students and transportation staff.
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Feagaville
Frederick County
Frederick County school construction funding request downtown plan
The Board of Education asked Frederick County Commissioners for 732000 in school construction funds. The request would lift the local school construction budget above 10 million, mainly for site acquisition and equipment not covered by a 9.3 million state grant. A prices and incomes commission was urged by Sen. Mathias during a Chamber luncheon. At the event at Francis Scott Key Hotel, Bernard Callan, Goodloe Byron, and William Howard joined the discussion. Byron supported an 8.7 million downtown Frederick renovation plan aimed at a pedestrian city with Carroll Creek park.
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Prices and Incomes Commission
Charles McC. Mathias
Frederick Chamber of Commerce
Francis Scott Key Hotel
Bernard Callan
Chamber
Goodloe E. Byron
William Howard
National Affairs Committee
Frederick
Byron
Carroll Creek
Forgive Roy Meachum for His Recent Diatribes
James E. Keenan of Middletown urges forgiveness for Roy Meachum amid harsh criticism of American liberal left and Soviet collapse. Keenan argues the left faces disintegration abroad and domestically, calling on readers to grant leniency as Meachum seeks relief and a quiet break.
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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Stalin
White House
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Communist Party of
United States
Roy
Castro
Gaddafis
KGB
No God given right to bear arms letter critique
A Frederick News Post reader questions the phrase in vitro in a letter about abortion debate noting its artificial connotation and arguing pregnancy is not in glass. The letter warns against devaluing motherhood and criticizes misused terms. The exchange includes Bruce I vins and Bruce A Booher voices responding to broader local politics.
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Frederick News- Post
Camp Jamie story touches hearts with hopeful notes
Betty L. Smith of Thurmont praises Nancy Luse for a Hospice of Frederick County feature on Camp Jamie. She commends Mark Crummett’s photographs and hopes the uplifting program for children who lost someone becomes annual and continues to be covered by The Frederick News-Post.
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Jamie
Mark Crumment
Hospice
Frederick County
Frederick
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