Great Frederick Fair Opens with Record Crowd and events
Thousands attend as the Great Frederick Fair opens under sunny skies and schools close. Attendance so far tops 10,808 with revenues of 19,351, as 4H cattle judging and animal cavalcades highlight the day. Hank Williams and the Cheatin Hearts play tonight and Saturday features include Jack Kockman’s Hell Drivers.
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Frederick
Hank Williams
Jack Kockman
Hell
Fairgrounds
Mercury
Fair
Sears’ Barrow
Pamela Miller
Woodsboro
Frederick Jaycees
Goodloe Byron
Wallace Hutton
Richard Baumgartner
Ronald Young
Millard Mastrino
Norm Dyn
WFMD
Jaycees
Baumgartner
Young
Dyn
Mastrino
Byron
Hutton
The
Cheatin’ Hearts
Three Men Charged In Brunswick Boat Theft Case
State Police recovered a 14 foot olive green flat bottom boat near Brunswick after suspects removed the serial number while trying to sell it. Three men Joseph Gideon Philip Thompson and Ronald Baker face charges of offering the stolen boat for sale and police seek the owner.
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Victor Wolfe
Brunswick Area
Brunswick
Joseph Frederick Gideon
RFD 1
Knoxville
Philip Hanson Thompson
Ronald David Baker
EPA asks Army to seek alternatives to Monocacy River disposal
The EPA told Maj Gen John G. Appel to pursue other disposal methods for anti crops agents after Maryland officials and local leaders protested plans to dump them into the Monocacy River. The letter notes possible water quality impacts and urges burning or burial as options, while acknowledging Army assurances but highlighting public reaction.
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Washington
Environmental Protection Agency
Army
Monocacy River
EPA
John G. Appel
Maryland
Marvin Mandel
Maryland Department of Natural Resources
Council of Governments
Rockville
Frederick
Montgomery
Potomac
Fort Detrick
Mandel
Mansfield slams Agnew over red slur during defense debate
Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield condemned Vice President Agnew for likening the defense views of McGovern Muskie Kennedy and Humphrey to those of Gus Hall, head of the U S Communist Party. Mansfield called the comparison unfair and uncalled for as Democratic leaders push limits on military spending.
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Senate
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Spiro T. Agnew
Communist Party
Mansfield
Agnew
George S. McGovern
Edmund 5
Muskie
Edward M. Kennedy
Hubert
Humphrey
Gus Hall
U.S. Communist Party
Kennedy
McGovern
Nixon
Gus Mall
Communist Party USA
U.S
Vietnam
Hall
Harris Announces For Presidency
Oklahoma Senator Tred R. Harris declared his candidacy for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination. He said he will try to turn the country around before it is too late and aims to call this country back to the greatness that is in us as he becomes the second declared entrant in the field of Democratic White House prospects.
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Washington
Tred R. Harris
Oklahoma
White House
County Officials Question Downtown Plan Proposals
Frederick County commissioners questioned proposals in the Frederick City Downtown Plan presented to citizens. The plan suggests a new county courthouse and library complex on W Patrick Street and a new Board of Education office on S Market Street, with county offices in Winchester Hall and the present courthouse. Commissioners Derr and Dorsey urged consolidating county offices, courtrooms, and the library in a single new building, and noted a $100000 borrowing authority for a library courthouse complex, contingent on further steps.
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Frederick City
Marcou O'Leary Associates
W. Patrick St
Board of Education
S. Market St
Winchester
John Derr
Lawrence Dorsey
Dorsey
Winchester Hall
Derr
Rose Hill Manor History Topic of Meeting
J Glenn Little of Contract Archaeology Inc will present next Wednesday at 7 30 pm on the history of Rose Hill Manor. Ten months of archaeological and historical research have yielded important finds clarifying 18th century life and the manor’s role in Monocacy Valley through German settlers and industrial growth. The restoration committee spokesman stressed preserving these events for Frederick County in the 20th century. The meeting is open to the public.
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Glenn Little
Contract Archaeology Inc
Rose Hill Manor
Frederick
Nixon signals broad wage price freeze reach to consumer credit
President Nixon said wage price restraints could cover the whole economy and possibly curb consumer credit rates as Phase 2 targets inflation. He indicated the Fed could regulate consumer credit if rate trends worsen while noting current rates are lower than the Aug. 15 cap. The remarks came at a Detroit Economic Club dinner broadcast nationally with protesters outside.
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Detroit
Nixon
Detroit Economic Club
Cobo Hall
Attica
N.Y
Washington
Federal Reserve Board
HEW Plans 80 000 New Aides To Run Welfare Reform
Washington reports HEW will hire about 80 000 federal aides if Nixon welfare reform passes. The plan doubles HEW’s 107 000 staff to manage 4 000 Family Assistance offices and a federal system. Welfare costs rose 27 percent to 16.3 billion in 1971. State relief staff face job eliminations as reform moves ahead.
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Washington
Nixon
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
HEW
Joan D. Twiname
IEW
Richard P. Nathan
House
Senate Finance Committee
Nathan
Visitation Academy Marks 125th Anniversary
The Sisters of the Visitation celebrate 125 years since the academy's 1824 founding, with Cardinal Shehan as speaker. A Nixon message inserted in Congress confirms the 125 year milestone and notes the academy's Civil War Union hospital service and 1950s to 1970s restoration in Frederick Maryland.
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Sisters of the
Academy of the Visitation
Mother Seton
Visitation Sisters
Cardinal Shehan
Baltimore
Richard Nixon
Goodloe E. Byron
Nixon
Byron
Speaker
Sisters of the Visitation
Frederick
the Visitation
Frederick Academy of the Visitation
Visitation Academy
Fire log summary reports city calls and counts
Fire log for the 24 hour period ending 10 am notes an automobile fire on Water Street in Walkersville near Stream Residence at 4 m reported as 1 incident. A trash fire at a B PP Station in Jefferson was logged at 10:58 pm. Ambulance calls totaled five emergency and one routine. Population listed as 34 males and 0 females.
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Walkersville
Jefferson
Top Soviet Spy Defects to Britain Reported
A British newspaper, the London Evening News, claims a senior Soviet secret police officer defected to Britain and has been in British hands for two to three months. The Foreign Office would not confirm the defection, calling it a security matter.
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London
Britain
Foreign Office
London Lvening News
Evening News
Daily News
Market Report Sees Broad Stock Gains In New York
The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials rose sharply at 10 30 a m gaining 5.19 points to 896 47 as advances on the Big Board outpaced declines by more than 2 to 1 after four sessions of declines.
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APF
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