Maryland faces gamble proposals to legalize lottery and off track betting
Frederick columnist condemns Governor Mandel's plan for a state lottery and private run off track betting parlors. He warns of heavy criminal influence, fiscal risks, and harm to Maryland families, citing Nevada and Louisiana lotteries as cautionary examples. He notes committee splits and the potential loss to legitimate business and tax revenue.
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Annapolis
Wallace E. Hutton
Sertoma Club
Frederick
Maryland
Marvin Mandel
Free State
Hutton
Nevada
House of Delegates
General Assembly
Mandel
America
del. J. Hugh Nichols
Associated Press
New York
New Jersey
United States
New Orleans
Jubal A. Early
Pierre Tourant
Gustave Beauregard
Louisiana
Confederacy
Louisiana Lottery
Early
Beauregard
Washington
Congress
Mexico City
Invisible Brunswick shopping center debate rages in letters
A Brunswick reader says promised shopping center and stores are invisible while Thurmont quietly builds a center with buildings up. Other letters address cardiac catheterization training, state legislature spending, police and public defender issues, and thanks for Labor Day parade coverage.
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Brunswick
Thurmont
Tam
U.S. Navy
Richard Leichert
National Naval Medical Center
Bethesda
Hospital Corpa
Hospital Corps
Arrests and loans in 1921 Frederick County case summary
A Baltimore arrest of a man and wife clears four Frederick men and a Broad Run man of all involvement in the Horsey Distillery robbery near Burkittsville. The report also notes census figures for Frederick County, a new Foxville fire lookout tower, rising county retail sales tax receipts, and a critical public stance on FBI chief J Edgar Hoover with a challenging list of allegations.
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Baltimore
Horsey
Burkittsville
Washington
J. Edgar Hoover
FBI
Hoover
Warner Brothers
FBI Recreational Fund
Clyde Tolson
Charro
del Mar
Texas
Clint Murchison, Jr
Alan Witwer
Murchison
Congress
Cornelius Gallagher
D-N.j
Peter Frelinghuysen
R-N.j
Roland Libonati
D-Ill
Carl Albert
House
Hale Boggs
Gerald Ford
Ramsey Clark
Martin Luther King
White House
Dr. King
Tolson
Washington Post
Justice Department
Kenneth Lovin
New York
Kennedy International Airport
Lovin
Richard Oberpfell
Levin
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Gaithersburg
Washington Grove Fire Dept. Inc
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Yesteryear
Catoctin
Blue Blazes
Edith Tabler
Rocky Ridge
Auccess
Boys’ High School
Theodore F. Herman
Reformed Theological Seminary
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C. Thomas Kemp
Charles Wertheimer
Holmes D. Baker
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State Roads Commission
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