Rainfall tops 3% inches as roads stay closed in Frederick
Rainfall exceeds 3 inches with two Frederick County roads closed by high water Keysville Road and Water Street Road. Monocacy River levels rise but no major flooding, while a flash flood watch covers central and western Maryland. Temps near 60s with weekend highs in the 70s and lows around 50s.
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Frederick County
Keysville Road
Water Street Road
Sixes Bridge Road
Retreat Road
Biggs Ford Road
Daysville Road
Israel’s Creek
Monocacy
Ceresville Road
Reich's Ford Road
Pinecliff Park
Frederick
Maryland
Eloise
Tennessee
Senator Church reveals CIA opened mail of Nixon and others
Sen. Church told a Senate panel that the CIA routinely opened and read mail from former President Nixon and other prominent figures including Edward Kennedy. He listed Sen. Humphrey, Rep. Abzug, Martin Luther King and wife, Jay Rockefeller, Arthur Burns, the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations, and Harvard. He did not detail time frame or quantities.
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Washington
Central Intelligence Agency
Richard M. Nixon
Edward M. Kennedy
Senate Intelligence Committee
Frank Church
Didaho
Nixon
CIA
Church
Kennedy
Hubert H. Humphrey
D-Minn
Bella Abzug
Dn.v
Martin Luther King
West Virginia
Jay Rockefeller
Federal Reserve Board
Arthur Burns
Ford Foundation
Harvard University
Rockefeller Foundation
Rockefeller
Frederick County Crime Rate Rises 16 Percent in Q2
The Maryland Uniform Crime Report shows Frederick County crime up 16 percent in April to June from January to March, with 659 total offenses. Forcible rapes rose to three, aggravated assaults to 46, thefts to 422, and robberies to 10. murders fell to none, burglaries decreased, and auto larceny edged down. The county accounted for about a quarter of Western Maryland region crimes, with auto larceny, and aggravated assaults representing large shares of regional totals.
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Frederick County
Maryland
Allegany
Washington
Frederick
Garrett
Carroll
Downtown Frederick school board clash over Elm Street plan
Newest county school board member Mrs Rita Gordon was elected president of the Frederick Improvement Foundation and faced immediate criticism from Mayor Ronald Young over plans to phase out Elm Street and Parkway schools near downtown. The mayor urged better notice for a capital improvements meeting and questioned board priorities while noting city taxpayers fund crossing guards and the county covers bus costs for city children.
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Rita Gordon
Frederick Improvement Foundation
Ronald Young
Frederick
Elm Street
Parkway
Federal
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Young
Board of Education
Frederick City
Frederick County Board approves 77 CIP plans and Elm Street add
The Frederick County school board approved its fiscal year 1977 Capital Improvements Program with no changes and budget through 1982 adding Elm Street Elementary construction at about 1.2 million. They also rejected East Frederick Elementary schematics and planned to seek approval from the state InterAgency Committee, with six high priority projects listed including Vocational Technical Center equipment and Frederick Middle renovations.
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Frederick County
East Frederick
East Frederick School
CIP
Elm Street
Fytz Cip
Chuck Holly
Parkway School
State InterAgency Committee
Vocational Technical Center
Singanore High
New Market
Frederick Mi
Bass County Middle School
Local cancer unit picks new officers honors volunteers
The Frederick County Unit of the American Cancer Society held its annual meeting and recognition program at the VFW on Tuesday night. Twelve volunteers were honored as new officers and two-year directors were elected and installed including M. Albert Morningstar as president and Orley R. Bourland as vice president. Awards were given after the dinner to Dr. Stuart J. Gourlay MD for contributions to Breast Self-Examination clinics.
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Frederick County
American Cancer Society
VFW
Harry G. Dangerfield
M. Albert Morningstar
Orley R. Bourland
Frances Ann Gilbert
Richard Martin
Charlotte Jones
Marsha Jones
Cecelia Castlow
Henry T. Eigelsbach
Jeanne Mowe
Jane Nusbaum
Daniel R. Twardzik
Stuart J. Gourlay MD
Congress probes Secret Service over Ford protection
Congress, alarmed after two assassination attempts on President Ford, plans a Senate inquiry into the Secret Service. The probe will assess agency protection methods as Secret Service drafts new procedures, with presidential protection revamps to be reviewed before Ford's next trip to Chicago.
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Washington
Ford
Congress
Secret Service
San Francisco
Senate
Congressional
Presidential
Philip Buden
Chicago
Sara Jane Moore
Hearst swears she lied under duress about SLA ties
Patricia Hearst, once skeptical of brainwashing claims, says in a sworn affidavit she was driven insane by the Symbionese Liberation Army kidnappers. She describes torture, blindfolding, confinement, and fear that distorted her mind, and she notes memory gaps after April 1974. A federal judge ordered psychiatric testing before bail decisions.
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San Francisco
Patricia Hearst
Tania
Miss Hearst
U.S. District Court
Oliver J. Carter
B&O station grant approved by state board
The Maryland State Board of Public Works authorized a 65 000 grant to purchase the B O Railroad Station and transfer its title to the City of Frederick for the Maryland Historical Trust. The deal includes a perpetual architectural easement and a quick three day title transfer process. Governor Mandel and Comptroller Goldstein attended the board meeting.
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State Board of Public Works
City of
Frederick
Maryland Historical Trust
Marion Boschert
J. Max Milstone
General Services Department
Marvin Mandel
Louis Goldstein
Inside The News: Crime, Extortion, Assassination Headlines
A scrambled item brief mentions Sara Moore as a police informant and a TV crime segment about boys extorting, producers seen hiking crude prices, and a Western Europe threat case. Weather notes forecast rain with highs in the 70s tonight and Thursday.
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Catoctin Mountains
Amos L. Brown
Sen. Church
United States
Soviet Union
Abzug
New York
New York Stock Exchange
Gordon
Downtown Action Group
Richard Brady
Peggy Pilgram
J.M. Bennett
Gilbert A. Newby
Cancer Unit
Kenneth Lynch
Appropriations Subcommittee On
Treasury, Postal Service and
General Government
Patty
U.S
B&o
Inside the News
Sara Moore
Europe
Ed Howe
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