Aged and needy Frederick County seniors face neglect
The Frederick News-Post editorial urges action as the elder poor, many in nursing homes, face rising hardship amid inflation and recession. It lauds the County Commission on the Aging for forums in Frederick City Emmitsburg Thurmont Carroll Manor Middletown and Brunswick and calls for a four point plan including a Senior Citizens Center transit access school lunch program and an Intermediate Care Center. It also urges income tax relief and affordable prescription medicines and stresses the need for regulatory reforms and community support.
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Baltimore City
General Assembly
Annapolis
Maryland
Frederick County Commission On
Frederick City
Emmitsburg
Thurmont
Carroll Manor
Middletown
Brunswick
Patricia Thorne
Frederick County
White House
Board of County Commissioners
North Market Street
Frederick Community College
Department of Social Services
Montevue
National Newspaper Week Celebrated Across the Nation
National Newspaper Week runs October 4 to 10 with the theme American Newspapers 200 Years of Freedom 1770s to 1970. The piece lauds the free press and community newspapers for safeguarding liberty and fostering representation, noting over 10,000 community papers nationwide.
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U.S
U. S
Thoughts and Virtue Quotes by Historical Figures
A compact reading of daily proverbs and quotes from Malachi Gladstone Proverbs James Marcus Aurelius Romans Frederick the Great, urging duty, righteousness, and truth across the week. It pairs biblical verses with historic voices to frame moral guidance and national character.
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William E. Gladstone
Frederick the Great
Emperor of
Prussia
Readers question CAA purpose and bias in hiring
A Frederick area letter asks what the Community Action Agency really does for low income residents and recounts a perceived biased hiring at a local school. The writer urges accountability and clarity on CAA goals before accepting aid or positions. The letter is signed by Mrs Thelma Brown of Frederick Md.
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CAA
Community Action Agency
Elm Street School
Valley
South Frederick
Frederick City
The Palestinians Past Presses In The Palestinians Past Presses In
The piece contrasts Palestinian guerrillas with Jewish diaspora history, noting 600000 Palestinians in camps and nearly two million elsewhere. It argues education and UN aid have raised the second generation, yet fanaticism persists. It contends neither Israel nor the Arab world seeks a holy war, urging recognition of two sides to the sorrow.
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Israel
Jordan
Solomon's Temple
Mideast
Palestine
United Nations
How Now Mr Nader Recalls Corvair Cars
Ralph Nader seeks a federal recall of about 600000 Corvair cars while not offering compensation to owners from his 425000 GM privacy suit settlement. The piece mocks his safety crusade and notes the implied risk to Americans since earlier muskets reference.
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Ralph Nader
General Motors
Ralph
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
First Registration Under Suffrage Amendment Report
Report covers September 29 1920 voting results with 1437 new voters 1337 women and 110 men plus party figures 745 Republicans 661 Democrats and notes on a YMCA signal drill ahead of a Gettysburg game. Also a Frederick Opera House show and September 29 1950 airport zoning hearing with Senator McCarthy appearance and Butler Republican Senate bid.
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YMCA
Frederick Athletic Club
Gettysburg
Airport Zoning Commission
Board of Aldermen
City Hall
Rising Divorce Plagues Soviet
Soviet sociologists and Kremlin officials fret over soaring divorce rates as urbanization and industrialization expand. In 1967 over a million marriages broke, with only one new marriage per ten divorces, prompting calls to bolster family life and birth rates while discussing causes from women working, social prestige shifts, and psychological incompatibility.
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New York
Nea
Smena
Kremlin
Russia
V. Perevedentsev
Literaturnaya Gazette
Perevedentsev
East
West
Victor Pekelis
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Peter M. Jorgensen
Bares
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Wisconsin
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