Adequate Facilities Debate Shapes Frederick County Plan
A preliminary plan favors 20 000 housing units under discussion a sign of growing density. The Adequate Facilities Ordinance would require developers to fund or ensure roads sewers water and schools before new builds. Support exists from county leaders and towns though concerns remain about who bears costs and the effect in a recession.
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Frederick County
Maryland
Ronald Sundergill
Board of County Commissioners
Frederick City
The Cat in the Hat and Sputnik Echo Through Time
A reminiscence ties the 1957 Sputnik launch to national fear and the rise of educational reform. The piece highlights Dr. Seuss as a counterpoint to technocratic schooling, praising reading's joy and Seuss’s influence on learning while critiquing bureaucratic schooling.
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Federal
Jane
Johnny
Theodor Seuss Geisel
Sputnik
North Charles Street
Seuss
Dr. Seuss
Military weighs soldiers out for being too heavy
Washington Air Force Captain James Spellman was forced out after weighing 207 pounds, four pounds over the Pentagon limit for his 5 foot 10 inch frame. The military enforces strict height to weight ratios through a program of counseling, exercise, and monthly weigh-ins, nicknamed the Fat Boy Program, leading to many terminations despite solid records.
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Washington
Air Force
James Spellman
Spellman
Pentagon
Panama
Manuel Noriega
Norman Schwarzkopf
Army
Navy
Marines
Army buckles under a pudgy officer booted from service
A personnel board ousted a valuable officer over weight rules and questioned his fitness amid a larger push to trim 500000 personnel by 1997. The piece notes the Panama invasion critique and compares attitudes to later Gulf War visibility. It also ponders Democratic primary dynamics and Bush's stance on Saddam Hussein.
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Army
Jim Lynch
Spellman
Panama
Pentagon
Vandenberg Air Force Base
California
Lily Pons Named Honorary Mayor of Lilypons Md
Lily Pons acknowledged as honorary mayor of Lilypons Maryland on a radio program. A citizens committee sent telegrams of congratulations. In Langhorne Pa a motorcycle rider, Leon Blickenstaff, fell testing a bike for a 100 mile race, treated for minor injuries and released. Larry McPhail of the Brooklyn Dodgers helped at an Aberdeen Angus sale at Frederick Fairgrounds, the sale drawing bidders from Oklahoma and beyond with strong prices.
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Lily Pons
Lilypons
Clarence C.C. Thomas
Charles H. Conley
Ernest Page
G.L. Thomas
Eleanor Bourke
Langhorne
Leon Blickenstaff
Myersville
Dill Avenue
West Fifth Street
Elm
Bentz Streets
Frederick City Hospital
Blickenstaff
Larry McPhail
Brooklyn Dodgers
Frederick Fairgrounds
Oklahoma
Mr. McPhail
Glen-Angus Farms
Bel Air
Frederick County figures in push for teacher pay raises
MSTA assistant executive secretary Robert Dexter says Frederick County was picked as a test case to show how teachers will be denied justice without higher pay. Richard Grossnickle is named Outstanding Young Farmer by the Frederick County Jaycees. Thurmont businessman Sterling L Bollinger elected president of the Frederick County Unit of the American Cancer Society. Cancer Crusade awards go to Shirley Erick, Doris G. Carter, Mrs. Russell A. Dutrow and Emily Payne.
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Maryland State Teachers’ Association
MSTA
Robert Dexter
Frederick County
Frederick
Richard Grossnickle
Johnsville
Frederick County Jaycees
Thurmont
Sterling L. Bollinger
American Cancer Society
Francis W. Bush Sr
Shirley Erick
Doris G. Carter
Russell A. Dutrow
Emily Payne
Boot Camp and failings of society
Letter from Thomas Smith of Washington DC argues that the front page story Boot Camp exposes society’s failings. He contends most poor inmates are victims of a harsh capitalist system and urges transforming them into citizens rather than destroying them. He questions spending on war while neglecting education and reform.
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Nicaragua
Libya
Iraq
Vietnam
Abortion Politics and Title X After Rust v. Sullivan
Discussion of the May Supreme Court ruling upholding regulations tied to Title X and its abortion politics. Planned Parenthood and other groups oppose the gag rule, while advocates defend it as aligning funds with original family planning intent. The piece argues Title X funds should promote birth control and limit abortion under federal law.
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Supreme Court
Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Congress
Read on Title X rules conflicting with abortion advocacy
Angela Martin of Walkersville argues that Planned Parenthood officials misread Title X regulations as banning abortion discussion. She notes rules prohibit promoting abortion as birth control and require life-threatening cases to be referred to emergency providers. She asserts clinics should not be outspoken advocates of abortion.
Abortion Debate in Wichita Prompts Public Letter
A Wichita reader argues that taxpayer funds are wasted on protests by Operation Rescue and that courts should handle abortion issues. The letter defends pro-choice voices, contends rights require responsible use of free speech, and invites concise, signed letters to the editor with publication policy and address.
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Wichita
Kan
Operation Rescue
Anytown
U.S.A
Freeriak Neue Pest
Patrick
Frederick
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Frederick, MD
Roy Meachum
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North Korea
United States
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Ike
White House
Gaul
Johnnies
Janes
Huthive
Jack Anderson
Bush
Saddam Hussein
U.S
Saddam
News-Post
Thomas Smith
Washington, D.C
Planned Parenthood
Title X Clinic
Angela Martin Walkersville
Christopher £. Filby Frederick
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