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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1973
Page
2
Local officials consider a plan modeled on Seattle to offer free bus travel for a year after Labor Day to boost downtown shoppers and pedestrian space. The Seattle program would cost about 64000 dollars and aims to reduce car use and improve traffic in the urban core.
Scientists from NOAA and Woods Hole propose placing large slow turning turbines across a Florida Current segment between Florida and the Bahamas to harvest about 1 000 megawatts by tapping roughly four percent of the stream. They warn energy extraction could alter Gulf Stream patterns and climate.
LH Simers of the University of Illinois Cooperative Extension identifies four main causes of rising food costs. Growing consumer prosperity, farm specialization, dwindling price reserves, and world demand outpacing production drive greater price swings, with no single villain behind shortages and inflation.
The 1971 White House sought hearings through Rep. Richard Ichard's House Internal Security Committee to prejudice the Ellsberg Pentagon Papers case. Nixon aides and White House officials pressed for hearings, then backed off when the president did not raise the matter. A related note highlights Brademas pressuring safety-contracts for his district while WMATA resisted ambulanceable bus step changes.
The Maryland General Assembly’s special session unfolds as a chaotic show with leaders restricting debate to recodification while courts juggle reapportionment. Governor Mandel resists public discussion as second sessions loom, with disclosures and a flood of looming issues shaping the political drama.
A reader addresses controversy around the Longhairs at Long Meadow Shopping Center and urges a focus on inner change through Jesus Christ. The writer references a opposing view in the paper about a downtown coffeehouse and endorses the Fisherman’s Wet Coffeehouse as a welcoming place for all to gather and converse.
A reader letter from a local businessman urges citizens of Hagerstown to back the fire department with increased wages and better benefits. He argues city fire protection is essential to homes and businesses and warns of risk if services falter.
A circuit court held that newspaper and poster advertisements are protectable works even as mere ads. The decision rejects a bright line between highbrow and lowbrow art, stressing that ads involve substantial talent and that only specific words and drawings are protected, not general ideas.
The piece notes September 2 as the acceptance deadline for Hagerstown Postmaster examination applications. It also lists various local items including building permits to named residents, a water hose vandalism incident at a night depository, a national note on the Kennedy child, farm queen contestant Celia Smith, a dairy investigation by Dr. Leslie C. Frank, and local deeds and wheat adjustments with named officials and agents.
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