Open Housing Ordinance Signed by Hagerstown Mayor Mills
Mayor Herman L. Mills signs one of the broadest open housing laws in the state prohibiting racial discrimination in sale and rental of housing. The measure, backed by business and civic groups and the NAACP, aims to remove barriers for qualified Black families and calls for a human relations commission to be appointed by May. The community is urged to support the ordinance’s goal of ending racial inequality.
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Herman L. Mills
Hagerstown
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Mills
Unity and Freedom Face Vietnam War Debate
The Vietnam conflict tests free speech as protests and oversight surface amid rising costs and risk. Elites warn against silencing dissent while urging soul searching on three paths: sustain, widen, or begin disengagement, with time running short.
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Senate
Vietnam
How To Keep Well Sulfur Sassafras And Spring Fever
A daily column recalls spring ailments and old cures such as sulfur mixtures and sassafras roots while noting modern medicine dismisses these tonics. Dr Van Dellen answers reader questions on weight loss celery myths heart disease strokes and viral hepatitis with practical guidance and explanations.
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Iso
Internal Revenue Service
Jottings From Yesteryears
Mayor Charles E. Bowman continues duties from home despite illness. A three year old, Sterling J. Draper, survived after doctors removed a bottle stopper from his throat at the hospital. The Sack of 2 cen fa jack references a village blacksmith in Boonsboro district following John Ritter's move to Funkstown. Increase in water rates likely to be proposed by city officials due to higher operating costs. Washington County physicians billed 32,096 for indigent care in 167 per the State Health Department. Snook Brothers estimate about 2,500 egg crates shipped weekly from the county. Many homes lack electricity and phones amid heavy snow. Oakland reports 4 inches, total winter snowfall near 143 inches. Jobless claims in Washington County reach 218 with about 500 more expected to exhaust benefits. Gen James H. Doolittle chairs the Air Forces Advisory Board and tours the Fairchild plant.
Voice Of The People Defends Clear Spring School Efforts
A reader from Clear Spring praises CHS and urges positive coverage of school achievements. The letter questions criticisms of the current school and highlights local pride, community input, and the need to report good student efforts alongside new school plans.
What School After reading all available reports of the President
The piece questions the disposition of the President and Congress toward the riot commission report. It notes the commission found no conspiracy behind civil riots and critiques prior cautious coverage. Archie Moore is quoted urging decisive action against looters and those who exploit misfortune, condemning those who sow division.
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America
Mr. Moore
D.E. Culler Boonsbaro
Moscow
LBJ
Tates
Archie Moore
River Land rails against Udall plan to seize Potomac land
A speaker assails Interior Secretary Stewart Udall over proposed federal land takings near the Potomac River. He argues the Potomac remains unspoiled because of private farming heritage, condemns plans to confiscate over 1,000 dwellings, and defends generations of landowners who wish to pass property to their descendants.
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Stewart Udall
Interior Department
Potomac
Udall
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire referenced
The note cites two reasons for Rome's decline attributed to Edward Gibbon. First the rapid rise of divorce eroding the home and social order. Second escalating taxes and public spending burdening the state.
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Edward Gibbon
Gibbon
Editorial urges focus on criminals not guns
A reader letter argues against gun control and praises Delegate Fred C. Wright III for opposing 1966 pistol registration. The writer claims restrictions raise illegal firearm use, cites state trends, and urges targeting criminals and criminal networks rather than limiting inanimate firearms.
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Fred C. Wright III
Hewland
Wright
Maryland
Bill
Kennedy’s Democratic Split Sets Nixon Up For Hard Choice
Washington expects Kennedy’s challenge to Lyndon Johnson to fracture the Democratic party, with McCarthy harsher on Kennedy and signals of a possible Johnson-Kennedy reconciliation. Republicans face a torn party and may settle on Nixon or Rockefeller, depending on Democratic convention outcomes.
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Washington
Robert Kennedy
Kennedy
Johnson
Eugene McCarthy
Lyndon Johnson
McCarthy
Democratic Party
Republican demands probe of anti poverty program
Rep William Ayres Republican of Ohio charges that Rep Carl Perkins Democrat of Kentucky blocks a full investigation into numerous complaints about the billions in anti poverty funding. Ayres urges field hearings and cites CEO Green amendment disputes, payoffs in job training, and the resignation of OEO Southeast regional director Ralph Phelps as prompting a wider inquiry. He warns Republicans will pursue their own probe if obstruction continues.
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Washington
Yest Johnson
Wiliam Ayres
House Education and Labor Committee
Ayres
Carl Perkins
D-Ky
Perkins
Edith Green
Ore
OZO
Shriver
Congress
Oakland
Sacramento
Calif
OEO Southeast Regional
Ralph Phelps
OEO
Perkitts
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van Dellen
Daily Mail
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B.Z
Haf
Yesteryears
Charles E. Bowman
Bu Iess
Sterling J. Draper
John Draper
Wolfsville
John Ritter
Funkstown
Mr. Ritter
Boonsboro
Water Department
Richard Willson
Washington County
State Department of Health
Snook Brothers
Halfway
Maryland State Employment Service
James H. Doolittle
Usaf Ret
Air Pores Advisory Board
Fairchild
Lant
Clear Spring School
Clear Spring
C.H
Altethling
Brish
Ated
Ory
C.H.S
Bill Schnebly
Marsha McCarty
CHS
EAM
Webster Piper
Gerry
William S. White
Richard Nixon
Nixon
Neson Rockefeller
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