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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1973
Page
2
The Magerstown Park Board informed schoolboy leagues the city cannot provide free lighting for night games. With power strains and Edison pleas for conservation, leagues may shift to daylight play, starting earlier as evenings lengthen toward eight o'clock. Fans prefer daytime baseball.
In its first European appearance a Chinese basketball team defeated France 89 to 86 in Paris. Star player Chao Liang-tsai towers at 6 feet and 44 pounds. The Chinese impressed with courteous play, helping injured opponents and bowing to officials, prompting predictions they will grow more aggressive with more European contact.
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York pursues a 1976 presidential bid while seeking a fifth term as governor. He faces heavy delegate groundwork, needs skilled campaign strategists, and holds strong moderate GOP support amid Watergate and party dynamics.
The piece alleges Robert Vesco sought influence with Presidents Nixon and Figueres through their families. It cites Donald Nixon and Jose Figueres’s relatives, claiming Vesco moved money via Costa Rica and the Bahamas, and notes CIA documents about Costa Rican finances and Vesco’s alleged scheme amid Watergate fallout.
The county in southern Washington County wrestles with a $87,509 state check held for over a year, $5,900 unpaid bills, and a stalled watershed project begun after the 1956 flood. Auditor Earl Smith reports invoices tied to the Lake Antietam Watershed Association and Charles Thompson, who seeks $2,690 for services plus a disputed 8 percent interest claim. The state check, endorsed to the association, risks forcing a work plan deposition, while other unpaid items include a $2.20 survey charge, $252 attorney fees, and a $25 land purchase balance. Commissioners weigh abandoning the project or continuing the land-based program as debates over its cost and benefits persist.
Smithsburg Middle School students propose actions to curb pollution in their region. Suggestions include more cycling, proper trash disposal, recycling, responsible electricity use, and letters to factories about waste. The piece also covers 4 H clubs evolving over 40 years and urges community support for environmental awareness programs.
Jottings from yesteryears recount a mix of local items. References include Social Security eligibility figures, tuberculosis case counts in Washington County for 1962, a dog casualty payment noted as ¢54, Pegasus Club social plans for a Washington Senators Yankee game forecast, a Ute presidency candidacy in the Maryland State Junior Chamber of Commerce, a bees incident at 431 George St captured by Clifford Potts, and Fair Board vice president Harold Bester noting a cattle show addition to the spring race meet. Franz Heinemann of Clear Spring spoke on Hitlerism and the Battle of Jutland at a Paramac Valley Grange event.
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