20 years ago - Nothing warms Lynn Harris’ heart like seeing a parent read a story to a child. That’s why she and the Frederick Reading Council started the “Books for Babies” program earlier this month at Frederick Memorial Hospital to encourage new parents to read to their newborns right from the start.

A political group demonstrated Saturday outside the Delaplaine Visual Arts Center’s temporary quarters to protest the center’s loss of state funding this year over a painting of a nude President Bush to decry censorship. “We are saying funding cuts were wrong and equaled censorship,” said Alan Barysh, a member of the Baltimore chapter of Refuse and Resist, a national political organization.

50 years ago - Before he left here yesterday to resume a trip that has already covered thousands of miles, Constable Raymond Coombes of the South Australian Police Department told how the local countryside reminded him of his own “Land Down Under.”

Two motorists were charged with violating Frederick County’s snow emergency plan yesterday as the area’s latest touch of heavy winter brought an estimated four inches of snow to this locality.

100 years ago - Over 200 farmers from all sections of the county gathered this morning in the auditorium of the Y.M.C.A. building for the organization of the farmers of Frederick county, preliminary steps for the organization being taken at the recent farmers’ institute.

The Frederick College basketball team scored quite a triumph at Mt. Savage on Thursday, by defeating the team of that place 69-27.