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Severn River Bridge 

closed due to crack 

ByGENEBISBEE 

Staff Writer 

The old Severn River Bridge was closed 

Saturday after a three-inch crack was 

discovered on the Pendennis' Mount side of 

the 58-year-old span. 

The closing for 30 to 90 days will mean 

the more than 15,000 cars that cross it daily 

will have to use the Route 50 bridge over 

the Severn River. _ _„ _ . 

That lour-lane, high-level bridge has 

been the scene of recent traffic jams 

because of repair work in the westbound 

lanes. 

Ed Meehan, district engineer'for the 

state Highway Administration, said this 

morning .that repair work on the new 

bridge will stop by the end of the week to 

speed the increased traffic due to detours. 

William Enser, assistant bridge chief 

with the Department of Transportation, 

said this morning that the second pier of 

the old two-lane bridge settled sometime 

late Friday night or early Saturday 

morning. 

The bridgetender reported at 4:30 a.m. 

Saturday that he heard a "loud bang when 

a heavy truck crossed the bridge," 

Meehan said this morning. 

An inspection crew set out from the 

Bestgate garage that morning and found 

the bridge section at an expansion joint 

had settled two inches. 

- "There-has-always beerrtmtt-airinelr 

dip in the bridge there," Meehan said. 

"That pier has been gradually settling for 

years and years." 

Enser said the problem is underwater, 

and highway officials are not quite sure 

what caused the bridge section to drop. 

"It's a foundation problem, it's something 

in the substrata," he said. 

"We're working on a scheme right now 

to repair it," Enser said. "We don't know 

when it will be open again." 

Meehan said inspection crews 

are 

collecting data, trying to determine if the 

bridge pier is continuing to settle. 

"When we find out, we'll somehow shore 

it up so it's safe to use," Meehan said. 

The low, concrete bridge across the 

Severn River carries Route 450 through 

town, across the river and north to Ritchie 

Highway and Route 50 interchanges. 

The drawspan bridge carries many 

commuters into Annapolis from 

Baltimore, anehantae'sTrosfoftSeffSSIc" 

between the Naval Academy and the 

Severn Naval Station. 

Southbound traffic has been rerouted 

across the new Severn River bridge and 

onto Rowe Boulevard. 

The heavier than normal traffic on 

Route 50 caused a slight traffic backtip on 

southbound Ritchie Highway, Meehan said 

this morning. The traffic was moving 

smoothly again by 9:30. 

In 1975, a state survey showed the 15,000 

vehicles crossed the span daily, an increase 

of 400 from the year before. 

STATE HIGHWAY officials are puzzled by the settling of the old Severn River 

Bridge pier, see arrow, »hat caused a three-inch crack in the roadway. The bridge 

will be closed to traffic for 30 to 90 days. 

Won.. 4pnl IT, 1978 

Anne Arundel Report 

Decision promised soon 

on Glen Burnie renewal 

By JENNIFER CLOUGH 

Staff Writer 

County Executive Robert A. Pascal said 

Thursday he will decide within the next 

three weeks whether to develop the 41-acre 

urban renewal district by the piecemeal 

approach or by creating a town center in 

the blighted business district. 

"In the next two or three weeks we'll be 

in a posture to choose," he said. "The time 

is right for a sponsor." 

During the last year, county officials 

have weighed the positive and negative 

points of developing the Durban renewal 

core block by block, a procedure which 

might take years, against a quicker, but 

perhaps costlier, method of allowing one 

developer to build a town center. 

"I'm happy we're going to move ahead," 

said Urban Renewal Administrator H. 

Erie Schafer. 

Schafer, in fact, was complimented by 

several members of the County Council 

Wednesday night after he gave an urban 

renewal progress report. 

"It's good to see things are moving in 

Glen Burnie," said Councilman Ronald C. 

McGuirk (D-Glen Burnie), 

Schafer informed the council about 

recent acquisitions and the demolition of 

several properties, namely, the former 

New Glen Theatre , the Glen News adult 

bookstore, a beauty shop and printing shop 

once owned by William Ferguson, the 

former A & P Store, and the Former Getty 

gasoline station. 

He also said the county is proceeding 

rapidly with appraisals on several other 

buildings in the renewal area and that 

several contracts are out for review and 

signing. 

Schafer told the council he is attempting 

to obtain some federal funding that may 

assist the county in re-developing the 

blighted business district. 

Councilwoman Ann C. Stockett (D- 

Annapolis) said she was concerned that 

any attempts to obtain federal money 

would delay the revitalization program, 

"The mention of federal funds gives me 

some concern," she said. "Most of those 

funds have specific requirements." 

Schafer said he tended to agree with her, 

but added there were possibly federal 

funds available for senior citizens and 

other groups that could be applied to the 

urban renewal program. 

Thus far, General Developers Inc. of 

Towson and the Rouse Company of 

Columbia have submitted proposals to 

build a town center in the heart of Glen 

Burnie. 

Volunteer paramedics 

are passing the test 

ByBRENDAGILHOOLY 

Staff Writer 

The county's first volunteer paramedic 

unit, housed in the Odenton Volunteer Fire 

Co., appears to be "passing the test" that 

could lead to its continuing existence and 

to the proliferation of similar units 

throughout the county. 

The seven*man unit, entering into its 

fourth week of operation, "gives the 

county an extra degree of coverage for a 

minuscule sum of money," according to 

Thomas L. Thrap, public relations 

chairman for the Odenton Volunteer Fire 

Co 

Ṫhe formation of the unit follows a 

controversial decision last June which 

allowed paramedics to substitute for or 

assist paid or "career" paramedics. 

County Councilmen Wallace R. Childs and 

Edward C, Ahern Jr. co-sponsored the 

resolution, which narrowly passed. 

"I think it's working real well so far," 

said Childs, a prime mover in the effort. 

"The volunteers have been cooperating 

with the paid men, and the paid men have 

been cooperating with the volunteers. I 

haven't heard any complaints so far." 

The volunteer unit last month joined 

seven career units from Brooklyn, Linthicum, 

Glen Burnie, Earleigh Heights, 

Lake Shore, Waugh Chapel, and 

Galesville. 

Unlike those round-the-clock paramedic 

teams, the_volunteejiunit_does_not work on 

a 24-hour-a-day basis, according to Capt. 

Roger Simonds, division officer in charge 

of emergency medical services for the 

county fire department. 

"We're trying to determine if this is a 

feasible method of delivering advanced 

life-support," Simonds said. "We're 

looking at it on a six-month period. If it 

works out, we might use it in other areas of 

the county. We're just going to have to wait 

and see what happens." 

The seven-man team of volunteer 

paramedics received their training—at 

their own expense—at the Community 

College of Baltimore. Simonds trains the 

"career" paramedics. 

"If the program proves to be a success," 

he said, "I would assume responsibility for 

training both career and voluntary personnel." 

The County Council resolution mandated 

that the volunteer receive the same 

training as a paid paramedic—84 hours of 

emergency medical technical training and 

240 hours of cardio-resuscitation training 

and firefighting experience. 

Some paid paramedics argued that jobs 

would be taken from them and maintaineu 

that volunteers would not have t'" 

necessary training and practice to serve in 

the highly-skilled position. 

The Odenton company—which 

responded to 1287 ambulance calls last 

year and had the second busiest ambulance 

in 1976—"pressed very hard to be 

allowed to become a paramedic unit," 

Simonds said. "This happened solely 

though that organization's efforts." 

_ Tharp said the_volunteers, act asjillers _ 

or additional units when "things get 

busy." 

The unit cost the county government the 

expense of the radio communications 

equipment while the monitoring equipment 

was furnished to the county through 

the state, Simonds said. 

The members of the new unit "have the 

same capabilities as the career people 

do," he said. The life-support units deal 

specifically with cardiac-related 

problems, and monitor the electrical 

activities of chest pain and transmit the 

activities to a hospital via radio, from 

which a physician can determine the 

necessary on-the-scene care. 

Paramedics in Anne Arundel County are 

allowed to start intravenous fluids, administer 

five heart-associated drugs, and 

defilbrillate or counter-shock. 

The volunteer paramedics currently 

serving in the Odenton station include: 

Robert Schappert, Stephen Redmiles, 

Jody Schmidt, Charles Parlin, Charles 

Parker, Peter Podell, and George Campbell. 

They come from stations in Odenton, 

Brooklyn, Herald Harbor, Riviera Beach, 

Lake Shore, and Maryland City. 

According to Podell, who is a paid 

paramedic in Washington, D.C., "I think 

we have some exceptionally well-trained 

people" who put in an average of 24 hours 

a week on duty. / 

Four men are scheduled two nights a 

week, from 7p.m. to 7 a.m., while others 

work weekends and when available. 

Two volunteer paramedics must be 

present before the station is placed in 

"paramedic status," and may_be sent-to: 

the areas of call, which include heart at-, 

tack cases, automobile, motorcycle, andpedestrian 

accidents, shootings, stab-' 

bings, and shock-type situations. 

AN ATOM SMASHER is the science fair project constructed by Allen Cutrell, an eighth-grader, from Crofton. 

EIGHTH-GRADER John Frances of Edgewater explains his science project on volcanoes and geysers. 

Weather-predicting device wins science fair prize 

ByT.P.MULROONEY 

Staff Writer 

• You might say that yesterday was the 

•day Theresa Dirndorfer, a 10th grader at 

Andover High School, has been awaiting 

for seven years. 

It was that long ago that she first set up 

her crujJejKfijrther predicting equipment. 

And it was that long ago that people 

started ribbing her about the futility of 

trying to-predict the weather. "But I 

wanted to prove to them that it was really 

a science," Miss Dirndorfer says. "I 

wanted to show that there was a lot more 

to it than just looking up at the sky and 

making a guess." 

Yesterday, those skeptics had to have 

been convinced after Miss Dirndorfer's 

project, "Meteorology in Our Changing 

Society," was judged the best among 257 

projects entered at the County Science 

Fair held this weekend at South River 

High School. , ' 

A lot of experts seemed convinced of 

Miss Dimdorfer's efforts. The American 

Meteorological Society gave her its top 

award. The Navy was impressed enough to 

give her the coveted Navy Science Award. 

"For years I've admired-that attache 

case (the Navy's award) from going to the 

science fairs," Miss Dirndorfer said. "It 

was a real satisfaction to get it." 

The object of all this attention was Miss 

Dirndorfer's project that compared the 

effectiveness of homemade 

meteorological equipment to the 

sophisticated instruments used by the 

experts. She says she's been about 75 

percent accurate in predicting the weather 

with the equipment she has built over the 

past seven years. That compares pretty 

favorably to the pros at the National 

Weather Service, even though Miss Dirndorfer 

says her accuracy is down from 

about 85 percent last year. 

The second part of her -project investigated 

the manifestations of the 

weather, especially on road surfaces. Miss 

.Dirndorfer examined the scientific explanations 

for potholes in the roads. And, 

for sure, county motorists and road crews 

would be anxious to hear if she has any 

suggestions on how to get rid of them. - 

She may have the answer some day, 

because she plans to continue studying 

meteorology, possibly at the Naval 

Academy. 

"A few people at the Naval Academy 

have already told her that when she gets 

ready to make a decision about college to 

give them a call," says her principal at 

Andover, Oliver Wittig. 

But Miss Dirndorfer still has two more 

full years to complete before going on to 

college. "We expect big things from her in 

the next few years," Wittig says. "She's a 

very bright girl. She has her head on very 

straight." 

Miss Dirndorfer walked away with $150 

of the $1000 worth of bonds the Chamber of 

Commerce contributed for the science fair 

awards. 

Approximately 800 people attended the 

three-day fair, which was sponsored and 

run by the Chamber of Commerce with the. 

help of the county school system. The fanwas 

open to all county students, from 

public ajd private schools, from sixth to 

12th grade. More than 50 awards were 

• handed out at the ceremonies ending the 

fair yesterday afternoon. 

The winners in some of the major 

categories received $75 bonds. Jody 

Osterman of South River High was the 

12th grade winner for his project, "A Study 

in the Incidence of Rocky Mountain 

Spotted Fever in Canines." Live animals 

were not permitted for display at the fair, 

but the presentation included an 

evaluation of statistics and a slide 

presentation. 

David Kimberling, a senior at Severna 

Park High, took first place in the physics 

category for his computerized musical 

instrument calle'd a "Programmable 

Music Synthesizer." 

Jacqueline Witt, a junior at South River 

High, attempted to answer a question 

many people might ask themselves each 

morning, shortly after-rising: "Mouth 

Bacteria: What Will Stop It" She took 

first place in the behavioral and social 

sciences category. 

Doula Georgiou's project asked the 

medical question, "How does Ph Affect 

Penicillin" The Brooklyn Park 

sophomore took first place in the medicine 

and health category for her efforts. 

Motorist leads police on chase to avoid tickets 

A mailman early this morning led 

county police on a high speed chase 

through Edgewater in an apparent attempt 

to avoid receiving two traffic 

violation tickets, according /to county 

police. 

According to police reports, David L. 

Fowler, 29, of 112 Lakeview Ave., heading 

south on Route 2 in Parole, drove through 

two red traffic lights, but pulled over when 

stopped by police. 

Fowler reportedly sat in the front seat of 

the police car, asked if he would be given a 

ticket, and fled from the police car when 

told he was getting two tickets. 

Police said Fowler jumped into his car, 

headed across the South River bridge and 

turned east on Route 214, traveling 95 

miles per hour, weaving in front of the 

police cars trying to pass him. 

The driver then made a left turn onto 

Lakeview Drive, drove into his yard, and 

tried to run to his front door. Police 

physically stopped him from entering his 

house, and placed several motor vehicle 

charges against him. 

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Lows tonight in the 30s to tow 

40s. High Saturday around 68. 

Details on page 2. 

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V( ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND, FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1978 

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A 

license removal 

Preparing for Passover 

Children of the Kneseth Israel Nursery School were busy at school this week 

• making articles for use during the Jewish Passover season, which begins at 

sundown tonight. Susie Hollander, left photo, is making a wine goblet while 

Jennifer Dixon, above, sews a matzah cover. Called the Festival of Freedom 

or Festival of Spring, the Passover will continue throughout next week and is 

a time of prayer, song and feasting. Many families and congregations will 

hold a Seder tonight, which is the most impressive meal of the year for Jewish 

people. 

But what about beer 

Crabhouse set downtown 

ByTOMCOAKLEY 

a 9,000- square -foot space on the second 

Staff Writer 

floor above A.L. Goodies card shop and the 

Local developer Harvey Blonder plans Market Space Mall. 

to open his 324-seat crabhouse at the foot of The crabhouse he is proposing would 

Main Street in about two months with or front on Main Street and Market Space. 

without a liquor license 

Seafood and one*"or two meat dishes would 

Blonder said la^t night he will start be served in addition to crab£. 

renovations next week for the crabhouse in Blgnder owns the G C Murphy building 

Building permits 

double in county 

The number of residential building 

permits issued so far this year have 

doubled over the number issued for the 

same period last year, but county officials 

are not calling it a building boom. 

Th'e Department of Inspections and 

Permits issued 479 residential permits at 

this time last year, and has issued 976 so 

far this year, according to county figures. 

The dollar value of the building permits 

issued for this first quarter," which ended 

March 31, is greater than any other first 

quarter in the past five years, said J 

Michael Evans, director of inspections and 

permits. 

The largest single group of building 

permits was issued to the Crofton Village 

apartment complex—258 The remainder, 


StaffWriter 

A strong supporter of Anne Arundel 

Community College President Justus D. 

Sundermann said yesterday that Sundermann's 

reorganization of the school 

has made it nearly impossible for the key 

faculty-administration liaison to do his 

job, faculty sources say. 

John Palmer, the acting dean of 

academic affairs, told the faculty 

of the residential building permits were 

either for single family residences, 

townhouses, or other residences that 

would be offered for sale, Evans said. 

"The housing trend across the country 

was good," Evans said. "There is a 

greater demand -for housing, and the 

money is more available."" 

In 1976, the county's "golden year," 

Evans said, 250 permits were issued each 

month. Just because March was busy, 

Evans said, doesn't mean there is a 

building boom afoot. 

County officials have estimated the new 

building this year so far has a value of $39 

million This time last year, the estimated 

value of the construction was $24 million. 

in which the card shop is located and he 

said he would lease 5,600 square feet of 

space on the second floor of the mall. 

Last night Blonder faced the Planning 

and Zoning Commission to argue for a 

conditional use permit to serve beer, wine 

and liquor until midnight at the proposed 

crabhouse. There would be no off-premises 

, sale of alcoholic beverages, no bar or 

lounge andnocarryoutfood. 

But planning and zoning commissioners 

stressed- concern eout the 'aapact the 

restaurant would have on an already tight 

parking situation downtown. 

And downtown residents envisoned 

garbage, beer-bottles and other crowd 

problems with the advent of another 

~ u'quor-serving~i i estaurant~urthe~Market 

Space area. 

"Where will people park who come to 

this restaurant" Commissioner Theresa 

Lawski asked after noting that a crabhouse 

would be a "drawing card" downtown. 

"I can't really answer that question," 

Blonder responded. "I think it will be no 

more of a drawing card than the sailboats 

in the harbor or the atmosphere in Annapolis." 

Blender's lawyer, Fred C. Delevan, 

pointed out that the crabhouse is an approved 

zoning use downtown. Blonder was 

before the commission seeking only the 

liquor license. 

The developer noted after the meeting, 

(Continued on Page 14, Col. 1) 

ByTOMCOAKLEY 

Staff Writer 

Anne Arundel General Hospital officials 

today appealed a decision by the state 

health secretary to revoke the hospital's 

license May 8 unless a Computerized Axial 

Tomography (CAT) scanner at the 

hospital is turned off. 

In appealing the April 14 ruling by 

Health Secretary Dr. Neil Solomon, the 

hospital's lawyers ask the state Health 

Department's Board of Review to allow 

new facts in the case, compel Solomon to 

testify and grant a hearing and appeal 

decision by May 4. 

The appeal stays Solomon's order, 

which, if it took effect, would have left the 

hospital unable to collect money from 

Medicaid, Medicare, Maryland Blue Cross 

and other insurers. 

"I'm glad they appealed," Dr. Solomon 

said this morning, "because now they are 

complying with the law." He had said 

April 14 that the hospital's license was 

being revoked because officials failed to 

get necessary state planning approval for 

the CAT scanner. 

The CAT scanner is operated by three 

physicians in a room leased to them by 

the hospital Anne Arundel General officials 

maintain planning approval from 

the Comprehensive Health Planning 

Agency is not needed because technically 

the hospital is not operating the scanner. 

Solomon said he based his April 14 

decision on facts presented to him by Fred 

S. London, a* Health Department hearing 

officer. London's report to Solomon came 

out of two hearings in April and October 

last year on the CAT scanner at Anne 

Arundel General 

London recommended revoking the 

hospital's license unless the scanner is 

turned off. 

The hospital appeal alleges that Solomon 

and London decided Anne Arundel General 

was "constructively" operating the 

scanner because of the hospital's "intent 

to thwart Comprehensive Health Planning." 

But the appeal_maintains thaL no_ 

evidence was presented by the hospital 

For an editorial on the CAT 

scanner controversy, see 

page 4. 

before London on Anne Arundel General's 

"intent." The appeal asks the Board of 

Review to allow such evidence to be 

presented by hospital administrator 

LymanC.Whittaker. 

The appeal also accuses Solomon of • 

making a "blatant misrepresentation of. 

fact" hi a television interview on his April 

14 decision. An affidavit, signed by 

hospital attorney Robert V. Barton Jr., 

quotes Solomon telling a reporter from 

Channel 13, WJZ-TV that the hospital went 

to the three doctors after planning qffin'ib 

refused to authorize the operation of the 

(Continuedon Page 14, Col 3) 

6-month bridge 

project detailed 

ByGENEBISBEE 

Staff Writer 

A $1 million project to repair Ore settled 

section of the closed old Severn River 

Bridge is scheduled to begin Monday, but 

won't be complete until Oct. 1, a state 

Highway Administration official said this 

morning. 

Crews next week will bepn installation 

of a temporary pedestrian walkway along 

the 280-foot bridge section that will be 

ripped up, then replaced, said M. S. 

Caltrider, administrator of the Highway 

Administration. 

The repairs to the bridge should be 

adequate until the eventual replacement of 

the bridge planned for six or eight years 

from now, Caltrider said at the morning 

press conference at the Arundel Center. 

The two-lane span that was built in the 

early 1920s was closed Saturday when 

inspection crews from ijie Highway Administration 

noticed that a one-inch dip in 

the bridge had settled another two inches. 

Inspectors later found the second pier 

from the northern shore of the Severn 

River had settled,_and divertedjhe traffic, 

to the Route 50 bridge over the Severn. 

Massive traffic jams at the Route SO 

crossing were noted during the weekend 

and early this week. 

Traffic officials laid part of the blame to 

the rerouted 16,000 vehicles that daBy used 

the old bridge. Also, one lane of the Route 

50 bridge was closed because of spring 

repairs. 

Caltrider vowed this morning that 

"nothing except necessary maintenance 

work" win take place on the Route SO 

bridge "until the old bridge is restored and. 

opened to traffic." 

The drawspan on the old bridge win sSQ 

operate during the entire construction 

period. Caltrider said. He bridge carries 

traffic on Route 450 between Annapolis and 

Ritchie Highway. 

The pedestrian walkway constrMtiOBM 

to begin Monday. The six-foot wideteidge 

will be installed outside the consfroctkn 

area of the "bridge," ana -lifrâBihr 

bicyclists, joggers and fishermen to use 

the bridgeduring the repair period. 

Also next week, the state Highway 

Administration will begin removal of the 

northernmost 3 V5 sections of the bridge. _ 

(Continued on Page M, Col 4) 

•3 

Pre-meal school snacks out 

WASHINGTON (AP) - School 

cafeterias would have to delay selling 

candy, chewing gum, soft drinks and other 

snacks until all meals for the day have 

been served if a new Agriculture Department 

proposal is adopted. 

"We are proposing to prohibit the sale of 

these foods because we believe they have 

contributed to a decline in the consumption 

of nutritious foods in school and to reduced 

participation in the school lunch and 

breakfast programs," Assistant Secretary 

n drops bid for AACC post 

association he decided against applying 

for the permanent post when he stopped to 

reflect on the near futility of the job. 

Some teachers said they were si'jprised 

to hear such criticism of Sundermann's 

reorganization efforts from Palmer, who 

is reported to have supported the president 

even through several serious struggles 

with disgruntled teachers. Administrative 

reorganization has been one of Sundermann's 

major efforts since his arrival 

World heavyweight 

ested again 

ST. LOUIS (AP>«PoUce said World 

Boxing Associatioffipleavyweight champion 

Leon Spinks "WinnlrVested early today" 

after he failed to produce a driver's 

license; and~was rader investigation forpossible 

drug violations. 

Spinks and his companion were still in 

police custody shortly before 7 a.m. No 

formal charges had been immediately 

filed, a spokesman said. 

The arresting officer, Francis Corona, 

said officers seized two small bags or 

sacks, one containing a white powder 

substance and the other possibly 

marijuana. 

Corona said the white powder substance 

was found in a small sack inside the 24- 

year-old boxer's hat after he tossed it on 

the roof of his car while being questioned. 

The other sack was in his clothes, the officer 

said. Corona said both substances 

would be analyzed. 

It is the second time Spinks has been 

arrested in his hometown of St. Louis since 

returning home after winning the 

heavyweight title from Muhammad Ali 

earlier this year in Las Vegas. He was 

previously arrested on a traffic violation. 

LEON SPINKS 

... arrested^ 

at the school two years ago. 

Teachers have shown keen interest in 

the post because they believe it to be the 

most vital link with an administration that 

many of them feel has shut them out of the 

policy-making process. Faculty leaders 

protested last week when Sundermann's 

office released a new list of requirements 

for the post that appeared to have been 

tailored for Palmer. 

Sundermann denied that allegation at 

the school's Board of Trustees' meeting 

Monday night, although he released a 

revised job description this week that 

includes some of the changes board 

members suggested. 

No one had reportedly applied for the 

post by the original due date for oncampus 

candidates this past Wednesday. 

The new deadline is April 27. 

Sundennann last year rejected severl 

"AruiMfef After Dark" 

views a popular nightclub. 

See page 13. 

County Executive Robert 

Pascal otters Baltimore Colts 

management a site for their 

training camp. Seepage 15. 

Business News ......... 6 

Calendar .............. 5 

Classified Ads ...... 21-26 

Comics, features ....... 27 

Editorials .............. 4 

Entertainment ..... 12-13 

Obituaries ............. 5 

People ............. 7-10 

Sports ............. 16-19 

Television ............ 13 

candidates recommended by a search 

committee that included faculty 

members and, instead, appointed 

Palmer as acting dean. Teachers 


Carol Foreman said today in a speech 

prepared for the Newspaper Food Editors 

and Writers Association in San Jose, Calif. 

In general, the foods that would be 

prohibited from sale before the final meal 

include candy, soda drinks, frozen 

desserts and chewing gum. 

C. Berry Carter, deputy superintendent 

of the Anne Arundel School 

System, said this morning he does not 

think the proposed federal guideline would 

have a significant effect on the county 

school cafeteria service. 

"I don't think we sell much of that stuff 

in the schools now, anyway," Carter said 

The proposal is aimed at eliminating the 

sale of sweets that are not part of the 

regular school cafeteria menus for breakfast 

or lunch. 

The department administers all child 

nutrition programs, including school 

lunches and breakfasts. About 25 million 

pupils are served daily under the school 

lunch program. 

Autograph hunter's dream 

Walter Reed, director of public relations 

for the National Automatic Merchandising 

Association, said in an interview from 

Chicago that "we have no interest" in 

competing with schools which serve meals 

to children. 

He said the industry is often "wrongfully 

accused" of enticing children to gorge 

themselves on snack food while ignoring or 

eating only part of their cafeteria meals. 

Reed said a 1975 association survey of 

schools in 10 states showed that vending; 

machines provided an average of 3.5; 

candy bars and 3 soft drinks per stndent 

each month. He said it was "a complete : 

myth" that children rely heavily on" 

vending machine candy and other snacks, 

at the expense of school meals. 

Congress last November gave the" 

Agriculture Department authority to 

prohibit the sale of food items in schools 

which the department "determines are of 

little nutritional value." 

It was an ideal opportunity to grab some major league autographs yesterday afternoon when the Kansas CHy Kayak 

came to town to play. Navy's baseball team. These youngsters picked a popular subject in colorful relief pitcher A! 

"The ftlad Hungarian" Hrabosky. For more on the game, w$n by Kansas City, 9-4, see pages 16 andl 7. 

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Housing program heads county grant request 

ByJOELMcCORD 

Staff Writer 

Count.v officials are seeking $700,000 in 

federal money for a housing rehabilitation 

program under investigation for alleged 

kickbacks and discrimination. 

The request is the single largest in the 

county's $3.1 million Community 

Development Block Grant application 

ready to go to federal officials. 

The rehabilitation money is to be added 

to $685,000 already approved by the 

Department of Housing and Urban 

Development for use in 15 county communities 

selected from a study conducted 

by the Office of Planning and Zoning. 

Federal and local officials started an 

investigation of the program last month 

when several contractors complained to 

Bruce K Price, block administrator, that 

they had been asked for kickbacks to get 

housing rehabilitation jobs. HUD investigators 

also said at least one black 

contractor had complained he had been 

discriminated against in the program. 

Price said he doubts the investigation 

Crabhouse set to open downtown 

(Continued from Page 1) 

however, "It would certainly be advantageous 

to have a liquor license I think 

most people like to ha ve beer or liquor with 

crabs " 

Delevan said the parking problem in 

downtown Annapolis is "something that is 

going to require a comprehensive solution, 

and not something that should be held over 

the head of a businessman who is trying to 

do something with his store." 

But Commissioner William Brill objected. 

"I think you're going to have to 

come to terms with that," he said. 

Blonder said he would be willing, with 

help from the city and other downtown 

merchants, to pay for mini-bus service to 

downtown from parking lots on the outskirts 

of town. 

Gill Cochran, local attorney and 

president of the Ward One Residents 

Association, said the group's executive 

committee is "intrigued" with the 

utright 

grants for low-income homeowners whose 

houses do not meet minimum county 

building code standards. Homeowners can 

also get as much as $17,000 in low-interest, 

long-term loans, available from other 

federal sources and administered by the 

block grant program. 

Work on the houses is to be done by local 

contractors chosen from a list supplied by 

HUD, according to Price. 

The program was started last spring in 

the Deale, Shady Side, Churchton area and 

later expanded to Pumphrey. 

Other communities in line for help include 

Herald Harbor, Browns Woods, 

Green Haven, Orchard Beach, Freetown, 

Elvaton, Odenton, the Foreman's Corner 

section of Solley and Woodland Beach. 

The grant application, .which must be 

approved by the County Council, includes 

$1.1 million in new projects, including 

$79,000 for new senior citizens projects. 

The remainder of the money would be 

added to existing projects such as the 

rehabilitation of schools as community 

centers and senior citizen facilities and 

other buildings as day care centers. 

The largest single new request in the 

application is for $420,000 to build a park in 

Riviera- Beach. The county has already 

appropriated money to buy 15 acres of land 

near the Sunset Elementary School, and 

the block grant request would add the 

money for an additional 15 acres. 

The application also includes a request 

for $300,000 for a north county youth 

center. The center, which Price said would 

be located in Brooklyn Park or Glen 

Burnie, is to provide health, recreation, 

counseling and social services for north 

county youth. 

The county is also asking for $206,000 to 

turn the abandoned Lula G. Scott school in 

Lothian .into _ the county's thicd senior 

citizen center. Other such centers are now 

being established in Glen Burnie and 

Arnold. 

HUD has already granted $45,000 for a 

community center at the school, but 

county officials decided to do additional 

work on the building to create the senior 

citizens center. 

The block grant program, aimed at low 

and middle income residents, is entering 

its fourth year. Congress originally 

financed it for three years, but agreed last 

spring to continue the program for another 

three years. 

The county has received more than $5 

million in the program thus far. 

The application must be filed in HUD's 

regional offices by the end of next week, 

according to Price. He said the county can 

expect notification of its approval by July 

1, in time for the beginning of the fiscal 

year. 

6-month bridge work begins Monday 


Caltrider said that with the approval of 

the Coast Guard, the old bridge pilings will 

remain in place and supports for the new 

bridge deck will be placed in between 

those old piers. 

Also, crews will patch the remaining 

sections of the deteriorating bridge while it 

is closed to traffic, Caltrider said. 

Caltrider said there is "serious distress 

throughout" the bridge, "but it's not 

Hospital appeals on scanner 


scanner and suggested the doctors operate 

the device. 

According to hospital officials, the 

doctors came to the hospital with an offer 

to locate the CAT scanner on hospital 

property. And the scanner was in 

operation by December 1976, seven 

months before state planners rejected the 

machine. 

The appeal says a decision in the case by 

the Board of Review should be accomplished 

promptly because "the 

prospect of loss of licensure by the hospital 

is potentially devastating financially." 

"In addition," the appeal states, "the 

Secretary's public and televised announcement 

has caused apprehension and 

doubt within the 'community served by the 

hospital as to whether or not the hospital 

will continue to be able to provide health 

care services and whether insurance 

coverage will be available." 

County Executive Robert A. Pascal has 

written Solomon and Acting Gov. Blair Lee 

III objecting to the health secretary's 

April 14 decision. Lee yesterday urged 

Solomon to refrain from revoking the 

hospital's license until the appeal process 

has run its course. 

enough to be hazardous." 

Replacement of the old Severn River 

bridge is being studied, he said. The new 

bridge, which couldn't be built until at 

least six years from now, would run adjacent 

to the present structure. 

The estimated cost for a bridge to 

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$15 million to $18 million, Caltrider said. 

The drawspan on the old bridge has 

given highway administration officials 

headaches in years past, as it opens an 

average of 9,000 times a year. 

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Pascal to decide on governor's race within week 

By/' 

dD 

County Executive &ou^. - ai will decide *u«iin the next 

week whether or not he will run for governor or seek re-ekcbon 

to the county executive "ost 

Pascal announced in February that he woaai OK nm for 

governor and would seek re-election to his present post but efforts 

by state Republican leaders in the past two weeks hare 

changed Pascal's thinking—at least to the extent that he is again 

considering entering the gubernatorial race. 

Pascal has met several times within the past two weeks with 

top state GOP fundraisers. This week he met with county 

Democratic leaders to discuss the county executive race, should 

Pascal decide to run for governor. 

The subject at that meeting was who would be the best casdidate 

to head off a possible challenge by former County Executive 

Joseph W. Alton Jr., should Pascal not seek re-election. 

Pascal met Tuesday night at the Oxbow Inn on Ritchie 

Highway with State's Attorney Warren B. Duckett Jr ; H Erie 

Schafer, Glen Bunue urban renewal administrator, and Sen 

Jerome F. Connell, B-Pasadens. ' 

Connell and Duckett are supporting Schafer as a county executive 

candidate, depending on Pascal's decision. Schafer said 

yesterday be will run for executive only if Pascal is out of the 

picture. Otherwise, he will run for the state Senate. 

AH three Democrats said there would probably not be any 

organized opposition from their party to a Pascal re-election 

Campaign 

Schafer and others have indicated Pascal is thinking more 

seriously about the governor's race than he lets on. 

Pascal said today he has only been listening to party leaders 

who say they can raise the money for a campaign. He added, 

however, that he must make a decision "in the very near future. 

Time is running out. In fact, it's almost out now." 

He also talked about the need for an extensive "media campaign" 

to offset the name recognition of the Democratic candidates 

who have already started running and said it would 

"take a half to three quarters of a million (dollars) to do that 

"At this point, they (the Republicans) have no one else," he 

said. "This year isa real opportunity for the party." 

Pascal said party leaders have told him there is "a chance of 

raising the money necessary. I said I'll think about it if they can 

come up with the money. Provided there are no strings attached 

" 

When he announced Feb. 7 that he would not be a candidate for 

governor, but seek re-election as county executive, Pascal said 

the question of raising money was distasteful to him. 

"I have never been convinced that a candidate can raise that 

kind of money without incurring the kinds of obligations that at 

some point could hamper his integrity and performance hi office," 

he said. 

Several sources have said Pascal's-re-entry into the governor's 

race is a question of money. If the Republicans can raise 

the funds, Pascal will get back into the race, they said. 

One other factor that could figure in Pascal's decision is the 

presence of Alton. 

Alton has said he is seriously considering running for his old 

job. He has set a deadline for himself of May 11, the day he must 

change his registration if he wants to run as anything other than 

a Republican candidate. 

Should Pascal stay in the county executive race, Alton would 

switch his party affiliation to either Democrat or independent to 

avoid an expensive primary. 

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VOL XCIV NO. 99 ANNAPOLIS, /MARYLAND, THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1978 20 Cents 

116 jobs at stake 

at Navy hospital 

ByGENEBISBEE 

Staff Writer 

Shutting down the inpatient care services 

at the Naval Hospital in Annapolis 

could eliminate 116 positions here, more 

than half the staff currently working at the 

hospital. 

The Navy announced yesterday that a 

study will be launched to determine the 

feasibility cf discontinuing inpatient 

hospital services here — used by an 

average of 26 persons monthly over the 

Any action takes by the Navy shoaM not 

affect the ootpaSeot clinic here, however, 

sees 7.500 active and retired 

persEHKl and their dependents 

every mootb. according to a Naval 

Funds for books 

only partly used 

ByFRED ABEL - 

StaffWriter 

The county council last year approved 

$4.2 million for school textbooks and 

supplies — including the restoration of 

$250,000 cut during the budget process — 

as teachers, students and parents 

demanded more reading materials for tie 

classrooms and libraries. 

Kickback 

case goes to 

grand jury 

ByJOELMcCORD 

Staff Writer 

The county grand jury vffl receive 

evidence in the probe of alleged kickbacks 

in the county's block grant program next 

week, according to State's Attorney 

Warren B. Duckett Jr. 

Duckett said yesterday he has reviewed 

the report of investigator George Rolh and 

will present the evidence to the paael at its 

regular meeting Monday. 

He would not speculate on whether any 

criminal indictments would be handed 

down, nor would he say if any individuals 

were the target of the investigatioiL 

"The only thing I can ten you is that 

there was absolutely no information of a 

derogatory nature developed concerning 

criminal violations regarding Brace 

Price," he said. 

Price, block grant administrator, asked 

for the investigation after at least ooe 

contractor complained that he had been 

asked for kickbacks in a federally financed 

housing rehabilitation program. 

Price, Bruce Baldwin, head of the 

housing rehabilitation program, and 

George Clark, a rehabilitation employee, 

have been told their contracts would not be 

renewed when they expire this year. 

(Continued on Page 8, CoLl) 

But only abaci ose-tMrd of the 

miniim readied cumily scltools this school 

year HI the ftna of textbooks, an audit of 

school spending rEveals. 

OaSy SU TSMJG& of this fecal year's 

school sappSesfessdtras ênt on the feard 

reading material deSaed as textbooks, the 

figures s&cv. A portion paid far-other 

BstractiuB materials used by the schools, 

tefaljBostfeaJf tfeeftssJ—shout $2niillMn 

—was csspest as of January 1, according 

to Ske aeoxM laid cot for the council by 

&e audit covers bfcefc-baying 

betseea Ja!y 1 and December 31, 1977, the 

spesliag ierels Indicate now little effect 

the iaereased textbook fending had on the 

Utis seek, two cf the cmmeSmeii who 

were iastaaaeEfal m last year's extra 

appropriate for school supplies expressed 

sJreeg displeasure with the lack of 

It's a disgrace, 1 " saM Ronald C. 

McGark CD-Gkn Borme) "I feel terribly 

pot 1503. fir's totaOy Hteredtdons it could 

bappes. Use money was avaSable for 

speadfeg Jsfly L Hey were aware the 

SHEET was tfeere in May. The books should 

have been m fee schools. There's no red 

"What realyiBpsete me is, the cornea's 

been ted." said Edward C. Ahem (D- 

Pasaflessa), co-sponsor with McGoirfc of an 

ampMhngst restoring the book funds last 

year. 

*Tf they were so desperate for books, 

sty didst feey go out and boy them" 

Abercasted after reielwing the report. 

* Board cf Edneatioa fiscal manager 

Adrian Teal said Tuesday fee had not seen 

a final draft of the auditor's report, but 

ise caHed. the 

level of textbook speraBag during the first 

six mosths of fiscal 1378 "pretty 

reasonable" aod tfoe outcome of "sound 

"I djfflit bear sByosmciimen saying the 

mooey was to be spent in the first six 

'Teal said. "K that's 

, then this is the first time 

Ion Page S,CoLl) 

Academy spokesman. 

Rep. Marjorie S. Holt, R-Anne Arundel 

County, who first heard of the Navy's 

plans on Tuesday, immediately announced 

her opposition to any downgrading of 

hospital services. 

Closing the inpatient services at the 

hospital would eliminate many of the staff 

who must oversee the around-the-clock 

operation. 

The Navy estimated that 39 civilian and 

77 military positions could be eliminated 

by shutting down inpatient hospital services. 

Crndr. James Barrett, public affairs 

officer for the Naval Academy, said that 

presently 55 civilians and 143 military 

personnel are employed at the Naval 

Hospital 

Although the Navy did not offer an 

estimated savings from cutbacks here, the 

Annapolis hospital is among six medical 

facilities that will be studied for reduced 

services at savings of $2.4 million annually, 

according to Lt. Cmdr. Doug 

McCurfachatttePentagoc. - 

The costs savings would also stem from 

avoiding the costs of major renovations of 

the plant facility or the cost of constructing 

a new hospital, according to the Navy. 

McCurrach said- renovations-werea't 

necessarily planned for the stately 

hospital that stands above College Creek. 

"By dosing the services, there would be 

money realized because there'd be no 

repairs and no maintenance costs," he 

said. 

The objective of the Navy is to save 

about $300 million annually by closing 

some bases, cutting back manpower at 

others and consolidating training camps 

and other facilities. 

McCurrach said the study, which should 


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The congregation of Heritage 

Baptist Church is celebrating 

the church's 75th 

anniversary. See page 9. 

There were some outstanding 

performances in yesterday's 

County league baseball 

games. See page 30. 

Business News 21 

Calendar 7 

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Comics, features 19 

Editorials 4 

Entertainment 16-17 

Obituaries 7 

People 9-14 

Sports 29-35 

Television 17 

A GIANT pile driving rig 

wooden walkway that will be used while a 3lR£roaf ~M6- 

j 

is ripped up and it^ 

Academy launches alternate transportation 

ByGENEBISBEE 

StaffWriter 

It's getting to be known as the "no 

frills ferry run" across the Severn 

River. 

For the first time in many a year, 

people are crossing the Severn River by 

boat to get to work. 

"I love it," says Peggy Benda, an 

Eastport resident employed at the 

David W. Taylor Naval Ship Research 

and Development Center. "Just five 

minutes and you're across." 

The shuttle run across the river 

began April 17 in the wake of the closing 

of the old Severn River Bridge by the 

state Highway Administration after a 

three-inch crack was discovered. 

Two days after that bridge was closed 

and all traffic was rerouted over the 

already congested Route 50 bridge, the 

Navy pressed one of its 50-foot utility 

launches into service. 

Navy officials say the service wiD 

continue until the old bridge is reopened 

after $1 million in repairs. The Highway 

Administration expects the bridge 

reopening Oct 1. 

"We started the shuttle to provide a 

more convenient way for military and 

civilian personnel at the Naval 

Academy complex to cross the river," 

said Lt. Cmdr. James Onorato, 

executive officer of the Naval Station. 

"It's the best idea they ever had," 

Mrs. Benda said. She has worked at the 

Navy complex for 19 years and would 

The 3:30 PJW. FERRY — a 50-foot Navy utility launch — pulls into the Naval 

Academy seawall for one of six daily round trips across the Severn River. 

normally drive to work from Eastport 

over the old Severn River Bridge. 

When Mrs. Benda and approximately 

a dozen others disembarked at the 

Naval Academy Sailing Center after 

the rough ride across the choppy 

waters, none of the passengers were 

(Continued on Page 8, Col. 1) ; 

Turk-Duckett venture: improper 

JUDGE MOMS IWHt 

...situation i 

ByDOUGSTBtTCK 

StaffWriter 

Groat Court Judge Morris Turk, who routinely 

bears criminal eases brought by the county 

prosecutor's staff, has kept a four-year partnerslap 

m a laud venture with State's Attorney Warren 

B. Docket! Jr. 

The two men have stayed in the deal, formed 

when they were law partners in 1974, ever since 

fork was named to the bench 3% years ago. 

Sach arrangements usually are terminated 

Then a lawyer becomes a judge, and Duckett 

admitted yesterday that he has had misgivings 

aboBtttc association. 

He has soggested ending the partnership, but 

Tint urged him to stay in for at least three more 

years, Duckett said yesterday. 

Tark it on Ttcaboam Chicago until May 4, and 

his seentair said he cannot be reached by 

The nrestmeat is'in a 162-acre parcel near 

Bin Bead about oae mite south of the Riva 

Bridge. The vacant land was purchased for 

speculation at $1,100 an acre in 1971 by six physicians 

and Turk, who was then their attorney, according 

to Duckett. 

In 1974, Turk offered to split his 15 percent 

share equally among himself and his law partners, 

Duckett and George Manis. 

Turk was named to the Circuit Court bench 

Dec. 30,1974 but the partnership in the investment 

continued. Duckett said he still makes $400 

payments every six months directly to Turk, as 

his share of the $53,600 mortgage balance on the 

land. 

Duckett and Turk have disclosed the mutual 

interest each year in financial statements filed 

with the state. The 1977 financial statements 

« ere due last week. 

"I'll be honest with you, it bothers me," 

Duckett said of the business venture yesterday. 

"It bugs the hell out of me, and I have been trying 

like the dickens to try to sell it" 

"It's never caused any problems (ir. cases)," 

'Duckett said, "but technically I thinlrthat people 

could be concerned about a prosecutor trying 

cases before a judge when they are involved in 

this kind of thing." 

Courtof Appeals Judge Robert C. Murphy, the 

state's chief judge, said yesterday such an arrangement 

between a judge and a prosecutor 

"merits interest, obviously." 

He declined to say if the situation violated 

judicial ethics. "I would imagine the matter witt 

be brought to light through your paper, and 

that's something then we will look at Then we 

can focus on the situation," he said. 

William H. Adkins, the state court Administrator, 

said the roles for judicial ethics are 

not specific on what investments a judge may 

keep after joining the beach. 

The rules say a judge should avoid "any activity 

that gives the appearance of conflict," and 

"should refrain from all relations which would 

normally tend to arouse the suspicion that those 

relations would »arp or bias the judgment" in £ 

case. ~ - ~ « - — - ~_— 

"You get the impression that a judge should 1je t 

very cautious when getting involved in-m-.* 

vestments with attorneys who appear before - 

them," Adkins said._ 

Dnckett said yesterday he recalls appearing^ 

personally before Turk in two cases, although his 

staff regularly appears before the judge when 

Turk serves the normal rotation as back-up 

criminal judge. 

In the two cases he handled, Duckett said he 

specifically disclosed his financial tie with Turk 

to the opposing attorneys, and the attorneys said', 

they did not object r-*,« ' • =, 

Docirett said he believed Turk would not be iaflnenced 

by the land deal, but "if he is going to Kfe 

Influenced, it is going to be because of our longterm 

relationship." 

Duckett was brought into Turk's firm in 1969, 

and he's "on*, of my closest, dearest friends," 

Duckett said. "He's like a "brother and there isn't 

(Ccatimsed on Page 8, Col. 3) 

\

EVEN^C CAPITAL Than., April 27, 1978 

Only a third of school funds were used for books 


we've heard it." 

Teal said the school board's normal 

spending process includes making bulk 

purchases of paper products in late winter 

and early spring for the following school 

year. "That's a big part of why the surplus," 

he said, adding that the- school 

budget for supplies and books annually is 

spent before the year ends. 

But the report made by County Auditor 

Joseph Novotny takes aim at a surplus of 

$200,239 in unspent funds for the county's 

new schools which had generated many of 

the book shortage complaints during the 

past two years. 

"We find no justifiable reason for the 

Board of Education not ordering their full 

Grand jury to get kickback case 


County officials have said the nonrenewal 

of the contracts is connected to a 

management study rather than the kickback 

allegations. 

% 

A study conducted by a team of county 

management analysts reportedly found 

managerial and personnel problems in the 

program. County officials have not 

released a written copy of that report, 

however. 

Robert Dvorak, head of the study team, 

said today there was no report, merely a 

list of points the team had made in its 

study. 

The evidence that will go to the grand 

jufcsjwas compiled in a month-long investigationx 

by Roth, who said he interviewed 

eight contractors who had 

worked in the program. 

houses do not meet county building code 

standards.-The money is paid directly tocontractors 

who bid on the projects. 

The county has received $685,000 thus far 

in the program, and the County Council 

last night approved an application for an 

additional $700,000 for the next fiscal year. 

The investigation started in March after 

one contractor complained to Price that he 

had been "given the opportunity" to pad a 

contract for repairs on a south county 

home. 

Price said recently other contractors 

have come to him with the same complaint. 

Duckett said he met yesterday with 

county Planning and Zoning Officer 

Florence B. Kurdle, who oversees the 

program, and "disclosed the contents of 

the investigation" to her. He said he offered 

to go with her to meet with federal 

authorities to brief them on the investigation. 

Officials of the Department of Housing 

and Urban Development recently began 

their own investigation of a complaint of 

The program provides grants for low 

Mother was the subject of the first changed and a vase of carnations - the 

and middle income homeowners whose 

Mother s Day stamp ever issued, but it official Mother's Day flower - was added 

\Academy launches ferry service 

appropriation of $550,000 to provide sufficient 

textbooks in the new schools," the after December 31 "will not be available The county council asked for the report Older schools ordered, on the average, 

eluded most textbook purchases made of materials requisitions. 

spent in 1977 on books — about 80 per cent. 

report said. 

for students during the current school because parents of children attending about 60 per cent books and 40 per cent in 

"The council, in restoring the $250,000 in year." The figures for existing schools some schools continued to complain about other materials.. 

the last fiscal year's budget believed it to show that $834,875 out of about $1.6 million a lack of reading materials in the Teal said schools" may be ixaJyating 

be a top priority, and yet over $200,000 was spent on textbooks as of that date. classroom after the council had restored programs before ordering books in anticipation 

of student demands, but he said 

remains unencumbered in this appropriation." 

some funds allocated for textbooks in the budget years. 

the answer to why so much money had not 

The auditor also said it appears that $558,510 to the fund during the last three 

In its analysis, the audit report con- budget breakdown will be used to "make The lack of textbook spending "makes been spent would have to come from "the 

up for an over-expenditure in other the budget process a farce and makes any people in the schools." 

materials of instruction." 

efforts of the county council a waste of The auditor recommended that the 

The auditors arrived at this assessment time," McGuirk said. 

Board of Education review the way books 

after defining textbooks broadly to include Teal said the criticism was unjust and are inventoried, ordered and distributed 

not only hard-cover books but also pamphlets, 

technical manuals and printed for books in the new schools was higher suggested an evaluation of the 

noted that the percentage of funds spent through the school system. He" also 

racial discrimination in the housing. material bought in bulk form. The auditors than average The report shows news "educational merits" of "materials other 

rehabilitation program. 

then compiled a school-by-school account .schools spent about 3282,000 of $350,000 thartextbooks" ' ~~~ 

Turk-Duckett deal: improper 

(Continuedfrom Page 1) 

anything I wouldn't do for him." 

In fact, Duckett hired Turk's son, Ronald, as a 

Jaw clerk in the prosecutor's office from June 1 

to Nov. 4, 1977. Duckett said he "saw no problem" 

in the employment. He had previously 

hired Judge E. Mackall Child's son, Walter, as a 

law clerk "Why should there by any problem in 

them having the same opportunities in their 

fields as others" Duckett asked. 

Duckett said he tries to avoid appearing in 

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP)- The work 

of art familiarly known as "Whistler's 

Stamp errs 

cases before Turk. In the two cases he recalls 

trying before Turk, Duckett said the judge ruled 

for him once and against him in the other case. 

Judge Murphy said yesterday it is in a judge's 

discretion when to disqualify himself from 

hearing a case because of his association with an 

attorney. 

Murphy said he believes his judges are 

sometimes too quick to disqualify themselves. 

But "-I think most judges will disqualify 

themselves if they are dealing with a law partner" 

infuriated art lovers because'details of the 

portrait were missing, the shape was 

of only 3V4 years, he said. 

Any complaints of violations of the "judicial 

ethics rules must be decided by the Commission 

on Judicial Disabilities. 

Duckett said the partners in the venture planned 

to hold onto the land for at least three more 

years to pay off the mortgage. "Conceivably 

(Judge Turk) could be chastised," Duckett said. 

"If it does cause a problem... I'll be perfectly 

happy to divest my interest." 

\ I (Continued from Page 1) 

~|jgreen at the gills, although a few 

i ^needed a hand getting from the launch 

*"*to the seawall 

•> Alex Lardis, who works at the En- 

^jrironmental Protection Division of the 

"NSRDC, said, "It beats driving over the 

f "Route 50 bridge anytime." 

' c Lardis, who lives in Hillsmere 

r Chores, and the others either drive to 

the sailing center and park their cars 

i • there, or are dropped off for the shuttle 

'- ' During the first week of operation, Lt. 

"•tCmdr. Onorato said, "640 people used 

p-rthe shuttle service, including mid- 

'sshipmen. And it has increased already 

this week." 

{ ~~ The launch is typically used to cany 

i - sailors from ships moored in harbors to 

vllandand is called a "liberty boat." 

:"-c- Seaman Thomas Bytd, who pilots the 

r "eraft across the Severn, said bis 

• ^passengers seem to enjoy the trip 

i aboard the canopied launch that make 

3,; i six round trips daily — two in the 

« i morning and four in the afternoon. 

'•;, The passengers sit on benches 

i 2 beneath the canopy and quietly chat 

-ramoag themselves like ^commuters 

:' i aboard buses. 

The closing of the 54-year-old bridge 

that carried much of the traffic between 

the Naval Station facilities and 

the Naval Academy put a crimp in the 

commuting habits of many. 

Traffic over the bridge, once slated 

for destruction after completion of the 

Route 50 bridge, averaged 16,000 

vehicles daily. 

Many of those were the 1,000 employees 

of the Naval complex on the 

northern shore ef the Severn River. 

Others include the 150 families that live 

at that Naval base, the 190 enlisted 

personnel who live in barracks and 70 

Marines stationed at the North Severn 

Naval Station. 

The many active and retired military 

personnel who use the commissary at 

the Naval Station to buy their meats 

and vegetables have also stopped using 

the old bridge. 

The duffers who use the golf course at 

the Naval Station also have a longer 

trip if they're traveling from Annapolis. 

Onorato said that although use of the 

launch has been restricted to military 

and civilian personnel atjhe Nay_al_ 

Academy complex,~childrea who live at 

the Naval Station but go to school in' 

Hospital could lose 116 jobs 

- ' (Continued from Page1) 

be completed within 10 months, would 

'"look at the effect of the closing on the 

j area, the cost" savings, and whether 

-alternative installations would be able to 

^pickup theload." 

Âctive and retired military personnel 

.and their dependents are allowed medical 

'care at military hospitals in their area. 

-TJie closest military hospital to Annapolis 

"is located in the the Kimborough Army 

•Hospital at Fort George G. Meade with 

more than 100 beds. 

The Naval Hospital at Annapolis is listed 

as having a 36-bed capacity for staffing 

purposes, according to hospital officials. 

However, the operation can be expanded 

to 108 beds in an emergency. 

Upon announcing those studied cutbacks 

at the Naval Hospital here, Rep. Holt said, 

"I've already protested any downgrading 

at the Naval Hospital. 

"We wouW like to see an upgrading, 

instead of a downgrading," she said. 

Annapolis will be able to use the launch 

if accompanied by an adult. 

Work to repair the old Severn River 

Bridge began this week as a pile driver 

began installing the supports for a 

temporary wooden walkway that would 

span 280 feet of the 1,850 foot-long 

bridge. 

The temporary walkway would allow 

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Flo Pelrini has had special 

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School of Hairdressing. 

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treatment, brittle hair is 

strengthened. Limp hair 

regains body. Dull hair 

recaptures its liveliness. 

Treatment Reg. $20 now 

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pedestrians, joggers, bicyclists and 

fishermen to use the bridge while the 

280-foot section that dropped three 

inches is replaced. 

The closing of the bridge has already 

created headaches for commuters over 

the Route 50 bridge, and heavier traffic 

is expected when June Week visitors 

arrive and the weekly Ocean City 

migrations pick up. 

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ANNAPOUS, MARYLAND, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 1978 

Cloudy 

20 Cents 

Good 

afternoon! 

Don 't forget 

The City Council will consider an 

application for a conditional use for 

a 110-umt development on Spa Creek 

at its regular meeting at 8 tonight in 

council chambers of City Hall 

Nation 

The White House says fugitive 

financier Robert Vesco tried but 

failed to involve several of President 

Carter's close advisers in a plan to 

end his lega^problems See page 2. 

State 

Taxes and government spending 

are big issues in this year's 

gubernatorial campaign, but the 

state has failed to experience the 

kind of tax revolt that brought about 

California's Proposition Seepage 13. 

3 

Area 

A county grand jury has recommended 

that a new courthouse be 

built on Riva Road Seepage 11. 

Sports 

The New York Yankees share first 

place in the American League East 

with Boston, after sweeping a fourgame 

series with the Red Sox over 

the weekend See page 19 

People 

Jack Warner, the motion picture 

tycoon who produced the first talkie 

and helped shape Hollywood's 

"Golden Age" with a stable of stars, 

died Saturday in Cedars-Sinai 

Hospital in Los Angeles. He was 86 

and death was attributed to heart 

inflammation. Warner and three of 

his brothers built a movie empire 

and produced the first talking 

motion picture, "The Jazz Singer" 

in 1927 Formed m 1903, Warner 

Bros grew into one of Hollywood's 

largest studios and the corporate 

ancestor of Warner Com--,, 

mumcations. He is survived by his 

wife Ann, a daughter Barbara 

Howard and a son Jack. 

Corrections, 

clarifications 

The Evening Capital incorrectly 

stated in Saturday's paper that 

register of wills' candidate Paul 0. 

Ricketts was retired from the B&O 

Railroad. He is not retired. 

Harry W. Nice III, candidate for 

the Sixth District seat on the County 

Council, has re-emphasized that he 

will resign his job with the state if he 

wins the election. 

Nice's ability to serve is in 

question because of a county 

solicitor's opinion which eliminates 

state, county and federal government 

workers from serving on the 

council. 

Lottery 

The winning number tdrawn 

Saturday in Maryland's Numbers 

Game daily lottery was 543. 

Weather 

Variable cloudiness tonight and 

tomorrow. Chance of mainly afternoon 

and evening thunderstorms 

through tomorrow.'Lows tonight will 

be in the mid 60s to around 70 and 

highs tomorrow will be in the mid 

80s. Chance of rain is 20 percent 

tonight and 50 percent tomorrow. 

Winds will be from the south at 5 to 

15 miles per hour tonight. The extended 

forecast calls for partly 

cloudy weather with showers 

through Friday. Highs will be in the 

mid 70s to near 80 and lows in the 

upper 50s to low 60s. 

Index 

Business News .................... 8, 

Calendar ........... ". ............ 5 

Classified Ads ................ 31-34 

Comics, features ................ 35 

Editorials ......................... 4 

Entertainment ................... 17 

Obituaries .................... 5 

People ......... 16,18,23,28 

Sports 19-22 

Television ... 17 

IV 

® 

Heavy voter turnout seen 

By JOEL McCORD 

and JOHN ALOYSIUS FARRELL 

Staff Writers 

County elections officials are expecting 

an impressive turnout of voters tomorrow 

in what has thus far been a lackluster 

primary campaign 

Betty Eby, director of the county board 

of supervisors of elections, predicted today 

that 41 percent of the county's registered 

voters will go to the polls to select 

nominees for offices from governor to 

central committee The turnout in the 1974 

primary was only 33 percent 

Mrs Eby said the percentage should 

improve this year because nearly 25,000 

voters have been removed from tie rolls, 

either because they haven't voted in the 

last five years or because they no longer 

live in the county 

"We've removed a lot of the deadwood 

this year and have a better list of voters 

than we normally would," she explained 

Old Severn 

Bridge open 

this week 

By GENE BISBEE 

Staff Writer 

The old Severn River Bridge is expected 

to reopen late this week, ending five 

months of sizzling summer traffic jams on 

the Route 50 bridge over the Severn River. 

The narrow, two-lane bridge which dates 

back to the 1920s, has been closed since the 

morning of April 15 when bridge inspectors 

discovered a widening three-inch dip at 

one end. 

The 15,000 vehicles which daily used the 

old route connecting Annapolis with the 

Pendennis Mount suburbs have been 

rerouted over the newer Severn River 

Bridge, causing massive traffic delays in 

the morning and evening rush hours. 

Ed Meehan, acting district engineer for 

the State Highway Administration, this 

morning confirmed that the 54-year-old 

bridge might be ready as early as Thursday. 

"We're going to shoot for that date," he 

said. The opening of the bridge this week 

will be approximately three weeks ahead 

of the highway administration's original 

Oct. 1 projection. 

Contractors finished pouring a new, 

concrete deck across the entire bridge on 

Saturday, and other small odd-jobs are 

'expected to be completed soon, Meehan 

said. 

Meehan said the McLean Contractors 

Co. of Baltimore "was the biggest factor" 

in the early reopening. "Those guys don't 

fool around They get in there and get the 

job done " 

Also, the State Highway Administration 

handled the bridge repair work on an 

emergency basis. Five or six weeks alone 

was saved when the state ordered the steel 

beams, instead of waiting for the contract 

to be awarded and giving the ordering job 

to the contractors. 

The entire 280-foot section at the northeast 

end of the bridge was ripped down 

to the waterline and rebuilt. The new 

section won't match the design of the rest 

of the bridge, however. 

"It would be real difficult to duplicate," 

Meehan said. "If we tried, we'd probably 

be out there till next summer." 

The types of materials and methods of 

construction today are faster, Meehan 

said. There is more automation and prefabrication. 

"There is very little labor 

involved." 

The reopening of the Route 450 crossing 

is good news to those who commuted 

By 3RUCE FRIEDLAND 

Staff Writer 

Phil Volz chews his; gum and snailes a 

smile of contentment. 

He is almost done with a little project 

he started 10 years ago. 

"I wanted a big boat and couldn't 

really afford to go out and buy one," the 

Monday's 

people 

retired electrical engineer and boat 

enthusiast remarks. 

With a certain logic underlying most 

of his actions, Volz decided if he 

couldn't buy a big boat, he had better 

build one. And so he did. 

It was a 40-foot challenge. 

From a mere huh purchased for 

$4,500 in 1968, there has emerged a 40- 

foot ocean-going cabin cruiser equipped 

with all the comforts of home that, with 

across the bridge. Hundreds used the 

bridge to get to work at the massive David 

W Taylor Naval Research and 

Development Center on the opposite shore 

of the Severn River from Annapolis 

Others who lived in Pendennis Mount, St 

Mrgarets, Browns Woods, Ferry Farms 

and Providence used the low-level bridge 

to shop or work in Annapolis. 

One woman, whose 1.7-mile trip to 

Annapolis was lengthened to five miles 

after the bridge closed, said, "It's like 

going around the world to get to work." 

Traffic across the Route 50 bridge over 

the Severn River instantly climbed from 

45,000 to 60,000 with the old bridge closing. 

The traffic moved at a snail's pace during 

morning and evening rush hours, and 

accidents or disabled vehicles on the 

bridge caused miles-long backups. 

The only people who benefited from the 

closed bridge were those who enjoyed 

walking or bicycling to Annapolis from the 

opposite shore of the Severn River. 

After the bridge was closed, a timber 

walkway was installed before the 280-foot 

section was torn out. The walkway allowed 

pedestrians to continue use of the bridge, a 

favorite spot for fishermen 

Initially, State Highway Administration 

officials estimated the cost of tearing down 

the 280-foot section, replacing it, and 

resurfacing the rough deck at $1 million. 

PRIMARY 

78 

"That s uh> I think we 11 have that kind of 

turnout " 

The county's 110 polling places in 

schools, fire stations and community halls 

will open at 7 a m and close at 8 p m The 

results should be known within a few hours 

afterward as they are tabulated through 

the county computer system 

In the statewide races Acting Gov Blair 

Lee III holds a slight edge to win the 

Democratic gubernatorial nomination in 

pre-primary polls He could be edged out, 

-The main attraction 

Photo by K«ilti Horv«y 

Hungry seafood lovers gorged themselves with record amounts of clams, 

crabs and fish at Sandy Point State Park this weekend, depleting the seafood 

supply by 4 p.m. yesterday. An estimated 30,000 passed through the gates 

of the Maryland Seafood Festival, but those latecomers Sunday received ticket 

refunds after the seafood ran out. 

Board controls courses 

Teachers can no longer change content 


Staff Writer 

The county school board last week 

decided to take greater control over the 

way courses are taught because "the 

board has sometimes been the last to know 

that some subjects are being taught," 

according to board member Maureen 

Lamb. 

Board member Barbara Wagner noted 

that a high school sex education course 

was taught in county schools long before 

the controversial course was approved by 

the school board. The board approved that 

course in the face of vehement opposition 

from awesome residents. 

Such a situation is possible, the board 

said, because teachers have been allowed 

to change a course without board approval. 

Sometimes, those courses have 

become different courses, board members 

said. 

The board ruled Wednesday that a 

teacher may not change the approved 

curriculum until the board reviews and 

approves those changes. 

Teachers say the new ruling restricts 

• their academic freedom in the classroom 

The board's ruling states that teachers 

may no longer design pilot courses. 

But the ruling may have further implications 

Teachers have traditionally 

had latitude to change a course to fit the 

particular needs of their students Some 

board members contend that the teachers 

were actually changing the entire course 

while keeping the course's original title 

In that way, teachers would never have 

to seek board approval for a course, just 

continue teaching the newly-designedcourse 

under the old course's name. 


His 10-ffecir protect flouts 

few exceptions, are all hand-made. 

"Oh, I just like boats,", the 60-yearold 

handyman deadpans, surveying his 

creation and cracking his gum, smiling 

all the while. 

He will not readily admit there was 

anything too unique about his building a 

40-foot boat-nearly single-handedly in 

his back yard. He logically explains this 

feat by telling you that he simply laid 

the whole thing out on paper first and, 

as the saying goes, it looked good on 

paper. Simple as that. 

Of course, some things just can't be 

mapped out ahead of time. Such a thing 

as a boat's name falls in a category that 

defies logic or blueprint. Even so, after 

a year of "fooling around" with a name, 

Volz and his wife came up with not only 

a fitting title, but a name that told the 

story: "Home Maid." 

Maybe it's the size of the boat, nestled 

casually on wood blocks underneath a 

few towering trees in Volz's back yard. 

Maybe it's the intricate work inside the 

vessel—the electrical wiring, plumbing, 

woodworking, welding and the 

(Continued on Page 10, Col I) 

+J , JL «F 

IT TOOK Phil Volz and his wife nearly a year of "fooling 

around" with various names before they aptly titled 

especially in Anne Arundel County, by 

challenger Theodore G Venetoulis, who 

has County Councilwoman Ann C. Stockett 

of Annapolis running as lieutenant 

governor on his ticket 

Republican J Glenn Beall Jr seems to 

have a commanding lead in the gubernatorial 

race on his side, followed by 

Louise Gore, the party's 1974 nominee, 

Carlton Beall, who is no relation to Glenn, 

and Ross Z Pierpont 

(Continued on Page 10, Col 4) 

Liquor 

ruling 

upheld 

By JENNIFER CLOUGH 

Staff Writer 

Owners of Michael's Due West, a 

restaurant at the corner of Melvin and 

Ridgely avenues in Annapolis, have lost 

their appeal to remove liquor license 

restrictions forbidding them to sell liquor 

at an open bar 

Circuit Court Judge Raymond G. 

Thieme Jr. last week affirmed the City 

Council's decision to grant the transfer of a 

liquor license to Michael's D-ie West Inc., 

along with the following restrictions' 

• Off-premises sales of alcoholic 

beverages are not permitted.. 

• Alchoholic beverages shall only be 

served with meals. 

• The premises shall not contain a bar 

open to the public. 

In a six-page opinion, Judge Thieme said 

the former restaurant operators had 

agreed to self-imposed restrictions on 

their liquor license when it was granted in 

1974. The restaurant was then known as Gi- 

An'sHibachi 

After pointing out that the City Council 

had only approved the license after the 

owners had agreed to the restrictions, 

Judge Thieme said the restrictions were 

"implicit" although not actually ap- 

" pearing on the face of the liquor license. 

He said the City Council, therefore, had 

the power to transfer those former 

restrictions when the license itself was 

transferred last February to the new 

owners, Stephan Spell, Frank P. Kirby ST., 

and Michael Bocchichio. 

Judge Thieme agreed with the appellants' 

claim that restrictions on the 

liquor license transfer should not hinge on 

neighborhood impact. 

The City Council had placed restrictions 

on the license after residents near the 

restaurant protested the application. 

Ronald Council, attorney for the applicants, 

had contended that Bocchichio's 

qualifications as an owner and prospective 

manager were the only points which 

should be legally considered in the request 

— not the impact on the neighborhood. 

Judge Thieme said the council can only 

consider restrictions on a license if it is to 

be transferred to a new location or if the 

applicant were an unfit person. But he also 

said restrictions on a former license can be 

transferred along with the license. 

their homemade 40-foot boat "Home Maid." 

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Classified 268-7000 

Circulation 268-4800 

News-Business— 268-5000 

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VOL. XCIV NO. 217 POLIS, MARYLAND, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1978 

Sketch led to ex-fireman's arrest 

20 Cents 

i 

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Man charged in girl's murder 

By SCOTTLEBAR 

Staff Writer 

A 27-year-old former Anne Arundel 

County volunteer fireman has been 

charged with first degree murder in the 

shooting death of 13-year-old Elizabeth 

Archard almost three Weeks ago. 

Prince Georges County Police said this 

morning that William J. Parker, who was 

a member of the Arundel Volunteer Fire 

Good 

afternoon! 

Don't forget 

Oyster season opens today, and 

the Maryland Department of 

Natural Resources expects this 

year's harvest to nearly equal last 

year's yield of 2,266,572 bushels. The 

season continues through March 31. 

For seafood lovers, the blue crab is 

still in good supply around the state. 

The crab season ends Dec. 31, but 

few crabbers harvest after mid- 

October, so eat your fill now. 

State 

Maryland Comptroller Louis 

Goldstein plans to go to court to stop 

release of a consultant's report on 

computer security which sources 

say is critical of his Data Processing 

Division. Seepage 3. 

Nation 

A proposal tSiat woalcKacfd money 

to, rather ton take taxes .-..from, the 

paychecks of qualifying workers is 

part of a new tax cut plan for lowand 

middle-income Americans. See 

page 2. 

People 

Department in Gambrills several months 

ago, was arrested shortly after midnight 

at the Forestville Police Headquarters. 

Parker was being held without bond at 

the Prince Georges County Detention 

Center in Upper Majrlboro this morning. 

A bond review hearing was scheduled at 

the Upper Marlboro District Court at 1 • 

p.m. today. 

Police spokesman John Hoxie said that 

Parker "came in for questioning" shortly 

before midnight and was arrested for the 

slaying four minutes after midnight. 

Police refused to say whether he turned 

himself in or whether he came in alone. 

Parker, of-no fixed address, has been a 

probationary volunteer fireman in the 

Kentland area near Landover for the past 

four days, Hoxie said. 

Sources say Parker was a member of the 

$51,000 a year 

Guard for 

Mandel costs 

ByJOELMcCORD 

Staff Writer 

More than a year after his conviction on 

political corruption charges, suspended 

Gov. Marvin Mandel is still being guarded 

by state troopers at an annual cost of more 

than $51,000. 

Executive protection officials have 

assigned a three-man, detail to guard 

Mandel eight to nine hours a day, according 

to Sgt. Thomas Hess of the state 

police. 

The troopers will continue to protect the 

suspended governor, who was convicted on 

mail fraud and racketeering charges Aug. 

23,1977, until his appeals are exhausted or 

until a new governor is inaugurated in 

January, the day his protection would 

normally end, Hess said. 

Federal appeals judges in Richmond 

heard arguments in Mandel's case in July, 

but have yet to make a decision. 

The guards, whose average salary is 

$17,000 a year, were taken from the 20-man 

elite detail that guards the governor and 

his family, the lieutenant governor and — 

during the General Assembly session — 

the speaker of the House and president of 

the Senate. 

Hess said there is one guard on early, 

another late and a third to relieve the 

others for vacations and weekends. 

For the most part, the guards sit in the 

lobby of Mandel's offices in the Arnold post 

office building, thumbing through 

magazines while the-suspended-governqr 

sees clients in his consulting business. 

They also accompany Mandel on any trips 

he makes during the business day. 

Mandel was sentenced to a four-year jail 

term Oct. 7, 1977. Under a ruling by Attorney 

General Francis B. Burch, he was 

"suspended" from office at the time of the 

sentencing and lost his state salary and 

benefits attached to the office, including 

the use of Government House, the mansion, 

and the governor's yacht, the 

Maryland Lady. 

Burch and Acting Gov. Blair Lee III 

decided later that Mandel could retain a 

small contingent of bodyguards until the 

appeals are finished. 

City Jayeees 

keep charter 

By JOHN ALOYSIUS FARRELL 

Staff Writer 

The Annapolis Jayeees won a battle last 

week in their effort to keep both woman 

members and their organization's 

charter. 

But the outcome of the war is still in 

doubt. 

The executive committee for the 

Maryland Jayeees voted at a meeting in 

Easton last Friday against a motion which 

might have cost Annapolis Jayeees their 

charter. 

The motion was made that the executive 

committee recommend to either the state 

or national Jayeees that Annapolis have its 

charter revoked because an associate 

(woman) member had been elected 

president. 

That motion was defeated, said Annapolis 

President Kathleen Songey, to the 

relief and joy of a hearty contingent of city. 


Arundel Volunteer Fire Department for 

less than a year but was suspended and 

later released from the company. 

Sources characterized him as a "drifter" 

in the Bowie-Crofton area. He was 

known to police and firemen there. 

He has also been a school bus driver in 

Prince Georges County, according to 

sources. 

Hoxie said Parker's arrest was the 

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SECRETARY of Transportation Hermann K. Intemann 

congratulates state officials and workers who were re- 

result of an "intensive investigation" and 

a composite sketch police released 

Monday. 

That sketch, which The Evening Capital 

published last Friday, was of a nan wit-- 

nesses said they saw with Miss Archard 

before she disappeared on Aug. 28. 

It was the first sketch police showed to 

residents in the neighborhood outside of 

Annapolis after Miss Archard's body was 

found on Aug. 29. 

Police said Parker allegedly abducted 

the girl near the intersection of Spa and 

Ferry Point roads about two miles from 

her home at about 1 p.m. He allegedly 

drove her across the county line and 

sexually assaulted and shot her at about 

2:30p.m., police said. 

Police said she was shot near the site 


PKotol by Darrfl Wihon 

sponsible for finishing the new section of the Severn River 

Bridge two weeks ahead of schedule. 

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Commuters saved! 

ByGENEBISBEE 

Staff Writer 

When the old Severn River Bridge 

was opened for the first time 54 years 

. ago, a beat-up old truck was driven off 

the center span of the timber bridge 

that had grown obsolete. 

The stunt "was symbolic of the old 

bridge closing," explained William Roy 

Parks, a 73-year-old Brooklyn Park 

man who served as inspector of construction 

on the old Severn River 

Bridge. 

Reports from those days tell of a 

parade, bands and floats. A buffet was 

served at the Naval Academy grounds 

after the opening ceremony. 

A more dignified ceremony marked 

yesterday's reopening of the bridge, but 

there were still the speeches, ribbon 

cutting, and even a "first car across the 

bridge." 

"I wanted to be the first one across," 


A PORTION of the old bridge section still stands near the repaired section 

completed this week. The remainder of the bridge was repaved. 

Leon Spinks is ready for the 

'Second Battle of New Orleans' in his 

WBA Heavyweight championship 

bout tonight with Muhammad Ali. 

The fight will be televised about 10 

p.m., after two. preliminary fights. 

Seepagel6.. 

Lottery 

The winning number drawn 

Thursday in Maryland's Numbers 

Game daily lottery was518. 

Weather 

Mostfy dear .tonight with the low 

in lovpf!iii;6psi. Partly sunny and, 

wam,wraprrowwith a high near 80. 

Chanip|;of rain is 10 percent tonight 

and Saturday. Winds-will be light 

and variable tonight The extended 

forecast calls for partly cloudy and 

cool^weather through Tuesday. 

Highs will lie in the. upper 70s and 

lows In the mid to high 50s. 

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Index 

' 

Business News .............. .....12 

Calendar.... ..................... 5 

Classified Ads.... ............. 22-26 

Comics, features..... ...... ......27 

... ......... ,;..4 

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Is Market House sound 

Pholo bj Oo ryl V» Imn 

WILLIAM ROY center who 54 years ago oversaw the construction of the 

Severn River Bridge yesterday cut the ribbon marking the re-opening of the 

bridge after having been closed five months for repairs From left Secretary 

of Transportation Hermann K Intemann Annapolis Mayor John Apostol 

State Sen Edward T Hall R -Prince Frederick and County Executive Robert A 

Pascal 

opening 

raises spirits 

' Continued from Page 1) 

-aid 11 she Sanester who drove her two 

g -.-IIJJH friends slowlv across the 

bridge m a vellow convertible 

Ai'er the dignitaries left and the 

ceitbrants/had wandered back to their 

homes Parks and a few friends and 

relatives watched the traffic flowing 

back and fortn across the bridge 

NOW the people of Annapolis are 

happv he said 

I' had been an especially long hot 

summer fir the commuters between 

Annaoohs ana .he suburbs of Pendenms 

Mot" 1 ' Ferry Farms and Providence 

A J i.icb crach was discovered in the 

bridge on April 15 it v, as closed and all 

traffic was rerouted over the busy 

Route 50 bridge 

The 16 000 vehicles that used the old 

Route 450 span traversed the river on 

the Route 50 bridge boosting dailv 

traffic there to over 60 000 cars and 

trucks dailv An accident or disabled 

vfhcle would result in traffic jams 

mi es long 

State Secretarv of Transportation 

Hc r mann K Intemann in remarks 

before the ribbon-cutting ceremony 

said the bridge was reopened two weeks 

before the self imposed deadline and 

credit should go to the state Highway 

Administration and the workers of 

McLean Cor ractors Inc of Baltimore 

The 0-foot section that w as replaced 

had been ripped out this spring and a 

wooden walkway for pedestrians 

fishermen and bicyclists linked the 

shoreline to the remaining section of 

the bridge 

The new bridge section is modern in 

design and in stark contrast to the old 

architecture of the rest of the bridge 

The entire surface of the bridge ,vas 

repaved, making for a smooth ride with 

no potholes _ 

The repairs and resurfacing are 

expected to cost approximately $1 

million When first built, the entire 

bridge cost $800,000, according to 

figures supplied by the state Highway 

Administration 

Parks who was contacted for the 

opening ceremonies to cut the ribbon, 

was 19 when he got the job as a bridge 

inspector and is the only known person 

still living who worked on the bridge 

"1 was managing a store in Pendenms 

Mount when I was hired," Parks 

said, pointing to the location of the 

Severn Bridge Inn The property and 

beach which now belongs to the Jonas 

Green State Park was run by the store 

owner ai,d Parks was building a 

walking bridge across the marsh to join 

the store and beach 

"The supervisor, his name was Ed 

Ward saw me doing it and asked me if I 

wanted a job ' Parks said He worked 

on the bridge until its completion, then 

left the bridge building business 

(Continued from Pagt 1) 

Hai bin ami UotAb (. ommittu 

UthouUi hi dots no! suspui dislumist\ 

on thi part of stall nuuhants hi alMi 

maintains that without an audit thi ut\ 

cannot bi iuri of thi itiurao of lib in 

torni 

hoi thi last two \iars M uLinnan vn-, 

hi hai K quisled an audit but thi akin 

mm including Hammond hau diktid 

his tiquist at budgit timi 

fun though thiv cut thi nquest sunn 

aldirnun sa\ thi\ biliixi an audit is 

necissaiv Others do not 

Aldirman Alftid A Hopkins says hi 

opposis an\ attimpt to audit the mi-r 

ihanls books It s a mattir of tiust he 

savs Its private busmissmen leasing 

public property I 11 trust thi m 

Hammond also claims the cit\ could 

make a better return on its investment in 

the Market House if stalls wen advertised 

on a competitive basis whin they become 

available 

Except during the fust vear of 

operation thi stalls have never been 

advertised 

For instance when former meat stall 

merchant Elwood Jones decided to give up 

his lease Joseph Martin who alreadv 

rents two stalls offered Jones monev for 

his equipment and asked the citv if he 

could assume Jones lease Ihe citv 

agreed 

Hammond says the city could possibh 

have earned more on leasing the stall by 

putting it up for competitn e bidding 

' Its lucrative he savs Now if you 

want someone s stall you go to them and 

say I would like to take \our business and 

reach a price agreement and in return 

thev get vou in a more favorable position 

(toobtain a lease) he says 

^gain however Hammond's views 

clash with those of some of his colleagues 

and stall merchants 

Alderman Benjamin V\inegrad 

chairman of the Market House, Harbor 

and Docks Committee savs he is open to 

suggestions, but that he personally does 

not feel "that people should get into bid 

ding wars to obtain space ' 

"I'd like to see that everyone having a 

stall be successful ' he says 'Those 

people m the market make their investment 

I think people do a good job 

there I don't want to gouge them 

Wmegrad says he opposes raising the 

rents through bidding 

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The future 

takes shape 

Work on the newest Severn 

River bridge is going quickly, 

and it's already living up to - 

or down to" — expectations 

Neall moves 

to cut back 

on pensions 

"> Phtrtoi by Bob OIIMrt - Th» CtplUI 

High above the Severn River, foreman Jack Kennedy, left, watches aft Ironworker Marvin Wells drives drift pins Into holes to align 

two beams for the new Severn River bridge before they're bolted together. 

By P.J. SHUEY 

Staff Writer 

The nickname used by 

opponents of "the 80-foot 

bridge" across the Severn 

River was never really accurate. 

It's taller than that. 

At mean tide, the center of the 

new bridge will rise 84 feet 

above the water. 

The middle span of the bridge 

has been hanging from 

construction cranes on barges 

most of this week, ready for 

good weather to allow workers 

to bolt it to the already-raised 

sections 

"Everything's going really 

smoothly," said Dan Witt, State 

Highway Administration project 

engineer 

One of two steel center beams 

was raised yesterday, despite 

the ram, and a second was to be 

put in place this morning. Work 

to fix the beams in place may 

continue through Saturday and 

into Monday 

Although there has been 

discussion of the bridge opening 

up earlier than projected, Mr. 

A view of the old Severn River Bridge through the partially 

completed skeleton of the new one. Annapolis Is to the left. 

Witt said the plan is to stick with 

the contract designations — open 

for traffic by June 1994, with 

completion of the entire project 

by February 1995. 

At the end of August, 

contractors had used 53 percent 

of the projected construction 

time - 614 of 1,156 days in the 

contract. 

Teens suspected in latest 

Florida tourist slaying 

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MONTICELLO, Fla - Three teen-agers, 

two already in custody on unrelated auto theft 

charges, are the chief suspects in the killing 

of a British tourist, Florida's deputy attorney 

general said yesterday. 

The two suspects arrested this week are 

ages 13 and 15, and the 13-year-old has 56 

pnor arrests, said Deputy Sttte Attorney 

also were seeking a 17-year-old. 

"They're convinced that they have the guys, 

and that they don't have a case so far," Mr 

Antonacci said in today's editions of The 

Oitmi Herald. 

Earlier yesterday, however, Jrtferson County 

Sheriff Ken Fortune and state police 

refuged to speculate on whether two teen-age 

boyi being held in the Sept 2 theft of a or hi 

MonticeDo were linked to the kflling. 

They also wouM not confirm published 

reports that bafflitics tests were being ran on 

a ballet find to s motel robbery Sunday in 

Monticello to determine whether it's linked to 

the killing No one was injured in that 

robbery 

Gary Colley. 34. was shot to death m an 

apparent robbery attempt early Tuesday after 

pulling into an interstate rest stop m an 

unmarked rental car His girlfriend was 

wounded 

The Englishman was the ninth foreign 

W» The 

killings have jolted the state's $31 billion a 

year tottrism Industry 

Civil rights leaden complained that Sheriff 

Fortune's department responded in a racist 

way by rounding up young blacks with cnmi 

nal records for questioning and sometimes 

fingerprinting 

Bat the sheriff bristled at accusations that 

his mvestigatkm is racist 

Be said the roundup was appropriate be 

came Mr Coder's girtfrtend, Margaret Ann 

Jagger, 35, described the couple's assailants 

(See TOCWTS, Page All) 

But the project stood 76 

percent complete. The 

assessment was based on the 

amount of money spent 

compared to the contract price 

of $33 million. 

The new bridge will have one 

lane in each direction, shoulders 

and sidewalks on both sides 

Cianbro Construction Co of 

INSIDE 

Maine, which also is working on 

the Hanover Street Bridge in 

South Baltimore, is the main 

contractor. 

While the political and legal 

opposition to the bridge which 

preceded the project does not 

affect actual construction, Mr 

Witt said there are occasional 

reminders. 

Whenôastroctron crews start 

some of the noiser parts .of the 

job five minutes early, they get 

complaints. 

Opponents of the bridge on 

Pendennis Mount said it has 

a inflated to exactly what was 

expected. 

"It looks terrible," said 

Ronnie Carr, who live* in a 

house on Baltimore Annapolis 

Boulevard facing the new 

bridge. "I expected it to be bad, 

and it's a monstrosity " 

"Where we had a lovely old 

European bridge before, we now 

have a monstrosity It's even 

going to spoil the sunset." 

However, she added that after 

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By LEDYARD KING 

Staff Writer 

County Executive Robert R. Neall 

is proposing that pension payments 

to five former officials be suspended 

immediately and that top officials, 

including his cabinet, no longer get 

pensions sweeter than those of rankand-file 

workers. 

The bill is the crux of a strategy to 

plug the retirement system's multimillion 

dollar drain on tax coffers. 

Mr. Neall plans to introduce to the 

County Council on Monday the measure 

closing the Appointed and 

Elected Pension Plan and putting 

department heads, council members 

and their aides in the system for 

general employees 

The proposal already is being met 

with resistance from county employee 

union officials who don't want to 

absorb the funding liability in the 

appointed and elected plan. 

Although Mr. Neall wiU not be 

with the county long enough to earn 

a pension, his successors will be 

lumped into the general employees' 

plan as well. 

Jut the .hill's boldest provision 

would prevent the five former officials 

from receiving another pension 

check until they reach 60. 

In 1989, the council approved a farreaching 

bill that dropped the retirement 

age to 50, a change that 

allowed several former officials to 

begin collecting right after the law 

took effect 

But the county does not have a 

constitutional duty to pay the 11, 

whose names were not released, 

because they had already left the 

county by 1989 and performed no 

additional services to earn the improved 

benefits, County Attorney 

Judson P Garrett Jr said 

Eleven officials who retired before 

1989 benefited from the legislation, 

but six of them already have turned 

60 and won't be affected by the 

proposed benefits suspension, 

The provision does not affect those 

workers who were with the county 

the time the 1989 law was adopted 

Mr Neall had looked into denying 

improved benefits that other officials 

had received thanks to the 1989 

law, but was told by lawyers that 

they are constitutionally protected 

"I believe this bill is all we can do 

that will pass constitutional master 

" Mr Neall said "It cures what 

I believe is the long-term problem of 

the A&E Plan " 

The measure would end one of 

Maryland's most generous public 

pension plans, whose lucrative benefits 

have jeopardized its funding and 

forced the county to more than 

double (from $800,000 to $1 9 million) 

its taxpayer-funded contribution 

over the past two years 

County exec 

t^ withdraw 

from plan 

' 

By LEDYARD KING 

Staff Writer 

With his reputation at stake 

only weeks from his expected 

entry into the gubernatorial 

race, County Executive Robert 

R. Neall has decided to withdraw 

from the county's lucrative 

plan for top officials. 

Mr. Neall was in the process 

of "buying back" bis 12 years in 

the state legislature for about 

$30,000 so that he could apply 

them to his county pension, 

which would have offered him 

handsome benefits. 

But yesterday, while he was 

unveiling his plan to close the 

underfunded pension plan for 

appointed and elected official*,, 

bend' Ml' 

buyback. 

"My politicaljcareer has beenbased 

on saving people money," 

said the former DavidsonvMe 

delegate who built t reputation 

of being a focal whiz. "The list 

thing I want to/be remembered 

for Is costing people a whole lot 

of money." 

Because he only plans to serve 

one four-year term as county 

executive, Mr. Neall will not 

meet the minimum five-year requirement 

needed to vest In the 

county retirement system. 

Buybacks, available to all 

county employees except police 

officers and firefighters, are 

(See NEALL, Page AM) 

Created 20 years ago, the Appointed 

and Elected plan has evolved into 

something of a golden parachute for 

county government's elite The employee 

contribution rate was 

dropped, a yearly cost-of-hvmg raise 

was added and politically influential 

officials were allowed in during the 

penod 

Then in 1989, the council unanimously 

approved a bill dropping the 

retirement age to 50, boosting appointees' 

pensions by as much as 25 

percent, and quadrupling the minimum 

annual pension from $1,200 to 

$4,800 

Mr Neall's proposal would 1 

• Immediately close the appointed 

and elected plan, one of five 

retirement systems for county wdrk- 

(See PENSIONS, Page AW) 

Magazine calls Schaefer 

most pampered governor 

Is Gov William Donald Schaefer the "most 

pampered prince of perks." like Money magazine 

says in an upcoming issue' 

Or is he "the original McDonald's kind of 

guy'" as described by his press secretary 

Money's October issue says Maryland tax 

payers shell out almost 12 3 million a year for 

the 71 year old governor's pay. pension and 

perks That puts Mr Schaefer at the top of 

the ligf ftnnng ttfff fhiff fiff t i tivf ti according 

to the magazine 

Money rated Idaho Gov Cecil Andrus. 

another Democrat, as the most frugal 

The magazine ranked Mr Schaefer at the 

top because his tl20,000 annual salary is the 

largest among the 50 governors and because 

he has the largest budget for upkeep of the 

governor's mansion, $716,390, said the arti 

cle's author Walter L Updegrave 

The magazine also valued the governor's 

security detail of 17 state troopers at $1 2 

million inrnMlly, including salaries phis its 

own estimate of overtime and administrative 

overhead State police say the actual cost is 

closer to 1858,000 a year 

"By no stretch of the imagination do I 

consider security costs a perk That's the 

level deemed necessary by state police It's 

really not an extra that he has control over," 

said Page Boinest, Mr Schaefer's press 

secretary 

"There is some subjectivity in this," said 

Mr. Updeguve, whff \w oottd the m *t**tirt 

accepted figures provided by the state it face 

value 

Robert C Schaeffer. a local taxpayer activist, 

said the news comes as little surprise to 

him 

"We knew he wit the highest-paid . the 

rest doesn't surprise me because it's what yon 

expect in a smgle-party state. They reward 

their highest psrty member " 

The governor, Mr Schieffer added, is "on* 

of those gays who thinks the work) owes Mm a 

living, and he's **taf to ft ttat UM world has 

(See gCHAKFCt, PtfB AM)

A10 — THE CAPITAL, Friday, bept 1 r, 199J 

FROM THE FRONT-PAGE 

PENSIONS 

(Continued from Page Al) 

er». As members of the rank-and-file 

plan, current officials would receive 

more modest benefits 

• Suspend pensions being collected 

by 11 officials who benefitted 

from the drop in retirement age 

from 60 to 50 four years ago They 

Will start getting pensions again 

when they reach 60. 

• Double the appointed and elected 

officials' pension contribution — 

from 4 percent to 8 percent of annual 

salary. 

• No longer give officials' surviving 

spouses full pension benefits. 

• Permit the county executive to 

deny a prospective official, as a 

condition of employment, from 

transferring or purchasing past service 

in order to boost his pension. 

Mr. Neall has been criticized for 

contributing to the plan's underfunding 

because seven members of his 

"Some of the 

people who got in 

and out of the 

pension (system) got 

a great deal. The 

members of my 

administration are 

going to pay extra not 

only for their 

benefits, but also to 

cover the shortfall." 

— Robert R. Neall 

cabinet collectively transferred 

more than 110 years of state government 

service for a nominal fee. 

In the end, though, his appointees 

will suffer for the sins of his predecessors, 

he said. 

"Some of the people who got in 

and out of the pension (system) got 

a great deal The members of my 

administration are going to pay extra 

not only for their benefits, but 

also to cover the shortfall," he said 

Not everyone was applauding the 

bill Absorbing the officials would 

force the general employees' plan to 

digest a $7.8 million liability, a pill 

that some workers might not want to 

swallow. 

"This is our money," said Le- 

Grande Williams, who represents 

two county employee unions on the 

Pension Oversight Commission. 

Moving elected and appointed officials 

into the employees plan still 

leaves the plan financially healthy, 

administration officials said. 

Besides, all the changes will mean 

that the county's annual contribution 

to cover top officials will drop from 

$1.9, million this year to $671,285, 

according to projections. 

If employees still aren't satisfied, 

Mr. Neall pointed to language in the 

bill that protects current workers 

from any reduction in benefits as a 

result of the transfer. 

SCHAEFER 

(Continued from Page AD 

paid " 

Money came up with "what they 

think is a tidy perk package, but 

there is nothing to compare it with 

in other states," M~s. Bomest said 

"He is the original McDonald's 

customer To suggest that he hves 

like a royal or is the prince of perks 

totally misses the common touch of 

his personality ... He has simple 

tastes and he is not caught up in the 

trappings of the office," she said. 

Money said many chief executives 

have been "living like regal heads of 

state" at a time when their states 

have cut funding for higher education 

and welfare and even laid off 

employees. 

Salaries average about $85,000 a 

year, and fringe benefits easily exceed 

$100,000 a year, the story said. 

The magazine did not attempt to 

develop the total cost to taxpayers 

"To suggest that 

he lives like a royal or 

is the prince of perks 

totally misses the 

common touch of his 

personality." 

— Page Boinest, 

Schaefer spokesman 

for the 50 governors 

"It's hard to come up with comparable 

figures," Mr. Updegrave said. 

Mr Andrus was given the ranking 

of most frugal in part because of a 

modest salary of $75,000 a year. The 

magazine also was impressed. because 

he bad the state sell the fourbedroojn 

governor's residence while 

he livefl $i.home, Mr. Updegrave 

said. 

Mr. Schaefer also: did not live in 

the historic 30,780-square-foot mansion 

across the street from the State 

House during his first term. He 

commuted from Baltimore, where 

he lived in a modest row house in 

the crime-ridden inner city neighborhood 

where he grew up 

In addition to his annual salary, 

Money listed these costs to Maryland 

taxpayers for benefits during 

the fiscal year which ended June 30: 

• $716,390 to operate the governor's 

mansion. 

• $159,000 upkeep for the state 

yacht, which has been mothballed 

for two years to save money. ' 

• $95,000 for a skybox at Camden 

Yards baseball stadium. 

Ms. Boinest said the skybox is 

provided by the Orioles and the cosl 

to taxpayers is $9,500 in revenues the 

state would receive if the box was 

leased. She said Mr. Schaefer iliae 

used it five or six times this seasarj, 

and it is usually used by state 

agencies or members of Congress. 

Mr. Schaefer has used the state 

yacht twice in his almost seven 

years as governor. Both were for 

business meetings, she said. '. ' 

NEALL 


windfalls for workers because of the 

way the county calculates the benefit. 

Employees who want to purchase 

past service with another government 

are charged a fee based on 

what they earned during the period 

they want to buy, rather than what 

they're earning at the time of retirement. 

The result is that past years are 

purchased at a fraction of the actual 

cost, a policy'that will cost taxpayers 

millions over the next 30 years. 

Had he completed his' buyback, 

Mr. Neall would have seen his pension 

rise more than $19,000 per year 

BRIDGE 


all of the fighting, opposition to the 

"brltfgl! tS"6nUeTJT~ ~ ~ """""" 

"It's here — nothing we can do 

about it, she said. "All the fighting 

we did did no good." 

Elsewhere, the reaction was not as 

negative. 

When SHA engineers visited with 

residents beforehand to tell them 

what was planned, one resident up 

Ritchie Highway from the riverbank 

asked if trees would be cleared from 

state properly, be.twee,n _ her home 

amfthe structure. 

"She wanted a good view of the 

new bridge," Mr. Witt said, laughing. 

He had to tell her the SHA doesn't 

get involved in vista-clearing. 

Other residents, who are not 

waterfront property owners, said the 

bridge opposition issue split communities 

for a time. 

When cocktail parties and other 

occasions were held to raise money 

for legal fees to fight the new bridge, 

residents who did not oppose the new 

bridge were recognized by their 

absence. 

"I was amazed at how strongly 

people felt," said one resident who 

asked not to be identified "It was so 

bad 

"People wouldn't speak to you. 

You had to lay low." 

For sailboaters, the bridge will 

eliminate both the wait for the drawbridge 

and the narrow gap for wider 

craft The center channel has a 140- 

foot gap. 

With the Route 50 bridge often 

called the "new" Severn River 

Bridge, and the drawbridge called 

the "old" bridge, no nickname has 

surfaced for the new Route 450 

bridge The SHA calls it bridge No 

2070 

Power failure 

closes school 

Edgewater Elementary School stu 

dents and teachers got the day off 

today due to a power failure 

A contractor yesterday cut the 

mam underground power line into 

the school while replacing its old 

fuel tanks, said Ralph Luther, director 

of operations and maintenance 

Mr Luther said the line is expect 

ed to be fixed by this afternoon and 

school is scheduled to reopen Monday 

because he added those 12 years. He 

would have made his money back 

within two years and, at 46, figured 

to be collecting a pension for many 

years to come. 

The county's Appointed and Elected 

Pension Plan allows officials to 

collect pensions after 16 years of 

service, a requirement Mr. Neall 

would have met with his 12 years of 

purchased service and four years as 

county executive. 

A bill introduced earlier this 

month by County Councilman MaiF 

reen T. Lamb, D-Annapolis, would 

charge workers the true cost of a 

buyback and has Mr. Neall's support. 

The county will return the several 

thousand dollars that Mr. Neall has 

paid to buy his state service time, 

plus interest. 

TOURISTS 


as black. 

"A" lady who T s" ~a'~ victim, who's 

lucky to be alive, told us we were 

looking for two black males. I think 

that's justification enough," Sheriff 

Fortune said. 

Investigators believe that a third 

youth was driving a stolen getaway 

car found abandoned in Monticello a 

few hours later 

Ms. Jagger, who had' been staying 

at the Governor's Mansion in Talla- 

. hassee, was shown a lineup of young 

blacks Wednesday night Sheriff 

Fortune wouldn't say whether she 

identified any suspects. 

Ms, Jagger flew out of Florida last 

night; Mr. Colley's body also was on 

the jet. The plane's destination 

wasn't disclosed. 

The Rev. R.N. Gooden, state president 

of the Southern Christian Leadership 

Conference, worried that the 

roundup — which could involve up to 

50 youths — may inflame racial 

tension in the county, which is 43 

percent black 

"It's just like Gestapo tactics, and 

it certainly is a violation-of civil 

rights," the Rev. Gooden said. "I 

can understand that they need to 

make an arrest quickly, but they 

don't need to create a situation of 

racial tension that will remain after 

this is over." 

Sheriff Fortune, who was first 

elected sheriff in 1984 and served in 

the Highway Patrol for 12 years 

before that, said he was using proper 

police procedure. 

"Where the investigation goes, we 

don't pick and choose," he said. 

"Anybody with that thought, with 

that mindset, is probably the reason 

we're in the shape we're in with the 

problems we have in this country 

today " 

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Hello, City Hall Is anybody out there 

By JEFF NELSON 

St«ff Writer 

Make a call to City Hall and it may 

be a week or two... or four before you 

can get an answer. . 

While there is no way of knowing 

exactly how many employees are out '..•. "We have-iotte 

this month, city, officials said the (Public Works head 

heads of Planning and Zoning, Public vacation for a 

• -WorkSt PfTMjHlrii BflMUHttfcf'HyftVl'P' 

^ and tb» city administrator are alj 

Reaching officials may be a little harder than you think 

charge that department 'heads are 

gone more than they should be. 

tment head 

Patmore) on 

" said Alderman 

Callahan with Parks and Recreation, 

and James Chase, of the city Transportation 

Department, were unaccounted 

for 

Ṫwo others, Eileen Fogarty of the 

Planning and Zoning Department and 

John Patmore of Public Works, were 

on scheduled vacation. 

"' Ms. DeGraff said long vacations for 

department heads — and their apparent 

absence in the afternoons or mornings 

— is one reason she supports a 

professional city manager. 

She is drafting a proposed change In 

the City Charter calling for a partrtjme 

mayor and a full-time city manager., 

The new manager post would rapjsfle 

the existing city 

tton. 

But Mayor Alfred A. Hopkins, who 

oversees department heads, said the 

chiefs of the various sections of the 

city's bureaucracy deserve any breaks 

they get. ' 

The iwiie bofls down to comp time, 

tnake tip 

working after hours or on weekends. 

City Personnel Director Thomas Engelke 

said comp time is available to 

department heads, many of whom, 

work at night meetings or must come 

inon weekends. . ' • „ . " . , 

Mr. Patmore frequently attends 

night meetings and is regularly on-cajl . 

for department emergencies, Mr. HWK, 

kins said, 

^ 

, '.'I wn satisfied that, with all theîad , 

panning the 

Writer 

B was i» ribbon-cutting or 

'speeches, just a couple honks 

and a few waves and thumbs-up 

from drivers as the new Route 

450 Severn River Bridge opened 

for business yesterday. 

After nearly three years of construction, 

accompanying protests and three recent 

rain delays, it was almost anticlimactic 

when state workers removed traffic cones 

blocking the approach to the new bridge to 

let traffic across. 

For the record, the first vehicle, a 

motorcycle, entered the eastfaound side of 

the span at 9ffl aon. It wasfollowed a steady 

stream of cars, trucks and vans. 

Sfajite fifRotalg fpflt flf HTP nf frrqffV 

halfway in an antique Lincoln Continental 

and guided the inaugural procession across 

the remainder of the span. 

"Oh, I feel great; fantastic," said Edward 

C.Meehan, district engineer for the State 

Highway Administration. 

But it a bittersweet slice of history for 

Rick Wheatiey, who works for BWA Courier 

In Annapolis. . • 

TheBewbridgeme«»£ksterdeUverie« 

because traffic won't have to stop for boaters 

using the old drawbridge, yet it signals the 

passing of a part of childhood, be said. The 

29-year-old Glen Burnie resident used to fish 

off the old drawbridge when he was growing 

up. 

"It looks good; I think if s a good idea. But 

Tm going to miss the old one. It's an historic 

part of Annapolis," he said on a drive over 

the span in a company truck. 

Although theSHA plans to leave about 

280 feet of the old bridge intact as a fishing 

pier, he said it Just wont be the same: The 

rest will be torn down starting late this 

month tor use as an oyster reef. 

Westbound traffic will be restricted to the 

Officials urged pedestrians and bicyclists to 

also use the oU bridge until then for safety 

purposes. 

Despite the warning, a few cyclists took 

advantage of the cool summer morning 

yestertay and followed the first group of 

can. 

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on residential streets sod prlvAtelf uwHMl lots. 

With limitedtimetorsta|^ opponents toexamine 

die proposai, ~ RedsMiiB- -tmfn§ imstdlMt^Mamn 

Wells outlined a system that would require afl fans to 

produce a special "entry pass" with then- ticket before 

they could enter the stadium. 

The passes would be Issued to fans when they parked 

in on-stte lots adjacent to 

Laurel Race Course and 

when they used shuttle 

buses or MARC trains to get 

to the facility. 

A fan parking on an unsahctioned 

lot or on a residential 

street would not receive 

the pass. 

"To get into the stadium, 

you need two pieces of information. 

You need a ticket.. 

pass," Mr. Wells said. 

By TODDSP ANGLER 

Staff Writer 

The Washington Redskins and opponents of their 

proposed 78.60taeat stadium ended six weeks of 

hearings yesterday with the team proposing a one-of-aand 

you need an entry 

The proposal, was made in reaction to stadium 

opponents who said the team would have no control 

over where fans parked their vehicles. Mr. Wells said 

the entry pass program would work in tandem with 

Redskins plans to give out residential stickers to local 

residents. ' ». • , . 

A person parking a vehicle without a sticker could 

be towed after two hours. Another program would tow 

cars off commercial lots in the area. ; 

"I don't think we're worried about the residential 

and commercial parking program," Mr. Wells sakL 

"This is a guarantee.". 

„; _ 

But even with time running out on the proceeding 

before Administrative Hearing Officer Robert C. Wflcox, 

stadium opponents managed to poke a few hole* hi 

some of the assumption behind the en try pass system. 

Richard Talkin, one of the attorneys represKrtffisj 

Citizens Against the Stadium 2, argued that there art 

still no adequate measures to keep fans from parking in 

residential and commercial areas. 

'•• 

He said that car pools could form close to Laurel, 

with drivers picking up passengers and charging them 

to get their entry passes 1 at the gate. 

"It occurs to me thto is gotogto end up being worieV*' 

he said. 

Thomas Dernoga, another attorney for the opponents, 

asked Mr, Wells what would happen if a group of 

fans followed all the rules — left home early, took 

routes and reached the stadium on time — 

"They will be turned away," said Mr. Wells. 

One of the six zoning variances the Redskte are 

requesting from Mr. WUcm is a reduction in tM 

amount of parking at the TMUVteat stadium. TJie team 

wants to bufld only 20,077 parking spaces. 

Alan RtfUn, a lawyer tor the Redskins, said by 

creating the tody paMinugfUn, the team wOl not only 

keep fans off residential streets but also enoounpje 

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AAMC considers adding for-profit center 

By MARY ELLEN LLOYD 

StmffWrlter 

hi a bid for sdf-preserration and 

healthier residents, the nonprofit corporntoo 

dmt rum Aaae Atondel MedtcaJ 

Center is calling on primary care 

doctors to Jota it in forming a tor-profit 

health-care group. 

ASM Arts*! General Heatth Cm 

toe. art to 

and generous 

tions. 

But the health system would be a 

significant Investor b) a new orgSBfa&- 

tion owned prtmarflf b> tuaSty Oaeaan, 

pedi^rictaBs, obst^ridsnt and other 

fcmraHnctioe physfctem. 

Ahboofh the snp>ct on patients is 

mctasr, if Ae new < 

th rot ft* risk of tefe« Its c 

to public dona- would control local heahh service*, 

health system officials and physicins 

-Aflhojptahrtthtnowtawtoftad 

some way to have fmks wfli docton ta 

the hospital or they're essentially 

goioc to cMse to edM at, sssMsX as bid, 

be tafcsn over by krft coporadDn." 

An outside private. company could 

about people who arsnt fbetr 

bora, SB* Dr Jack Lord, die 

medical staff* former execwtivt i 

He rejotoed the medical 

as BBscnttn vice 

wffl orenee the hnptoTs Ml of tht 

Whfle no takeover Is

At-THf CAPITAL, Saturday, Au*ut 20, 1W4 

, i 

AAMC 

said it would also preserve community 

control over services, because local 

i, i 

residents and business leaden sit on 

*'; (Continued from Page Al) the health system board 

, inanity hospitals are being purchased And the community will increasingly 

•'- abewhere, officials said 

need fewer costly hospital services as 

u If the plan succeeds, the community patients, doctors and the health system 

iwlll have better medical care and more focus on preventing illness 

- (Cost-efficient services, said Martin The hospital and other affiliates in 

i"CbJp" Doordan, executive vice president 

of the health-care system and 

the health system would contribute 

assets of up to 40 percent of the new 

'.president of the medical center. 

group's value. Health system representatives 

would also hold four of 10 votes 

For example, centralized patient records 

would give an emergency room ness. 

on a board overseeing the new busi- 

doctor quick access to a patient's rnedi- Anne Arundel General Health Care 

Ipal history. And the doctors could Systems' affiliates include outpatient 

'Nnhice expenses by centralizing man* surgery and cancer treatment centers 

agement and consolidating space. on Jennifer Road, a hospice, Pathways 

John "Jock" Hopkins, president of drug and alcohol treatment center on 

'the health system's board of trustees, Riva Road and a service that sends 

ABRIDGE 

- ; (Continued from Page Al) 

:"" • 'Today's my day off, so I thought Fd 

.come down," said a huffing and puffing 

•and spandex-clad Greg Crosby of Annaspoils. 

He stopped about halfway across. 

! "It's nice to ride in a little lane of 

:your own. Cars won't run over you," he 

.said. 

When completed, the new bridge will 

two raised 5-foot-wlde sidewalks 

;on either side, two B'Moot-wide bike 

r lanes marked by white lines and two 

. T , 12-foot-wide vehicle lanes. 

: i | Although both sides of the bridge 

^ j»hould be open by «arly September, a 

; ; 800-foot-long section of the westbound 

"side will take about three more months 

, -to complete. It can't be started until the 

-' • old bridge comes down. 

,' Until then, both lanes of traffic will 

' shift to the south side of the new bridge 

in that area and bikers will share the 

- ; ' -road with vehicles. Pedestrians will 

have to use a temporary wooden sidewalk. 

The SHA will formally dedicate the 

bridge and name it sometime this fall. 

They've given no hints on what the 

moniker might be. 

Name or not, it's already secured a 

place in the heart of BUI Burroughs. 

The .Washington resident helped with 

the bridge's brickwork and was busy 

applying liquid sealant minutes before, 

yesterday's opening. 

Mr. Burroughs has been a bricklayer 

for 48 years and said this was his "most 

exciting" project. 

"This will be here a long time. When 

the bridge goes, the brickwork will still 

beôod," hesakU - - 

The old Severn River Bridge was 

built in 1924 and replaced a. timber 

trestle span built in 1886. Construction 

on the latest Incarnation began in 

December 1991. 

About the only person unhappy with 

the new bridge who showed up at the 

yesterday's opening was Thomas 

60 unused vacation days from past 

OUT 

years depending on whether they are 

civil service employees. 

(Continued from Page Al) Many times, Mr. Engelke said, department 

lieads will work late at a City 

weather and the ice storms (over the 

winter), that John ftrtmore worked a—Conned mooting then come in late-or 

hell of a lot of hours," he said. 

Mr. Hopkins would not say how 

much of Mr. Patmore's vacation, which 

began three weeks ago and extends 

• until Monday, is comp time. 

But Ms. DeGraff said comp time 

should not be available to department 

heads. 

- "The hours at City Hall are 8:30 to 

. ;t30 and they should be there," she said. 

^ City employees with less than six 

'years of service, Including department 

, heads, are given 15 days of vacation per 

( year and can build up between 30 and 

leave early the next day. 

There is no policy or form for department 

heads to record and keep track of 

comp time. Department heads also do 

not have to submit vacation requests to 

the personnel department, but may go 

straight to the mayor for approval. 

There is no way of telling how many 

employees are on vacation this month, 

Mr. Engelke said, but he knows a great 

number disappear In August __ 

"This ]ust~seems "to"oV the~"tlme 

everyone uses to slip away," Mr. Engelke 

said. 

FROM THE FRONT PAGE 

nurses to homes for recuperating patients. 

In exchange, participating doctors 

would have to give up some of their 

autonomy 

Officials said the new group practice 

would be similar to the Mayo Clink in 

Rochester, Minn, where doctors are 

part-owners. 

They would contribute a combined 60 

percent of the new group's assets and 

would have six votes on the governing 

board. 

Physicians would not be required to 

participate in order to continue practicing 

at the hospital. 

The new practice would also negotiate 

contracts with businesses or insurers 

to provide a range of medical 

services to groups of patients for a fixed 

annual rate. 

McCarthy Jr, one of the founders of 

Citizens for a Scenic Severn River 

Bridge. The group sought federal court 

action to stop construction and lost. 

"What am I supposed to think" he 

said, walking the span with his Wife, 

Jessica. "It's clearly built to be a fourlane 

(roadway) and it's going to be 

unless we make a concerted effort to 

stop it" 

Mr. McCarthy is convinced four 

lanes of traffic will be using the bridge 

in less than two years, making it part of 

an interstate highway system unless 

residents protest. 

Mr. Meehan said that just isn't the 

case. The width, he said, was dictated 

by the legislature to allow for possible 

future use by light rail — not for more 

car and truck traffic. 

The way it would work would be like 

this: 

Cyclists would be moved onto the 

sidewalk with pedestrians and the 

space from the bike lanes would be 

used to construct a light rail track in 

SKINS 


people to take other travel options to 

the facility. —-~— --- ~~~~ ----- - 

It was not surprising that much of 

the final day's testimony focused on 

traffic — because that was the most 

important issue considered during the 

six weeks of hearings. Laurel area 

residents complain that game day will 

be a mass of confusion, forcing many of 

them to remain inside. 

Mr. Wflcox said that in most cases he 

•would issue arollnrwith 

with more than 200 exhibits to consider, 

the hearing officer said this decision 

Fixed monthly rates are a key component 

of managed-care initiatives, because 

they encourage medical providers 

to order services with cost in 

mind. 

Most medical charges now are based 

on the services provided 

The chief advantage to local doctors 

would be an improved health system 

that attracts more patients, Mr. Doordan 

said. And the health system's 

resources for recruiting and consulting 

might mean doctors spend less time 

running their businesses and more 

time practicing medicine, officials said. 

Dr. Michael J. LaPenta, a family 

doctor who is secretary of the medical 

staff, said the proposal is the most 

significant issue since the 92-year-old 

hospital was founded. 

Particularly significant is that health 

the center of the span. Vehicular traffic 

would then travel in two lanes on either 

side of the track. 

"I don't think it will happen for a 

long time, but It could happen someday," 

Mr. Meehan said. 

Another bridge opponent, David Wallace, 

president of Plan Annapolis, the 

group Citizens evolved into, said he'd 

like to see a longer fishing pier and 

more of the old bridge preserved. 

The new bridge is "nice as a highway 

bridge, but it doesn't fit this city," he 

said in a telephone interview. 

Jim Small, a Pendennis Mount resident 

had quite an opposite view. He 

drove to the construction sltejespecially 

early yesterday morning just to be the 

first tar across. It was his blue 1964 

Lincoln that state officials asked to ride 

in. 

"I love it," he said. "I think it blends 

in very well with the Annapolis architecture 

and the view from the top is 

tremendous." 

probably wouldn't be reported for 40 to 

50 days. 

He gave opponents lawyers' time to 

respond to the entry pass plan in 

•writing-before-he makes his decision-.- - 

That decision, however, is almost 

guaranteed to end up in the Board of 

Appeals' hands. 

In his closing comments, Mr. Wilcox 

addressed the huge scope of the case to 

the dozen or so audience members who 

had sat through the entire testimony. 

"You will never see another zoning 

-matter of this 

"Unless you go to the Board of Appeals." 

system officials backed down from insisting 

the hospital maintain majority 

control of any joint venture, several 

physicians said 

Doctors have run their own offices 

efficiently, while the hospital's effort to 

set up primary care clinics failed a few 

years ago, physicians said 

Other doctors were skeptical. 

They noted the health system would 

be able to veto physicians' wishes on 

major issues, such as contracting, management 

and expelling members. 

"I've sort of gotten tired of the 

hospital's initiatives, because they've 

been saying and doing things for the 

last year and nothing's happened," said 

a family doctor who wished to remain 

anonymous. 

He and several other doctors said the 

Annapolis system has moved too slowly 

to protect its share of the health-care 

market North Arundel Hospital In 

Glen Burnie and other hospitals in the 

region have already formed new entities 

to secure their survivabllity. 

Mr. Doordan said Anne Arundel 

hopes to "leapfrog" over the others. 

Some restructuring may provide a 

short-term way to survive financially 

but may not make sense in the long 

run, Dr. Lord said 

Other doctors said the proposed organization 

is so complex and foreign to 

them that they are unsure 

"I go to these meetings and I hear 

what's being said and I don't understand, 

and I don't understand how it fits 

together," said one specialist who asked 

to remain anonymous "It's in English, 

and I've heard it in English, but I dont 

know what they said." 

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