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12BZ THE SUN FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1993 MARYLANDREGIONAL NEWS Hay den pledges help with Dundalk recreation center r. By Patrick Gilbert Staff Writer Baltimore County Executive Roger B. Hayden says he intends to find a way to keep Dundalk Recreation Center after county funding runs out July 1 but residents of the area remain skeptical. Mr. Hayden said his office would work with the Dundalk-Eastfield Recreation Council and private businesses to find private funding.

But he reiterated that the county will no longer fund operations at the center. "If we all work together on this, we can save the center for the com- munity," he told a group of 200 Dundalk residents at the Northpoint Government Center Wednesday. Mr. Hayden announced In February that he was cutting the center's funds from his fiscal 1994 budget to save money. The former YMCA building in old Dundalk houses many Indoor recreational programs and the only indoor Olympic-size pool In the county.

The county executive said Wayne R. Harman, the county's recreation and parks director, will chair a committee that will Include the local recreation council and residents. The panel will review several proposals But residents remain skeptical while the central services department spent $99,000 for heating, lighting and maintenance. The center also needs repairs in the near future that will cost almost $300,000, he said. That prompted resident Joann Lee to hit Mr.

Hayden and other elected officials with a challenge: "You elected officials are good at holding fund-raisers to keep yourselves in office," said Mrs. Lee. "If you're serious about helping us find money to keep the center open, how about getting your political contributors together and hold a fund-raiser for us." If the center is forced to close, Mr. Harman said, most of the recreation programs could be relocated. Local school gyms could be used for basketball and Indoor soccer'programs, he said, and most swimming programs could be switched to the Dundalk Community College pool.

The hardest program to relocate Is going to be the Dundalk-Eastfield Swim Club team because it needs to use a pool four or five times a week," said Mr. Harman. Stephanie Welsenborn. the team's volunteer coach, said If the pool doesn't reopen, the team's future could be in Jeopardy. and solicit contributions.

Several in the audience said Mr. Hayden was long on commitment, but short on time. "The problem with that is we only have 33 days until July 1 to resolve this," said Bruce Mills, a recreation council member. "If the county would agree to fund the center for three months or six months past July 1, 1 think we would have enough time to put something together." But Mr. Hayden was noncommittal about possible short-term fund ing.

"Let's see what the committee comes up with first," said Mr. Hayden. "I will say we will be reasonable about this." Mark PerslanI, recreation council president, said It will be Important for the local business community back an effort to keep the center open. But Mr. Harman cautioned that It will take substantial money.

Mr. Harman said it cost his agency $72,000 to operate the pool, gymnasium and weight room this year, rl) K. 1 jmrm9 Shooting sends murder toll for year to 137 Vietnam veterans due honor i A 1 1 If ov. A 1 4 J. in East Baltimore.

i men slain in a drug-related shooting i 4 ft Paramedics work on one of two id Brothers get prison for shooting at police officer Assistant State's Attorney A. Dean Stocksdale asked Judge Barbara Ken-Howe for the maximum 30-year prison sentence well above the sentencing guidelines for the defendants' ages and minimal criniinal records. 1. BY GARY TUCKER a service station on Perring Parkway. The car with four occupants sped off, the prosecutor said.

As Officer Burger pursued them, three or four car-lengths behind, two occupants sat up on the rear window ledges and fired six bursts at his car. He broke off the chase. About two hours later, city police Officer Larry McMullen was answering a stolen car complaint when he came upon the stolen Honda and the four suspects, Mr. Stocksdale said. There was a brief car chase, again with gunfire.

Neither officer was struck. About 90 minutes later, the Honda was seen on Halcyon Avenue, and four men got out and ran. Arthur Brown was apprehended Immediately, Mr. Stocksdale said. City police tracked the other three men to a home on Morello Road and arrested them there.

By Roger Twigg Staff Writer Baltimore's murder toll rose to 137 yesterday 18 higher than the same time last year when a 20-year-old man was shot on an East Baltimore street. Jerome Griffin, 20, of the 1000 block of N. Chapel St. was fatally wounded at 12:27 a.m. In the 2300 blockofE.BIddleSt.

Police discovered the victim lying on the sidewalk bleeding from a bullet wound to the chest. He was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he died in the emergency room, police said. Police had not established a motive for the slaying, and no arrests had been made. Meanwhile, police released the identity of one of the two men slain Wednesday night In a drug-related shooting In East Baltimore. The victim, Devon Leach, a 25-year-old Jamaican national with no known address here, suffered multiple gunshot wounds.

The other victim Is believed to be a 23-year-old Jamaican national, said Doug Price, a police spokesman. The shootings occurred at 10:16 p.m. in the 5600 block of Sinclair Lane. 2 slaying suspects held without bail Two of the three teen-agers charged In the slaying of Baltimore police Officer Herman A. Jones Sr.

were ordered held without ball yesterday by a District Court Judge. The third suspect remained hospitalized under police guard. Judge Carol Smith denied ball for Herbert "Squeaky" Wilson of the 2100 block of E. Blddle St. and Clifton "Chip" Price of the 1 600 block of N.

Montfbrd both 17, and ordered them held at the Baltimore City Detention Center. Derrick N. Broadway, 16, of the! 1800 block of Aiken Is In stable condition at the Johns Hopkins Hospital with bullet wounds to the chest and shoulder, police said. Each suspect has been charged as an adult with first-degree murder, armed assault and robbery, and use of a handgun In a felony, police said. Officer Jones was fatally shot Wednesday at a carryout In the 1 900 block of N.

Gay St. when three youths attempted to rob him. Alasdalr Carmlchael, for defamation of character. Dr. Rosen and Dr.

Arroyo work In the esoteric field of free radicals, fleeting compounds whose presence is recorded on a machine and which are thought to be Important in the human disease process. A In defining scientific "fraud" for Judge Joseph F. Murphy Dr. Buettner said, "I don't know whether he has done the experiments, be-, cause he used the same data to re-2 port different experiments. He's tak-J.

lng the same data and saying it wast produced In many different ways." Scientists must feel they can trust the published works of other sclen-1 tlsts as building blocks for further research and that they can assume what they read Is accurate, he said. 1 In accusing Dr. Rosen of "fraud," he said he did not mean negligence: or a mistake but "the Intentional fal-1' slflcatlon or misrepresentation" of data. It Is also fraud against the gov-' ernment when data are mlsrepre-1 sented to obtain the lucrative grants that fuel research, he said. Dr.

Buettner disagreed with Dr. -Rosen's contention that numerical tables and not the graphs are the most Important part of presenting an experiment In an article. As he reviewed the Rosen artl-' cles, Dr. Buettner said, he developed "suspicion that he did not do all the. experiments." Dr.

Rosen has testified that the same scans were used Inadvertently' in subsequent articles and that the; numerical data showed that he had. conducted the experiments. it By Michael A. Fletcher Staff Writer As many as 2,000 people are expected to converge on the Hanover Street Bridge on Sunday for a ceremony officially renaming the South Baltimore span as the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bridge. The effort began last fall when a local Vietnam veterans group led by Ed Vogel, chairman of the Memorial Day project, petitioned the City Council for the name change.

The bill passed easily and was signed Into law by Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke. The group raised $6,000 to pay for commemorative plaques honoring those who served in the war. The plaques will be placed at each end of the bridge, which opened In 1917. "I can think of no better way to honor those who served," says John Y.

Averella, president of Vietnam Veterans of America, Baltimore Chapter 451. "This Is a time of Joy for the veterans community." The bridge Is Just north of the Maryland Vietnam Veterans Memorial In Middle Branch Park. The memorial honoring the 1 .046 Marylanders who died In the Vietnam War was dedicated In 1989 after much controversy mainly over where It should be situated. The first site chosen was In Federal Hill Park, and a groundbreaking was even held there In November 1986. But the site was rejected after residents complained.

The memorial site was changed twice more, first to a small park near Annapolis and then to Its current site near Hanover Street. "At the time, many vets felt that the Federal Hill site was a more central point," Mr. Averella says. "They sort of felt It was the Ideal place." Being relegated to a remote spot in South Baltimore, he said, made veterans of the unpopular war feel pushed aside once again. But the site has grown on many people, he said.

The ceremony, scheduled to begin at 1 1 a.m. Sunday, will Include a service at the memorial, after which participants will march to the bridge for the renaming. Fire boats In the Patapsco River near the bridge will pump streams of water into the air. Three Huey helicopters the kind of aircraft that played a major role In military operations In Vietnam will fly over In a missing-man formation. Mr.

Schmoke and council President Mary Pat Clarke are scheduled to speak. Appoint From IB mation hearings will be held next month. Dr. Richardson said that as soon as the full commission is In place, It will begin to decide the contents of a medical benefits package that health Insurers will be required to offer small businesses In the state. The panel also will begin to collect data on medical fees and procedures that he predicted will be the key to "keeping costs and the rate of Increase under control." To Implement the insurance provisions of the new law, Dr.

Richardson will have to work directly with Mr. Bartlett, a 62-year-old Anne Arundel County resident who once was chief actuary for the U.S. Social Security Administration. The two men met for the first time yesterday, after the governor announced their appointments. Del.

Casper R. Taylor D-Alle-gany, chairman of the House Economic Matters Committee, who shepherded the health care reform bill through the legislature, unequivocally praised both appointments. He said the governor "hit the Jackpot" with Dr. Richardson and called Mr. Bartlett "another major leaguer." Mr.

Bartlett said he did not Initially seek the Job but was recommended by others "Inside and outside the Insurance Industry" whom he declined to Identify. Page W. Bolnest, the governor's press secretary, said Mr. Bartlett's name was first mentioned by state Licensing and Regulation Secretary William A. Fogle whose depart Scientist committed fraud, expert testifies By Sheridan Lyons Staff Writer Two brothers have drawn 18-and 20-year prison terms for the attempted murder of a Baltimore County police officer, who was fired upon with semiautomatic rifles as he pursued four men speeding In a stolen car down Perrlng Parkway on Dec.

9. Arthur Theodore Brown, 18, who got 20 years, and Eric Kenneth Brown, 23, both of the 1000 block of E. Hoffman pleaded guilty Wednesday In Baltimore County Circuit Court. They and two other defendants also face charges In a similar attack on a city police officer that occurred a few hours later. In announcing a plea bargain, Assistant State's Attorney A.

Dean Stocksdale said one of the four defendants helped police recover three AR-15 semiautomatic rifles and two handguns which were among 14 ment has been responsible for insurance regulation. Though chosen yesterday, Mr. Bartlett will not be formally appointed until after the Board of Public Works votes next week on a proposed increase In the Insurance commissioner's salary to $90,000 from the current $72,452. The Increase was authorized by the legislature In recognition of the difficulty and complexity of the Job, and as a means of attracting qualified applicants. Mr.

Bartlett will replace John A. Donaho, who was fired by Mr. Fogle In early April after a dispute Involving legislation to bolster state regulation of nonprofit insurers such as Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Maryland. The legislature passed the Blue Cross bill and legislation to collect $4.8 million In fees from the insurance Industry to pay for strengthened regulation of all Insurers, which Is required for national accreditation. On the session's final day, the General Assembly also voted to make the Insurance Division independent of Mr.

Fogle's department, to give the governor authority to appoint the next Insurance commissioner to a four-year term that will outlast the current gubernatorial administration, and to raise the commissioner's salary to a level commensurate with that of a Cabinet secretary. Mr. Bartlett acknowledged yesterday that as part of winning the Job, he was interviewed by retired banker J. Owen Cole, a friend and confl- The third man In the car, Vincent Johnnie Davis, 18, of the 500 block of Baker also pleaded guilty and is to be sentenced later. The fourth suspect, Theodore C.

Hall, 20, of the 3200 block of Barclay hasn't come to trial yet. Mr. Stocksdale said in a statement of facts that Officer James M. Burger, on patrol at the Hillendale Shopping Center at Loch Raven Boulevard and Taylor Avenue about midnight Dec. 8, spotted a white Honda wanted in an earlier holdup of William C.

Richardson New Assignment chairman, Healthcare Access and Cost Commission Occupation: President of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore since July 1, 1990, and professor of health poli cy and management. Previous Jobs: Executive vice president and provost of Pennsylvania State University, 1984-1990; member, then chairman, of Department of Health Services, associate dean of School of Public Health, and graduate dean and vice provost for research at University of Washington, 1971-1984. Education: Trinity College, Hartford, B.A. in history, 1962; University of Chicago Center for Health Administration Studies, Graduate School of Business, M.B.A., 1964; University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, Ph.D., 1971. Personal: 53 years old; married; two children; lives in Baltimore.

casualty Insurance company Corp. Mr. Bartlett said Mr. Cole did not mention either company during the interview. weapons stolen from the Valley Gun Shop in Parkvllle on Nov.

29. In return for their guilty pleas, Mr. Stocksdale agreed to reduce the original first-degree attempted murder charges to second-degree offenses and to drop all charges In the gun shop break-In. But the prosecutor asked Judge Barbara Kerr Howe for the maximum 30-year prison sentence well above the sentencing guidelines for the defendants' ages and minimal criminal records. Dwlght K.

Bartlett III New Job: state Insurance commissioner Current Job: Has run Bartlett Consulting Services a private management and actuarial consulting firm for life insurers, employee benefit plan spon sors, and government agencies, since 1989. Previous Jobs: Vice president, chief actuary and later president and director of Mutual of America Life Insurance a New York company with $5 billion In assets. 1981 to 1989; chief actuary for the U.S. Social Security Administration, 1975 to 1 98 1 senior vice president and chief actuary, Monumental Life Insurance 1960-1979. Education: Harvard University, B.A., cum laude, 1953; Johns Hopkins University, M.S., management science, 1965.

Personal: 62 years old; married; grown children; lives in Anne Arundel County. dant of Mr. Schaefer's. But he said he did not know Mr. Cole was a member of the Blue Cross board of directors or that he was a former director of the Baltimore property and By Robert A.

Erlandson Staff Writer Dr. Gerald M. Rosen may be a leader In the study of microscopic particles called free radicals, but he committed scientific fraud by using Identical graphs of the molecules' action to Illustrate reports of different experiments, an expert In the field testified yesterday. Dr. Gary R.

Buettner of the University of Iowa testified in Baltimore County Circuit Court that "scientists do make mistakes." and that for that reason he made no comment when he noticed in 1985 that the same graph had appeared In Dr. Rosen's articles of 1980 and 1984. But in 1 99 1 at the request of The Baltimore Sun. he reviewed additional articles Dr. Rosen had written and said he found the recurrent graphs had been used for totally different experiments.

"You can no longer attribute it to a mistake It has to be a fabrication of data, a deceptive practice," he testified. Dr. Buettner appeared on behalf of Dr. Carmen M. Arroyo, a former Rosen research associate who has charged that Dr.

Rosen engaged In professional misconduct by not performing experiments he reported in articles he used to apply for research grants and by using the results of her work without giving her credit. Dr. Rosen, chairman of the department of pharmacology and toxicology at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, Is suing Dr. Arroyo and her husband, researcher.