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MARYLAND THEiffikSUN March 4, 1996 Section High-tech lab J- is moving to UM hospital ki i 1 Tu -V Monday Potholes riddle 1-83, but bad impressions run deeper than that The Jones Fall Expressway Is where movers and shakers travel Its numerous potholes make sure of the "shakers" part. Worse, The Intrepid Commuter reports that patchy terrain Is just one of the depressing conditions on the Interstate 83 strip. Page 2b In Anne Arundel Student artwork on display in Anwpolis. Page 3b Spring Storytime program coming to library. Page 3b In the Region Investigation widens In strangling cases.

Page 2b Sundial Access: Anne Arundel 268-7736 Police department: Information 6320 Crime prevention 6324 County sheriff. Most wanted list 6321 TRIAD 6322 Fire department: General Information 6301 Kitchen fires 6302 Library: Locationhours 6340 Information line 6341 News features: Pride of Baltimore 6226 Winning lottery 6020 Weather: Baltimore area 4003 Marine weather 4030 Bridge 13b Classified 9b Crossword 13b Deaths 8b Weather 14b Lottery 2b i PA 1 RICk 8ANUUR Hi Atff samples from potential bone-marrow donors and a center for the study of the human Immune system. "This is just going to be a real coup for us and for the city and the state," said Dr. Morton I. Rapoport, president and chief executive of the University of Maryland Medical System.

"We've developed a very strong transplant program," he said. Having the lab on-site provides "an enormous opportunity for collaboration." The UM hospital relies on the Johns Hopkins Immu-nogenetics Lab for its HLA typing. HLA stands for human leucocyte antigen, a class of proteins found on the surface of nearly all organ cells and on certain cells of the immune system. The proteins act as the cells' ID cards, labeling the cells as "self," to be left alone by the immune system; or as "for- See Lab, 14b .1 Taking time to smell the flowers: Elizabeth D'Agostaro, 2, takes a whiff of daffodils at the Maryland Home Flower Show at Timonium Fairgrounds. The show resumes from 10 a.m.

to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday. (Article, Page 2B) Barclay won't totally drop Calvert that point that we know what we need to do," Ms.

Williams said. "We knew we had to take it over one day. But the kids will do the same thing. There will be no letup. Education will not suffer in anyway." Precise reasons for the split seemed to depend largely on who was asked and when.

In an interview Friday, Ms. Williams blamed low test scores among Barclay third-graders on the controversial Maryland State Performance Assessment Program tests. MSPAP tests are designed to measure "higher-order thinking" that requires children to apply what they've learned In the classroom to real-life situations. Barclay's curriculum, she said then, must be changed to better prepare children for the battery of tests. Calvert, though, has insisted from the See Barclay, 6b Principal says school will continue to use its books, lessons By Gary Gately UN STAFF While the much-heralded partnership between the city's Barclay School and the private Calvert School is to end after six years, the principal who fought to bring Calvert's curriculum to the public school says she's not about to abandon it now.

Barclay, said Principal Gertrude Williams, Intends to keep using Calvert textbooks, supplies and detailed lesson plans stressing mastery of the basics. One key Ingredient, how Worry on the Patapseo Facility bringing (X)jobs, payroll of $2.5 million a year A real coup for city, Md. Red Cross employees do bl(Kxl, tissue typing for transplant patients By Frank D. Roylance SUN STAFF The American Red Cross Is moving its most Important tissue-typing and immunologic research laboratory to Baltimore, bringing with it close to 60 jobs and an annual payroll of about $2.5 million. Now in Rockville, the National HLA Reference Laboratory will be moved by summer to the University of Maryland Medical Center on Greene Street.

The hospital is spending $3 million to renovate 11,000 square feet on its second floor. The laboratory performs state-of-the-art blood and tissue typing vital to the success of organ and bone-marrow transplants. It also is a national repository for tissue i i- munity for blacks In 1943, The Sun quoted residents as praising the area for its "air," "space" and "cleanliness." But soon after, the city took out many of the trees, reneged on a promise to establish small parks, and made way for creation of Reedbird Incinerator. Eventually, residents drove out the Incinerator, but Cherry Hill, 99 percent of whose res- See Hospital, 2b i 1 1 i. ever, will be missing: direct Calvert School oversight, in which staff from the North Baltimore school visit Barclay regularly, closely monitor the progress of children and observe lessons.

But Calvert has agreed to continue providing guidance and advice when asked. Calvert, the North Baltimore private school, and Barclay, the elementary-middle school In a poverty-stricken neighborhoodi bordering Greenmount Ave-' nue, agreed to sever formal ties about two weeks ago. Leaders at both schools said the experiment, Initially planned to run Just four years, had built a solid enough foundation that direct Calvert oversight was no longer needed. "We really have reached AKDUC1A1 tu puma I4 and cigars, His smoking 2 packs of cigarettes at first, then cigars and pipes led to the passion of the final two years of his life, as an outspoken foe of smoking. While battling cancer, he lobbied state legislatures, gave Interviews and spoke out on the dangers of tobacco and the industry on whose behalf he had worked.

"It's too late for me, but it's not too late for you," Mr. Crawford said during one of President Clinton's weekly nationwide radio addresses last summer. "I smoked heavily, and I started when I was 13 years old. And now, In my throat and In my lungs, where the smoke used to be, there is a cancer that I know Is killing me. Use your brain.

Don'tjlet anybody fool you. Don't smoke." After See Crawford, 6b North County Face lift sought for shopping center Ihvindlingshoppers, vacancies are noted By Consella A. Lee SUN STAFF Ritchie Highway Shopping Center merchants and shoppers were thrilled two years ago when the center's management company made Improvements. Now they are asking what it has done for them lately. The 41 -year-old shopping center, particularly its south side, needs a face lift, they say; stores are vacant, a supermarket has left, and shoppers dwindle to a handful at night.

The local civic group, the Olde Brooklyn Park Improvement Association, has sent a letter to Rucker Enterprises reportedly threatening a boycott if the management company does not make repairs. Charles D. Mason, vice president of Rucker, said the repairs are not going to be done until he can find an anchor store for a site to shore up the south side of the center. "We can't and won't do it. It doesn't make sense," he said.

Civic activists and merchants say that if Rucker fixed up the south side's facade, It would draw tenants for the owner. North Joleh and South Joleh Corp. Both companies are based in McLean, Ve. "It's ugly. Who wants to move Into an ugly shopping center?" said Albert D.

Bow-en, vice president of the Olde Brooklyn Park Improvement Association. "We don't want the shopping center to go belly up and, as investors, we don'jt think they want to II I Slain TSU student was shot in back Roblxrysusxcted as motive, man in hite BMW sought By Marcia Myers BUN STAFF The gunman who killed a 23-year-old Towson State University student Saturday morning shot her once In the back by firing through the rear passenger window of her car, then apparently followed her in a BMW as she drove across the road to the York Road Plaza parking lot and died, police said yesterday. The body of Joann E. "Jody" LeCornu was discovered In her white Honda Civic after a delivery crew at the plaza's Giant food store reported hearing gunshots at 3:41 a.m. Baltimore County police say Ms.

LeCornu's purse was not in the car, leading them to suspect robbery as a motive, said Capt. Brian Upper-cue. Investigators have been unable to reconstruct Ms. LeCornu's activities Friday night and Saturday morning. Police believe she may have stopped at an automated teller machine near a Cal-dor store across from the Giant, and said they will review transactions on her account and records from her car phone.

No ATM receipt was In her car, See Slaying, 14b This Just In Dan Rodricks is on vacation. His column. This Just will resume when he Former legislator: Victor L. Crawford spoke against smoking on one of President Clinton 's radio addresses. Victor Crawford, crusader against smoking, dies at 63 Leery: Some Ckerrp Hill rexideulx alreadp Ix'l raped bp (lie eifp nvrrp dial uew senior Itotisiitff would take a imp Ike ailiiff dixlriel bent feature: itx xluuuiifj view.

By Joe Mathews SUN STAFF Every morning, Elnora Robinson Cash rises from the pink sheets and places her grandmother's old wooden chair by the second-floor window of her Reedbird Avenue home. Then she grabs a paperback Bible off the table and prays toward a spectacular view of the Patapseo River's Middle Branch. "It's the most beautiful thing in the morning when the sun rises," Mrs. Cash says. "We need to keep this view.

Nobody can tell me we shouldn't keep this view." But the harbor views enjoyed by Mrs. Cash and other Cherry Hill residents may be threatened by an Innovative Harbor Hospital Center proposal to build low-Income senior citizen housing on city-owned waterfront property. And residents many of them old enough to remember broken city promises to create a neighborhood of parks and water views are fighting back, despite a relentless campaign by the hospital to win them over. To outsiders, It seems a curious dispute. Even members of the LaRue Square community association who have circulated petitions against the project support the housing proposal.

Some, such as Mrs. Cash, 79, say they may need it one day soon. But for these residents, preserving a clear view of the harbor is more important than badly needed housing. The hospital already blocks much of the harbor. "And with this project, you l'i MJ i.

i. (ij i Vv 1,, 1 Vista: Elnora R. Cash fears her clear view of the Patapseo River would be blocked by Harbor Hospital construction. Cancer victim once was tobacco lobbyist By Timothy B. Wheeler SUN STAFF Victor L.

Crawford, a debonair former Maryland legislator who achieved national prominence in recent years for his conversion from tobacco lobbyist to anti-smoking crusader, died Saturday night at Johns Hopkins Hospital after a prolonged battle with cancer. He was 63. Mr. Crawford, a resident of Chevy Chase, was an accomplished trial lawyer who represented eastern Montgomery County In the General Assembly for 16 years. It was there that he earned the nickname of "the Rlverboat Gambler" because of his pinky ring, vest, gold watch will have a virtual wall blocking the community from the river," says Donald Slmms, a 29-year Reedbird Avenue resident who works for the Defense Department.

Conversations with Mr. Simms and other neighbors quickly turn from the present fight to past transgressions against their community. After Cherry Hill was developed as a planned com uiumuppeneiuier. F.W. (See Cener, 31.