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2D MARYLAND i THE SUN SUNDAY, JUNE 14, 1992 IN THE New state bar association more input from minority chief wants attorneys Md. GOP bucks party leaders in convention delegate choices r. said Joyce Terhes, state party chairman. They are all Bush supporters." The losers In the election of 18 at-large delegates to the national convention in Houston In August were Lois Nagle, a member of the Harford County Republican Central Committee, and Roy McGrath, chairman of the Charles County Republican Central Committee. Members of the slate who were selected Included Anne Arundel County Executive Robert R.

Neall, U.S. Reps. Helen D. Bentley and Constance A. Morella, Mrs.

Terhes and William S. Shepard, the 1990 Republican gubernatorial Associated Press GREENBELT Maryland Republicans bucked party leadership yesterday and elected two delegates to the national convention who were not part of the official Bush-guayle slate. Theresa DiStefano, chairman of the state Young Republicans, and former Anne Arundel County Delegate John Leopold out-polled two of the 18 people chosen by President Bush's campaign team and state party leaders. Both support the reelection campaign of President Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle. "I don't have a problem with It," Norris P.

West StafT Writer Roger A. Perkins, the new Maryland State Bar Association president, says his organization will seek more input from the state's minority lawyers to broaden Its perspective on legal matters. Mr. Perkins, 49, who was Installed as president of the group yesterday, said one of his three main goals will be to recruit minority lawyers as active members and get them to serve on bar association committees. "I think we need the perspective of minority lawyers," he said during a break In the state bar association's three-day convention last week In Ocean City.

"Some minority lawyers are In different practices, and some are government lawyers who represent a different clientele. We need everyone's perspective." Mr. Perkins said he doesn't want to detract from minority bar associations, such as Baltimore's Monumental Bar Association. But he said members of those organizations could participate In the MSBA as well. "In the past, we've made an effort to Involve minority lawyers In our association," he said.

"We've had some success. I think we can have greater success." Mr. Perkins, a resident of Arnold and whose practice Is In Annapolis, replaced Louise M. Gonzales as lead ii in mi. amm iiiiniuu.

mii i Wi, 1 1 in ii. Minimum. imm.iui. in iiiii ii i nn i Votes in Congress Here is how members of Maryland's delegation on Capitol Hill were recorded on important roll-call votes last week: YES NOT VOTING HOUSE: JOBLESS CHECKS AND TAXES The House passed, 261-150, a stopgap bill (HR 5260) extending until early next year the law providing additional unemployment checks to those who have used up their initial 26 weeks or so of state-federal benefits. The bill also permanently changes the law to make It easier in future recessions for the long-term jobless to automatically receive additional checks.

To pay its estimated $5.8 billion cost through 1997, the bill increases unemployment taxes, limits to $1 million the corporate deduction for an executive's salary and limits the personal exemption for wealthy taxpayers. The bill was touted by its Democratic i J. l'. nounced as irresponsible by a majority of Republicans and the White House. A yes vote supported the additional unemployment benefits.

A family fishes from the dock and other people relax at Columbia's Lake Kittamaqundi. Columbia celebrates its 25th birthday Member Bentley, Helen Delich, R-2nd Byron, Beverly D-6th Cardln, Benjamin D-3rd Gilchrest, Wayne R-1 st HOUSE: TO PASS DEFENSE BUDGET By a vote of 198-168, the House sent the Senate a $270 billion defense budget for fiscal 1993. Foes were mostly conservatives who saw the post-Cold War military plan as too dovish. The bill (HR 5006) continues the B-2 bomber and Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) at Pentagon-approved funding levels and begins a conversion of defense-dependent jobs and companies to a peacetime economy. It cuts at least $3.5 billion from the cost of defending countries that are allies but also economic rivals, and sets the stage for withdrawing up to 60 percent of the 400,000 U.S.

troops abroad within a few years. The bill sets a one-year moratorium on U.S. nuclear testing if the former Soviet republics continue to ban nuclear explosions. STATE Racing fans donate books for program BALTIMORE Horse racing fans were seen carrying something other than the Dally Racing Form into Plmlico yesterday. More than 350 took books for the Enoch Pratt Free Library's annual summer reading program.

In addition, a portion of the admission fees from the 13,243 In attendance will be donated to the "Race to Read" program to purchase or replace 6,000 books. Each summer, about 4,000 Balti more young people kindergarten through 12th grade read as many as 30,000 books In the Pratt's "Race to Read" program. Funds to buy books were short this year because of budget cuts. "It's really important for us at Pimlico to show that we care about what happens in the Baltimore com munity," said Damon Thayer, director of media relations for the Pimlico Racecourse. "We feel like it's our responsibility to give something back to the community, and we felt that the summer reading program was a wor thy recipient.

Police find man shot dead in apartment LOCHEARN A 38-year-old man was gunned down after an argu ment in a Baltimore County apart ment yesterday morning, police re ported. At 10:30 a.m., police were called to the first block of Brubar Court in Lochearn for a shooting. When they arrived, they found Everton L. Wil liams, of no fixed address, dead, po lice spokesman E. Jay Miller said.

No other details were provided. Mr. Miller could not provide a motive for the killing, and no arrests have been made. 2 workers injured when relief valve blows BEL AIR Two Harford County employees were Injured Friday after noon as they were working In an 8 foot trench on a water main when the pressure relief valve blew off and struck both of them. Ronald Burns.

32, of Forest Hill, and Curtis Stine, 55, of Aberdeen, both employees of the Harford Coun ty Department of Public Works, were working about 2:30 p.m. at the Glen Angus Farm off Patterson Mill Road In Bel Air when the accident hap pened, county officials said. They were trying to remove the valve when water pressure from side the main stripped the threads and caused it to fly off. The valve struck Mr. Burns Just above his left eye, then hit Mr.

Stine in the hand, causing several deep cuts. Mr. Burns, who suffered possible head and eye Injuries, was flown by MedEvac helicopter to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he was listed In fair and stable condition. Mr. Stine was treated and released at Fallston General Hospital.

Three-alarm fire guts vacant factory BALTIMORE Dozens of firefighters battled a three-alarm blaze yesterday In West Baltimore that de stroyed a vacant ice cream lactory. Firefighters were called to the old High's Ice cream factory at the Inter section ol bisson Avenue and 28th Street at 12:30 p.m. because heavy smoke was coming from the roof, offi cials said. Although fire officials did not know where the blaze started, flames Inside the ceiling caused the roof to collapse and gut the building. The fire caused police to close the 28th Street exit from the Jones Fall Ex pressway for most of the afternoon.

Marriott may run school cafeterias CENTREVILLE Citing budget concerns, the Queen Anne's County Board of Education has approved turning operation of Its school cafete rias over to a private tirm. The plan calls for awarding a food services contract to the Marriott Corp. as early as July 1. If the con tract Is approved by the Maryland Department of Education, It would be the first privatization of public school cafeterias In the state. For the record The U.S.

Department of Justice has awarded a $623,223 grant to the state Department of Public Safety A yes vote supported the bill. Member Bentley, Helen Delich, R-2nd Byron, Beverly D-6th Cardin, Benjamin D-3rd Gilchrest, Wayne R-1 st HOUSE: ABORTION ISSUE er of the organization during a ceremony yesterday. The new MSBA president said his other two goals during his one-year term will be to help sole practitioners and small law firms obtain the latest legal technology and to build closer ties with the state legislature on matters of Interest to attorneys. "The association doesn't always get Its point across to the legislature," he said. "Our goal Is to have a pool of members who are available to speak to the legislature.

Since there are fewer practicing attorneys in the legislature, there is less In-house knowledge. We would like to make ourselves available to explain some of the Issues that affect attorneys." PHOIOBV Jf fHEY F. BHJ. Despite the problems, most pioneers remain optimistic. One of the things Columbia promised that worked "wonderfully well" Is a sense of community, says Ms.

Ruther. "Of course it was easier when there were only 1,000 people here," she says with a laugh. As a member and sometime chairwoman of the Planning Board, Ms. Ruther oversaw Columbia's development during the past 1 5 years. Respect for the land In a beautiful environment Is one of the things that helped bring people together, Ms.

Ruther says. "My children were very lucky to grow up with an amount of freedom many children don't have the opportunity to get Involved and feel they could change things," Ms. Ruther says. "It's been a blessing to live In a community of friends, watch my children grow up and see the whole flow of life." Ms. Ruther says she doesn't ever plan to leave Columbia.

"I can't see leaving a whole support system behind" to retire elsewhere, she says. Mr. Deets said that what makes Columbia seem special "is the Ideal-Ism and sense of place that It brings. You go elsewhere and there Is a sense of culture shock. You feel Columbia is farther along than other places." Ms.

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Member Bentley, Helen Delich, R-2nd Byron, Beverly D-6th Cardln, Benjamin D-3rd Gilchrest, Wayne R-1 st SENATE: HEALTH SERVICES By a vote of 86-8, the Senate approved a bill (S 1306) that includes the Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration in the National Institutes of Health. The bill is designed to upgrade research Into mental illness and substance abuse, and use federal dollars more effectively to prevent and treat those conditions. But it drew controversy with a new formula for granting about $1.5 billion for substance abuse and nearly $445 million for mental health annually to the states. Less urbanized states would get more generous block grants than in the past, at the expense of states with many large cities such as Florida and California. A yes vote was to approve the legislation.

authors as an economic lifeline but de Member Hover, Steny H. D-5th McMillen, Tom, D-4th Mfume, Kweisl, D-7th Morella, Constance R-8th Member Hoyer, Steny H. D-5th McMillen, Tom, D-4th Mfume, Kweisl, D-7th Morella, Constance R-8th Member Hover, Steny H.D-5th McMillen, Tom, D-4th Mfume, Kweisl, D-7th Morella, Constance R-8th Member Sarbanes, Paul YNX Member Hoyer, Steny H.D-5th McMillen, Tom, D-4th Mfume, Kweisl, D-7th Morella, Constance R-8th YNX Member Hoyer, Steny H. D-5th McMillen, Tom, D-4th Mfume, Kweisi, D-7th Morella, Constance R-8th Syndicate Member Mikulskl, Barbara SENATE: STRIKER REPLACEMENT COLUMBIA, from ID man says. "And economics have won out." Michael Deets, 26, Is one of the few of his generation to return to Columbia.

"A lot of (high school classmates return briefly but find It too expensive," he says. "But they have It In the back of their minds that Columbia Is a place they want to come back to." Mr. Deets moved to Columbia with his family in 1 970 when he was 4 years old. He was one of the first children to attend nursery school in Columbia, and graduated from Wilde Lake High School In 1983. He re turned In 1986 after his graduation from William and Mary.

He solved the housing problem by temporarily moving In with his family. Although he grew up thinking of Columbia as a special place, Mr. Deets fears the new town Is In dan ger of being Just another suburb. I want It to be more, Put I am not sure that everyone who's moving In now understands that or necessarily agrees" that It should be, Mr. Deets said.

May Ruth Seldel, who has been a housing activist for nearly all of her 22 years In Columbia, worries that "people are going to be put out on the street" when apartment complexes that provide for low- and moderate-Income families are no longer required to do so. Some Columbia builders accepted the requirements to qualify for a defunct federal program. Builders who set aside a certain percentage of their units for low- and moderate-Income tenants received low-Interest, feder ally guaranteed loans. The requirement ends when the loans are paid off. Ms.

Seldel Is on a committee that has worked since September to develop a plan to encourage construction of moderately priced dwelling units countywlde. "We still don have It, she says. "I'm getting Impatient. It's very Important that we have a mix of housing for the folks who live here. But It's like dipping a tablespoon In the ocean.

And that's tough." Although she was encouraged to see some new faces at a housing meeting she attended In Columbia recently, "not everybody gets on the bandwagon," Ms. Seldel says. "With two-worker families, lots of folks are very busy. There's not a lot of time for advocacy." Having a mix of housing types with people of all Income levels living together Is part of what the pioneers and their successors call the Columbia concept. Columbia, says 18-year resident Patricia Hatch, was to become "a garden where people of all backgrounds would grow harmoni ously." Although a disciple of the Colum bia concept, Ms.

Hatch is quick to point out that living In Columbia during most of Its existence does not make one a pioneer. The pioneers had mud when they arrived. "We had pavement," she says. If judged by what was promised. the garden still needs work, Ms.

Hatch and the pioneers say. But If udfied by how It compares with oth er places, the garden has been abundant, they say. Other than on vacations, I don spend a lot of time outside of Columbia," says Ms. Russell. When she moved to Columbia from California In 1967, Ms.

Russell had planned to stay only two years. She has been here 25. "I work, live, socialize and recreate here," Ms. Russell says. "I have to push myself to go to Baltimore, D.C., New York, or even Anne Arundel County.

I feel very safe here everywhere I go. I know people and people know me. "Most of the things I complain about are really petty. When I travel on vacations, I'm always glad to get back. I went to a mall in Brazil and there was a man on the roof armed with an M-16.

He was a security guard. Do you believe that? A security guard with a loaded M-16 standing on the roof. "Here, people complain about noise from the pavilion, tot lots, or having to paint the door a certain color to comply with covenants. It all seems so small when I think of all we have and how we take it for granted." Ms. Russell thinks Columbia's next 25 years are going to be a lot harder because they are going to be a lot harder for the world.

But she remains hopeful. "Columbia's Ideals, even though they don't burn as brightly, will never completely die out." she says. "Columbia was different and Is different. More than most communities, there Is respect for diverse cultures, races and economic levels. I hadn't come to Columbia expecting anything.

I wasn't promised anything. It wasn't until later that I realized all of this was planned." Columbia will become even more culturally diverse In the next 25 years, says Ms. Hatch, who Is executive director of the county's Forefgn-born information and Referral Network. According to the 1990 census. Columbia Is 76 percent white, 18 percent black, 4 percent Asian and 2 percent Hispanic.

Columbia's Asian population has grown by 254 percent and Its Hispanic population by 149 percent In the past decade, Ms. Hatch says. The Asian population Is expected to double again In the next eight years, and the Hispanic population will more than triple, says Ms. Hatch. Already, 8 percent of Columbia's households speak a language other than English.

"Newcomers have got to be made to feel welcome here and cared for," Ms. Hatch says. "They bring a lot of backgrounds and different Ideas to the same old problems." One of the biggest problems Is that Columbia does not have a sliding scale clinic for people who don't have health Insurance, Ms. Hatch says. She also laments a transportation system she says takes Vh hours to go three miles.

Without a public transportation network, entry-level workers will not be able to get to work and won't be hired, Ms. Hatch says. As a result, companies that would otherwise choose Columbia, might look elsewhere. Long-term health care, specialized housing and public transportation are also concerns of Columbia's growing senior population, Ms. Cressman says.

Although Columbia has retirement housing such as Owen Brown Place, Vantage House, and 21 group homes for five to 21 people each, "most property managers are not at all cognizant of senior Issues," Ms. Cressman says. "We need services, we need transportation," she says. "But people In government are saying, 'If you haven't saved enough, you're not entitled to There are no prototypes. We need prototypes to finish out our years as best we can." By a vote of 55-41, the Senate fell short of the three-fifths majority needed to silence a filibuster against "striker replacement" legislation.

This shelved the bill (S 55) making it illegal for employers to permanently replace workers striking over economic issues. Nor could employers under the bill give preference after the strike to "crossover" workers. A yes vote was to move toward passage of the bill. YNX Member YNX Member Mikulskl, Barbara Sarbanes, Paul HOUSE: BALANCED BUDGET By a vote of 280 for and 153 against, the House failed to approve a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced federal budget. Supporters fell nine votes short of the two-thirds majority needed for passage of the measure (HJ Res 290) sponsored by Rep.

Charles Stenholm, D-Texas. Congress and the president were to have kept spending within each year's anticipated revenue, beginning as early as fiscal 1995, with deficits permitted only in wartime or if allowed by three-fifths majorities of both houses. Taxes could have been raised by simple majority votes. YNX Member Bentley, Helen Delich, R-2nd Byron, Beverly D-6th Cardin, Benjamin D-3rd Gilchrest, Wayne R-1 st HOUSE: THE GEPHARDT PROPOSAL By a vote of 1 03 for and 327 against, the House rejected a balanced budget constitutional amendment (HJ Res 496) sponsored by House Majority Leader Richard A. Gephardt, D-Mo.

It differed from the Stenholm proposal by exempting Social Security from spending cuts, enabling only the president to initiate requests for deficit spending and requiring only simple majority votes to approve red ink requested by the White House. and Correctional Services to enable Maryland to become the nation's first to fully Integrate Its criminal Justice records system. The money will fund development of computer hardware and software for a new system expected to eliminate duplication and the possibility of errors In recording criminal Justice data, officials said. An aerospace engineer who holds a top position in Georgia higher education has been appointed dean of the Johns Hopkins University's G. W.

C. Whiting School of Engineering. Don P. Glddens, co-director of the EmoryGeorgia Tech Biomedical "Technology Research Center, will become dean Oct. 1.

succeeding David VandeLinde. From Staff and Wire Reports YNX Member Bentley, Helen Delich, R-2nd Byron, Beverly D-6th Cardin, Benjamin D-3rd Gilchrest, Wayne R-1 st Roll Call Report Daily 3 942 530 522 Daily 4 0135 2198 6969 Cash 25 June 12: 01 03 08 10 12 14 Information 1-800-982-2274.