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MARYLAND ANNE ARUN DEL THESSkSUN June 4, 1998 Section Anne Arundel it 'Awhoo at was sh wind, and th THURSDAY Summer concert season to provide a mix of music outdoors An eclectic mix of music from Hawaiian to country to big band to the blues is featured in this year's summer concert season in the county. The concerts are "a wonderful way for families to enjoy the outdoors and the arts," said Carol Treiber, executive director of the Cultural Arts Foundation of Anne Arundel County. Most of the concerts are free. Arundel Live. Page 6b In Anne Arundel Racetrack group wooes business leaders.

Page 3b Convicted killer gets another year In prison. Page 3b Byrd returns to Annapolis Jazzfest. Page 7b 1 It A-- -'Iv'Nj .1 1 JOHN MAKELY SUN STAFF after it was destroyed by a The two new ads starting in the Baltimore area next week feature Schoenke, a Montgomery County insurance magnate and former Washington Redskin, speaking to the camera a departure from See Schoenke, 8b if'n til Parham assails adopted budget She says school funds voted by council faU short of basic needs 'Wrong, mean-spirited' Grim board ponders what services to cut after request slashed By Kris Antonelli SUN STAFF The $454 million school budget adopted last week by the County Council is so skimpy it won't allow the system "to even maintain current levels of programs and services," schools Superintendent Carol S. Parham said yesterday. Reading from a prepared statement, a visibly angry Parham told the Board of Education she could accept being told that it had asked for too much in its proposed $501 million budget, or not getting all the money she asked for.

"But I (jannot accept the school system being punished for asking," she said. "This is wrong and mean-spirited, and someone has to say so." This is the first time Parham, who has chosen her words carefully in previous statements on the budget, has lashed out In public at county officials. "All sorts of words and Inferences, scenarios, and accusations, if you will, have been aired in public settings, in private settings, and in the local media. But what remains are the realities," she said. The budget the council approved is $27 million less than board members have said they need to pay for fixed costs, such as health care, retirement and pension funding and life insurance, shesaid.lt Michael Olesker about conflicts of interest.

"I made a mistake." He meant, about taking thousands of dollars under the table from financially strapped Coppln State College, and then performing no work at all for this money, which otherwise could have put fliiui mail a suui ui impoverished kids -Ididnt know I was out of line." He meant, for taking big money from a health care company angling to do busi ness with the See Olesker, 8b 11 All that's left: Richard M. Goldsworthy emerges from the basement of what 's left of his home tornado. "I walked outside last night and thought 'I still have my "hesaid. Injuries are minor, but Frost burg tornado destroys 11 homes $5 million in damage Fire chief credits quick response to weather warning By John Murphy FROSTBURO When word of tornadoes crackled across police scanners in this small town tucked in the hills of Western Maryland, Dwayne Bittner did not hesitate. He gathered his wife and two children and ran to the basement.

They made it with no time to spare. Before they reached the bottom of the stairs, a twister struck their three-bedroom home. It lifted the house from its foundation, tore off a mud room and sent a pair of French doors flying through the house and out the front windows. "It sounded like a whoosh wind," Bittner said, swinging his arms to emphasize the point. "And that was it." But not for the rest of Frostburg.

The tornado Tuesday at 9:45 p.m. would destroy 10 other homes, damage 70 more and cause an estimated $5 million in damages. The twister traveled with enough force to peel roofs off homes, pull a minivan out of a garage and warp the steel flagpole at Frost Elementary School. About 15 people had minor cuts and bruises, but none was hospitalized, authorities said. Frostburg fire chief Ron Dugan credited the town's quick response to the early warningis- See Storm, 8b Petition aims Residents fear project to raze complexes will hurt black community By Dan Thanh Dang SUN STAFF A petition circulating through the Clay Street community yesterday aims to end the Annapolis Housing Authority's HOPE VI project, a controversial plan to raze and replace the area's two public housing complexes.

The petition states that tenants of Obery Court, College Creek Terrace and surrounding neighborhoods believe the project "will destroy the entire black community and its history in Annapolis," and that "people will be left without housing." About 100 signatures have been amassed and will be presented to city housing officials before June 29, the deadline for the agency to file a grant application for HOPE VI funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. "This place needs to be renovated, no one's disputing that," said Robert H. Eades, an Obery Court resident who is one of six people circulating the petition. "There was a thriving community here once that was taken away from us with the same promise of better housing.

It was called urban renewal. "Now I see HOPE VI as a last stab at taking the Clay Street community from black folks as a whole," Eades said. "It's just the same game with a different name. Don't sell us no false dreams about living in a bet Sclioenke maintaining pace of TV ads in June group's plan Clay Street Revitalization Committee, but if an application is successful, a HOPE VI grant could pump $30 million into the area. Building townhouses, the ambitious federal project would provide a mix of subsidized housing and privately owned homes.

In addition to aesthetic See Petition, 3b ELIZABETH UALBY SUN STAFF to end housing ter community." Tension has escalated in Clay Street over the past couple of weeks as neighbors argue over whether HOPE VI is the answer to problems with crime, poverty and dilapidated buildings. Annapolis and Anne Arundel County officials have started work on improvements with the In the Region State police sued over 1-95 traffic stops. Page 2b Samuel Jackson Lanahan noted Washington attorney, dies. Page 9b Obituaries 9b Weather 18b SunSpot The Sun on the Internet: http:www.sunspot.net Salisbury police chief removed Mayor acts after report finds irregularities in sale of seized cars By Chris Guy SUN STAFF SALISBURY Salisbury's chief of police has been suspended without pay amid charges of mismanagement and possible criminal wrongdoing in the sale of cars seized by a regional drug task force. Mayor Barrie Parsons Tilghman ousted Chief Coul-bourn Dykes on Monday, charging the 28-year veteran of the city force with neglect of duty, Inefficiency and disreputable conduct.

No criminal investigation has begun, authorities said yesterday. Dykes could not be reached for comment. His suspension came after a report found numerous irregularities in the disposition of cars seized in drug cases. For example, a 1988 Ford Tempo was sold for $160, though its estimated worth had been $8,000. As part of a decade-old agreement, the Salisbury Police Department is responsible for selling seized vehicles and returning the proceeds to the regional drug task force.

The 14-page report was compiled by a former police lieutenant who had been assigned to secretly keep tabs on the unit. County prosecutors and state and local police said they had no warning of Dykes' removal from the 100-member city department, nor have they seen the report that former Lt. Shelley A. McKinney delivered to City Hall on May 22. That was slightly more than two weeks after Tilghman's election to her first public office.

"I realized immediately that this was very serious," Tilghman See Salisbury, 9b Young campaign powered either by moxie or despair 'I Democratic candidate for governor spending $1 million this month By Craiq Timbero SUN STAFF Millionaire Democrat Raymond F. Schoenke Jr. is, keeping up his record-setting pace of television advertising by spending $1 million this month on new commer- cials, including a spot pro-, posing ambitious education' programs that he says would be funded by slot machines. The new round of ads, in addition to $800,000 he has spent since April, is expected to reach more than 90 per-, cent of Maryland voters and be seen by the average televi-: sion viewer up to 10 times a week, campaign officials say. The move puts slot machines which Gov.

Parrls N. Glendening opposes even more securely at the heart of the governor's racev Another Democratic contender, Harford County Ex-' ecutive Eileen M. favors slot machines at race-: tracks, with some profits going to education. The early, heavy ad campaign also suggests that Schoenke might spend far more from his own pocket1 than the $2 million he initially pledged. This most recent, buy keeps Schoenke on the) air in Baltimore and begins a foray Into the notoriously ex-' pensive Washington market.

"Amazing, amazing, amazing," said political consultant Herbert C. Smith of Schoenke's spending spree on television. "This is unusual for any state." ARRY YOUNG runs for office on the clear belief that his con stituents aren't paying attention. Nothing else explains the naked moxie of a man expelled from the Maryland Senate six months ago who now plans a re-election fund-raiser for next week. What's his campaign slogan: "Elect Me, I Have Not Yet Been It's probably just a matter of time.

Even Young himself, in the grim final hour of his previous life as a state senator, offered the fee' blest of defenses. He pleaded naivete. After 24 years in the legislature, after 24 years in which he was regarded as one of thesawiestofpo litical insiders, he stood in front of his Senate colleagues last winter and used these phrases: "Ididnl know." He meant, Ready for life's next adventure Angela Jones, 1 7, who graduates Monday from Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical High School in Baltimore, has perfect attendance since kindergarten. She is one of 4,100 city seniors starting the next phase of their lives. (Article, Page 9B).