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THESLN. Fnda. June 12. 1981 2 plead guilty incase Ad agency sues Venetoulis for 1978 campaign debts involving ph ony loans Governor Committee and the Venetoulis Political Committee) sent a mint letter in THEODORE G. VENETOULIS finished third in primary the committee and not Mr Venetoulis personally, so the former candidate was not personally responsible for the bill.

Teachers in Arundel OK contract Anit Arundel County Bureau of The Sun Annapolis -Teachers in Anne Arundel county schools have approved a new contract that provide a percent pay boost, the executive director of the teachers' association reported yesterday Walt Eilers. director of the Teachers Association of Anne Arundel County, said, "Teachers as a group were dissatisfied with the 5 percent raise. At a number of schools, teachers did not vote because of their displeasure." According to Mr Eilers, about 51 percent of the 3.609 dues-paying members voted on the contract proposal, which also established a salary step for teachers with 15 years' service. Under the current contract, there is no salary step for teachers between 12 and 20 years' service. The vote approving the new contract for the next school year was 1,498 to 396, Mr Eilers reported.

He said 113 other ballots were declared void because "some teachers wrote unkind comments on the ballot, which should not be mentioned in polite company "Unlike past settlements," Mr. Eilers said, "there is a deep, underlying resentment with this contract." Currently, a beginning teacher with a bachelor's degree makes Jl 1,846 a year. Under the new contract, his or her salary will amount to $12,438 A second-year teacher will make $13,173 under the new contract, compared to a current salary of $12,554. And a third-year teacher will earn $14,607 annually or $695 more than a teacher at that level this school year. A teacher with 15 years' service will receive $2 1 ,660 next school year.

School officials have said that about 110 teachers and 90 teacher aides will be laid off because of lower enrollments and less federal aid to the school system. A woman who formerly managed an Equitable Trust Company branch and a 34-year-old Baltimore county man pleaded guilty in federal court yesterday to a conspiracy charge Involving the embezzlement of more than $219,000 from the bank. In a criminal information filed about two weeks ago, Martha Benik, 27, of White Marsh, a former manager of Eq-uitable's Carney branch, and Richard P. Handschuh, whose home is in the Carney area, were charged with one count of conspiracy to embezzle bank funds and with making false statements on loan applications. Summarizing the government's evidence, against the defendants in court yesterday, Price O.

Gielen, an assistant U.S. attorney, said Ms. Benik and Mr. Handschuh had filled out fraudulent loan applications using fictitious names and names of friends, relatives and bank Maryland's Eastern Shore, the Virginia Shore as far south as Accomac, and Delaware as far north as Smyrna. But regional and national advertising was slow to come in, Mr.

Audet said. About 60 percent of the station's advertising came from the immediate Salisbury area, he said. Mr. Audet, who has been involved in broadcasting for 33 years, said television stations "succeed everywhere" and two or more have competed successfully "in other places smaller than Delmarva." He said that when he selected Delmarva as a promising region, 50 percent of the people on the peninsula could receive only WBOC, a CBS affiliate. Now, with new technology such as satellite and cable television, the need for another station on the Shore "is probably not creditors paying part of their bills with the money left in the campaign accounts.

The committees also asked creditors to forgive the balance of the debts and write them off as contributions. Mr. Venetoulis could not be reached yesterday at either the Towson Times, of which he is president, or WBAL-TV. where he works as a political commentator. The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company last week appealed to the same Circuit Court a District Court decision that Mr.

Venetoulis was not personally responsible for $1,715 in overdue telephone bills associated with the gubernatorial campaign. The phone, company bad sued Mr. saying it could not sue his committee because it was no longer a legal entity. Judge John H. Garmer ruled that the company's contract had been with deals latest nel 16, but Mr.

Audet said the new station's difficulties bad not been caused by an inability of the region to support two local stations. In response to a petition from the First National Bank of Maryland, Wicomico County Circuit Court Judge Alfred T. Tru-itt, last month appointed a receiver, Fulton. O. Jeffers, a Salisbury lawyer, to manage WMDT's affairs until it could be sold.

This week Judge Truitt granted another petition from the bank to prevent the stockholders from meeting on grounds that such a meeting could cause confusion concerning the rights of the bank. When the station went into receivership, it owed the bank a principal debt of S3 million, which was secured by 100 percent of the company's stock and fixtures, equipment and inventory. of many blows to Shore Lintner defendant testifies, denies being near murder According to court records, the company had failed to make interest payments touting $259,355, and for the last four months had operated at losses totaling $173,949. Mr Audet said yesterday that the station's troubles began last year before it went on the air. It was supposed to have begun broadcasting in February.

1980. he said, and a staff had been hired in preparation. Delays in construction and the delivery of equipment caused its official start to be put off until April 11 of that year, and it was an additional two months before the station was ready to begin local news broadcasts, he said. In that period, "a half-million dollars was down the drain," Mr. Audet said.

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in a one-year period 1 beginning in August, 1978. cording to an FBI investigation. More than $20,000 of the money was repaid to. the bank as payments on some of the loans came due, Mr. Gielen said.

The embezzled funds were used1 by-Mr. Handschuh for a business he partly' owned, Spartan Systems, which provided carpenters to building contractors, according to the prosecutor. Mr. Handschuh profited from thi. scheme because he earned an income from the now-defunct business while ing the embezzled funds to maintain it-Mr.

Gielen said. Mr. Handschuh's former partner, a Pennsylvania man, pleaded guilty last month to one count of filing false infor-, mation on a credit application in connection with the scheme. TV station as acute," Mr. Audet said.

But he added that he still believes the new station here "is going to be very successful." WMDT's competitor in Salisbury; WBOC, was for 26 years the only televi-; sion station on the Delmarva Peninsula; When the new station applied for Federal Communications Commission approval two years ago, WBOC, then broadcasting I with a power of 225,000 watts, applied to increase its power to 4 million watts. WBOC then was owned by the Abell Company of Baltimore, publisher, of the Sunpapers, but has since been sold to Mid-Atlantic Communications. The station's request for increased power has been approved by the FCC-a new tower is going up near Laurel, and WBOC plans to begin broadcasting with an increased range by midsummer SHURE PRO-4 ELLIPTICAL STEREO PHONO CARTRIDGE MOBILE FIDELITY OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN TOTALLY HOT ORIGINAL MASTER RECORDING mobllr Mdrlllr 77 separate bass treble balance and loudness muting and automatic tape WAY 559 PR. speakers with 20 watts 539 PR? integrated Stereo 749 2S2-73IO 2 788-2323? 761-1 1 282-5076 734-7148879-01 31 796-3996 742-661 760-667V2 FITS MOST IMPORTS s76 s298 COMPLETE HOWARD. However.

Mr Baxter was born in 1961 Mr Oliver admitted on the stand that he has been convicted of larceny and battery, of obstruction of justice, of shoplifting, resisting arrest and assault, and of another count of resisting arrest. His attorneys were not successful yesterday in trying to have all of Mr. Baxter's testimony as a state's witness stricken from the record. Mr. Kinlein argued that the testimony should be disregarded because he had been prevented from completing his cross-examination of Mr Baxter since the witness refused to answer questions when called by the defense Wednesday The judge.

Thomas Missel, ruled, however, that during Wednesday's appearance Mr Baxter was not a state witness for, cross-examination, but was the defense lawyer's own witness. Mr. Baxter has already pleaded guilty to felony murder in the Lintner slaying. He was held in contempt of court for refusing to answer Mr Kinlein's questions in the current trial. The Oliver defense produced a former inmate of the Howard County Detention Center who knew Mr.

Oliver during his incarceration there, in an attempt to dilute the testimony of a state witness-Bartow Baltimore County Bureau of The Sun The advertising agency that bandied Theodore G. Venetoulis's 1978 campaign for governor has sued the former candidate, claiming he still owes the agency $65,550. The suit was filed yesterday in Baltimore County Circuit Court by B. Doner of the 2300 block North Charles street. The agency filed its suit against Mr Venetoulis and the Venetoulis for Governor Committee.

In its suit, the agency said that from July. 1978. until October, 1978. it prepared television and radio advertisements, posters, brochures, bumper stickers and flyers for Mr. Venetoulis.

Mr Venetoulis lost the Democratic primary, finishing third behind Harry Hughes and acting Governor Blair Lee III. In December, 1978, Mr Venetoulis's political committees (the Venetoulis for Injunction By Mary Corddry Eastern Shore Bureau of The Sun Salisbury WMDT-TV, Channel 47, a new television station that began broadcasting here a year ago, has been placed in receivership and blocked by court injunction from holding a shareholders meeting that had been scheduled today Paul Audet, the new station's chairman of the board and majority stockholder, said yesterday that WMDT had been "undercapitalized" and that a three-month delay in getting on the air last year had caused a financial drain from which it never recovered. The station, which is affiliated with ABC-TV, is still on the air Its offices and studios are located in Salisbury's Downtown Plaza. WMDT faced competition in the local television market from WBOC-TV, Chan Wooden who said Mr. Oliver had confessed the murder to him in the jail.

Anthony Geter, the defense witness, said he befriended Mr. Oliver during his stay and was told by him that he was in jail for a murder that he didn't commit. He also said Mr. Wooden's reputation for telling the truth was not good among other inmates. The defense also called police officer Steven Greisz to the stand to testify to remarks made by Mr.

Baxter to a doctor while he was in the county detention center The defense contends Mr. Baxter's, story of cutting his hands during a fall in the woods in his attempt to get away from the Lintner home that nigbt was contradicted in that jailhouse conversation. But Officer Greisz said a paragraph he had written in his report of the conversation inadvertently implied Mr Baxter told the doctor his cuts had come from an injury in a basketball game. Officer Greisz said yesterday Mr. Baxter was referring to a wrist injury, not the cuts to his face or arm when he described the basketball injury-Judge Nissel adjourned the trial until Monday, when the state will present rebuttal witnesses.

The jury is expected to get the case Tuesday or Wednesday. working; well enough, and should be left alone. The city's arbitration system has been in effect since 1972, and Mr. Belgrad said that only "very rarely" do local lawyers refuse to become involved when clients accuse them of overcharging for legal services. But in its formal report, the bar association committee that studied the fee-arbitration proposal said, "Any effective plan cannot permit lawyers merely to ignore the- arbitration process completely without consequence." The committee concluded, "There is no legitimate basis for geographical distinctions as to the right of access of members of the public of this state to any fee-arbitration program sponsored by the' organized bar," adding that "it would be unfair to all persons affected to provide such a program in some jurisdictions and withhold it in others." The committee, according to Melvin J.

Sykes. one of its members, still holds to its original recommendation, to political realities" in allowing the four jurisdictions to opt out of the program. Several members felt that if they didn't allow the city and the three counties to go their own way. the entire program would be dead. Mr Sykes said that if the state program, which' will be in effect in all the other counties in Maryland and operate' through the state bar association, works out better than the local plans, this build up pressure" to force the others to go along eventually.

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