The Daily Mail from Hagerstown, Maryland • Page 5

Fifth Hotel Burns In Ocean City OCEAN ifth hotel fire in the past two this resort city swept hrough historic Nordics Hotel on the boardwalk early today badly damaging the three story building. Earlier fires it hotels or motels in the city had Experts Give Review Maryland Economy Expected To Improve Sharply In 1973 ANNAPOLIS (AP)-Slate conomic experts say prospects are good that the Maryland conomy will improve sharply 1973, "view of the current eco- fire officials to ask for state nomic picture Jjy the Depart help in an arson investigat'on, but there was no immediate word from fire on the cause of today 1 fire. A spokesman at the fire department only that no official word on the susnjc'id cause of the fire had been released and th-it it was still under investigation. Tht after are 1:30 broke a.m. out shortly today and brought some 200 firefighters scene in an effort to save the three story structure There were no reported injuries.

One of the owners of the building, Mrs. Dorothv v'r ler, said it 23 rooms, two apavements and two boardwalk stores but she was unable to estimate the financial loss involved in the blaze. The frame building was constructed before 1900, she said. Fire Chief Roland Powel said his office had not ruled oul the possibility that the fire had been set and was looking into whether the blaze was the work of an arsonist. Powell said the 'fire started in the southwest corner of a storage room and spread up stairway through the roof.

The building probably wil have to be torn down, accord ing to Mrs. Swindler. After fires, city of Hcials, aided by state police launched a search for an arson ist who was believed to be re sponsible for fires in at leas four major fires and possibly several smaller ones. The Ocean City police, afte: meeting Jan. 15, announced a $5,000 reward for information leading to the and con viction person or person! responsible for the blazes.

ment of Economic and Community Development indicates that recovery from the 1970 recession, which just got started in 1972, should pic up speed this year. But there was a warning from the department that cutbacks in federal spending and a drop in the federal work force could hamper recovery in Maryland because of the heavy concentration of governmental agencies in the state. Optimistic trends in 1972 In- eluded i lower inflation rate, Una of EUREKA FLOOR CARE PRODUCTS "Yojr stop Shopl" Small Appliance Repair 1M1 FREEMAN'S Craft Center higher jwer i One factoring crease, ecessu In ai of the per capita income and inemployment. major area of concern the year was a contin- in manufacturing. number of jobs in manu- ig decreased by 3,600, vestment in new uipment, while on the in- did not come up to pre on levels.

ddition, the department there was no signifi- crease in the percentage me which Marylanders within their. state. ich of these areas deal- manufacturing, Mary- ither trailed or actually jnter the national trends. ond F. Rovner, secretary department, described itinued weakness in man- ufacturing is "a matter of grave concern to everyone in state government." He said his department has assigned top priority to reversing the trend.

Rovner noted that in some non-manufacturing areas, Maryland is still ahead ol the nation as a whole. "Also noteworthy is the fact that residential -and commercial construction atrong, even though the Increase slowed from earlier boom levels, and now lags behind the national growth rate levels," he said. "The fact remains that over the long pull, the state's economy will rise or fall on the manufacturing sector of the economy." Qther highlights of the de- asienment of th current economic situation: --The GroH State Produc (GSP) Increased by 2.9 pe cent la terns, but tVx Gross National Product (GNP rose by 6.8 per cent. --The unemployment rate 'o the state was 4.8 per cent (ver sus a national rate of 5.5 pa cent). The demand for new job totaled 53,385.

Total employ mtnt rose by only 34,999, or about two-thirds of the jobs re quired for "full employment." Total bank deposits increase 14,4 per cent, a slight decline i the growth rate from 1971 hi still ahead of the national rat of 12.7 per cent. --Total value of all construe lion rose by 13.5 per cent, dow about five per cent from th 'boom" rates of 1971. --An Indication of the growth in tourism is seen in an increase of 13.3 per cent in tax revenues from hotels and motels--a growth rate which has been consistent In recent years. --Cash receipts for agricultural products in the first nine months Increased 3.8 per cent to $296.8 million, Indicating a realized net income per fafm of $6,770, a gain for each farm of $638 or 10.5 per cent. The value of the seafood catch jumped from $18.2 million to $23.3 million.

--The number of business failures in the first nine months exceeded the comparable figure for but the current liabl Uties of firms involve decline! 28.8 per cent. State's Yearly Legal Abortion Unlikely Jo Rise Under Ruling ANNAPOLIS (AP)-By open-; ing the way for abortions in I clinics during the first three months of pregnancy, the Supreme Court apparentlv has reduced the cost of abortions for, Maryland women. Yet, despite the ruling which virtually wipes out restrictions on early pregnancy abortions, the state's yearly legal abortion rate is unlikely to rise, according to Dr. J.B. King family planning chief of the state Health Department.

More women will have the operation performed in the state, Seegar said, as clinics become available in Maryland. Approximately Maryland 3,000 Women currently travel to the District of Columbia for the operation, Seegar said. Some 9,807 abortions were performed in Maryland hospitals last year, according to state health officials. Clinic prices are generally half-as steep as hospital abortion rates, Seegar said. Hospital charges currently from $175 to $300, plus surgeons' and--occasionally--psychiatrists' fees, while Washing- Ion clinics charge from $125 to $150, he said.

Guidelines are being drafted on abortions in clinics, according to Dr. Frank D. Kaltreider, chief of the state medical association's committee concerned with abortions. Noting his personal opposition to abortions in offices, Kaltreider-said, "I can't predict what effect the voluntary guidelines would have on physicians who wish to perform (office) abortions." Maryland's regulations, liber- lized by the legislature in 1968 and further softened by a federal court last year, apparently will remain intact. A preliminary review of Monday's Supreme Court decision indicated that abortions could be legally banned in the final three months of pregnancy "except to save the life of the mother," according to Norman Polovoy, a deputy attorney general.

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(API-- 39-year-old man indcntified Jesse Newlin West Jr. wa being held without bond toda in the Frederick County Jail or a charge of murdering a Wes erh Maryland junk dealer in holdup more than a year ago. Authorities said West wa charged Monday with the De cember 1971 murder of 64-year old Francis E. Runkles. Troopers said they also woul question'the former Hiverdale man in connection wit two Frederick County holdup in Dec.

1971 and a number other unsolved crimes in Wes ern Maryland and Princ Georges County. Details of th i investigation were not di: closed, but authorities'said a ditional information was pected today. West was arrested in a Petersburg, bar Jan. officers said. A woman, identified as 3 year-old Betty L.

Cuddy ha been held, pending extraditio to Maryland, by Florida autho ties in Ihe Pin'elas County Ja since her arrest in St. Peter burg Jan. 17, troopers said. A third suspect, 31-year-ol Bichard C. Fogle, was arrestc by Pennsylvania authoritie near Erie, escaped In: September, according to Mar; land State Police.

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Dist. Court Judge Frank A. Kaufman. Lawyers indicated that an ap peal to the Supreme Court would have little chance of success in view of the high court's record of refusing to delay similar cases. "I don't know what we're going to do," said school boarc attorney Paul Nussbaum after Chief Judge Clement F.

Hay nsworth read court decision. the appellate News of the ruling heightened i among antibuslng 'orccs massed in the building obby and huddled under urn- jrellas in, rain outside. Angry shouts erupted among the white protesters as a group of blacks began to descend the stairs from the courtroom to lobby. When the blacks, turned back, the protesters, mostly women, jeered, ''we won't hurt you. We won't hurt you.

You've already hurt us." Judge Haynsworth said the appeals court found that Judee Kaufman was correct, accord- Ing to the constitution and 18 years of desegregation cases. The integration plan requires the transfer of about 33,000 of the school system's 162.000 elementary and high school pupils. School officials have said the plan means that about 12,300 pupils will be offered bus transportation for the first time, increasing the percentage nf the system's students who ride the bus from 48 to 56 per cent. Spokesmen for several anti- busing groups and some of the state's members of congress denounced the ruling. Rep.

Lawrence J. Hogan, Republican whose district includes Prince George's County, said the decision "is going to spell total disruption of the Prince George's County school system." Sen. J. Glenn Bcall said he was "deeply disappointed" the ruling and said implementation of the order at mid-term "is educationally unsound." Sen. Charles McC.

Malhlas said he, will offer suggestions "in-the near future" for making busing of the magnitude required by the court order unnecessary. JM1LY MAIL, Hagerstown, Md. FIVE" TuMdjy, Jiivury ITO Federal Agency Asked To Ease Air Standards W. Va. (AP) Gov.

Arch A. Moore Jr. has isked the federal Environmen- Protection-Agency for a extension on sulpuhr oxide standards for air quality. The governor said he made the request reluctantly and urged the extra time be used only for hardship cases. week the governor asked the West Virginia Air Pollution Control Commission to ease certain pollution abatement requirements.

The American Electric Power System has announced it may be forced to close down a facility in Kanawha County and buy western coals with lower sulphur content. Two Merchants Convicted Of Check Kiting BALTIMORE (AP) Two allsbury wholesale produce erchants have been released tboir own recognizance after federal jury convicted them a check kiting scheme that legerity cost two Eastern hore banks $1 million in loss s. Martin Hyntan, former pros! ent of Cooper Farms, Inc. and H. Produce Company, anc is son-in-law, Samuel Gershen- ild, an officer of the two rms, were convicted Monday.

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I Paddacl Progress And Pastoralism Clash Over Power Plant WITTMAN, Md. (AP) -P a pastoralistn threaten to clash again, tbis time in the quiet Eastern Shore community of Wittman. A sudden announcement by the Delmarva Power and Light Company that it has optioned 498 acres at Webley as a potential site for a power plant, possibly cited nuclear mixed fueled, has ell- reactions from both natives and newcomers. "I came here to get away from suburbia and industrial plants and all that," says Robert K. Keller, 54.

A former corporate executive from New Jersey, Keller has renovated an Eighteenth Century Georgian home he bought here less than a year ago. Motioning across woods and fields to the neighboring estate of Webley, Keller added, "I wanted a new life as part of the now this." On the other side of Webley lives Mrs. D. Earle Kemp, widow who owns 380 acre Wade Point farm, settled in 1657. Mrs.

Kemp, whose ancestors have lived here since 1812, has expressed extreme disapproval over the possibility of a power plant being located in the vicin You know we're going to ob- she says. "You know it will have to have smoke stacks and those huge things that carry wires." Mrs, Kemp added she was positive that Talbot County's delegate to the state legislature and speaker of the house, Thomas H. Lowe, would join in opposition to the power facility. Lower waterfront home on Harris Creek is also close to the optioned acres. Local oyslermen and crabbers who earn their living from the waters Eastern Bay and the Chesapeake are also vocal in opposition to the plant.

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