The Morning Herald from Hagerstown, Maryland • Page 26

foORNtNG. HERALD, HAGEiRSTOIPN, JUTO; StpWmbw 4,1975 Mother Seton performs -miracle 9 CATONSVILLE, Md. (UP!) Ann O'Neill, a 'J-year-old victim of leukemia, was near death in 1952. A Catholjo sister persuaded her mother to pray for a miracle. The child's family had all but given up hope and had taken her back to St.

Agnes Hospital to die. But to the amazement of her doctors, Ann recovered and a miracle has since been- attributed to Elizabeth Ann Seton, the first American-born saint who will be canonized in Rome Sept. 14. The suggestion that Ann's mother, Felixena O'Neill, pray for the intercession of Mother Seton came from Sister Mary Alice Fowler, whose Sisters of Charity order was.founded in America by. the former Baltimore society Sister Mafy-Alice and qther sisters wanted to pro mote, miracles by Mother Selon to get her canonized.

"The feeling came over me that this would be a good ease for Mother Seton to show her power with God," said the sister. Twenty-three years later a completely cured Ann O'Neill Hooe, now a 27-year-old suburban Baltimore housewife and mother of four, will be a guest of honor at a i a i ceremonies at the Vatican. Concurrent ceremonies will be held in Emmitsburg, where Mother Seton established a school and the American Sisters of Charity, along with five other communities of sisters who trace their roots to Mother Seton. Ann's cure of acute leukemia, said to be the only one on record at the time, was ruled valid after extensive scrutiny by the Roman Catholic Church as one of three miracles attributed to Mother Selon, who was born 201 years ago. "The behavior of this case is unique and different from any I know about," said Ann's doctor, Milton S.

Sacks, to an apostolic tribunal convened to study the case. "It is beyond my experience, both personal and in medical literature." According to a National Institutes of Health spokeswoman; Ann most likely has lived longer than anyone with the dreaded disease. Pennsy medical lab in trouble with state liase-out of rent control eyed HARRISBURG I) -Pennsylvania's biggest medical laboratory is in trouble. a a a a health a Wednesday gave Philadelphia i a Laboratory 30 days to comply with slate regulation or face a suspension of at least 90 days, According to Bachman, the laboratory, which performs some 100,000 tests a month, refuses to a regulation requiring it to inform patients of the cost for testing. "For nearly a full year Philadelphia Medical Laboratory has shown shocking disregard for the rights of its patient-customers in the.

greater Philadelphia area," Bachman said at a news conference. "Acting as a power unto itself, Philadelphia Medical a a lias blatantly thumbed its corporate nose at its consumer customers and the slate government." The big testing laboratory is located in Trevose, Bucks County, Bachman said the regulation is designed to protect consumers from doctors or laboratories that would pad medical fees to increase their profit. The laboratory challenged the new regulation a year ago, but a state examiner held lengthy hearings and concluded that the business was not in compliance. "In his report, the examiner state? that this firm has flagrantly and openly defied the Department of Health's regulation and enforcement efforts," Bachman said. "The decision to defy Ihe regulation was.

motivated, at least primarily, by economic gain, Such gain is eslimaled to have exceeded Bachman said he is giving the laboratory 3C days to comply 'with the regulation because its services are needed in the Philadelphia area. He said all of the 300 other medical testing laboratories in the state are complying with the regulation. In other matters at the news conference, Bachman: ROCKVILLE, Md, (AP) The Montgomery County Landlord-Tenant Commission has voted 54 to recommend the phasing out of rent controls in the county. The recommendations suggest accomplishing the phase-out through vacancy decontrol, which allows landlords lo raise the rents on apartments when the unit changes tenants. Commission member Stephen Greenliegh, one of the four who voted against the recommendations, said vacancy decontrol would give landlords incentive to encourage a high turn-over rate in their apartments.

"There is no assurance that existing tenants would not be displaced by landlords motivated solely by money," he said. Maryland Commission director Thomas Hamilton disagreed. "It would be difficult to artifically create a high turn-over rate," he said, because county law requires landlords to offer tenants a two-year lease. However, Greenliegh said once the initial lease is up, Montgomery County landlords can and do put tenants on a month-to-monfh lease. Without special provisions in the rent control law, landlords could order tenants out with just 30 days notice, he said.

The commission's recommendations will be sent to County Executive James Gleason, who said lie favors the phasing-out of rent control because it would restore a "free economy" lo the rental housing market. The recommendations called for the end of rent control by Dec. 31, 1976. PUC squabble affects rate request HARRISBURG (UPI) The dispute between Gov. Milton J.

Shapp and the Pennsylvania'Senate' over two vacancies on the Public Utility Commission has finally had an effect on utility rates. Pennsylvania Power Light Co. won a $20.3 million rate hike from the PUC Wednesday because Commissioner James McGirr Kelly balked at delaying the hike for another six months. It takes three "Yes" voles to suspend rate increases. Chairman L'ouis J.

Carter and Commissioner Robert K. Bloom said they were willing to suspend PPL's increase. However, Kelly said the company deserved rate relief and refused to go along. His vole means the four per cent increase will go into effect on Sept. 13.

Pennsylvania "The merits of the case say that the company is entitled to the rate increase," Kelly said. "There is a procedural i raised by the Law this rale request is opposed by the Commonwealth and others who are capable of taking the issue to the courts. Let them raise the technical questions." Kelly, a Philadelphia Republican, was referring to a PUC Law Bureau recommendation that Ihe commission delay aclion on the PPL request because of a minor dispute involving the forms used in filing the request. The $20.3 million is the firsl phase of a $75.8 million hike sought by the utility, which serves nearly one million customers in 29 eastern and central Pennsylvania counties. The PUC was not expected to vole on Ihe remaining $55.5 million until Ihn winter.

There have been two vacancies on the PUC since April, when George I. Bloom stepped down as chairman and Herbert S. Denenberg was defeated by the Senate, IF YOU CAN'T BUY FIRE CALLUS. No matter where you live In Maryland, if your property can pass a FREE Inspection, you can purchase fire insurance through the JOINT INSURANCE-ASSOCIATION, The JOINT INSURANCE ASSOCIATION was formed by the insurance industry as a means of providing property insurance on eligible residential and commerical properties, regardless of location. The rates and premiums charged are approved by the Maryland Insurance Commissioner.

For more information, contact any licensed insurance agent or broker; or you can call or JOINT INSURANCE ASSOCIATION ONE EAST REDWOOD STREET 21202 Phone: (301)539-6808 MARYLAND FAIR PLAN (FAIR ACCESS TO INSURAMCE REQUIREMENTS) Teacher slowdown approved ROCKVILLE, Md. (UPI) Montgomery County Education Association, angry over a contract dispute with the school board, voted for a work a dramatize its salary demands. The representatives 'debated twc hours before voting 164 to 99 not to perform any duties outside their seven-hour work (lay. The slowdown -applied to parent-teacher conferences, meetings and staying after school to prepare lesson plans and grade papers. "No one knows what to expect because the teachers in this county have, traditionally given extra time to their duties," said MCEA president Butty Culotta.

The school board has offered the MCEA a 5,4 per cent cost- of-living pay increase. A two- year contract signed last spring called for a.10.1 per cent raise, but the county council did not finance the raise and (he school board said it could not find the money. Montgomery school system, the nation's 17th largest, has about 121,000 students. Highway program in trouble BALTIMORE (UPI) Maryland's highway construction program is headed for trouble because of inflated costs and reduced state revenues, State Highway Administrator Bernard Evans said Wednesday. Evans said the multi-million dollar programs would have to be scrapped two years without funding sources, "We are no longer equipped in Maryland lo finance highway construction ahead of the level of federal assistance," Evans said.

He said his department will use highway to promote projects eligible for 90 per cent federal funding. He said most 100 per cent state projects would be cancelled. Evans announced cancellation of a $1.16 million proposal to widen Rl. 414 in Prince George's County and a similar million project In Montgomery County. "It's one of the first actions of this kind (hat I've had to lake, and I fear tl will not be the Evans said.

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