The Baltimore Sun from Baltimore, Maryland • 26

THE SUN, Saturday, January 16, 1982 C2. Regional site preferred MA cook Maryland Bneny for nuclear waste Mary Knudson Part of plant to reopen Cumberland (AP) Portions of the Amcelle plant of Celanese Fibers Company here will resume operation February 1, according to company of ficials. The plant manager, Carl Repsher, said Thursday that the scope of the reopening would depend on market conditions, and that fur-loughed employees would be recalled as required. The plant has been shut down since October because of low demand for acetate and triacetate tricot yarns manufactured there. About 500 employees were laid off by the shutdown.

Break blocks Beltway A 12-inch water main in Towson broke late yesterday afternoon, spilling water onto an exit and entrance ramp to the Baltimore Beltway. i The break was detected shortly before 6 p.m. After the water started to freeze about 15 minutes later, police closed the southbound exit to York road coming off the eastbound lanes of the Beltway, and the entrance ramp onto the Beltway next to it. The right lane of the eastbound half of the Beltway was closed for a short distance because of ice. The ramps were reopened about 8:25 p.m.

The water came up through a storm drain, and Baltimore City Water Department workers were digging down to the pipe last night to find the break. The water was turned off sometime before 8 p.m. and it could not be determined how many houses lost service as a result of the break. Residents of several houses near West road reported discoloration of their water afterwards, officials said. Maryland environmental officials are negotiating with other states in parts of the country in hopes of deciding in the next six to eight 'months on a regional site to which Maryland industries can send their low-level radioactive waste.

States are scrambling to reach compacts on disposal sites as the result of a federal law requiring all states to find such sites for their Howard oins school suit The Howard county school board has joined six of the state's wealthier counties in their appeal of a Baltimore Circuit Court judge's ruling that the state's educational finance system is unconstitutional. Board members voted 4-1 Thursday to join Montgomery, Worcester, Talbot, Calvert and Anne Arundel counties in filing a petition to the state's Court of Appeals. The Prince Georges school board joined the case earlier. Last May, Circuit Court Judge David Ross said the state's current formula for dividing up state educational aid among the state's 24 public school systems was unconstitutional. He said the system violated the state Constitution "because it fails to provide equal funding on a per pupil basis across the state" and produces substantially inferior schools in Baltimore city and other districts with low tax bases.

The ruling resulted from a challenge to the state's school aid system brought by Baltimore city and Somerset, St. Marys and Caroline counties, which are the state's poorest school jurisdictions. The state Court of Appeals is expected to hear the case this spring. ernment will extend the deadline one or two years. The other consideration, he said, will be distance.

Maryland industries would have to be able to afford the cost of transporting the waste to the disposal site. Each year, Maryland generates 10,000 to 15,000 cubic feet of low-level radioactive waste, a small amount compared to some other states, which generate hundreds of thousands of cubic feet a year, Mr. Eichbaum said. The nuclear plant at Calvert Cliffs produces half of the state's waste, and the rest comes from medical research facilities, principally those of the Johns Hopkins University. States are not responsible for disposing of radioactive waste produced by federal facilities.

Maryland is discussing joining a Midwest compact that would be based in Illinois and might include Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. Another possible compact is one in the Southeast that would use an existing site in South Carolina, the only one of the three existing dump sites that will accept hydrocarbons, which are present in much of the waste generated by medical research. Mr. Eichbaum described as "very preliminary" negotiations with a group of New England states and said prospects are not good that Maryland will join a mid-Atlantic group consisting of Virginia, West Virginia, the District of Columbia, Kentucky and Maryland, though talks have been held. It is mainly solid wastes that have to be packaged and sent to a special disposal site.

Many liquid radioactive wastes, at certain concentrations and levels of radioactivity, can be rinsed down the drain into sewer systems without harm, said Richard Brisson, a radiation control specialist with the state health department. State warned of losses from U.S. tax cuts radioactive wastes by 1986. There are now only three such disposal sites in the country, and they cannot continue to accept all the nation's industrial radioactive wastes. William Eichbaum, head of the Maryland Office of Environmental Programs, who has been leading the negotiations for Maryland, said yesterday that he expects to reach a decision on a site in the next six to eight months.

Because of the time required, he said, it is not likely that a decision, which has to be approved in the legislature, will come before the current session. "Next year will be soon enough," he said. Mr. Eichbaum said Maryland will have to consider establishing a low-level radiation disposal site within the state if it is unable to join other states in a compact that would reserve a site elsewhere. Maryland "right now is talking with a number of other states about the possibility of handling compacts," Mr.

Eichbaum said. "Basically we're talking with groups in the Southeast, Northeast and Midwest. There is no final decision." He said a decision will hinge on two things. One is whether a group of states has "a realistic chance" of getting a site ready by the deadline or a year or two beyond. Mr.

Eichbaum said he thinks that when the 1986 deadline draws near, the federal gov Maryland already offers married couples who both work a fair shake on income taxes by allowing them to file combined separate returns. Unless some action is taken by the legislature this year, couples with two incomes will get a double break on their state returns in the future. "We either have to go with the feds or go with the state. We can't do both," Mr. Levitan said.

Tom Bradley, of the AFL-CIO, asked the committee to consider eliminating some other tax breaks, including new depreciation allowances for corporations which Mr. Spriggs said would cost the state almost $200 million during the five-year period. Mr. Levitan said this would be difficult to do because it would force corporations to keep two sets of books, one for federal taxes and one or state taxes. "It also could drive business out of Maryland or keep it from coming into Maryland," he said.

rate because of these changes. We just have to be sure we live within our means." Mr. Mason asked Mr. Spriggs if it was possible tax revenues would increase if Mr. Reagan's economic recovery program does work.

"Oh, yes," Mr. Spriggs replied. Changes in individual income tax laws will be responsible for much of the lost state revenues, since Maryland basically follows federal tax law in computing deductions and credits for the state and local taxes. New tax breaks for corporations also would add to the state loss, including $105 million in reduced revenues for the state transportation fund. Laurence Levitan, chairman of the committee, said he thinks the state should let the federal tax breaks apply to state taxes as well except in the case of Mr.

Reagan's proposal to end the so-called marriage tax penalty. Unlike the federal government, economic growth. Senator Edward J. Mason (R, Allegany), minority leader in the Senate, told Mr. Spriggs that his figures appeared "to be based on the assumption that supply-side economics won't work." H.

Louis Stettler III, the state budget secretary, noted yesterday that those revenue losses could be offset by a number of factors, including increased economic activity caused by the tax cuts, growth of other revenue sources, tax increases and decisions by the state to undo some of the federal cuts with changes in state tax laws. "There are many options available to us," agreed Ejner J. Johnson, top aide to Governor Hughes. "There are things we can do to raise additional revenues, or we can tailor the state budget to conform with whatever the revenue picture is. "Our overall revenues will continue to increase barring a disaster in the economy but at a more modest Annapolis (AP) Maryland could lose $350 million in tax revenues during the next five years because of changes in federal tax laws pushed through Congress by President Reagan, according to a state official.

The figures were given to the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee yesterday by George H. Spriggs, head of the state income tax division. They showed that the state would lose only $5.3 million during the current fiscal year, but that the figure would grow to $135.5 million four years from now. The cumulative figure for five years is $349.6 million. Local governments also would suffer, losing $71.2 million in local income tax revenues for the five-year period, Mr.

Spriggs reported. Republican committee members were quick to point out that the income tax division study did not take into account the possibility that tax revenues would increase if the president's program stimulates national School bus contractor disciplined for conduct Gambling probe blocked 4 men, heroin seized ty Edna Goldberg Harford County Bureau of The Sun Bel Air The Harford county school board after weighing charges against a longtime school bus contractor of using obscene lan guage, assaulting a supervisor and breaking safety rules deprived him yesterday of his right to drive for the school system for a year. gan using distinctive names during the summer. The Mercury brand name first surfaced in September, Lieutenant Newman said. Charged with possession of heroin with intent to distribute and conspiracy to distribute were: Carlton Talley, 20, of the 800 block North Rutland avenue; Allen Curtis, 25, of the 1800 block East Madison street; Kevin Brown, 18, of the 400 block North Rose street and George Nor-ris, 33, of the 1600 block Ashland avenue.

They were being held last night at the Eastern District lockup pending a bail hearing. An East Baltimore drug ring that sold about $30,000 of its own "brand-name" heroin weekly was shut down yesterday, city narcotics detectives reported. Police said four men were charged with drug distribution and more than $15,000 worth of heroin was seized when detectives raided a row house in the 1800 block East Madison street. Lt. Joseph Newman, head of the narcotics unit, said the drug ring sold heroin in glassine bags with the stamped brand name of Mercury.

Previously, Lieutenant Newman said, many drug dealers had used differently colored tapes to identify their products to customers, but be The board voted 5-1 for the one- year suspension of Marshall W. Starr, 46, of Fallston. The board also said it thought the charges against the contractor were sufficiently se rious to have revoked his entire contract with the school system. However, John Tillery, the board president, said that in recog nition of Mr. Starrs past performance, it had decided not to rescind any of his nine bus routes but to Jan.

is ti Jan. Bitter place operation of the routes on probation for two years. GAMBLE, from Cl tional efforts" in handling undercover probes would be taken "on a case by case basis." "I wouldn't say this particular case will discourage us," Mr. Char-bonneau said. E.

Jay Miller, a police spokesman, said police procedure won't change unless prosecutors advise otherwise. "We really haven't had a decision like this before," Mr. Miller said. "It really stands apart from our past experience." He added that police will release the seven confiscated video games, worth about $3,000 each, to their owner, the Madison Vending Company. State Senator Norman R.

Stone (D, Edgemere) had been one of three defense attorneys who objected to the conduct of police and prosecutors. He said Maryland law allows police to get warrants "within a reasonable period of time" after learning or suspecting a crime has been committed. But Mr. Stone said police used "defective" warrants in the case against his clients. Other defense attorneys were former state House Majority Leader John S.

Arnick and John W. Nowicki, son of Walter Nowicki, owner of a tavern where police seized a video game and employer of one of the eight defendants. The acquittals follow a long, frustrating year for Mr. Charbonneau and other county authorities who were leading a new kind of gambling probe, one made distinctive by the proliferation of video games in taverns and restaurants. After articles in The Sun in 1980 detailed widespread gambling in Baltimore county taverns and unusual leasing and financial loan agreements between taverns and vending machine companies, county officials wishing to respond discovered that the county and state were profiting from tax and license revenues from popular video games that could be used for illicit purposes.

Maryland Attorney General Stephen H. Sachs, responding to a county request, issued an opinion saying that the existence of "knock-off" buttons on the games could be construed as evidence that the machine had been used for gambling. Such a button activates an internal meter that logs the scores and payoffs to players. County police promptly launched their undercover probe. Court documents show that officers reported witnessing payoffs to players by tavern owners or workers into mid-February before they applied for court warrants February 26.

The raid the following day the first in the county to involve video games occurred at six taverns in Dundalk and Edgemere. The machines seized had knock-off buttons. Criminal charges were not placed until early August and October, when the probe hit the stalemate. People thought to have knowledge of financial arrangements between taverns and video game suppliers repeatedly invoked their Fifth Amendment protections against self-incrimination during interviews, sources said. Acquitted of gambling charges were: Costas Nick Triantafilos and Michael P.

Kefalas, of Costas' Inn; Robert Strasbaugh, of Walt's; Betty J. Sullivan, of Avenue Tap; Ford John Greenwood, sof Ford's; Lelia Maye Ashton and Linda Sue Rodgers, of Wolfe's Restaurant; and Warren W. Marek, of the Corral Inn. The board also said it was sus and Youth's Benefit Elementary School on Route 152. Dr.

Roberty said that Mr. Starr "engaged in unsatisfactory conduct which could have adversely affected the safety of students." He also recommended that Miss Starr, who drives a bus for her father, be permanently disqualified from driving for the system. Yesterday, Richard J. Taranto, the school system's director of staff relations, who presented the cases against Mr. Starr and his daughter during two days of testimony, said that the "Starr operation has consistently caused consternation" among school officials.

Mr. Starr was accused not only of calling his supervisor, Norman Seidel, obscene names, but also of slamming a caf door on Mr. Seidel. Miss Starr was accused of cutting in front of other drivers, changing the student load on her buses without authorization and changing her bus route without permission. But several parents and students testified yesterday that both Starrs were admired, respected and loved by the pupils who rode their buses.

"I have talked to approximately 50 parents All want Miss Starr back badly," Rita Summers, of the 2000 block Pearlstone drive in Fallston, testified. "She is an exceptional bus driver because of her rapport with the children. She cares very deeply for them, for their safety, for their emotional well-being." Mr. Starr testified yesterday that he had used obscene language and forcibly turned Mr. Seidel around in a school parking lot but only because the supervisor allegedly was harassing him though his daughter.

Miss Starr said she had refused to follow some of Mr. Seidel's directives but only because she thought they might endanger the safety of her students. Describing the entire matter as a personality conflict between Mr. Seidel and his client, Mr. Parker pending for a two-year period the right of his daughter, Connie Starr, to drive for the school system.

tonight Baltimore and of snow flurries this morning, otherwise partly cloudy, highs near 30. Windy and bitter cold tonight, lows near zero. Cold tomorrow, high in the low teens. On the Bay: Winds south Snowcri Stationary 0((lud WfATMfft SCKVICE NOAA US Dtp! Conned The weatherman's view at 7 P.M. westerly at 10 to 20 knots this morning, becoming northwesterly at IS to 30 knots this afternoon.

Waves 2 to 3 feet in ice free waters. Visibility good. Ocean Citv: Flurries likely this morning, otherwise partly cloudy. Highs in Ihe 20s. Bitter cold and windy tonight, lows diving down to near zero.

Continued cold tomorrow, highs in the low teens. Ihe board, which deliberated 90 minutes, directed school superintendent Alfonso A. Roberty to make a monthly report on the "performance" of Mr. Starr's company in transporting students. The board's decision is the first such attempt to discipline a contractor in 25 years.

Mr. Starr, who has been a contractor for 13 years and a bus driver for 26, referred a reporter's questions to his lawyer, Peter Parker, who said, "I haven't decided on any course of action." School officials yesterday said Mr. Starr could appeal the board's decision to the state school superintendent and then to court. Mr. Tillery said the board, in monitoring the Starr firm's performance through Dr.

Roberty, might revoke its $135,000 contract if it is not discharging its obligations satsifactorily. Last month, Dr. Roberty recommended that the board terminate two of the bus routes involving Fallston High School on Carrs Mill road Extended forecast: Fair Monday and Tuesday, chance of precipitation Wednesday. Highs in the 20s Monday, rising to near 40 by Wednesday. WTm Iter' Lows from zero to 8 above Monday, moderating to the 20s by Wednesday.

Cuts hit D.C. suburbs and the view from the satellite at 1 P.M. said the school board was resorting to "third-grade" punishment rather Major map features: At 1 p.m. yesterday a high over the Southeastern United States caused sunny skies and cold temperatures to prevail. Yesterday's citv temperatures m.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 I 9 10 1112 25 2322 22 22 21 20 2020 22 23 24 e. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 I 9 10 11 12 26 26 21 26 24 24 24 24 22 21 21 20 City: High, 28, -2c; Low, 19, -7c Airport: High, 26, -3c, Low, 8, -13c Airport normal: High, 44; Low, 26 than an adult resolution of the situa tion. Hughes names Johnson Temp. Elsewhere Yesterday Foreign temperatures yesterday High Low High Low High Low High Low Anch'ge 13 4 Miami 61 44 Amstdm 34 18 Mexico C. 73 46 Atlanta 39 11 Min-StP 10 -2 Athens 50 37 Montreal 12 0 Boston 26 21 New Orl.

59 29 Bangkok 88 73 Moscow 27 25 Buffalo 18 13 New Yk 29 20 Beirut 68 48 Nassau 83 65 48 29 Okla Cty 62 24 Berlin 32 14 Paris 28 19 Chicago 14 -9 Phils. 24 15 Bermuda Rio 86 61 Cincinnati 27 -4 Phoenix 65 38 Brussels. 38 18 Rome 57 43 Cleveland 14 1 Pittsburgh 17 2 B. Ares 73 64 San Juan 87 72 Dallas 65 29 Ptlnd, Me 27 20 Copnhgn 28 14 Singapore 86 75 Denver 44 31 Richmnd 28 12 Frankfurt 23 9 Stockholm 34 30 Detroit 11 1 St.Louis 29 12 Geneva 34 32 Sydney 75 68 Harrisbg 25 20 Salisbury 27 19 Helsinki 37 30 Taipei 59 54 Honolulu 80 66 S.Lk. Cyt 44 30 Hng Kng 66 57 Tel Aviv 63 48 Houston 65 39 Sn Anfo 53 23 Lisbon 59 50 Tokyo 48 36 Los Angls 75 46 S.

Fran. 52 41 London 41 25 Toronto 19 9 Memphis 43 23 Tampa 52 32 Madrid 55 45 Van'cver 43 34 .41 City degree days. .2122 44 ...2448 ....2245 Total tor season Airport degree days. Total for season Normal for Highest of record in 1932.. Lowest of record in 1893...

SARBANES, from Cl These numbers account only for jobs situated in these two counties, however. Other residents of those counties work for the government outside the county where they live. Mr. Klepner and others said the impact is only beginning to be felt. The federal Department of Health and Human Services, Mr.

Klepner said, plans to lay off 7,755 workers this year. If the Maryland counties absorb a proportional share of those layoffs, an additional 1,115 jobs will be lost. The Washington area is in fact bearing more than a proportional share of the job losses, however, according to the federal employment task force headed by Representative Michael D. Barnes (D, 8th). What all of this means, witnesses at last week's hearing told Mr.

Sar-banes, is a slowdown in consumer spending among those who still have their jobs. Many fear that unemployment is on the horizon for them, so refrain from buying things like automobiles, "Public employees are not Mr. Crofoot said. "They cannot repeat the miracle of the fishes and loaves." Management exam being given at LIB The Graduate Management Admission Test, a requirement for nearly all colleges and universities offering graduate programs in business administration, will be given at the University of Baltimore Academic Center, Charles street and Mount Royal avenue, January 23. More information is available from the university admissions office at 659-3010.

Address on genetics set Dale Balfour, of the Baltimore County Planning Board and the Governor's Committee on Ethics, will speak on "Genetics and the Law" at 10:30 a.m. January 24 at the Baltimore Ethical Society, 3800 Gwynn Oak avenue. The public is invited to attend. Friday's pollution Air quality in Baltimore was moderate at 3 p.m. Friday according to state health Sue Ellen Johnson, an Abingdon resident, was appointed by Governor Hughes yesterday to a seat on the Harford county school board, Constance R.

Beims, the governor's appointment officer announced. A registered nurse who is working on a master's degree in nursing administration, Mrs. Johnson fills the vacancy on the seven-member board left by the September 31 resignation 1 of Charles R. Boutin. Mr.

Boutin stepped down to become a candidate in the Democratic primary race for county executive. Mrs. Beims said the name of Mrs. Johnson was one of two submitted to Governor Hughes by state Senator Arthur H. Helton, Jr.

(D, Harfor). According to Mrs. Beims, Mrs. Johnson has been active in parent-teachers organizations and in the county permanent nominating caucus, which screens candidates for appointment to the school board. Although the nominating caucus did not consider applicants for the Boutin seat, Mrs.

Johnson was interviewed by both Senator Helton and Ronald Eaton, the caucus chairman, Mrs. Beims said. Credit group meeting set The National Association of Credit Management, Chesapeake chapter, will hold a general membership meeting and installation of officers at 6 p.m. January 21 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. For more information and reservations, call 377-4222.

Tides (Eastern Standard Time) High water Low water A.M. P.M. A.M. P.M. Ft.

McH'ry r- 12:23 603 6:27 Sandy P. 10:58 11:00 4:28 4:52 Cove PI. 7:32 7:34 1:07 1:31 Ocean C. 12:13 6:22 6:51 CP. Henry 1:22 12:36 7:10 7:28 Precipitation (Airport) Precipitation since midnight .0.00 Accumulated this month .2.27 N'mal amnt.

this month 2.91 GrTst amnt. this month 1978..7.34 Least amnt. this month 19550.29 Avg. annual precipitation 40.46 Accumulated this year 2.27 Last New First Full Quarter Moon Quarter Moon Jan. 16 Jan.

24 Feb. 8 7 1 7 A vear ago todav a.m. p.m. p.m. Cloudy High 41, tow 22 Dry bulb temp 19 23 19 wet duid temp I6ts 10 16 sets 509 p.

Relative humidity ...54 50 51 Sun rises 7:24 a. Moon rises sets 1 1:43 a. level) 29.78 29.93 30.04.