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THE EVENING SUN, Wednesday, September 7, 1977 C3 1 County Council Raps Glen Burnie Renewal Action Teachers' Certification Still Issue mmf( 1 By Michael Shultz Annapolis-Anne Arundel County Council members were in a white heat last night, roasting county executive Robert Pascal and the county law office for what they said was an attempt to pass to them the hot potato of Glen Burnie urban renewal. Despite the pyrotechnics and charges of trickery, the council voiced support for the bill they are considering, which would approve the sale of 3.77 acres of land in Glen Burnie to the state as a site for a district court and government service center. The sale is controversial because the price the state will 1200,000 less than the county paid for the land and far below the appraised value, which approaches a million dollars. Councilman Ronald C. McGuirk 2d), who represents the Glen Burnie area, led the attack.

"I damn well don't like it when someone tries to deceive me, and I think that's what happened here," the normally soft-spoken councilman yelled. $2,000 Fine Levied In Sunpapers photo Richard Childress He said that in all its memoranda and in all past county policy, the council had been authorized to initiate the urban renewal project, budget money for it and levy the taxes and sell the bonds to finance it, while the county executive was charged with all the other functions, including selling land. However, during testimony from Frederick Sussman, assistant county solicitor, the council members were told the law office had recommended that the council approve the sale of the land to the state. That opinion, requested by the county executive, had not been shared with the council. "Why, all of a sudden, on a piece of property we are selling for less than we bought it, did we get the ball?" asked Mr.

McGuirk. "It's a matter of such great magnitude that we feel it's important to bring it before the county council in the form of a bill," answered Robert R. Strott, county director of administration. Selling the land to the state would be a major step toward revitalizing the shopworn commercial district, said H. Erie Shafer, the urban renewal director.

The council heard from more than a half-dozen countians, including a developer who would like to build a mall in the area, that the proposed government center was needed to fire the urban renewal. Despite Mr. McGuirk's attack and agreement with his pique by council members Sarah E. Carter 3d) and George F. Bachman, Jr.

1st), the council seemed ready to approve the sale. "I think we should go ahead with this and quit pussy-footing around," said Councilman Wallace R. Childs 4th). "It's possible the monkey's been passed back to us, but it's been passed back to us before and nobody stirred up something like this." "I have no problem with the plan, but I want to make clear to the people of this county what's happened here," said Mr. McGuirk.

"I'll take full responsibility," said Mr. Sussman, after his grilling by the council. "I'm the one that initiated the idea that it be an ordinance and I'd do it again. I've been here 24 years and have seen too many cases arise because a 't' wasn't crossed or an 'i' wasn't dotted. "I wanted it to be clear on something of this importance that this was not just a matter of the council saying but a matter of policy and decision.

I wanted to be certain." Oil Spill NEW CHIEF Theodore Venetoulis, Baltimore county executive, left, pins police chief's badge on Cornelius Behan. Top Maryland Police Officials Attend Swearing-in Of Chief Behan In County The master of an Indonesian freighter was fined $2,000 over Labor Day weekend for not reporting the spill of about 345 gallons of oil by his vessel at Locust Point Marine Terminal. Eric Pattiata, captain of the motor vessel Sam Ratulangie, was fined after pleading no contest to the criminal charge during a special federal court hearing Saturday morning before Chief Judge Edward S. Northrop. The vessel was allowed to sail as planned after the hearing.

John Sheldon, an assistant U.S. attorney, said the vessel failed for 20 to 24 hours to report the spill of 1,300 liters of oil at Locust Point. By the time the spill was discovered, the oil was too far dispersed to permit cleanup operations, the prosecutor said. In addition to the criminal fine against the ship's master covering failure to report the incident, the vessel is subject to possible civil penalities that could be assessed by the Coast Guard for contamination of the harbor. By Ellen L.

James Top police brass from throughout Baltimore and beyond warmly greeted Cornelius J. Behan, Baltimore county's new police chief, after his brief and ceremonious swearing-in yesterday at the Towson police headquarters. Among the police officials present at the swearing in were Commissioner Donald D. Pomerleau, of Baltimore city. Chief Ashley Vick, of Anne Arundel county; Chief Robert Mathews, of Howard county; Chief John Rhoades, of Prince Georges county; Col.

Thomas Smith, State Police superintendent; George Quinn, of the Baltimore office of the FBI, and Patrick Murphy, the former New York police commissioner under whom Chief Behan worked. Also present were the county solicitor, state's attorney, sheriff, several judges and six councilmen. The consensus of the various police officials and local elected leaders seemed to be that Chief Behan will restore stability and harmony to the department, ridden with in-fighting and bickering under Joseph R. Gallen, the former chief. "I look forward to peace being restored to a very professional outfit," said County Council chairman John V.

Murphy 1st). "He's just the guy who can pull it together and make it go." "I think people now should go back to work and do the jobs they were hired for," said Sheriff Charles Hickey, who said too many people were in on making policy under the Gallen administration. Yet members of the department say they do not expect to be jolted by sudden change under Chief Behan's rule. "I don't contemplate any changes right away," said Maj. Patricia Hanges, of the youth division.

"He's a studier. I think he'll study everything before he changes it." The Fraternal Order of Police, a persistent critic of Mr. Gallen, also expressed confidence in the new chief. "I think you're going to see a very progressive department," said Joseph Davis, president of the county FOP chapter. "He's oriented with the problems the little man faces every day, such as morale and working conditions.

"The biggest problem we have right now is a shortage of manpower." Major she is hopeful Chief Behan will stress affirmative action. "Naturally as a female I'd like to see more females in the department and more minorities of all kinds," she said. "I think that's important in police work." The new chief, who was accompanied at the ceremony by his wife and three of his children, has purchased a ranch house in Hampton Gardens, north of Towson, and plans to move in in October. After a week shuttling back and forth between Towson and New York city, where he is winding up work as the commander of field services, he expects to begin seriously acquainting himself with the geography of the county and it's various police districts. He said two weeks ago he told all the district commanders to begin studying a plan sought by county executive Theodore G.

Venetoulis for introduction of foot patrolmen in densely settled urban sections of the county, such as Essex, Towson, Ca-tonsville and Arbutus. Mr. Behan was administered the oath of office by Elmer Kahline, county circuit court clerk. His badge was pinned on by Mr. Venetoulis.

By Wiley Hall 3d Bel Air As Harford county schools be gan their scholastic season last Septem ber, the big question was: Who will repre sent the teachers in contract negotiation, and grievance proceedings? Now, a year later, that question still re mains as Harford schools opened today foi 1977-1978. The front-running contender for certification as the teachers' official bargaining agent this year as well as last year is thr Harford Teachers Association. But the fu- ture of the HTA is dependent on a pending decision by Judge Albert Close, of Harford County Circuit Court. "This is the end of the line," said Nancy Charvat, acting president of the HTA. "What happens to us depends on what the courts rule." But earlier lawyers for both the Board of Education and the HTA had said they would appeal the decision in the state Court of Appeals if their side lost.

Mrs. Charvat said the main priority of the organization, if the court rules in its be negotiations for next year's contract. "We've already had meetings on next year's contract," she said. "But it's too early to discuss it publicly." Last year, HTA officers scrambled throughout the summer to gain the re- quired members and meet the other qualifications necessary for certification, only to be told by the county Board of Educa tion that they wouldn't get it. The school board refused to recognize the HTA, saying the organization merely was the alter-ego of the old Harford Coun- ty Education Association, decertified after leading teachers in an illegal four-day strike in May, 1976.

Although the two unions have differen names, officers and treasuries, they contain pretty much the same membership. Harford teachers were forced to search for a new representative after the county school board decertified the HCEA, their union for eight years. In December, a state Board of Education hearing examiner recommended that the school board's decision be upheld, saying that the HTA was not an independent union. But the state Board of Education overruled the examiner and voted to allow certification. The county school board appealed the decision in county Circuit Court, where the matter now stands as the school system commences the school year.

In some ways, this will be a season of firsts for the county school system. The school board will have two new members: Charles R. Boutin and John Til-lery, who were appointed in July by acting Governor Lee to replace retiring members, Thomas Snodgrass and George R. Litchfield. Glennon L.

DeRoy will serve his first full year as school board president. The board will be assisted for the first time by a hearing examiner to handle grievance cases, and a Citizens' Advisor'' Board to research areas of concern to tht board and make recommendations. The coming school year also will determine the effect of the school superintendent's action plan for dealing with the disproportionate number of student suspensions among blacks in Harford county. This summer, a group of teachers from each county school attended a series of sensitivity workshops designed to heighten their awareness of minority problems. The teachers will be expected to conduct mini-workshops for their colleagues in each school.

Although the board decided not to change its general policy concerning student suspensions, it is hoped the workshops will help and encourage teachers to find alternatives to suspension in the less serious cases. The board did amend its policy on student smoking slightly, giving a school administrator alternatives to suspension for a second offender. Enrollment this year will be pretty much the same as last year, leveling off at some 34,100 students. Two new schools, the Fallston High School and the Jarrettsville Elementary School, will be added to the system. Fallston High is scheduled to open around Thanksgiving, said John E.

Bar-ham, a spokesman for county schools. Some 1,300 students in Grades 6 through 10 will study at Bel Air Middle School and Bel Air Senior High School until then. After that, they will be phased into Fallston. By 1980, when the first class is graduated from Fallston, the projected population at the school is expected to be 1,800. Judo Evolution Judo was developed in the 1880's by Ji-garo Kano, a Japanese professor.

It evolved from jujitsu, an ancient method of unarmed combat, and is said not to be intended to be a crippling form of fighting. Dobson Pleads Guilty To Forging Money Order Term Given Altman Reappointed To Job In Howard For Selling Bomb 1 vu closet when he was arrested for the Scott murder. Dobson received a 90-day sentence on the gun charge, but he had already spent 18 months in jail and was freed. The other charges were dropped. In a statement of facts detailing the forgery case, Mr.

Brave told Judge Levin that Dobson signed two $200 money orders in another person's name while purchasing two walkie-talkies and a police radio scanner at an electronics shop in the 6400 block Reisterstown road November 22. Dobson presented a Mass Transit Administration identification card bearing his own photograph and the other person's name and Dobson was wearing what appeared to be a bus driver's uniform, Mr. Brave said. The name used by Dobson was not known to the transit company, the prosecutor said. Later the money orders were discovered to have been among several dozen such papers stolen July 3, 1976, during the market holdup in Hartford, Mr.

Brave said. Dobson was arrested December 23 at a department store on Monroe street and was charged with forging three other stolen $200 money orders to pay for a pool table there. Sept. 12 Rally Opens Bible Institute The Canton Bible Institute at Patterson Park Baptist Church, 3115 Eastern avenue, will hold an opening rally at 8 P.M. September 12.

Homer Heater, dean of the Captial Seminary in Lanham, will speak, and Bo-nita Voyton, former soloist of the Bob Harrington Crusade, will provide music. The public is invited to attend. By George Hanst An exonerated figure in the Turk Scott murder case pleaded guilty yesterday to a charge of forging a $200 money order that was stolen from a supermarket in Hartford, during a holdup last year. Sherman W. Dobson, 23, of the 3600 block Ellamont road, faces a maximum prison sentence of 10 years.

Judge Marshall A. Levin asked for a presentence report and set disposition for October 27. Sam Brave, an assistant state's attorney, said that under a plea-bargaining agreement the prosecution will drop five other forgery charges and a charge of receiving stolen goods against Dobson. Mr. Brave said the cases to be dropped are backed by solid evidence but he did not think it reasonable to seek a penalty greater than 10 years.

However, the prosecutor made no specific recommendation of a sentence before Judge Levin in the Criminal Court hearing. Dobson, who said he has 45 credits from courses at Howard University, was dressed in a natty, off-white, three-piece suit and was represented by Edwin an assistant public defender. Dobson, son. of a prominent minister, was said to be unemployed. In a notable trial, Dobson was acquitted of murdering Delegate James A.

(Turk) Scott, who was executed by gunfire in the basement garage of the Sutton Place Apartments in July, 1973, while awaiting trial on federal narcotics charges. Dobson was convicted of a companion charge of kidnaping and robbing a cab driver during a purported dress rehearsal for the Scott killing, in which a stolen cab was used. Dobson's 15-year prison term was overturned on appeal and he eventually pleaded guilty to receiving a pistol stolen from a security guard during a robbery. The pistol was found in Dobson's bedroom By Ron Howell A month after leaving his job as Howard county administrator for a position with a private firm, William A. Altman said he wanted his county job back.

The county executive was only too happy to accommodate him, and so within the next two weeks Mr. Altman again will be the county administrator. In August, Mr. Altman, 43, who has a reputation for working long hours, resigned to take a position with Hittman Associates as a project manager giving technical engineering advice on environmental projects, most of which are contracted by the federal government. The once and future county administrator said the work did not turn out to be as challenging as he had expected.

He said yesterday the reason was that his principal client (a federal agency he declined to name) did not start its project as quickly as he had hoped. Saying the decision to go back to the county involved a lot of soul searching, Mr. Altman said the administrator's job will not afford the technical management opportunities he was seeking. "But there are other satisfactions," he said. "I like to think I'll just pick up where I left off-except for the long hours," said Mr.

Altman, who said he used to work 65 to 70 hours a week for the county. For several months, he was both county administrator and director of public works. After moving up to take administrator job, he also continued in his old public works post while the county executive searched for a replacement. "I'll have to address that the long hours somehow," he said. "I want to spend more time with my family What I TT A 23-year-old Brooklyn Park man has been sentenced to eight years in prison for selling a pipe bomb to an undercover agent in April.

Federal Judge Herbert F. Murray imposed the sentence on Paul Edwin Anthony, of the 200 block West Meadow road, who pleaded guilty in June to a single charge of a 26-count indictment returned in early May. The remaining charges were dropped. Herbert Better, the assistant U.S. attorney assigned to the sentencing, had recommended the maximum possible term of 10 years for the offense.

During earlier proceedings, which were handled by Jeffrey S. White, who has since left the U.S. attorney's ofice here for a Justice Department post in Washington, the court was told that Anthony had sold 10 pipe bombs to undercover agents on two occasions in March and April. Mr. White said the bombs were made in the presence of agents of the Treasury Department's Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Bureau, who tape-recorded conversations in which the suspect said he had made 200 pipe bombs in the past.

Anthony was under the impression, according to Mr. White, that he was making the bombs for use in connection with a New York longshoremen's strike. "You've been a drug abuser and used about every known form of drug" in addition to having an alcohol problem, Judge Murray told Anthony in passing sentence. The judge also noted that Anthony was on probation when arrested on the bomb charges. WILLIAM ALTMAN I was doing was too much for any one person." When he returns he will receive his old salary of $32,760 a year.

Edward L. Cochran, the county executive, said he had been in the process of interviewing applicants for the administrator's post. He said he was happy to regain a person with Mr. Altman's abilities "which are recognized throughout the state." Mr. Cochran also indicated it was difficult to find the right person for the slot, particularly since there is only a year left in his term as county executive.

Mr. Altman "came back under the condition that he will stay on at least until the end of this term," the executive said. Storm Turns Off Power Appeal Still Pending Schools Chief Suspends Jakubik From Job some 30,000 customers of the Baltimore Gas Electric Company. A company spokesman said the blackouts were scattered through the area, and power was restored to rnost areas by 11 P.M. A few areas remained dark until 4.30 A.M.

Flooding was reported all over the city and surrounding counties, with up to a foot of water in Dundalk, Essex and Middle River streets. High winds also tore the roofs off two houses in the first block of Wheeler avenue. Most of the flooding had subsided by 7 P.M. The storm also knocked out numerous stop lights, causing rush hour traffic tieups. All the major lights on Route 40 between the city line and Howard county were out between 6.30 and 7.15 P.M.

A steel beam that slipped from a crane blocked traffic at Hollins Ferry road and Washington boulevard for about 40 minutes. i A major thunderstorm rolled through the Baltimore area late yesterday afternoon, bringing lightning and heavy rains that flooded streets, stalled traffic and knocked out power to some 30,000 homes. The storm was caused by a cold front that moved into the area about 4 P.M., moving from west to east. The National Weather Service reported that the cold front stalled over central Virginia and will bring cloudy weather with a chance of afternoon thunderstorms today and tomorrow. Highs will be in the 80 with lows in the 60's.

However, the front should take the edge off the heat of the last week, bringing cooler and drier air through most of the weekend. There is a chance of thunderstorms Friday and Sunday, the weather bureau reports. A combination of lightning strikes and heavy winds that blew down er lines caused electric blackouts for But Civil Service Commission Rule 56, Section 1 mandates that a classified employe shall be suspended or discharged upon "conviction of a criminal offense or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude." Delegate George J. Santoni City 46th), who was convicted at the same time as Jakubik, was immediately suspended from his post as a state legislator at the time he was sentenced. He was jailed the same day.

Dr. Crew was not available to explain his change of heart. Despite his call for help to the city solicitor's office, Ambrose Hartman, deputy solicitor, said his office had not advised Dr. Crew on the matter. Lewis Richardson, deputy superintendent for management services, said Jaku-bik's case would be reviewed if his convic offered earlier this year by the state attor ney general, who ruled that a suspension was in order upon sentencing, following a conviction.

The mere fact of an indictment was not enough to warrant suspension, Mr. Sykes wrote. While his suspension following his conviction and sentencing came relatively slowly, Jakubik was suspended within days of being indicted last December. The East Baltimore political operative was not restored to his school job until nearly three months later, shortly after Mr. Sykes issued his opinion to the city Board of Estimates.

Attempts to reach Jakubik for comment were unsuccessful. M. Albert Figin-ski, his attorney, said he was unaware of Dr. Crew's suspension order. tion should be overturned on appeal.

In March, Melvin J. Sykes, special counsel hired by the city, advised that city workers who were indicted generally could not be suspended from their jobs until convicted and sentenced. He added that classified employes were entitled to a hearing before the Civil Service Commission to challenge any proposed suspension. To date, however, Jakubik has not sought a hearing before the Civil Service Commission, according to Hilda Ford, CSC director. "He's entitled to a hearing before he Is suspended, but he must request It.

To my knowledge, he has not requested one," Miss Ford said. The Sykes opinion was similar to that By Jeff Valentine John Jake Jakubik, convicted last spring of federal extortion charges, was suspended yesterday from his job as a maintenance foreman in the city school system. Jakubik, 57, had continued to work for the Department of Education despite his conviction and sentencing June 25 to 18 months in jail. The job pays $14,386 a year. Dr.

John L. Crew, schools superintendent, notified Jakubik of the suspension by letter last week. Dr. Crew said last month that he was reluctant to suspend Jakubik while an appeal was pending In the case. He asked for guidance from the city solicitor..