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Mm Police Blotter C2 Newswatch C8 THE EVENING SUN, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1 1988 C1 chd deficitf rmoy hit $11 million Wiley A. Hall 3rd Pssst! Here's one for Dukakis ments to their budgets already exceeded the $23 million surplus the county had at the end of the last fiscal year which ended June 30. Rasmussen said that $5.8 million of the school system deficit is in instructional salaries, and that $3.3 million of that stems from errors in developing basic payroll information. He said that $1.5 million more was spent on higher starting salaries for new teachers than was planned, as was $500,000 for 10-month employees who were hired for two months of additional work over the summer. Unforeseen items agreed to in labor negotiations also inflated the school system budget by another $500,000, Rasmussen said.

Rasmussen referred to "a whole series of inaccuracies" and questioned the supervision of school system budget officers provided by education officials. Dubel said the size of the salary restructuring has caused some distortions that helped to cause the deficit. See DEFICIT, C6, Col. 1 Rasmussen, Dubel at odds eluded 26 secondary school teaching positions in the budget last April without providing any of the $700,000 needed to fund them. He also said Rasmussen did not provide the $200,000 needed to give pay raises to secondary school nurses.

In addition, Dubel said he is faced with a projected $3.3 million deficit in non-instructional areas, including a $1.5 million deficit in the cost of health insurance for school system employees. He said the deficit also was caused by the $16 million teacher salary revision adopted last spring to bring the pay of veteran county teachers up to levels enjoyed by teachers in other jurisdictions in the Baltimore and Washington areas. Rasmussen said the $16 million package was calculated accurately and did not contribute to the deficit. Rasmussen said he has no remedy for the situation until he knows the exact amount of the deficit. However, he noted that total requests from all county departments for supple By Larry Carson Evening Sun Staff The Baltimore County school system has a deficit of between $6 million and $11 million this year, according to County Executive Dennis F.

Rasmussen. Rasmussen said yesterday that after county and education department budgetary experts thoroughly examined the $397.4 million budget, an accurate estimate of the deficit still had not been determined. He blamed the shortfall on "a series of errors in the Board of Education's budget calculations" and complained that, "We're unable to get detailed information" on the budget from the school system. However, School Superintendent Robert Y. Dubel said, "There is considerable responsibility to go around." "That's absurd," Dubel said about Rasmussen's charges.

"I don't know what the county executive has been told, but I very emphatically state we have always given the county government all the budget data we have. We are fiscally dependent on them." For example, Dubel said, Rasmussen at first cut, then in- 1 jj1JLHx i jr -smm Officials consider charges in fire Believe youth tried suicide a i 4 yy y' -v; 16 7 a i A By Paul Hutcnins Evening Sun Staff Pikesville hokey man Harvey Carey, retiring after 34 years, accepts a commemorative broom from Evelyn Burns. (SILGAKI Harvey the hokey man retires and Pikesville tells him thanks It turns out Democrat Michael Dukakis cares quite a bit about crime victims and has even outperformed his Republican opponent in the crucial Put Up Or Shut Up department. In 1984, Massachusetts under Dukakis' stewardship became one of the first states to incorporate a Victim's Bill of Rights into law. National victim advocacy groups describe Massachusetts' law as a uniquely comprehensive measure that remains a model for the country.

And the governor's support for the Massachusetts Victim's Bill of Rights was so important that the bipartisan National Organization for Victim Assistance gave Dukakis its Donald Santarelli Award for Public Policy. "Up until that time, that particular award had always gone to a national figure," said Christine Edmunds, a NOVA spokeswoman. "Dukakis was the first local politician to receive what we consider our highest honor." Why haven't you heard about this? How have the Republicans been able to label Dukakis as a man who cares more about criminals than victims, virtually without challenge? Ah, therein lies the rub. Dukakis might conceivably make a halfway decent president, but as a candidate he appears next to hopeless. The conventional wisdom is that his entire campaign simply has been mismanaged from top to bottom, from beginning to end.

My own suspicion is that it goes deeper than that. I suspect the national Democratic leadership in 1988 has developed a pathological fear of the word, the same fear that marred Walter Mondale's campaign in 1984. Ronald Reagan was right: Dukakis truly has been the "stealth" candidate. Dukakis, of course, made a tentative step toward embracing liberalism in California last weekend when he announced, "I'm a liberal in the tradition of Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman and John Kennedy." If he truly has found the courage of his convictions, Dukakis can begin by challenging the ReaganBush administration to a Put Up Or Shut Up discussion of victims' issues. President Reagan seemingly took a leadership role for victims when he appointed the President's Task Force on Victims of Crime in 1982.

That group found that victims often felt victimized twice: once by the criminal and again by the neglect and indifference at the hands of the forces of law and order. The task force concluded that society has two responsibilities toward crime victims prevention and recovery. First, it said society should do everything it can to prevent crime, thus preventing its citizens from becoming victims. Crime prevention boils down to education and jobs, all programs that suggest the horrible word. In Maryland, for instance, better than two-thirds of the men sentenced to the Division of Correction have less than an eighth-grade education and were unemployed at the time of their offense.

A large majority of them are functionally illiterate. But crime victims also need help recovering from the crime through guidance and counseling, through more sensitive treatment in the court system, and through monetary compensation. The president's task force made some 68 recommendations for federal and local governments, many of which were implemented by Congress through the Victims of Crime Act of 1984. But with typical sleight of hand, the Reagan administration has tried to cut VOCA funding every year since its passage. And the Reagan administration has been careful to make clear that any of the so-called new "rights" afforded victims do not give them grounds for legal action should the government fail to provide them.

Faced with an admitted imbalance between the rights afforded victims and the rights afforded the accused, the Reagan administration comes up with a solution not to treat victims better but to treat the accused worse. Meanwhile, the Massachusetts Bill of Rights not only establishes the victim's right to be kept informed and to be heard, it also ties a unique funding mechanism to ensure these rights. Massachusetts courts fine defendants $25 for each felony conviction and $15 for each misdemeanor, and all of that money goes to victim services. Courts have collected an estimated $16 million since Dukakis signed the program into law. That's Put Up Or Shut Up for crime victims.

And Bush, despite his bombast and rhetoric, loses. By Liz Atwood and Joe Nawrozki Evening Sun Staff Howard County prosecutors were expected to announce today whether they would file criminal charges against a 15-year-old Ellicott City youth who allegedly set a fire in his home that killed two of his brothers. Investigators looking into Sunday's fatal fire believe the teen-ager may have set his mattress on fire in a suicide attempt before having second thoughts and trying to extinguish the flames. "I think he tried to hurt himself and it got away from him," David Clemons, father of the teen-ager, said yesterday. A spokesman for the state medical examiner's office in Baltimore said Michael Clemons, 8, and James E.

Clemons, 6, died of smoke inhalation. Funeral services were scheduled for 1 p.m. tomorrow at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Ellicott City. Six other family members escaped the fire. Prosecutors said yesterday they planned additional interviews with the family before deciding whether to file charges against the teen-ager, who has cerebral palsy.

Assistant State's Attorney A. Gallatin Warfield 3rd said prosecutors met with officials from the state fire marshal's office and the county police to review the case. Warfield said prosecutors were continuing to research the law "in an effort to determine what charges would be appropriate," if any. The 15-year-old boy is one of 15 adopted children and one natural child reared by David and Sally Clemons, a Mormon couple. Many of the adopted children have disabilities or are foreign-born.

The teen-ager is a ninth-grader enrolled in special education classes who was described as a bright, verbal youth. He was receiving psychi-See FIRE, 1 By Kaye Thompson Evening Sun Staff Yesterday was Harvey Carey Day in Pikesville. There were no parades or brass bands. Just a quiet little get-together at midday to honor a quiet, friendly man. At 11 a.m., Carey pushed his cart and can up to the entrance of the community's library and talked with a few reporters before walking slowly into a meeting room filled with family and local merchants.

Yesterday, 34 years to the day he first picked up a broom and shovel to clean the streets of Pikesville and Woodlawn, Carey retired. The thought of another winter finally succeeded where errant cars had failed to force the hokey man off congested Reisters-town Road. "I thought I'd retire before too many winters," Carey said. "Winter time is rough on you." But, he added, of his years cleaning streets: "I enjoyed it, I tell you." Carey, now 59, said that when his ailing father urged him to succeed him in the job Carey's most recent boss, Charles Weiss, told this story yesterday. Once, the county sanitation bureau decided to take Carey off the street and put him on a regular road crew collecting leaves.

"By 10:30 that morning, the county was flooded with phone calls asking that he be returned to Pikesville," Weiss said, laughing. As Weiss and others offered their tributes and gifts including a gift certificate to a local restaurant, two savings bonds from savings and loans and a new broom with Carey's name engraved in brass Carey stood by nodding in appreciation with his characteristic wide smile. Once, he reached for a rumpled handkerchief to dab his eyes. Carey said he plans on taking it easy for a while, just playing rhythm guitar with the Country Flames, a country-western band, on weekends at the Woodstock Inn in Howard County. But first, he had to get back out to the street.

"I might sweep a little to tell you the truth just for fun," Carey said. back in 1954, he had no idea he would keep it for the next 34 years. But he heeded his father's advice to join the Baltimore County work force for job security and benefits. A side benefit he didn't count on was becoming that rarest of men, one who is happy in and proud of his work. "I liked it because it was outside where I was getting lots of fresh air, getting a lot of friends on the street and talking to each one," Carey said.

In rain and snow, he reported for work. At his retirement, he gave back 314 sick days he never used. Merchants along Pikesville's business corridor recalled seeing Carey bend over not only to pick up trash, but to pull the occasional weed that pushed through a sidewalk crack. They said his broad, smiling face became as much a fixture in Pikesville over the years as the facade of Fields Drug Store. The merchants said Carey greeted store owners and visitors wherever he went and, through the years, they came to depend on him.

GOP registration up 17 State Democratic figures drop 3 since 1984; overall Maryland registration exceeds 2.3 million Maryland's registered voters Republican registration has increased steadily since 1980, while the Democrats have been on a plateau over the same period. I Democrats Republicans Others 1,528,978 1,482,791 1,421,339 638,423 546,728 482,955 By Mark Parrent Evening Sun Staff The number of registered Republicans in Maryland has risen almost 17 percent while the number of voters registered as Democrats has dropped 3 percent, compared with those registered in 1984, according to unofficial figures released by the state. The state Administrative Board of Election Laws, which compiled registration figures from Baltimore and the state's 23 counties, reported that overall, the number of voters registered for the Nov. 8 election increased 2.5 percent over the number registered for the 1984 election. In 1984, 2,253,150 voters were registered.

This year, 2,310,129 are registered, for an increase of 56,979. In 1984, 1,528,978 voters registed as Democrats. This year 46,187 fewer, or 1,482,791, are registered as Democrats. In 1984, 546,728 voters registered as Republicans. This year, 91,695 more, or 638,423, are registered as Republicans.

Republicans now make up 28 percent of the registered voters up from 24 percent in 1984 while Democrats make up 64 percent of the registered voters, down from 68 percent in 1984. Another 188,915 voters either are affiliated with other parties or chose no affiliation. Voters who wish to vote in any primary elections in Maryland must select a party when they register and may vote only in that party's primary election. Independents may not vote in primary elections. All registered voters are allowed to vote in the general election.

In the 1984 general election, 79.9 percent of the people registered as Republicans voted while 74.3 percent of those registered as Democrats voted. The highest overall turnout was in Anne Arundel County, where 81.1 percent of registered voters cast ballots. 188,915 177,444 160,589 than? 1980 1984 1988 Years Source: State Administrative Board of Election laws Evening Sun Staff.