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THE EVENING SUN WETRO LOCAL SPORTS CLASSIFIED PAGE 1 PAGE 1 BALTIMORE, MONDAY, MARCH 31, 1975 Lombard Jr. High Slated For 3 Extra Days Off Police Halt Search For Two Girls Market Still Sluggish, However Rebates Prove A Boon To Maryland Car Sales Kensington, Automobile dealers in sold 37.5 Der pent mnrp Montgomery county police have stopped their six-day search for two daughters of a new cars in February, while re- fers into March but are now expected to end them Monday. Then, Mr. Darrell hopes, a springtime car buying fever will take over. "When the weather breaks, oeonle see how Washington disc jockey who disappeared from the Wheaton Meanwhile, the school's faculty is organizing into three different task forces to bring change to the school that has almost buckled under the stress of violence and disorder aggravated by the effects of federal desegregation guidlines.

In a dramatic departure from its customary role in school administration, the school board last week directed Thelma B. Cox, region 2 superintendent, to immediately shore up the school after parents and teachers described the school's steady deterioration since Sen- the school would start at a time when a large number of students now show up, removing a big tardiness problem. By closing a half-hour later, the school would eliminate fighting between Lombard students and those at the nearly City Springs Elementary School, which now dismisses pupils at the same time. The teachers will also re-examine a policy that now puts a pupil out of school for three days if he is late three days in a row. Teachers also will be studying ways to improve student-faculty attitudes, adult supervision and assistance to new teachers and substitutes.

And. nice the countryside is; maybe they'll want to buy." he romanticizes, but then adds, "There's really not much hope that things will be back to what they were a couple years ago." By David Llghtman sluggish," said Ejner J. Johnson, state commissioner of motor vehicles. "Rebates put a bump in the rug but I don't think the February figures are being hailed by the industry." Worse Without Rebates At the end of last month, J. Cavendish Darrell, of the Automobile Trade Asociation, noted that despite the rebates, "Our dealers still have a way to go.

But the rebates did bring us some traffic, and if it hadn't happened things would have been a lot worse." Rebates of up to $600 were offered on most American-made cars from the week of January 13 to Februarv 28 as a By Sue Miller Lombard Junior High School students will get an extra three days of spring vacation next week while the school's 70 teachers and Region 2 specialists prepare for an April 10 fresh start at the problem-beset school. Dr. Roland N. Patterson, the schools superintendent, has agreed to delay the opening so that two pupil adjustment centers can be set up within the building at 1500 East Lombard also will be bolstered by 10 new teachers and 2 extra security officers. Separate adjustment centers will be established for unruly pupils from the regular student body and for those who can't conform and are assigned to special education classes.

These pupils will be restricted to the centers, leaving only to go "to the cafeteria and lavatories in groups. New Teachers By April 7, the school system says it will have a corps of 200 new teachers, all February graduates of nearby colleges who will be distributed among the nine regions to fill vacancies which in some instances have existed since September. Six of Lombard's new teachers will fill vacant spots and four others will be trained to man the adjustment centers. With additional security officers, one will be assigned to each of the building's three floors and one will roam the school grounds. In addition, five men from the Region 2 staff are being deployed as assistants to the principal and assistant principal and as temporary administrative heads in the three-unit school.

Both he and Mr. Johnson oaies were ottered, than in December, when they were not, according to figures from the state Motor Vehicle Administration. But the figures still do not indicate a healthy new car sales industry in Maryland, state and industry spokesmen say. Febur-ary sales were only 8 per cent higher than February, 1974, which was a notoriously slow sales month because of the gasoline crisis. And despite the February, 1875, upturn, the monthly new car sales figure was still below the total for 9 of 1974's 12 months.

"It seems the market is still shopping Center last week. Police said they will continue, however, to check out leads in their efforts to find Kather-ine and Shelia Lyon. The girls, 11 and 13, respectively, were last seen Tuesday night. A house-to-house canvass of the area has proved fruitless, but police said they hope posters distributed with pictures of the girls will provide new leads. The girls, both of whom would have celebrated birthdays over the weekend, are the daughters of WMAL announcer John Lyon.

tember. agreed that smaller cars have been selling more slowly than bigger ones, for several "When the recession hits, it they will be planning student hits those who can afford it least 'is Mr. Johnson's explana The teachers, according to Mrs. Cox, will be reviewing the school's policy on opening and closing hours and tardiness. Under consideration will be a suggestion to open at 8.45 A.M.

instead of 8.15 A.M. and dismiss at 3 P.M. instead of at 2.30 P.M. By opening a half-hour later, activities to improve discipline, reorganizing routine school op tion. means of reversing slumping eration and together with par new car saies.

borne manufacturers extended the rebate of Mr. Darrell says, "It's a Continued, Page 2, Col. 6 ents working out more parent involvement. Analysis Assembly Dragging Its Feet By Jeff Valentine Annapolis-With but six case. The 70-day 1967 legislaturealso the product of reapportionment was one of the most active and productive in modern Maryland history.

Among that session's aceom- ture, only three have received final action. Of those, the Governor's bill reinstituting the death penalty was enacted, another administration proposal imposing heavy tax levies on petroleum wholesalers was working days remaining before' adjournment, the Maryland General Assembly continues to display a disturbing and inexplicable lack of a sense of urgency on still pending legislation. iplishments were: withdrawn, and a third, reform ing the state senatorial scholar A surfeit of bills including ship program, was killed out right. the session reaches its constitutionally mandated "sine die" at the stroke of midnight April 7. Nevertheless, the danger exists that what few major pieces of legislation there are could become entangled in the muddle of last-minute action that occurs every session.

Just as dangerous, perhaps, is the possibility that poor legislation might slip through unnoticed in the crunch. Veteran lawmakers in Annapolis answer their critics by noting that it is not unusual for a slow pace to prevail in the first session of a newly elected legislature. Complicating the problem, they say, is the fact many of Governor Mandels own proposals still await action in a legislature seemingly reluctant to move forward on major issues. Left in the lurch are such major bills as funding of property tax relief for the elderly, raising the cigarette tax 4 cents a pack and creating the office 1. Major tax reform in the Continued, Page 2, Col.

6 Youth Knocks Door, Stabs Locksmith A 50-year-old locksmith at Instead, the legislators safe from another comeup ot super state prosecutor They still require further action pance at the hands of the electorate for three years seem content on permitting their current meeting to become a mere caretaker session. Most major issues, they appear to be saying, can wait another year. there are 79 first-time dele City Jail reported being stabbed eight times vesterdav in at least one or the other of the houses of the legislature. Legislative leaders smugly predict there will be no problem and that all of the important legislation still left on the calendar will be resolved when morning when he answered a gates and senators in the assemblythe result of reapportionment. But such was not always the Of the 15 most significant KnocK on the door of his first-floor apartment in the 100 block East 25th street.

measures facing the legisla UEVELOPMENT-AU along Interstate S3, housing developments like litis and more commercial jromh are creeping closer to Pennsylvania becanse of Baltimore coooty's tough looms regulations. gromu Robert Alderton. the victim. was treated at Union Memorial Hospital after the attack. He told police that he did not Mayor Claims That Kovens Is Selling His Tickets County Zoning Rules Spur Growth In Pa.

know his assailant and no demand was made for monev be fore the man, in his early 20's, By Robert Timberg By William E. Hawkins started attacking him with a penknife. ments, the word from Mr. Kov-ens's West Baltimore street fur Mr. Alderton said that after High bought by Hereford School teachers.

niture store was distinctly dif ferent. he was cut on the right arm he picked up a chair to defend himself. "Mr. Kovens has retired from fund-raising," said a man who would identify himself only Assailant Beaten He beat the vouth around the Although he announced last year he was relinquishing his title as Maryland's premier fundraiser, Irv Kovens apparently has come out of retirement to aid Mayor Schaefer's re-election effort. "I'm sure he's trying to sell tickets for me," Mr.

Schaefer said, referring to his $100-a-person fundraiser next week. "I hope he gets involved in the campaign," he added. Despite the Mayor's corn- head and shoulders but was cut as Mr. Kovens secretary. knowing how many tickets Mr.

Kovens purchased. Reported In Florida Mr. Kovens currently is traveling around Florida and cannot be reached, the man said. "He calls us, we can't call him. He is also refusing to take calls from any reporters." Mr.

Schaefer said Mr. Kovens will be back in town in about a week and will attend the April 10 "Salute to Schaefer" fund-raising affair at the Civic Center. "Maybe the Mayor means twice in the back, twice in the left arm, twice in the left side and once in the head durine the he going to buy a few the secretary continued. struggle that ensued. "He bought some tickets and The victim said his assailant finally ran out of the apartment gave them out to his employes, said the secretary, who denied house, apparently deciding that he had had enough of the chair.

Senate Okays Doctors Writing Insurance By Jeff Valentine When James E. Heffner, a teacher at Hereford High School, bought one of the first homes in the Southern Farms subdivision in York county, six years ago, he never imagined it would become a sprawling suburb of Towson. But hundreds of middle-class families have followed the Heffners, buying up ranchers and split-level homes in the development and sharing his unique Instate lifestyle. Their jobs are in Baltimore county, but their homes are in Pennsylvania. Southern Farms is a growing development of about 300 homes just inside the borough of Shrewsbury, a once tiny farm town about four miles north of Maryland Line.

Restrictive Zoning But despite its location, Shrewsbury, about 18 miles south of York, is becoming very much a Towson-area suburb. And its growth, ironically, can be attributed to Baltimore county's restrictive zoning regulations. Shrewsbury is not alone. The entire southern York county area is being residenti-ally and commercially merged with Baltimore county, creating an area called Yorktimore, or more appropriately, Baltivania. Mr.

Heffner, a business education teacher, recalls that three of the first six houses built in Southern Farms were Annapolis-Legislation per "It was just a matter of basic economics," he said. "The same home I bought would have been $8,000 more in Baltimore county. And the taxes in Pennsylvania were considerably lower than in Maryland." But within three years, he said, Southern Farms had grown too large for him, and he has steadily moved deeper in Pennsylvania, now residing after two moves in the borough of Jacobus. Marylanders Head North "Most of the people living in Jacobus work in York, he said. "But we are now beginning to feel the Maryland growth creeping up here." The "creeping" growth is more of a case of Marylan-oers shooting north at 55 miles an hour along Interstate 83, lured by what is rapidly becoming the only available middle-income housing north of Cockeysville.

The exodus is spawned, planners say, by Baltimore county zoning regulations which require minimum 1-acre lots in most of its increasingly more expensive north county area. And York county planners have become alarmed by proposed zoning changes that would fui'her restrict devel- Continued, Page 2, Col. 4 mitting Maryland doctors to establish their own mutual liabili ty insurance company to prov ide malpractice coverage passed the Senate today. Despite doubts raised by time, the Senate also approved a companion measure S.B. 1072) creating a medical malpractice risk-sharing pool among insurance companies doing business in the state.

The medical malpractice questions easily the most complex issue of the current session and one of the most controversial -came to the fore earlier this year when St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company, the firm which in several senators that doctors should not be in the insurance Trains Are Winners Over Two Compacts Conowingo, Md. (Special) -Score it Penn Central two, compact cars zero after a weekend of collisions at the Pilot-town railroad crossing 2 miles north of here. Last night, State Police from the Northeast barracks said, Fudell G. Whitten, 19, of Silver Spring, was driving his 1972 compact car at the crossing when it became stuck on the tracks.

He left with a companion to summon help and returned at 11.45 in time to see a Penn Central freight train smash into the vehicle, destroying it. Twenty-five hours earlier, Marvin L. Charles, of Peach Bottom, became stuck at the same crossing. Mr. Charles and two friends were attempting to push the car off the rails but were forced to halt when a Penn Central double-unit engine came around a corner, hit the car, carried it 75 feet and dropped it 20 feet below into the Susquehanna River.

Police said gravel at the crossing has worked away from the track, causing the rail to be several inches higher than the road, which in turn caused the cars to become stuck. SHsmf MisWIIIittn business, the bill (S.B. 816) passed easily, 36-2. At the same Did You Change License Plates? sures about 80 per cent of the states 5,000 physicians, decid Today is the last day those ed it would no longer provide Sunpapers photos Clarence B. Garrett old blue-and-white license plates can be legally displayed insurance in Maryland.

2,000 Physicians With the prospect that as on any type of vehicle. By tomorrow morning driv ers must have red-and-white many as 2,000 doctors may be without insurance May 31, the STILL SOLITUDE Catherine Grothe, Maryland Line postmistress, its with Jane Sides, right, in a town physically unchanged by the development, but they feel it. tags or leave their cars in the garage. Continued, Page 3, Col. 4 George Beall Leaving Office His 'Priceless Experience' that George Beall had not done when the efforts of his older brother, Senator J.

Glenn Beall, as well as those of Senator Charles M. Mathias were rewarded by then President Nixon's appointment of George Beall as U.S. attorney. Mr. Beall said he knew at the time what the critics were saying that his was a purely political appointment of a personally and professionally immature attorney to follow in the footsteps of Stephen H.

Sachs, a Kennedy-type Democrat who spent a dynamic several years in office chasing corrupt politicians and organized crime figures. "That made it a little more By James P. Day Serving five years as Maryland's U.S. attorney has been "an expensive yet priceless experience," according to George Beall, who leaves the chief federal prosecutor's office today. "It's been expensive because it resulted in the rather shattering loss of the ideal view I had about how the government and politics operate," Mr.

Beall said last week while sitting in the office he rode into the history books. "But the opportunity to grow up has been a priceless one." Growing Up Growing up, his critics said in May, 1970, was one thing of a challenge for me," he said last week as he recalled the day he first sat down as U.S. attorney with guys named Nixon and Agnew staring down from photographs hanging on the walls. The new U.S. attorney said at the time that his goals in office were to continue the Sachs fights against political corruption and organized crime.

He also said the prosecutors under him would also be asked to concentrate on two then largely neglected areas, federal narcotics violators and water polluters. "I don't want to sound self-serving," Mr. Beall said, but I think we've been, for the most part, very successful." As he has throughout his five years in office, Mr. Beall said whatever successes the office has had under him can be attributed to the assistant U.S. attorneys, some of whom he hired and others he inherited.

Praises Aides He hired James M. Kra-mon as an assistant to deal with water pollution and mail fraud cases. Mr. Beall also hired Ronald S. Liebman and Russell T.

Baker, who joined with Barnet D. Skolnik to form the famed political corruption team. He assigned Frank Brocat-to and Andrew Radding to specialize in narcotics prose cutions and supervise a special narcotics strike force that became a model around the country. Jeffery S. White was hired and became a specialist in nonpolitical corruption and white-collar crime.

The team of James Anderson and Gerard P. Martin was formed to prosecute policemen and civilians caught in illegal police payoff schemes. When Mr. Beall came into office, a total of 12 assistant prosecutors were assigned to the staff. Since then, the total has jumped to 21.

One change that Mr. Beall said he is most proud of is that he completely disregarded politics in hiring. "I never asked and never knew what party they belong to," the prematurely graying prosecutor said. He considers the building of that staff the second greatest accomplishment of his five years in office. The greatest accomplishment, Mr.

Beall said, was the manner in which his office handled the investigation in the summer of 1973 that led to the no-contest plea and resignation of former Vice President Spiro T. Agnew. "There was just so much chance for error and the pressure was almost unbearable," the prosecutor said of those hot summer days. He thinks there is a good Continued, Page 2, 3 GEORGE BEALL i.