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THE Local Sports Classified Saturday, February 19, 1977 andel reappoints Brewer to racing panel, stirring anger By ANTHONY BARBIERI, JR. Annapolis Bureau of The Sun I 4 lit- WT 1 i fil IJU "A-- mtt www JV o. 'Zsrrrp, I Of 'wFlf'- i I I if'- I Quiz due in death of ian Police to question convict linked to Maryland crimes An escaped coriviet, who has been sought in a rape-murder In Virginia and a series of abductions there and in Maryland, will be questioned next week by Maryland State Police in connection with the murder here of Peggy Ellen Pumpian, homicide detectives said yesterday. Francis John Martin, 30 years old, of New Castle, was captured Thursday by FBI agents in Los Angeles. He had been on the agency's "10 most wanted list." Martin was one of.

four men who caped from the Smyrna (Del.) prison camp August 21. Miss Pumpian was murdered the night of August 2 4. Two of the men who escaped with him, William T. Julian, 26, of Springfield, and Theodore L. Szafranski, 28, of Chicago, were caught within a week in Virginia Beach.

The third escaper, William J. Hayes, 26, of Wilmington, was caught in September in Los Angeles. i1 Those three have been charged so far with a variety of crimes, including mur- der, attempted murder, two sexual assaults and armed Among the charges are those relating to the kidnaping of a Virginia woman, who was abducted from a parking lot in Ste-vensville on Maryland's Eastern Shore August 21, the night of the escape. Maryland State Police also have charged Martin in a warrant with that kidnaping. Miss Pumpian, 23, the daughter of a millionaire retired businessmen, was found dead in her car parked off Interstate 95 in Arbutus.

She had been strangled, shot five times and sexually assaulted. The men arrested have been charged in Virginia with the similar-style murder of a Fairfax woman, Cynthia Turek, and the attempted murder of her companion, Steven Slaght 18. -Both were abducted in their car near Dulles International Airport later on the night that Miss Pumpian was murdered. Miss Turek was strangled and believed to have been raped. Mr.

Slaght; who survived, was stabbed IS times, The men were also charged with abducting a Rockville woman, tying her to a tree and forcing her to perform perverted sexual acts on the same night as the two murders. Pump Sunpapers pnoto Can D. narrn the George Peabody Library. Workmen on scaffolds are finding Soot hides treasures pruced Peabody Library Annapolis-Governor Mandel renominated J. Newton Brewer, to a new five-year term as chairman of the Maryland Racing Commission yesterday.

The move prompted immediate controversy among some state senators angered at Mr. Brewer's lack of attendance at budget hearings and others eager to ask what he knows about a secret race track deal involving the Governor's co-defendants in a corruption trial. "I think it's a mistake," said Senator 'Godfather' deliberating to resume The jury in the "Godfather" heroin conspiracy case will resume deliberations at 9.30 A.M. today after it failed to reach a verdict in all day consideration of the case yesterday. United States District Judge Herbert F.

Murray sent the jurors to their rooms at the Lord Baltimore Hotel at 11.28 last night. During the deliberations last night, the jury requested a repetition of Judge Murray's instructions concerning reasonable doubt, and at 10.05 P.M. the jurors came back to the courtroom to hear the judge's instructions on that point again before resuming their consideration of the case. Earlier in the evening, the jury foreman sent a note to Judge Murray asking: "Your Honor, do we have to have a unanimous decision on all three defendants?" After convening court and hearing from lawyers for both sides, Judge Murray sent an answer explaining that the jurors must consider each of the defendants in the case separately, but each decision must be unanimous. During the day, the jury sent the judge two other notes one about parking, the other requesting that someone look after a juror's children.

The defendants, whom witnesses during the three-week trial had labeled as major heroin distributors supplied by Edward J. (Godfather) Robinson, spent the day outside Judge Murray's fifth-floor courtroom, waiting for the results. They are Charles R. Burman, 4 4, of Randallstown, who was said to have flown at least once to Los Angeles to purchase heroin from the "Godfather" and to have obtained it from Robinson's Baltimore operatives, and Joseph L. Walker, 33, and Julia A.

Walker, 31, of Miami, who were accused of being Robinson's Miami distributors. While Mr. Burman and Mr. and Mrs. Walker spent the day waiting for the verdict, prosecutors and defense lawyers were cued for calls from Judge Murray's office.

Andrew Radding, the assistant U.S. attorney for drug prosecutions, who said he had never lost a drug case, said the jury's deliberations, which passed the 12-hour mark by the dinner hour, exceeded the length of those in past cases. His associate, Neal M. Janey, joined by a federal drug enforcement agent, William Miller, who had assisted the prosecution, hurried to the courtroom when the notes were sent out The jury began deliberations in the heroin case Thursday night after hearing three weeks of testimony. A hundred years of soot from coal the help of a secret chemical formula and stoves and the fine, dust sloughed from a $17,000 restoration contract scholars' soles are coming off the walls of The restoration work is part of a pro-the George Peabody Library and there ject begun several years ago to restore the are treasures beneath them.

library, 17 East Mount Vernon place, and In three weeks, gold leaf rosettes on its books to roughly their original condi-the ironwork circling the main room, sten- tion. When the cleaning is finished, the incited tin in the arches below the skylight terior of the building will be "a museum Disaster status is 1 ornate treasures hidden beneath the dust at example" of the cast iron architecture that flourished in Baltimore in the last century, according to the man who spear-; headed the project "Without any doubt, it is an unsur-: passed example of everything that cast iron could do," Henry H. Callard, chair-' man of the Committee for the Peabody Librarywhich raised the money for the cleaning said yesterday. Until work began three weeks ago, the ceiling of the six-tier room was entirely black. The grillwork railing around each level of book stacks was dark gray, though there was evidence of some gold leaf designs beneath the grime.

Samuel A. Hearn, of Hearn, Morrill which has the contract for the job, believes the inside of the building has never been cleaned since it was opened to the public in 1878. The company is using a secret chemical formula, mixed stronger than usual to remove the dirt. With natural sponges, the workers coat each surface first with a mild cleaner and later with a stronger one before the iron is washed with water. All the iron, including the pillars that hold up the roof, is covered by a buff-colored lead-based paint that is virtually undamaged and unoxidized, Mr.

Hearn said. The gold leaf, which he believes was originally put on with banana oil, is imper Snore Eastern an Meyer M. Emanuel Prince Georges), who predicted that the appointment would raise questions about "the scandals which occurred under his chairmanship of the Racing Commission and his unwillingness to recommend any forceful action." "I just think that's incredible," said Senator John J. Bishop, Jr. 10th, Baltimore county), a member of the Senate's Executive Nominations Committee, which will be asked to approve Mr.

Brewer's re-nomination to another five-year term as chairman. "We'll have to look very, very closely at this appointment." Thorn L. Burden, Governor Mandel's press secretary, said that the Governor reappointed Mr. Brewer to the Racing Commission because he has "continuing confidence in Mr. Brewer's service to the Maryland Racing Commission." The nomination of Mr.

Brewer came as Governor Mandel presented his annual Green Bag list of more than 250 patronage appointments requiring approval by the state Senate. Among the others on the list were: Frank Cuccia, a Baltimore businessman, former member of the city zoning board and current chairman of the Board of Airport Zoning Appeals, who was named to the state Racing Commission. Mr, Cuccia is a long-time friend of Baltimore's established political leaders, including Irvin Kovens, who is himself a former race-track owner and Mr. Mandel's chief fund-raiser and political adviser. Mr.

Cuccia said Mr. Kovens was not involved in his appointment to the five-member racing panel. X. "I haven't seen him in a long Mr. Cuccia said of Mr.

Kovens. "He's got enough problems to worry about without me." Mr. Kovens is one of the co-defendants in the political corruption case against the Governor. Mr. Cuccia said he has been a lifelong race track fan, horseplayer and former part-owner of a race horse.

"I've always been interested in the See BREWER, B4, Col. 5 Alleged rapist freed Towson Bureau of The Sun A 30-year-old Baltimore county man awaiting sentencing for the rape of a 14-year-old girl has been released from jail following the arrest of anoth-- er man police believe may be responsible for the crime. "Herbert R. Thomas, who works at St Agnes Hospital and lives in the 4400 block Alan drive, was released on his own recognizance by Baltimore County Circuit Court Judge Kenneth C. Proctor pending a hearing on a defense motion for a new trial.

It is expected the charges against Thomas will be dropped at the hearing, according to Dana M. Levitz, the assistant county state's attorney who Successfully prosecuted him. No date has been set. The judge ordered Thomas's immediate release Thursday after a meeting with Thomas's lawyer and Mr. Levitz.

The prosecutor said yesterday he told Judge Proctor "certain exculpatory information" had been developed by the arrest of a 23-year-old man Wednesday on unrelated kidnaping, attempted sexual assault, and assault with intent to rape charges. Thomas was convicted February 1 by Judge Proctor of the April 14 rape after the victim identified him as the man who attacked her behind a church in the 4400 block Wilkens avenue. Sunpapcrt pftoto Ripn L. Robinson By MARY CORDDRY Salisbury Bureau of The Sun even the color of the room itself will return to their original conditions, with employees have complained. I But there are others faced with survival problems such as idle construction workers and people on limited fixed incomes who have run out of food money because of higher than normal fuel costs, the Rev.

Donald E. Bauer, chairman of the Wicomico County Social Services Board, said yesterday. Their need has not received the same statewide attention as icebound watermen and their eligibility is less clear, he continued. It was not until last Tuesday that the Wicomico county office, after repeated requests, received its first written guidelines for approving emergency relief requests. The federal assistance does not include help for fixed-income people with fuel emergencies, the Wicomico office was finally told.

Unlike neighboring counties such' as Somerset or Worcester where emergency food stamp applicants are in most cases in occupations related directly to the water, Wicomico emergency needs are less m- rectly related to the long freeze. This means that instead of the short and fairly simple form for emergency food stamp assistance, most Wicomico applicants must fill out a four-page application and 10 additional forms. The process requires a trained worker to spend as much as Vi hour with each applicant. i Members of the Wicomico County Board of Social Services describe the food stamp forms as being complex to the point of absurdity. One board member said that as an experiment his accountant worked on one for an hour or two before giving up.

itself disastei up vious to the cleaner. "To me, it looks as good as it must have looked when it was applied," he said. The one unexpected discovery in the last two weeks is a series of half circles of stenciled tin recessed into the arches that support the roof and skylight, he said. The glass panels, which themselves were cleaned several years ago, now illuminate gold L-shaped decorations along the base of each railing as well as gold cones and flowers, which are on the walls and ceiling. The building and its ironwork were designed by Edmund G.

Lind, the architect of the entire "Peabody Institute complex. The castings were made by Bartlett, Hay-ward a Baltimore foundry that merged with a company in Pittsburgh after World War Mr. Callard said. Cast iron architecture flourished between 1845 and 1885, and the Bartlett foundry cast pieces for buildings as far away as New Orleans. Much of it here and in other cities has been torn down or altered, and the Peabody restoration is as much a contribution to the history of Nineteenth Century architecture as it is to Baltimore's architectural history, he explained.

Mr. Callard's committee helped raise funds for the installation of temperature and humidity controls in 1975, designed to help preserve the 252,000 volumes in the Peabody's collection. The library, which has been a department of the Enoch Pratt Free Library since 1966, also received public money for that project, though the present cleaning was privately financed, Mr. Callard said. KIMELMAN of The Sun "I can see only one benefactor of this bill, the individual insurance agency who wants the business the banks, credit unions and savings and loans now have," Delegate Andrew J.

Burns 43d, Baltimore) complained. During the roll-call vote on the bill, at least a half dozen delegates jumped up to declare their abstentions because of a possible conflict of interest But the three sponsors, Delegates Irwin F. Hoffman Washington), Isaiah Dixon, Jr. 38th, Baltimore) and Frank J. Santangelo, Sr.

Prince Georges), all voted for the bill. Many of the delegates chose to lessen the insult to their three colleagues by simply not voting at all. The bill had 51 favorable votes and only 43 unfavorable votes, but it fell far short of the absolute majority of 71 delegates needed to pass a bill "There's no sense waving a red flag in guy's face," explained Delegate Paul E. Weisengoff 37th, Baltimore), who abstained, taking half the delegation along with hinv Proponents of the bill argued that it would prevent banks from using their economic hold over customers to force them to buy insurance. They gave the example of a bank that while considering a family's mortgage, "subtly" suggests they consider the bank's homeowners insurance policy.

"It is unfortunate that the sponsorship of the bill is as it is," Delegate Charles A. Docter Montgomery) said, "but that should not cloud the merits." Delegate Dixon argued the bill would aid consumers by keeping the banks from stifling competition. 3 in House fail in bid to bar bank insurance Salisbury-For harried social workers on the lower Eastern Shore the disaster-relief status created by the harsh winter has in itself been a disaster. 1 County officials say they have been faced with more than double the usual numbers of food-stamp applicants, not enough workers to handle them, complicated and time-consuming forms to fill out and guidelines for eligibility that are vague and sometimes contradictory. "We have a new system of eligibility-endurance," a Worcester county worker said yesterday at the close of what was described as a week of frustration as well as overtime.

Since the first week in February the Worcester county office has processed applications for free food stamps and approved 725 of them. The usual number of applications approved in a month is 250, Baine director of the county office, said. One day as many as 400 persons were standing in a line that stretched down the Street Mr. Yates said. He said that he has almost run out of application forms and food stamps.

After repeated requests to the state social services office in Baltimore for an emergency supply a package was sent to Salisbury for him to pick up last week. What he had been sent was not the needed food stamps but 2,000 16-page pamphlets on the food stamp program and 50 cookbooks. 1 In the Wicomico county office in Salisbury four workers have been putting in overtime every weekend, processing 414 food stamp applications during the first half of February. This is more than the usual number processed in a full month. Because limited manpower is one of the main problems at the Wicomico county office, various local organizations in Salisbury offered to recruit volunteer help.

But G. Peter Karras, director of the Salisbury explained that under state regulations volunteers cannot process applications. Nor could social service workers in other departments cross certain classification boundaries to help the food stamp workers. -j The state social services office in Baltimore sent two workers to Salisbury to help this week. According to two officials here, they drove back and forth from Salisbury each day in a large motor home owned by the state 'government The trip of more than two' hours each way was counted as part of the working day.

1 The state office workers were not at the Salisbury office yesterday because the motor home had broken down. According to figures at the Salisbury office, in the three days they worked here the two workers processed a total of 48 applications. The only applicants to be clearly eligible were watermen, some social service Department stores lobby to ax county blue laws wmmmmm. By TOM tiNTHICt Annapolis Bureau of The Sun By DONALD Annapolis Bureau Annapolis While more than 40 of their colleagues "took a walk," three insurance agents in the House of Delegates failed yesterday to pass legislation keeping banks out of the insurance business. While -the sponsors of the measure claimed they were trying to help the consumers, opponents charged they were out to help themselves.

Mr. Metcalf is also coordinator of the Committee for a Free Sunday, which he said is a newly formed group in the city and county to fight for the preservation of blue laws. He and his supporters displayed signs reading "Keep Sunday FREE-Kids Need Mothers." The confrontation occurred before the county delegation in the House of Dele gates during a three-hour public hearing tn the merits of Sunday sales. A bill repealing the county blue laws passed the Senate easily this week and is now being considered by the county House delegation. Legislation is also pending in the House that would submit the question to referendum.

The current law allows all stores to be open with six or fewer employees on Sun-See BLUE, Bl, Col. 1 a Annapolis---Baltimore's four major department stores clashed with small merchants and the clergy yesterday ver whether to allow all businesses to remain open on Sunday in Baltimore "If all stores are allowed to be open on an equal basis, no one will gain an unfair competitive advantage, and consumers, will have greater choice and be able to shop for lower prices," predicted Franklin Goldstein, a representing Hut- zler's, Stewart's, Hochschild-Kohn and the Hecht Company. This is going to take fathers and mothers away from their homes on Sunday. It is going to remove from our society the one day we have for family life," warned the Rev. Leslie G.

Metcalf, pastor of St Luke's United Methodist Church in Civic Center's sign in the sky Flown over the Civic Center for the first time yesterday, this aerial billboard announced a February 28 conntry-western concert for the benefit of Baltimore-area charities. Last night the 37-foot-long miniature blimp was housed in the rear of the arena, suspended from the ceiling. Future shows and possibly city functions at the Stadium or the laser Harbor will be advertised, officials said..