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2D MARYLAND THE SUN TUESDAY, JULY 2, 1991 MICHAEL IN THE City's kinship care program helps abused children STATE detailed policy about the supervision and services It will provide such relatives, who traditionally have been seen as needing less government Intervention than a regular foster home. The local agreement comes amid a growing national, debate In child welfare circles about the extent to which government should be supervising children who are placed with their own relatives. Over the past several years, the use of kinship care placements has soared nationally as growing numbers of abused children have been taken from their parents, while the number of traditional foster homes has declined. In Baltimore, there are about 1.200 children In kinship care, up from 500 In 1989. The relatives who care for them can apply for the roughly $535-a-month room and board payments, counseling and other supports of ment filed yesterday In U.S.

District Court between state and city foster care officials and the Legal Aid Bureau, the nonprofit law office that forced other changes In Baltimore's foster care system through a class-action lawsuit resolved In 1988. The agreement, a compromise after more than a year of discussions over Issues unresolved by the lawsuit, requires city caseworkers to vis-It children placed with relatives at least once a month for the first six months, then once every two months after that. Such caseworkers will supervise an average of 30 children. And the city pledged to pay for counseling and other services that often are needed by the children, the parents who abused them and the relatives who take them. The agreement marks the first time the city agency has agreed to a fered by the regular foster care system; but only If they agree to go through the lengthy licensing process required of any foster parent.

Many relatives decide not to bother. "There are many grandparents who consider It very natural that they care for their grandchild. They don't want to be known as a 'foster And they do not want the state Intruding in their lives," said Charlotte King, director of the state Social Services Administration. The state Social Services Administration which pays for the city's foster care system expects to spend about $1.2 million to hire more than 30 new workers and purchase the services mentioned In the agreement Ms. King said the money was taken from "different pots" In her agency's budget.

"I'm being vague because I don't want to say exactly where It was found." 7" By Eileen Canzian Baltimore's foster-care system has agreed to provide greater scrutiny of the grandmothers, uncles and cousins who Increasingly are caring for abused young relatives who otherwise would be put In foster homes. Children placed In such "kinship care" arrangements still will receive less government supervision and their caretakers less government aid than in a regular foster home. But child welfare advocates hailed the new policy as an Important recognition of the state's responsibility to look out for such children. "Their caretakers are for the most part very caring, very dedicated people. But there are exceptions," said Gayle Hafner, a Legal Aid lawyer who specializes In foster care Issues.

The policy Is outlined In an agree- State lawmakers defend their use of PAC donations PACs, from ID said that they would not favor banning PACs. Mr. Hoyer noted that PACs were created as a reform In the early 1970s to curb the campaign spending power of wealthy Individuals and to allow groups to have a say in government, a comment echoed by many members. "I support PACs," said Mrs. Bent-ley.

She said that campaign finance reform legislation Is necessary but that she was uncertain what type of measure House Republicans would devise. Mr. McMlllen said In a statement that he would favor "caps" being placed on "total spending and PAC contributions," while Mr. Hoyer said that he would favor limiting PAC donations to about one-third of a candidate's total contributions. V-C' V' 0C" ALLEGANY COUNTY Baseball mishap kills Westernport boy A 7-year-old Allegany County boy was killed Sunday when he was struck In the chest by a baseball, state police said.

4 Shawn Bradford Smith of West-ernport was playing ball with neighbors at about 8:30 p.m. when the accident happened. Trooper Jon Du- diak of the Cumberland barracks said. Shawn was standing about 60 feet from an 8-year-old neighbor, who was batting. The 8-year-old's fa- ther pitched the ball, and the child hit a line drive that struck Shawn In the center of his chest.

After a few seconds, the boy col- lapsed and stopped breathing. He was taken to the Memorial Hospital and Medical Center of Cumberland, where he was pronounced dead. The boy played Little League base- ball and was wearing a glove, Troop- er Dudlak said. "He loved baseball, according to his mother," he said. PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY FBI captures Largo man wanted in Maryland A former Prince George's County man charged with the stabbing death of his wife and wanted In a string of JL bank robberies was arrested yester- day in Nevada, FBI officials said.

Charles Wilson Chester, 50, for- merly of Largo, was charged about 9 a.m. with the robbery of the First West Savings Bank In Las Vegas. Mr. T4 Chester had been charged In Prince George's County with the murder of his wife. Aster Belaynek Chester, 33, on June 8.

1987. FBI agents said. He was wanted in the robbery of as many as 20 banks in Baltimore, Frederick and Prince George's coun- ties, they said. Police and FBI agents saw a blue 1 1991 Chevy Camaro with Pennsylvania plates, a car similar to the one -seen leaving the robbery of First West yesterday, at a convenience store two miles away, according to Jim Dearborn, an FBI spokesman. They arrested the driver and Identified him through fingerprints.

Mr. Chester Is being held on feder- al bank robbery charges In Las TTl Vin CS 51 Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. crews fixed a gas leak at Francis Scott Key Medical A LAJJ-iO Center yesterday morning after a construction bulldozer broke a 4-inch gas main. ac looir one was evacuatea irom tne nospitai, but the do JLCcUv as a safety precaution until the line was repaired Baltimore tests nozzle to lower gas fumes OLESKER Money, not morality, may topple The Block OLESKER, from ID On The Block yesterday, a city of ficial who's also a long-time Block patron stood In front of Crazy John's Video Games and Pizza Parlor and swept a hand in a circular motion. "Just look up." he said.

There is no 'up. Three stories, tops. The rest Is air." He means the existing buildings, the peep shows and the night clubs. They go up a flight or two, and then stop. All other things being equal, the city cannot charge rent on air.

Half a block west, an office building called Commerce Place is being constructed, with bricks and mortar stretching to the sky. Commerce Place will have about 480.000 square feet of rental space. The entire Block, as it now exists, has about 15.000 square feet of usable space. These are figures which make people at City hall salivate far more than the form of any exotic dancer. "The Block's a colorful part of this town, no question," Landers said yesterday.

"1 don't really want to kill it, but in its present form. It's costing us money. In effect, we're subsidizing the owners of these properties. "And the other thing well, it's got a very negative Impact on everything around it downtown. The prostitution, the drugs, they reach out.

I talk to people who work In offices around there. You know, you've got a corporate Image, and you bring clients in to see you, and this is what they see." On The Block yesterday morning, that city official with old ties to The Block was saying much the same thing. "I walk around here," he said, "and I've got guys saying, 'Hey man, I got the best coke in It's like they're selling candy bars. And they don't even know me. It used to be, a man could take his wife down here.

You think you could do that now?" That's the other part of The Block's problem: Remove the sexual morality angle, remove the money angle, and It's still a street that's fallen on tough times. Its sexuality Is outdated. It hasn't controlled its own sleaze factor. And, in cold daylight, it feels like a party that's gone on too long, and somebody's got to clean up yesterday's mess. I I rS Pollution-free pumps Here are the Amoco gas stations where pumps are now fitted with air pollution equipment Baltimore 4608 Liberty Heights Ave.

2391 Frederick Ave. 6220 Reisterstown Road 1465 Key Highway East 2500 Greenmount Ave. Baltimore County 2400 E. Joppa Road 9604 Reisterstown Road 2100 Merritt Blvd. Howard County 9109 Baltimore National Pike Anne Arundel County 5502 Ritchie Highway ffi: PUMPS, from ID the traditional accordion-style in use In many Washington.

D.C.. gas stations. Amoco dealer Carl M. Adair said his customers are also commenting about the lack of fumes when they fill up. "I don't seem to have as much trouble putting gas in as I used to." said Herbert Naylor of Baltimore, who filled up at the Amoco on 25th Street and Greenmount Avenue.

"It Is bigger and heavier. You do notice a difference," said Verna Siv-ells of Baltimore, who added that she didn't notice the usual noxious fumes. Besides cutting down on the city's smog problems, the vapor recovery system will lower the public's exposure to gasoline fumes, which contain benzene, a cancer-causing Em i ilea 1 Lisa on, plexiglass, plastic, fiberglass, 4 THE SUNPAUL HUTCHNS air conditioning had to be shut off at 12:45 p.m. Former warden to coordinate development plan Barbara A. Bostlck, the former warden of the Baltimore City Jail who was passed over for a Job when the state took control of the facility, has been hired to coordinate a community development project In the Sandtown-Winchester area.

Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke said last night. Ms. Bostlck began her new Job yesterday as the state assumed control of the City Jail, which has been renamed the Baltimore City Detention Center. She will serve as executive director of an effort known as the "community building partnership," the social and community development component of the Nehe-miah housing project, said Diane Bell-McCoy, a mayoral aide.

Ms. Bostlck will earn about $55,000, which is being paid for by the Enterprise Foundation, the nonprofit housing development arm of the Rouse Co. that Is working on the Nehemlah project, said Ms. Bell-McCoy. The city Is paying for Ms.

Bos-tlck's health benefits. Mr. Schmoke As executive director of the Sand-town-Winchester group, Ms. Bostlck will coordinate efforts by city agencies and other groups to provide health, employment, educational and crime-prevention programs to the community, Ms. Bell-McCoy said.

Ms. Bostlck had served as the Jail commissioner since her appointment by Mr. Schmoke In the fall of 1988. Two weeks ago, state officials declined to offer her a Job as part of the Jail transfer. British university taps Hopkins dean The founding dean of the Johns Hopkins University G.

W. C. Whiting School of Engineering was named yesterday to head the University of Bath In Britain. David VandeLinde, dean of the engineering school since It was reestablished at Hopkins 13 years ago, will become vice chancellor of the British university in July 1992. The post Is the equivalent of university president on U.S.

campuses. The University of Bath has 4.400 students and 400 faculty. Dr. VandeLinde, 48, said In a statement that In recent years he had been "committed to bringing engineers and educators In general together In the world community, across International boundaries, and this Is a wonderful opportunity to advance that interest." He is the second Hopkins official In two years to be tapped as a university president. Former Provost John V.

Lombard! became president of the University of Florida last year. THE BAlflMOtf SUM'S 4et IMMM WllM rtrr 2 JUlTe. ii sri'-iW chemical. The Baltimore area Is one of the smoggiest in the country. Under the federal Clean Air Act, the state is required to reduce the tons of volatile organic compounds such as gasoline vapors that are released here Into the lower atmosphere and react with sunlight to cause ozone.

In the lower atmosphere, ozone Is harmful to human health. In the upper atmosphere, It protects humans from the harmful effects of the sun's rays. So far this summer, Baltimore has exceeded the federal air pollution standards on six days, a record similar to last summer. But when gas stations In the Baltimore and Washington metropolitan areas install the new nozzles, the region's air will be substantially better, according to George Ferrerl, chief of the state's Air Management Administration. Ozone can make breathing difficult for children and older people and may permanently reduce the lung capacity of healthy adults.

Besides Baltimore, Amoco dealers are installing the patented new nozzles in Philadelphia, New York City, New Jersey and Washington, D.C. The $40,000 cost per station to Install the equipment Is being paid In part by the dealers and In part by the company, depending on whether the company owns the station or leases It to a dealer. Amoco, based In Chicago, hopes to install the equipment In all of Its Baltimore area stations during the next two years. Other oil companies, such as Crown Central Petroleum, have been revamping their underground gas tanks to handle the new system, said Tom Lattanzt, director of corporate relations. Lottery numbers Sat.

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Levi A. Hudson, 48, and George E. Jolley, 59, both of Baltimore, escaped from the back door of the minimum-security bus at 2:25 p.m. when it was stopped at a light at Hillen and Ensor streets, said state prisons spokesman Leonard Sipes. The 35 inmates In the bus had been making furniture for state offices at the Maryland House of Correction in Jessup.

Hudson was serving life plus 20 years for two homicides. He had been In prison since 1965 and was scheduled to have a parole hearing In February, the spokesman said. Jolley was serving a life term for homicide and had been in prison since 1973. He had a parole hearing set for September, Mr. Sipes said.

Mr. Sipes said that the two inmates were classified as minimum security because of clean records. He said that minimum-security prisoners are not handcuffed or shackled or guarded by armed officers. There was an unarmed correctional officer aboard the bus, he said. FOR THE RECORD The Anne Arundel County Council last night Joined the growing opposition to the state's plan to build an 80-foot-high span over the Severn River near the U.S.

Naval Academy in Annapolis. By a unanimous vote, the council passed a resolution calling on the State Highway Administration to come up with a new design for a lower drawbridge on Route 450. But the resolution states that if funding for a drawbridge Is not secured within a reasonable length of time, the council wants the State Highway Administration to proceed with its current plan. From Staff and Wire Reports North Carroll Class of 86 plans reunion for July 26 North Carroll High School's Class of 1986 will hold its five-year reunion from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m.

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