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THE SUN, Thursday, July 11, 1974 Estimates board backs new city consultant contract system bon commission," calls for The Board of Estimates ap said Mr. Pressman, who claimed that the new plan is Pfil: 4i'' proved a new city policy for consulting contracts yesterday in a move ostensibly designed to prevent abuses of the con tracting system similar to the plan and the panel yesterday as he swung the board behind the proposal. Opposed by Pressman The only member of the board to vote against the plan was Hyman A. Pressman, the city comptroller, who said it represents "no progress." "The mountain has labored and come forth with a mouse," those which caused major "competitive negotiations" between the contracting agency and the consulting firm which is picked for a particular project. The city plan falls far short of the measure of competition which was developed in, a new state law for professional consulting services this year, but Mayor Schaefer commended basically "window dressing" on the city's current practices.

The new city system allows the contracting agency to select a consultant to perform a particular architectural or engineering job, then haggle with the consultant about price. In the state system, a contract award board is required 1 ST; scandals throughout the state last year. The new city policy, devel to review at least two full proposals from different firms and take the cost which those firms propose into account as a major factor in the award of the job. Although the less stringent city plan will be in operation for most municipal contracts, Mayor Schaefer said yesterday that the interstate division for Baltimore city, which handles the huge expressway contracts currently being let, will follow the state law. Mr.

Pressman, who has beefi battling by memorandum with Dr. Abel Wolman, who chaired the blue ribbon panel, sharply criticized the commission plan for the city. "This is, in effect, a continuation of the present policy pi dealing with' one firm rather than more than one firm," he said. Not really competitive He added that the planTs "competitive negotiation" is I not really competitive in that firm with which the city -2 agency is haggling on price knows that it already has the job. The city plan, however, is wholly similar to a plan proposed earlier this year for the state contracting agencies.

It too called for "competitive-5? negotiations" rather than price "i competition between firms, i oped over several months by a mayorally appointed "blue rib NAAGP challenges Harf ord on school hiring By EDNA GOLDBERG Bel Air Bureau of The Sun Smog alert goes on in 98 heat WEATHER, from CI no-burning ban during the garbage strike and the rash of illegal trash and garbage fires throughout the city. Meantime, open burning bans, which are normally required during pollution alerts, remain' in effect until at least 3 P.M. today in Baltimore, Anne Arundel, Prince Georges and Montgomery counties. Dr. Solomon repeated his warning that persons with heart and respiratory ailments avoid unnecessary exertion as long as the pollution alert continues.

2 cases reported Baltimore's eight major hospitals reported two cases of heat prostration and one other possible case yesterday. St. Agnes Hospital had reported five cases of heat prostration Monday and four Tuesday. University, Sinai and St. Apes Hospitals also reported scattered cases of dysentery and diarrhea yesterday, but officials at the hospitals said they were unsure if the cases were related to Baltimore's festering garbage situation.

Charles F. Nealy, the board's single black member, said he personally was not satisfied with the number of pressure. Mr. Hanna told a reporter the board was doing all it could to find professionally qualified blacks. blacks in the school system and expressed the hope that more would receive "consideration" in the future.

Bel Air The Harford county school board was challenged yesterday by the NAACP to "put up or shut up" about its hiring and promotion of black administrators. "We must see the fruits of your effort," Melvin McGee, president of the local chapter of the National Asso ciation for the Advancement of Colored People, told the seven-member school board. "You must demonstrate your sincer ity." PGM 7HUC2S. FRO. 9 A.M.-9 PXl.

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TIL MIDNIGHT Mr. McGee described the recent hiring of a black school principal and the presence of four black assistant principals in the local system as "just tokenism." sunpaoers photo Lloya Pearson Stagnant air hangs over the Druid Hill Park Lake fountain. He characterized as a "most subtle form of discrimination" the review of potential black 'r candidates by the school's "white power structure." He reminded the board of City 'charm' the complaint he registered CHARM, from CI two months ago with the federal Departmnt of Health, Education and Welfare, accusing will be available to tourists at the board of racial discrimina tion in its hiring and promotion cil spokesmen appeared somewhat self-conscious yesterday about the timing of the "Charm City, U.S.A." announcement amid a heat wave and garbage strike. "When I walked through Hopkins Plaza, the first thing I saw was the trash," said Mr. practices.

4 The federal agency's Region 3 civil rights office last month told the school board it would be necessary to monitor the schools here mainly because of what it said was an "absence Loden. "Then it occurred to me that 1 was looking down. When I looked un. I saw the city a-building in the Inner of minority representation at the administration level." Harbor project, and the con the promotion council's visitors center in Hopkins place. Tourists who pick up the bracelet will be able to add individual charms to it as they tour Fort McHenry, the Lexington Market and.

Baltimore's other attractions. "The cynical may laugh," acknowledged Mr. Loden as he described the bracelet promotion, "but it's a city of charms, and we have to believe that." Some of the inspiration for the campaign came from taped interviews with new employees at the advertising firms who came to Baltimore from other cities, Mr. Loden said. Some of the tapes were played yesterday for the audience of about 50 promotion council members and assorted stellation.

At the school board's monthly meeting yesterday, W. Miles Hanna, the board presi The promotion council meeting and the announcement were planned 'several weeks before the strike, a spokesman said. Mr. Loden added that the dent, "commended" Mr. McGee and his organization but emphasized he would not first ad had been scheduled for approve the employment of later in the month the New anyone "who is not fully quali York Times, but that, "We will fied." nrobab wait until the citv IS cleaned up.

We don't want any LMST -1 Everything must be sold! The end is near and our situation is desperate. We must convert all our stock into cash all our line men's clothing must go regardless of cost. We'd rather "give it away" to you than sell it to a jobber. All sales final! national news being run wnue In the past Mr. McGee has criticized as subjective and general the criteria used by the school board to evaluate job candidates.

He left the board our ad is being run. civic boosters assembled in the Roman Holiday Room of the Scattered interviews yester dav with tourists and conven room yesterday without hear Holiday Inn Downtown. The new Baltimoreans, in a tion-goers indicated that while ing the board approve new professional appointment that Baltimore mieht not vet have variety of accents, described Our doors close forever July 15 at Midnight achieved "Charm City" status their enthusiasm for the city's included those of two black educators. in their minds, it is not bar-haee Citv" to them either sports, seafood, symphony orchestra, friendly people and They are Shirley J. Rose, an They were more impressed sense of history.

18-year veteran of the county with Baltimore's historic at "I think it's just great," said h3 -'S. v. school system, appointed assis tractions than with the mount Mayor Schaefer of the new tant principal of Aberdeen ing trash. promotion campaign. He also Middle School, and Neta C.

"It hasn't inconvenienced me," said E. Robert Norris, of Williams, a speech instructor TOW from Kansas State University, the strike. A representative of the Lutheran Church in Amer named administrative assistant in the central professional per ica attending the national sonnel office. Lutheran convention, which Alfonso A. Roberty, the ended yesterday, Mr.

Norris, of Westfield, N.J., praised the convention facilities at the county school superintendent, praised the "Trashball" campaign thought up by the Van-Sant Dugdale agency. "It was just beginning to catch on before we had this strike on our hands," the Mayor said. "Some of the streets' are cleaner now -than they have ever been because people are getting out and cleaning it up themselves," the Mayor said. "It's a good lesson, and Trash-ball was the start of it." Some of the promotion coun denied later that the appointments resulted from NAACP Civic Center and their proxim ity to the downtown noteis. "I'd come back to visit the historic sites," said John E.

Hueus. of Naples, an Strikers to allow feeding at zoo ZOO, from CI other conventiongoer, said that there was enough I 7 I money to handle the medical Garbage piles take on smell of money to entrepreneurs needs of the animals but that the first order of business be tm fc rt.ro fore the Society's executive committee at its meeting next week will be the financial effect of the strike. Mr. Watson said vesterdav that the zoo had received-doz HAULER, from CI out here," Mr. Weller explained, "people could just dump trash on the upper levels.

No- that's full and they have to go down into the pit, where the road is pretty hard on their cars." In Baltimore County officials said, there was appar- ens of calls offering assistance. 'One businessman called re presenting a sroun of 20 fath ers in one neighborhood who come to the zoo recularlv." he ently little spillover of city trash into the county landfills, although traffic did increase markedly at the county's landfill in the Lansdowne area southwest of Baltimore. "We're not publicizing it the landfill," said Albert B. KaltenbEch, director of public works in the county, "but we won't turn anyone away either." Retail stores in Baltimore said they had experienced no unusual increases or decreases in the sale of trash compactors for cans, but plastic bags were going like wildfire. The city Fire Department, which has been handing out bags free at all its stations since last Thursday, estimated it has gone through nearly half a million of them.

The bags are also available at most police district stations. said, adding that many telegrams had been sent to the union demanding clemency for the animals. Early yesterday afternoon there were about 10 pickets at LD0cooMM the Mansion House gate, but they stayed mostly in their cars and there was no fiction before fact! Another 'token' Mayor Schaefer got another token of the Police Department's esteem yesterday, as his limousine cruised down Guilford avenue and rolled to a stop in front of City Hall. Mr. Schaefer, who was the proud winner of a $27 parking ticket Monday, testily remarked that yesterday's ticket (for changing lanes without signalling) was the first instance he'd seen of illegal Police Department ticketing.

Aides to the Mayor also mi mm mm PAINTING ABDUCTION 43? 3qbi C23 FIXTURES FOR SALE ALUMINUM SIDING TRIM SPECIALIST scurried about, getting out the story that the officer who wrote the ticket to the May-or's chauffeur lives in Anne Arundel county. As for Charles Fawley, the Mayors chauffeur, he seemed to enjoy the sudden attention. He gave an informal press conference in the Mayor's anteroom and commiserated with one radio newsman who got three tickets within 30 minutes the day before. The text of BLACK ABDUCTOR by Harrison James -the bizarre novel that foretold the Patricia Hearst kidnapping two years before it happened. Introductory Essay by Al Ellenberg.

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