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TIHJKSDAY November 13 1986 TP IE VGIS AA ORMER AND CURRENT Miss Teen Harford County winners shared (he magic moment Saturday night in Havre de Grace as Laura Johnson (right) Miss Teen 1986 crowned Christy Zollars Miss Teen 1987 Wj JK 1 ftl Ibm SB Jy 8WIL A A fev iRmA Wary a rw' Ifl LJI vlr M1J wNB I Ill If fOII i JraBlwWwuvwiiiO Active at 77 Walter Harkins is honored as armer of the ear By Don Morrison OREST HILL At 77 a lot of peo ple might expect Walter Harkins to be about ready to retire A lot of peo ple would be wrong The Harford County arm Bureau's latest "armer of the Year" still gets up at 3:30 in the morning to do the milk ing as he's done for just about every day of his life sine being born on his father's Harkins Hill farm off Chestnut Hill road near here in 1909 "It's in my blood I enjoy it and I never want to retire" a still fit and ac tive Mr Harkins said from his 325 acre dairy farm Monday "It's what I grew up with and I wouldn't know how to do anything else" Because of his long and outstanding contributions to agriculture in the county the arm Bureau tabbed Mr Harkins as their ninth honored farmer since the award was initiated bark in 1979 The orest Hill father of four joins Wilson A Heaps and Worley Um barger (1979) Ross Smith (I960) Clifford Holloway Sr (1981) An drew Lohr Sr (1982) Samuel ielder Sr (1984) and Charles Os born III (1985) on the arm Bureau's honoree list A permanent plaque with those names and future armers of the Year will be on display in the County Ex tension Office in the Mary Risteau State Government Building in Bel Air "It's really a great honor to be part of that group" said Mr Harkins "arming is an honorable profes sion" In the 77 years Mr Harkins has been on the Harkins Hill arm 74 of those years shared with his brother Marshall he's seen a lot of changes rom the early days when the fami ly sold poultry products tomatoes horses and pigs to the present day where some 280 head of cattle roam the rolling farmland he has witnessed storm damage drought crop failure low market prices and a burned out barn which forced the family to all but start from scratch in 1957 He was nine the year his father paid off the mortgage on what was then a 60 acre farm That same year in De tpwilf yE WALTER wwJ marshall fX HERBERT I I I iA MK jjBBBtstei 3HbLTT STILL ARMING After 77 years on Harkins Hill arm Walter Harkins is still active daily in the running of the dairy operation Mr Harkins the 1986 armer of the Year took a moment out from his milking duties Mon day afternoon His brother Marshall and his son Herbert help him with the 280 head of cattle and 325 acre farm operation Mr Harkins says he has no interest in retiring any time in the near future The attractive farm is located off Chestnut Hill road near orest Hill cember 1918 the elder Mr Harkins died of the killer flu which hit the US at the end of World War I leaving Walter Marshall and their mother Helen Harkins to keep the farm going Turkeys were their staple supple mented with the sale of some milk shipped to Baltimore via the nearby Ma Pa Railroad When Walter grad uated from high school the turkey flock was increased and the tomato growing for sale to canning houses be gan In 1936 the family built a new barn and began thinking seriously about getting into the dairy business as their major endeavor Cows were pur chased from Wisconsin and Canada and more acreage was added to pro vide for growing crops to feed the ani mals Hectricity and tractors has replar ed the work done by hand and by horse And with son Herbert com ing on as a partner Walter and Mar shall even get to take a nap after the early morning milking is done In 1937 Walter took Mary Osborne as his bride Mrs Harkins recalls her husband saying then "Now I have ev erything I want a larger farm a mule a paved road by the farm and a wife" She's never let him forget that (Continued on Page AA 14) Absentee ballot counting leads to no changes in election results 1 he counting of 1058 absentee bal lots Wednesday revealed no changes in the outcome of the Nov 4 general election Including the absentee ballots 41 598 out of an eligible 72741 voters just under 572 exercised their fran chise here in the election The voter turnout in Nov 1982 the last time most local and state offices were decided was 58 with 39405 out of a possible 67670 voting Traditionally more voters come to the polls on those years when the President is elected even though there are few local and State candi dates on the ballot In the 1984 general election 5621 1 out of an eligible 75555 cast their bal lots for a turnout of 74 The results of the 1986 election won't be official until riday due to a new ederal law on handling absentee ballots received from outside the Unit ed States Under the new law the election board has to wait ten days from elec tion day for absentees ballots from outside the country They will be counted only if they are postmarked before election day I lection board workers said there were 11 such ballots sent out and one had been returned as of Nov 7 The new law has created some con flict in Maryland where Nov 14 is the day when the officials results of the general election are to be certified by local election boards to the State Board of Elections Supervisors ollowing are the still unofficial re (Continued on Page AA 13) With mandate new grand fat her reeman predicts 2nd term will be more productive COUNTY EXEC HABERN REEMAN term for 4th DWI conviction Wooo ft ilar fire in Havre de Grace I left a mother and her two The Great Peace March elements of which began in Los Angeles Cali fornia March 1 is due to end in Wash ington DC Saturday with activities slated lor that weekend Some 300 of the current marchers were a part of the nuclear disarma night Carrying flags banners and peace signs the group more closely resembled the peace activists of the 1960's than the less demonstrative peace advo cates of the '80N "We had a very productive first four years" said Mr reeman who be came a grandfather for the second time on election night "I'm expecting the next four to be even more produc tive" When he is sworn in to his new term early next month Mr reeman auto A 33 year old Aberdeen man was recently sentenced to one year in the Harford County Detention Center for driving while under the influence of alcohol Elmer Hendrix of Webb' street was ordered by Circuit Court Judge Cypert Whitfill to begin serving the term Nov 5 Records show that Mr Hendrix was stopped by the Maryland State Police July 26 on Route 152 and charged with the offense Records also show that Mr Hendrix was convicted of driving while under the influence of alcohol in 1976 1981 and in 1982 Judge Whitfill sentenced him to one year Aug 12 for driving on a su pended license in June 1985 Mr Hendrix whose address is also listed in Circuit Court records as hance drive in Aberdeen is to serve the two sentences concurrently matically becomes a lame duck offi ceholder because he is precluded by law from holding the Executive's job for more than two terms He stressed however that he hardly intends to sit back and rest on past laurels "We had several tough problems to tackle this first four years" said the Executive "Most have been dealt vith but some of the results are not entirely noticeable to the public That should change though" The County budget is coming off its largest surplus in history over $59 million Mr reeman said it is "a pos sibility" that he could drop property taxes for the first time since he took office He added however that he will re main true to his "pay as you go" capi tal financing piogram a theme upon which he played heavily during his successful re election effort "We cut our debt ratio every year I was in office to the point where it is down to 18 (debt to assessed valu ation)" said the Executive who on election night proclaimed that the vot ers had shown support for the pay as you go program by giving him an elec tion "mandate a Besides cutting debt Mr reeman said his administration has finally got ten the county on the right track for disposing of its solid waste and has been paying more attention to the needs of individual citizens "than some people possibly realize" or instance he said the Public Works Department has begun a clean up of roadsides in the densely pop ulated irst lection District (Joppa By Allan Matzinger Vought BEL AIR Expect his second term to produce many more visible innova tions says County Executive Habern reeman who was re elected to four more years with just over 68 of the vote cast in last week's general election towne and Edgewood) "which has already hit 50 miles of road in three monthsexpect us to be doing more of that throughout the county" Although the County's finances have benefited from a building boom oi record proporitions Mr freeman said he intends to hold the line against any developer pressures to liberalize the 1977 Master Land Use Plan which was enac ted by the County Council over which he presided Rather he said his administration would continue its policy of being co operative with developers who are willing to show innovative ap proaches with their projects within existing zoning constraints In citing a recent example Mr reeman said a developer came to him asking for permission oh behalf of a builder in one of his projects to con struct a sample condominium build ing in advance of that phase of the HARORD COUNTY It was like a time capsule back to the late 60's when a group of peace marchers esti mated to be 900 to a thousand strong tromped in the rain through Harford Saturday morning along Rt 1 and then spent the night in Hickory CHILD PLAYING WITH LIGHTER STARTED DESTRUCTIVE IRE A fire that left five people homeless in Edgewood Monday was blamed on a child playing with a cigarette lighter The blaze at 4 Maple avenue de stroyed a one story home leaving the family of Phillip and Darlene Lied lich Jr homeless A similar fire in Havre de Grace last Sundayleft three people homeless MARCHING IN TH MIST Saturday morning par ticipants in the 'Great Peace March for Nuclear Dis armament' made their way along Rt 1 from Conowingo to Hickory where they spent Saturday By Jim Schoettler EDGEWOOD A couple and their three children were homeless af ter fire destroyed their house here Monday The blaze was the second reported in a week that was caused by a child playing with a cigarette lighter A sim last weeK i children project actually qualifying for a build ing permit During the course of those conver sations Mr reeman said he men tioned to the developer Morris Wolf that the $50000 to $60000 price range of the condo units would make them particularly attractive to older couples living on retirement incomes who want to unload their single family de tached homes now that their children are grown and living elsewhere "We meed more housing geared to that market" the fxecutive contin ued "but the design for these build ings didn't incorporate such things as ramps and other easy access compo nents I pointed this out and they are making suitable changes" The design change which Mr Wolf recently acknowledged is a fact was actually accomplished with no con cessions on the County's part any (Continued on Page AA 4) homeless Deputy ire Marshal aron Tay lor of the State ire Marshal's Office said the one story wood frame home at 4 Maple avenue behind the Edgewood Heights apartments was first reported ablaze at 9:30 a Mr Taylor said a woman identified as Carol Kunkel was babysitting Phil (Continued on Page AA 16) ment group which salvaged the origi nal Pro Peace sponsored trek just two weeks out of Los Angeles That effort went barkrupt but other sponsors were recruited and a grass roots march was reorganized (Continued on Page AA 5) arnily of 5 left homeless by fire 900 pass through Harford on cross country peace march 1:1: BM i sL 1 BB' 1 4' I I 4 ti I A 'W Id A iff jJH wvim 'J.