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Wednesday, October 11. 1989 The Star-Democrat Page 3 A mairylandl Fate of damaged mural in limbo state review ABERDEEN (AP) The death of artist William A. Smith this year, before he could re-create his damaged mural depicting the founding of Maryland, has left supporters of his work wondering how to recover his artistic vision. Smith's widow, Ferol Smith, says the mural is so mangled that she would rather see the state commission a new art work than try to save it. "I would think they'd be most satisfied with that rather than try and pick up this poor old thing here It pretty hopeless," she told The (Baltimore) Evening Sun in an article published Tuesday.

In 1968, Smith completed the three-part, 15-foot-tall mural. Located at a rest stop on Interstate 95 southwest of Aberdeen, it became one of the nation's most visible works of art, seen by millions visiting the Maryland House information center. But nearly 20 years later, Smith whose portrait of poet Carl Sandburg hangs in the National Portrait Gallery found his work had been damaged in a corporate remodeling job. He was preparing to re-create the work earlier this year when he died of heart failure on April 27. The mural, in which Smith strived for historic authenticity, was recognized among experts as a significant contribution to the art world and was frequently studied by students in the region.

In 1986, Marriott Family Restaurants remodeled the rest stop after winning a contract to operate it. In the process, parts of the mural's center section, showing Leonard Calvert negotiating with the Wicomico Indians to settle the 1632 land grant, were removed in order to square off two doorways. Marriott hired Pennsylvania conservator Othmar Carli for $11,400 to repair the mural. At the time, Carli APLaserphoto Remaining panels of William Smith's Maryland history mural are still at the Maryland House on 1-95. The artist's death has left supporters of his work wondering how to recover his artistic vision.

rendered Indians were given ungainly legs and flat feet, the original paint was scraped away, and the mural had been spliced, extended and slashed. A Philadelphia appraiser. Raymond M. Spiller, said the value of the painting shrunk from $500,000 to $70,000 because of the changes. Carli told The Evening Sun he was under pressure to restore the mural quickly and worked under difficult conditions.

said he was told by Marriott that Smith could not be located to be consulted on the project, The Evening Sun reported. In March 1987, Smith stopped at Maryland House and was appalled by what he saw, the newspaper said. "It was so amateurish, so incompetent The job was bungled from start to finish," he told a reporter later that year. A restoration expert hired by the state said Smith's carefully "What is really the critical point here is this was not a historic restoration. It was an adaption to a construction project to make the mural fit the new environment.

My group and I did the best we could under the circumstances," Carli said. A Marriott spokesman told a reporter, "There was never any indication that the was, if indeed it is, a valuable piece of art. Schaeffer walks, lunches with Bush HUGHESVILLE (AP) It was Just a "nice" Sunday afternoon, Gov. William Donald Schaefer said, a late lunch followed by a short walk and Redskins football on television. "Just a very, very friendly nice visit," he said, recalling how he and his longtime friend, Hilda Mae Snoops, spent a cozy couple of hours Sunday with President Bush and his wife, Barbara "We had a nice lunch with him," the governor told reporters on Monday.

"We had a nice tour around Camp David. Came back, sat around the fire and watched football. Just a very, very friendly nice visit." There was no talk of politics, Schaefer said. "I wasn't invited to come up and talk about anything specific," the governor said. "He called me on the phone and said, 'How about coming up to Camp David? We'll have a good time.

We'll have lunch. We 11 go out and take a Nursing home workers to vote BALTIMORE (AP) Employees of two Baltimore-area nursing homes, encouraged by their union leadership to ratify a new labor agreement, were expected to vote Tuesday on new three-year contracts the union hopes will set a pattern in wages for 18 other facilities with which it is negotiating. Negotiators for District 1199E-DC, Service Employees International Union, agreed late last week to separate contracts with Meridian Healthcare's Long Green and Catonsville nursing homes. Each calls for a 30 percent wage increase over three years, a $200 signing bonus and a new pension plan. Wages would rise from $5.50 an hour to $7.15 over the life of the contracts, the union said.

Bobo draws allies' fire ELLICOTT CITY (AP) After angering farmers and builders with her attempt to control development in booming Howard County, County Executive Elizabeth Bobo is now drawing fire from allies who said she is not going far enough. The two major citizens groups advocating development controls, a growing political force that Bobo has been courting, have rejected the preliminary documents the first-term Democrat released recently in the preparation of a new county general plan, a blueprint of future development and zoning patterns. The groups said the documents suggested the Bobo administration envisions a county more densely developed and suburbanized than they would like. The documents lay out six options for growth, intended to form the basis for countywide discussions about development. Teen rescues 5 from fire DISTRICT HEIGHTS.

(AP) A 16-year-old rescued five people from a burning house but was unable to save his twin brother, Prince George's County fire officials said. After leading five others to safety Monday, John Dixon tried to go back into the house to save his brother, Ian, but was stopped by intense smoke and heat, said Tony DeStefano, a fire department spokesman. 1 1 Ian Dixon was found by county firefighters, who took him to Malcolm Grow Hospital at the Andrews Air Force Base, where he died, DeStefano said. "There was no smoke detector in the house," DeStefano said. "This is a graphic, tragic example of what can happen without a smoke detector." The fire occurred just after 1:30 a.m.

Monday when a pan of cooking oil on a stove in the kitchen overheated and set fire to cabinets, the spokesman said. Someone had been preparing to cook French fries, but fell asleep while the oil was heating, he said. Suit alleges police coverup BALTIMORE (AP) A federal civil rights suit alleges that high-ranking Baltimore County police at the White Marsh district station filed neglect of duty charges against another officer for refusing to help them cover up their brutal beating of an alleged drunken driving suspect. The plaintiff in the $1.35 million lawsuit is Andrew T. Rainey, 36, of suburban Dundalk, who filed the suit in U.S.

District Court alleging that police beat and kicked him at least three separate times without provocation after he was arrested last spring on a charge of driving under the influence of alcohol. Plea issued to alleged killer 1 0 a as; 1 a police to speculate that the killer knew the victim. In an effort to get clues, police officers held a student assembly last spring at Brunswick High School, where Kirkpatrick had been a senior. Police said the phone call to the Hotline," which was broadcast on cable television, provided new leads. "I just can't believe that whoever did it got away this long," said the victim's father, Billy E.

Kirkpatrick. "I hope this comes to an end. We just want to know, basically, who did it and why." In his letter to the suspected killer, Horner wrote: "I pray that you now will come forward to relieve the hurt which Tracey's family and friends have suffered, as well as the pain which has consumed your life since that night "You and I both know we need to talk about Tracey's death, so you nnce again will have peace of mind. Call me soon. be bothering him as much as it is bothering the Kirkpatrick family andus." Cpl.

Barry W. Horner, a city police department investigator, wrote the letter to Kirkpatrick's alleged killer. "I have learned through my investigation much of what occurred on March 15, but only you know all of what happened that night," Horner wrote. "I know from that June telephone call you made to Las Vegas that the events of that night still haunt you and probably will until you share them with me." Kirkpatrick, an honor student who liked accounting and poetry, was stabbed at least seven times in the back and chest as she was closing a women's clothing store where she worked part-time to earn money for college. Police said there was no evidence that she had been sexually assaulted.

They ruled out robbery as a motive in the killing because money in the store's cash drawer remained untouched. The killer did not break into the store, which led FREDERICK (AP) Frederick police issued an emotional public letter to a suspected killer Tuesday, assuring him that he would not face the death penalty if he confessed to fatally stabbing a teen-age store clerk. The letter, published in The Frederick NewsrPoet, was address-, ed to a man icailed a national television crime hotline in Nevada asking questions linked to the March 15 slaying of Tracey Kirkpatrick, 17, of Point of Rocks. "A person who identified himself as 'Don' called a telephone number in Las Vegas in June and indicated that he had killed Tracey and that his concern was that he would receive the death penalty," Frederick Police Chief Richard Ashton said Tuesday. Frederick State's Attorney Lawrence Dorsey said that based on information from prosecutors, the crime is not a capital offense.

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