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Page 5A Thursday. June 4. I'WS Maryland THE STAR 1 1 Beach replenishment WW expected to cause some inconvenience i It) do," said Howard. "Some areas of the beach have been hit harder than others." The contractor is expected to have the restoration completed from the Delaware line down to 97th Street by the end of June, she said, then head north for work in Delaware, The rest of the Maryland restoration program will be completed after Labor Day. The project is a good bit bigger than originally planned because of the northeasters that struck the Atlantic coast this winter, two storms in three weeks' time.

Originally, the state, Worcester County and the Town of Ocean City had planned to pump about 850,000 cubic yards of sand onto the beaches. The additional sand is needed to rebuild the dunes keeping them at a standard 85 feet at their widest point and extend some stretches of beach to at least 100 feet, Howard said. The federal government is picking up 53 percent of the $8.9 million cost. The state will pay about one-half of the remainder and Worcester County and Ocean City will split the rest. For some years, the local governments and the state have been building a beach replenishment fund with the state kicking in about $1 million annually.

Howard said that even paying half the cost of this year's project, the fund will still have $5 million to $6 million left for future projects. Project making its way up shoreline of Ocean City By TODD SPANGLER Associated Press Writer An $8.9 million beach replenishment project is under way along Maryland's Atlantic Coast, shoring up dunes scoured by back-to-back northeasters this winter. A contractor began pumping some 1.3 million cubic yards of sand from several miles offshore onto Ocean City's beaches last weekend. The work will result in some inconvenience to tourists for the rest of June, said Nancy Howard, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Natural Resources. Any time while sand is being pumped from the ocean bottom to the dunes, three blocks of beach will be closed to resort guests and swimmers as tractors and trucks reshape the beach.

The contractor started pumping sand at 142nd Street and will move north to the Delaware line. Then, the contractor will work from 142nd Street south to 134th Street. Then the project will skip down to 114th Street and continue south, Howard said. "There are sections of the beach where we don't have to pump sand and places where we Marianne Dogan clutches her daughter Sarah, 2, as she recalls how they survived a tornado which destroyed their Frostburg home. They hid under a desk in the basement.

Sprained ankle is worst tornado injury reported Gambling lobbyists put down $600,000 to soften up legislators emergency "We were under there two or three times before it hit," Dugan said Wednesday above the din of chain saws and hammers in her devastated middle-class neighborhood. Her next-door neighbor Marty Connor said tornado warnings from the National Weather Service pegged the impact, at about 9:45 p.m., almost to the minute. The storm cut a swath 15 mUes long and up to a quarter-mile widfe 'acrpssplhei wefattoer servioe i "sai'd. 'There werrseverar smaller tornadoes spinning inside the one large tornado, Walston said. Maryland Emergency Man-' agement Agency Director David McMillion, who flew over the area, said 30 to 35 buildings may have been destroyed and up to 100 more damaged.

Damage was still being assessed, but it was clear the most hard hit areas were Frostburg, a college town of about 8,100, and Clarysville, its smaller neighbor to the east. "All you could hear was the glass breaking and you could hear things cracking," said Richard Goldsworthy, whose three-bedroom home was reduced to just a bathroom and laundry room. Frostburg Mayor John U. AP IASERPHOTO Warnings helped By DAVID DISHNKAl' Associated Press Writer FROSTBURG (AP) A tor nado with winds up to 210 mph made a direct hit on Marianne Dugan's house, blasting it off its foundation as she huddled with her two children and their golden retriever beneath a metal desk in the basement. The dirtily car1 limded'; 'on side atop the 11 They survived without seriotfs' injury, like scores of other Allegany and Garrett county families whose homes were damaged or destroyed Tuesday night by a tornado that skipped along the western Maryland mountains for 15 miles.

"It is one of the strongest tornadoes ever in the entire state of Maryland," said Dewey Walston, a National Weather Service meteorologist. "Tornadoes, the strong ones, just go right up and down the hills." Residents and officials attributed the lack of deaths or serious injuries the worst reported was a sprained ankle to ample warnings on television, radio and police scanners, reinforced by iWdL 2nd, 4-organ transplant done MIAMI (AP) A team of surgeons was working Wednesday to save the life of a 13-year-old Maryland boy who needed a second, four-organ transplant in less than three weeks. Doctors from the University of Miami were giving Daniel Canal of Wheaton a new small intestine, stomach, liver and pancreas, after his body violently rejected the first set of new organs he got in an identical procedure May 15. On Sunday, Daniel's body rejected the small intestine. That rejection, in turn, so damaged the new stomach, liver and pancreas that they needed to be replaced again.

Montejo said donated adult organs, carved smaller to fit Daniel's body, were flown to Miami from Pittsburgh on Tuesday night. P.G. Council approves Oxon Hill project UPPER MARLBORO (AP) Plans for National Harbor, one of the largest entertainment and retail developments ever proposed for the Washington region, nave been approved by the Prince George's County Council. Tuesday night's 8-1 vote helped developer Milton Peterson clear the most significant hurdle for the $1 billion project slated to be built along the Potomac River just south of the Capital Beltway in Oxon Hill. "This will be one of the finest project developments on the East Coast," said Councilwoman Dorothy Bailey, D-Temple Hills.

But lawmakers are requiring that Peterson address noise and traffic concerns before he starts construction. Plans for the resort still must be approved by the National Capital Planning Commission. The commission is conducting an environmental study of the project and is not expected to vote on site plans until either the end of this year or 1n early 1999. i Rouse to build new community in Howard ELLICOTT CITY (AP) The Rouse Co. will be allowed to build a new community of 1,200 homes in Howard County, a sort of miniature version of its highly successful planned community of Columbia.

The project approved Tuesday by the Howard County Zoning Board also will include 1.6 million square feet of offices, stores and other commercial space on 522 acres of land in the southeastern part of the county. The 4-1 vote came after months of debate about a project that raised concerns in neighboring Montgomery and Prince George's counties about increased traffic in an area already struggling with traffic congestion and other problems related to growth. The only negative vote came from Dennis R. Schrader, a Republican whose county council district includes the North Laurel area where the development will be located. "I think we are making a huge mistake on traffic," Schrader said.

Tellabs to acquire Ciena for $7. IB in stocks BALTIMORE (AP) Staking out a bigger niche in an industry dominated by giants such as Lucent and Nortel, Tellabs announced Wednesday it was acquiring Corp. in a $7.1 billion deal that will combine the two telecommunications companies', expertise in increasing and managing bandwidth for carriers. deal between Ciena, which makes devices that enable fiber optic lines to carry more data, and Tellabs which provides switching equipment to route large amounts of data, will enable the combined company to better respond to needs of the rapidly changing industry, Tellabs' president and chief executive Michael J. Birck said.

"The message is pretty clear, if you're going to be a major participant in the telecommunications equipment business in the 21st century, you're going to have to be pretty broadly based," Birck said. Ciena President and CEO Patrick Nettles said Tellabs was interested in the new product line Ciena will bring while Ciena was attracted by Tellabs' established customer connections. Under the deal, Tellabs will exchange one of its shares for each of Ciena's 101.6 million shares of stock. Ciena, based in Linthicum, would become a subsidiary of Tellabs, which would retain its name. Tellabs, based in Lisle, 111., makes switches that help phone companies and others manage data delivery.

lsaaaaaaaaaM jsis AP LASERPHOTO Bambacus said "we are really," that there were no deaths' or serious injuries. Bambacus' took refuge from the storm in his cellar. "It was scary, very-scary," he said. Damage assessment teams' were examining the wreckage arrive at an estimate that McMtf-' lion said could reach $5 million. The state will seek federal' assistance enabling qualifying' home and business owners to1 receive low-interest loans, according to Butch Kinerney, spokesman for MEMA.

'We'fe 'going "to try to give every help we can to every single homeowner and farmer," said Gov. Parris Glendening, who briefly toured the area. McMillion said about 60 homes were without electricity Wednesday. Allegheny Energy Inc. was working to restore the power asi other agencies including the! American Red Cross and state police, transportation and insur-l ance agencies provided other help to the storm victims.

Among them were Bert and, Marlene Mason and their two teen-' age daughters, who weathered the! storm in their basement. When it; was over, their roof was gone.i walls were buckled and the house was sitting askew on its founda-1 tion. A car belonging to one of the! girls was upside down in front of; the house. 1 "We'll be all right. We're all; safe, that's the main thing," Mrs Mason said.

Marianne Dugan's son who turned 5 Wednesday, told his father, who was away on busi-; ness, what had happened in a telephone call. "He said, 'My house is broken. Come and fix That broke my' heart more than anything," Mrs. Dugan said. Frostburg State University President Catherine Gira spent Tuesday night in a dormitory, where more than 27 people spent Tuesday night after the storms.

Debris driven by high winds smashed a hole in Gira's bedroom wall six feet in diameter and a smaller hole in her dining room wall. While hiding in the basement, "I heard wind but I had no idea the house was damaged as much as it was," Gira said. "It could have been a lot worse," she said. "Lives were spared." NEED INFO? Call IdS, 410-763-9300 Enter four-digit code for the selection you'd like to hear. Medical Orthopedic What is Orthopedics? Pediatric Orthopedics Severs Disease Clubfoot Ctftiopedic Surgical Techniques 4130 Soorts-Related Injuries 4131 Arthroscopic Surgery ACL Reconstruction Herniated Discs Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Rotator Cuff Disease Tennts Elbow Heel Problems 4132 4133 4134 4135'.

4136 4137 4138 (irrHMMHa: 4125 4126 4127 4128 4129 Tobacco also spends big ANNAPOLIS (AP) Proponents of gambling expansion in Maryland spent more than $600,000 trying to influence lawmakers during this year's General Assembly session, according to lobbying reports. Gambling interests spent the money trying to convince legislators to legalize slot machines at Maryland's ailing race tracks, though Gov. Parris Glendening's adamant opposition gave the effort little chance. State law requires lobbyists to disclose compensation, expenses and other money they spend in an attempt to influence legislators on behalf of their clients. More than 550 lobbyists registered with the state Ethics Commission filed more than 1,700 disclosure forms to meet this week's deadline.

The (Baltimore) Sun reported the disclosures Wednesday. Gambling represents just part of the $20 million that special interest groups spend in Annapolis every year. The reports seem to indicate special interests matched the $20 million spending level reached last year, said John E. O'Donnell, executive director of the Ethics Commission. The money spent to influence the legislative process continued to draw criticism from Common Cause of Maryland, a government watchdog group.

"The ability of special interests to buy their way into government is the single most damaging factor in our political reality today," said Kathleen S. Skullney, the group's executive director. Lobbyists for, the tobacco industry spent more than $325,000 trying to influence lawmakers on several issues. The tobacco lobby tried, without success, to stop a change in state law that will benefit the state's $13 billion lawsuit against cigarette makers. The bill, pushed forward by state Attorney General J.

Joseph Curran, allows Maryland to sue on its own behalf instead of having to sue on behalf of each of the thousands of Medicaid patients. It will also allow the state to use statistical evidence to prove its claims and allow tobacco companies to use statistical evidence to rebut the state's claims. But tobacco interests did help prevent passage of a measure that would have restricted the sale of cigarettes in vending machines. Anti-smoking groups including the American Cancer Society spent roughly $115,000 to boost the Curran bill and other measures. Meanwhile, Orioles owner and attorney Peter G.

Angelos spent $113,600 to attempt to promote his interests, including the Curran measure, which could provide hundreds of millions of dollars in fees for his law firm if the state wins the lawsuit. But the bill also limited Angelos' fee to 12.5 percent of any recovery, only half of what his contract initially called for. Finally, the Delmarva Poultry Industry Inc. spent more than $140,000 trying to soften the governor's water quality bill to reduce the amount of agricultural runoff seeping in to Maryland's waterways. Crab Navy Point St Mcnaels 41 0-745-2900 13" I Anne Arundel police patrols meant to end bomb threats ANNAPOLIS (AP) Anne Arundel County police are conducting early-morning bomb sweeps this week at many county schools, in an attempt to avoid the ongoing problems of bomb threats during the final days of classes.

Thursday is the last day of school. Before schools open, police bring in bomb-sniffing dogs to conduct searches, in all 12 county high schools and several middle schools. Since the start of the 180-day school year there have been 160 bomb scares. In each case, students and teachers have been evacuated, but no devices were found. The sweeps are meant to prevent more evacuations.

If there is a bomb scare, students may still be evacuated depending on the circumstances, said county police Officer Debbie Mabe. This is an aerial view of the home of Marianne Dugan who survived the tornado which destroyed her home. The Renuhlican Club of Q.A. Co. 3rd Annual Family Picnic 10D8TGR UIGC1T Lobster or King Thursday, June 4, 1998 a Steamed to perfection, served with baked potato and salad.

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