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Thursday. March 5. 1998. Poge 13A T3 Compiled by Chandler Swallow MARCH 6 SUNRISE 6:30 am SUNSET 6 01 MARCH i SUNSETS: 01 pm SUNRISE Eastern Standard Time Hick Low Eastern Standard Time Today High Low 5:05 am 11:47 am 11:06 am 4:23 am HIGH 48 1:11 am 4:02 57 am 3:10 12:01 am 6:32 6:34 3:10 7:35 am 7:37 am 1:41 am 11:00 am II :17 am 10:53 am II 16am pm Low 4 35 pm 6:53 pm 9:06 pm :07 pm 5 43 pm 5:52 pm 5:25 pm 5:47 pm 3:52 pm 7:05 pm 6 :52 pm 8:42 pm 8:19 pm 6:45 pm 7:57 pm St. Michaels Easts Peiat Dratoa Ckestertawa Oifwr Cuakridge TUghataa Vienna Hooper Island Kent Narrows Wye Landing Cealrevttle 4:13 am 4 21 am 3:55 am 4:46 am 2 22 am 5:35 am High 11:46 pm 11:06 pm 2:18 pm 2:46 pm 10:59 pm 11:16 pm 10:52 pm 11:40 pm 9:04 pm 12:21 pm 2:11 pm 1:57 pm 12:32 pm 1:41 pm Low 5:24 pm 4:42 pm 7:54 pm 7:56 pm 4:32 pm 4:41 pm 4:14 pm 4:40 pm 2:41 pm 5:54 pm 5:41 pm 7:31 pm 7:06 pm 5:34 pm 6:46 pm High 10:40 pm 9:59 pm 1:09 pm 1:39 pm :53 pm 10:10 pm 9:46 pm 10 :33 pm 7:58 pm 11:14 pm 10 :53 pm 1:02 pm 12:48 pm 11:25 pm 12:32 pm St.

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Sunday. A good chance of rain. Windy. Highs in the 50s. Lows in the 30s to Tower 40s.

Highs from the-mid 40s to mid 50s. Lows in the upper 30s and 40s. NEW MOON RAIMOON The AccuWeather forecast for noon, Thursday, March 5. Bands separate high temperature zones lor the day. KlASTQUAIiH TOST OUAKTBt 40s 30s 10s Nations Temperature Extremes High Tuesday 80 at Imperial, California Low Wednesday 3 at Minot Mb, I), and West Yellowstone.

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Tomnarnhira Minat. I il IV i viiisn-iMiui Lr a 410-763-9300 1000 Sponsored by The Talbot Bank COLD WARM STATIONARY 1996 AccuWeslher, Inc. School closing information I BALTIMORE EASTERN Ciamtaimal WASHINGTON D.C. SHORE 3Atam AREA AREA 5,6 moderate FORECAST FOR TODAY FORECAST FOR TODAY 7,8.9 high 10-up very high Ptmsun man low E3 ESI GUI EZ3 E3 E3 SHOWERS RAIN STORMS FLURRIES SNOW (Ct 0 frxSX 410-763-9300 SUNNY PT. CLOUDY CLOUDY Five inducted into Maryland Women's Hall of Fame can igprj 410-763-9300 Enter 4-digit selection: Maryland Results 1856 Delaware Results 1863 Maryland ANNAPOLIS The Maryland Commission for Women and the Women Legislators of Maryland announced the 1998 inductees to the Maryland Women's Hall of Fame.

The five women Constance Ross Beims of Harford County, Elaine Ryan Hedges, Ph.D. of Baltimore, Mary Katherine God-dard of Kent County, Mary Carter Smith of Baltimore, and Martha Ellicott Tyson of Howard and Harford counties were inducted into the Maryland Women's Hall of Fame here Tuesday night during a ceremony in the Joint Hearing Room of the Legislative Services Building. During the 14th annual induction ceremony, Gov. Parris N. Glendening said, "Throughout history, men have been honored simply for their accomplish-c metits.

Nowwe honor women ndt because they are women, or someone's wife, but because they have done incredible things for all people." According to Joanne Saltzberg, executive director of the Maryland Commission for Women, the five inductees represent both historical and contemporary women who all have made significant and outstanding contributions to the economic, political, cultural and social life of the state. Each provides visible role models of achievement for tomorrow's female leaders. Contemporary inductees included Constance Ross Beims, Elaine Ryan Hedges, Ph.D., and Mary Carter Smith. An educator, university official, volunteer, wife and mother, Beims has helped to open the doors for the inclusion of women in all levels of governmental and academic decision-making. Currently, she serves on Maryland's Commission on Judicial Disabilities, which investigates citizen complaints against lawyers and judges.

She is the first woman to be Maryland's AppofiSUtieflt Secretary and Deputy Chief of Staff and was the guiding force in establishing University of Maryland's Commission on Women. She served as vice president and executive assistant to the president of the University of Maryland Baltimore County, where she teaching tool, and as an important voice withing the African American culture. Smith, designated as the official Griot of Baltimore in 1983 and as Griot of Maryland, earned a Lifetime Achievement award from the National Storytelling Association. Smith, whose likeness has been installed in the Great Blacks in Wax Museum, is celebrated for her monumental contribution to Maryland, to the United States, and to the world for her sustained efforts to preserve and perpetuate storytelling as an art, a teaching method, a form of entertainment, and as a method of perpetuating history and cultural expression. Smith told two stories last evening, one during the ceremony and one at the reception at Government House.

Historical inductees include Mary Katherine Goddard and Martha Ellicott Tyson Goddard, a printer, newspaper publisher and post mistress, launched Baltimore's first newspaper, The Maryland Journal, in 1773. Baltimore's only printer was instrumental in securing funding for UMBC's $19 million library tower. Hedges, nationally and internationally recognized as a scholar of the first rank and a creative innovator in higher education, stood at the forefront in the development of the field of Women's Studies- in the 1970s. As a founding member and advisor to the National Women's Studies Association, Hedges' contributions proved to be crucial to the continued growth of the field. The program that she founded at Towson University is recognized as one of the best nationally.

She has written 12 books and scores of articles related to women that are used in college classrooms nationwide. As a Maryland educator, her work has led, to tremendous educational advance's" hT'the State to the present and future benefit of Maryland women and women throughout the world. William Hedges, Elaine's husband, accepted the award on her behalf. Mary Carter Smith is nationally known for revising and promoting storytelling as an art, as a during the American Revolution, she printed the first copy of the Declaration of Independence to include the names of the signers. In addition, she became a post mistress in Baltimore in 1775, probably the first women so appointed in the colonies and the only one to hold such an important post after the Declaration of Independence.

She held the post for 14 years until she was relieved on the grounds that the position should Be held by someone who could travel more and superintend the southern post offices. At the time, it was believed that women could not travel. Tyson, an avid educator, anti-slavery advocate and a member of the Society of Friends (Quakers), founded Swarthmore College in I860; it was the second coeducational college In the United States. Tyson worked to further educational opportunities for women and slaves. And, here award was accepted by Martha Clark Crist, Martha Ellicott Tyson's great- great-great- granddaughter.

BALTIMORE (AP) These Maryland lotteries were drawn Wednesday night: Pick 3: 1-5-7 (one, five, seven) Pick 4: 0- 5-5-5 (zero, five, five, five) Cash in Hand: 1- 5-10-12-19-20-25 (one, five, ten, twelve, nineteen, twenty, twenty-five) EKrTOakf rMaryland lotteries were-drawn Wednesday afternoon: Pick 3: 3-5-6 (three, five, six) Pick 4: 3-0-2-9 (three, zero, two, nine) Delaware Committee urges state to adopt new way of counting students Current check is one time at beginning of year DOVER, Del. (AP) These Delaware lotteries were drawn Wednesday night: Play Three: 4-8-1 (four, eight, one) Play Four: 4-4-7-3 (four, four, seven, three) These Delaware lotteries were drawn Wednesday afternoon: Play Three: 9-7-3 (nine, seven, three) Play Four: 1-1-0-2 (one, one, zero, two) By EUGENE GOLL Education News Service BALTIMORE Maryland school systems might need to Using the average daily attendance method, the ratio of fewer students would range from 12.4 percent less in Baltimore schools to a decrease of 4.4 percent in Howard County. The report argues that this approach would serve as an incentive to encourage better attendance. A third possibility is the average daily numbers method that, the report says, would be "based upon the sum of days present and absent of all students when school is in session." It adds that nationally, "it is the most common method" and would result in a less than 1 percent decline in student count. The report explains that this approach should tend to induce the systems to encourage students to stay in school.

The downside is that it could mean more work "at the school building level." change the way they tally the number of students, which is a student enrollment. The head-count also plays a key role with a number of other programs for which the state gives aid. Peiffer added that the state education department's auditors now check schools in Baltimore city several times a year. Schools there have the highest drop out rate among the school systems. In 1996-97, Baltimore received the highest amount of state aid per student with $2,613 each.

The current method of counting on a single day helps subdivisions with the higher absentee rates. The report lists enrollment statewide in 1995-96 as 805,544. Another approach is average daily attendance, which is better for systems where students miss less school. It indicates that if this approach had been used, the enrollment would have been 747,468 rather than 805,544. Panel one-time check to count students.

It is easier for the schools and school systems to use since they measure them only once annually. The report notes that the method fails to consider changes that occur over the school year. Students often transfer to different schools when families move. It is common that some students quit school as the year progresses. Ronald A.

Peiffer, communications director for the state education department, was once a high school teacher in Anne Arundel County. He recalled that with a class of less able students at the beginning of the school year, it was not unusual to finish with only 60 percent of them still enrolled. Another state education department communications official, Larry Chamblin, said state auditors are concerned that the enrollment count be accurate. He stated that a crucial ingredient of the basic state aid formula is the primary determinant for the payment of state aid. The current method of counting students requires Maryland's 24 school systems to inventory all students enrolled on Sept.

30 each year. A committee chaired by deputy state school superintendent A. Skipp Sanders prepared a report for the Maryland General Assembly, currently in session. The committee first presented the report to the State Board of Education for information. The legislature became involved in 1996 when its auditors expressed concern about the process of tallying students.

They reacted to criticism offered by auditors who questioned the method of counting students on a single day, especially so early in the school year. The auditors, who examine state agencies on a two-year cycle, determined that there were flaws in the process. According to the report by the Sanders committee, Maryland is one of 10 states depending on a Pakistani man shot in tribal Romeo and Juliet from page 1A Resolution from page 1A Butler, which they felt should be asked to each applicant during the interviews. These questions include: Why do you want to be the police chief in Easton? Do you think there is enough manpower in the police department? What are your thoughts as far as crime and drugs in town? Would you make any changes within the police department? After completing the interviews, an executive session is scheduled for March 16 to agree on the new chief. The chief will be announced and introduced at a regularly scheduled town council meeting on April 6.

Friday and Butler said they are expected to discuss how they will interview the candidates. Chase will sit in on this meeting, but he is not part of the panel, said Butler. After he retires in May, Chase will still be available as needed to assist with any questions the new hire may have. The interviews are scheduled to begin March 11 at 9 a.m., but Butler said depending on the length of each one, it is unknown when all the interviews will be completed. Butler did say however, he selected eight candidates (to be interviewed) out of the 21 officiers who applied for the job.

Recently, town council members as well as residents compiled questions and submitted them to 1,000 people died in riots between Pathans and Mohajirs in Karachi after a Pathan bus driver hit and killed a young Mohajir girl. Afridi turned herself in last week and remains in police custody. The couple has been charged with having sex outside marriage, a crime in this Muslim country, even though Ahson has produced their marriage certificate. Women's rights activists say as many as 500 women are in jail throughout Pakistan under this law, which they claim is discriminatory. Ahson was on his way to answer the charge when he was shot.

More than 250 Pathan men had gathered outside the courthouse to protest the marriage, and police said the gunmen were waiting for Ahson on an upper floor. "We were walking up the stairs to the courtroom when the gunmen opened fire from a floor above," said Obaidullah, one of several policemen guarding Ahson. For 10 minutes, bullets ricocheted off the courthouse walls. Police reinforcements fired back gas. When the shooting stopped, eight people were arrested, including Jabbar Afridi, the father of the bride; Abbass Afridi, her brother; and Niazbat Khan, the man her family claimed she had previously married.

KARACHI. Pakistan (AP) The man whose marriage to the woman he loved landed them both in jail and sparked riots by their rival ethnic groups was shot and critically injured Wednesday when he arrived at court to face charges of having extramarital sex. Police arrested the bride's father, brother and the man her family wanted her to wed for the shooting of Kanwar Anson. Doctors said Ahson was fighting for his life Wednesday night with gunshot wounds in the chest, abdomen-and leg. One bullet severed his spinal cord; another was lodged near his heart.

Ahson, a member of the Mohajir community in his 20s, and Riffat Afridi, an 18-year-old Pathan, eloped last month against her family's wishes. The marriage sparked riots in Karachi that killed two people, and a council of Pathan elders sentenced Afridi to death, saying she had dishonored her family. As night settled on Karachi, police stepped up patrols and security forces stood guard in armored personnel carriers, hoping to ward off possible ethnic violence sparked by Ahson's shooting. Ethnic Pathans, who are from Pakistan's conservative Northwest Frontier province have often clashed with Mohajirs, Muslims who migrated from India after the subcontinent was partitioned by the British in 1947. Several years ago, more than this is a federal mission if I've ever seen one," said the National Guard's Howard Freedlander, an Easton resident.

The fair thing to do would be to restore the full military funeral, particularly with the current federal budget surplus and increased defense spending. "It's one of those things that was promised to our veterans," he said. Blount seemed bittersweet about the legislation. He questioned the effectiveness of resolutions, saying they usually "end up in a trash can or file someplace." And he seemed unsure about who should pay for such funerals. His bill would require a state budget allocation.

The National Guard maintained the services were the federal government's responsibility. But as a veteran, "I sit here sad-faced and chagrined it just saddens me, and at my age now, facing this, the one thing I would like to have is a military funeral." "They can't even give us 'Taps' when we die. What kind of thank you is that?" Blount asked. organize an honor guard from the National Guard or veteran's organization for military burial services. Del.

George Owings, D-Calvert, Anne Arundel, and Del. Anthony O'Donnell, R-Calvert, St. Mary's, are lead sponsors of the House bill. It is scheduled for a committee hearing March 19. "Our main concern is you go up to Cheltenham and you don't even get a bugle or anything," said Dick RahUl, commander of the VFW Post 1800 in Indian Head.

"It goes to everything, it goes to medical benefits and everything. You signed a contract with us, we signed a contract with you, and now you're trying to renege on us." Dyson said two federal measures were recently introduced that would reinstate military funerals by using a state's National Guard, but Dyson said individual states should not have to pay for the services. An official with Maryland's National Guard estimated the annual cost at $600,000. "We believe it's a federal duty YMCA Aerobics 820 YMCA Adult Fitness 4821 YMCA Senior Fitness 4822 YMCA Special Events 4824 Conditioning and Preparation 5030 Equipment. Safety and Injuries 5031 Fitness Techniques 5032 Aspects and Results 5033 Health and Diet I 5034 Health and Diet II 5035 Health and Diet III 5036 Psychotyicalrysiological 5037.