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ncMAM YLAINU 30 Pauline takes a new turn tied to the railroad tracks THE SUN Racism charges flare up again in Hyattstown MM NOTES, from ID lie (ate civil rights leader with Gov. William Donald Schaefer. "He's called a big spender by some," Mr. Davis said of Mr. Schaefer.

"But to me he Is a hardworking man who Is committed to the people of this state." Mr. Davis later admitted that some, of his fellow black lawmakers "teased" him about comparing Dr. King, an apostle of non-violence and suffering," with the bumptious and combative Governor 'Schaefer. "A lot of people didn't like the analogy," Mr. Davis said.

"They thought it was Inappropriate." But he defended his speech, saying Mr. Schaefer had demonstrated deep for the poor In his two years In the State House. "What Martin Luther King did In Schaefer Is trying to do In his arena," Mr. Davis said. Now, Schaefer Is active In the political are-na, makes him less glorious tthan a Martin Luther King.

But the goals that Schaefer espouses are the same as the goals that Martin Luther King espoused Just before he was assassinated." rVt A Mrs the governor's battle with the legislature over 'Spending the General Assembly's recommended limit on Mr. Schaefer's spending. "I've told him on numerous occasions I'd like to talk to him, but he won't talk to me," Mr. Levitan said. Last week, though, Mr.

Schaefer spoke. His budget was unveiled last week, and $3.5 million for a hightech satellite campus of the University of Maryland for Rockvllle a project the governor had promised to Mr. Levitan and Montgomery County was nowhere to be found. "It's an unbelievable slap In the face," said Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller D-Prince George's.

"But It's politics: Don't explain, don't complain, get even." UNWELCOME Delegate Nathaniel T. Oaks, D-Baltimore, who faces sentencing Jan. 30 for his conviction on corruption charges, was persona non grata at a party at the Governor's Mansion last week. Gov. William Donald Schaefer's close friend and frequent companion, Hilda Mae Snoops, awarded him that designation.

Some of Oaks' fellow black lawmakers are upset. The party was a joint effort of the governor and the legislature's protocol committees. Mr. Davis, chairman of the House protocol panel, said he made it clear Oaks should be admitted to the party. "Our rules are such that every delegate receives invitations to all of our delegate functions," he said.

But when Mr. Davis showed up at the mansion gates the evening of the reception, he found that Mrs. Snoops had taken Oaks' name off the list. Mr. Davis suggested he was not upset with Mrs.

Snoops, but one fellow lawmaker described him as "livid" over the Incident. Mrs. Snoops did not respond to a request for comment. Mr. Davis and some other black legislators felt the snub adds insult to injury, since Oaks already faces a possible jail term and will lose his seat in the House when he is sentenced.

Mr. Davis, who once had a fist fight with Oaks in an Annapolis restaurant, called Oaks a "warm-hearted, honest person" whose "mouth, his abrasfveness, has gotten him Into a lot of trouble." RACIAL, from ID heard the exchange between Mr. Dodson and Lieutenant Bird Indicated that they heard no racial epithets. Neither Mr. Dodson nor Lieutenant Bird would comment publicly on the argument.

Mr. Chisholm said a committee of local citizens with no department affiliations has been assembled, along with a black firefighter and a white firefighter from another department, to interview the 10 to 20 people who reportedly witnessed the incident. He said the panel Intended to conduct the Interviews, regardless of County Council action this week. Mr. Chisholm also charged that the council was rushing to Judgment without waiting for the results of the department's investigation.

"When they Introduced that funding resolution, they already had Kevin convicted," he said. Of more concern than Just the Dodson incident, according to representatives of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and county officials, Is the perception of a tolerance for racism at the department, especially In light of an earlier incident. Last March 31, volunteer Fire Chief Michael A. May called a black co-worker "nigger boy" during a training session, but he said the remark was meant in jest. He said it was, typical of the way blacks and whites Joked with each other there.

At first, Mr. May refused a Fire and Rescue Commission demand to step down, but he resigned In anger May 1 1 after the County Council voted to withhold more -than $70,000 from the department. Two days before the alleged racial incident involving Mr. Dodson, Mr. May easily won re-election to the fire chiefs post, a vote that county and NAACP officials Interpreted as a gesture of defiance by Hyattstown firefighters.

Reacting to the Jan. 3 vote. County Council President Michael Gudis and County Executive Sidney Kramer Issued a Joint statement announcing the possibility that they would withhold county funds, contingent on Mr. May's behavior over the next few months. "If these latest allegations about Mr.

Dodson are true, then It Just goes to show that there Is a general atmosphere In some parts of the county that tolerates this kind of language," said Roscoe Nix, head of the Montgomery NAACP chapter. Discussing the impact of Mr. May's resignation as fire chief and his re-election eight months later, a spokeswoman for the county's Human Relations Commission said the Hyattstown fire department appeared to be "a culture all of its own." "Maybe we can hope to change their behavior, but probably not their attitudes," said Elyse Rothschild. "It takes a very long time to change attitudes, If ever." ATTENTION, PLEASE iiMifWhen Montgomery County was voting for former Attorney General Stephen H. Sachs in the 1986 guber-i natorial campaign, its most powerful state senator, Laurence Levitan, was In William Donald Schaef-er's corner.

After Mr. Schaefer became governor and was searching for Washington-area support for his controversial twin stadium project In again Senator Levitan was there to back him. But personal relations with the mercurial governor rise and fall and Mr. Levitan's have been In a free fall lately. That Budget and Tax, it's really tough, to deal with," Mr.

Schaefer said last week of the Senate committee Mr. Levitan chairs. "You don't have anybody to talk to." As for Mr. Levitan, the governor complained that all he's Interested in doing is cutting the governor's budget. "He never talks about 'peo- exasperated governor said.

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