The Evening Sun from Baltimore, Maryland • 15

METRO THE EVENING SUN OBITUARIES Bl WEDNESDAY, MARCH 111981 3,000 face dismissal in CETA cutbacks -c Xv'J 1M IljlllM 111! p. "1 a inn By Michael Wentzel The Baltimore Manpower Consortium's director says the Reagan administration plans to take back 40 percent of the area's budget this year and immediately kill 3,000 Public Service Employment jobs. That proposal has not yet been announced in Washington. But Marion W. Pines, the consortium's director and head of the Mayor's Office of Manpower Resources, said, "We've been getting bombshells dropped on us for weeks, and tli is the latest one." Mrs.

Pines said at least 3,000 city public service employees, mostly black workers, could face layoffs starting March 30 and ending June 12. She said the city already has made plans for the layoffs and will try to help the affected workers find new jobs if current jobs are cut The Reagan administration has been planning to end all public service employment under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act by Sept. 30, the end of the program's current fiscal year. But Mrs. Pines said the significance of reports to her from Washington is that the administration also plans to defer or rescind a huge portion of this year's manpower budget "There's so much you can't cover it all," said Mrs.

Pines, whose agency Continued, Page 4, Col. 1 Evening Sun photo Wevman Swagger JAMES GRAHAM: "I became an officer to help people." Evening Sun photo Wevmen Swagger- Evening Sun photo April Saul ANDRE STREET: "Trying to completely turn kids around." EUGENE CONSTANTINE: Helped found Operation Recharge. 'Policemen of the Year' share concern for youths Aid cuts may make college free time to working with youths on an indiviual basis. "If we don't turn them around while they're young, nothing is going to help them," said Sergeant Street. Detective Constantine has spent countless hours coaching youths in Little League football and baseball teams in both the city and county.

"You've got to work with kids one-on-one," he said. "That's the only way to build their trust." The common denominator in the officers' jobs was their involvement with teen-agers. Police, found last year that an increasing number of the crimes were committed by juveniles. They also found themselves arresting the same young people over and over again. Devoted to protecting the people on his post, almost like a father, Officer Graham often was frustrated by the juvenile sys- tern's seeming inability to help repeat offenders.

"When you work a post long enough, you see the same kids start out with burglaries, then move to street robberies, and then to holdups," said Officer Graham. "Next thing you know, they've killed someone. It is very Sergeant Street began his involvement with youths almost by accident. By Wiley Hall 3rd The three city police officers chosen today as The Evening Sun's "Policemen of the Year," found themselves increasingly involved last year with teen-agers who accounted for more than half of the city's crime. Officer James Graham, assigned last year to a street post in Highlandtown, and Sgt.

Andre Street and Detective Eugene Con-stantine, assigned to the burglary division, developed their own equally successful approaches to the growing wave of crime. Officer Graham, a 10-year-veteran assigned to a "postage stamp post" in Butcher Hill, believes his first responsibility is to protect the residents of the area by taking criminals off the street Last year, his energetic police work led to 121 arrests, clearing 297 crimes. U. responsible for what happens up there," he says, "If crime like a burglary happens on my post, I take it personally, like a slap in the face." Sergeant Street and Detective Constantine have been just as energetic in trying to help teen-agers after they've been arrested. Sergeant Street and his wife have become foster parents to five teen-agers who he said were abandoned by the system.

He also founded "Operation devoting much of his Five years ago, he and his partner, Roger D. Brown, tracked a teen-age burglary suspect to a narrow, filthy street in southeast Baltimore. They found him hiding behind an abandoned coal furnace, dirty, shivering, weighing no more than 90 pounds. He had broken into a house and stolen a pair of shoes. The detectives later discovered he had also broken into more than 200 houses and automobiles, had been confined to Springfield State Hospital and had attempted suicide twice.

The youth described himself as the sole breadwinner, through burglary, for his nine brothers and sisters. The system saw no hope for him, however. Neither did Sergeant Street, at least not within the system. So he became the youth's foster parent Since then, he has assumed custody of four other youths, all of whom live with his family in northwest Baltimore. Burglary has been one of the city's fastest growing primes over the past few years, spreading into areas that were once considered crime-free.

Police investigated more than 17,000 burglaries last year. They expect to investigate significantly more by the end of 1981. Detective Constantine said the overwhelming number of burglaries are committed by juveniles. Continued on Page 3 Col. 1 goal tougher By Thad Martin and Kelly Gilbert President Reagan's proposed changes in student financial aid programs will make college and post-graduate education less attainable and more expensive, say local aid officers and national educators.

The proposed changes, announced yesterday, could drastically reduce the financing options open to undergraduate students, those in professional schools and their Barents at a time when roHece Bayview may get a break in its sound barrier i i. I Charles R. Anderson, landscape architecture bureau chief for the highway administration. "We'll have to see what comes of th meeting. We just can't trust what any one has to say anymore after all thcs years," said Sirkka Holm, president the Bayview Civic Association.

The distrust in the Bayview community is due mostly to its surroundings major traffic arteries such as Eastern "I got a letter here in my file from Sen. Paul Sarbanes congratulating me and the community for getting the sound barriers. The letter is dated July, 1978," Mr. Wilhelm said last week from his well-kept, two-story rowhouse across the street from The Ditch. "It's been very disappointing that it has taken this long to get these barriers.

I can't understand why this project wasn't pushed faster, considering the dangerous noise levels in our com heavy air of summer, have forced people to retreat inside to basements or behind window air conditioners. For eight years, the community has been pushing the state to build sound barriers along the four-block-long swath of expressway. Eight years of effort has produced plans, studies, promises but no barriers. Eight years has seen a community Thruway Task Force dwindle to less than a handful of people. And the hand stayed with the issue all of the eight years.

Later this week, the community will meet with State Highway Administration and state Toll Facility officials. The indications are something is finally about to move, other than cracks in rowhouse foundations caused by the heavy volume of traffic. "The people are going to get some good news, I think, but I don't want to be more specific because they should hear By Patrick Gilbert The small community of Bayview in southeastern Baltimore is bisected by a ditch 75 feet deep known as the Harbor Tunnel Thruway. Since 1957 when the thruway opened, community residents have been plagued with traffic noise levels that have gone over 90 decibels the equivalent of the noise produced by a New York subway train. Exhaust fumes, especially in the hot expenses are cuinDing aimroi out oi me reach of many low-income and middle-class families.

The changes announced by the Reagan administration would: Cut $103 million from the $2 billion Guaranteed Student Loan Program in this fiscal year and reduce it by another $73 million in fiscal 1982. The Guaranteed Student Loan' Program is the largest source of financial aid for students attending colleges in Maryland. About 44,000 students receive the loans at public and private two- and four-year institutions and graduate and professional schools, said munity," said Mr. Wilhelm, 65, who has ful, finally, to Bill Wilhelm. it from us and not the newspapers, said Continued, Page 3, Col.

2 Upset by losses, city may run Convention Center itself Jdiues Lieauier, executive uirecwr lur the Maryland Higher Education Loan' Representatives of the Hyatt Corp. By Jeff Valentine The city may drop the present operators of the deficit-ridden Baltimore Convention Center and take over management of the $50 million facility itself, Mayor Schaefer suggested today. Saying "We've never seen worse financial records" than those maintained by Facility Management the Hyatt Corp. subsidiary that has a five-year contract to manage the convention center, the Mayor told reporters, "I'm not so sure we'll continue with Hyatt iurp. Require payment of interest on GSLP loans while students are in school.

Change interest on those loans from the current 9 percent to commercial rates and limit them to families and students able to show the most need. Phase out the National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program and reduce the Health Professions Loan Program and other health career educational loan programs. Tighten eligibility requirements for; of the financial side didn't keep a close enough eye over things. It was completely out of control." Most of the problems regarding the convention center's finances, including tardy bill-paying and huge energy bills, either have been corrected or are being corrected, the Mayor said. If the city should decide to terminate its contract with Facility Management, Mr.

Schaefer said, "I would very seriously consider us operating it ourselves, although I honestly think it will cost us more." around the courtrooms for the next couple of years," Mr. Schaefer said. Asked to explain, the Mayor said, "If they owed us 1500,000 and they say they wouldn't pay it, wouldn't you get upset?" Meanwhile, Convention Center chief Eugene Beckerle began a leave of absence Monday as city financial analysts continued an intensive stud) of the facility's budget woes, said Eaili; Miller, head of communications. Mr. Beckerle has been replaced by David Skinner, president of Facility Management the Hyatt Corp.

subsidiary that has a five-year contract with the city to manage the center. Center officials said Facility Management is cooperating with the city budget analysts. "There is no battle between us and the city," an official said. Ms. Miller said she could not say how long the leave of absence would last or whether the firm had asked Mr.

Beckerle to take the leave. The Mayor said Mr. Beckerle "was not a bad guy when it came to getting conventions. But whoever was in charge have met twice in the past week with city officials including a session yesterday with city Finance Director Charles L. Benton to discuss who is liable for deficits that may range as high as $1 million.

The Mayor, who said the center's finances "were completely out of control," indicated the city is pressing the Hyatt Corp. or its subsidiary to make up the deficit. "If they don't pay us the money we think is owed us, we'll be bouncing lionunaea on rage bo, mm. U. In Washington, short memories make ax swinging easier The game is back to survival of the fittest and never mind the grandiose idea of helping people find a way to a better life.

Reagan talks about waste and fraud and Street Talk points to social programs. No one points to the Dan Rodricks iraua perpetrates ny me corporate ncn wno take all they can and return relatively little to the federal treasury, who want Reagan to cut away at the environment and consumer protection. No one calls federal support for Chrysler or increased defense spendine welfare Droerams sure that only the "truly needy" get help. Ronald Reagan can't see the truly needy from the Rose Garden. He can only see political hacks and millionaire-senators, high-powered businessmen and special-interest lobbyists who have bowed at his knee and won his heart From the Rose Garden, Reagan can't see that in certain places along the streets of America, just living through each day requires an act of survival He can't see the old woman in the blue raincoat at the supermarket in the Rotunda.

He can't see her place a roll of toilet paper, a can of orange juice, a bar of soap and a chicken breast on the check-out counter. And he can't see her get nervous and squeeze every last penny from a change purse. From the Rose Garden, Ronald Reagan can't see the man from northeast Baltimore enter the diner on Hillen street He can't see the man clutch an old sports jacket close to his chest He can't see him shiver, chain-smoke and cUow down food as if it were his last meal Ancf he can't hear the man say he lost his job, that he has In the old neighborhood there was a sidewalk. And in the sidewalk there was a metal plate that said "Work Projects Administration." There was a man in the neighborhood who used to point to this plate all the time and say: "That's what saved me." It was the man's only fond word for the federal government The WPA helped him step out of the hard times of the 1930s. Beyond that the federal government was a pain in his neck.

Today the man lives with his wife in a ranch-style home two blocks from the plate in the sidewalk. His kids have grown up and moved away. The man retired on Social Security with two cars, a cottage near the ocean-and a short memory. Today that man possesses one of the angriest dinner-table voices when the subject turns to welfare, food stamps and just about every federal government program designed, at their highest potential, to help those who are less fortunate. OK, so the man was able to pull himelf up and finally know a good life in America.

But I rew seven kids and that things got so bad last year he had to steal a pair of shoes from a department store. In his budget, Ronald Reagan is aiming, above all, at reduced services for the poor and unemployed. He says that in order to get government off the backs of the people, we have to get a lot of people off the back of government Only the "truly needy" as defined by a president who doesn't even have to carry money-will get a ride. Asked what "truly needy" meant Donald Regan, the new treasury secretary, said those who would not survive without government help. So we have a new role for government-deciding who gets to survive.

In the new formula, we leave out the "just plain needy" and the "almost needy," those people who live on the brink of poverty, who depend on food stamps to help them get by, who need medical care, subsidized housing and jobs programs. People who tumble deeper into the depths of desperation. People who steal shoes and squeeze pennies for a can of orange juice. up believing the federal government had helped whip another generation back into shape by extending a helping hand. So I get a little confused these days when older folks, like Ronald Reagan, boast that they survived the Depression then turn around and bad-mouth every social program that comes along.

I get more confused when a new administration takes over Washington and starts chopping away at a government that for all its faults, decided long ago that not everyone in America knows the way to a better life, and some people need help. So now we have Konald Reagan chopping away at social programs and attempting to en for the wealthy. "We must see to it that the voice of the average American, not that of special interests or full-time lobbyists, is the dominant one," Reagan said. Ronald Reagan says he has his fingers on the pulse of America. But he's not feeling America's heartbeat-he's feeling America's wallet And he's capitalizing on short memories of a time when the government helped not only the "truly needy" but the' "almost needy" and the "Just plain needy" know a better life..