The Evening Sun from Baltimore, Maryland • 17

THE EVENING SUN, Wednesday, March 11, 1981 B3 Police candidates for award 1 is Evtnlng Sun photo-Georgt H. Cook Traffic rolls on Harbor Tunnel thruway which divides Bayview community. Residents suffer from exhaust fumes and high traffic noise levels but have been unable to get sound barriers built. Bayview may get a break in thruway sound barrier plex," Mr. Anderson said.

Other engineering studies had to be" done and finally the state had a project' that would work. The $2.5 to 3 million' project will be paid for from toll thruway cut The state said the cost of, such a project would be too high. The state said it could erect sound-barrier walls at street level, but residents said the 20-foot walls would look like the local version of the Berlin Wall By 1974, the energy crisis caused drastic drop in motorist use of toll facilities and the state told the community there wouldn't be enough toll revenues to fund a project "We realized this highway noise problem in Bayview was the most serious one in the state. So it was decided to 'rather quickly. I can't see why it took the state so long to get something along the thruway," Mrs.

Holm said. Mr. Anderson has a simple answer to that. "In all of the studies we have done for this project from around the country, the experts have told us it is one of the most complex projects for highway noise abatement ever," Mr. Anderson said.

The complexity started in 1973 when the community told state transportation1 officials it wanted a lid put across the, Continued from Page Bl avenue and Ponca and Oldham streets, and Interstate 95, which winds its way through heavy industry east and south of the thruway. Bayview is continuously enveloped in air or noise pollution. The community has tried to fight, but without much success. "We were able to get the city Interstate Division to help get a sound barrier constructed east of Umbra street to abate the noise from I-9S after we lost the fight to stop that road. And we got it construct a sound-barrier wall starting roughly halfway down the cut That way the wall would only extend about 10 feet above street level," Mr.

Anderson said. Studies showed that the highway noise would ricochet back and forth between the walls and bounce over the, walls to the houses. "So we came up with a fan wall or a zigzag wall and we found that with that design and by sloping the wall the problem was eliminated. But the design had to be changed to include sound barriers on the street overpasses. All of these studies took time and were very com Mr.

Wilhelm read Senator Sarbanes', 1978 letter again as a convoy of huge I-tractor-trailers roared through "Maybe after this week's meeting," the senator's letter will finally be acca-' rate," said the one-man Thruway Task--' Force. General Assembly Assembly gears up for debate on appellate court abortion ruling These are the other candidates nominated for The Evening Sun of the Year" award by their departments. The officers were honored today at a luncheon at Martin's West: BALTIMORE CITY-Officers Kerry G. Councill, James M. Eigner, Marvin E.

Sydnor, Marcellus Ward, Robert E. Cohen, David M. Lipscomb, Roosevelt Anderson, David J. Brown and Harry E. Roop; police agents, Douglas N.

Biales and Johnny Fisher, Sgt. James K. Wells, and Detectives Jennifer M. Wehr, George L. Klein Jr.

and Broderick N. Kinkead. BALTIMORE COUNTY-Officers Wayne T. Ritter, James H. Diggs, Kevin W.

Koslosky, William T. Levering, Jeffrey M. Caslin, Calvin I. Wink Joseph M. Rennie, James C.

Bonsall, William M. Valentine, Glenn E. Pearce, Frank N. Shonk, Mark G. Spurrier, George W.

Eplin and Alvin E. Allen Jr. HARFORD COUNTY-Cpl. Richard Aiello and Deputy Roy Mitchell. HOWARD COUNTY-Officer David E.

Suggs. ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY-De-tective Ray A. Thrift and Officers Michael D. Feeney and Larry A. Hartman 3 'Policemen of Year' share interest in youth Continued from Page Bl "It's no secret that 50 to 60 percent of the crimes we handle are committed by juveniles," he said.

"We were continually seeing the same kids, over and over again," added Sergeant Street. "None of the juvenile services agencies seemed to be working." To provide an alternative, "Operation Recharge" tries to provide the teen-agers with the individual attention they need. "What we're trying to do is rebuild the kid from the bottom up, completely turn them around," he said. "We've had some success with it to." Sergeant Street believes the problems that lead youngsters to commit burglaries go much deeper than the juvenile system is prepared to deal with. Peer pressure plays a role, he believes, along with misplaced priorities that put greater emphasis on immediate material gains than on planning for the future.

Working with Bill Cole, a trained hypnotist, he discovered many of the youths suffered from schizophrenia and that they assumed a different identity, complete with changes in voice and mannerisms, when they committed crime. Sergeant Street said many of the youths he arrested came from broken homes and lacked strong father figures. "They get arrested. They're told to report to their counselor once a week. The counselor could provide a father figure; he might be the only man they come in contact with.

But he's too busy; his caseload is too big to give the type of attention to individuals. The detectives hope that by providing that father image, they can help youths change their priorities. Glen Burnie youth charged in holdup A 16-year-old Glen Burnie youth was arrested early today near his home and charged with the armed robbery of a tavern on Furnace Branch road. Scott Allen Cooper, of the 100 block Of North Meadow road, was charged by Anne Arundel County police with the robbery of Dietrich's Tavern, which occurred shortly after midnight. Police said a robber displaying a small-caliber handgun entered the tavern and demanded money from the barmaid, Joan Anne Cadoret, 42, of Stall place in Baltimore.

Police said the robber escaped with about $286. Police said they were given a description of the robber by tavern employees. The suspect was arrested on a nearby street not long after the holdup. He is being held at Northern District station pending a bond hearing today before a District Court commissioner. Hit-and-run car kills Pasadena man, 1 8 An 18-year-old Pasadena man was struck and killed in a hit-and-run incident late last night on Waterford road in Pasadena.

Police believe Mark Edwin Gatzke of the 8100 block Waterford road was walking south on that street about 11:15 p.m. when he was struck. He was taken to North Arundel Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. Anne Arundel County police said they had no witnesses and no description of the vehicle. more restrictive than what was heard the year before.

Sen. Francis X. Kelly, D-Baltimore County 5th, a leader of the anti-abortionists, said there are enough votes in the Senate for even tougher language," "but I don't sense any movement in the House." The result, he predicts, will be-the same language as last year. He said anti-abortionists will try to get language in the budget that would' forbid state employees from having' abortions paid for from their healtlr benefits. He does not think it will pass" the House.

question, and that's exactly what the court said." Del. Raymond E. Beck, R-Carroll 4th, the House minority leader, said last year during discussion of the abortion issue that the specter of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that might have mandated abortions was a factor in the discussions. As a result, the assembly worded the budget so funding for Medicaid abortions could change if the court said the money had to be available, or said the state could not pay for abortions.

Since then, the Supreme Court ruled that the Hyde Amendment was not valid, that it was strictly up to state legislatures to decide whether or not to fund abortions. "I don't think anybody expected any different opinion," Del. Gerald F. Devlin, D-Prince George's 24th, an anti-abortionist, said. "I've always thought that the legislature had to decide the issue." wrote in referring to a 1973 landmark Supreme Court decision that lifted criminal penalities on those who performed abortions.

"A pregnant woman is unquestionably a person for whom medical care is appropriate and an abortion is certainly one of the medical alternatives for dealing with pregnancy," the court continued. In reacting to the latest court decision, state senators said the budget bill probably will come out of the Budget and Taxation Committee with no abortion language. As usual, this year the fight will be between the House, which has traditionally adopted more liberal langauge, and the Senate, where anti-abortion sentiment is stronger. Senate Majority Leader Rosalie S. Abrams, D-City 42nd, leader of the pro-abortion forces, said there will probably be a compromise on the same language approved last year, which is somewhat Now that the Maryland Court of Appeals has ruled the state can pay for abortions as part of the health care for the poor, it is up to the General Assembly to decide if such funds will be used.

Yesterday's decision, thought to be the first for the state's highest court in the abortion-funding issue, comes as the General Assembly gets ready to debate the use of public money for abortions. The unanimous decision written by Judge Harry A. Cole affirms a 1979 decision by Anne Arundel County Circuit Court Judge Morris Turk, who ruled that it is up to the legislature to decide if it wants to fund such abortions and that the money can legally be set aside for such a purpose. In Annapolis, Del. R.

Clayton Mitchell, D-Upper Shore 34th, chairman of the subcommittee on health of the House Appropriations Committee, said of the decision, "We felt the full General Assembly would have to decide the The plaintiffs in the Maryland case, women from Montgomery and Baltimore counties, sought to prevent public funding of abortions and to declare such payments by the state illegal. But the court turned back that challenge by noting that Maryland law permits public funding of abortions under cover of a general provision that reads: "The state Board of Health shall administer a program of comprehensive medical and other care in the state of Maryland for indigent and medically indigent persons The court also noted that family planning should be included under the general provisions of medical care that should be available to the state's poor. "The Supreme Court recognized what appellants would have us ignore: That there may exist compelling reasons, other than the risks of physical or mental illness, which may cause the woman and her physician to determine that abortion is appropriate," the court Health department figures show a 25, percent drop in Medicaid-funded tions as a result of last year's -nore rstrictive language. The number dropped from 6,000 to about 4,500. tut Contributing to this article ueje reporters Michael J.

Himowitz, Michael Shultz and Kevin AbeU. Off -Track Betting breaks fast from the starting gate in Annapolis gates by one vote, would have generated additional $6.5 million a year to the" state. By David Lightman There's a huge untapped market of potential bettors all over Maryland who would readily accept Off-Track Betting and thus help revive the state's ailing racing industry. That was the key message from Todd E. Kogan, legislative assistant to Sen.

Melvin A. Steinberg, to the Senate Finance Committee yesterday. The panel is considering a measure (SJR 51), sponsored by the senator, to set up a nine-member task force to study whether and how to set up OTB in Maryland. Surprisingly, it met little opposition. "Money is a problem," said Snowden Carter of the Maryland Horse Breeders Association.

"We look to Off-Track Betting as something that could at least partly solve that problem." "This to me is the solution to the Maryland racing problem," said Fend-all M. Clagett of the Horsemen's Benev olent and Protective Association. Even the Hughes administration offered no resistance. "It's kind of an expansion of the lottery," said John J. Corbley, secretary of licensing and regulation, which oversees the Racing Commmission.

"It was a viable alternative in New York," he said. "It seemed to assist an industry that needed an innovative approach." Senator Steinberg, D-Balto. Co. 12th, maintains OTB would attack the chief problem besetting Maryland's racing industrymoney. "There are a lot of people not participating in betting who would if the market was made available to them," Mr.

Kogan said. The last time the legislature seriously considered OTB was nine years ago, when many racing officials feared the system would dramatically cut concession and attendance revenues. It was estimated that proposal, which failed to pass the House of Dele Eighty-five percent of the handle would have been returned to horseplayers as winnings, while 10 18 -percent would have gone for OTB pe rises. The rest was to be divided tween owners, breeders and purses. Now, only two states, New York anif" Connecticut, have OTB systems.

Exemptions for small domiciliary care homes given little sympathy- third the cost of the institutional systems now required. The 13D systems would have been authorized for four-to-eight-bed domiciliary care homes under emergency regulations proposed last fall by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and supported by the fire marshal's But the proposed regulations were blocked by AELR committee members, who believe the matter should be handled by legislation died in boarding home fires across the country in the past 18 months. Ninety to 95 percent of the fatalities could have been prevented by sprinklers, he said. The bills also were opposed by a spokesman for the Maryland Firemen's Association and by Capt Bernard Becker of the Prince George's County Fire Department. Captain Becker and Mr.

Robertson testified that less costly "13D" sprinkler systems are available and could provide adequate protection' at less than one- By Frank D. Roylance Two bills designed to exempt small "mom and pop" domiciliary care homes from requirements for costly fire sprinkler systems won no support in testimony before the Senate Constitutional and Public Law Committee. And committee Chairman Edward T. Conroy, D-Prince George's 24th, was blunt about the future of the legislation: "I think these bills are really in trouble. There's nobody in favor of it" The bills were sponsored by the Joint Committee on Administrative, Executive and Legislative Review in an attempt to make it more attractive for small, unlicensed and therefore unregulated domiciliary care homes to become licensed and submit to state supervision.

Donovan Peeters, counsel to the AELR panel, told Senator Conroy's committee yesterday that AELR members believe smoke detectors would be "sufficient" protection for residents of domiciliary care homes with four to eight beds. But State Fire Marshal James C. Robertson testified that smoke detectors "are not adequate to provide any degree of protection for residents of these facilities," whose reaction times are too slow, and susceptibility to smoke too high to enable them to escape even when warned by a detector. His position was echoed by James R. Bell, a legislative technical specialist with the National Fire Protection Association.

Mr. Bell said 158 people have House panel urges ban on credit card fees, status quo on interest D-Prince George's 27th, subcommittee chairman, "but the 3 percent was not benefit banks that much. "They'd be pleased to receive any relief." said Del. Frank J. Komenda, Endorsing legislation to allow the bank commissioner to get more complete records from those he regulates (HB 510).

The panel's banking subcommittee had wanted to recommend boosting interest rates to 21 percent on the first $700 of a debt But they pulled back yesterday after learning tie change would Credit card fees would be banned and interest rates would remain as they are now under proposals adopted by the House Economic Matters Committee yesterday. The panel's recommendations, which will be considered by the full House later this week, include: Prohibiting credit card companies from charging membership or user fees for their cards (HB 27, SB 12). Both bills were approved by a 14-to-4 vote. Studying whether to exempt the state from certain new federal bank laws. Partly because of the laws, state-chartered banks can now charge up to 33 percent interest on credit card balances up to $500.

Under the state's former interest ceiling, the maximum on that amount was 18 percent Open house to focus on nursing careers The School of Nursing of Union Me- Admissions procedures, nursing mortal Hospital will hold an open house, curriculum and scholarship programs at 7 p.m. March 24 in the School of are among the topics to be discussed. Nursing Auditorium, 3301 North Calvert For more information, call 2357200, street Ext 2648..