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PAGE T5 THE EVENING SUN, BALTIMORE, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1973 Mandel To Specify Uses Of Federal Money City Black Firefighter Total Seen Stifled By Countians By Bruce F. Freed Tardy Checks Cut Interest By Bruce F. Freed Annapolis The, late arrival of Maryland's federal revenue-sharing check last month caused the state to lose almost $20,000 in interest payments, state budget officials disclosed By Welford L. McLellan protect the state from post-au dit threats." economic DacKgrounas rrom city residents. Annapolis Governor Mandel will be earmarking in his supplemental budget how the state will spend the $92 million it is receiving in federal revenue sharing to protect itself from any suits against improper use of the federal money.

Dr. R. Kenneth Barnes, sec An expert witness for the city testified in federal court yesterday that the small number of blacks in the city fire department can be attributed to the increasing number of county residents who apply to the department. Support Delegate John R. Har-greaves Caroline), chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, supported the budget officials' decision on how to handle the revenue- yesterday.

f. IP I WMmm'IM i 1 III aSK' -V5r sharing money. It just a matter of bookkeeping," he retary of the state department of Budget and Fiscal Planning, Dr. Keith John Edwards, as Dr. R.

Kenneth Barnes, secretary of the state Department of Budget and Fiscal Planning, said. said yesterday that the ear Eligibility Figures Mr. Edwards said that from data on eligibility lists containing test scores he concluded that blacks would comprise a greater percentage of the total employment figure of the department if they were only competing against city whites. Mr. Edwards offered his conclusions as rebuttal to a black firefighters suit which alleges that racial discrimination in the fire department hinders the employment and promotion of blacks.

In recent years the fire de- marking of funds would be said that the initial $16 million Commenting on earmarking the funds for the bond" annuity "purely a bookkeeping exercise since revenue sharing is sociate professor of education at Johns Hopkins University and a statistician, said that county residents dominate the eligibility list for entrance into the department every year. He said countians have re already used as state general fund and the state retirement system, he said, "We'd better be sure to apply them right so we don't lose them." Governor Mandel did not revenue in the budget." For Maryland to continue re ceiving revenue-sharing money. provide any breakdown of how peatedly scored higher on fire the state has to outline to the the state was spending it rev federal eovernment how it is enue-sharing money when he department entrance examinations than city residents, both nartment extended the dis giving city residents preferen-' tial treatment on firefighter exams but his efforts were thwarted by a ruling from the city's solicitors office which found the proposed action ille- gal. The fire department presr ently is conducting "cram, courses" for city planning to take the entrance examination. Cram Courses Mr.

Edwards, called as a witness for the defendants irH-the class action suit filed by! four black fire officers, also testified that he analysed the?" drop-out rate among blacks in" the department and found rate to be significant with lower number of high-echelori? black officers. He said that of the blacks who joined the department in;" 1953 the first year were allowed to be firefighters a high percentage left the department between 1953 and! 1956. He concluded that these men likely would be in the higher-" echelon ranks of the ment if htey had stayed. Mr. Edwards added that did not know why a large.

number of blacks resigned from the department shortly after being allowed to join. There are presently no black senior fire officers in the spending the funds. SuiioaDers DhoLo Irvine FoiltlDS blacks and whites. Restrictions Listed States are now prohibited ANTI-SEXISM Carolyn Taylor, organizer of Episcopal Women's Caucus, explains why she feels the Episcopal church is guilty of sexist practices against women. introduced the fiscal 1974 state budget last month.

The money was included in projections of the state's general revenues for the new fiscal year. Maryland has already re from using any of the money revenue-sharing payment generates $2,000 in interest each day if it is invested conservatively at 5 per cent. "The $16 million check we received last month came 10 days late," he said. "Because of that, we lost 10 days of interest." $40,000 Lost The state's subdivisions, he added, lost over $40,000 in interest. They received over $34 million, twice the amount the state government was given.

The state government received its first check for $16 million in December. Dr. Barnes said he fears that the federal government will hold up future checks to gain more interest for itself and to tance from the city it allows its firefighters to live. The present distance is 30 miles At one time the distance was as little as five miles. In September, 1970, a fire to obtain federal matching He said blacks are not competing only against white city residents for entrance into the fire department but also countians "who tend to be white," grants, for building projects that do not pay the prevailing ceived a bonus one-time payment of $16 million in revenue board commissioner proposed and come from higher socio- wage, ana tor programs mat discriminate on the basis of sharing for the last half of fiscal 1972.

That money has Episcopal Group Fight Sexist Practices Continued from Page 10 race, sex or national origins. If the federal government already been committed by finds a state violating any of Mr. Mandel to lowering the state property tax. those restrictions, it can with hold revenue-sharing money The state will be receiving from the state. ishes are represented in the an additional $76 million from federal revenue sharing for fis Dr.

Barnes said the Gover Erosion-Lost Land Law OK'd The House Environmental Matters Committee has approved legislation designed to allow property owners to reclaim land lost by erosion, but first tacked on limiting amendments asked by environmentalists. As amended, the measure would apply only to "fast" land and not to wetlands. House Speaker Thomas H. Lowe, the sponsor had testified at a committee hearing last week that he did not mean to include wetlands in the kw. transfer some payments to the cal 1973 and 1974.

That money nor win specmcany allocate has been included in the the revenue-sharing money for next fiscal year. According to federal regula the following projects the state's new budget. Maryland will receive about $38 million a Hons, revenue-sharing pay supplemental budget to be in ments must be dispensed quar year in the new revenue-shar troduced March 10: terly. ing program. 1.

$16 million for the bond annuity fund to cut the fiscal 1974 state property tax by 6 cents. 2. $63 million for the state contribution to its employes retirement system. 3. $13 million for the state contribution to the Social Se curity System for its employes.

Tun. group. "What we want is to get fuller participation for everyone in church activities," Carolyn said, explaining that both men. and women Episcopalians are rigidly restricted as to the kinds of services they can render to the church. "In the Episcopal Church a woman cannot be ordained as a priest, regardless of how well qualified she is," Carolyn said, "and in some parishes women are not allowed to serve on vestries, even though canon law permits this.

Own Desire "One thing I have always wanted to do in the church is to be a thurifer. (the person who carries the incense during the ecclesiastical service). It would add personally to my offering in the mass. There's no reason why a woman or a girl shouldn't be "The only place that looks real clean to us is the state retirement system," said Wil liam M. Houck, deputy budget r1 secretary.

'We have to find some legitimate activities to 0 ft i Delegation Hits Rent Hikes clerical delegates (all men) and 178 lay delegates, of whom 51 were women, On the Diocesan Council, the body that carries on the legislation of the convention, there are 27 members, including 14 clergymen and only 2 women. The diocese said it had no accurate figures on the percentage of the 65,000 church members in the diocese who are women, but said that 60 per cent, was probably a low estimate. For Some Time The for an equal role for Episcopal women in the church is a battle that has been going on quietly for some time. In 1970 at the Episcopal General Convention in Houston, 28 women were seated for the first time in the House of Deputies, one of the convention's two legislative bodies. The other body is the i House of Bishops.

At the convention, the church laws were amended to permit women to serve as ordained deacons. An amend-' ment that would permit women to be ordained as priests was voted on, but was defeated by the clerical order of the House of Deputies. Expected Again The issue is expected to come' up again at the next general convention in September in Louisville. Members of the women's caucus say they are concerned that the Maryland diocese, which supported wom-' en's ordination in 1970, may have been swayed from that stand since then. Maryland Bishop David K.

Leighton, who could not be reached for comment yesterday, was quoted in this month's issue of The Maryland Church News, as saying Washington UF Six members of Maryland congressional delegation have demanded help from the federal government in battling rent hikes. About 4,000 tenants in the Baltimore-Washington area have complained of sharp rent hikes since President Nixon re moved the lid last month. "if nail cnanysisG Senator Charles Mathias, who led the delega tion in a meeting with the Cost of Living Council yesterday, asked the council to establish rent guidelines. Representative Gilbert Gude, (R. 8th) asked for sterner -ti'to measures, including the re-es- tablishment of rent controls.

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Box 1779, Clinton, Iowa 52732. Redeemable only on merchandise indicated. Any other use constitutes fraud. (Offer limited to one coupon per package) Complaints from tenants of steep boosts in Prince Georges able to do this." Grace Clark, a member of Memorial Episcopal Church on Bolton Hill, noted that girls are not allowed to be1 acolytes (altar boys) "Little girls growing up in the church are constantly told, 'It's a great thing to be an acolyte, but you can't be Grace said. "It reminds me of separate but unequal." Grace said she felt the church was depriving itself of the talents of many women because of its discriminatory policies.

Well Educated She pointed to the fact that there is a very high percentage of well educated women in the Episcopal Church. In her parish, for example, 50 per cent of the churchwomen have college degrees or higher, she said. "A professional woman who's very active, say a woman physician, may be able to serve the church in many ways, on a church advisory board to a hospital, helping to set up a clinic "We want the church to recognize that women can do more than put on bake sales," Carol inserted. "We don't want to stop bake sales, but we want everyone to be able to participate ever he wants." The caucus is planning to make some legislative proposals to the state diocesan convention in May, including the proposal that the convention adopt a resolution supporting an equal role for Episcopal women in church activities. Furthermore, Carolyn said, the group wants to get the church to look at its govern- ing bodies and get better representation of women on these groups.

According to figures released by the diocese, at the last diocesan convention (May, 1972), there were 221 county have prompted William Gullett, county executive, to call for an attorney general's 'All- investigation. After meeting with the against the ordination ot women priests at the Louisville convention. He said his decision was not final, however. Recognition Conceded The Rev. Ray H.

Averett, canon to the ordinary of the diocese, would not comment on the women's caucus, but said that discrimination against women in the Episcopal Church was "a gener MM I Maryland congressmen, John T7D02 i mi T. Dunlop, Cost of Living Council director, said he was Immbimmm STORE COUPON mhmmi waiting for an Internal Revenue Service study before decid ing what action to take on Irtn rents. Ticketron Has Prep Tickets Tickets for Saturday's Dun ally recognized fact. Mrs. Eleanor Lewis, a member of the women's caucus who also serves as chairman of the national committee on lay ministries, said her concern is that Episcopol women now have "every legal right in the church, ex flit I II bar-De Matha basketball game at the Civic Center are ''moving briskly," according to pro moter Dan Synder.

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Struck By Car Police said Austin W. Starr, 71, of the 700 block North Market street, Frederick, was walking across Route 40 in Frederick shortly after 10.15 P.M. yesterday when he was struck by an automobile driven by Ronald C. McMurtrie, 31, of Brownsville, Md. driver was charged with Only 2 of 81 persons taken to Baltimore hospitals after two buses collided at the Harbor Tunnel toll plaza yesterday were admitted and remained as patients today.

The other 79, aboard the chartered buses headed for an anti-poverty rally in Washington, were released after examination or treatment at five hospitals, where they were taken by a fleet of ambulances. One bus rammed the rear of another, at a toll gate at the south end of the tunnel. In another traffic mishap, an elderly pedestrian was fatally injured when struck by an au same company. Poverty Protest MeM Oil Corttrttin. 1 The buses, chartered by the Morrisania Community Corporation of The Bronx, N.Y., were headed for Washington where passengers planned to participate in a protest against cuts anti-poverty spending.

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