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VrtiiiiWOTttiiilli And now? Claim against city settled 18 THE SUN, Saturday. December 9, 1978 Young woman found fatally stabbed on Security boulevard By RICHARD H. P. SU immunity defense. Betsv Wray's search for a just settle i ft The proposal, which received the blessings of acting Governor Lee and the state Department of Transportation and even mild support from Mayor Schaefer and the city solicitor in September, would make the city liable for personal injury or death claims up to $20,000.

This would apply only to vehicle accidents where city liability is "obvious" or when city negligence is not questioned, as in the Wray case, MVA officials said, adding that they still hope to have the bill introduced in next year's General Assembly. In unrelated injury cases since Mrs. Wray's accident, Maryland courts have reiterated that it will be up to legislators, not jurists, to change the sovereign immunity law, which many legal scholars consider "undemocratic" because it protects even careless acts of public officials and employees while the rest of the citizenry remains vulnerable to lawsuits of every kind. The city initially offered the couple $300 for their badly damaged car and awaited word about Mrs. Wray's medical bills.

The final $2,350 award covers the car and about $1,000 in medical as well as lawyer's fees, Mr. Wray said, explaining that the difference "might be a sign that the city had some sympathy for our case." George Itzel, chief of the city solicitor's claims office, said the amount of the Wray settlement was the result of "considerable negotiation" with Mr. Liebfeld, the lawyer. He declined to comment whether publicity given the case affected the award figure. Mr.

Liebfeld said he consulted several times with his clients and "evaluated the case as to what it's worth." He acknowledged that he advised bis clients fighting City Hall would have been "an uphill battle." "I will handle such a case up to a point until I see that it's absolutely fruitless," Mr. Liebfeld said, adding that he thought his clients were pleased with the outcome. ment of her personal injury case against the city has ended, but she is not convinced true justice has been achieved. Mrs. Wray, who was hurt May 23 when a collision between two Fire Department vehicles threw a mammoth hook and ladder truck against her motionless Volkswagen, has accepted a $2,350 damage award from the city.

She had hoped to sue the city and Fire Department officials, but she was advised that the legal doctrine of sovereign immunity-a holdover from English common law that says the king, or sovereign, can do no wrong-shielded the government from court action. Her attorney, Daniel E. Liebfeld, learning that the city would not waive its defense of sovereign immunity, advised his client that if they went to court she would be a sure loser. "We were getting confused and it dragged on, so we decided to go ahead and settle this thing," Mrs. Wray said.

The accident, on Patterson Park avenue near Fayette street, for which Fire Department officials accepted responsibility but not liability, caused fractures in her left hand and wrist, preventing her from breast-feeding her infant daughter or changing her diapers. She also was unable to return to her job as a typist with Kelly Girl Services for several weeks. Her husband, Peter, lost several days of longshoreman's wages when he stayed home to care for his injured wife and daughter, and also hoped to get compensation from the city. "The law was going against us; everything was going against us," he said. "We could've tried fighting this sovereign Immunity thing in court, but our lawyer said it was going to be a tough fight.

The other alternative was getting nothing. So the city's offer was all that was left" Although the Wray case never entered the courtroom, it at least sparked state Motor Vehicle Administration officials to propose legislation to partially strip the city of its right to a sovereign Tribute to a woman of firsts The Harford County Bar Association yesterday presented this portrait of Mary E. W. Risteau, Maryland's first woman legislator, to the county Circuit Court. Miss Risteau was also the first woman to serve as clerk of the court.

A lawyer, she died last July on her Harford county farm at age 88. She was also Maryland's first woman commissioner of loans. Her portrait is the first of a woman to hang in the county courthouse. 2 men indicted for murder of Bolton Hill hairdresser A young woman, fatally stabbed in the chest, was found by motorists on Security boulevard near the Social Security complex during yesterday's afternoon rush hour, police reported. Baltimore county homicide detectives withheld the dead woman's name pending Garbage truck wrecks; 4 hurt, 1 loses leg A garbage truck overturned after it ran out of control yesterday, injuring four sanitation workers severely.

One lost a leg in surgery last night. The truck, driven by Early E. Wrenn, 47, of the 400 block Springdale avenue, was moving south in the 3400 block Shell road near the Patapsco avenue intersection at 10.15 A.M. when the crash occurred. Roger Blankey, 35, of the 200 block Spring court, was in stable condition at South Baltimore General Hospital last night after amputation of his right leg, officials of the hospital said.

He also received a compound fracture of his left leg, and doctors put it into traction, officials added. Police said the truck ran into the center island, jumped across it and hit a road sign and reflector pole in the opposite lanes. The truck then collided with a Ford tractor-trailer that was about to turn left into Shell road from an eastbound lane of Patapsco avenue, police said. The impact flipped the truck over, trapping the four workers inside, police said. Police and Fire Department personnel, summoned by witnesses, freed the men and escorted them to South Baltimore General Hospital.

Investigators said yesterday they were unable to explain why the men all received severe leg fractures and no other apparent injuries. Police said the injured, besides Mr. Blankey, were: Mr. Wrenn, who was in guarded condition last night as doctors operated to save both of his legs; James Kent, 48, of the 1200 block Valley court, who was in good condition with a compound fracture of the left leg, and Jack Johnson, 38, of the 2500 block Druid Park drive, who was in good condition in the intensive care unit with compound fractures of both legs. The driver of the tractor-trailer, Carlton Ashwo'rth, 48, of the first block Lehigh avenue, was not injured, police reported.

notification of her family, which they said was out of the state last night. They described her as a white woman in her 20's. She was taken to St. Agnes Hospital after her discovery and died in surgery at 7.15 P.M., the hospital reported. Homicide detectives said passing motorists spotted the woman's body on the roadway near the Colonial drive intersection just east of the Social Security complex at 5.45 P.M.

Passers-by who summoned police reported the woman as a possible hit-and-run victim, but arriving police officers and ambulance attendants discovered a single stab wound in the woman's chest, detectives said. The woman was fully clothed and still had identification and other papers in her possession, detectives said. It was not apparent last night if she had been sexually assaulted. Some of the passing motorists who volunteered information to police said they saw two young males running away from the woman, but were unable to describe them in detail. Detectives said the two men were the only suspects they knew of last night.

They added that they had not yet established a motive for the killing, but "we are not ruling out robbery," a detective said. Woman's body found in county landfill The body of a woman who had been strangled was found near a landfill in Baltimore county by a truck driver on his way to work yesterday morning, county police said. Homicide investigators said the victim had not been identified last night. An auburn-haired woman who appeared to be about 50 years old, she was 5 feet 2 inches tall and weighed about 95 pounds, police said. The fully clothed body was found about 4.15 A.M.

at the edge of Norris lane, which leads to the Robb Tyler landfill, about 1 mile off North Point boulevard. No pock-etbook was found, and there were no identifying cards or papers, according to investigators. An autopsy later yesterday confirmed that death was caused by strangulation and indicated the victim had been dead less than three hours when the body was found. Police said the victim was dressed for cool weather, wearing dark blue slacks, brown loafers, gold pierced earrings and a white-ribbed turtleneck sweater under a blue button-up sweater and a thigh-length blue wool coat. Persons with information that might lead to an identification of the woman were asked to call county detectives at 494-2186.

Loyola pares tuition increase By THEODORE The city grand jury indicted two men yesterday in the strangulation-murder of a 35-year-old Bolton Hill man whose apartment had been been reported ransacked after the victim had been handcuffed and gagged. Shane M. McCallum, 20, of the 1200 block Washington boulevard, and Howard E. Earhart, 21, of the 1,200 block Ostend street, were charged with murder, robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery in indictments returned yesterday. A third man, Russell D.

Kelly, 29, of the 300 block South Gilmore street, was indicted on counts of conspiracy to commit robbery, receiving stolen goods and as an accessory after the fact of robbery and murder. The victim, John L. (Jack) Perkins, a hairdresser and beauty shop manager, was found by friends November 15 in his apartment in the 1800 block of Bolton street His hands were manacled behind him and his mouth had been gagged with a cloth, police said. Both Mr. Earhart and Mr.

Kelly are being held in the City Jail to await ar- HENDRICKS raignment on the grand jury charges, Howard Gersh, an assistant state's attorney in charge of the violent crimes unit, said. Mr. McCallum is being held by Florida authorities on kidnaping and robbery charges after he was arrested last week near Ocala, a city in Central Florida. Extradition proceedings will be filed seeking Mr. McCallum's return, Mr.

Gersh said. Mr. Gersh and Detective Ronald La-martina, of the Homicide Squad, recently returned from Florida, where they conducted extensive interviews in connection with the Maryland murder. Mr. Perkins worked at a hairstyling salon in the 6200 block Eastern avenue, near City Hospitals.

He was well-known in the Bolton Hill neighborhood, where he was often seen walking his Afghan dog. Friends said they became worried that they had not seen Mr. Perkins for a few days and visited his apartment to inquire about him. According to Charles Murphy, a painter who had a key to work in the apartment, the living quarters appeared to have been ransacked. Loyola College, which had already announced a tuition increase of $350 for next year, said yesterday it was reducing the increase to $225 "to comply with voluntary price standards announced by President Carter." Tuition next year, under the new announcement, will be $2,525 a year.

"The anti-inflation guidelines are clearly voluntary, and Loyola elects to volunteer," said Rev. Joseph A. Sellinger, S.J., Loyola's president. "We know firsthand how inflation threatens the survival of Independent schools like Loyola. Therefore, we elect to do what we can to better our own prospects for survival and to help beat inflation." In a statement to the students and staff, he said: "Realistically, we cannot do much, but this fact is no excuse for doing nothing.

Thus, we shall do what we can." A Loyola spokesman said the federal guidelines suggest an increase of no more than 9.5 per cent, and that when added to other charges and compared from base year to program year, the increase at the college comes to about 9.4 per cent after the rollback. College officials said they know of no other school that has taken similar action. The President's anti-inflation effort was announced October 24, and formal guidelines are not expected until December 15. CARROLLTOWNE IS CHRISTMAS WONDERLAND! Exciting Christmas secrets turn into reality here! Come see the most unusual Shopping Mall in Maryland! Now with many brand new shops do all your Christmas shopping herel CARROLLTOWNE SHOPPING CENTER Open Sundays Noon 'til 5 p.m. Liberty (26) and Ridge Rds.

Eldersburg 2 miles west of Liberty Dam "The Shopping Center that's different from all the rest" SUPER WINTER SAVINGS to A OFF on selected group of fine sportswear FRANCES BERMAN FASHIONS 6 Old Court Rd. Pikesville 484-0423 Parking On Premises ANTIQUE JEWELRY Bangles Beads ft Cameo ft Chains ft Charms ft Earrings ft Fobs ft Pins ft Pocket Watches ft Silver Boxes ft Stick Pins ft Thimbles ft Flasks ft Pendants ft and more than 600 Rings JUST PLAIN LOVE 208 Main St. 833-5506 Reisterstown Open Every Day Antique Jewelry Purchased Repaired Helping the ALCOHOLIC HIDDEN BROOK Treatment Center Our program for recovery is under the planned guidance of en experienced, distinguished Medical end Nursing Staff in surroundings conducive to rehabilitation. Request Our Brochure. Call 879-1919.

Or write: Thomas Run Road, Bel Air, Md. 21014. ACCREDITED BY THE AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION tndthtJCAH SHOWROOM OPEN ft FRAMED MIRRORS DESIGNER MIRRORS ft DECORATOR BASES ft GLASS FURNITURE TOPS ft ACCESSORIES ft MIRRORED PEDESTALS CUBES WINE CHEESE SUNDAY 1-5 PM. KLEINS GLASS MIRROR OUTLET 210 Reisterstown Rd. Pikesville 484-1200 Our entire erefT would Me to extend a uncart welcome to you.

Wa hop that your vitit will be en netting adventure in eating an adventure that will be long remembered en adventure that wiH ba hard to duplicate elsewhere. Steak Rib for LUNCH And DINNER Outstanding Accommodations For Private Parties PRIME RIB DINNER Sun. Mon. $6.95 STEAK RIB Restaurant Baltimore's Premiere Restaurant Under New Management 1630E.JoppeRd. 1 blk.

west of Loch O0O 828-1143 Our Rte. 40 West Store will be Open Sunday Noon to4p OUR RTE. 40 WEST STORE ONLYI Charles Nusinov Sons, Inc. 6635 Beleir Overlea 254-6659 6504 BaHo. Nat Pike (Rte.

40 West) Pike Park Plaza 747-1760 CHARLES W. WAISSMAN. Formerly of Phillips Wholesale Jewelers looks forward to seeing his many friends and customers at Bonded Jewelry Canter where he has been for the past two years. BONDED JEWELRY CENTER 1601 Reisterstown Rd. Beltway Exit 20 South Pikesville Open Thurs, Til 8 Fri.SSe.

SA.M.toSPM, Sunday 12 Noon 'Til 6 P.M. OPEN SUNDAY 12-4 PLACE SETTING OUTLET Oven-to-tableware SALE 10860 York Rd. 628-7525 at Cockeysvills Underpass 10-4 Sat, 10-8 Sun. 12-4 VALLEY VIEW FARMS PRESENTS THE LARGEST CHRISTMAS SHOP ON THE EAST COAST 12,000 Sq. Ft.

of Christmas Delights from over 60 different countries. Gifts and decorations for every age and budget. Try rnt plaasun of Evaning Shopping The "Beet" in Baltimore SWEET APPLE CIDER directly from the barrel sample first then buy M70 GAL. in you own jug $1.85 Gal. in our jug FRESH cut Christmas Trees Several Varieties.

Over 2,000 to choose from Balled and Burlaped Christmas Trees also available FRESH Wreaths, Garlands, bunched Greens, Holly, Door Swags. VALLEY VIEW FARMS YORK COCKEYSVILLE 666-2058 7A.M.-9P.M. Every Day COMING! NEW EXCITING SENIOR ADULT COMMUNITY MID-RISE (62 and over) PIKESWOOD PARK 1 and 2 BR'S $91 ROO PERM0- PLUS ELECTRIC (hot water included) Call for Brochure Helene Seaman Rep. 521-2900 Joseph Schnaper "Award Winning" Builder-Owner Pikeswood Apartment Co. Equal Housing Opportunity Close Out JEANS $099 Spiffy's Discount Fashions 7936 Belair Rd.

661-2565 Daily Noon-5 Sunday WINTHR0P HOUSE 4100 N.Charles Luxury apt. 10th floor Eastern exposure overlooking Guilford, 2 2 beth, eet-in kitchen, washerdryer, porch balcony, Newly decoratednever occupied. Security, telephone answering service. Garage all utilities incl. $600 per month.

call 366-7665 or 539-4535 ext. 3 1 0 or 3 11 DIAL A SHALOM OF THE HEART MESSAGE 655-9350 NOTICE TO HOME BUYERS Recommended clause for sales contracts "This sales contract is contingent upon a structural mechanical electrical inspection of the house by the. John Heyn Company, Inc. fc the receipt of a satisfactory inspection report of the house. If the buyer is dissatisfied with the reported condition of the house, any deposits shall be refunded in full to the buyer.

Such inspection and inspection report shall be completed within seven (7) days of the signing of this agreement and the cost of the inspection report shall be assumed by the buyer." For additional information call: John J. Heyn Company, Inc. Horn Impaction Specialist 296-3600 Ridarwood Towson. Md. ERLANGEFt'S Open Sunday 10 A.M.

to 4 P.M. for your shopping convenience ERLANGER'S 308 Reisterstown Rd. Pikesville 484-9555 Open Daily 9 to 6 Major Charges Honored THE ORCHARD INN-TOWSON Sunday FULL! COURSE DINNERS onlV $-795 CHILDREN $4.95 Reservations 823-0384 GIFTS FOR BOAT OWNERS SHIP SHORE RADIOS DEPTH FINDERS WEATHER RADIOS DIRECTION FINDERS MEGAPHONES BINOCULARS POPTRONICS 1101 LIGHT ST. 727-0982 Wt Ivy Oiemendi, Old Odd, Pawn Tick Livingston Loan Office 801 1. Belto.

St. SA. 7-0262 TILLYE DAVID BOUTIQUE Dec. 10th, 11am-4pm SALE you've been waiting for DRASTIC sportswear dresses all weather coats coats sweaters blouses all sales cash final A SELECTED GROUP UP TO 75 OFF 1 106 Reisterstown Rd. Pikesville 484-8420 S.

of beltway exit 20 GOTTEX of Israel 1979 TRUNK SHOW SATURDAY, DEC. 9th Informal Modeling 10 OFF IT Mr. Bill Graves, Representative WE FIT SHOP, INC. Pikesville Shopping Ctr. 1402 Reisterstown Pikesville Daily 10 to Mon.

Thurs. til 9 484-1022 SUNDAY JEWELRY SALE! GREENEBAUM'S Discount Jewelers SAVE to 50 OPEN SUNDAY 12:00 TO 5:00 GREENEBAUM'S Maryland' Busiest Fine Jewelers 104 N.HOWARD ST. 727-4544 2200 E. MONUMENT ST. 732-0523 Pre-lnventory Clearance SALE Special Value on PLUMBING FIXTURES, HEATING COOLING PRODUCTS, APPLIANCES.

KITCHEN CABINETS MUCH MOREI EVERYTHING MUST GOII CASH CARRY TODAY 8-4 SCHUMACHER SEILER, INC. Monument St. Greenmount Ave. (21202) HOUSE OF FOAM E. CROSS 727-0982 CUSHIONS, MATTRESSES, ETC.

CUT TO SIZE- WHILE-U'WAIT Stonehenge Ltd. our special staff will be available to assist you with ladies' and gentlemen's Christmas Gift needs. Open Sunday 12 to 4 1002 Reisterstown Rd. FIREPLACE ACCESSORIES $125 Glass Firescreens $69 Q4 4-Door Model 8401 IN STOCK! OVER 100 PORTLAN D-WILLAM ETTE "GLASSFYRE" SCREENS PIKESVILLE HARDWARE GARDEN CENTER 802-806 Reisterstown Road 486-6668 Thurs. to 9Sun.

to 4 QUALITY DENTURES CAN BE AFFORDABLE Dentures 1 1 As Low As I I Upper or Lower or Partial N. J. Chepin D.D.S. 0 Dependable Dental Service Savoy Plaza 8517 Liberty Road Across from Murphe Mert Exit 18, Randallstown, West 1 ml. Hours: 9:30 to 6:30 Mon.

thru Set. NO APPOINTMENT NECESSARY 521-4600 ACCENTS LTD. Stevenson Village Center Stevenson 486-8884 for the holidays cranberry cradels, lucite serving pieces, baskets filled with your favorite candy rum cashews, lanzi crunch and nuts Open 10-5 Sunday 1-6 1st Annual Maryland Author's Autograph Session at GORDON'S BOOKSELLERS in Towson at the Kenilworth Bazaar This Sunday December 10th between noon and 2 P.M. John Streadman Author of "The Settmore Colts" Nancy Blaustein Author of PumpernicMe, Ticket end Mean Green Cheese" Don Spatz Author of "A Pew Kind Words" "Make This A Good Today" and "took At It This Way" Norman Ruckert Author of "Historic Canton" Larry Holdridge Author of "Symphony in 8 Minor" Bennard Perlman Author of 'The Gotten of nutritions George Gipe Author of "The Greet America 'a Sport look" CHRISTMAS FURS AT JANUARY CLEARANCE PRICES MITCHELL-PELTZ Fine Furs Since 1893 225 N. Howard MICROWAVE SALE! FRIGIDAIRE $OQQ95 flCM-9 tCJJ MAGIC CHEF' iArsrx with touch memory ilQO meat probe "eC AltoSome floor modali at tpacial prices APPLIANCE KITCHEN BATH CENTERS 1618 York Rd Luthsrville 321-6085 FLEA MARKET NEARLY NEW SALE SUNDAY Dee.

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ALLAN FURS 308 PARK AVENUE Leo Amster CHRISTMAS SPECIAL! TUXEDOS Reduced to '110 Le.o Amster Tuxedo CATONSVILLE-707 Frederick Rd. ft GLEN BURNIE-Glen Burnie Village Shopping Center ft TOWSON-Loch Raven Blvd. Taylor Ave. Heirloom Jewels, ud. Gifts of Permanence lasting Beauty Lasting Value Unequaled Craftsmanship Stevenson Village Center Stevenson Rd.

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ooc, 7 mditt hotel, airfare, eiohteMing, tramleri, mora. Csl I.J. ROE PER TRAVEL 667-S090 Andy Gibb Jewelry WHOLESALE ONLY Mon. thru Frl. 363-0068 ELEGANCE IN HOME FURNISHINGS CARROLLTOWNE MALL-LIBERTY ROAD 5 MINUTES PAST RAN0ALLSTOWN Holiday Sale Save 15 on FIELDCREST Rugs, Towels, Soaps CARROLLTOWNE In Eldersburg 10-9 P.M.

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Joppa Rd. i Perring Pkwy, Phone 882-6555 NEARLY NEW SALE DOROTHY FRIEDMAN CAPLAN GUILD, INC. DEC. 10th 10-4 PIKESVILLE FIRE HALL 40 E. Sudbrook Lane toyi.

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