Frederick News-Post (Newspaper) - November 4, 1993, Frederick, Maryland Weather Partly cloudy and highs near 60 Complete forecast and national map on Page Good Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important Eliot The Great Southern Printing and Manufacturing Company Vol 278 Maryland 21705 November 6 Sections Press Run Today News I Total Staff photo by Sam Yu Frederick's mayor-elect James shakes hands with mayoral candidate Gary Hughes who came to Grimes quarters Tuesday night to offer his congratulations Urbana High bids scrapped By GLENN McMAHAN Staff The Frederick County Board of Education scrapped construction bids for the planned Urbana High School and ordered school officials to scale back expensive frills School superintendent Daniel Gadra said Wednesday the school's opening would be delayed two to four months as a result of the rebidding process The school was scheduled to open in September 1995 to relieve over- crowding at Frederick and high schools Unless the board agrees to pull students out of those schools Urbana students could not cross the threshold until January 1996 Board president Earl Robbins Jr said Frederick High is so over- crowded the school might have to use a such as a split day to handle all the students He said school administration will be working with parents in both communities to handle the situation have to relook at the said board member Harry T deMolI during Wednesday's board meeting a good time to cut and run and begin working under a new endar established by Dr Bids for the project were million over the million in the school construction budget Mr Robbins said reducing the cost will not require a major overhaul of the blueprints Board member Samuel Koski said the state Interagency on School Con- struction found million of items ineligible for state such as an auxiliary gymnasium Another million could be saved by removing of the additions such as motion a heating and conditioning system and walls covered with glazed tile The school board still is ing whether to reduce its bonding insurance Mr Koski said the board is needlessly double insured because it requires contractors and tractors to have a bond The state only requires general contractors to be bonded Other board members said bonding every company protects the school system from legal conflicts and improves construction The school board could save about if they relax the insurance ments City decides against buying church land By JESSICA GREGG Staff Frederick city officials decided this week not to buy the Adventist Church property on New Design Road A city committee that examined the feasibility of the purchase issued a statement saying it the city not purchase the site The site is selling for about million Adventist officials decided to sell the property after their church was destroyed in a fire earlier this year Officials decided to build a new church on a site near Md and U.S 340 Alderman William 0 Lee who sat on the feasibility said church officials agreed to the door open so somewhere down the line the city could have a But for the city cannot buy he said valuable property We hate to be in a position not to purchase but on Page Year-round school to be studied By GLENN McMAHAN Staff The Frederick County Board of Education voted to establish a committee to study year-round school and how it would affect the county's parents and businesses a broad enough issue that a committee should look at it and write a school superintendent Daniel Gadra said The board directed Dr Gadra to form the committee before a statewide hearing on year-round school scheduled for Nov 20 The committee will represent business educators and Dr Gadra said While the school board stressed it has made no decision on the they said Gov William Donald Schaefer has generated questions about whether it might be adopted locally behooves us to go ahead with a community study just so we've done our board member Edgar Larson said on Page Grimes plans team By JESSICA GREGG Staff Frederick's mayor-elect James Grimes told the Frederick Rotary Club Wednesday he is going to work with the other newly elected city staff and residents in a to improve the city His speech at the Rotary Club's weekly lunch meeting came one day after Mr Grimes beat his cratic opponent Gary Hughes in the city's general election Mr Grimes will take office in January Mr Grimes said he plans to hold orientation meetings with the aldermen And he hopes to ask city attorney N Lynn Tillery to examine the charter and point out the responsibilities everybody he said He anticipates the new introduction to the job will be made easier because he is an incumbent alderman and can offer more assistance than a he said Mr Grimes also plans to talk with each of the city's department heads about the problems facing and ask them for three solutions Mr Grimes reiterated his message that Frederick is one community not a Frederick for the rich and one for the poor There's not and never will be a Frederick for the whites and one for the black Mr Grimes said His former Mr plans to take some time off with his wife and daughter going to use the time to do some personal things I'm way behind on my reading I have some books to catch up Mr Hughes on Page No issue swayed voters By DAN BURNS and JESSICA GREGG Staff No one issue decided the Frederick city mayoral according to voters at Tuesday's polls Interviews with dozens of city voters as they left the polls revealed that most took a long look at the evaluating them against a wide range of before arriving at what many called a Issues most often included the candidate's con- trolled Carroll the handling of the Klan car controversy at the the city's tax rate and the East Street extension Many voters also predicted the margin of votes between the two candidates to be much smaller Those who favored Tuesday's Republican James said he has more experience and campaigned more than his opponent Gary Hughes campaigned more You see more of his Bernie phy said just feel will do what needs to be done I have a lot of confidence in Judy Johnson said Those who were supporting Democrat Gary Hughes said they liked his fresh ideas and his on Page Brother against brother Keith guards the goal against his brother Chris during a game of street hockey in front of East Street home Wednesday evening Chris said that between the cars on Staff photo by Mart the street and the tennis players on the court where they like to finding a place to play is becoming a problem in Village Defense aims to discredit witness By GEORGE DORSEY Staff Defense questioning of Allen Phillips is expected to resume Thursday Day 22 in the murder trial of William Robert Fagan Sr in Frederick County cuit Court Mr a former close friend of the told jurors that Mr Fagan plotted to harm his Deborah Patricia and after she was murdered on Jan Mr Fagan admitted his role to Mr Phillips by killed Officials support interchange plan By RICHARD KERNS Staff Local spurred by bers of the business agreed Wednesday to push for improvements to the interchange near Frederick at an upcoming meeting with state trans- officials Meeting at City the Frederick mayor and aldermen agreed with the county commissioners to focus on the improvements as a main priority in Monday's annual meeting with the state transportation tary on Page But his credibility came under sharp attack from defense attorney Phillip Armstrong Mr Armstrong told jurors he was convinced Mr Phillips had been pushed far by police and that he was willing to tell them lies in order to get them to let him Among the lies Mr Phillips told according to Mr were several that could have gotten him arrested as an accessory before and after Mrs Fagan's murder as well as a perjurer before the grand jury probing Mrs Fagan's murder At various times since the Mr Phillips told police he'd held the murder weapon for Mr had picked Mr Fagan up after the had driven him to Mrs Fagan's home before the murder and had talked to Mr Fagan on the morning of the Mr Armstrong accused Mr Phillips of tailoring his story to make good lies was a lie It was untrue It never happened You made it Mr Phillips admitted making up facts when talking with police on 16 occasions He also admitted lying to his motor vehicle insurance company when he reported his white pickup truck had been stolen and wrecked He received He was driving when the accident he said Mr Phillips said he anticipates getting some jail time out of the Fagan investigation got a a a home and job I don't want to lose none of that But I might lose some of that Could be charged with perjury and face 10 years in hell to testily against a Mr Phillips told jurors on Page Region to receive third deputy fire marshal MARK BILGER By SUSAN C NICOL Staff Mark Bilger has been appointed deputy state fire marshal and assigned to the Western Maryland region The of Mr Bilger brings to three the number of deputy fire marshals in the Frederick County area Mr of has been a volunteer firefighter for 15 and served as president of Hereford Volunteer Fire Company for five years He also is active with the Hereford EMS Rescue Company A former Baltimore County police Mr Bilger said he was pleased that he landed the job with the state fire marshal's office this job you can have the best of both worlds the fire side and law enforcement You don't have to deal with things like he said In addition to his volunteer Mr Bilger is a member of Masonic Lodge 134 in Parkton and a member on Page Suit claims police interfering with company By TERESA FRANKLIN Staff The owner of a Frederick trans- company is suing the city and the Frederick City Police claiming that police officers are interfering with his cording to a lawsuit filed in ick County Circuit Court The police officers are stopping company which carry ing and issuing citations for illegally operating a taxicab vice within the according to the which was filed Tuesday In according to the police officers are informing sengers that the business is operating illegally and are suggesting that passengers not ride in the vehicles Filing the suit were William Lee Bowie and Bowie Transportation based at 5953 Bartonsville Frederick Mr Bowie owns the transportation ing to court records Named as defendants are the City of with papers to be served on Mayor Paul and Maj Regis R Frederick City Police chief Mr Gordon had not been served with the court papers on Wednesday and declined to comment Chief Raffensberger and N Lynn city were unavailable for comment Willie attorney for Mr said he would not comment on the case because it is in litigation Mr Bowie claims in the suit that his license to operate a rier by the state Public on Page Business Classifieds Comics Community News letters Greenhouse Obituaries 10 Sports TV listings Tht on TTw
