News (Newspaper) - December 14, 1991, Frederick, Maryland 1991 The Southern Printing fad Manufacturing Company 21701 14 1991 25 Aldermen may fight veto By LOUIS LYONS Staff The battle over a collective bar gaining ordinance for Frederick City shows signs of heating up next week as Mayor Paul Gordon pre- pares for a rare veto and members of the Board of consider ways to overturn the decision Mr Gordon is required by the city charter to present an explanation for the veto He said Friday that he plans to hold a news conference at 10 Monday to announce the veto and propose a new ordinance The approved ordinance still can become law either through a veto override or referendum We will not let it Alderman Frances Baker who supported the ordinance saia Friday uur best bet is to call a special meeting to reconsider this Mrs Baker said the three aldermen who favored the ordinance first should try to overturn the mayor's veto A veto override however requires four aldermen votes Besides Mrs Baker aldermen William 0 Lee and Jon voted for the ordinance that would govern labor negotiations between the city and the FOP Sally Murphy and James Grimes dissented Mr Grimes said after the vote Thursday night that he would keep an open mind on the veto override TO listen to what everybody's got to say before I make up my he said The mayor has said the approved ordinance gives away management rights to control certain conditions and terms of employment The aldermen have 30 days to reverse a veto A majority of aldermen must consent to a special meeting to consider the veto Such a meeting can be held if the public is given hours advance notice said N Lynn Tillery city attorney Continued on Page Santas get an earful from tots By JULIA ROBB Staff Santa Claus sat in the red sled at Frederick Towne Mall put the little blond-haired girl on his lap and got down to business What do you want for he asked The child batted her eyes and said she wanted a phone A Santa repeated amazed She didn't need a phone he said She could use the family phone he said you'll want a TV Sure enough when he asked her what else she wanted she said a then giggled This Kris who wants to remain anonymous did not roll his eyes at the child's teasing but soon had her laughing so hard she almost feu off his lap He takes his Santa tion seriously so much to that happy parents have written fan letters mall spokeswoman said For instance Uds need to be taught good values so Kris asked one child Have you been Have you mowed the Have yon washed the Santa said Have you done the Why not? You need to pitch in because then it's easier for everybody Little kids don't need to be so at quitting time a little hoarse a little beat Kris Gordon to propose alternative By LOUIS LYONS Staff Frederick Mayor Paul Gordon said Friday be will propose another col- bargaining law tor city police to replace an ordinance be plans to veto Monday morning There will be a proposal in my veto message for another way to handle labor negotiations with toe Order oi route Gordon Mid The intent of the posal is to make effective the current FOP contract At Thursday night's Board of Aldermen meeting where the ing ordinance was approved dissenting Aldermen James Grimes and Sally Murphy said they would support an ordinance that strictly legalized the current police labor contract Mr Grimes and Mrs Murphy said they objected to the new law because it added to the number of items eligible for negotiation in the current contract and called for binding independent arbitration to settle grievances But Alderman Jon Kreissig on Friday drew a distinction between legalizing collective bargaining procedures and legalizing the existing contract The contract has nothing to do with what we've been doing for four he said No one seems to remember the mayor saying legalize this contract Alderman Frances Baker sided with Mr Kreissig Had the mayor Continued on Page SUff photo by Timothy Caught in action Parents of preschoolers at the Church of the Brethren Learning Center above capture the sights and sounds at left of the schools annual Christmas Pageant Friday While some parents were content to simply record the photo opportunity others brought it upon themselves to liven up the moment by waving and one even stuck out his tongue BID Grew Santa listens carefully as Krista Wahlquist informs St Nick of her Christmas at the Frederick Towne Mall on Friday evening announced all the way down the mall I've got to go to the roof and check the reindeer He doesn't take his image too When parents choose to have their child's picture taken with him Kris calls Merry Christmas and a happy burger Some of the kids seemed to have no clear idea what they want for Christmas Kris like a good teacher urged many this week to make a list and come back Sometimes that comes back to haunt him I get these kids com- ing back with these lists t told them to make like crazy and then I can't read them because I can't see with these glasses Not all kids come prepared with lists Francis Scott Key Mall Santa Roily Atkinson saw Some 114 ve endless lists Others it's hard to get anything out of them and some have just one basic thing they want Among the items kids told Kris they want for Christmas were Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle skateboards Singing Mermaids holiday Barbie Dolls Chocolate Continued on Page Bounty may help with shelter By CHRISTINA BARNES Staff Frederick County officials are considering whether to contribute about to the city to help pay a state loan for the construction of a new homeless shelter on South Market Street On Thursday Frederick's Board of Aldermen unanimously approved the city's commitment to a state loan that will allow the city to borrow up to to build the transitional shelter for the homeless behind the Frederick Community Center at 100 S Market St said William H duBell city director of Housing and Com- munity Development It's a Mr duBell said Friday This finally will make construction possible Work should begin by March and we expect the shelter will be open seven months later Earlier Thursday Mr duBell asked the to guarantee money to pay the loan at the rate of a month for 30 years to pay off the interest on the loan The majority of the funds for the project will come from a Community Development Block Grant Mr duBell said The city had been expecting a grant from the state But because of the recession the state is now offering the money as a low-interest loan The city would not pay interest on the loan during construction but would afterward Mr duBell said joint participation in such projects as providing for the homeless helps gain approval for grant applications But he said funding for the whole project might not be approved which would mean it wouldn't be completed fully But Mayor Paul Gordon said One thing assured we will have a minimum program Recently be hinted that the full shelter might not be feasible He said the city's share of the annual operating costs has been estimated between and The project now is expected to include 30 beds in a transitional shelter to bouse homeless families and Services and programs will be provided to residents to help them get back on their Mr duBell said The commissioners did not make any decisions when they discussed the project with county officials on Thursday But Commissioner Sue Ann Yingling said I am hesitant to committing to these programs for a number of years when we have no guarantees grant funding will continue But all the commissioners said the project's concept Ringing cash registers lovely Christmas music to local retailers By SAM HANKIN News Post Stiff Local retailers say the cash ters are continuing to ring with the sounds of a successful Christmas shopping season this year despite customers who say they're cutting budgets This week will be the biggest week the store has had in the 18 years since it opened said Kim Owens manager of Kmart on U.S 40 We're beating last year's figures and since Thanksgiving said Michael Kipperman manager of the Frederick Towne Mall Radio Shack said sales at the electronics store also have done well and are ahead of last year's figures I would say we've had at least a 10 percent increase compared to the same time last he said He said he has not noticed any less spending among customers because of the economic recession gripping Weisberg goes national with criticism of new movie By JULIA Staff A Frederick resident who started a national controversy about director Oliver Stone's new appeared oa CBS with Dan Rather Friday night Weisberg told CBS reporter Mark tint Mr Stone's movie about events John ni aft earlier Mr said to a avalanche abort the Ian April when ht gave a copy of tht marte to Post George Lantner accompanied with Mr aad OB the bin the script and be found H was a real he wrote Oliver Stone expressing his misgivings Only when Mr Stone failed to answer did be call Mr Lardner What Oliver Stone has done is exploit and commercialize this great Mr said I know be cannot have bettered all the things he toe media He said an the government records are suppressed till ttM and he knows that I have a of a pages of i aad I mate them available to every Mr hat six backs rate art the tht to Ht did tot immediately go to the media Mr Mhl After After tht Pott Mary tht was critically among other pvblka Mr WM to articles It It the that Uw kand Wl tt to Mr Weisberg has delivered the same message to everyone saM Oliver admits that JFK is baaed on a IMS book by former New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison he said and that book is crary I'm talking about lunacy It was weird My objection to the Oliver Stone said Mr Weisberg was that he said be was going to film the history for and tell them who killed the president and how and why And he could not do that from the Garrison book or toe collection of aD the nutty conspiracy which Mr Stone is using hi the movie Mr said be knows he is right because be was involved in events discussed in The Of the My Investigation and Prosecution of the Murder of President Mr Garrison's book in Mr Garrisoa't staff asked Mr Weisberg to Investigate Mr Garrison's Mr Mid Mr Weisberg said be found that a staff member was making up stories to tell Mr Garrison and Mr Garrison was busy making up his own Mr Garrison planned to mark the nation's fifth anniversary by naming an alleged assassin But the man had been dead since Mr Weisberg said Mr Garrison did eventually prosecute a for conspiring to murder President be said but the prosecution according to Mr Weisberg was a fraud and it wound up in a fiasco and the innocent nan he charged was acquitted in an hour Then be wrote it into a conspiracy against himself and he put it into a book awl that U what the movie is based Mr Weisberg said I have no doubt that the president was tilted as the end result of a conspiracy But we have no way of knowing who conspired because the government urn investigated the crime and never intended to the United States I haven't noticed he said However one retailer said ne nai noticed a slight softness in the level of Christmas spending this year due to the economy It doesn't seem customers are buying to the extent they were last year said Bon-Ton general manager Greg Bleakley Nonetheless he said he is expecting a surge in Christmas shopping in the next two weeks The Continued on Page Inside The News Weather cloudy aad with a of showers Classifieds Editorials tetters A4 B-S A-i 7 Real Estate E-M Weather A-Z 4
