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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1976
Page
4
Maryland Gov. Mandel praises Gov. Brown for winning the Democratic primary and signals his active support and GOTV efforts. He also announces the state will convert a mothballed Navy ship into a temporary prison to ease inmate crowding, with cost and site details to follow.
Louisiana officials once weighed converting a Navy ship into a state prison a plan dropped as costly. Governor Mandel cites saving 14 to 15 million dollars and says no major renovations are needed for a 500 to 600 inmate capacity, with a few years before use.
Two city officers were injured during the arrest of Bonnie Gill and two companions as they attempted to flee in a car after appearing at the Western Union office to collect a telegraphic money order. Gill had escaped from Spring Grove State Hospital May 1 where she was confined as a potential death by action. The heavily tattooed Gill, charged with murder, had escaped custody days earlier.
The City Jail Board in Baltimore voted to stop taking inmates committed by courts to mental institutions when state facilities are overcrowded. Nine inmates await transfer to Clifton T. Perkins State Hospital and 31 of 34 beds in the jail infirmary are filled with inmates showing psychiatric problems. The board will seek to dismiss other psychiatric cases it cannot handle and the state plans to expand services at City Hospitals for evaluation and treatment.
Jimmy Carter appears to have 24 Democratic convention delegates pledged through Tuesday’s primary with potential to gain 15 more. The Baltimore Sun survey also suggests Carter could win up to five delegates from Henry M. Jackson and three from Morris Udall, plus at least seven of Maryland’s 13 at large delegates. Ted Venetoulis predicts Gov. Edmund G. Brown will capture about 20 delegates before the July convention.
Bel Air action bars the Harford County Education Association from representing local teachers for two years and from collecting dues for three. The unanimous decision came after a four day strike and marks the first time a Maryland local school board has stripped a teachers union of its representation rights.
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