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The Star-Democrat from Easton, Maryland • Page 3

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The Star-Democrati
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Easton, Maryland
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Thursday. April 13, 1969 Th Star-Dmocrat Pog 3 A mmaryland Son baffled by mother's disapperance state review p-ya ES3 fTTS CSga MSmimA 14 CZ3 A BALTIMORE (AP) Police are still mystified by the disappearance five years ago of a Baltimore County woman who vanished without a trace, leaving behind her teen-age son, her medicine and the scooter she used to get around. Stephanie Gant Brady, who is known Penny Gant, was reported missing five years ago Wednesday. She was 39. Her son, Paul, who was 15 when she disappeared, sees his mother in his dreams.

"In the dream, somebody always asks her, 'Penny, where have you he said in an interview with The (Baltimore) Evening Sun. "She smiles, but she never answers." Ms. Gant had multiple sclerosis, and often used a three-wheeled scooter to get around. The scooter was found in her apartment along with medication she took every day. Baltimore County Police detectives believe she is dead.

"It's just been very frustrating," says Detective Milton Duckworth. "We know there's been foul play, but there's nothing we can do. She just disappeared into thin air." "It was just very out of character for her to disappear like that," says Detective Bob Capel, who interviewed Mrs. Gant's family and friends at the time of her disappearance. "She would never go three days, much less three months or three years, without calling her son." Five years may have clouded her son's memory, but it hasn't lessened his pain.

"The relationship between my mother and me was not just mother and son. It was like brother and sister, like friends," he said. He last saw his mother April 1, 1984. He had decided to move from the apartment he shared with his mother and her boyfriend and live with his grandmother. When he called the apartment, Ms.

Gant's boyfriend told him his mother had gone to Atlantic City, then told police she had gone to Pittsburgh to visit friends. The boyfriend said later that Ms. Gant had gone to London to write a book and she didn't want anyone to know where she was. Police say the boyfriend told them he had received letters from her in London, but he never produced them. Police found no record of Ms.

Gant obtaining a passport. The Evening Sun was unable to reach the man for comment. Gant says he does not believe his mother went to London. "She would have mentioned it to somebody. She wouldn't have gone anywhere without telling me," he said.

Gant says that certain things about his mother's disappearance don't add up. She failed to keep a doctor's appointment and left behind her medicine and scooter. The furniture in the apartment, her clothing, and her diploma from Morgan State University have disappeared, her son says. "We came out of there with a couple of rugs and a couple of boxes we found in this little storage shed," he says. "This was a fully furnished apartment.

"To go in there and just see nothing, it took a lot out of us. Everything that belonged to her, everything that my mother worked long and hard for disappeared slowly but surely," he says. Ms. Gant, who had a degree in sociology, was working on her master's degree at the University of Baltimore at the time of her disappearance She had joined the Maryland National Guard in 1977 and the following year was diagnosed as having multiple sclerosis. i Md.

settles alleged victims' claims ELLICOTT CITY, Md. (AP) The state of Maryland has agreed to pay $275,000 to the families of 10 boys and three girls who charged that a Clarksville preschool run by Sandra A. Craig where the children were allegedly physically and sexually abused was improperly licensed and supervised, attorneys said. The agreement also commits the state to provide counseling services to the children. Mrs.

Craig and the now-defunct Craig's Country Preschool also reached a verbal out-of-court settlement promising the 12 families a total of $35,000, attorneys in the case said Tuesday. The settlements were confirmed by the plaintiffs' attorneys Paul A. Dorf and Paul Mark Sandler. Michael J. Budow, representing Mrs.

Craig and the preschool, refused comment to The Baltimore) Sun. The parents had filed a $1.4 billion civil action in Howard County Circuit Court against Mrs. Craig and eight others associated with the preschool. They also filed a claim against the state, intending to file suit for damages. The settlement was reached before that suit was filed.

Reward posted in murder case FREDERICK (AP) Local merchants and police have posted a $5,000 reward for information pertaining to the puzzling murder of a Frederick County high school student. TraceyLynn Kirkpatrick, 17, of Point of Rocks, was fatally stabbed at least seven times March 15 in the stockroom of a women's clothing store where she worked, police said. Investigators have ruled out robbery in her death because no money was stolen from the store. They also said she was not sexually assaulted. Maryland State Trooper Scott McCauley said merchants, who were shocked by the killing, donated $4,000 toward the reward the largest in Crime Solvers' eight-year history.

Crime Solvers chipped in the remaining $1,000, he said. 3 Md. sailors on voyage BALTIMORE (AP) Three Maryland sailors will be among a group of 80 taking part in the first joint Soviet-American trans-Atlantic voyage scheduled for this summer, organizers said. Baltimoreans Angie Borden and Eliza Garfield and Greg DeCowsky of Earleville will sail with 37 other American sailors and 40 Soviet sailors from New York to Leningrad and back during "Soviet American Sail 1989." "Soviet American Sail 1989" is scheduled to leave New York in early June and return from Leningrad in September. On the way, the crew will visit schools, host festivals focusing on coastal concerns and live in private homes in both countries.

The tour is schedule to stop at Baltimore's Inner Harbor on May 29 and in Wilmington, on May 30. Church sends message to thieves HAGERSTOWN (AP) Upset about three break ins in two weeks, a Hagerstown church decided to send a message to those not, follpwing the commandment, "Thou shall not steal." "Attention all burglars," the sign in front of Otterbein United Methodist Church read last Sunday. "We don't even keep petty cash in the building any more. Sorry. Hagerstown police are investigating an April 2 break-in at the church where thieves tried unsuccessfully to enter a vault.

On March 22, $20 was taken from a petty cash box. On March 29, $13 in petty cash was stolen. "You would assume people would have respect pertaining to things to God, but there are a lot of people who have no respect for anything when they want to take money," the Rev. Wilson Shearer said. Board recommends reinstatement BALTIMORE (AP) A fire department hearing board has recommended reinstatement of a city firefighter saying the department failed to take into account his post-Vietnam War combat fatigue.

James I. Bryant, 38, resigned in 1987 rather than be fired after he failed to file about 57 required accident reports. A three-member trial board composed of top officers in the fire department Tuesday recommended his JP Paul Gant poses outside his home in Baltimore recently. Gant and police are still mystified by the disappearance five years ago of his mother. Penny Gant, who vanished without a trace, leaving behind her teen-age son, her medicine and the scooter she used to get around.

Schaefer lobbies for favorable bond rating Evening Sun reported. The two rating services will award a credit rating following a detailed presentation of the project that includes location, attendance figures from Memorial Stadium, the team's record, 'the stadium's tenants, and similar statistics from The credit rating is important because it determines how much interest the state will have to repay investors. The higher the bond rating, the lower the interest. The newspaper said the bonds will be guaranteed by the Maryland Stadium Authority and backed by The credit ratings are expected to be released by the two agencies by the end of next week, said Sam Katz of Public Financial Mangement the Philadelphia-based financial consultant hired by the authority. The authority also is expected to preview preliminary design plans for the baseball stadium on Friday after representatives of the Orioles review the sketches, or schematic designs, the newspaper said.

other major league, baseball teams the authority's leases with the and their cities. rcta andthciir cities tjrioles and the stadium concessionaire and other revenue-producing features, such as the sale of luxury sky boxes. The highest rating available is Triple-A, the rating the state has secured for other bonds. BALTIMORE (AP) Gov. William Donald Schaefer and other top state officials hit Wall Street on Wednesday in their search for a favorable rating for taxable bonds the state will offer next month to help finance a new baseball stadium.

In May, $67.2 million of taxable bonds will be sold to fuiyi.land quisition for the Baltimore Orioles new downtown stadium site. A second sale of $105.4 million in tax-exempt bonds will be offered in November to help pay for construction of the baseball-only facility. The General Assembly approved the sale million in general obligation bonds to finance construction of a baseball and football stadium on the downtown site. The football stadium would be built only if the state is able to attract a National Football League franchise. The Maryland officials were scheduled to meet Wednesday with Moody's Investor Service and Standard Poor's Corp.

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I always felt that the Vietnam veterans were slapped Why our sneakers workharder. in the lace when.tney returned to the united states. They were not getting the services they deserved. I think we ought to bring him back and give him the treatment he needs," Glenn said. The board recommended Bryant return as a firefighter rather as a lieutenant, the rank he had held.

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