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May Young, 98, operated health clubsMay Young, who operated health clubs with her husband, died Friday of pneumonia at Verdugo Vista Nursing Home in La Crescenta, Calif. She was 98 and had lived in Homeland.She worked in the business offices of health clubs her husband, Fred Lawrence Young, established in Baltimore and other cities.They married in 1920 and ran Young's Health System in the Fidelity Building on Charles Street. He died in 1968 after establishing clubs in Philadelphia, New York, Cleveland and Los Angeles.

Frances Elizabeth Wagasky, who was assistant manager of a Glen Burnie apparel shop and club manager at Fort Meade, died Saturday of respiratory complications at North Arundel Hospital. She was 75 and lived in Odenton.She was assistant manager of the Franklin Simon women's store in Glen Burnie from 1970 to 1975. In the late 1970s, she managed the noncommissioned officers' club at Fort Meade and was coordinator for special events at the Anne Arundel County military installation.Mrs. Wagasky, who had lived in Tokyo with her husband of 53 years, retired Air Force Lt. Col. Sylvester J. Wagasky, maintained a lifelong interest in Japanese culture and was fluent in the language.

Ollie E. Jenkins, a land surveyor who worked on many major construction projects, including the building of Columbia in Howard County, died of lung cancer Saturday at his Ocean City home. He was 79.Mr. Jenkins retired in 1977 as assistant manager of land development for the Rouse Co., which he joined in 1966. Before then, he worked for Albert E. Pohmer, who owned the company that bore his name.Mr. Jenkins surveyed the land on which Harundale Mall in Anne Arundel County and the Northwood and Mondawmin malls in Baltimore were built.

The city liquor board voted yesterday to indefinitely suspend the license of the New 32nd Street Plaza, a North Baltimore nightclub that has long disturbed neighbors who complained of beatings, shootings and even a slaying in the area.The three-member board voted 2-1 for the suspension, preventing the bar's owners from bringing alcoholic beverages onto the premises in the 400 block of E. 32nd St.The board also said the two owners who hold the license, James Scroggins and Rhonda Williams, "were not fit" to hold a liquor license in Baltimore.

Thelma Isennock, 84, Towson store managerA memorial service for Thelma Isennock, a former assistant manager of a Towson women's clothing store, will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Epworth United Methodist Church, 600 E. Warren Road in Cockeysville, where she was a member.Mrs. Isennock, who was 84, died Aug. 14 of complications of a stroke at home in Phoenix.The former Towson resident worked for more than 20 years as assistant manager of Wetzler's in Towson Plaza and retired in 1977.The former Thelma Holland was born in East Baltimore and educated in city schools.

The blond, about 35 years old, 5-foot-4 and heavier than she'd admit, entered the drug store as the security alarm sounded. The resultant charge by the assistant manager would have looked heroic if he'd weighed 40 pounds more, possessed a need for two razor blades a month and faced a genuine opponent.A clerk apologized to the blond. The assistant manager burned the soles off his athletic shoes, stopping short of where I stood on the tile floor. I didn't get caught.I activated the security system.

The Elvis memorabilia are gone from the Graceland Cafeteria in the basement of Baltimore County's old courthouse in Towson."It's not Graceland anymore," Betty Lou Hanes, the widow of the former manager, said Friday -- her last day behind the cash register. She said that the cafeteria's new blind manager had not made her a fair job offer.The cafeteria's operation has been in dispute for two months, since the death of Mrs. Hanes' husband, Lou, who had managed it under the state's blind vendor program.

A cabdriver was robbed of an undisclosed amount of money Friday by a passenger he took to an apartment complex in Glen Burnie, county police said.Benjamin Okolie, 53, a driver for Royal Cab Co. in Baltimore, told police he picked up a man in the 1100 block of Woodington Ave. in Baltimore after 9:30 a.m.The man told Mr. Okolie to take him to the 6400 block of Centennial Circle in Heritage Hill. When they arrived, the man left the cab, walked to the driver's window and pointed a gun at Mr. Okolie, police said.

Annapolis Alderman M. Theresa DeGraff, whose complaints led city officials to hire a private company to collect garbage at 4,000 homes Christmas weekend, is the wife of a manager at the firm that got the job.John Patmore, city public works director, said Friday that he hired Browning-Ferris Industries Inc. without getting estimates from other companies after Ms. DeGraff called to complain that trash had not been picked up at half the homes in the city.He...

The Ruppersberger administration will allow a new blind vendor to manage the Baltimore County Courthouse cafeteria on condition that the widow of the old manager is guaranteed a job there for at least a year.Officials of the state program that provides blind managers for concessions in public buildings have accepted the deal, ending a two-week standoff.Betty Lou Hanes, 52, has been fighting since her husband's sudden death March 30 to avoid losing her livelihood at the Graceland Cafeteria.

An assistant manager of the Family Dollar Store in the Mount Clare Junction Shopping Center in Southwest Baltimore was found slain at her workplace yesterday morning, according to city police. Authorities did not release the victim's name yesterday, saying her relatives had not been notified. Several store employees arrived for work about 9 a.m. yesterday and were surprised to find the door to the store locked. They waited and then called another assistant manager to let them into the building at the shopping center in the 1200 block of W. Pratt St. They found a woman's body fully clothed and covered in blood, police said.

Andrew J. Gorman Sr., a retired supermarket assistant manager, died of stroke complications Friday at his son's Eldersburg home. He was 86. Born in Catonsville, he attended Baltimore County public schools. He worked on a farm as a young man and later joined the old Food Fair grocery chain. During World War II, he served in the Army in the Panama Canal Zone. After the war, he returned to the grocery store and became a manager of grocery departments for Food Fair and later Pantry Pride.

Central Maryland is waking up to forecasts of the first significant snowfall of the season - a storm arriving as early as tonight, at the start of what historically has been one of Baltimore's snowiest weeks. The storm cranked up in the Southwest over the weekend and is sweeping up Gulf Coast moisture, preparing to fling it into the cold air entrenched over most of the Northeast. Forecasters weren't sure late yesterday where the rain/snow line will form, or how much snow the Baltimore and Washington metropolitan areas should expect.

Emily Schafer, a retired savings and loan assistant manager, died of congestive heart failure Sept. 27 at Ridgeway Manor Nursing Home. The lifelong Catonsville resident was 92. Born Emily Anna Chamberlain in an apartment above a dentist's office on Frederick Road, she was a 1931 graduate of Catonsville High School and president of her senior class. She also played basketball, volleyball and field hockey for the school. She attended a business school in downtown Baltimore, worked for a state agency and an insurance firm and gave piano lessons in her home.

Wayne M. Skinner, a Republican candidate for the Baltimore County Council, received the endorsement of Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. yesterday at an event in Perry Hall. Skinner, a former county councilman and the deputy director of the state Department of Assessments and Taxation, is running against Councilman Vincent J. Gardina, a Democrat seeking his fifth term. The district stretches from Towson and Perry Hall to the eastern edge of the county and includes older, established neighborhoods as well as fast-growing areas such as Carney.

A former assistant manager for the Shoppers Food Warehouse store in Westminster pleaded guilty to a theft scheme yesterday in Carroll County Circuit Court and was ordered to repay the company for 2,549 hours of leave for which he was paid but to which he was not entitled, said Senior Assistant State's Attorney Melissa O. Hockensmith. John Lawrence Helt, 45, of Frederick received a suspended three-year sentence from Judge J. Barry Hughes, who ordered that Helt repay $51,371.01. If he repays the money within a year, the judge said he would give Helt probation before judgment, which would eliminate the conviction from his otherwise clean record.

With just a hint of a smile peaking from beneath his mustache, Blast assistant coach Max Thompson came down the steps at 1st Mariner Arena wearing just one brown shoe. The other he held in his hands as he worked diligently at untying a string of a dozen tiny, tight knots in the laces. "Look what they've done to me," he said, holding out the shoe. "They tied it to the sprinkler on the ceiling in the locker room." Blast coach Tim Wittman, who has been suspended for tonight's game against the Philadelphia KiXX, looked and laughed.

SAN FRANCISCO - An assistant manager at Costco Wholesale Corp., the largest U.S. warehouse-club chain, accused the company of discriminating against female workers by failing to promote as many as 650 women to high-paying management jobs. Shirley "Rae" Ellis said in a lawsuit filed yesterday in U.S. District Court in San Francisco that Costco doesn't post or advertise store manager jobs. She is seeking class action status for the lawsuit, which would enable all 650 workers to sue as a group.

Eric F. Sievers, manager for a check-cashing company, died Sunday of pancreatic cancer at his Parkville home. He was 43. Born in Denver and raised in Towson, he attended Immaculate Heart of Mary Parochial School and was a 1978 graduate of Loch Raven High School. He earned a degree in hospitality management from then-Essex Community College. He was an assistant manager of a Farrell's ice cream parlor at Golden Ring Mall from 1986 to 1990, when he became an assistant manager of the USF&G Conference Center cafeteria in Mount Washington.

McPherson G. Hoffman, 68, Treasury manager McPherson G. Hoffman, a former telecommunications manager with the U.S. Treasury Department in Washington, died Monday of lymphoma at his Burtonsville home. He was 68. Mr. Hoffman had lived in Cockeysville for 33 years and had a second home in Burtonsville. He retired in September from the Treasury Department, where for 12 years he had been chief financial and budget officer of its communication systems department. He began his career in 1959 with Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co., where he worked as a manager in human resources, personnel, operations and administrative management.