Guilford

Guilford Pharmaceuticals Inc. of Baltimore said yesterday that it offered $15 million of stock in an initial public offering that was scaled back by a third because of a weak financing market for biotechnology firms.The company, which was spun off from Scios Nova Inc. of Mountain View, Calif. last year, sold 1.875 million shares of stock at $8 each. In March, Guilford had said it planned to sell 2.8 million shares, hoping to raise $22.4 million."The market for biotechnology companies in general and the appetite for them has been down," Guilford chief executive Dr. Craig R. Smith said.

Guilford Pharmaceuticals Inc. has landed a government contract to advance research on the company's promising drug compounds to control cocaine addiction.The one-year contract from the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy, which helps the president set national strategies to combat drug abuse, will provide $627,500 to further Guilford's addiction research program.Guilford is one of just two companies in the United States attempting to develop a drug treatment for cocaine addiction.

The collapse of a major biotechnology investment banking firm should not have a lasting effect on Baltimore-based Guilford Pharmaceuticals Inc., say the company and an industry analyst, even though it sent Guilford's stock spiraling down 46 percent in the last two days."

A new yellow barrier at St. Paul Street and Charlcote Road makes it official -- the wealthy North Baltimore neighborhood of Guilford is now a "limited-access" community. In other words, it's harder for motorists, and presumably criminals, to get to.Not everyone in Guilford is pleased."We moved here from Federal Hill, another neighborhood I'm sure would like to block itself off; but they don't," says Kim Shramko, who lives across from the barrier. "We live in the city. Everybody knew that when they bought here."

Elizabeth Schueler, a homemaker who lived in Baltimore, died Feb. 8 in a Houston medical facility of complications from dementia. The former Guilford resident was 88. Born Elizabeth Joann White in Williamsport, Pa., she grew up on Baltimore's Gittings Avenue and was a 1937 Mount Saint Agnes High School graduate. She earned a bachelor's degree from the College of Notre Dame of Maryland. In 1942, she married William D. "Bally" Schueler, a WBAL-radio salesman, who later bought AM radio stations throughout the Southwest, where the couple moved years ago. She was a former member of St. Mary of the Assumption Roman Catholic Church in Govans.

A potential buyer surfaced yesterday for Baltimore artist Grace Turnbull's former residence in Guilford, as Baltimore's preservation commission recommended that it be designated a city landmark to protect it from demolition. Douglas Hamilton Jr., the chief executive officer of a local manufacturing company and a trustee of the Walters Art Museum, told members of Baltimore's Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation that he has a contract to purchase the former Turnbull property at 223 Chancery Road.

The state fire marshal's office is investigating the discovery early yesterday of nearly half a dozen Molotov cocktails on the Vollmerhausen Road overpass above Interstate 95 in Guilford.Police believe the glass bottles, which were soaked with a flammable liquid, were left on the overpass by someone who was preparing to throw them at passing vehicles."Obviously, someone doesn't know the seriousness of this," said Sgt. Steven Keller, a spokesman for the Howard County Police Department. "It's more than just a prank."

As reported Aug. 19, 1917, in The Sun: Ellicott City, Md., Aug. 18 - The twelfth annual Guilford Day picnic and tournament was held today by the Guilford Day Association of Howard county, and drew a crowd of about 3,000 persons. Baseball, the tournament, the baby show, foot races, high jumping and a pony show each had its hour. It was also a big day for local politicians, and a score or more of candidates were present. With the primaries only two weeks off, the first time Howard county has ever nominated a local ticket by a direct vote, it was all the more interesting.

A Guilford man has been charged with beating and raping a female acquaintance at his home Friday after the woman refused to have sex, Howard County police said.The victim, a 37-year-old Columbia woman, was treated for bruises and cuts on her face and released from the Howard County General Hospital, police said.According to police, the woman came to the suspect's house to watch television at 8 p.m. Thursday.Shortly before 5 a.m. Friday, police said, the suspect asked the woman if she wanted to have sex. She refused, police said.

An elderly Guilford man was in stable condition yesterday after he was severely beaten by an intruder and left bleeding and helpless for hours before a relative found him near death, police said.The home invasion was similar to at least three others that have occurred in the wealthy North Baltimore neighborhood since mid-October, police said.Police said that when the daughter of James Chillis, 79, of the 4500 block of Underwood Road arrived at his home about noon Saturday, she found his car parked in the driveway with the keys in the ignition and groceries in the back seat.