Kuethe

The State Highway Administration will not install a traffic light at the intersection of Baltimore-Annapolis Boulevard and Kuethe Drive, but plans to add overhead street lighting, after a summer study of the intersection near Glen Burnie High School.The overhead lights are to be installed by the end of the year to illuminate the area and help motorists see cars and pedestrians. Several people in the community, including two state senators, had requested a traffic study of the intersection due to accidents there.

A group of dissident shareholders failed to take control of Glen Burnie Bancorp yesterday in a contentious annual meeting.The dissident group, led by Susan Demyan, a former director of the company, failed in its bid to remove the current board of directors.The vote, which took auditors nearly three hours to tally, was 55 percent for the board and 45 percent against, said F. William Kuethe Jr., president of the banking corporation, the parent of Bank of Glen Burnie."I have to consider it a pyrrhic victory, because the bank itself suffered so much through this," Kuethe said.

For the first time since it welcomed readers in 1934, the Kuethe Library is asking an outside contributor to help keep it open.Trustees are requesting that the Glen Burnie Improvement Association, which dedicated a piece of land for the library to be built on 60 years ago, contribute $3,000 a year toward maintaining the red brick building."

100 years agoNew mail facilities open up a wide territory in lower Anne Arundel in the star-route mail service. James D. Crandall will carry the mail from Galloways to South River and C. W. Taylor from Annapolis to Sudley. -- The Sun, July 1, 1897.In the city election in Annapolis today, the Democrats elected the mayor, city counselor and four of six aldermen. Dr. Richard H. Green was elected mayor by a majority of 28 votes. -- The Sun, July 12, 1897.The heaviest rainstorm for the past 25 years hit the Pindell area.

Friday marks the final chapter in the 59-year history of the Kuethe Reading Center.But it's also a fresh start for the two-room library on Crain Highway.The board of library trustees, anticipating that the county budget wouldn't include money for Kuethe, decided in March to close the reading center.Librarians said that usually only a dozen faithful readers showed up, even on rainy days that seemed best-suited to curling up with a book.For the number of people it served, Kuethe costmore to operate than any other library branch in the county.

Mary Meyer won't hear ghosts anymore. And she won't have old newspapers filled with tales of Anne Arundel's past piled floor to ceiling in an old farmhouse.And people who come to visit the Anne Arundel County Historical Society's library won't have to climb a narrow set of stairs or worry about bumping their head at the top.Now, all the books and papers are neatly organized and cataloged.Researchers can move around and not bump into others. And there is table space -- lots of it.Of course, visitors to the library won'tbe going to the Benson-Hammond House to look up old books anymore.

BEVERLY KUETHE of Glen BurnieVolunteer's background: Mrs. Kuethe, a lifelong Glen Burnie resident and mother of four, has been a volunteer at North Arundel Hospital since joining its auxiliary in 1969.From 1978 to 1979, Mrs. Kuethe was president of the auxiliary. She has served on the board of directors since 1988, as well as on various board committees.Over the years, Mrs. Kuethe has accumulated over 21,000 hours service at the hospital.That's the equivalent of 10 1/2 years of full-time employment, said James R. Walker, the hospital's president and chief executive officer.

Even on dreary afternoons, when rain splashes against the windows and traffic crawls along Crain Highway, Jean Guite has plenty of time to relax with a book at work.Only a dozen faithful readers usuallyshow up at the Kuethe Reading Center each day, even on rainy days that seem best suited to curling up with a book. Guite, a librarian who works twice a week at the 59-year-old library, often has more than an hour free between customers."There just aren't that many people who come here," she said.

People in Glen Gardens are waiting to see if state highway officials will agree to put a traffic signal at Kuethe Road, instead of Glen Road.The decision could be made in two weeks.Glen Gardens is the neighborhood most affected by traffic along Baltimore-Annapolis Boulevard near Glen Burnie High School.Residents there say a hill on the boulevard makes it hard to spot eastbound traffic from Kuethe Road."It will look clear and the next thing you know a car is right on your tail, so you really have to hustle across," said Maria Abell, whose two sons attend Glen Burnie High.

A white flag has gone up at the Bank of Glen Burnie.Former President Jan W. Clark and the old board of directors agreed yesterday to unlock the doors and turn the keys over to the newly elected leaders and president F. William Kuethe Jr.The bank's new leaders will move in and begin work today, according to a written statement released by attorneys from both sides, who met for 90 minutes in the chambers of Anne Arundel Circuit Judge Robert Heller Jr. Judge...

In late fall 1994, five men huddled behind closed doors to plot the ouster of Jan W. Clark as president of the Bank of Glen Burnie.Four of them were officials or major stockholders of the bank, but the fifth was an outsider whose presence at the meeting raises troubling questions about the management of the bank.He was Brian H. Davis, president of a Baltimore trucking company, a high-rolling political money man -- and a man who later pleaded guilty to obtaining millions of dollars in illegal loans from the bank.

Four directors of the Bank of Glen Burnie have resigned, accusing management of moving too slowly to correct problems and not informing them about loans to customers, the former directors said.Susan Demyan, an attorney and one of the directors who resigned, said the four quit because management was slow to make changes required by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. last year. The FDIC order required the bank to improve loan administration and collection, and to adopt a strategic plan.The former directors also complained that they were being kept in the dark on loans to customers, she said.

75 years ago Former Mayor Samuel Jones of Annapolis, one of the city's leading merchants, and the oldest, will retire from the Jones and Franklin grocery and hardware business after almost 40 years. -- The Sun, April 6, 1921.Score a weather record of April 18, 1921. Annapolitans who were outside witnessed a flurry of snow between 9: 30 and 10 last night. -- from Anne Arundel County Kuethe Library files, April 19, 1921.Pub Date: 4/14/96

Stung by the bankruptcy of a Baltimore-based trucking company, Glen Burnie Bancorp lost $1.7 million in 1995 after writing off millions of dollars in loans, bank officials said yesterday at the company's annual meeting.The $246 million-asset banking company also agreed last week to enter into a memorandum of understanding with its regulator, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. The agreement requires the company and its subsidiary, Bank of Glen Burnie, to improve loan administration, loan collection and adopt a strategic plan.

75 years ago An eagle measuring 6 feet 6 inches from tip to tip was shot and killed yesterday at "Wild Rose Lodge" on South River. For days, it had been swooping down and killing chickens and ducks on the Mrs. John Waggaman farm. -- The Sun, Oct. 5, 1920.Seven Sunday School classes have been organized at the Naval Academy in Annapolis. One is a beginners class for children aged 3 to 5 and three separate classes each for boys and girls aged 5 to 15. -- Anne Arundel County Kuethe Library files, Oct. 9, 1920.

On Nov. 21, 1889, as Mamie Wheatley prepared to marry John White in Leisic, Del., her father gave her a Bible to record the beginning of a new family.Now, 105 years later, that Bible has been entrusted to the Kuethe Library, where members of the Ann Arrundell Genealogical Society hope to find descendants so that the Bible can be returned to Mamie Wheatley's family.The Bible arrived at the library through the efforts of one woman trying to grant the wish of a dying man.This spring, Nancy Rattigan started working with terminally ill patients as a volunteer with Hospice of the Chesapeake.

100 Years Ago* St. John's College in Annapolis opened its football season by defeating Baltimore City College, 36-0. -- The Sun, Oct. 7, 1893.* There have been a lot of complaints by farmers in the vicinity of Gambrills and Millersville of petty thievery by transient workers of fruits and vegetables as well as the shooting, out of season, of rabbits and partridges. -- Anne Arundel County Kuethe Library files, Oct. 9, 1893.* The city dog pound on Shipwright Street, Annapolis, was broken into last night and all the dogs released.

75 years ago Former Mayor Samuel Jones of Annapolis, one of the city's leading merchants, and the oldest, will retire from the Jones and Franklin grocery and hardware business after almost 40 years. -- The Sun, April 6, 1921.Score a weather record of April 18, 1921. Annapolitans who were outside witnessed a flurry of snow between 9: 30 and 10 last night. -- from Anne Arundel County Kuethe Library files, April 19, 1921.Pub Date: 4/14/96

A white flag has gone up at the Bank of Glen Burnie.Former President Jan W. Clark and the old board of directors agreed yesterday to unlock the doors and turn the keys over to the newly elected leaders and president F. William Kuethe Jr.The bank's new leaders will move in and begin work today, according to a written statement released by attorneys from both sides, who met for 90 minutes in the chambers of Anne Arundel Circuit Judge Robert Heller Jr. Judge...

People in Glen Gardens are waiting to see if state highway officials will agree to put a traffic signal at Kuethe Road, instead of Glen Road.The decision could be made in two weeks.Glen Gardens is the neighborhood most affected by traffic along Baltimore-Annapolis Boulevard near Glen Burnie High School.Residents there say a hill on the boulevard makes it hard to spot eastbound traffic from Kuethe Road."It will look clear and the next thing you know a car is right on your tail, so you really have to hustle across," said Maria Abell, whose two sons attend Glen Burnie High.