Rankin

On January 30, 2004, CHARLOTTE J. MACGILL, wife of the late Richard G. Macgill; former Chairman of New Jersey National Bank. Survived by her sons Richard G. Macgill Jr. and Hugh C. Macgill; her grandchildren, Tacy Biggs, Willis Macgill, Mary-Ragan Macgill, Alexandra Rankin Macgill, Charles Rankin Macgill and two great-grandchildren, Samuel and Charlotte Biggs. Services will be private. IN lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Planned Parenthood of Maryland, 610 N. Howard St., Baltimore, MD 21201.

On August 3, 2003, IDELLA RANKIN; devoted cousin of Janie Neal (Shirley). She is also survived by one step son, Clarence Rankin and a host of other relatives. Friends may call at the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST, INC., 4300 Wabash Avenue, on Wednesday, after 12 noon. Remains will lie in state at Pennsylvania Avenue AME Zion Church, 1128 Pennsylvania Avenue, on Thursday, 9 A.M., where the family will receive friends at 11:30 A.M., followed by Funeral Services at 12 noon. See www.marchfh.

A judicial advisory panel is inviting public response to its recommendations that access to court records - in electronic or paper form - should be maintained, a stance that reverses an earlier committee's proposal that would have restricted access to the files. In its draft report, the Committee on Access to Court Records also calls for Maryland court officials to plan to make more records available by computer from remote sites. The committee's draft report, released this week, can be read on the judiciary's Web site, www. courts.

ONE IS THE loneliest number, especially when it's a high visibility congressional vote against a measure practically the whole nation supports - as was the case Sept. 14, when the House of Representatives voted 420 to 1 to give the president power to retaliate against the terrorist attacks on America. California Democrat Barbara Lee defended her lonely stand by saying that authorizing military force to stop terrorism wouldn't work, and "I felt let's not do anything that could escalate this madness out of control."

If historians can learn about a civilization by the waste left behind, yesterday's trash-strewn infield of Pimlico Race Course sent one message. "They're party people," said Arthur Ricks, a racecourse employee who spent yesterday cleaning up around the course after the 126th running of the Preakness Stakes on Saturday. "No, they're party animals." An estimated 150 volunteers helped clean the racecourse infield yesterday, with the proceeds of the work being dedicated to purchasing rain forest in Costa Rica.

The Coast Guard cutter Sledge sliced through the brown-gray waters of Curtis Creek just after dawn yesterday in a sneak attack on a dormant but devastating enemy. Two hours later, the Sledge's tow barge brimmed with the spoils of war -- dozens of mud-soaked tires, bottles and hunks of scrap metal -- discarded debris that is a blight on the shores of the waterway. Crews from the Sledge and the cutter James Rankin uncovered a rusted grocery cart with its plastic flap seat still intact, a child's football and an orange road construction cone.

Faced with a torrent of criticism from the media, businesses and private investigators, a committee of the Maryland judiciary has decided to scuttle its proposal to limit public access to computerized criminal court records. A six-member Committee on Public Access to Court Information, made up of five court officials and a state lawyer, recommended last month that access to such records from home and office computers through Maryland's dial-in system be limited to lawyers, police and government agencies.

Martin Rankin, 75, operated paint factory Martin Rankin, who once ran a family paint manufacturing business in Baltimore, died of diabetes-related illnesses Saturday in Hollywood, Fla. He was 75. Mr. Rankin was born in Baltimore, the son of Albert Rankin, who founded a paint manufacturing company called Lasting Products Inc. He graduated from Polytechnic Institute and attended the University of Baltimore while working for his father. When the business was destroyed by fire in 1969, Mr. Rankin opened a Century 21 Real Estate franchise in the city.