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Gov. Robert. L Ehrlich Jr. appointed yesterday a former federal prosecutor from Montgomery County with Republican Party ties to serve as Maryland's state prosecutor. Robert A. Rohrbaugh, 57, will head an office charged with the politically sensitive task of investigating allegations of misconduct by public officials and employees, including violations of state election and ethics laws. An assistant U.S. attorney from 1974 to 1980, Rohrbaugh succeeds Stephen Montanarelli, who died in May. Rohrbaugh said he's looking forward to his new job, which pays $119,600 a year.

Frances E. Rohrbaugh, 80, laboratory administrator Frances E. Rohrbaugh, a longtime medical technologist and laboratory administrator, died Tuesday of heart and kidney failure at St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson. She was 80. Born in Galena, Kan., Ms. Rohrbaugh graduated as valedictorian of Galena High School in 1937 and then attended Kansas State Teachers College, intending to go to medical school. Although she was accepted at several medical schools, Ms. Rohrbaugh suspended her dream of becoming a doctor for financial reasons.

Long & Foster employees to help Shepherd's StaffAgents and staff members from Long & Foster Real Estate's Westminster office will participate in the company's annual Community Service Day on Wednesday.The group will volunteer at Shepherd's Staff on Carroll Street, where it will create a back-to-school store and paint and repair the building, inside and outside.More than 30 people from the office are expected to help the Christian outreach program from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday.Maryland Public Television appoints vice presidentMaryland Public Television has appointed Jeff Hankin of Westminster vice president of marketing communications.

A Harrisburg, Pa., firm has been selected by the county to design the proposed $27 million minimum-security jail in Glen Burnie.Crabtree, Rohrbaugh & Associates, which won the $1.01 million contract over two other companies, designed Anne Arundel's correctional system master plan last year. That plan includes the proposed Ordnance Road jail and the subsequent $20 million renovation of the jail on Jennifer Road near Annapolis.The firm also designed the controversial expansion of the Jennifer Road jail, a plan that was abandoned in late 1993.

A consultant presented a plan to the County Council yesterday for a $27 million, six-building minimum-security jail to be built on a site on Ordnance Road in Glen Burnie.The 400-bed jail for minimum-security prisoners and the county's work-release program was included in a 2-inch-thick master plan for the Anne Arundel County Correctional System that was given to council members.The plan, prepared by Crabtree, Rohrbaugh & Associates of Harrisburg, Pa., is required by state officials before they will pay for the customary 50 percent of construction costs.

Genevieve L. Shepp,homemakerGenevieve L. Shepp, 65, died Wednesday at her home iBaltimore. The Hampstead native was the daughter of Effie Alban Rohrbaugh and the late John Ralph Rohrbaugh. She is survived by her mother; her husband, Edward Carr Shepp; two sons, Mark W. Shepp and Dale F. Shepp; four sisters, Mary Jane Reinhard, Kathryn Price, Joyce Black and Dorothy Mandell; two brothers, William Rohrbaugh and Larry Rohrbaugh; and three grandchildren.O. Joe Neal,farmerLIBERTYTOWNO. Joe Neal, 37, died Tuesday at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Unit at University Hospital of injuries sustained in a tractor accident.

The only commuter bus service from Carroll County to Baltimore might be discontinued.But the president of the Manchester charter company that operates it says he's interested in working with the county to develop a van shuttle service to the Owings Mills Metro Station.Bill Rohrbaugh, of Bill Rohrbaugh's Charter Service Inc., told the county commissioners Thursday that because of low ridership he's considering eliminating his Westminster-to-Eldersburg-to-Baltimore commuter route because of low ridership -- unless the service is subsidized.

Rohrbaugh's celebratesMANCHESTER -- Bill Rohrbaugh's Charter Service Inc. at 3395 Main St. will celebrate its 20th anniversary at an open house from 2 to 6 p.m. May 31.Tours of the facility will be given and light refreshments served. Prize drawings and tour and travel discounts will be offered.The tour bus company was founded when Bill and Nancy Rohrbaugh purchased Smith Bus Service Inc. with four motor coaches. They have purchased more buses since, and in 1985, began a full-service travel agency.

When Troy Rohrbaugh was a freshman at Johns Hopkins University, he asked the same question he is being asked now: Why are all the shoes in the tree?"And this is what I was told," said Mr. Rohrbaugh, now a senior, . . . Fraternity brothers were always forgetting things, and they'd yell to their roommates to throw them stuff out the window. One time somebody threw down a pair of shoes and it got wrapped around a limb."From then on, any time you wore out a pair of shoes, or your roommate had really smelly feet with a tendency to leave his shoes laying around, they'd end up on the tree."

When Troy Rohrbaugh was a freshman at the Johns Hopkins University, he asked the same question he is being asked now: Why are all the shoes in the tree?"