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A meeting to discuss plans to slow traffic on Tamar Drive and Majors Lane will be held at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Jeffers Hill Elementary School cafeteria.The meeting is sponsored by the Jeffers Hill PTA Safety Committee.Ed Walter, chief of traffic engineering, and George Frangos, project manager, will present the plans to the community.Proposals include: three raised intersections, a raised crosswalk and five speed humps.The raised intersections would be at Tamar Drive and Majors Lane, Tamar Drive and Old Montgomery Road, and Majors Lane and Old Montgomery Road.

POLICE LOG* Long Reach: 8300 block of Tamar Drive: A burglar pilfered jewelry, a clock, a stereo % and two videos after prying open the front door of a house between 10:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. Monday, police said.

POLICE* Long Reach: 8900 block of Tamar Drive: Someone stole a $490 black and green mountain bicycle from a balcony between 7 p.m. May 11 and 2 p.m. Sunday.6000 block of Warmstone Court: A yellow 1985 Yamaha motorcycle was stolen between Sunday and Monday. The California license plates are 11K6370.

Police Blotter is a sampling of crimes in Howard County.Long Reach: Someone entered a residence in the 5900 block of Tamar Drive on Monday evening through an unlocked door and stole a purse and cash.Pub Date: 6/12/97

POLICE LOG* Stevens Forest: 9300 block of Indian Camp Road: A stereo, camera equipment and a television set were taken from a residence Wednesday. A rear sliding window was broken, police said.* Long Reach: 8900 block of Tamar Drive: A blue 1988 Volkswagen Jetta with Maryland tags BDC 515 was stolen between Tuesday andWednesday, police said.

Four women and their babies -- the last participants in an alternative-to-prison program called Tamar's Children -- will likely be forced to leave their residential treatment center tomorrow because of a court decision yesterday. The Court of Special Appeals granted an emergency motion by the state Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to temporarily stop a Baltimore circuit judge's order last week to keep Tamar's Children operating until July. "This could not have been handled worse," said Irene Smith, a lawyer for the Maryland Disability Law Center, which represents the mothers in Tamar's Children.

A pioneering plan to rehabilitate female prisoners who have babies while in custody was at least temporarily shelved last night after Mount Vernon residents turned out in force to attack the proposed location of another social program in their neighborhood. Tamar's Children, a $5 million program, is meant to be one of the first in the country to keep inmates with their babies in a special facility after they give birth. But neighbors of the latest site proposed for the project - a building at 509 Cathedral St. that in recent years has been a halfway house for offenders from Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center - vowed last night that Tamar's Children would never open there.