Taylor Manor

Police logEllicott City: 9300 block of U.S. 40: Someone smashed the front glass door of ERS Mobile Audio Saturday at 12:45 a.m. and stole stereo equipment.Ellicott City: 4100 block of College Ave.: Someone broke into an office at Taylor Manor Hospital between Dec. 22 and Sunday and stole office equipment.

POLICE LOG* Elkridge: 7400 block of U.S. 1: An intruder searched through four unlocked trailers outside Spartan Express between Friday and Monday, but police said nothing was taken.* Ellicott City: 3200 block of Wheaton Way: Someone tried to pry open the front door lock of a house Tuesday, but police said there was no entry.4100 block of College Ave.: A security guard responding to an alarm at Taylor Manor Hospital early yesterday found a window pried open and an office area ransacked. Police said nothing was reported stolen.

QUICK. WHAT color are yield signs? Of course. They're yellow with black edging and lettering. Everyone knows that. Last month, a number of readers commented on yield signs, in particular, the yield sign from the Route 100 west ramp onto Long Gate Parkway. Ellicott City's Carl Whitmire responded to these comments, in particular, to Steve Clarkson, who said regarding yield signs and Maryland drivers: "Heck, most of them don't even know how to spell it. They view a triangular yellow sign as a challenge.

Christmas will come early to the Children's Guild program of Howard County. The local extension of the Baltimore-based, non-profit private school for emotionally disturbed 7-to-12-year-olds apparently won't have to endure the imminent closing its operators and client families had feared.Established last year at Taylor Manor Hospital in Ellicott City, the local program was nearly to the point of shutting down a few weeks ago for failing to meet expenses. It requires 15 students to break even at Taylor Manor, but recently only 13 were enrolled.

About 150 people gathered in the morning chill Friday for the official groundbreaking for the expanded Grassroots Crisis Intervention Center on Freetown Road. Several speakers remarked on the much colder weather, and how that underscored the importance of the project. Richard Krieg, president and CEO of the Horizon Foundation, announced a $150,000 donation to the $5 million effort for transitional costs. The shelter's residents are to move for a year to a house at the former Taylor Manor Hospital in Ellicott City, while the 17-year-old building near Atholton High School is demolished and a larger facility built.

25 Years Ago (week of March 24-30, 1968):* About 12 acres of the grounds at Trinity Prep School on Ilchester Road were burned when a fire that had been set to burn over a fodder field jumped a fire trench and went out of control. Eight pieces of equipment responded from fire companies in Ellicott City, Elkridge, Catonsville, Arbutus, Halethorpe and Linthicum. The fire was brought under control within two hours. No injuries were reported.* The new psychiatric center at Taylor Manor Hospital in Ellicott ,, City was formally dedicated.

Edith Lee Taylor, who had been executive director of the old Taylor Manor Hospital for three decades, died Saturday complications from a stroke at Tri-City Medical Center in Oceanside, Calif. The longtime Pikesville resident was 83. Edith Lee Goodman was born in Philadelphia and raised in Elizabeth, N.J., and after spending a year in Israel with her mother, she moved with her family to Pasadena, Calif., in 1935. After graduating from high school, she attended Pasadena Junior College, where she played the drums in the college band and was a cheerleader at the Rose Bowl.

Services for Hyman L. Setzer, president of the Royal Taxi Cab Association, will be at noon today at the Sol Levinson & Bros. funeral home, 6010 Reisterstown Road.Mr. Setzer, who lived in the Taylor Manor Apartments in Overlea, died Friday at Johns Hopkins Hospital after a long illness. He was 75.Born in Baltimore, Mr. Setzer attended Baltimore public schools and then began work as a cab driver in 1938. He served in the Army Air Corps in North Africa and Italy during World War II.After his discharge, Mr. Setzer returned to Maryland, where he and a brother owned a general store for a short time in Churchton.

Adrienne C. Thorr, a retired hospital administrator and longtime church choir singer, died of cancer Sept. 4 at Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care. The Ellicott City resident was 68. Born Adrienne Paur Carle in Baltimore, she was raised in Mount Washington. Her studies at Goucher College were interrupted by her 1954 marriage to Richard S. Holland. After raising her family, she returned to Goucher and earned a bachelor's degree in 1985. She also earned a master's degree in English literature from the Johns Hopkins University.