by Jacqueline Watts
editor@baltimoreguide.com

July 22, 1982

State Senator Joseph Bonvegna (D-46) filed suit to remove Robert N. Santoni from the ballot, claiming that Santoni actually lived in Joppa.
Santoni said that he indeed did live in Joppa, Harford County, but that he should be able to represent the area where he still worked as co-owner of Santoni’s Markets.
“I moved out of the city but never changed my residency,” he told The Guide. “The

by Jacqueline Watts
editor@baltimoreguide.com

July 8, 1982

Bethlehem Steel announced that it was cutting the pay of salaried white-collar workers by five percent. The pay cut would affect 5,000 workers in Baltimore, or about a quarter of the workforce.
A Bethlehem spokesman said that it would save the company $15 million a year. Unionized workers were not affected.
Mayor William Donald Schaefer shook out the cushions of the municipal couch and found $2 million to call

by Jacqueline Watts
editor@baltimoreguide.com

June 17, 1982

Maryland Comptroller Louis Goldstein gave the Maryland Bankers Association a tongue-lashing at its annual meeting. Goldstein said the local banks’ recent decamping to Delaware to avoid taxes had “spawned a tidal wave of public indignation” and that the combination of high interest rates and an uncertain economy was creating an unsympathetic public attitude toward the bankers.
Goldstein noted, though, that Maryland was maintaining its triple-A bond rating, and that the

by Jenny Wierschem

June 3, 1982

A front page story warned that flimflam artists were on the prowl, preying on unsuspecting elderly residents. The con men used a simple scheme: they placed a call, posing as a bank examiner or police officer investigating a bank security matter. The caller asked victims to withdraw money from the bank. He then put the money in an envelope to take it “momentarily” and “mark” it, under the guise that the marked money

by Jenny Wierschem

A posted notice alerted Patterson Park-area residents that a local landmark was to close after 75 years of service. The bathhouse at the park was to close on June 1st, according to a Bureau of Recreation and Parks notice on the premises. The closure notice appeared without advance warning to the public and city government representatives.
GM announced that its Broening Highway plant would begin producing Pontiac Bonnevilles. At that time, the plant was producing 60

by Jacqueline Watts
editor@baltimoreguide.com

May 20, 1982

Longshoremen unloading the container ship Kazmierz Pulaski got a surprise when two men, slightly the worse for wear, kicked out the wall of a compartment in one of the containers and indicated that they wanted asylum.

Witnesses on the docks said the men, looking haggard and weak, spoke Polish and pointed to a booklet with the word “Solidarity,” the name of Poland’s independent labor union.

Dock workers drove them to the

by Jacqueline Watts
editor@baltimoreguide.com

May 13, 1982

Lucky guy Michael Madsen of Highlandtown won a radio station contest—and the grand prize was a date with Penthouse Magazine’s February centerfold, Divina Celeste. Madsen and Celeste, both fully clothed, took a limo to the J. Geils Band concert at the Capital Center and got backstage passes to meet the band, whose hit song at the moment was “Centerfold.”

City Hospital’s renowned burn unit was treating a severely burned Georgia man

by Jacqueline Watts
editor@baltimoreguide.com

April 29, 1982
City homicide detectives were working on a case at the Flag House Courts housing project where two women were found bound and strangled a week before. Police said the apartment had not been ransacked and there was no sign of forced entry; the two women, ages 27 and 23, may have known their attacker. Police had no suspects.
A&P joined the parade of supermarket chains demanding concessions from union workers.

by Jacqueline Watts
editor@baltimoreguide.com

April 15, 1982
The Claremont Street Improvement Association commended six children for their help cleaning up the athletic field behind Highlandtown Elementary School #237 and the east side of Grundy Street.

The six were Nancy Justice, Rance Keesler, Ali Keller, Donna Stoots, Cathy Moore and Paula Ramino. They and Recreation Leader Kay Stainer got their photo on the front page of the April 15, 1982, Guide.

The General Assembly wrapped up its 1982 session—its

by Jacqueline Watts
editor@baltimoreguide.com

Mrs. Mary Ordakowski was at it again. Mrs. Ordakowski, who decorated her house for every holiday, outdid herself for 1982 with her Easter decorations, which featured large crepe paper eggs, bunnies, chipmunks, garlands and cellophane grass.

Mrs. Ordakowski’s house was a particular favorite of the children and staff at William Paca Elementary School #83, who visited often to see what she had on display.

Bob Irsay, who was destined never to be a favorite of

by Jacqueline Watts
editor@baltimoreguide.com

April 1, 1982

As banks loaded their corporate offices into U-Hauls and headed up I-95 to Delaware, the Maryland House of Delegates voted to raise the ceiling for interest rates on most consumer loans to 24 percent. (In 1982, a great mortgage rate was 10 percent). The higher rate would apply to nearly all forms of consumer credit, including credit cards, department store cards, car loans and second mortgages.

Opponents of the bill managed to