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THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRERThursday, March 26, 1981 A-13 leaders' Vievs The power of the Board of Education must never be questioned by teachers or district residents. (Compromise, you see, can only mean loss of face and is at odds with the guiding principle: Mariemont love it or leave it, but, by God, don't try to change it!) DIANA GROME 723 McCormick Ln. I resent the fact that Mark Purdy attempts to speak for all Cincinnati grandmothers and others in his negative column about a fine, personable young man who is a credit to the Reds and Cincinnati. Thanks, Tom Seaver, for coming to the Queen City. I speak for thousands when I say: We love you! SUZANNE S.DIEHL 9710 Pinto Ct.

School Board Throws Crumbs To Its Teachers 'Political Bed' their way, bow unquestlonlngly to the whims of inexperienced administrators, defer graciously to every parent's Judgment, and yet tackle Joyously the task of bringing education to the children of Terrace Park, Fairfax and Marlemont. (The honor of teaching in this fine school system should transcend any and all I have been generally disappointed in some of the criticism coming from various sources because I think these critics miss the mark. Having been a member of the re- cently disbanded City Charter Review Commission, and having seen the minimal product coming from that body, I can empathize with the drafters of the county charter. I think the criticism of the proposed charter should be on a positive and constructive basis, with an effort to find common ground with the critics while at the. same time not losing sight of the ultimate, goal to streamline and make more effl-j cient the government we have now at the county level.

The disappointment I felt with the first draft relates primarily to the failure to deal head-on with the entrenched politico-bureaucracies at the Hamilton County Courthouse. By this I mean the sources of patronage found in the clerk of courts' office, auditor's and treasurer's offices, sheriff's and prosecutor's offices. It would appear from a review of the draft charter that in an effort to appease certain of the county's elected officials, only the vestige-type elected positions were lopped off. The commissioners' desires to obtain a better handle on the personnel, financial and legal problems they would be facing would be handled by the creation of new departments. This, of course, means bigger government, duplicated services, all at a time when what the county should be looking to do is streamline Its operation and cut back its budget wherever possible.

I would hope that these considerations would be made before the final proposal is submitted to the voters of Hamilton County. PETER J. STRAUSS 511 Walnut St. The teachers' efforts to obtain guarantees against arbitrary policy changes are frivolous. (The teachers of Indian Hill and Madeira do not have such guarantees.

Never mind that the administrators of Indian Hill and Madeira have demonstrated integrity and trustworthiness unknown in Mariemont, thus making such guarantees unnecessary.) TO THE EDITOR: In her letter of March 15, Carol Cromer Carmode Indicated that after careful examination of the concerns of Marlemont's striking teachers, in her opinion "not even one demand is reasonable." It is difficult for me to believe that she, or any other fair-minded person, can support a board of education which has taken the following positions: If a teacher is successful in winning a grievance, the policy should be changed so that similar grievances will not be similarly successful. The job targets presented to the teachers at the beginning of a year do not need to coincide with the evaluation method ultimately used to measure performance. A non-tenured teacher who is fired does not need to be told the reasons. (After all, there is no law stipulating that an explanation be given.) Teachers should not expect to be given advance knowledge of a reduction In force. (What's wrong with a little summertime surprise?) Teachers should accept gladly whatever monetary crumbs are tossed 'Already Love Him' I wish to comment on the column by Mark Purdy (March 12) headlined "Seaver Never Has Been Called 'Tommy' by Cincinnati Fans." Initially, I disagree with the closing sentence.

It read, "If he does (have one great year left ln him), the grandmothers might Just learn to love him." I am one grandmother who already loves him. Maybe Mark Purdy doesn't know that Tom Seaver has endeared himself to hundreds of grandmothers, mothers, children, fathers, doctors, lawyers and others ln the Greater Cincinnati area when he said "yes" to the March of Dimes. Tom, Nancy and daughters, Sarah and Anne Elizabeth, served as the honorary March of Dimes Campaign Family during 1980 and they are volunteering again in 1981. And they served as special guests at a fund-raising party at the Jay C. Thompson home last June.

In conjunction with the Walkamerica with YES-95 on Superwalk Sunday, April 26, Tom is now busy making plans to walk the Tom Seaver Cincinnati Mile ln Houston, Texas, where the Reds will be playing that day. He's doing that for the unborn and newly born to help combat birth defects. He's doing that for Cincinnati and the people who live here. On the front page of The Enquirer March 17 was an article about 28 public school superintendents lamenting the fate of their schools because of huge budget cuts. To add Insult to Injury, our wise President has proposed a tax subsidy for private schools.

What I don't understand is why the breast-beating and hand-wringing at this stage of the game? President Reagan is only doing what he campaigned to do, yet he got a huge majority of the vote. I can't wait to see what he has in mind next, perhaps revoking women's suffrage? Everyone who voted for him has made our political bed, so to speak. It is Just a shame that we all have to lie in it. SHELLEY HATTENBACH 7756 Newbedford Rd. 'Common Ground' In your editorial "County Charter: "Upcoming Debate Should Unfold Without Cliches" (March 12), I think you definitely hit the proper tone ln stating that the presentation should be treated as the initial debate over the county charter and not looked at as a final document that could not be altered.

There is little value In people like Virginia Adams, who has dedicated 23 years to this district; Don Mahan, who Is a respected teacher and author of English textbooks, and Mary Beth Swisher, whose workload could only be handled by hiring two substitutes. (These people are guilty of the unpardonable sin of seeking the professional respect they have earned. Teachers, it should be remembered, are merely interchangeable parts on the educational assembly line.) carl t. noYian Heroin And Tragedy At A Very Early Age JT 1 YT LI. HHK1 mil II r4 1 i LJlJ I 1 somebody save and maybe somebody would have saved me." Phyllis said that I could viedeotape the birth of her baby.

Last Thursday I was ln the delivery room, ln surgical gown, mask and all, watching Dr. Lennox Westney deliver a 7-pound, 7.5-ounce boy by caesa-rean section. FOR MOMENTS I was looking at the youngest heroin Junkie in the world a beautiful baby, but one coming into this world with an addiction passed on by his mother. Dr. Alyce Gullattee and other caring people at that hospital will keep that baby for 15 days during which they will detoxify It, so that the tremors, the crying, the vomiting, the other heroin withdrawal symptoms will vanish.

But they will let that baby go not knowing because medical science has not found out Just how much that child's brain, Its future, have been crippled by the mother's addiction to heroin. I won't go into the question of what happens to Phyllis Medley after this. There is no-body outside the Howard hospital waiting to give her any kind of support whatsoever. She lists Dr. Gullattee, a non-relative who knitted a pretty little yellow blanket for the baby, as her "next of kin." This would be just another human Interest story about an 11-year-old girl who was done wrong if It were not for the fact that America has an abundance of girls, boys, entire families that are being destroyed by illicit drugs and ln many cases, prescription drugs.

WE LOOK at the magnitude of drug abuse in our armed forces and elsewhere and we must ask ourselves, "How many more Phyllis Medleys can this society afford?" I Interest Account WASHINGTON: Phyllis Medley is a lovely, lilting name. And the evidence remains that the Phyllis Medley I met recently was a lovely, laughing girl until, at 11, she was given heroin by "an older man." That man's Intention was to make Phyllis Medley his prostitute on New York's 42nd Street. Phyllis escaped her would-be pimp, but she could not get out of the clutches of heroin, so for most of the last 17 years she has been a slave to this cruelly addictive drug. Prostitution eventually swallowed her up, as did crime, because she needed both to pay for a habit that was costing her $300 and more a day. Phyllis Medley was imprisoned at least nine times during her 17-year struggle with dope, and she got to know many of the depths of human degradation.

She became the personification of what drug abuse is doing to this nation; she Is a pitiable symbol of that great mass of otherwise intelligent Americans who are preyed upon by a criminal, unconscionable $64-blllion-a-year illegal drugs network. I FIRST met Miss Medley a couple of weeks ago in the obstetrics and gynecology section of the Howard University Hospital, where she was waiting to deliver what she says she always wanted: a baby. She said she wanted to be on the television special that I was doing on drug abuse, and that she didn't want her face hidden in any way. Phyllis, 28, reached out to me and I could see that she was not the "girl with the golden arms." I saw a gruesome collection of needle tracks, skin-pops and scars that were almost sickening. She touched my hands and I realized that she had lost a couple of digits and the rest of her hands were bloated, or virtually paralyzed, because she had shot so much heroin that every vein ln her arm seemed to have collapsed, and her bones and fingers had become victims of poor circulation and other ravages of heroin.

THEN PHYLLIS Medley lifted her gown to my cameraman and me to reveal legs full of grotesque scars, ulcerating sores. She let her doctor touch her neck and explain that the huge black lump was the result of Phyllis trying to shoot heroin into her Jugular vein so as to get a quick and powerful "high." "Why are you letting me show all this to a television audience of millions?" I asked. Miss Medley replied: "At first I said I wouldn't talk to you. Why humiliate myself more? But then I thought that when I was 11, if anyone had shown me a body like mine and explained what could happen if I took those drugs, maybe I would have run into the street screaming, 'Somebody save me, If eligible, both VISA and Master Card are available with no annual fees required. All deposits guaranteed in full by the OHIO DEPOSIT GUARANTEE FUND Rate for March 25, 1981 $25,000 Minimum VISA' MorCord)j Rate Adjusted Daily No Penalties For a recorded message of our Current Rate, call our Rate Line: 871-6651.

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Lewis protested, contending this violated Cabinet government. Treasury Secretary Donald T. Regan was talked into It, giving the protectionists more time to finagle a low quota or other Import limitation. The complicating factor was that nobody was entirely certain what the President would do if the matter reached him In disagreement. Worried about the sick auto Industry, Mr.

Reagan is torn between free trade philosophy and his sympathy for the U.S. companies and workers. Behind this Is a genuine lack of consensus ln the Cabinet over how economic policy should be conducted. Pro-quota partisans believe that willingness by United Auto Workers President Douglas Fraser to scale down workers' benefits in return for the Chrysler benefit should not go unrewarded. "We can't let Doug down," Labor Secretary Donovan said in one meeting.

"I THINK we ought to let Doug simmer in his own juices," an anti-quota Cabinet colleague said later. That fits the view of OMB Director David Stockman, who as a Michigan Republican politician remembers no favors toward him or Mr. Reagan from the UAW. Deep-seated Ideological and stylistic differences between Dave Stockman and Drew Lewis, and between Treasury supply-slders and Transportation interventionists leave nobody happy. The dismay with which all parties look to the outcome suggests the limits of Cabinet government when the President himself Is of two minds.

Deposits (cash and checks) made on the day preceding weekends and legal holidays will begin to earn interest on the next business day. to coherent administration policy. The new Cabinet system has failed to' approach agreement on an issue where President Reagan himself Is ambivalent. This suggests the chaos that would have ensued in the Cabinet over tax policy had not Mr. Reagan's position been so hard in pressing for rate reduction.

Instead of presenting the President with a unified recommendation on auto imports, the Cabinet exposed its own inherent splits. These disagreements transcend the auto import crisis and go to the basic question of governmental Intervention ln the economy. Under the Reagan Cabinet system, a task force on the auto industry headed by Lewis very nearly established a limit on Japanese imports as administration policy. The traditional economic policy-making departments, headed by the Treasury, belatedly counterattacked against what they called Lewis' "runaway" task force. BY MARCH 11, Lewis had been stopped cold; the Cabinet was hopelessly spilt Treasury and the Office of Manap-nent and Budget (OMB) wanted the Issue taken to the President's desk in disagreement.

But WASHINGTON: The Reagan Cabinet system spent a month wrestling with Japanese auto imports only to reach a non-solution so worrisome that at the March 19 Cabinet meeting Deputy Secretary of State William P. Clark had to come to the rescue. Clark expressed the absent Secretary Alexander Haig's wishes that the State Department take the lead in trade talks with Japan, putting Special Trade Representative William Brock in a supporting role. Quick agreement meant that the State Department, not deeply involved until now, was coming ln to execute policy after failure of Cabinet govern-' ment to shape it clearly in its first serious test. The administration consensus reached was U.S.

support for a "unilateral voluntary quota" on Japanese auto exports, but nobody in the administration Is quite sure what that means. Who will determine whether the quota "unilaterally" and "voluntarily" set by Tokyo Is too high? The arrival on stage by the State Department ensures the Japanese will not be roughed up to "unilaterally volunteer" a quota smaller than they want. THAT SCARCELY amounts EQUAL MOUSING LENDER Norwood 3831 Montgomery Rd. 531-5335 Reading 320 W. Benson, 821-8500 Koselawn 1756 Seymour Ave, 731-7545 Tri-Countv 11459 Princeton Pk, 772-3390 Western Village 6141 Glenway Ave, 662-2030 Middletown 2655 S.

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