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3 In 1 LJ ld Vu VjtfcJ Kentucky fire officials find faulty electrical wiring is the cause of ihe fire at Prospect Point condominiums Page C-2. rm SL 4 4- kAfaj Friday, January 15, 1982 THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER L. II V. I -t 1 1 11 111 1 1 A I Scruples Lead Man To Jail Refuses To Testify In Juvenile's Case BY BEN L. KAUFMAN Enquirer Reporter Greg Flannery's Journey of the soul led him into Jail Thursday.

He'd expected that for years as a pacifist who refuses to pay federal income taxes. He did not expect to spend the night behind bars for refusing to testify against a youth he really wants to see behind bars. "It's the fault of the Juvenile Court system that I'm in Jail," he complained in an interview in the Jail atop the Hamilton County Courthouse. "I didn't volunteer. I was forced here against my will." HIS CONFLICT of conscience '111 if r- 1W I Photo for The Enquirer BY GREG SMESTAD Members of the third and fourth grades at St.

Joseph School, 745 Ezzard Charles West End, leave YOUNGSTERS HONOR KING: class after a short program honoring Monday. Judge Dismisses Racial 'Steering' Suit the late civil rights leader Martin Luther Park City Manager Wayne Bar-fels. "I FELT that we proved our case," Barfels said. He said there has no discussion yet about an appeal. And Forest Park Mayor Brandon Wiers said he was "greatly disappointed." "I can only tell you that we plan to discuss this with all council members and the law department in executive session Monday night," he said.

Wiers was, however, encouraged that Rubin did not award attorneys' fees to the defendants because Rubin said the action of the city was not "frivolous, unreasonable or King Jr. Today is King's birthday. The Jacob Stein, lawyer for Ryan Homes, said, "I am very happy with the decision, but I can't say it is a surprise to me. I didn't think the city proved its case." Steven Smith, the executive vice president of Ryan Homes who testified at the trial, said he was happy about the outcome. "I didn't think they had any basis for the suit to start with," he said from his home in Pittsburgh, where Ryan has its corporate headquarters.

In his decision, Rubin said the city proved only one isolated incident of racial steering, but said he did not believe it was sanctioned by the firm. THAT INCIDENT was revealed on the witness stand by David city observes the holiday Collins, who testified that a house-sitter employed by Ryan Homes made a derogatory remark regarding the racial composition of Forest Park. Collins testified that the house-sitter said Forest Park was getting "too black" but that Starlight Estates in Fairfield and Mason were still "okay." "She asked that Collins not report her remarks to the Ryan salesperson to whom they were referred. The house-sitter involved was employed by Ryan Homes for a period of approximately six months and had no authority to sell any property," Rubin wrote in his decision. House-sitters operate model homes and are paid by the hour.

(See DISMISS, Page C-2) BY ALLEN HOWARD Enquirer Reporter District Judge Carl B. Rubin dis missed Thursday a suit rued Dy the City of Forest Park that accused Rvan Homes Inc. of racial ly discriminatory sales practices. Rubin said tne cuy ianea prove that Ryan Homes practiced "steering" wnen selling nomes blacks. "Steering" is a practice which, in this case, meant salespeople for Rvan allegedly tried to influ ence white home buyers away from Forest Park and also tnea to get whites and blacks to buy in different sections of the city.

Rubin's decision, a month after the lawsuit was tried in federal court, surprised Forest Bench Switch A Possibility ForPanioto BEHIND THE SCENES: Usually reliable sources at the Hamilton County Courthouse are now touting Municipal Court Judge Ronald Panioto for the Domestic Relations Court vacancy resulting from the death of Judge William Fellerhoff. The early reports from the courthouse were that Hamilton County Commissioner Robert A. Wood was a leading contender. But. THE CRYSTAL BALL sees the appointment going to JUDGE PANIOTO.

Fellerhoff had defeated Panioto in the 1980 election. it it it CHRIST HOSPITAL has found that patients scheduled to enter the hospital on Sunday, January 24, are expressing concerns beyond their Illness problems The concern is that the patients might miss the SUPER BOWL TELEVISION COVERAGE. The hospital is solving the "BENGALMANIA" problem by placing a large TV in the admitting area and having extra employees on hand so that televisons can be quickly turned on in patients' rooms. it it it INCIDENTALLY, WHILE Bengals' fans scramble for Super Bowl tickets, a baseball fan who is willing to travel zuu miles to see an opening day game, has written the Cincinnati Reds for tickets. Miss Lucille Schaefer, a former Cinclnnatian now living in Florida, wants the tickets to attend her 46th consecutive opening day game.

The ball club said she'll get tickets. it it it DELAYS IN wiring Cincinnati for cable TV aren't the only problems facing Warner Cable Co. Customers calling to get repairs to cable systems already installed and others calling to order cable installation are complaining because they have either gotten telephone busy signals or had long waits on the line until a Warner representative became available. A spokesman for the conmanv confirmed the telephone delays. He said the company has increased its customer repair service and customer relations department to handle the problems.

He said the staff which numbered about 20 before January 1 will be increased to approximately 60 people as soon as training programs can be completed. Meanwhile, to avoid long telephone delays, a professional answering service has been hired to take calls. update The search continues for Phyllis Strub, 43, who vanished July 17, 1980, with $250,000 from the Netherland-Terrace Credit Union, Cincinnati, where she was treasurer. She hasn't been seen since. Five months after he told The Enquirer Ms wife would be caught if she isn't dead, Earl Strub still believes it.

But now the Harrison Township man tends to think the worst. The credit card bills have stopped arriving in the mail. No hard evidence as to his wife's whereabouts has turned up since her car was found abandoned in Louisiana two Novembers ago. "I was hoping I might hear from her around Christmas, but there wasn't a word," said Strub, 48, a truck driver for a Blue Ash firm. Not long after she left, Strub began receiving credit card bills.

They marked a trail that extended from Florida to Arizona, north to Colorado, back to Florida, north to Pennsylvania, west to Illinois and Iowa. -JOHN ERARDI index City Editor JAMES P. DELANEY Telephone 369-1003 SuburbanBureaus Editor JOHN KIESEWETTER Telephone 369-1004 Judge Isaacs Says This One Belongs To The Reds involves 17-year-old Kevin Blackwell, who he said attacked him with a knife late last year. Flannery, who was not injured in the attack, testified against Blackwell in Hamilton County Juvenile Court. "I felt it was necessary to get him off the streets.

I agree with the police on that." After that Nov. 30 hearing, the authorities decided to seek a felonious assault indictment from the grand Jury and to prosecute Blackwell as an adult. Flannery accused Juvenile Court officials of "abdicating their responsibilities" to Black well. "I don't want to drop charges. I want him to get the treatment he needs." FLANNERY TWICE refused to testify before the grand Jury, arguing that the juvenile system was "washing their hands" of the small, slender Price Hill youth and that putting him in prison could only make his problems worse.

"He's going to come out angry, victimized and ready to do it again." Blackwell already has picked a defendant in an aggravated murder case as a jailhouse chum, Flannery noted. "That's the kind of situation he's going to be in in prison, too." Flannery doesn't expect the Juvenile system to change Black-well "into a responsible member of society," but it's a better bet than a "meatgrinder" prison. "There's going to be no chance for rehabilitation." Thursday, Common Pleas Judge William S. Mathews told Flannery that if he wants to change the law he should take it up with the state legislature. Then he sent Flannery to jail for 24 hours for contempt of the grand Jury.

Another subpoena awaits the 23-year-old father of two when he comes out today. HIS FREEDOM could be brief. Hamilton County Prosecuting Attorney Simon L. Leis said he wants Flannery to "remain lockr ed up" until he testifies before the grand Jury. Assistant Prosecutor James E.

Applegate said the grand Jury could sit nine months if the judge likes. Even if that happens, Flannery said he's not "vengeful" toward Blackwell. Earlier Thursday, Flannery met up with the youth. "He was passing the cell I'm in. "He came up and he apologized to me today.

He said, 'I would not have done it if I hadn't been out of my Wednesday night, knowing he had to face the grand Jury demands again, Flannery sought out the Rev. Maurice McCrackin. "I WAS full of doubt yesterday. I went to him to get some counseling. I wanted to know I was right about my decision." McCrackin is one of Flannery's mentors.

They met when Flannery interviewed the West (See FLANNERY, Page C-2) On several occasions, he said, he took Turner to the emergency psychiatric department at General Hosptal. Both Hetz and Demetrich mentioned during the testimony the influence Beverly Hall had over Turner. Hall, of Covington, described herself on the witness stand Tuesday as a homosexual, white witch whose religion is the occult. Turner lived with Hall for about a month before the Mount Adams murder. Demetrich maintained that there was a "change" in Turner after he moved in with Hall.

Hetz noted that her brother had told her that Hall was trying to convince him that he was the son of Satan. Beckjord Counts On 390-Mile Trek To Boost Chances BY MIKE PULFER Enquirer Reporter Sometime within the next month Walter E. Beckjord will bundle up and head for Cleveland without a car, plane or bus. Beckjord, a candidate for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate, Thursday said he will walk the 390 miles from Fountain Square to Public Square in downtown Cleveland to demonstrate his "commitment to meet with Ohioans." "I have spent a great deal of time walking the neighborhoods of Cincinnati in four campaigns for city council and those walks have been the cornerstone of my election success here," Beckjord said.

Beckjord, who was a member of Cincinnati City Council for six years, said he would start the walk early because he would be pressed by other campaign activities in the weeks immediately before the June 8 primary election. THE WALK, he said, "can't be continuous because I'll have certain things I'll have to do. So I'll make a mark on the road and return to it later." He said neighborhood meetings-most of them to be held In private homes-have been scheduled for Finneytown, Fairfield, Hamilton, Middletown, Franklin, Centerville, Dayton, Springfield, London, Columbus, Delaware, Marion, Canton, Akron, Hudson and Cleveland. Beckjord expects to make five to six stops in each of the bigger cities. The walk, which will follow state highway BY PAUL FURIGA Enquirer Reporter The Cincinnati Reds won in court Thursday but lost a fan in the process.

William J. Kuntz, 26, 36 Home Covington, says he doesn't think he wants to buy any Reds tickets for the 1982 season after Judge Barry Isaacs dismissed a suit he filed against the Reds during the 1981 baseball strike. Kuntz had asked that the Reds refund $32 plus interest which he had spent May 11, 1981, on six tickets for an Aug. 18 game against the Philadelphia Phillies and Sept. 12 and Sept.

13 games against the Los Angeles Dodgers. THE SUIT, orglnally filed in Hamilton County Small Claims Court, was moved to Municipal Court at the request of Reds' counsel James P. Karen, and with two 90-day delays, didn't come to trial until Thursday. Through almost two hours of testimony and arguments, Kuntz labored with the help of Isaacs to present his case against the Reds. The tall, lanky bank accountant argued that he was Justified in asking for a refund in July, because the second half of the split seasonwhich included the three games-was not the "regular championship" season he had paid to see.

"It wasn't the season I had expected," Kuntz testified. "The winner wasn't going to be a regular winner. It wasn't worth my time to go and see what essentially (were) scrimmage(s). That wasn't worth anything." The Reds didn't see it that way, arguing (See REDS, Page C-4) WALTER BECKJORD routes linking those towns, is expected to take a month and a half. "I'll be taking the old highways," he said.

"I can't take the interstate. So I'll be going through a lot of little towns. And I'll stop in them and talk to the people." Beckjord, who walks regularly and has developed somewhat of a reputation locally as a mountain climber, says the threat of cold weather doesn't bother him. "I'VE BEEN walking in the subzero weather and there was no problem at all," he said. "You've just got to be careful.

(See BECKJORD, Page C-4) Turner's Florida Rape, Knife Wounds Discussed At Trial to kill himself Just two days before Cerniak's death. Hetz, 22, described her brother as an abused child who often was beaten by his father and stepfather. By the time Turner was 14, the family had moved several times. Often the homes were infested with rats and roaches. One had no heat, she said.

AT 14, Turner was left "to go out on his own," she said. Two and a half years ago, Turner was befriended by William Demetrich, whom he met In a Walnut Street pizza parlor. Demetrich testified Thursday that he and Turner became lovers. Turner, he said, "showed some emotional problems." He often cried for no apparent reason and would shake and lashed out with knives and hammer. The prosecution, however, has presented witnesses who say Turner told them he would kill to get rent money.

ALTHOUGH HICKS said she could not definitely say that a knife inflicted the many scratches Turner received in Florida, she noted that it did not appear that he "fell in the bushes." The cuts were "directional" and "consistent" with knife wounds, she told assistant prosecutors during cross-examination. She also noted that it would have been "tricky" for Turner to have inflicted the wounds himself. Also testifying Thursday was Turner's sister, Barbara Hetz, who said Turner had threatened all over his body." Turner, 19, Is charged with two counts of aggravated murder and one count of aggravated robbery in the Aug. 17 stabbing and beating death of Procter Gamble advertising manager Donald Cerniak. Cernlak, whose nude body was discovered by co-workers, had been stabbed 26 times and beaten eight times with a hammer.

The defense has alleged that Cernlak picked up Turner near Fountain Square and took him to his home, 916 Hill Mount Adams. When Cerniak tried to seduce Turner and force him to have sex, memories of the Florida rape swept through the 19-year-old Covington man, defense attorneys have said. It was then that Turner lost his grasp on reality BY MARILYN DILLON Enquirer Reporter Accused murderer Thomas Turner was slashed so many times during an Incident in Florida last May that a doctor there said she could not count all the wounds. Dr. Dorothy J.

Hicks, director of the Jackson Memorial Hospital's Rape Treatment Center, said Turner came to the center May 15 and said he had been assaulted by four men who had picked him up near Fort Lauderdale. HICKS, WHOSE deposition was read during the fourth day of Turner's aggravated murder trial in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court, described the wounds as "superficial scratches CLASSIFIED C-6-15 LOCALAREA NEWS C-2-4, C-6 TELEVISION C-5 tr.3 DOD8r: 7SQ ''Thursday night's winner in the Lottery's daily game..