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Ohio Level Too High? Breath Analysis For Alcohol tri rTr STATE i BACKGRQW TUB Sunday, June 1, 1969 THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER EYE ON KENTUCKY Telephone Service To Be Stepped Up I f. ''TO 4 J7 v-- BY TOM GARDNER COLUMBUS, Ohio UP) Most drivers would be under the table before reaching the level at which they're considered drunken drivers by Ohio law. For example, an average 175-pound person would have to drink one-half fifth of 100 proof liquor or half a case of beer in five hours to reach the point at which a driver is "presumed under the influence of alcohol" by state law, according to chief chemist Davis P. Wetzel of the Ohio Highway Patrol crime laboratory. Ohio legislators, Patrol Supt.

Robert M. Chiaramonte, the National Safety Council and the American Medical Association believe Ohio's "presumptive" level of .15 blood alcohol is too high. At this level, Wetzel says, a person with a high capacity could navi-gate, but could not drive safely. "Based on all studies," Col. Chiaramonte says, "anybody with a .15 blood alcohol content is in a euphoric condition.

"His Judgment is impaired and his vision affected even at .1," -Chiaramonte adds. "These studies show .1 is a more realistic presumptive standard for driving under the influence." OHIO IS ONE of 29 states with a presumptive level of .15. Thirteen states have a level of .1, Utah's is .08 and seven states have no set limit. Sweden, the first country to set a presumptive level 44 years ago limits drivers to .05, as do Poland and Norway. England, Switzerland and Austria have a limit of .08, Denmark's is .1 and East Germany is lowest in the world with .03.

An Ohio patrolman cannot arrest a suspected drunken driver in a random spot check, Chiaramonte said. He must have probable cause to suspect drunkenness, he said, and he must arrest the driver for a traffic violation, such as reckless operation. If the arrested driver's appearance and actions indicate he is drunk, Chiaramonte said, the patrolman cites him and the driver Is required to take a breath analysis test. If he refuses, his drivers license is suspended for six months Ohio's "implied consent" law. Chiaramonte said many courts will convict a driver of driving under the influence even if his blood alo-chol content was less than .15, if the arresting officer can give proof to substantiate the charge, such as inability to walk a straight line or weaving across the center line.

UNDER OHIO LAW, the suspect must be tested within two hours or the test is not valid. He may have a private physician test him and may use the results as evidence in his favor, if the test is made within two hours after his arrest. The breath analysis has been proven to be as effective as blood or urine tests for determining alcohol content. In addition, Wetzel says, it does not require a doctor or nurse to administer it, as does a blood test, and there is no question of infringing on a suspect's personal rights. A 10-second puff is all the machine needs to accurately analyze the suspect's condition.

About 250 Ann, I found out, Is simply a voice and nothing more. Poor old Ann for a girl who sounds so appealing, her superstructure leaves much to be desired. She's just a two-tone gray rectangle of steel hanging among a- maze of wires at 11th and Scott Covington. Ann, of course, is an abbreviation for announcer. She is literally "turned on" by the Citizens Telephone Co.

every time a Northern Kentuckian misdials. she says, "the number cannot be completed as dialed That's all she does, too, unlike the 458 real employees of Citizens Bell which is a subsidiary of Cincinnati Suburban Bell Telephone Co. More than 50 of the 458 employees recently were moved to offices in the 23 buildings owned by Citizens Bell in the northern tier of six; counties: Campbell, Kenton, Boone and Pendleton, Grant, and Gallatin. The phone company's magazine, Bulletin, characterized the move as "The Neighborly Thing To Do." Howard E. Bamett, vice president in charge of operations in Greater Cincinnati, puts it another way.

The phone company, he says, doesn't want to be just a sweet-sounding voice on a recorder. The move to Kentucky included a passel of office girls who can talk face-to-face with customers. MORE THAN 8500 people cross the threshhold each month at the Citizen's main Kentucky office, Third and Court Covington, to order a phone, discuss service or pay a bill. Naturally, the office receives a huge amount of telephone calls about 10,000 a month, estimates Harlan Lush, district sales manager. The real action, however, comes about in the incessant click-click and.

movement of thingamajigs and bed after bed of tiny wires at the 11th and Scott building. It's here that Northern Kentucky's 60,000 customer telephone AP photo 3-F annoBGED Enquirer Kentucky Editor calls go in and are sent out. The busiest times, said Bob Bar-nett, district plant manager and son of the vice president, are between 10 a. m. and noon; and 4 and 6 p.

and 7 and 9 p. m. "The morning calls are mostly business. Then, the kids are home from school and you get mostly residential calls. From 7 to 9 p.

the boys are calling the girls and vice versa," young Barnett said. SOON, GROUND will be broken for a $3 million addition to the Scott Street building. Another 2000 telephone lines will be made available to customers. The telephone calls will be handled electronically, rather than the mechanical way they are now the first such electronic installation in the state. When all systems are "go" In 1972, Citizens Bell will be able to transmit what is called "computer the sending along of computerized data to other points.

Also, the electronic setup will inaugurate such services as "abbreviated dialing" in which certain telephone numbers can be remembered by a computer and summoned to the caller if he dials a few digits on his telephone. If you are going to your neighbor's home and your telephone is serviced electronically, all of the calls going into your house can be diverted to your, neighbor's telephone temporarily. "But that's a little bit in the future," said Lush. Gilligan bumper stickers for governor floated through the downtown hotel where the meeting was held. And Sweeney petitions for governor were circulated.

4 NEITHER GILLIGAN nor former astronaut John Glenn, who seems interested in the Democratic nod for the U. S. Senate, were around during the sessions. But several other persons seeking lesser positions on the state ticket were in evidence making their pitches. They included Ohio House Minority Leader John C.

McDonald of Newark, a possible candidate for either attorney general or governor; Sen. Douglas Applegate of Steuben-ville, who already has made it known he wants to be lieutenant governor, and Harry Mcllwain of Cincinnati, another possible candidate for governor or attorney general. i If Taught, chemist for the Ohio State Highway the amount of alcohol consumed by DAVID WETZEL, left, chief of a machine used to test Administering the test is Thoughts Of Democrats Turn To Time When Barr Returned Gilligan, Sweeney Seen Leading For Nomination Patrol, demonstrates th use a suspected drunken driver. laboratory oium bus. criticism of Nixon for being a "professional" and reacting to the nation's problems in a professional way.

He even said he thought Mr. Nixon was doing the right thing in trying to halt Inflation but he added he didn't know if the approach would work. Barr did take exception to the Nixon administration proposal to repeal the 7 investment tax credit. He mentioned he had helped pass that measure and felt that its effects had been beneficial. NO ONE PROBABLY can say at this point how much convincing it might take to get Barr active politically again and to get him active in Indiana would probably take some very strong persuasion.

However after Barr left the news conference some of his old political friends talked among themselves about how well Barr had handled himself and how nicely he had been received by the news media. Maybe it was just because Democrats feel they really need some thing good to talk about these days. Still few would deny that the former Secretary of the Treasury would make extremely tough competition for any Indiana Republican. Section Of 1-65 In Kentucky Open PARK CITY, Ky. CD Gov.

Louie B. Nunn last week dedicated the final section of Interstate 65 in Kentucky "not as a milestone, but as a stepping stone by which Kentucky can achieve greatness." Completion of Lhe first interstate route across Kentucky, he said, represents the hope for strong Indus-' trial growth, a more economical route for raw material to come in and finished products to go out. It also was "a new path into a section rich in history and heritage an area dotted with recreational facilities and natural grandeur," he asserted. Nunn termed the economic Impact of 1-65 "tremendous, pointing to "the beginning of a new era of progress and prosperity for southern. Kentucky." Also, he said, "Undoubtedly many lives will be saved" through the replacement of "perhaps one of the most dangerous and accident-marred highways in Kentucky." Completion of the new toll system from Henderson to Hazard, fed by traffic from 1-65 and other inter-states, Nunn said, "will carry the world to vast, undeveloped and underdeveloped areas of Kentucky, regions bursting with natural resources and manpower." Sgt.

Robert Ely in the patrol's crime Hoosicr Hustings By the time Barr was running for re-election he had managed to attract a loyal following and one of the most touching scenes in this reporter's memory was the night of Barr's congressional election defeat when he tearfully thanked all those who had worked for him. However the election defeat didn't end the career of Joseph W. Barr. He went on to serve as Chairman of the federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. IN 1965 HE became Undersecretary of the Treasury and then Secretary of the Treasury in the waning days of the Johnson Administration Presently Barr Is vice chairman of a Washington D.

C. trust and security company. Barr is a native of Vincennes, Ind. He graduated from De-Pauw University and received his M. A.

from Harvard. Obviously his credentials are impressive. When I asked him if he had any plans to return to Indiana's political scene he gave a negative reply. He said he had spent an exciting 10 years in politics but he regarded such activity as being in his past. I was almost ready to write him off completely until he added, "The only way I would serv again is if someone convinced me my country really needed me." During a news conference Barr made it very plain he is a Democrat.

However he offered little or no BAAR would for make tough any Indiana Republican. y-' 1' I J' i 'I Education In Ohio's Schools Is Debated BY JIM GREEN Enquirer Correspondent With Indiana's Democrats still treshing about in the doldrums of last November's election defeat, the thoughts of some of them must have turned to happier times when former Secretary of the Treasury Joseph W. Barr returned to the home scene. Barr, as some may recall, once represented Indiana's 11th. Congressional District.

He served during the 86th Congress (1959-60) only to go down to defeat to conservative Republican, Donald Bruce. It's interesting to note that through congressional redisricting the makeup of the 11th District has changed. It now is lim'ted to the heart of Indianapolis. As is the case with like areas in the rest of the nation, the problems of the central city are of primary concern and the 11th District is currently represented by Andrew Jacobs a liberal Democrat religion courses in the Marion Catholic schools. Elgin High School in Marion County plans a sex education course to go into effect in two years.

It will be taught in the ninth or tenth grade. New Philadelphia schools have started a pilot program of sex education in junior high with no parental objections. A plan to begin formal sex education in elementary and junior high schools at Dover has had some opposition. Strasburg in Tuscarawas County started a program in grades six through nine with no public reaction. A CONTROVERSY erupted In East Liverpool last fall when the schools started sex education In the seventh and ninth grades.

The school board backed the administration and the program remained. Sex education in Mount Vernon is taught in health and home economics courses with no controversy. It has been taught in the health science program at Athens for several years and there has been no organized opposition or controversy. A brief controversy began in Washington Court House, which has no specific sex education program, following the showing of a film to seventh, eighth and ninth graders. The film reviewed the population explosion and covered contraceptive measures in general terms.

Several parents objected. COLUMBUS, Ohio John J. Gilligan and Robert E. Sweeney, two familiar figures In Ohio politics, appear to be the leading candidates for the 1970 Democratic gubernatorial nomination. Former Congressman Gilligan, a red-haired Oincinnatian who unsuc-cessfuly sought a U.

S. Senate seat last November, seemed to be the No. 1 contender following a statewide party policy meeting here. Running a close second was Clevelander Sweeney, also a former congressman. Besides having served terms in the U.

S. House, Gilligan and Sweeney, have something else in common both were beaten by current U. S. Sen. William B.

Saxbe. Gilligan was defeated by Saxbe In the Senate race last year, and Sweeney, who has stayed out of the political spotlight the past two years, lost to Saxbe in the 1968 race for attorney general. By STEVE DRAKE COLUMBUS, Ohio ub Should sex education be taught in Ohio's schools? And if so, how much sex should be taught? These two questions are at the center of a growing controversy in which lack of communication apparently plays a large part. Leading the protest against sex education in Ohio is the Movement to.Restore Decency, MOTOREDE, organized nationally by the John Birch Society. certainly don't object to teaching biology and health courses if it's done by competent teachers," says James Rinehart of Cuyahoga Falls, coordinator of MOTOREDE in Ohio.

"But we're against the teaching of Immorality in the name of sex education, We object to pornography and immorality no matter how it is labeled." One casualty of the sex education protest is a program in Marietta. Other disputes about sex education Instruction have erupted recently in Dayton, Cincinnati, Greenville, Portage County and the Columbus suburb of Bexley. Educators say much of the criticism of sex education is the result of ignorance of what schools teach or are planning to teach. "SOME OF THE objections are due to misunderstanding of what sex education is all about," says the Rev. Herman Kenning, assistant sup Sex Ohio patrolmen are trained and licensed by the state health department to operate the machine and there is one at every patrol post.

The equipment is checked and maintained by the operators and each machine is tested for accuracy after every 10 tests by running a controlled experiment. Chiaramonte says a blood analysis on every fatal accident investigated in 1968 showed that 54 of the dead drivers had been drinking. Of these, he said, 86 had a blood alcohol content of .1 or more. "LAW ENFORCEMENT officers aren't going after the borderline cases," Wetzel adds. "They can detect only the flagrant violators.

Those cited have an average blood alcohol content of .21." How Much? passed out," said Bexley Supt. William Gregg. "They spread lies and distortions to create a false Impression that any educational effort to provide1 more complete education for children is suspect." About 500 persons at a Bexley PTA meeting later approved curriculum revisions for an expanded sex education program. Another public hearing was to be held before the Board of Education voted on the new program. The Marietta Board of Education dropped a proposed "Family Living and Sex Education" program which had been criticized by a group of parents and other Marietta residents.

The committee which recommended the program be dropped Said It did not want to subject teachers to further abuse "that is coming from a militant minority which is flooding the town with extremist materials published by the John Birch Society and the Christian Crusade." ROBERT LUCAS, superintendent of the Princeton schools near Cincinnati, said he couldn't understand all the rumors on sex education. "We've had the same program for four or five years, and there's never been any parental objection until recently," he said. Sex education in the Marion city schools is integrated into general science and biology courses from the fifth and sixth grades through high school. It is taught in high school erintendent of the Catholic School Board of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. "Sex education is not principally concerned with the physical maneuvers of marriage.

The main purpose is to help boys develop in a masculine way and girls in a feminine way; to help both understand what it means to be a man or to be a woman." Educators say few, if any, Ohio school districts have a specific "sex education" course. Most teaching of sex comes in health hygiene, biology or family living courses. Most sex education classes are segregated by sex. Cincinnati's public schools have included sex education in high school health classes since 1945. But the school administration received 10 telephone complalnta about sex courses following an April speech by Dr.

Gordon V. Drake; head of the department of education of Dr. Billy Hargis' Christian Crusade, Tulsa, Okla. About 700 listened to Drake's speech on "Raw Sex in Our DRAKE COLLECTED about 500 signatures on a petition opposing sex education during a speech in Dayton two nights later. A routine PTA meeting in Bexley turned into a stormy session for about 900 persons after Christian Crusade anti-sex literature was passed out in the wealthy suburb.

"We would have had no problem if it had not been for all of the outlandish Christian Crusade literature A A A. A. A A.AAAj.