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LA LA THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER Saturday, March 19, 1977 Deaths Deaths Charles Wesselkamper, Cincinnati Realtor Charles H. Wesselkamper, 6613 Stoll Lane, Silverton, died suddenly at his home Friday. Mr. Wesselkamper was senior vice president of Signature Realtors. He joined the company in 1969 as vice president and manager of the Montgomery office.

He was a past president of the Cincinnati Board of Realtors and at the time of his death was chairman of the awards committee of the Board of Realtors. He was also a past president of St. John's Holy Name Society and Dads Club. Mr. Wesselkamper is survived by Weiner Wesselkamper, five sons, Paul Thomas Joseph Gerald and C.

Stephen en Wesselkamper, a sister, Olga M. Imwalle and 17 grandchildren. Imwalle Funeral Home is in charge. George P. Crippen George P.

Crippen, 97, 6595 North Clippinger Indian Hill, died Tuesday at Camargo Manor, Madelra. Mr. Crippen was a soap maker at Procter Gamble prior to his retirement. He was one of the oldest members of the Carthage Christian Church. Mr.

Crippen is survived by a Ruth McCash, two grandchildren and three greatgrandchildren. Hodapp Funeral Home is in charge. Stanley Throenele Stanley (Doc) A. Throenele, 68, 4245 Langley St. Bernard, died at his home Friday.

Mr. Throenele was co-owner of Meiners Cafe, St. Bernard. He was a trustee of the Ballplayers of Yesterday and the Hamilton County Hall of Fame. Mr.

Throenele is survived by his wife, Veneita Meiners Throenele, two daughters, Gail Sandra, two sons, Dale and Michael, a sister, Mrs. Margarter Ficke, and four brothers, Frank, John, Raymond and Albert Throenele. Imwalle Funeral Home is in charge. Gobel Jones Gobel Jones, 77, 3027 Colerain Camp Washington, died Wednesday at Good Samaritan Hospital. Prior to his retirement Mr.

Jones was a die setter for the Formica Corp. He is survived by his wife, Eula Randall Jones, four sons, Earl Herbert John and Louis H. Jones, two sisters, Lizzie Lair and Sallie Corder, 10 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Chas. A.

Miller Sons Funeral Home is in charge. Joseph J. Kolkmeyer Kolkmeyer, 75, 7191 winding" Way, Amberley Village, died Friday at Good Samaritan Hospital. From 1923 until his retirement in 1960 Mr. Kolkmeyer served as secretary and manager of Hunter Savings Loan, Norwood.

He is survived by his wife, Grace Ketcham Kolkmeyer and many nieces and nephews. Nurre Bros. Funeral Home is in charge. Fred H. Ahrens Fred H.

Ahrens, 66, 4832 Valley Brook Westwood, died Thursday at Providence Hospital. Prior to his retirement Mr. Ahrens was a sheet metal worker with Metal Cincinnati. He is survived by his wife, Florence Stamper Ahrens, two daughters, Mrs. Evelyn Heitz and Mrs.

Hope Schultz, a son, Frederick, and seven grandchildren. Chas. A. Miller Sons Funeral Home is in charge. Last Police Trial Involves Beyer, Begins March 31 The last of the trials involving Cincinnati police officers indicted by a special grand jury in December, 1975, has been scheduled for March 31.

Charges against former Lt. Richard Beyer, 44, Sgt. Urban Ebert, 34, and Specialists Raymond Easterling, and William Hawthorne, 46, are to be heard by visiting Judge Paul E. Riley, Clinton County, in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court. The single indictment against the former vice control officers had been originally "rolled" to Judge William S.

Mathews for trial. Judge Mathews said Friday he had withdrawn from the case because he already had given his views publicly. It is known that Judge Mathews, a friend of the indicted officers, has said the charges against them are trivial and should be dismissed. INSTEAD OF moving the case to another Hamilton County judge, Judge Mathews, as presiding judge, assigned it to a visiting judge. Former Lieutenant Beyer, who was convicted with former chief Carl V.

Goodin of tampering with evidence and perjury, is charged in this indictment with tampering with evidence and obstructing justice. He is alleged to have destroyed a video tape which showed Easterling, Hawthorne and Ebert accepting liquor. Easterling, Hawthorne and Ebert were each indicted for bribery and soliciting improper compensation for allegedly accepting the liquor from a known bookmaking operation. 5 Officials Charged With Job Jockeying Claiming police brass and city officials manipulated Civil Service rules to promote favored officers, Cincinnati Police Specialist Donald Tomblin Friday filed criminal charges against the authorities he says cost him $15,000 in pay. Tomblin Friday filed charges against two fellow officers, two Cincinnati officials and former Police Chief Carl V.

Goodin. DIRECTOR Richard Castellinisi charged by Tomblin with two counts of dereliction of duty and with twice operating a city vehicle under conditions not authorized. Goodin, Lt. Col. Stanley Grothaus and Capt.

Jeff Butler are each charged with complicity. And Cincinnati personnel officer William Clark is charged with two counts of dereliction of duty. An angry Tomblin, a 14-year police veteran, Friday said the men named manipulated Civil Service rules to promote the officers they wanted to top positions. "It has happened many times in the past shorted me of $15,000 over the years," Tomblin said. He claimed a two-month delay in promotional examination for police captain in January, 1976, cost him the job of sergeant.

"It also delayed the promotion of a couple of lieutenants, three sergeants and three specialists," Tumblin said. TOMBLIN ALLEGED both Cas- Study Rips EPA-FMC Carbon Tet Pact By WARREN D. WHEAT Washington Bureau Chief WASHINGTON -It would be impossible to enforce federal clean Pepsi Workers OK 2-Year Pact By MARVIN BEARD Enquirer Reporter Local Pepsi-Cola production employees ended a -week strike Friday, accepting a new two-year contract by a 67-54 vote. The agreement between the union and the company be, according to the union president, the catalyst to end all strikes against soft-drink bottling companies in area. The production emcola ployees accepted a contract giving them wage increases of 55 cents an hour the first year and 50 the second, plus improved fringe benefits.

Their old base was $4.80 an hour. RUSSELL CREWS, president of Teamsters Local 1199, which represents the 160 employees, said, "We think it is a good contract -the best contract we ever had." "We think they might all settle now," Crews said. Members of Local 1199, on March 1, struck Pepsi, Coca-Cola, and Barq's, which bottles root beer. The employees at Barq's agreed on a new contract earlier. union negotiators met Friday with a federal mediator, reached no resolution and scheduled another meeting for today.

EMPLOYEES OF 7-Up, who already have turned down two new contract proposals, are to have a membership meeting today to vote on a third one. -Enquirer (Tom Hubbard) Photo Rescuers Help Injured From Wreckage IN THE aftermath of a single-car accident Friday night outside Marian High School, 2121 Madison Hyde Park, rescue workers remove Ronald Jackson, 19, 2537 Hackberry Walnut Hills, from the wreckage of the Buick in which he was a passenger. Jackson was in fair condition at General Hospital with leg and internal injuries late Friday, after having been pinned in the car for almost a half hour after the 9:50 p.m. accident. The driver of the vehicle, identified by police as Alphonzo Hawthorne, 19, Bethel, Ohio, reportedly lost control of his vehicle as he headed east on Madison.

Hawthorne had knocked over a "no parking" sign before striking a concrete abutment on the front lawn of the school. in fair condition at Bethesda Hospital late Friday and had been cited by police for reckless operation of a motor vehicle. water standards if the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) extended to other violators the type of agreement it reached with carbon tetrachloride manufacturer FMC according to the staff of a House investigations committee. The out settlement reached in six negotiations court, would give FMC time to destroy or conceal evidence, and at least clouds the question of the company's responsibility for accidental carbon tetrachloride contamination of drinking water, the staff reported. CRITICISM OF the consent decree approved by the United States District Court of West Virginia last Tuesday was included in the staff's summary and critique presented to House oversight and investigations subcommittee chairman John E.

Moss Moss forwarded a copy of the report to Rep. Thomas A. Luken (D- Ohio), a member of the subcommittee. Luken has requested an investigation of carbon tetrachloride in the Ohio River. Last week he called the EPA-FMC agreement "a farce" and hinted he thought the federal agency was under pressure to reach a settlement because President Jimmy Carter planned Thursday to visit Charleston where the FMC plant is located.

EPA FILED complaint March 9 against FMC and was granted an injunction preventing the company from manufacturing the chemical. It was the first such action taken under the Safe Drinking Water Act. The subcommittee staff report said that because of FMC's history of spilling carbon tet into the Kanawha River, a tributary of the Ohio, "we believe continued and vigorous monitoring by EPA is absolutely essential." The agreement, however, directs FMC to take hourly water samples A Taste Of Blarney and report the results weekly to EPA until April 15, and monthly following that date. tellini and Clark failed to request promotional examinations for captain and lieutenant colonel on January 7, 1976, and February 21, 1976. Captain Butler is alleged to have sought on November 12, 1975, to get Goodin to ignore his duty to ask the safety director for a promotional examination.

Colonel Grothaus on November 21, 1975, aided Butler and Goodin in getting Castellini to delay the exam, Tomblin has charged. And Goodin is charged with getting Castellini to delay the exam on November 14, 1975. In addition, Tomblin charges that on February 22, 1977, and March 4, 1977, Castellini drove a city vehicle when not authorized to do SO. TOMBLIN SAID he was first on an eligibility list to be promoted from specialist to sergeant, But the exam for captain was delayed two months and not graded for another two months, his eligibility had expired, along with the eligibility of those, officers on a list for promotion lieutenant. Failure to promote someone to a high-ranking police position means there is no vacancy to which the next lower rank can be promoted, and the effect is felt right down the line to patrolman, Tomblin argued.

If the delay is sufficiently long, eligibility lists expire and new promotional examinations must be taken by all concerned. Two men were eligible for promotion to the captain's position, Tomblin said. But Butler needed three more months in the rank of lieutenant before he was eligible. The resultant four delay caused by Clark, Castellini, Goodin and Grothaus was to get Butler pro- "ULTIMATELY, IF this type of reported. moted, Tomblin charged.

Longview Patient In Custody Here agreement is extended to violators, it will be impossible EPA to enforce the law," the THE OFFICERS said the hospital tion Jail without bond. for examination. Strike Threat Hits GM Plant At Norwood MARVIN BEARD "I do not know all the issues. But Firebirds and Camaros, about 880 a escapee, charged with shooting his parents on the institution grounds Tuesday, had one request. Officers said when he agreed to waive extradition he told them he wanted a "lot of cameras waiting for him" in Cincinnati.

They promised nothing and he might have been disappointed upon arrival at the Alms Doepke Building because only one television station's camera filmed him. After completion of preliminary questioning, the former serviceman who has been a Longview patient six years placed in Central Sta- The escaped Longview State Hospital patient accused of the Tuesday shooting murders of his parents was taken into Cincinnati police homicide headquarters Friday for processing and questioning. Paul R. Kenter, 32, was returned to Cincinnati by homicide Detectives Gerald Gramke and Bob Kramer. Kenter had waived extradition from Carrollton, where he was captured Wednesday in a restaurant.

By they are local issues." day. Enquirer Reporter Gray The union that represents more THE UNION is the United Auto agreement than 4000 employees at the General Workers (UAW), which, last Decem- and, Motors Assembly Division (GMAD) ber, reached agreement on a new signed, plant in Norwood has told the national contract with at 10 company it will strike at 10 a.m. General Motors. Monday unless issues over local Most grievances and work rules are re- However, a number of plants UAW solved. failed to reach local agreements- are "We received a letter from the Norwood among them.

tive union telling of its intention to The national agreement was on The strike," said Dick Gray, GMAD pur- wages and fringe benefits. The local occurred chasing agent. agreements cover such things as then "Meetings are going on now, overtime assignments, seniority ry of have been all week, and will contin- rights and transfers. ue over the weekend in an effort to reached avert a walkout. THE NORWOOD plant makes noon.

Sure And Francis Patrick Doyle, A True Son Of The Old Sod, Celebrates St. By JOHN ERARDI Enquirer Reporter Frank Doyle's best friend pushed away his empty bottle of beer into the other brown bottles cluttering the table. It was time to leave. St. Patrick's was only half over, but the remaining half, Doyle's friend muttered, was for amateurs.

When the door of the St. Regis 929 Main had closed behind his friend of 40 years, Frank Doyle took another belt from his beer and smiled. "He can be replaced," said Doyle, taking another belt. Doyle's wit cracked up the other revelers seated at the table. This was a day which belonged to the Irish.

IT BELONGED, especially, to this lad with the name so grand that his father surely must have cried once long ago because he couldn't toast it with a pint of something stronger than ice water. On St. Patrick's Day, 1898, Johnny Doyle said top o' the mornin' to his new son, Francis Patrick Doyle, born at sea. was born seventy-nine years ago on the Cunard Line, halfway across the Atlantic, on the way to America," Johnny Doyle's son proclaimed. bad John and Katherine Doyle weren't here to celebrate this St.

Patrick's Day with their son. It was a grand occasion, Frank Doyle dancing with the waitresses and letting forth with his earthy Irish wit. He told of his past, because he was asked to. It was although he'd never been asked to look back before. For Frank Doyle is an Irishman who's always enjoyed a bottle of beer and flirting with the girls at the bar.

MEN BORN in 1898 cannot be other for staff SPECIAL SECURITY arrangements were taken by police, and Kenter was put in a front cell where he will be under constant surveillance. He is scheduled for arraignment in Hamilton County Criminal Court this morning on two charges of murder in the killings of his parents, William J. and Osa Kenter of North College Hill. A city tow truck Friday also brought the family car from Kentucky, a 1969 Mercury which was wrecked off Ky. 55, about six miles south of Carrollton, to Cincinnati said the current local was signed March 1, 1975, after the national contract was was extended until Monday, a.m.

of the 4000 or so members of Local 674 at GMAD Norwood production workers. A comparafew are skilled tradesmen. last major strike at the plant in 1972. It lasted 174 days, the longest strike in the histoGeneral Motors. Union officials could not be for comment Friday after- Pat's Birthday Greater Cincinnatians turned on like a tape recorder, instead preferring to give out an anecdote here and there between gulps of beer.

It is always worth the wait. John Doyle was 35, his bride, 17, when Francis Patrick was born. The couple was given to delightful names, having been born in a place a name as pretty as the green hills of Ireland. Bally James Duff, in County Cavan, was her name, but in 1898 people, like so many others in Ireland, were poor. Folks like John and Katherine Doyle grew up in the melancholy knowledge that one day they would have to leave the beautiful countryside for Britain or America.

And so they did, though their son was not eager to tell of the Doyles' life in the Irish tenements New York. HIS PARENTS sent him back to Ireland when he was four to live with his uncle in Bally James Duff. He doesn't remember much about those days, but what he does remember is typically delightful. "My uncle would sit around the turf fire with a pint o' porter, and ask the girl for a pig's foot and pickle," Doyle said. And then it was time to return to America.

He remembers it better than the first trip. "The school teacher found out I was leaving. He made me write my name on the slate over and over again for a week!" recalled Doyle. The teacher wanted to make sure Johnny Doyle's boy proceeded smoothly through customs on Ellis Island. But this six-year-old was as bright as the voice of a sweet Irish tenor.

Young Doyle taught himself a lesson on voyage to America. It came at the expense of his older countrymen. And it was a lesson not taught him in the Catholic grade school in Bally James Duff. "I REMEMBER tripping over a man's knee when I got up to walk around the ship. I fell down and started crying.

The man gave me a tuppence and a half penny to calm me down," Doyle explained to revelers at the table in the St. Regis. "By the time I got to New York I had what amounted to 35 cents in American money!" said Doyle, leaving the full story to the imagination of his listeners. Like a good Irishmen, Doyle tells of his life with stories. They are tidbits which keep younger men listening.

Never mind that the stories aren't chronological. I worked in the Scotsman Building, 34th Madison, in New York," Doyle went on. "I worked one of the two elevators, another Irishman working the other. They made us wear Scotch plaid hats," said Doyle, his facing curling up as though he'd just eaten a lemon. He reached for his beer.

THE STORY reminded another reveler of one told by Brendan Behan, the Irish humorist and playwright. When Behan first came to New York, he rang up his Aunt Kathleen and asked her where he could find his Uncle Jimmy. "Oh," she said, "he works at Pine Street off Wall Street, in the Chase Manhattan Bank." Enquirer (Tom Hubbard) Photo Doyle Enjoys A Cold One 101 the stuff of which jigs are made "Would you mind telling me," Behan said, "on what floor I will find him, for the buildings here are larger than any other place I was ever in?" "Your Uncle Jimmy is on every floor," Aunt Kathleen answered. "God Bless and save us," answered Behan, "he must be the bank's "No," she said, "he's the elevator man." Frank Doyle laughed heartily and took another belt of beer. He was asked how an Irishman came to land in Cincinnati.

Doyle said it was a job with U.S. Playing Cards which brought him here. NEVER MIND how he got involv- ed with playing cards. This was St. Patrick's Day.

Doyle took another belt of beer, as one of the waitresses pulled him from his seat, past the green birthday cake on the table. Doyle did a little bit of an Irish jig, before settling into a two-step. Too bad Johnny and Katherine Doyle couldn't have been here. They would have loved it..