The Cincinnati Enquirer from Cincinnati, Ohio • Page 39

Local Area News (S) D-l Wednesday, August 4, 1976 THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER Police Arrest 10 In Disturbance At Rock Concert More than 10 persons were arrested after members of a disorderly crowd attempted to crash the gates at Riverfront Coliseum Tuesday night where rock star Elton John was performing. Inside the coliseum, Cincinnati fire officials canvassed the building and said they noticed several violations of fire codes. The crowd members, said Cincinnati Private Police Officers Art and Ed Schmidt, ganged up on the doorways in attempts to enter the coliseum. POLICE OFFICIALS said the crowd was made up of 1500 to 2000 young persons-late teens to mid 20s who apparently could not obtain tickets to the concert. The spectators inside the coliseum remained "basically" orderly although the smell of marijuana filled the arena police and fire officials said.

Broken bottles, garbage bags, empty beer cartons, ripped Styro-foam coolers, cardboard boxes littered the outside concourse. "I've never seen one (a concert) this bad," said one officer. Police were able to force the crowd back and ordered all persons without tickets to leave the concourse area. There were no injuries to police although two men radioed for assistance during the incident which lasted about 45 minutes. Jerry Noakes, 22, 4202 34th Milford, gained entrance by breaking the glass In a door near the ticket windows with beer bottles, police said.

After being taken to District One, Noakes attempted to hang himself in a holding cell, police said. He was charged with felonious assault. CINCINNATI FIRE officials said violations included barring doors after the 8 p.m. start of the concert, sitting in aisleways, chaining closed two fire exits at the east and west ends of the coliseum. Fire officials said they permitted the exit doors to be barred until the 8 p.m.

concert starting time because persons could have gained easy entrance without tickets. Some of the bars were not removed until 9:30 p.m., and one bent bar was not removed until about 10 p.m. Coliseum officials could not be reached for comment on either the preconcert crowd actions or the alleged fire code violations. Others arrested and charged were identified by police as: Bryan Webb, 21, 6541 Iris Kennedy Heights, criminal damaging Roosevelt Williams, 19, 5836 Red Bank Kennedy Heights, disorderly conduct and drug abuse; Sylvester Frye, 19, 2047 Eastern disorderly conduct; Michael Hall, 20, 708 Oak Washington CH, assault and battery on a police officer; James, 23, and John McArthur, 22, whose addresses were not available, disorderly conduct. Four Juveniles were also arrested and charged with misdemeanor offenses.

An additional 17 police offfcers were being held on overtime Tuesday to be used for extra security following the concert, police said. jn 1 'J-if Pro ect Challenged By Taxpayer's Suit -Enquirer (Gerry Wolter) Photos Litter And The Limelight aftermath of crowd disturbance (left); Elton John claps under spotlights; Wants To Reroute Budget Monies see concert review on Page B-12 Cites Auto Funds Sheriff By JOHN KIESEWETTER Enquirer Reporter Six months after Hamilton County Sheriff Paul Fricker desperately argued for and received $80,000 for his payroll budget, he wants to remove $16,000 from that fund and spend it for auto maintenance. In February, Fricker said he could not provide a 6 countywide raise to his personnel unless Hamilton County Commissioners gave him $153,000. If not given supplemental monies, Fricker said, "I would have to lay people off." Commissioners, after a tense, confusing and much publicized discussion with Fricker, eventually gave him $80,000. The sheriff said that amount might even be inadequate.

NOW FRICKER sees a surplus in his general office personnel account for this year, and needs the money elsewhere, said Chief Deputy Sheriff William Henderson. Commissioners will decide this morning what to do with Frlcker's Shortage "I'm an old accountant," he said. "It's very simple. Just give us the money in the account, and we'll take care of the paperwork. "We're not talking about money at this point," the chief deputy said.

"We'd have a surplus that would be left over (in the personnel account)." In a letter to commissioners, Henderson said sheriff's records indicate that $25,349 has been spent from the $27,500 passenger patrol car repair fund. Last year, the sheriff spent in that account. Henderson blames the current shortage on a budget cut from the 1976 projection of $32,080 to the appropriation of $27,500. Henderson said the late arrival of 55 new patrol autos, plus the "inflationary trend," created the exorbitant maintenance expenditures. With all new cars in operation now, only $16,000 addi-tional funds would be needed through December, he said.

After funds are appropriated by commissioners, they cannot control how another elected county official spends the money. Commissioners did not say how they planned to vote on Frlcker's resolution. Prevail Ex-Interpreter For Diver Links Love To Defection A taxpayer's suit challenging legality of Fountain Square South development was filed Tuesday In Hamilton County Common Pleas Court. As a result, the City of Cincinnati postponed issuing $18.6 million in bonds scheduled to go on sale today to finance the project and other capital improvements, said Nell Surber, the city's project officer for the development. The suit seeks a temporary injunction to halt the project while the case is In litigation and ultimately a permanent Injunction against city involvement in the project.

Cincinnati does not have the money to pay for the project, the suit asserts, and must "illegally operate at a deficit, raise taxes, issue bonds against future tax revenues, or divert incoming revenues from essential services and proper commitments" to comply with contract terms. THE SUIT asks the city be restrained "until such time as the voters of (Cincinnati) have had an opportunity to reject the tax proposals now being readied to finance" the Fountain Square South development. Federal security laws prohibit Cincinnati from offering the bonds for sale while a pending suit threatens the project for which they were authorized. The suit was filed on behalf of Lee J. Barkalow, 234 Woolper Clifton, by Cincinnati attorney William Flax.

The suit contains 41 points. of recruiting skilled personnel to work In Cincinnati. He was supported in the Senate by Sen. William Proxmire (D-Wls.) and in the House by influential HEW Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Daniel J. Flood Cincinnati originally was chosen over eight other cities in that bid for the laboratory.

The selection subse-quently was reaffirmed by HEW Secretary Casper Weinberger, then again by present secretary David Mathews when review of the site selection was directed by the House last year at Obey's insistence. The Obey allegations of recruiting difficulties have been disputed and documented by the office of Rep. Willis D. Gradlson Jr. (R-Ohio).

As of July 28, according to a spokesman for Gradlson, only 30 of the 471 Jobs authorized remain vacant. Initially, Obey demanded reconsideration of the site In response to complaints of Inadequate interim facilities, but that problem was resolved with the co-operation of the Chamber of Commerce, city officials, Taft and Gradlson. many of them evolving from the premise that the "city's participation in the (Fountain Square South development) constitutes an- Ultra Vires act," meaning it is acting beyond its legal powers. The half-block to be developed, immediately south of Fountain Square along Fifth Street, "is not a slum, nor a blighted area, and contains at least two major structures which could be redeveloped by their present owners or their assigns, without the expenditure of public money, one of which, the Albee Theater, Is the best equipped theater in the downtown Cincinnati area," the suit says. CITY COUNCIL unanimously approved the development contract with John W.

Galbreath Co. May 5. Planned for completion by 1980, the project Includes a 26-story office tower on the site of the Sheraton-Gibson Hotel, a 450-room hotel on the west side of the block, two levels of shops surrounding an atrium and a three-level parking lot. The city Is obligated to underwrite $17.6 million of the $75 million project. Another garage near Fountain Square Is unnecessary, the suit claims, because the garage under Fountain Square "is very seldom full of cars, has been declining In patronage, Is losing money, and In addition Is causing and has caused various problems to the police department of (Cincinnati), entailing further expenses to (Cincinnati) which do not show up on the accounts of the garage Itself." Again Both Taft and Gradlson expressed confidence that Cincinnati again will be chosen as the best site, but were pleased specific language was Included In the conference commlt-tee report directing that the previous site studies be reviewed and not be prejudicial.

RESULTS OF the new. study must be reported to Congress by December 31, indicating that a final location for the laboratory will not be selected until the next Congress convenes and the President elected in November takes of flee. Taft said it would be difficult to assess precisely the cost In terms of health and safe working conditions, tax funds and Inflated construction costs caused by the third site selection process. "But whatever the costs, the blame for It rests squarely with the majority party obstructionists and after the time and money Is wasted, I feel confident Cincinnati will receive the first choice and we will work to that end," Taft said. request to shift $16,000 to the automotive contractural account, where only $2000 of $27,000 budgeted dollars remain after the first six months of 1976.

When veteran Republican Commissioners Robert Wood and Robert Reckman learned Tuesday what Democrat Fricker proposed, they grinned at each other. "What else is new?" Reckman said Jokingly. When Commission President Allen Paul saw the sheriff's plan, he said: "They said if we gave them $80,000 (in February), it would go to raises. They assured me that $80,000 would be what it would take." The sheriff has extra payroll funds, Paul said, because "numerous employees told me they didn't get" the 6 countywide raise authorized by commissioners for all departments. At least seven men did not get the raises, distributed on the sheriff '8 "merit system." Henderson said the surplus results from 11 staff vacancies, including six new detective positions to be filled by September.

THE SHERIFF has enough funds, Henderson said. The money is In the wrong account House Democrats NIOSH By WARREN WHEAT Enquirer Bureau Chief WASHINGTON-House Democrats prevailed Tuesday in their continuing struggle to deny Cincinnati a proposed new occupation safety research laboratory, placing in limbo, if not Jeopardy, the Jobs of nearly 500 federal employees there. Senate members of a Joint conference committee working on a compromise version of the Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) and Labor budgets conceded to the demands of the House for reconsideration of Cincinnati as headquarters for a new permanent National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) laboratory. THE FINAL decision was delayed until early next year In hopes that Democrat Jimmy Carter will be elected President and his administration more likely to decide on a location represented by a member of his own party to receive the $45-50 million lab, which is expected to occupy 600 employees. The House In its version of the Lab In Jeopardy (a) New York Times Service Although Soviet officials say Sergei Nemtsanov was "brainwashed by experts," a former interpreter for the 17-year-old diver insisted Tuesday his defection was largely for love of an American millionaire's daughter he met while competing in Florida last September.

Robert Jednak of Ft. Lauderdale, who later visited Nemt-sanov's home in Siberia, said "outside pressure" as well as his poor showing in the Olympics were probably factors in the defection. But he asserted that, outside of romance, there was no "logical reason" for the defection since Nemtsanov had "a nice life-style in Alma Ata he had a fantastic future." ONE POSSIBLE Cincinnati connection with Nemtsanov's defection was refuted Tuesday. Richard Lindner, president of Thriftway said in a prepared statement: "There have been numerous rumors that my daughter was in some way connected with the defection of Russian diver Sergei Nemtsanov. She met him at an international diving meet at Ft.

Lauderdale in June, and was hostess along with my wife and me at a party which he attended with divers from several other countries. "She arid another diver spoke with him and his cousin briefly in Montreal. She knew him no better than any other member of our diving team, and it was only casually. I asked her specifically if they had talked about the defection and she said no. In fact, when she read of it back home in Cincinnati a week later, she was shocked." THE GIRL'S diving coach at Indiana University, Hoble Bill-lngsley, called the rumor "a lot of talk." "A lot of our kids talked to him," he said.

"He was a very friendly youngster. I think he was Just exposed to a new way of living in Florida, and decided to get out. He saw something he liked better." Blllingsley said, "I don't think any of our kids had anything to do with his defection." In Montreal, Nemtsanov's lawyer scotched the love-affair report, saying, "There are no Americans Involved at all." He also denied that the diver had been in touch with Mikhail Baryshnikov, the former Soviet dancer, about moving to the United States. Nemtsanov, the lawyer said, "only wants freedom" and intends "to stay with friends in Canada." Late Tuesday, after a cabinet meeting, External Affairs Minister Allan MacEachen rejected the Soviet demand for "immediate return" of the defector as "quite unacceptable." budget legislation required a new site study, the third since 1973. The Senate Instead appropriated $1.5 million to begin construction of the laboratory on land adjacent to the University of Cincinnati campus.

The budget now goes to the House and Senate for approval before being submitted to the President for his signature. No attempt to remove the reconsideration language is expected. Sen. Robert Taft Jr. (R-Ohio), who originally persuaded the Senate to appropriate the $1.5 million with the idea that once construction was under way, pressure for reconsideration of the lab location would ease, called the new site selection the work of powerful "pork barrel politicians." A $1.4 million contract for preliminary architectural work has been signed.

REP. DAVID Obey (D-Wls.) Initiated the demand for reconsideration, citing inadequacy of the original selection study concluded in April, 1973, and the alleged difficulty A A J. A -A A 1. i. A.

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