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The Cincinnati Enquirer from Cincinnati, Ohio • 6

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5 -zt-t-! I if! If Killer Sought In Third Youths Charged In Two Slayings death of David Brunner, 21, 2614 Eden Mt. Auburn, who died Friday at General Hospital after being shot five times. Brunner described his assailant after he was found wounded near his car, In the West End around 2 a.m. Friday. Police said they were questioning six persons at press time Saturday in the death of Bruce E.

Johnson, 25. 3255 Fredonia Walnut Hills. Johnson was shot at close range with a shotgun, homicide officers said, and he was found dead late Wednesday an Avondale playground at 955 Cleveland Ave. The blast blew off the top of Johnson's head. Cincinnati Enquirer is jT V.

4) Us? yvi- i i 4 I A'" SdHM I ifer- iiiim hAiimi mim'ttr-T i C-A Sunday, October 1, 1972 Queensgate Housing Closer To Reality The Federal Housing Authority (FHA) has granted a letter of feasibility for construction of 348 units of public housing in Queensgate n. The letter gives the go ahead to Wedco-MldCity, developers of the project, to submit a completed application for FHA insured funds to build the housing project. Dean Pieper, acting director of the local FHA office, said FHA has set aside $8,909,000 for the project, but it likely will be another three to four months before final approval of the funding can be given. The project, being built northwest of City Hall on Central Avenue, is to include three 17-story apartment buildings and 40,000 square feet of commercial space. Enquirer (Tom Hubbard) Photo A JIM RIESENBECK became a "joey" (clown) at the of Mr.

and William Riesenbeck, 2010 Rolling-Saturday afternoon performance of the Ringllng ridge Lane, Green Township, became a circus per-Brothers circus in Cincinnati Gardens when he former for, a day by winning the clown auditions. Conned his makeup and costume, and Joined the conducted7 by, Shillito's. regular "Joeys" in Clown Alley. The 10-year-old son Very Special Day eci Kidney I ranspianiM esmam Becomes Super Dial 241-8005 ACTION LINE IN AUGUST I got a letter about a package and why it wasn't delivered, I sent a money order for $4.60 I was puzzled about the contents and excited, as well. It's been two months since I sent the money to the Bureau of Unclaimed Merchandise, New York.

Is this some kind of racket, or something? MISS Puzzled, huh? Excited, huh? Well, Sis, relax that ll'l old unclaimed merchandise racket is out of business, the Postal Service says. Your $4.60 pig in the poke won't make any breakfast bacon for youi MY HUSBAND died in 1967 and after five years I do not have the deed-to the property or any other legal papers from my attorney. He says I have registered land and he had to do something at the Court House Who can I check with at the Court House (Signed.) We checked for you Deputy Thomas D. Jones, County Recorder's Office. He says registered land does require action in Common Please Court to "determine the heirs and devisees of a deceased registered owner." He got onto your attorney, who finally did file.

A certificate of title will be issued to you shortly, Mr. Jones said. OUR PROBLEM is birds; we people call them starlings; they are running us crazy in College Hill. In an hour's time you can't hear or think and the filth is a nightmare. All us neighbors would appreciate it if something could be done.

MRS. J. C. Aspen Way. Everyone else calls them starlings and worse! Col.

Henry Sandman, the safety director, is in charge of shooing away the birds. He notified the official shooter, Bernard Klass, and Klasg bagged' about a hundred of the critters recently. Vi "CAN BICK find out what is the holdup on the Cross County Highway through Woodbine Avenue? It's been three months since they appraised our property and we don't get a straight answer We'd like to push it through before winter B. N. State Highway people were contacted; says George Cundy, assistant right-of-way supervisor, replied: "Owners of this property were contacted immediately by an agent for negotiating purchase of the property.

Hopefully, this matter will be resolved in the very near future and we wish to thank Mrs. N. for her patience and Indulgence in this matter it ir if A YEAR AGO I wrote in to try to get the city to repaint winding, zig-zag two-lane Grovedale Place. I had to drive off the road when a truck was over the mythical center line. Also, there are many big potholes that need repairs before winter.

MRS. J. Downing Road. Traffic Engineering was tacted by Highway Maintenance chief, John G. Sutthoff, for recommendation regarding a center line.

(Ordinarily two-lane streets don't get 'em.) If Traffic Engineering concurs, the lines will be painted as soon possible, Mr. Sutthoff said. Those holes have been repaired. Okay? CAN SOMETHING be done about the intersection of Sharon and Mill Roads, in Forest Park? it's complete chaos during the rush hour. I suggest a traffic signal and, if that's impossible, at least a three-way stop to give those turning left from Sharon a chance.

MRS. J. R. Townterrace Drive. Your idea is a good one, says Alvin M.

Tomb, Forest Park city manager. "While we agree that the stop sign would assist Sharon Road traffic onto Mill, vertical alignment of Mill just north is such that any southbound traffic stopped at Mill would be subject to rear-end collisions. "Until it is possible to increase southbound traffic sight distance by reconstruction of Sharon Road, it would not be safe to place a three-way stop sign at that. corner," Mr. Tomb said.

SOUNDING OFF "How can you stop crime in the streets when socletj will never let you forget that you are an ex-convict? How long and how much do you have to pay? "I'm a three-time loser; during my last sentence I studied to become a stationary engineer. I'm licensed by the state, but when I apply for employment and tell about my past, I'm turned down for the Job "What am I supposed to do when I want very much to become a good citizen when doors are slammed in your face only because you want a Job. Where can an ex-convict with an engineer's license get a Job? I have very good training in engine room turbines pumps and firing all types of boilers How long does society want you to pay (Signed.) Two men were charged Saturday in a pair of killings and Cincinnati police were questioning six persons in a third homicide. Police Saturday charged Claude E. Webster, 20, 3539 Reading with second-degree murder In the beating death of his mother, Mrs.

Helen Webster, 59, of the same address. Mrs. Webster died at 7:55 a.m. Saturday at General Hospital. Police said Webster struck his mother several times in the head with a claw hammer after the two argued at 2 a.m.

Friday. Police said they found Webster around" and stopped him for a routine investigation. asked what was wrong, Webster replied, "See blood on my hands? I Just killed my mother," police reported. Police said when they entered Webster's apartment, they found Mrs. Webster unconscious on the floor.

Charles Nelson, 18, 1705 Sycamore was charged with second degree murder in the shooting Held, Others ignored Delhi, jlliodes Says TTmorain P.hOrtfS. Delhi Township trustee and Democratic candidate for county commissioner, charged that the present cpunty commissioners "have not Janswered a two-month-old request" from Delhi to be included in a federal Emergency Employment program (EEP). "On July 26," Rhodes said in a talk to the 26th Ward Democratic Jciub in Cheviot, "the township "Wrote commissioners requesting inclusion They still have not us an answer." The EEP is a program under Jwhlch federal funds are used to pay salaries of previously unemployed persons hired for certain obs by local governments. County commissioners processed the funds locally, and the program provided Several hundred Jobs in suburban cities. 2 Rhodes said the commissioners -are "either inefficient or are pur-iosely ignoring Delhi's request." Rhodes is running against Republican Commissioner John Held -this fall.

jCounty OKs Centers Hamilton County Commissioners Slave endorsed a proposed treat-anent center for women alcoholics, and approved a contract with an architect to design a new training jcenter for the mentally retarded. The treatment center for alco-piollc women is a proposal of Mental Health Services of North Central Hamilton County, and commissioners' endorsement was Isought to help win funds for the jproject from the National Institutes of Mental Health. The center seeks funds for a three-year demonstration project. jThe Community Mental Health and Mental Retardation Board Isought commissioners' endorse-ment. No local tax funds would be used In the project.

The new training center for the mentally retarded would be built Ion a 10-acre site near Mill and JSprlngdale Springfield Township, which commissioners bought June. Estimated cost of the project is million, of which the county Jwill pay half with a celling of $725,000 in county funds if the actual cost exceeds the estimate. Federal funds will be used for the other half of the cost. i The architect, Harry Hake and would receive 7.2 the actual construction price under the contract agreed to by commissioners Wednesday. Property Tax Hit 4 Ohloans should oppose a re-! turn to the property tax as a support for schools, Ronald E.

Democratic candidate for the House of Representatives from the 22nd District, said recently. to the College Hill Forum, Otting said. "The property tax- and use of the sales tax hasn't i worked; we learned that in 1970 and 1971. People want to repeal the state Income tax but they wont 'say how much extra sales tax it wilt take to replace it." Otting, 37, is a Greenhllls City Council member. He teaches sociology and economics at Green-, hills High School.

Manes Again Calls For Open Labeling With the recent ban on some uses of hexachlorophene, Second District congressional candidate Penny Manes has renewed her call for, legislation requiring open label- ing'of food products and cosmetics. I study should be made of those products labeled non-aller-' genie with definite guidelines and standards determined by law before the label can be used, Miss Manes said. "What one individual is allergic to another might not By nOLLY WISSING Enquirer Hamilton Bureau HAMILTON, Ohio Life has given him some rough breaks, but 14-year-old Randy Adams has come out on top. Just like you would expect. You see, Randy is a master at trading and a good trader Is used to making the best out of a bad situation.

Randy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Adams, 5536 Uorseshow Bend has been in and out of hospitals a lot in his young life. For the past three years he was so ill with a kidney ailment he could not attend school. But things are looking up now.

Last April Randy received a kidney from his mother and those years of weekly blood tranfuslons and confinement in a wheel chair are over. Before the kidney transplant Solid Waste Mystery To dise. a coffee grinder, a 100-year-old accordlan, an iron skillet, lamps, ceramic carnival glass and more. Randy's trading -activities began-several "years ago wheo he was confined to a wheel chair and started going to the Ilea market at Chautauqua every Sunday. The dealers there took him under their wing and taught him the ropes.

,4 "NOW THEY TRY gyp me," says Randy with a wide-eyed Innocent look which almost makes ybu forget he is a full-fledged member of wheeler-dealer world of All of Randy's profits' go back into his business ventures and he plans to reopeh Jils store next, summer. "I'm going to be a millionaire it's the easiest Job there Is," claims Randy. He probably will, You see, about the" only thing Randy seems to do easier than make money is to make friends. The nurses at Children's Hospital still call him and countless persons have helped the Adams ami-jy from students at Miami University who donated blood for the fe i transplant operation to members of the Friendship Club, a Citizens band group in Hamilton, who gave Randy a record player for his birthday. 1 f.

4 i. urn. "-w I- 4 David Harum of his merchandise mem mt i4: ness after trading a .22 rifle for a soft drink Vending machine. "My best item was eight-track tapes. I got them wholesale.

They cost $12 in stores and I sold them for. $3," says Randy. His don't know where his business ability. "He's got a gift for says Tom Adams, who works at the Fisher Body Plant in Fairfield. "He makes money on' trades or he don't trade." His mother, who works at the Miami Truck Shop, agrees that her son is a natural salesman.

She remembers seeing bim take a watch 'right off the arm" of a man who wanted to buy a tape recorder. The man bffered $85 for the tape recor- -der but Randy-wasn't satisfied even when; the fellow said he didn't have anything else to trade -except his shoes and they had boles in them. Randy countered he would close the deal: if the fellow threw in' the wristwatch. The man agreed to the amusement of-other customers. Randy closed his store When he started school and began operating out of his home, but the family got in trouble, with Until, things get straightened out, Randy is out of the tape business but is still willing to sell or, trade.

One. room of the Adams house is crammed with Randy's merchan- 4. Butler County's Randy with some it St i Randy weighed a mere 50 pounds. Now the 4-foot 6-lnch youth weighs in at a chubby 89 pounds. Randy is also back at school.

He's a seventh grader at Lakofca Junior High High, and a straight A student, too. But he hasn't forgot- ten the interests that kept him going while he was an Invalid. THERE IS HIS citizen band radio broadcasts, his electronic equipment (he managed to foul up the Intercom system with it at Cincinnati's Children's Hospital during -one stay), his leather tooling art, and of course his business ventures. You would swear the pint-sized entrepreneur is 14 going on 45. This summer Randy rented a shop at 5593 Hamilton-Middletown Pike (Ohio 4), at Le Sourdsville, for $55 a month and opened his own an-, tlque and what-not shop.

He traded and sold Just about everything even got into the soft drink busl- Disposal Housewives to those who don't separate cans, bottles and paper from garbage. NAI found most housewives have available on-premises storage space for solid waste accumulation and said reulrements' for waste separation will be a hardship for only a small proportion of housewives. EVEN THOUGH the women Indicated willingness to sort trash, they don't want to haul articles to collection stations. -The researchers found the women have little knowledge of recycling activities and few have engaged in solid waste reducing activities on a regular basis. The single activity most quoted was purchase of beverages in returnable bottles, rather than oneway containers.

NAI said housewives tend to equate recycling with reprocessing and think that articles made of recycled material should be equal in value or lower in price than articles made of virgin material. The housewives generally believe that recycling is a necessary and practical step in solid waste reduction and will help conserve natural resources and reduce air pollution by eliminating the burning of such waste. 1449 Permits Issued The City Building Department issued 1449 permits for $10,267,515 of improvements in September, compared with 1594 permits for $15,487,205 of construction in September of 1971, William Ahlert, city building commissioner, reported Friday. By JO-ANN ALBERS Environment Reporter Most Cincinnati housewives can define solid waste, but many don't know where It goes once the trash collection truck drives around their street corner. Most housewives interviewed by National Analysts, Inc.

(NAD, for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, thought the trash and garbage went into Open dumps. NAI said most housewives don't know the cost of solid waste disposal and admitted never having thought about it. The NAI study Included 1280 interviews In six cities, including Cincinnati. The report was released in Washington last week.

THE MAJORITY of the women related the problem to protection of the environment and to preservation of natural resources. The women rated those two concerns as fifth and seventh, respectively, among 11 national problems whose seriousness they were asked to evaluate. The housewives considered protection of the environment and preservation of natural resources less serious than problems of narcotics and drug usage or of crime and violence but more serious than transportation, education or racial problems. While 90 of the women expressed willingness to separate trash to facilitate recycling and reduce waste needing disposal, 53 think the practice should be mandatory, with a higher fee charged I be.".

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