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THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRERSaturday, 26, 1980 METRO TODA D-3 Acceptances Are Up For City's Alternative School Program The school received 420 applications, and 258 children have already been accepted. Eighty are on the waiting list. The Individually Guided Education (IGE) program at Woodford School in Kennedy Heights has received 316 applications. The 258 acceptances include 48 white pupils, a marked improvement in racial balance for the program, which has traditionally had trouble attracting white students despite its new building and good achievement scores. Receiving the lowest number of applications, 25, is the International Baccalaureate program at Wlthrow, a fairly new offering that is still trying to build itself up.

to people who have requested them. Since applications are still being accepted beyond the April 18 deadline, Mitchell said he expects 1,000 or 2,000 more to arrive in the next couple of weeks. "We know applications are out there and being processed," he said. AS USUAL, the School for the Creative and Performing Arts (SCPA) is the most popular choice, with 560 applications, Mitchell said. The SCPA is now auditioning youngsters.

Coming In a strong second is the Cincinnati Academy of Physical Education, which has blossomed in its new home at the former Camp--, bell Junior High School this year. 11,161 students in 19 different programs at 41 schools. The programs take students from across the city and differ from regular neighborhood schools because they offer a different teaching method or special subject emphasis. The alternative programs are supposed to foster racial Integration and have been heavily pushed by the Cincinnati Board of Education because they are Important to the board's defense against a lawsuit filed by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. This year, 3,872 applications were received between Feb.

18 and the April 18 deadline, compared with 3,896 last year during about the same time, Mitchell said. The timetable for distribution of the applications was delayed somewhat this year by the three-week school shutdown last fall, he said. After the applications are received in the central office, they are sent out to the people in charge of the alternative programs, who contact the parents and usually arrange for an interview and visit. If the parent is still Interested in a program and the child meets the criteria for eligibility and racial balance, the child Is accepted. Acceptances so far this year total 1,725, ahead of last year's figure of 1,334 at this time, Mitchell said.

"We have changed the process for handling applications. We're responding to parents a little earlier than in the past," he said. About 10,000 alternative school applications have been distributed BY BARBARA ZIGLI Enquirer Reporter Applications for alternative programs In the Cincinnati Public Schools are running about the same as last year, and acceptances into the programs are up. Jerry Mitchell, the administrator of the alternative school office, said school officials hope that by the time all the applications have been received and considered, alternative enrollment next year will match or exceed this year's level. "The number of rejections is way down this year," he said.

"The majority of people who have applied have been accepted Into their first choice." ALTERNATIVES NOW enroll '1 vt 4 COUflJ Grand Jury Process Criticized Grand Jury selection in Hamilton County does not follow the letter of the law, an attorney for a robbery suspect charged Friday in Common Pleas Court. But the county jury commissioner maintained that the challenge is invalid and merely the latest attempt to stymie convictions and put of Jail terms. Attorney Kenneth E. Peller, who is representing a Detroit man charged with aggravated robbery, said theaccusatlon Is not frivolous and could have a "far-reaching impact on the way grand Jurors are selected." Claiming the grand Jury selection process Is flawed, Peller is asking for dismissal of charges brought by the grand jury in 1979 against his client, Johnnie Flournoy, 27. After hearing oral arguments, Judge Robert S.

Kraft agreed to rule on Peller's motion in the near future. Peller said Ohio law is very specific on how grand jurors are to be selected and on the allowable reasons for excusing potential grand Jurors. The grand jury reviews all felony charges brought by police and Issues formal charges or indictments it determines to be warranted. Some of the 25 people selected as potential grand Jurors to review Flournoy's charges later were dismissed from jury service for reasons not set forth in the law, Peller said. Several were dismissed for no apparent reason, he said.

In addition, Peller questioned whether the list from which grand jurors were selected contained a proper racial mix. Ohio law calls for grand jurors to be selected at random from registered voter lists and tax rolls. A computer picks the names of 17,000 people annually from the lists. The presiding Judge picks 25 names every three Fired Employee Appeals' The Cincinnati Civil Service Commission is considering the reinstatement request of a waterworks employee who was fired after accusing colleagues of putting too much fluoride in city drinking water. Richard Hunter, a waterworks employee until his dismissal In March, contends fluoride exceeded levels set by state law.

Hunter said the code prohibits the level of fluoride from exceeding 1.3 gallons per million gallons of water. He claims that on Sept. 6 and 9, 1979, fluoride exceeded that level and a health hazard in the drinking water. After Hunter went to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), charging that the plant had violated the law, he was fired.

Thursday he appealed his firing before the civil service commission, claiming that it was retaliation. He said federal law allowed him to report the fluoride levels. Richard Miller, waterworks superintendent, testified he fired Hunter because Hunter lied to the EPA. Miller said Hunter was reprimanded in February for Increasing the dosage of fluoride in the water without getting permission from a chemist. Miller also produced documents that showed the fluoride level reached 1.2 on Sept.

6 and 1.4 on Sept. 9. He said during the entire month of September It did not come close to the allowable level of 1.8. The commission heard about 16 witnesses testify that monitoring and safety alarms at the Charles E. Bolton plant in Butler County prevent fluoride overdoses.

Miller cited sections of the Safe Water Drinking Act which sets the level of fouride for Ohio at 1.8 gallons per million gallons of water. "We set an operation procedure where we regulated the alarm system to go off anytime the amount of fluoride exceeded 1.2 gallons per million gallons of water," Miller said. "When the alarm goes off, the inlet valve for the fluoride automatically shuts off until the level is back below 1.2. With this kind of system, there is no possible way we would exceed the amount allowed," Miller added. deaiiiG Clifford Myers, Commercial Photographer Clifford William Myers, 71, a lifetime resident of Price Hill, died Friday at Good Samaritan Hospital after a brief illness.

He was a commercial photographer and operated the W.T. Myers Co. studio for 35 years. Mr. Myers was a graduate of Xavier University and a member of the Ohio River Launch Club.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Virginia E. Myers; a son, C. William Myers a daughter, Mrs. Joseph Bonno; and nine grandchildren.

His son, Bill Myers, is an announcer for WLWT. Mass of Christian Burial will be at St. Lawrence Church, Price Hill, at 8 p.m. Monday. Visitation will be at the B.J.

Meyer Funeral Home, 3726 Warsaw Ave. from 6 p.m. until time of Mass. Burial will be at St. Joseph (New) Cemetery, Pedretti Ave.

and Foley Delhi. Edward P. Inman, 62, sun city, formerly of Crestview Hills, died Monday at a Sun City Hospital. He was formerly a vice president of Central Advertisers Engraving Cincinnati. Survivors include his wife, Betty Jane; a daughter, Sharon Strletelmeier; a sister, Mrs.

Olen (Trudy) Bright, and a grandson. A memorial service will be held later. Irwin J. Sander, 75, cheviot, who retired in 19C6 as purchasing agent for Witt a maker of metal fabric, died Tuesday at St. George Hospital.

Survivors include his wife, Hilda (Eck) Sander; two daughters, Mrs. James (Miriam) Mackle and Mrs. Harold (Esther) Bauer; three grandchildren; two brothers, Milton and Vernon; two sisters, Mrs. Dorothy Wlenlng and Mrs. Mildred Vetter.

Services were Thursday at Vltt Stermer Funeral Home, 3425 Harrison Cheviot Burial will be In Arlington Memorial. Anne Northcote Shick, 57, 5717 Kugler Mill Kenwood, died Thursday at Good Samaritan Hospital. She Is survived by her husband, Harry R. four sons, Harry III, Gordon, Andrew and Laird. Services will be at 11 a.m.

today at Indian Hill Church. Ann Diener, 2632 Bremont Golf Manor, died Wednesday at Jewish Hospital after a short Illness. Her volunteer efforts reflected an Interest In youth. She did volunteer work at Condon School, Children's Hospital Medical Center and St. Joseph's Infants Home, as well as for WCET-TV and the fine arts.

Surviving are two nephews, Bert and Jerry Bongard. Graveside services will be at Covedale Cemetery at 1 p.m. today. Well Funeral Home, North Avondale, Is handling arrangements. Clifford Jacobs 54, 7953 e.

Galbratth Kenwood, died evening at Bethesda North Hospital. A graduate of Wlthrow High School and the University of Cincinnati, Mr. Jacobs and his two brothers ran the Walnut Hills auto dealership, Clifford Jacobs Motors started by his father In 1922. He was a veteran of World War II and a former member of the Winton Place Vets, the Cincinnati Kiwanis Club and the Cuvler Press Club. Surviving are his wife, Mildred; three sons, Clifford III, Gregory and Roger; two daughters, Mary Ann and Carol Lynn; his mother, Mrs.

Carol Jacobs; and to brothers, Harlan and Tom, both of Cincinnati. Visitation will be 2-5 p.m. Sunday at Thomas Memorial Funeral Home, 7500 Montgomery Kenwood. Services and burial at 11 a.m. Monday at Spring Grove.

The family requests that memorials be made to the American Heart Fund. Grace A. Pennock, 90, a former Clncinnatian, died Thursday at her home in Rochester, Vermont. Mrs. Pennock lived for many years on Belle Crest Avenue in Hyde Park be- fore moving to Vermont five years ago.

She was wife of the late Gilbert Pennock, former minister at the Church of the Nativity In Price Hill. Mrs. Pennock was a longtime volunteer at Children's Hospital. Survivors Include two sons, Gll-" bert Jr. and Stephen, and a daughter, Dorothy.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete. J. Gregory Jostworth, 14, Mon-fort Heights resident and eighth-grader at St. Ignatius School, died Thursday morning at Children's Hospital Medical Center. He was the son of James and Jane (Forrester) Jostworth.

Mr. Jostworth Is a lithographer. Besides his parents, survivors in-' elude two brothers, Andy Joe and Bryan; a sister, Jennifer; paternal grandparents, Earl E. Jostworth and Mrs. William Dempsey, and mater-' nal grandparents, A.

E. and Margaret Graves Forrester. Visitation is 6-9 p.m. Sunday at Rebold Funeral Home, 3700 Glen-more Cheviot. Mass will be at 10:30 a.m.

Monday at St. Ignatius Church in Monfort Heights. Burial, St. Joseph (New) Cemetery. 1 I Jrj ff 1 'fM rl in iiMimi iiiun-aM Mllllf4'iiltitt1t wiiit-i Group Not To Disturb OBES Judge Robert H.

Gorman Friday ordered members of the Cincinnati May Day Committee not to Interfere with normal business at the offices of the Ohio Bureau of Employment Services OBES The Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge made the ruling after meeting with a representative of the committee and an attorney for the OBES. The committee was not represented by an attorney. Gorman continued a similar request for a preliminary restraining order earlier this month when no attorney for the committee appeared. The Judge temporarily enjoined committee members April 2 from interfering with OBES business after OBES attorneys filed a complaint. The Judge's order Friday allows committee members to continue picketing OBES offices and disseminating information so long as they do not Interrupt business activities in OBES offices in Roselawn and Mohawk.

weeks for grand jury service, wine peopie eventually are seated on the grand jury, including a foreman picked by the presiding criminal Judge. Peller cited as the basis for his challenge a recent 2nd Ohio District Court of Appeals ruling that specified the exact procedures set forth in state law should be followed in se-lecting grand Jurors. "These are very technical, specious points to raise, but the grand Jury is a very important body. Who sits on a grand Jury can have an impact," he said, "and the selection process is specifically set forth In the law." Richard Grote, county Jury commissioner, said several similar motions challenging grand Jury selection have been filed recently by inmates seeking release from state prisons. Two county Common Pleas judges have overruled the motions and their rulings are being appealed In the 1st Ohio District Court of Appeals.

-BARBARA REDDING Post Office To Appeal Ruling The U.S. Postal Service Friday filed notice of its Intention to appeal to the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals a lower-court order to reinstate two postal employees, fired for wearing anti-Shah of Iran T-shirts. U.S. District Judge David S.

Porter on Monday ordered the postal service to restore James A. Kelly, 28, and Robert Hauck, 37, to their Jobs at the Bulk Mail Center In Sharon-ville with full back pay for the period since they were dismissed in January. Porter held that the postal service violated the two men's "freedom of speech" by demanding they remove T-shirts and buttons that offended some of their co-workers. When they refused, they were fired. Four Deny Obscenity Charges Four persons connected with Newport's adult bookstore pleaded innocent Thursday to obscenity-related charges In Campbell District Court.

Charged with criminal facilitation are Albert "Sammy" Wright, 63, and his wife, Mary Dell, 725 Monmouth Newport. They own the bookstore property at 721 Monmouth St. Charged with distributing obscenity are store Clerk Leslie Cooper, 70, 122 E. Seventh Newport, and city license holder James Lewallen, 46, 928 Orchard Newport. The four persons were represented before District Judge Leonard Kopowskl.

He ordered lawyers in the case to file all motions by May 12. Enquirer phofo BY MARK TREITEL LITTLE TYKE, BIG KITE: Griff Parker, 5, Blue Ash, gives a large kite an assist Friday in French Park, Amberley Village. At the top of the rise is Griffs grandfather, Jim Corum of Pleasant Ridge. policr 177 Arrested At Coliseum Concert Suit Filed In Concert Crush The wife of a Trotwood, Ohio, man who died in the crush of fans at the Who concert Dec. 3 filed the 14th lawsuit Friday against Riverfront Coliseum, concert promoters, band members and others.

Filed on behalf of Walter H. Adams, 22, the suit accuses the various defendants of negligence motivated by greed. Adams' death was a direct result of the defendants' acts, the suit claims. Adams attended the concert with a friend from Trotwood, which is west of Dayton. The suit names as defendants the coliseum and coliseum officers, directors and shareholders; members of The Who; Electric Factory Concerts Inc.

and Its Ideal concert promoter, Cal Levy; and the City of Cincinnati. The suit seeks $9.9 million in damages. Since the Who concert, officials have been strictly enforcing drug, alcohol and fire laws at public events. Rigorous enforcement of the fire code also brought about the charging of Van Halen's lead singer David Lee Roth on charges of complicity to violate the fire code. Police said Roth repeatedly "incited" the audience to light up.

Immediately after the concert the band left for Chicago. Attempts to reach Roth failed. He Is cited for arraignment in Hamll-ton County Municipal Court Tuesday morning. Of those charged Thursday, 167 were merely cited to court. Of the 12 physically arrested, seven were charged with felony drug offenses, Tessendorf reported.

There were 128 adults, most between 18 and 25, and 37 Juveniles cited. The Van Halen rock concert Thursday night set an unsought record for Riverfront Coliseum. Police arrested 177 persons, mostly on alcohol and drug charges. Most of the arrests were made outside the coliseum, in the parking lots, according to special operations supervisor Sgt. Richard Tessendorf.

Also, as part of the continuing total enforcement of the ban on smoking and open flame in the main arena, more than 100 persons were thrown out by security guards. Tessendorf said, "It was the worst crowd since the Who concert." On that night, Dec. 3, 11 persons died in a crush of persons crowding into the building when they heard The Who tuning up. "The crowd Thursday night was incited more by the band than most," Tessendorf said. Developer Proposes Monorail To Link Cincinnati, Covington Crescent Springs, concentrate on developing commercial aspects of the area east of the Suspension Bridge.

THE WELLINGTON represented by David Herriman, was picked to develop housing, possibly condominiums. Covington City Manager Wally Pagan said Herriman has agreed to negotiate an agreement to become a co-developer, but no word had been heard from Butler by late Friday. Is also a member of the com whether they will co-operate as developers. Butler estimated his total project would cost about $60 million to $70 million. In addition to the monorail, it would include a hotel and a convention center.

BUTLER'S IDEA is not the first to envision linking Riverfront Stadium with Northern Kentucky. For several years, Newport City Commissioner John Peluso has been promoting a plan for a cable-car system from the stadium to his Grandview Gardens in wport. mittee composed of citizen, city and business representatives. Herriman and Butler were among three developers who vied for consideration by the riverside committee Thursday night. Winston Folkers, president of the Koetzle Cincinnati, also appeared.

The city dropped his firm as developer of the area earlier this year after Koetzle plans for high-rise condominiums in the area were attacked as incompatible with the adjacent historic district. Pagan said the committee was impressed by Butler's finances and "inroads to the governor" to gain additional support for a commercial development. The monorail and other innovative ideas were also noted. Herriman, Pagan said, was thought to "be more sensitive to the nature of the area" and deemed more acceptable to develop housing closer to the historic district. Covington city commissioners must still rule on the committee's recommendations.

Butler and I Herriman are still to reach terms on One of two developers picked to mold Covington's riverfront wants to use a $16-milllon monorail system to span the Ohio River and con-nect the Kentucky city with Cincinnati. Using a single suspended rail, developer William P. Butler would have the monorail run from near the Covington-Kenton County Municipal Building to the plaza level of Riverfront The Covington Riverside Development Committee has proposed that? Butler's firm, the W.P. Butler.