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14 or CINCINNATI ENQUIRER Wednesday, Nov. 20, 1974 Family Squabble Blocks Annexation SPRINGFIELD -Four times in the past 23 years, the Rev. Edward Jones failed to achieve his dream of having West College Hill annexed to the City of Cincinnati. He was determined to overcome what he said was political opposition from outside the community, lack of services, and prejudice against this tiny all-black enclave in the southwest corner of the township. But the most recent merger tempt- down -which is Hamilton expected to be Com- turnby County missioners today-was blocked by a bar owner named Abraham Huston, who happens to be his older brother.

The intrafamily squabble is merebut 1y the latest step in a chain of events to try to change the unincorporated of the 85-acre area, surrounded by Cincinnati on the south and east and North College Hill on the north, which was originally called Steele Subdivision. Other behindthe -scenes developments include: A disagreement between county commissioners who favor annexation and Hamilton County Prosecuc tor Simon Leis who they charge By ANDY PASZTOR Enquirer Reporter has been unnecessarily "rigid" in determining the legal status of petitions submitted by the Rev. Mr. Jones. For the last four months, Leis has declared that the petitions do not contain a majority of the property owners in West College Hill.

It seems that about 40 parcels out of 500 in the area in question have no owner of record, either because previous owner left no will or the property was never recorded in the courthouse. Leis ruled that proponents of the merger must determine who the new owners are and they also must include the 40-odd 1 parcels in the overall count. "How can dead people own property or sign petitions?" is the way James Campbell, assistant to Cincinnati City Manager E. Robert Turner, answered Leis. "To begin with, one-third of all the owners do not live in the area.

And to make it even more difficult for us, county has ruled no trustees may sign." Campbell, who prepared the petitions, acknowledges he has been put in the position of having to whatever legal technicality is available to swing this thing in my favor." Originally he argued that the 40-odd parcels should be disregarded. Then he asked for permission to add additional names to the petitions, which was denied. Finally, Campbell tried to convince the commissioners that some of the names on the original list were overlooked by county officials. Now that the annexation drive is about to be blocked, he said he is studying the possibility of reducing the proposed area to get support from of the home owners. The Rev.

Howard Crutchfield and his wife, who joined with Huston in circulating counter previous annexation drives. "If they can use dead people's signatures, we would like to have the opportunity to add them to our petitions," Mrs. Jean Crutchfield said at a hearing this summer. Commissioners could hardly keep from bursting into laughter when they examined Mrs. Crutchfield's signatures.

The same pen and apparently the same handwriting were used almost every line of the seven-page petition. And the first name on the top sheet was Mr. and Mrs. Howard Crutchfield. "This (section) used to be nothing but a mudhole," the Rev.

Mr. Jones, pastor of the First Baptist Church since 1931, recalled. "I remember To Avoid UC Digs Ancient Indian Village To Be Saved By ROLF WIEGAND Enquirer Reporter MIAMI TWP. -Cincinnati Gas Electric Co. officials made arrangements Tuesday to save the site of a prehistoric Indian village being excavated by the University of Cincinnati.

"Dr. (Gustav) Carlson and I now have worked an arrangement in which they will be able to continue to dig here and we will be able to do 7-Day Reader Takes $50 Prize Eloise Watts, a Tuesday Gold Chest winner, didn't waste any time claiming her $50 prize. "I sent the kids on to school and came right down," she said. Mrs. Watts, who lives at 3430 Bevis Evanston, received a $7 bonus because she is a seven subscriber to The Enquirer.

"I've been an Enquirer subscriber for years. It's the only paper I read," she said. A total of $2500 in prizes is offered each week. Winning phone numbers appear in the Gold Chest classified section every day. Gold Chest Contest rules appear daily in The Enquirer.

Mrs. Eloise Watts Gold Chest winner Deaths, Funerals when there were only eight houses out here, and people from the rest of the county would throw their garbage here as though it were a cesspool." He blames the "neutrality" of of the 1000-plus residents for many the difficulty of getting signatures on petitions. At least 400 of them are retired men and women, interested in "keeping things as they are," according to Mrs. Alma Murrell, the owner of the single grocery store in West College Hill. The Rev.

Mr. Jones describes his opponents as people "who would oppose a storm when the rains come up." He claims that residents would pay lower taxes (about $10 $1000 of assessed valuation) under the jurisdiction of Cincinnati. "What is Cincinnati doing in the West End?" Huston noted. "I supported previous annexation drives, but now people want to stay the township and avoid (major) repairs. Going with the city would hurt my business, because I would have to spend a few thousand dollars to building up to Cincinnati standards." Campbell, caught in the middle of all this friction, tried to maintain a philosophical outlook.

"West College would have been a window to the open -a pathway for future annexation." End To Old Gas what we have to," William Dickhoner, executive vice president, said. The Indian village, where Dickhoner; Carlson, chairman of UC's anthropology department; and construction engineers met Tuesday afternoon, is said by UC Professor Kent Vickery to date back to the Late Archaic period from 4000 to 1000 B.C. It is located on the Miami Fort power station on the Ohio River less than a mile from the Ohio-Indiana border, an area known to contain artifacts from many eras. The company needed the land for a transmission tower and for a dike to contain possible leaks from two nearby fuel oil tanks. Under the agreement, will postpone all construction work until January 1, 1975, and will consult with UC graduate student Tim Dolbey when construction begins.

Rapes Draw Life Terms Two life sentences were given Tuesday to a 33-year-old father for the rapes of two young sisters. Denver Gilley, 1500 was given the concurrent penitentiary sentences by Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Robert L. Black Jr. after the judge received psychiatric and pre-sentence reports. Gilley was found guilty by a jury last month of two counts of rape of a female under 12.

Madeira Man Killed In Crash Daniel C. Maxfield, 54, 7501 Camargo Madeira, was killed Tuesday afternoon, when the car he was driving collided head-on with another vehicle on Camargo Road, according to Madeira police. Garry M. Marcum, 21, Second Loveland, driver of the other car, his father, Marvin Marcum, 40,. 408 Wakefield Loveland, and Kevin Moran, 20, 505 Hanna Loveland, both passengers in his car, were all taken to Our Lady of Mercy Hospital, where they were treated and released.

A police spokesman said no charges have been filed in the accident, which is still under investigation, but noted the wreck occurred during a driving rainstorm in which road conditions were extremely hazardous. the work by the company is completed, the site will be open for UC use as a field laboratory in archaeology, Dickhoner said. The site has already given up 16 burials, numerous artifacts and cooking areas that suggest a group of 150 people lived there seasonally for 1000 to 1500 years, Vickery said. Co-Operation Price Hike WASHINGTON (UPI) Consumers Union asked the government Tuesday to lift a three cents per gallon gasoline price hike ap-. proved last winter, saying it is needlessly costing motorists $3 billion a year.

The organization said the increase approved by the Federal Energy administration may have been' justified when supplies were short: Promised Enquirer (Gerry Wolter) Photo Dry Cleaner Is Concerned Martin has been in business 27 years Police, Media Discuss News Breakdown By MARGARET JOSTEN Enquirer Reporter Cincinnati Police Chief Carl B. Goodin told a group of local news professionals Tuesday that policenews media relations are generally "very good" that controversy is absent about of the time. Kroger, Files Innocent Plea Clifford J. Kroger, 38, was arraigned Tuesday on a kidnaping charge. Kroger appeared briefly before Hamilton County Common Pleas Court Judge William S.

Mathews who continued the defendant's bond at $100,000. An innocent plea was entered by Kroger on the charge, involving the September 23 kidnaping of fouryear-old Allison Mechem from in front of her Mt. Lookout home. The charge against Kroger is to be assigned Thursday to a specific judge for hearing. Kroger, held in the county jail since September 30 when he was brought here from Orlando, must be tried within 90 days under Ohio Revised Code unless one of the several legal exeptions to the rule are granted to the prosecution.

Normally, this would mean that the judge who receives the case this week would set Kroger's trial for early December, since courts here are unwilling to seat juries over the Christmas holidays. But he admitted in a questionand-answer period following his prepared remarks that relations between the two reached the dimensions cf a disaster at the height of the Mechem kidnaping. Appearing before a meeting sponsored by the Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi, Goodin said he and his staff had autopsied the breakdown in communications on the kidnaping to determine what went wrong. He asked if the Society had done the same. It hadn't.

But Scott Aiken, president of the Cincinnati chapter and regional director of the national organization, revealed plans to bring together a news media committee to develop suggested minimum guidelines to be followed by police and news representatives. Goodin indicated he would be happy to cooperate in such a project. He said police wanted to be open in dealing with the press, but were limited by U.S. Supreme Court decisions. News people in the audience at Grammer's Restaurant, 1440 Walnut first mentioned the breakdown of communications with police following the September 23 kidnaping of Allison Mechem, daughter of Charles S.

Mechem chairman of the board of Taft Broadcasting. They said information was near impossible to obtain and that rumors some of them originating within the Police Division were running rampant. ONE REPORTER pointed out that police were refusing to give the name of the victim nine hours following the kidnaping even though the information was blaring over the police radio at the time. Goodin insisted that all attempts: were made to communicate with newspaper, television and radio personnel assigned to the story. He said a public information officer had been assigned to the scene, but that did not work out because certain news people were not satisfied with the amount and type of information they were being given.

The chief admitted police erred in trying to suppress news of the crime, especially since it was on the radio. But he pointed out the kidnaper had warned the father against telling police or anybody else that the kidnaping had occurred. Goodin then listed several incldents of media irresponsibility, which, he said, endangered the child's life. He observed there were those in the Police Division who felt the child was returned safely to her parents in spite of the media. Goodin said in his prepared remarks that the constitutional right of free speech and the need to guarantee a fair trial for the accused sometimes meet "head on in policemedia relations.

"Cincinnati police have the utmost concern about the constitutional rights of all people in the community and that includes you," he declared. While discussing the generally "very good" relations between police and press in Cincinnati he told of a recent local survey showing police had been treated fairly the vast majority of the time. That is not the case in many other large metropolitan areas, he reminded. Auto Dealer, Lessor Face Bank Suit By JOHN CLARK and $1,997,101 against the leasing suit because of Hamilton Bureau Chief agency. interest in the HAMILTON, Ohio Judgment of $2,145,834 is sought by the Provident Bank, 1 E.

Fourth Cincinnati, in a suit filed in Butler County Common Pleas Court Tuesday against Tonkens Oldsmobile-Cadillac, 736 High and Tonkens National Leasing, 622 East Ave. Of the total, $148,733 is sought from the Oldsmobile-Cadillac agency Mass Friday For Mrs. Mary A. Kitzmiller, Artist Mass of Christian Burial for Mrs. Mary A.

Kitzmiller, 72, who was a prominent local artist, will be intoned at 10 a.m. Friday at Christ the King Church, with burial in St. Mary Cemetery, St. Bernard. Mrs.

Kitzmiller, who had resided for the last several years at St. Margaret Hall, 1960 Madison died Monday at the Clifton Care Center, 625 Probasco. She was the widow of Dr. Carl V. Kitzmiller, who at the time of his death in 1962 was associate professor of industrial medicine at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.

She studied at the Cincinnati Art Academy and UC, developing versatility in portraiture and oils, water color, enamels and ceramics, and came to know such artists as Arthur' Helwig, John Weiss, Reginald Grooms, Paul Chidlaw, Herbert Barnett and Albert Miller. Included among places where the artist showed her work were the Dayton Institute of Fine Arts and the Town Club in Cincinnati. Mrs. Kitzmiller was a former president of the Cincinnati Ceramics Guild and a member of its board for many years and, at the time of her death, a member of the Woman's Art Club. She leaves three sons, Dr.

K. Wil11am Kitzmiller, assistant clinical professor of dermatology at UC, Dr. George E. Kitzmiller, Austin, Texas, and J. Tim Kitzmiller, Cincinnati; one daughter, Mrs.

Mary Vivian Wardlaw, Miami, and 14 grandchildren. The George H. Rohde Son Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements, and there will be no visitation. liens or other claimed property are: James Also named as defendants are Gerald B. Tonkens, 6980 Knoll Cincinnati, president of Tonkens Oldsmobile-Cadillac and Tonkens National Leasing; Beverly Tonkens, same address, and several others reportedly interested in the property by reasons of liens or mortgages.

The suit also seeks a marshalling of liens and sale of real estate owned by Tonkens in Butler and Hamilton Counties and a declaratory judgment establishing the validity of the plaintiff's right to possession of collateral designated in the complaint. Five parcels ted land in Butler County are designated in the complaint and two parcels in Amberly Village, in Hamilton County. Hearing on a temporary restraining order enjoining the defendants from disposing of any of the collateral or property is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. today before Judge Cramer in Butler County Common Pleas Court. In addition to mortgages encumbering real estate, the bank claims liens on more than 400 automobiles of Tonkens National Leasing including Oldsmobiles, Cadillacs, Chevrolets, several Mercedes-Benz, Rolls Royce, Jaguars and other models.

Also listed as defendants in the Tilton, Butler County auditor, and Mark Wendel, county treasurer, $1153 personal property tax lien; Hunter Savings Association, $127,500 mortgage; Major Tire Corp. 518 Glendale-Milford Cincinnati, $25,000 mortgage; William M. Farrell Sr. and Constance G. Farrell, address unknown, $10,000 mortgage; Major Tire Employees Pension Fund, 518 Glendale-Milford Cincinnati, $40,000 mortgage; Sycamore Hammond 523 Oak Cincinnati, mortgages of $15,000, and Sadie Krovocheck, 424 Clinton Cincinnati, $39,250 mortgage, and General Motors Acceptance 7762 Reading Cincinnati, which claims an interest in certain collateral in connection with floor-plan financing inventory used in the operation of Tonkens Oldsmobile-Cadillac, Inc.

The plaintiff asks that its mortgage claim be found to be the first and best lien against the premises requested to be sold and that in event the real estate is sold for an amount insufficient to discharge the debts, interests, costs and taxes that the plaintiff recover a deficiency judgment against the defendants for any balance due plaintiff. The suit was filed in behalf of the plaintiffs by Don R. Gardner and Lanny R. Holbrock, of Keating, Muething Klenkamp, Provident Tower, Cincinnati. Mrs.

Genevieve Reese Services for Mrs. Genevieve Mildred Reese, who operated Reese Catering in the Cincinnati area for more than 30 years, will be at the Thompson Son Funeral Home, 820 Lincoln Walnut Hills, at 11 a.m. Friday. Visitation is from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday.

Burial will be in the United American Cemetery. Mrs. Reese, who died Friday at Jewish Hospital, operated her catering business from her home address at 5814 Desmond Madisonville. Mrs. Reese was born in Steubenville, Ohio, grew up in Cincinnati and attended the city schools.

Her interest in foods led her to take special training at the University of Cincinnati. She also developed her talent through correspondence courses from New York and Paris. She numbered among her clients some of the Queen City's most prominent families and organizations. Mrs. Reese was an honorary member of the Tau Chapter, Iota Phi Lambda sorority, which at one time honored her as outstanding businesswoman of the year.

She belonged to the Union Baptist Church, David L. Nichens Club and T'will Doo Social Club. While many knew her as a cateress, a friend said, there were many who knew her as a "missionary" because she always found time to quietly help others. She leaves no immediate survivors. Alfred T.

Reis Alfred T. Reis, 75, 5368 Maylee Place, Western Hills, retired professor of accounting at the University of Cincinnati College of Business Administration, died Tuesdav at St. George Hospital. Mr. Reis was also retired treasurer for the Gruen Watch Cincinnati, and was a member of the Ohio Society of Certified Public Accountants.

He is survived by two sons, A. Thomas and John both of Cincinnati; two sisters, Mrs. Elsie Lindhorst and Mrs. May Langraf, both of Cincinnati. Mass of Christian Burial will be 11 a.m.

Thursday at St. Antoninus Church. Visitation will be 9-11 a.m. Thursday at the B. J.

Meyer Funeral Home, 4841 Glenway Price Hill. Burial will be in St. John Cemetery, Ft. Mitchell. Floyd R.

Jordan Services for Floyd R. Jordan, 92, 3746 Marburg Hyde Park, will be at 2 p. m. Funeral Thursday at Craverkom Home, Milford. died Monday at Hyde Park Villa Nursing Home.

He taught school for 49 years in Greater Cincinnati, and retired as assistant principal of Cummins School in Hyde Park in 1952. Survivors include his wife, Marie; two daughters, Mrs. Virginia Hewitt, Cincinnati, and Mrs. Jean Hilman, Ft. Thomas, two sons, William, Cincinnati, and Floyd, Columbus; two sisters, two brothers, and 15 grandchildren.

Visitation will be an hour before the service at the funeral home. Burial will be in Edenton Cemetery, Edenton. Mrs. Florence Schubert Services for Mrs. Florence M.

Schubert, 3965 Harmar Bridgetown, will be 10:30 a.m. Thursday at the Cheviot United Methodist Church, 3820 Westwood Northern Blvd. Mrs. Schubert died Monday at Good Samaritan Hospital. She was a member of the Cheviot Garden Club, the Mothers Delta Tau Delta Club, University of Cincinnati and the Zeta Tau Alpha Mothers Club, University of Cincinnati.

She is survived by her husband, Elmer a in the Ross Printing Cincinnati; a son, Raymond Oklahoma; a daughter, Mrs. Virginia H. Sponaugle, Bay Village, Ohio, a and five grandchildren. Visitation will be 4-9 p.m. today at the Busse and Borgmann Funeral Home, 3464 Central Pkwy.

Burial will be in Bridgetown Cemetery. Mort Payne Services for Mort Payne, 61, 6270 Idalia Blue Ash, will be at 10 a.m. today at the Glenn-Hall Jordan Funeral Home, 400 N. Wayne Lockland, with burial in Beech Grove Cemetery, Wyoming. Mr.

Payne, who was retired as a -employed restaurant operator, died Saturday at Drake Memorial Hospital. He leaves his stepmother, Mrs. Clemmie Payne, Meridian, one son, T. J. Payne, Meridian; eight brothers and many nieces and nephews.

Mrs. Juliette Malotte Mrs. Juliet Hall Malotte, 69, formerly of Cincinnati, died Monday at Crestview Nursing Home, Valdosta, Ga. She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Don Ashcraft, Atlanta; Mrs.

W. Y. Wilson, Quitman, eight grandchildren and six greatgrandchildren. Services will be at 4 p. m.

Thursday in Quitman Methodist Church Chapel, with arrangements by Maxwell Funeral Home, Quitman. Ohio Lottery Director Assails Federal Hurdles Enquirer Washington Bureau WASHINGTON -The head of the Ohio Lottery Commission charged here Tuesday that "intolerable" federal legal barriers threaten survival of the massive state gambling operations. "The Ohio Lottery Commission believes the restrictions which have been oppressive are now becoming intolerable," said John E. Kirkland, executive director of the agency. "If lotteries are to continue successfully in the 13 states now partici.

pating, immediate relief is essential." Kirkland made his appeal for an end to all federal mail, transportation and advertising restrictions on lotteries in testimony before the National Gambling Commission. Under questining, he said the Ohio lottery grosses $2.1 million a week, but that it should be higher. Kirkland told a newsman Hamilton County "accounts for only around of the grosos, and it ought to be at least twice that." He will carry his appeal today before a Senate judiciary subcommittee considering bills that would provide exemption fo state lotteries from federal gambling laws. Attorney General Earl William B. Saxbe is scheduled to be lead -off witness.

"We consider it unfair discrimination that state lotteries are not accorded the same rights and privileges under the law as those enjoyed by all other forms of legalized wagering, such as pari-mutual horse racing, casinos, and so on," Kirkland testified..