The Cincinnati Enquirer from Cincinnati, Ohio • 14

THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER Tuesday, October 2, 1973 Springer Ethics Ordinance Conflicts With State, City Councilman Gerald Springer's proposed ethics ordinance for Cincinnati legislative and administrative officials wars seen Monday in conflict with a state law and the City Charter. City Council's Law Committee took under advisement a revision of the porposal to remove conflicts with the state's new ethics law and the charter. The conflicts were noted in a report by City Solicitor Thomas Luebbers which said. "We cannot recommend enactment of the ordinance in its present form." AS WRITTEN, the legislation would require members of council, candidates for council and city administrative officials making 000 or more a year to file statements of economic interests. It also would prevent them from taking part in decisions conflicting with their private interests.

Candidates would be required to disclose campaign contributions over $10 and expenses in excess of $25. A five-member ethics commission would be authorized to serve 213 a "watchdog" for enforcement of the ordinance. At a hearing befone the law committee Monday, Robert Klausmeyer, Cincinnati Bar Association president, said the was a "pretty good thing," genemally, but if carried to a logical conclusion. members of council should be prohibited from representing clients daaling with the city. Deaths And Funerals Edward VonderHaar, Xavier Official, Dies Edward Paul VonderHaar, vice president cf public relations and development at Xavier University, died Monday after suffering a heart attack while attending a meeting at Xavier.

He was 64. A 1931 graduate of Xavier, magna cum laude, Mr. VonderHaar spent the rest of his life in the service of his alma mater, beginning in 1932 as executive secretary of the alumni association. Over the years, he was director of publicity, business manager of athletics, secretary to the President's Council and director of relations. He was made a vice president in 1966.

Born in Hamilton, Ohio, he was graduate Hamilton Catholic High School. He lived at 2345 Ashland Walnut Hills, with his sister, Miss Marcella VonderHaar, who is his only survivor. Mr. VonderHaar was a past president of the American College Public Relations Association and the Public Relations Society of America. He was a member of the Committee on Publications and Information Service of the North Central A Association of College and Secondary Schools, the educational standardizing agency for 19 states.

Other affiliations included the International Relations Asscciation, Sons of American Revolution, Society the Colonial Wars, Assoothe ciation of Ohio Commodores, the Cincinnati Club and the Cuvier Edward VonderHaar 1931 XU graduate Press Club. He is listed in "Who's Who in America." of Christian Burial will be intoned at 10:30 m. Thursday in the Bellarmine Chapel on the XavCampus. Visitation will be after 4 p.m. Wednesday at the John J.

Gilligan Son Funeral Home, 2926 Woodburn Walnut Hills. Burial will be in St. Mary Cemetery, Harold W. Nichols Dies, Headed Paper Firm Here Harold W. Nichols, 90, former president and board chairman of FOX Paper died Monday morning at his residence, 1617 E.

McMilIan St. Mr. Nichols, who came to Cincinnati following graduation from Milton Academy and Harvard University, started work as a day laborer at Fox Paper. While consolidating four paper mills strung out along the old Miami and Erie Canal and liquidating abandoned barge line equipment, he became interested in freight rate structures and served as chairman of the transportation committee of the Greater Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce and on the executive committee of the Ohio Valley Improvement Association. He was a director of the River Rail Transfer Board, Cincinnati Industries, the National Paperboard Association and American Pulp and Paper Association.

He was a president of the Chesapeake Pulp and Paper Ccrp. and the Cincinnati Golfers League. In World War I he resigned captaincy of a machine gun company of the home guard to become head of the paper section of the War Industries Board and received a personal citation from President Woodrow Wilson. In World War II he headed the Hamilton County and Ohio salvage efforts for collection of recycleable materials and served on the state civil defense committee. He was awarded the Man Killed In Truck Crash A St.

Bernard man died in A fiery truck wreck on I-75 in Lockland Monday morning. The victim, Richard Meyers, 48, 39 Wuest was operating a panel truck owned by Servomation of Cincinnati, southbound on the interstate at 6:25 a.m., Lockland Patrolman A.C. Hamilton said. Meyers apparently lost control of the truck near the LocklandArlington Heights border. The vehicle struck a guard rail twice and tipped over, skidding 100 feet on its side atop the rail, coming to rest against a light pole, Hamilton said.

The truck was "completely engulfed in flames" when Lockland emergency equipment arrived, Hamilton said. Meyers was taken from the wreckage to General Hospital by Lockland Life Squad where he was pronounced dead. Man, 23, Stabbed Ancel Skidmore, 23, 1032 Columbia Newport, reported to Cincinnati police that he was stabbed in the chest at 2 a.m. Monday by a youth he surprised trying to steal a battery from his car at 1435 Main St. Skidmore was admitted to General Hospital in fair condition.

His assailant was still being sought. Councilman Willis D. Gradision Jr. said the ordinance could bring city business to a "grinding halt." Gradison also said if a member of council owned $1000 worth of General Motors stock it would be Students' Hair Styles In Debate Enquirer Hamilton Bureau FAIRFIELD, Ohio The pros and cons of long hair were aired in a two-hour rap session before the board of education here Monday night. About 60 persons, including parents, students and teachers, attended the session called by the of the high school rule restricting hair to collar length.

Views expressed at the meeting, held in the junior high auditorium, are to be considered by board in determining whether the high school dress code should be revised as it relates to hair length. The hair issue was brought to the board's attention at the last regular board meeting by a group of students and parents who contended the ruling required that some of the boys cut their hair or face suspensions from school. Several of those that meeting appeared again at the Monday night session. MOST OF THE students speaking Monday night were opposed to the rule and were supported by some of the parents although one student contended a "silent minority" of at least of the high school enrollment favored the regulation. Some parents also spoke in behalf of the rule.

3 Charged In Robbery Of Motel Two men and a juvenile were charged Monday with the Sunday night armed robbery of the Camargo Motel, 8710 Montgomery Rd. Virgil Boyd, 20, 515 E. 12th West End, Robert Jones, 21, who told police he lived at 644 E. Clifton. and a 17-year-old Winton Terrace youth were apprehended within minutes of the robbery, Hamilton County Detective Ron Taylor said.

Nicholas J. Stagge 23, and son of the owner of the motel, told Hamilton County deputies he and an employee, Miss Donna Rae Lanter, were herded into the business office by two men armed with a knife and gun shortly after 10 p.m. Stagge said he and the woman were tied up after surrendering jewelry, checks and $137 to the bandits, who fled after locking the office door. Stagge managed to free himself and called police, who broadcast a description the men. Montgomery Patrolman Robert Reichert stopped a car with three men in it Cross County Highway 15 minutes after the crime, Taylor said.

Reichert saw money and other property taken in the crime in the car, and the trio was' arrested. Tay-. Icr said all the property taken and the weapons used in the crime had been recovered by police. Dahlman Testifies In Dimes Probe The grand jury investigating alleged misuse of Post-Firemen's Mile of Dimes Charity funds heard testimony Monday from Stanley Dahlman, 67, former promotion director of the Cincinnati Post and TimesStar. Dahlman, who is a patient at Jewish Hospital where he has been recovering from what police described as a suicide attempt on August 30, previously appeared before the panel last Wednesday.

Dahlman is the former director of the corporation which administers the charity. Internal Revenue Service has filed a $91,615 tax lien against him for personal income taxes allegedly owed the government for the years 1968 through August, 1973. No additional witnesses have been subpoenaed to testify before the grand jury and the panel may nct reconvene for several days. improper for the city to buy equipment from that company. He said the city should follow the new state ethics law and work for any amendments considered necessary to strengthem that statute.

Joseph Bischof, city expressways engineer. and Sandy Youkilis, city planner, said the proposed ordinance went too far with its coverage by taking in employees earning $15,000 or above. This would involve many workens who have nothing to do with city policy making, they said. They suggested that the ordinance apply to employees making $18,000 or higher. In other City Hall matters Monday: Councilwoman Bobbie Sterne rioposed a car pool plan to alleviate downtown traffic congastion during the Christmas shopping season.

Mrs. Sterne's plan would offer free parking in city-owned lots for any car containing four or more adults between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day. City Manager E. Robert Turner asked council to authorize acceptance of an $18,000 grant from the Children's Hospital Research Foundation to expand Cincinnati's diagnostic and counseling services for sickle cell anemia detection. City Council's Public Works and Traffic Safety Committee voted approval of an ordinance for two in the traffic pattern in the Over-the-Rhine area.

The ordinance provides for a resumption of two-way traffic on Fourteenth Street between Central Parkway and Elm Street, and for changing Logan Street cne-way south instead of north between Findlay and Liberty Sts. SEASON PARKING tickets for the October 7 Cincinnati Bengals game alt Riverfront stadium will be honored on December 9, George Pennington, city superintendent of transportation, announced Monday. Because a Cincinnati Reds National League playoff will be taking place next Sunday at the stadium, the Bengals's home game with Celveland has been switched to Cleveland. And the Bengals-Cleveland game originally set for December 9 in Cleveland will be held. at Cincinnati.

Enquirer (Tom Hubbard) Photo Rain Blamed In Roof Collapse A 50-FOOT section of roof of the Ziebart Auto and building also collapsed and a truck trailer, which Truck Rust Proofing 1723 Elm collapsed was there to be rust-proofed, suffered damage. There Monday causing an estimated $20,000 damage. Sam Salem, president of the firm, attributed the collapse were I no injuries. The firm will be closed a week for repairs. to heavy rain.

He added that three walls of the Days Numbered For Teepee Burner Victory Centre gold emblem and a personal citation from the commanding general of the U.S. Air Force. Mr. Nichols was former president of the Commercial and Harvard Clubs. He was a member cf the Commonwealth Club, Cincinnati Country Club, Queen City Club, all in Cincinnati; Devon Yacht Club and Maidstone, Long Island, N.

Racquet and Tennis Club in New York City. He survived by his wife, Margaret Rowe Nichols; three children, Harold Jr. and Mrs. David Forker of Cincinnati, and Mrs. Aertsen P.

Keasbey Bedford Hills, N. 13 grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. Funeral services will be at 2 p. m. Wednesday at the Church of the Advent.

There will be no visitation. Burial will be. in Spring Grove. George Stugard Services for George Stugard, 89, a retired attorney who had practiced in Cincinnati for half a century, will be at 10 a.m. Friday in the Bamber Funa al Home, 3011 Woodburn East Walnut Hills.

Burial will be in Spring Grove. Theme is no visitation. Mr. Stugard died Sunday Holmes Hospital after a lcng illness. His residence was at 705 Miami Terrace Park.

Most of his working careEr: pasped with the law firm of Ernst, Cassatt and Cottle. which had offices in the First National Bank Building. He was a mamba. cf the Cincinnati Bar Association and a 50-year member of Lafayette Lodge No. 81, A Norwood Chapter No.

193, Royal Arch Masons, and Cincinnati Council No. Royal and Select Masons. He was active also in the Mt. Auburn Presbyterian Church. Mr.

Stugard's wife, Lydia Kopsch Stugard, died in November, 1960. Robert Wiebold Mass cf Christian Burial for Robert W. Wiebold, 55, editor of the Eastern Hilis Journal for the last 26 years, will he sung at 10 a.m. Thursday in St. Matthew Church, Norwood.

Burial will be in St. Joseph Cemetery, Eighth St. and Seton Price Hill. Friends may call from 6-9 p.m. Wednesday at the Kleb and Ihlendorf Funeral Home, 3900 Montgomery Norwood.

Mr. Wiebold, who had suffered from a heart condition, collapsed sunday night his home, 2421 Robertson Norwood, and was pronounced dead on arrival at General Hospital. He is survived by two brothers, George E. Wiebold, a retired pharmacist of the Holmes Hospital, and Charles C. Wiebold, operator of the wiebold Studio of Art Resoration, Terrace Park.

The family suggests that memorial gifts be made to the Heart Fund. Operation of Clarke's Incinerators, "teepee" model incinerator at the intersection of Interstates 75 and 275 will cease Novembar 1. A consent agreement arranged by the Ohio attorney general for the Ohin Environmental Proctection Agency (Ohio EPA) calls for Clarke to close the teepee operaticn as a condition for receiving variances from Ohio air pollution regulations for other parts of its solid waste disposal operation. The variances issued by Ohio EPA allow Clarke's two Sargent model incinerators to continue operation for a 17-month period while puliution control equipment is installed and tested. The teepee will be replaced by another conical incinerator that will be capable cf meeting state and federal air quality standards, Ohio EPA said.

"WE ARE VERY pleased with the consent order since it serves to eliminate a major source of air pollution in the Cincinnati area," said Ira L. Whitman, Ohio EPA director. "We are sure that area residents share our pleasure in announcing the teepee will smoke no more. "This situation represents what can be done to improve Ohio's enwhen everyone concerned works together." Attorney General William Brown said, "The resolution of this long standing controversy came Special Counsel To Argue Lukens Case Enquirer Hamilton Bureau HAMILTON, Ohio The judges of Butler County Common Pleas Court have authorized the appointment of special counsel to represent county board of elections members named as defendants in a suit brought by four plaintiffs in U.S. District Court, Cincinnati, in behalf of State Sen.

Donald E. Lukens (R-Middletown). The appointment was approved at the request of County Prosecutor Jchn Holcomb, who noted that his office is presently working at full capacity and that it would be a physical impossibility to devote the amount of time required to defend the suit with the present manpower in his office. Holcomb did not suggest who should be appointed except that "he be someone not closely identified or connected with either major political party in order that objectivity prevail." The special counsel is expected to be named within a few days. THE PLAINTIFFS in the suit, Miami University Boosts Board For Students In Dorms OXFORD, Ohio (Special) The of living is going up for Miami University students living on campus.

The university's board of trustees over the weekend approved a $10 per quarter increase in board rates for residence halls. The new rates, effective January 1, will be $245 per quarter. Students also pay $200 per quarter room rent. In requesting the board increases, Miami President Dr. Phillip R.

Shriver told the board that "we're giving the students as much advance notice as possible; rising food costs and mandated wage increases have made it necessary." none too soon. The complete shut down of a facility causing air pollution is a relatively drastic remedy, and I am pleased that it could be achieved by the consent of both parties." Brown said much credit for succassful termination of the Clarke case is due to the Cincinnati Divisic of Air Pollution Control, the Sharonville city administration numerous concerned citizens and area organizations "for their persistent. efforts and The Ohio EPA in January issued proposed variances which included the condition of closing the teepee. Clarke subsequently requested an adjudication which delayed final decisions on the variances. Randall E.

Cesco, Loveland, Joan Providente, Cincinnati, William Cincinnati, and Gordon Dickerson, New Richmond, have submitted 47 interrogatories to be answe ed by the chairman of the Butler Board of Elections covering period last 20 Countye years. Twenty-six interrogatories also are to be answered by members, the director and deputy director of the elections board. The plaintiffs, in their suit contend refusal of the Ohio secretary of state to permit Lukens' name to appear on the 1974 gubernatorial ballot will violate their constitutional rights by depriving them of the opportunity to vote for the candidate of their choice. Lukens was barred from being a candidate for political office for five years for failing to file his personal campaign expense account following his election as state senator within the filing deadline. Lukens contended he placed the account in the mail but it never was received at the board of elections office.

Another account was subsequently filed on January 3. Five Area Men Change Pleas In Court On Gambling Charges Five Cincinnati changed their pleas of inaccemen connection with gambling charges in an appearance Monday before U. S. District Court Judge David S. Porter.

One plea was changed to no contest, the other four to guilty. Judge Porter accepted the change of pleas and ordered a presentence investigation in all cases. The men are Matthew M. Carrelli, 55. 4904 Hawaiian Isadore Laffer, 69, 1849 Greenbriar Place, Alphonse Esselman, 50, 1581 Beechmeadow Jack Otto, 2124 Girl, 2, Listed Fair After 20-Foot Fall Melissa Lucas, two year old daughter of and Mrs.

Robert Lucas, 3439 McHenry Westwood, was reported in fair condition Monday at Children's Hospital with injuries suffered in a fall the previous day. Cincinnati police reported that Melissa fell 20 feet off a secondfloor balcony at 3445 McHenry Ave. A hospital spokesman said the child suffered a fractured skull. N. Ft.

Thomas Ft. Thomas, all of whom changed pleas to guilty, and Fred E. Banes, 54, 3414 Telford who changed his plea to no contest. The defendants were arrested November 6. 1971, at the Race Inn, 1606 Race by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The five men were indicted May 18 by a federal grand jury charges of directing an illegal gambling business in horse race books and football parlay cards. The board also approved November 1 for transfer of assets of The Western College to Miami University, authorized sale of two lots to Lane Public Library and approved free classes for persons over 65. The Ohio Controlling Board Monday released $1.8 million for Miami to purchase the assets of Western College, with $1.2 million of the cost to be paid from reserves of the university. Shriver told the board enrollment thus far this fall is setting a record, with more, than 17,000 signed for courses the school's three campuses and more than 13,600 at the Oxford campus. Heavy UC Traffic Alters Bus Times Because of heavy traffic the first day of classes at the University of Cincinnati Monday, schedules for the first buses on three new chartered Queen City Metro routes for UC students, faculty and staff will be advanced, beginning today.

The buses will start 10 minutes earlier, the Kenwood bus at 7:05 a.m., the Mariemont bus at 7:10 a.m. and the Western Woods bus at 7:15 a.m. Other stops on the first run each day also will be 10 minutes earlier than previously scheduled..