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GOP Raps Wiethe Plan, Cincinnati Enquirer ferasjSees City's Ruin In It 1 Cincinnati Republicans fired their first salvo Friday at the Democratic organization for Its attempt to change the city's form of government. The Hamilton County Republican Policy Committee unanimously adopted a resolution opposing what It called "this f7 -f ill IIJIFnil fe I.e. J.JE; I fjf t- JV HW I I If -t- I vwww'- elected mayor, and to re-place the nine-member council, elected at large, with a 26-member council elected by wards. "The Democratic pioposal Is nothing more than a scheme of the Wiethe machine to gain control of Cincinnati government through confusion of the and selfishly-motivated proposal." The resolution was sharp In its attack on John A. Wiethe, county Democratic boss, whose organization Is campaigning for the 13,674 signatures necessary to put a charter amendment issue on the ballot In November.

The Wiethe group will try to supplant the appointed city manager with an Scientific Giant Local Man Left Great Legacy -Enquirer (Cochran) Photo electorate," the GOP resolution charged. Republican policy makers branded the Democratic campaign as "an assault against honest and efficient government in the city." The whereas-studded resolution added: "This assault is a cynical attempt to convince the people that 26 councilmen are more efficient and less costly than nine council-men; that It would be in the interest of efficient, economical government to replace one city manager with three persons to do the same Job, and that disunity and confusion are the Ingredients of good government. "Implementation of the Wiethe-ite proposals would unquestionably destroy the progress that has been made toward the very desirable rebuilding of downtown Cincinnati and subsequent tax relief to the private property owners. Such changes in Cincinnati's system of government would result In chaos, confusion, tremendously increased council payroll and impede if not stop the forward progress of the city." The resolution noted that leading Democratic elected, officials have taken issue with the proposals, and have laid responsibility for them "at the door of Wiethe Councilmen Thomas C. Spraul and Phil C.

Collins, both Democrats, have added their criticism of Mr. Wiethe and the proposed amendment to those of Charterites and Republicans. Mr. Spraul opposed a return to a 26-member council, saying the city was "filled with graft and corruption" under the large council. He called that era "the blackest time in the political history of Cincinnati." Mr.

Collins directed most of his criticism at Mr. Wiethe, calling him a "boss" and "the architect of Democratic defeat and disunity." The GOP policy group strongly urged the Republican Executive and Central Committees to do everything in their power "to acquaint the people with the facts surrounding the amendment, and to defeat it in the interest of the city's future. i TO- Joe Frisco'd Sooner Trust An Animal Than A Human veteran trainer argues with bear In Zoo act, while two "cats" look on Trainer Not Above Pleading Zoo Animal Acts Are Thrillers Fage 22 Saturday, June 22, 1963 $2 Million Apartment Is Planned A 12 story apartment building costing $2 million is being planned for the west side of Burnet Avenue, just north of McMillan Street. Donald Hunter, city building commissioner, Friday, said the Warwick Realty Co. filed the building permit application on a 100-unit structure.

The proposed building will be In the southeast corner of the Avondale-Corryville I renewal area. Mr. Hunter has asked the City Urban Development Department If the building would Interfere with the project plans. Architects for the buildings are Bakle, Cates and Roth. It was understood that Frank Messer and Sons, will be the contractor.

Indian Hill Pair, Youth Injured In Smash-Up A New Orleans youth and an Indian Hill couple were injured Friday when their cars collided on US 42, 11 miles west of Florence, Ky. State Police said a car driven by Bernhard Mauch, 735 St. Louis New Orleans, went out of control into the path of a car driven by Gustave Taaffe, 58, 6160 S. Clipplnger Dr, Indian Hill. Mr.

Mauch was reported in fair to poor condition at St. Elizabeth Hospital. He suffered a broken Jaw and several broken ribs. Mr. Taaffe, president of the Valley Metal Works, Reading, Ohio, and his wife Mabel, 55, were also taken to St.

Elizabeth Hospital, where they are reported In fair condition. Mr. Taaffe suffered a possible concussion. Mrs. Taaffe suffered fractured ribs.

Dr. Shiro Tashiro neared Nobel prize "HE CAME AS close to it as anyone ever did," he added. Dr. Eckstein said he believed that the reason Dr. Tashiro missed the international honor was that the field of microchemistry developed swiftly after the study and obscured it.

Dr. Tashiro got his bachelor of science and doctor of philosophy degrees from the University of Chicago. In 1923, he was awarded the degree of Doctor Medical Science by Kyoto Imperial University and the next year returned to his native Japan for the Crown Prince Prize from the Imperial Academy of Japan. In 1953, Dr. Tashiro became an American citizen when immigration laws were relaxed.

duced the first act of Its kind to feature a tiger, a bear and lions working together. Princess is a one-year-old that in her ferociousness, Joe says, "really flips all the females" in the Zoo audiences. When It's time for her to jump off her wooden stool and head for the cage entrance and exit chute, Princess lets out with roars and gestures that have the gals screaming. That's when her trainer does the "your highness" bit. There are good animals that can be trained In three weeks and bad animalsthat take as much as five months, the veterans handler says.

The best are the ones that are aggressive, "but will back up." Joe says that he can make any wild animal jump at him by just looking it in the eyes, and he does this to make a good 30-year-old animal trainer could well be this era's version of the boy in the book, "Toby Tyler Or 10 Days With The Circus." Joe Frisco ran away from his New York home at the age of 11, and Joined the Ring-ling Bros. Circus. After a feeding and clean-lng-up apprenticeship, the boy graduated to training ponies, elephants and chim--panzees, then lions, tigers and bears. Ensuing years saw him working, for a total of three, with Clyde Beatty; putting out his own Independent acts, Including one with 18 bears, and training acts for others. He came to Cincinnati from Florida, where he had gone to rest after taming some wild ones for the San Antonio, Zoo.

IN THE LOCAL ZOO'S Wild animal circus, a 45-minute dandy shown at 1 and 3 p. m. daily, Joe has pro BY JACK SMITH of The Enquirer Staff A small, bright star is gone from Cincinnati. Scarcely five feet tall, Dr. Shiro Tashiro put himself among the scientific giants with "one brilliant piece of work" he completed nearly 50 years ago.

The man, 79 years old, died here June 12 at his home, 257 Loralne Clifton. The scientist, working at the University of Chicago used tiny apparatus to prove that small segments of life breathed and that nerves, then looked upon as little more than electrical wires, also lived and breathed. "It that doesn't seem important to you, I can assure you that It Is," Dr. Gustav Eckstein, retired University of I I nati physiologist, who knew Dr. Tashiro well, said Friday.

Dr. Tashiro leaves his wife, Mrs. Shizuka Tashiro and three children, all graduates of the College of Medicine: Kiyoshi, a surgeon at Rome, N. Kazuo, a radiologist at Cincinnati General Hospital, and Mrs. Miteuko Tashiro Laforet, a blood disease researcher In Boston.

For his work at Chicago, Dr. Tashiro came close to getting a Nobel prize. "There certainly was talk beyond Cincinnati that he was going to get it I heard from a reasonable number of distinguished physiologists that he was in line for the prize," Dr. Eckstein said. International Academy of Trial Lawyers.

The unanimous vote made Mr. Schneider, 61, Cincinnati's lone member of the academy, limited to 500 of the leading trial lawyers of the United States-and foreign countries. Mr. Schneider, who lives at Phelps Townhouse, 506 East Fourth has been practicing law 6lnce 1925. The academy provides a forum for the exchange of ideas to Improve trial and appellate practice.

It also seeks to bring needed reforms In law and procedure, improve Judicial administration and maintain high honor. Integrity and courtesy in the legal BY LIBBY LACKMAN Of The Enquirer Staff Twice a day, a 5-6, 197-pound man gets down on his knees to a lady and pleads: "Your highness, will you please leave." No wonder The gal to whom he's making dramatic supplications is princess, the performing tiger in the Cincinnati Zoo's wild animal circus. Joe Frisco, animal trainer-producer of the show, knows what a tiger can do. A full-grown, two-year-old grabbed him about 10 years ago and chewed out one fourth of his abdomen. "I'll never make that mistake again," he declares.

THE MISTAKE was brash-ly entering a cage with a wild beast, before attaching a collar and chain to its neck. Joe was laid up for seven months. To old-timers, the husky, New Ship si. show and for another reason. "They like to argue and I give them a chance to give me a little back talk.

You've got to give them a little leeway." IS HE AFRAID of them? No. "I respect them. I know what they can do." There's a four-year-old In Joe's family, Joe who neither fears nor respects the animals, and that worries the father. Little Joe, who is one of four children, gets out his miniature whip every night and trains wild animals in the family living room. "I found him underneath the elephants, playing with them, in a Clyde Beatty show," he recalls.

There's another gal In Joe's circus act that "flips" the entire audience. She's Bella, a year and a half old Himalayan bear with, what her master calls, "a nasty disposition." Bears, Joe says unequivocally, are the most treacherous of the wild animals and have caused more deaths of trainers than any of the others. When Bella fights Joe, he says, it's not part of his training. "I taught her tricks-she's naturally a fighter." Joe doesn't believe In teasing any animal and uses a whip sparingly, then only on its front legs or the back of its neck. "Training is a challenge," he says of his work.

"I en-Joy seeing what I can do, without hurting the animals." Queried on how he compares animals with human beings, he answers seriously: "I'll trust an animal, before I'll trust a human. Either he's good, or he's no good there's no in-between." Robs Show Window A thief smashed a display window at the Her-schede Jewelry Store, 8 W. Fourth at 4 a. m. Friday and took nine watches, valued at $1050.

Police said the thief tossed a sock filled with rocks through the window. Eden Park Accepted As Fellow International Group Honors Local Lawyer L. LEEDS Labor Cum 1 Ore FAlQt Support 1 B. Kris stole ft I 0l" Cincinnati attorney Philip J. Schneider Friday won a singular honor.

He was accepted as a fellow of the Philip J. Schneider practicing since '25 Docks Here On Way -frfjuirw (Htist) Photo Fencing With Pickets Picketing got a new twist Friday in front of Leed's Department Store, Seventh and Race Sts. Strikers usually do the picketing, but Charles Anderson, 13 Back right, was hired Into the act with a placard proclaiming 75 of Leed's employees say the company is fair. M. J.

Bachrach, Leed's president, said he is scheduled to meet Monday with workers to negotiate on forming a branch of the Retail Store Clerks Union at his company. The store remains open. The U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship "Whiting" is shown docking belatedly at Beatty's Harbor, 1707 Eastern Friday, after having been hung up on a sandbar in the Ohio River near Maysville, earlier.

The 163-foot vessel is en route to the Gulf of Mexico for sea trials and commissioning. It is a sister ship to the USC GSS "Pierce" which went aground in the river near the Meldahl Dam April 9. Both ships were built at the Marietta Manufacturing Co. shipyard at Pt. Pleasant, W.

Va. Enquirer (Helse) Photo To Gulf Project' For 'Cover Reservoir About Half Completed dirt, bacteria and even dead animals and preserve the beauty of the park. During the period when the city pondered tiie prospect of a covered reservoir, some residents feared it would leave them looking at a slab of concrete. Enquirer (Bob Free) Photo has a capacity 40 million gallons less than the old pool, but its higher level will provide greater pressure and more effilcent operation. Penker Construction Cincinnati, is the contractor.

The "hanging lake" over the reservoir has a double purpose.lt will protect the purity of the water the old pools were prone to Now a mass of steel and concrete sunk 40 feet Into Eden Park, by middle or late 1954 this bowl will pass for a tranquil paddling pool 18 Inches deep. It is the $4.2 million Eden Park Reservoir cover project, about half finished. Under the shallow "mirror" pool, supported by concrete stanchions shown here, is the reservoir proper with a capacity of 60 million gallons. The Improvement is al the western end of the present double basin pool. When the Job is done the old east basin will be developed as parkland.

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