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may a border. A-8 METRO THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER Wednesday, November 23, 1983 Metro Digest ERA Opponents Praise Rep. Luken's 'No' Vote Nine groups opposing the pastor of Deer Park Baptist Equal Rights Amendment Church. praised U.S. Representative Groups also represented in Tom Luken Tuesday for voting the session also included Eagle against the amendment Nov.

15 Forum, the nationwide and said hope he will side organization leading ERA with them in the future. opposition, Lamplighters, The Moral Majority and Catholic Federation of Parentother groups assailed pro-ERA Teacher Associations in groups which last week Greater Cincinnati, Family picketed Luken's downtown Preservation League, Fidelity office. Luken is a Democrat. Forum, Parents Concerned for "We are appalled the rat. Morality in Education, public abuse that Tom Luken Cincinnatus Party and suffered last week at the hands Northern Kentucky Right to of a minority group that Life.

included a representative of Luken has said he voted city council," said Jennifer against the ERA because he Thomas, a Christ Hospital objected to the House nursing student who suspension of rules which introduced the press blocked all proposed changes. conference. Luken said he wanted the ERA Councilwoman Bobbie changed to include wording Sterne participated in the pro- aimed at avoiding any ERA picketing near Luken's implication the ERA would office. support abortion rights. "That's the kind of scare The House voted, 278-147, for tactics we're trying to the ERA, but needed six more neutralize," said the Rev.

yes votes to meet the required Thomas Trammel, a local two-thirds margin for passing a Moral Majority leader. He is constitutional amendment. Gunman Robs Savings And Loan Firm A lone gunman held up in the savings and loan at 10:05 Business Men's Federal Savings a.m., pulled a black revolver Loan Association, 101 W. and ordered everyone to lie on Central downtown, the floor. Police said he then Tuesday morning, escaping vaulted the counter and with an undetermined amount cleaned out the cash drawers, of cash, police said.

accidentally setting off an Officers described the robber alarm in the process. as white, male, 25-30 years old, six feet tall, wearing a tweed He ran out of the building, cap, blue jeans and army jumped into a car and was last jacket. seen driving south on Race He walked up to the counter Street, police said. Man Buys Castleman Farm White Horse Acres, the Covington Attorney David birthplace of 1977 Triple Crown Ware, executor of the Winner Seattle Slew, owned by Castleman estate, said the farm the late Ben S. Castleman, was was sold because Castleman's sold over the weekend to a New son and the main beneficiary Jersey businessman.

of his will, David Polk, no The farm, located five miles longer wanted the farm. north of Lexington on Newtown Pike, was named for a The farm was sold to Robert popular Park Hills tavern Brennan, president of First which was also owned by Jersey Securities in Brielee, N.J. Castleman. The 82.3-acre farm sold for Castleman bought the land $1,070,173, or $13,000 an acre, which later became White nearing a record set in 1982 Horse Acres in 1954, living there when the Villa Blanca farm in before and after race seasons Scott County was sold for each year until his death last $13,800 an acre. April.

Sanitation Workers Off Duty Thursday Cincinnati city employees division spokesman, said. will have Thursday and Friday All collection of household off for Thanksgiving, but the waste will be made one day division of sanitation will only later for the balance of the observe only the Thursday week, Friday, Nov. 25, and holiday, Walter H. Amrein, Saturday, Nov. 26, Amrein said.

Five Indicted In Farm Mail-Fraud Case Five persons have been large deposits, but never indicted for alleged intended to deliver the participation in a scheme to merchandise. defraud Ohio and Michigan According to Assistant U.S. farmers, the U.S. attorney's Attorney Robert Brichler, the office said Tuesday. indictments were announced U.S.

Attorney Christopher here because the federal grand Barnes identified those named jury is in Cincinnati. in the 21-count indictment as: He said the farmers' Lowell J. Bavers and May L. individual deposits involved Bavers, Tok, Alaska; David C. thousands of dollars.

Dietz, Lake Orion, Duane The indictment said 47 J. French, Munising, and individual farmers were John R. Michael, Charlevoix, defrauded by the alleged Mich. scheme. Of those, 20 reside in Barnes said the group, Ohio, mostly in the rural operating as Detroit Steel Pre- northwestern and southeastern Engineered Bridge and sections of the state.

Building Charlevoix, The 21-count indictment would contract with alleges in count one that all farmers to sell them metal five defendants conspired to barns. He said they obtained commit mail fraud. Students Lose 1st Bid To Play In Ohio Two Northern Kentucky unconstitutional. families lost in their initial bid in federal court Tuesday to In his decision, Spiegel said the students will clearly suffer secure an order temporarily suspending Ohio's ban on out- irreparable harm because they will in "all probability lose at of -state students playing for Ohio schools. least one year of the eligibility to participate in high school U.S.

District Judge S. Arthur athletics." Spiegel turned down a request But he also noted that the for a temporary restraining students chose to attend St. order sought by the parents of the St. Xavier School Xavier knowing the regulation would preclude them from High students. participating in interscholastic F.

Dennis Alerding, Fort sports. Thomas, and Roger H. Moellering, Lakeside Park, and The judge also said a their sons, sued the Ohio High temporary restraining order School Athletic Association, would mean part of the 1983-84 claiming its 1979 ban on ou season would be played under state players is tentative rules. Indian Hill Council Cuts Earnings Tax Anticipating a 1984 revenue Hopple absent. The reduction surplus, Indian Hill Village was inserted in a tax Council has reduced the amendment ordinance.

residential earnings tax by 0.1% With the tax at a full 0.7%, for one year. Village Manager James Jester The reduction puts the tax at said the village anticipated a 0.6% for all wage-earners 1984 surplus of about $174,000 in among the village's estimated its $3.5 million operating 5,600 people in 1,850 households. budget. Under the reduction, Council passed the reduction, the surplus is projected at only 6-0, with Councilman John $7,000. Fire Blamed On Child With Matches A 2-year-old child playing occurred in an upstairs with matches was blamed for a bedroom and filled the home fire Tiresday that caused with dense smoke.

dam. estimated at $1,500 to the Hamilton home of Theresa Companies 2, 6 and 10 Peake, 19 Chestnut St. responded to the alarm. No wore Bus Strikers Vote Today On Contract But Workers Glum Facing Holidays BY ALLEN HOWARD Enquirer Reporter Jack Duncan says his family will have a lean Christmas while Kathy Tucker hopes "Grandma will cook Christmas dinner." And Ralph Egbert just wants to survive financially and his 1974 pickup truck with 217,000 miles to keep going. Duncan, Tucker and Egbert are among 12,500 members of the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) striking Greyhound Bus Lines.

The union votes today on the company's latest contract proposal, but the three local Greyhound workers don't think it will be approved. ATU struck after rejecting a contract calling for a 9.5% pay cut and reduced insurance, pension, paid holidays and cost-of-living allowance. The latest company demand is a 7.8% cut in salary and minor modifications in fringe benefits. Egbert, a driver for 13 years, said he is worried about what strike will do to his family budget, but Greyhound's latest offer is approved, he may need a part-time job to survive. "RIGHT NOW, it takes me and my wife both working to keep our heads above water," Egbert said.

"If I vote to approve this package, I am voting for myself to get a part-time job. I have one kid in college and one in high school. There is no way we can make it on this offer. I hear that utilities are going up and Greyhound is talking about cutting my salary Egbert said he joined a Greyhound strike for one week in 1974. He did not reveal how much he made last year, but he said it did not come close to the company claims for drivers' compensation.

"What the public fails to realize is that drivers are paid, 40 cents a mile. We actually about hours a week. If you break average, down we might be making less than minimum wage," Egbert said. Dean Wylie, a driver for 17 years, said he made $27,000 last year. "I might be in a little better shape than most of the drivers are because of my wife working and two children at home also working," Wylie said.

WYLIE SAID few drivers earn as much as $35,000 or $40,000 a year, but they would have to work 365 days a year averaging about 70 hours a week. "When you are working as an extra-board driver, you could spend 30 to 35 hours away from home and not get paid for it," he added. Extra-board drivers are on 24-hour call when Greyhound puts on an extra bus to handle overflow traffic. "For instance," Wylie said, "If you are put on for an extra bus from Cincinnati to Indianapolis, you have to report to the Cincinnati terminal at 6 a.m. If company decides to put on an extra bus, the last run ends about 8:10 p.m.

in Indianapolis. "The company can keep you there without Death PHILIP WYMAN succumbs at 93 Philip Wyman Was Executive At Baldwin Co. Philip Wyman, 93, formerly of Indian Hill, died Tuesday at Dupree House East, a retirement center in Hyde Park. Wyman was a former vicepresident of the Baldwin Piano Co. and former president of the College Conservatory of Music.

He was a graduate of Harvard University and was a member of the Camargo Country Club, the Cincinnati Club, the Commonwealth Club and the Mill Reef Club on the Caribbean island of Antigua. He was also active in the May Festival and the Cincinnati Opera. He is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Willits Prosser of Cincinnati; two brothers, Donald, of Boston, and Franklin of Fitchburg, three grandchildren, and several great-grandchildren. Services will be at 11 a.m.

Monday at Indian Hill Church, 600 Drake Rd. Memorial contributions were suggested to the College Conservatory of Music or to the charity of choice. Schaefer TRAVEL ET ORE CHOUND MODS SHIP BY HOUND GREYHOUND WE WILL REPORT FOR WORK IF THE LABO DISPUTE BETWEEN THE UNION AND THE COMPANY HAS BEEN SETTLED. IF NOT. WE WILL EXERCISE OUR RIGHTS UNDER THE LABOR ACT AND JOIN THE UNION IN ITS PURSUIT OF AN EQUITABLE SOLUTION TO THE ECONOMIC ISSUES AT HAND.

WE STAND UNITED! A. T. U. STRIKES pay to see if an extra bus will be put on coming back. "Remember, the driver only gets paid by the mile.

He doesn't get paid for the number of hours he has to wait around. And he has to buy his own food while waiting. "IF THERE is no extra bus put on, the extra-board driver, rides back on another bus and gets 20 cents a mile," Wylie said. Duncan, an express clerk for 10 years, said he made $25,000 last year, but that was with about 320 hours of overtime. "If they bring in the part-time workers the company is proposing, I will drop back down to $20,000 a year.

With one kid in grade school and another heading for college next year, it is going to be tough on me," Duncan said. He has never made the $26,000 the company said workers in his category made, Duncan added. "Since I have been here 10 years and they can tell the public I make that much money, I figure they owe me $60,000." Greyhound published figures explaining the salary structure of its employees. Duncan contends he has never made the stated salary in his category. Mrs.

Tucker, a driver for Greyhound for nine years, she is facing the same bleak future as Duncan. For two years, her salary was sole support for her and her unemployed truck driver husband. "HE JUST got a job two weeks ago," Mrs. Tucker said. "We are not worried too much about how we will make it through Christmas.

Bad Ballots Untie Race In Norwood BY STEVE HOFFMAN Enquirer Reporter Republican Helen T. Geraci, who had been tied with Democrat Steven A. Schad in Norwood's Ward 2 councilmanic race the day after the election, has been declared the loser. A recount will be scheduled, however, because of the closeness of the vote. In official election results released Monday, Schad was declared the winner by three votes, 636-633.

Elvera Radford, director of the Hamilton County Board of Elections, said three votes for Mrs. Geraci were invalidated because the same voters wrote in the name of Robert A. Walz. In such "overvote" cases, ballots are invalidated, Radford said. Golf CONTINUED FROM PAGE A-7 ished as the leading vote-getter in the race with 71 votes.

Leist, 28, is a real estate broker and has resided in Golf Manor for four years. "I can't make any comment until I find out all the facts," Leist said. "I intend to research it to the fullest. I don't understand how this could happen." THE FOURTH candidate, EPA CONTINUED FROM PAGE A-7 THAT WON'T solve all of ORD's problems, Alm conceded, because personnel policies continue to bedevil recruitment of bright, young scientists. If an EPA unit has more employees than its personnel ceiling allows, vacancies generally cannot be filled until those extra people leave or are absorbed into new, higher staff quotas.

EPA's 1985 budget proposes no staff cuts, Alm said, although the GREYHOUND BUSES sat idle at maintenance garage in Queensgate Tuesday. Meanwhile, Dean Wylie stood in front of a sign proclaiming the union's stand. Enquirer Photos BY FRED STRAUB We are just worried about trying to pay bills. I just hope Grandma will cook dinner for Christmas." She said she made $17,000 at Greyhound last year. Mrs.

Tucker said she received her driver training from her husband and they ran a trucking company before they had to close because of federal deregulation encouraged new, independent companies that did not have to charge fixed rates. Many trucking companies, large and small, failed because of the fierce competition caused by the variable rate structures. Mrs. Tucker drove a school bus for six months before going with Greyhound. She said her husband started driving for Maxwell Trucking Lines after they closed their business.

"My husband's layoff and this strike have been tough, but we have been poor before and I think we will make it. We try not to live above our means. It's just living from paycheck to paycheck. "MY HUSBAND is supporting this strike because when his company cut back two years ago, he didn't have a chance to strike." Mrs. Tucker said her husband was laid off at Maxwell when the company had a major cutback in employment.

He is working as a substitute driver now for U.S. Steel. Strikers will receive $50 a week in strike benefits beginning this week. Members of Locals 1042, 1315 and 1303 of ATU will vote at 10 a.m. today at Bobbie Mackey's Restaurant, Wilder, Ky.

"That is terrible," said Mrs. Geraci, 56, upon hearing how she lost. "It just shows where we need voter education." Mrs. Geraci, mother of 15. children, is entitled to a free recount because she came within three votes of Schad, Radford said.

She gets her choice of precincts she wants hand counted. Other precincts will then be machinecounted. Walz was one of four defeated candidates put up by Concerned Citizens of Norwood, a group backed by local churches. He and the Rev. Morris Chalfant of Ward 5, an organizer of the group, were the write-in candidates.

If Schad's win holds up after a recount, he will give Democrats an 8-1 edge on Norwood's council. Democrats currently enjoy a 5-4 edge. Schad, 26, was somewhat philosophical about: a Geraci recount. "We waited for today so we will just have to wait some more," he said Monday after the official tabulations were announced. "Things are looking good for us.

I don't know what can come out from a third count." David Rosner, actually gained two votes when the totals were retabulated, but still came in last with 532 votes. Uth said that, in fact, board employees were suspicious of the unofficial totals Election Night, but did not isolate the problem until Monday night. "We knew the vote totals in that precinct did not tally with number of people who signed the registration book to vote there on Election Day," Uth said. He added that the Arlington Heights totals were not changed because of the error. But President Reagan's orders to start cutting staff for the 1985 fiscal year may have excluded EPA, Alm suggested, because he would have been among the first to see it and he hasn't.

Explaining EPA's new emphasis on ground water research, Alm said damage from leaky underground gas and oil tanks, hazardous waste sites and ponds of toxic liquids is "almost irreversible." Ground water will be the "major environmental issue of the 1980s," because so many pollutants ooze into vital aquifers like that which serves so many com- Policeman Resigns Post In Sex Probe Jerry Lee, a 15-year veteran of the Cincinnati Police Division, has resigned from the force amid an investigation of alleged sexual relations with a 16-year-old girl. Lee, 39, 2098 Harrison pleaded not guilty in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court Tuesday to two counts of tending to cause unruliness of a juvenile. The first count alleges he had sexual relations with the unidentified girl Nov. 12. The second count alleges that he caused the girl to remain out of the care and custody of her parents Nov.

7-15. Although Lee is an adult, Juvenile Court has jurisdiction in the case because it involves the welfare of a juvenile, Judge David Grossmann said. Grossmann scheduled the case for trial Jan. 14. Court documents do not say where the alleged offenses took place.

When asked by The Enquirer, police, the prosecutor's 'office and Lee's defense attorney declined to say where the incidents are alleged to have occurred. Capt. Jeffrey Butler, head of the police internal investigations section, said he could not comment on anything not in the court documents. He also said it would be inappropriate for him to comment further on the case because Lee is no longer a police officer. Metro Changes Meeting Time Queen City Metro has revised the time of its Nov.

28 public meeting in Mariemont Municipal Building to review proposed bus service changes for Routes 28 and 50. The meeting will start at 7:30 p.m. instead of 8 p.m., said Judith B. Primack, company spokeswoman. Other meetings are scheduled for residents of Milford, East End, Madeira, Indian Hill and Terrace Park as part of Metro's ongoing "bus service improvement program" aimed at increasing rider-.