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A day in the life of Neil Diamond Grammy-winning singer to appear on TV special TV Week I- Indy 500 gears up: SportsC-1 Cocaine crackdown: MetroB-1 Pit bull owners angry: MetroB-1 Surber's power curbed: MetroB-1 Airport development: BusinessF-1 THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER MAGAZINE CoverWhere are they now? VineCheers for beers 1 DiscoverFood without bugs FacesLogs into sculpture nn CINC FINALSingle-copy price $1 Li lL.s ULruiU L-J NNATI ftUIREK stan jy Warmer contradicted. ft -I THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. Cincinnati financier Marvin Warner, whose Home State Savings Bank suffered heavy losses in ESM Government Securities collapse, knew of the company's insolvency long before it failed, according to released testimony. Testimony by Jose Gomez, a former Alexander Grant Co. partner who pleaded guilty to fraud charges in connection with ESM's collapse, indicates Warner knew by early 1984 that ESM was steadily losing money.

Warner has insisted he was not an insider in the ESM case, knew nothing about ESM's impending failure and should not be required to return millions of ESM investments he cashed in shortly before the company's downfall. When ESM was shut down by the Securities and Exchange Commission in March, 1985, it owed more than $320 million to customers, including cities and retirement funds. Gomez was accused of taking money from ESM to produce LaFayett Aveiverte I Route through Ohio Indiana Kentucky "Sk, dp Participants should arrive at their sites as early OJ as 1 pjn, line up about 2:45 p.m., and join-. Hamilton Co. flhands and sing three songs at 3 p.m.

Lf North Bend Rd''' jffl i 3IK! llr ylffity liy Cincinnati luniAMA Plyrn St IKENTUCKY 5 GlennaV Sq. jf (SperKton Bridge Marvin Warner contradicted audits that showed ESM was solvent when it was not. Gomez's testimony came in a civil lawsuit filed by ESM's court-please see WARNER, back page, this section) 6 dead in Ohio crashes BY ELIZABETH NEUS The Cincinnati Enquirer Two men died in a one-car traffic accident early Saturday morning in Springfield Township. A Madeira pedestrian, Kathe-rine Hughes, 82, was killed Friday when she was struck by a car. Police said they had no other details.

The three were among the first fatalities on Ohio highways during the long Memorial Day weekend. Statewide, six people died in accidents as of 5 p.m. Saturday. About 500 people are expected to die in accidents nationwide during the three-day holiday. In the Springfield Township accident, a car driven by Michael S.

Tiegs, 20, of Union Township, Butler County, was northbound on Winton Road when it went off the left side of the road near West Galbraith Road just before 1 a.m. The car struck a utility pole but continued on for another 98 feet, the Springfield Township police department said. It stopped when it hit a steel sign post at the Shell service station at the intersection of Winton and Galbraith Rds. Tiegs was taken to University Hospital by AirCare helicopter but was dead on arrival. His passenger, Jody Lee Doon, 21, of Springfield Township, was taken to University Hospital by ambulance.

He also was dead on arrival. The police department said the car was traveling at high speed and neither man was wearing a seat belt. Traffic under control Tristate police departments reported heavier-than-normal traffic by Saturday afternoon, but said the rush was not what they had seen in years past. "It started Thursday instead of Friday," said Sgt. Mike Turner of the Kentucky State Police's Dry Ridge post.

"They didn't leave all at once on Friday like they usually do. course, Monday may be a pure zoo." Sgt. Claude Trent of the Con-nersville post of the Indiana State Police said traffic in his state would probably pick up today as people drive to the Indianapolis 500. Highway patrols in all three states had beefed up enforcement on the roads, looking for speeders and drunken drivers. "We have a full crew out, and they've been pulling them over," said an Ohio Highway Patrol dispatcher at the Lebanon post.

"Both interstates (1-71 and 1-75, which both run through Warren County) have been quite heavy." Officers advised drivers to wear (Please see HOLIDAY, back page, this section) Reagan courting more young voters The Cincinnati EnquirerElmer Wetenkamp i ...4 I While others cross their fingers, locals cross their hearts: It'll work BY OWEN ULLMANN Knight News Service WASHINGTON The oldest President in U.S. history and the youngest members of the nation's electorate have forged one of the strongest bonds in American politics. Mindful of that, Ronald Reagan has started to court young people on a regular basis in the hopes that his immense popularity with first-time voters can be transferred into lasting allegiance to the Republican Party after he's gone. The Democratic Party has been the dominant political force in the country for the past 50 years in part because it consistently won over the largest share of new voters. But that trend has been reversed under Mr.

Reagan, and encouraged Republican strategists think they may be able to nurture the youth vote to help the GOP regain majority status in American politics. Mr. Reagan is the key. So the President plans to meet with groups of high school and college BY SANDY THEIS The Cincinnati Enquirer Hands Across America has brought out the cynics and skeptics. Some say it smacks of a publicity stunt.

Others predict an abundance of no-shows, a dearth of donations, a wealth of problems. Stretching an unbroken line of humanity from sea to shining sea is no small task. The estimated 5.4 million participants will assuredly create litter, traffic problems, safety concerns. And then there's the ever-present question of liability insurance. But true believers in the Cincinnati-area Hands office scoffed at the naysayers Saturday and proclaimed that today's nationwide fund-raiser for America's hungry and homeless will succeed.

"It's going to work," said Reenie Bailey of Hartwell, a Hands volunteer. "I can feel it, you (Please see HANDS, Page A-4) Ths schodulG Local radio stations WLITE-FM, WARM-FM, WSKS-FM and WEBN-FM will broadcast the following for Hands Across America: 2:45 p.m. Welcome by Ken Kragen. 2:50 p.m. "I Want To Hold Your Hand" 2:52 p.m.

"Dancing in the Street" 2:56 p.m. "This Land Is Your Land" 3 p.m. Kragen speaks from Battery Park 3:01 p.m. "We Are the World" 3:07 p.m. "Hands Across America" 3:15 p.m.

"America the Beautiful" The weather The National Weather Service forecasts cloudy skies today with a 50 chance of thundershowers and a high of 75. President Reagan popular with the youth students about once a week for at least the next two months to maintain his special kinship with them and to preach his conservative philosophy. On May 13, for example, he met at the White House with a group of high school seniors from (Please see REAGAN, back page, this section) Radar nets dollars from speeders 1 yw'" 1 i -4 1 I SECTS T2 World's fastest painter brushes delays aside GANNETT NEWS SERVICE NEW YORK It took Michelangelo four slow, agonizing years to paint his masterpiece on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel about three years, 364 days, 23 hours and 55 minutes too long by speed-painter Morris Katz's standards. Recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as "the world's fastest, most prolific painter of saleable art," he regularly knocks off a finished work in a matter of minutes. Katz, 54, who is Polish-born and spent his youth in a slave-labor camp during the Nazi occupation, took some art lessons while cooling his heels waiting for a boat to America after the war.

Today he can crank out a painting, typically a landscape or still life, in about five minutes. He teaches speed-painting at the Learning Annex in Manhattan, promising his students a work of art in an hour and a half. By his own count, he has sold more than 153,000 paintings in his 41-year art career. Nine Sections 146th Year, No. 46 Copyright, 1986 The Cincinnati Enquirer Advice E-2 Aging E-8 Around Town E-1 Art G-7 Books G-8 Datebook G-9 Deaths B-7 Editorials 1-2 Gardening E-5 LotteryB-2 Maslowski 1-9 Puzzles E-10 RealEstateH-1-2 Sewing E-3 Stamps Coins 1-10 Sullivan C-1 This Week G-2 Travel G-10-14 TV Update G-3 Weikel B-2 Weather The trick today is to join hands across the Tristate while holding an umbrella.

Retails on A-2. tion at the Gilbert Avenue exit off Interstate 71, that stretch of highway must be one of the city's most dangerous? "Look," Whalen said. "It is an argument as old as time: How do you alert people to the responsibility to operate their vehicle in a safe and legal manner? "There are a number of different strategies used to do that. Stationary monitoring (speed traps) is one." The speed limit at Gilbert and 1-71 drops from 50 mph to 35 mph. Speeders are easy marks.

Police officers know it and set up radar to catch them. Count on it. Another prime spot near downtown is Columbia Parkway at the foot of Mount Adams. It is at the bottom of a long hill and most daily eastside commuters respond by feathering their brakes as they approach. (Please see SPEED, Page A-4) BY JOHN ECKBERG The Cincinnati Enquirer Law officers call them "high-enforcement areas." Everybody else calls them speed traps.

And the summer crackdown has begun. Law-enforcement officials are equipped with the latest in radar technology, and their efforts will bring money lots of money to their respective municipalities. They may even save a few lives, Cincinnati Police Chief Lawrence Whalen said. "You get a good picture of what happens if you look at the correlation of accidents, injuries and fatalities, Whalen said. "The longer, the straighter the stretch of the road, the more people will tend to increase speed, and increased speed results in accidents." Judging by patrol cars running radar from the Greyhound bus sta It 1 Tne Cincinnaii EnquirerJohn Curley A radar check on a street in Terrace Park.

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