The Cincinnati Enquirer from Cincinnati, Ohio • Page 31

MO Saturday. May 31, 1986 THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER MetroC-3 New coaster for Kings Island BY ELIZABETH NEUS The Cincinnati Enquirer KINGS ISLAND, Ohio The next gut-twisting roller coaster planned at Kings Island features enough boomerang turns, helixes, vertical loops and corkscrews to flip screaming riders upside down six times in one ride. "It's the most times any coaster in the world turns upside down," said Dave Focke, director of park operations. Park officials unveiled plans for the new $4 million, single-track coaster on Friday. It will be the park's sixth, and the third made of steel.

The as-yet unnamed ride should be ready for the 1987 season. The new coaster will take riders over 3,200 feet of track, beginning with a 148-foot lift followed by a 138-foot initial drop at a 55 angle. Next come two vertical loops, each 50 feet high and 30 feet off the ground. Then riders will whip through a 200-foot corkscrew into a pretzel-like, double-looped boomerang turn, and finally into a 360 helix. The whole thing will take 2'2 minutes at speeds of 50 mph, and will be located at the end of the Coney Mall.

It was designed specifically for Kings Island by Arrow Dynamics Inc. of Clearfield, Utah, the company that also designed the park's single-loop Demon coaster. Under different management and a different name, the company also designed the ill-fated suspended coaster called the Bat, a prototype ride which rarely worked properly and was dismantled almost two years ago. The new ride will be built on the Bat's old site, but park officials refused to take that as an omen. "We don't believe in bad omens," said park spokeswoman Ruth Voss.

Park officials tested the idea of a continuous looping steel coaster with patrons during the last two summers. The first time, the idea lost out to a river rapids ride which evolved into Whitewater Canyon. Last summer, park patrons who took part in the research decided they liked the steel coaster idea the best. Although coaster freaks can already stand up, ride backwards, loop upside down and shriek through the longest coaster in the world at Kings Island, Focke does not think the market has been saturated. "Hopefully we've got a few more ideas left for a few years down the pike," he said.

Kings Island This is an artist's rendering of Kings Island's new steel roller coaster that will open in 1987. Film fantasy Ohio counties get help from trapper in fighting coyotes but must also keep an eye on them when they are outside during the day. Coyotes have been sighted routinely during the day and the farm wife said a relative had five sheep killed "400 yards from the house in the middle of the afternoon." Repeated killings can be costly for farmers. County governments will pay back farmers for livestock killed by dogs, but not for livestock killed by coyotes. Insurance doesn't cover sheep killed when coyotes are the attacker, the farm wife said.

Since they are not managed by the state and are not that valuable for fur, coyotes are not prime targets of hunters or trappers. "I think we had three coyotes brought in the last six or seven months, and that was usually by fox hunters or rabbit hunters," said Clinton County Game Protector Charlie Schumacher. Highland County Game Protector E.R. Moots agreed. "Most people are not geared up to trap for them," he said.

"Plus, you are talking about an animal that is smarter than the average bear." Moots said coyotes have killed 15 to 20 sheep on a farm near Rocky Fork Lake in the last year. Fayette County has noted fewer livestock deaths caused by coyotes, after some 30 sheep were killed by the animals during 1984-1985. Fayette County commissioners placed a $35 bounty on coyote carcasses in the spring of 1985. BY DANA DUNN Enquirer Contributor WILMINGTON, Ohio-Coyotes are getting bolder every year, local game experts say, and the animals are on the prowl again in rural southwestern Ohio. But now there's someone prowling for rAera.

A professional trapper, who works full time stalking coyotes across the state, has been called to Clinton and Highland counties to assist state game protectors in slowing their proliferation. Coyotes have been blamed for killing sheep at two different Clinton County farms in the past two weeks and have been held responsible for a surge of sheep killings in neighboring Highland County. "He (the trapper) said this is a time of year when you have the most kills because they have had pups who aren't able to feed themselves," a Clinton County farmer's wife said. The woman preferred not to be identified for fear that local hunters might interfere with the trapper's efforts to catch the animals responsible for killing two of her sheep and severely injuring another. She said the coyotes' eerie howl can be heard nightly less than a mile from their isolated farm house.

"It sounds like they are right out back of the house," she said. Her husband has taken to keeping the sheep in a barn at night, nhS The Cincinnati EnquirerJohn Samora John Carter, 30, Corryville artist, paints the faces of film stars Friday on a retaining wall to a vacant lot on Vine Street in Corryville. He was commissioned to do the work by a video shop next door. Man charged in teen's rape Automatic weapons increased popularity concerns lawmen Sheriffs deputy gets promotion ENQUIRER REGIONAL BUREAU HAMILTON, Ohio The promotion of Cpl. Steve Sprague to the rank of sergeant in the Butler County sheriff's department was announced Friday by Sheriff Robert R.

Walton. A 10-year veteran of the department, Sprague has served in the patrol, traffic, jail and criminal investigations divisions of the department. In 1978, he received the Outstanding Law Enforcement Officer of the Year Award by Hamilton Jaycees. suspect is accused of forcing the girl to engage in over 100 incidents of oral, rectal and vaginal intercourse. According to the bond recommendation form prepared by the arresting officer, Dan Oliver of the police Youth Aid Section, the victim came forward to report the sexual abuse about a year ago but declined to follow through on the charges after Florence allegedly beat and threatened her.

The child is now "hospitalized for emotional depression and is scared to death of the arrested," according to the report. THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER A man who allegedly intimidated a girl into dropping a rape complaint against him a year ago now is accused of raping the 13-year-old victim again, according to Hamilton County Municipal Court records. Raymond Florence, 28, 425 Glenwood Avondale, was ordered held in the Hamilton County Justice Center in lieu of a $10,000 cash bond set Friday by Judge Edward Donnellon. At Florence's arraignment Friday, Assistant City Prosecutor Rob Andrews told the court that the BEYOND THE BASIC FINALLY! THE DRAWER YOU'VE BEEN WAITING FOR Among the more popular machine guns are the Uzi and the MAC models, including the MAC-10. Another favorite is the AR-16, the semiautomatic counterpart of the M-16, a military machine gun used in Vietnam.

Mark Sanford, owner of Mark's Guns in Florence, said he has received 10-12 calls a week in recent months from people wanting to purchase automatic weapons. But he is not licensed to sell them. "I own two myself and know several people who are prominent in the community who have them," he said. Southern Ohio Gun Distributors, Lebanon, Ohio, has been receiving five or six calls a day from private citizens interested in owning an automatic weapon, said employee Steve Neal. Because Southern Ohio is a distributor, they generally sell only to police departments and gun stores.

Dave Hall of Louisville said his machine-gun collection included a MAC-11, a weapon similar to the ones used on the TV show "Miami Vice." Hall said he used an M-16 in Vietnam but does not own that model now. Hall said he practiced shooting in abandoned quarries and at Knob Creek Gun Range, an outdoor range in Louisville. Most machine-gun hobbyists owned more than one gun and "love to shoot," said Kenny Sumner, the manager of Knob Creek. Before a machine gun can be purchased in the United States, an application must be filed along with a photograph and fingerprints of the buyer. The approval of a local law enforcement agent and payment of a $200 federal tax also are required.

It can take 6-12 weeks for the applications to be approved, the ATF's Koester said. THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER and THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LEXINGTON, Ky. Lexington Police Chief John McFadden is busy signing applications of automatic-weapon permits, and it has him worried. A federal law signed by President Reagan on May 19 bars the manufacture of machine guns for sale, but it allows guns already made to be sold. It has created a rush on automatic weapons.

McFadden says he has signed more applications in the past two months than in the previous five years. "It bothers me every time I sign it, but it's part of the territory," McFadden said. He said he's worried the weapons could fall into the wrong hands. However, Cincinnati Police Chief Lawrence Whal-en said no such applications have come to him since he was named chief in July. As of May 20, there were 2,667 registered machine guns in Kentucky, 6,746 in Ohio and 3,178 in Indiana, including those used by law enforcement officers and owned by gun dealers, said Dot Koester, public affairs officer for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in Washington.

About 40 of those weapons are owned by private collectors, she said. Jeff Kaufmann, the owner of Match Target Firearms of Lexington, said people collect machine guns for the same reasons that other gun enthusiasts collect rifles and shotguns to add to a collection or to practice shooting. "Why do people spend thousands of dollars on camera equipment when a Kodak will do?" he said. "Machine guns get their mystique from war movies and from TV. There is no way to justify it." Of course Doxey's lsic bookcase is still ava, ble but now there's a DRAV'ER! Finally, a place to store all of those little things and more.

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Williams, a 5-foot-8 inch, 200-pound man, raised the man over his head, and he went over the railing into the river, police said. Williams told police he heard the man hit the water and saw him swimming underneath the bridge, where he lost sight of him. The cab driver reported the incident to his dispatcher, who called police, Hatfield said. Police were uncertain Friday whether the man who landed in the river swam to shore or drowned. 5:30 a.m.

Friday, the Coast Guard started a bank to bank search of the river, starting at the Suspension Bridge and working five miles downriver. "We sort of zigzag back and forth from the Kentucky to the Ohio side of the river," said Lt. Paul Jensen, chief of the port operations department of the U.S. Coast Guard marine safety office in Cincinnati. "We're looking for a survivor on the banks or on the surface of the river." Williams could not be reached for comment Friday.

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