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B-2Metro iii incinnati i nqiirir Saturday, July 13. mi 1 Nominee for court says he tried pot MM VAi SATURDAY MONITOR Judge Clarence Thomas, a nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, admitted this week that he tried marijuana. He said he took several puffs on, a marijuana cigarette once in college and perhaps once in law school. Some local judges said This easy-to-read roundup of the news for beginning readers was prepared Dy volunteers at Project Learn YWCA.

For more Information on learning, call 241-7090. Art a ft 1(4 PRODUCERS OF THE MOVIE THE PUBLIC EYE will have a casting call to try to find about 700 extras for the film, which will be shot in Over-the-Rhine July 24 through Aug. 24. The casting call will be from 1 1 a.m. to 2 p.m.

today at WCET (Channel 48), 1223 Central Parkway, downtown. Participants should bring a recent photograph of themselves. FIESTA LATINA, a six-week celebration of the animals, flora and fauna, and culture of Latin America, begins at the Cincinnati Zoo. Featured is OLODUM, a Brazilian percussion group which will perform at noon, 1 :30 and 3 p.m. at the Amphitheater.

A Caribbean folk dance is planned at 1 and 3 p.m. at the Marketplace. ST. RITA FEST '91, the 76th festival to benefit St. Rita School for the Deaf, opens today from 4 to -1 1 :30 p.m.

on the school's campus, 1 720 Glendale-Milford Road, Evendale. The event continues Sunday from noon to 1 1 :30 p.m. INSIDE FILE Fashion flash: Leather and Leis This bulletin is just in The Cincinnati EnquirerJim Callaway DRINKING IT IN: Mark Schulze, 8, of Mason, takes in some refreshment from the fountain in front of the Museum Center at Union Terminal. He and his family visited the dinosaur exhibit at the museum Friday afternoon. Judge will decide Tuesday if Webb gets death penalty i 'Ft A from New York City: The latest prize-winning fashion to come down the runway is oyster-gray trousers and leather goods of black basket weave.

A design by Ralph Lauren? Calvin Klein? Bill Blass? Try Si Leis. The Hamilton County Sheriff's Department, headed by Sheriff Simon Leis aarnered toD hon- Simon Leis 0rs in the 1991 Best- Dressed Police Department competition. The National Association of Uniform Manufacturers Distributors selected Hamilton County from 107 entries as the best-dressed county department in the nation. The county's standard uniform consists of oyster-gray trousers with a black stripe, gray ties and hats, and black shirts, shoes and outerwear, according to a news release announcing the awards. The department's leather goods are black basket weave.

Leis and his chief deputy, Harry T. Bode, will receive a plaque July 25 at the Hamilton County Justice Center, where the award-winning uniforms will be on display. Next stop, the cover of GQ? Reporter: MARK SIEBERT CENSUS UPDATE Police check report of racial threat Police on Friday were investigating a Price Hill man's report that he was the victim of racial slurs and threats Thursday night. The man, who is black, told police that at 11 p.m. on July 11, three white men got out of a car at Elberon and Warsaw avenues in Price Hill, wielding bats and clubs.

They began to chase the man and his brother, and at least one yelled a racial slur, the man said. He estimated their ages to be 25, 19 and 17. that is not a good reason to keep him from getting the job. President Bush picked Thomas, 43, to replace Justice Thurgood Marshall, 83, who retired. The U.S.

Senate will hold hearings to decide whether Thomas is right for the job. He said, "I have benefited greatly from the civil-rights movement." However, some people say that he turned his back on fellow blacks by opposing affirmative action. Train station moving After almost 19 years, Cincinnati's Union Terminal will again be used for passenger trains. Beginning July 29, Amtrak trains will come from New York and Washington, D.C., and go on to Chicago. Trains will head west on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays.

East-bound trains will leave on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. Since 1972, Amtrak has been using a small terminal on River Road in Lower Price Hill. Movie needs extras Another movie will be filmed in Cincinnati, July 24 to Aug. 24. The Public Eye is about wrongdoing in the Bronx during the 1940s.

More than 700 extras will be needed to act in the film. Children, women, and men over 35 will be needed in particular. The casting call is 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. today in the studios of WCET (Channel 48), 1223 Central Parkway, downtown.

A recent photograph is needed to apply. State to grade schools The Ohio Board of Education voted Monday to grade all public schools as "excellent," "deficient" or somewhere in between. The grade will be based on test scores, student- and teacher-attendance and dropout rates. Schools that fail to improve their grades may be taken over by the state. Schools rated "excellent" will be free from some state rules.

The program will take effect Aug. 1. AL wins All-Star Game The American League beat the National League, 4-2, in the All-Star Game. The game was played Tuesday night in Toronto. Four Cincinnati Reds played.

Chris Sabo and Paul O'Neill were 0 for 2. Barry Larkin was 0 for 1. Rob Dibble pitched one inning and gave up one hit. A look at who we are in RYLAND HEIGHTS, KY. Michael Webb, a Goshen auto-body worker, will learn Tuesday whether he will live or die after being convicted of killing his son and trying to burn up the rest of his family in a fire in November.

Judge John Watson, of Clermont County Common Pleas Court, will sentence Webb at 9:30 a.m. On July 1, a jury recommended that Webb, 42, should die in the electric chair. Watson can give him the death penalty or life imprisonment with eligibility for parole in 20 or 30 years. The same jury convicted Webb on June 25 on 13 charges: two counts of aggravated murder; four counts of attempted aggravated murder; six counts of aggravated arson; and one count of aggravated theft for stealing more than $100,000 from his teenage daughters' trust fund. Prosecutors said Webb wanted to kill his family to cover up the theft from the trust fund, to gain $120,000 from family life-insurance policies and to be free to be with a girlfriend.

Family members say he is innocent. COURTS Lawbreakers to clean cemetery The next stop for some people sentenced to public service in Hamilton County will be the graveyard. That's because Judge Edward Donnellon, of Hamilton County Municipal Court, this week began order-mg lawbreakers to work at Hillcrest Cemetery, which needs cleaning and maintenance. Six or seven individuals have been sentenced to about 700 hours of work at the cemetery, which lies along Sutton Road, between Cincinnati and Anderson Township. The judge said media coverage of the cemetery's weeds, overgrown grass and toppled tombstones alerted him to the need there.

Hillcrest contains the graves of many World War I and World War II veterans. It was bought by Cincinnati's Union Baptist Church in 1966, His bail was set at $700,000, and a preliminary hearing was scheduled for July 19. Washington, 34, was being held at the Hamilton County Justice Center. Washington's cousin, Dimitri Plair, 23, was arrested July 6 in connection with the same killing and is charged with aggravated murder. He was being held on $100,000 bond.

Police allege that Washington and Plair killed Curtis and that Washington tried to rape a woman shortly after the killing. David Feldhaus, a Cincinnati police homicide detective, said that Washington apparently had been at Curtis' Saturn Avenue home helping him fix a car before the killing occurred. CONSTRUCTION Brent Spence lane to reopen next week The closed right northbound lane on the Brent Spence Bridge and the blocked northbound ramp to Interstate 75 from Covington's Fourth Street will be reopened Tuesday or Wednesday. But Milo Bryant, secretary of the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, told municipal and chamber of commerce officials Friday that the contractor for the $49 million reconstruction of I-75's "Death Hill" section has not offered the state a satisfactory plan to accelerate the project. Bryant estimated the project, extending from the bridge south to Fort Wright, is eight months behind its scheduled completion date of April, 1993.

Chamber officials had asked Tuesday for Bryant's update on 1-75 reconstruction, saying project delays had hurt local business, had prolonged local travel and impaired access to CincinnatiNorthern Kentucky International Airport, and had been detrimental to the leasing and renting of nearby commercial and office space. Population: 1990: 279 1980: 252 Change: 27 1990 By race 1980 1990 By age 1980 18 or older 18 or older White White Other Black Other Black Under 18 Under 18 Percents may not tola) 100 due to rounding and non-responses Source: U.S. Census Bureau but responsibility for its upkeep has been in dispute. Volunteers have begun restoration efforts and a fund-raising drive. Donnellon said he will continue putting offenders to work at Hillcrest "until such time that it's no longer needed." Other cemeteries that need similar help might be considered, he said.

The city's probation department will work out the details for the workers' shifts, Donnellon said. VVinton Terrace man charged in slaying A Winton Terrace man has been charged in the July 5 shooting death of Darryl Curtis, also of Winton Terrace. William Washington who turned himself in to Cincinnati police Thursday, was arraigned Friday in Hamilton County Municipal Court on charges of aggravated murder and attempted rape. LOTTERIES OHIO Pick 3: 9 7 3 Pick 4: 5 6 8 5 Cards: 24 4 INDIANA Daily 3: 1 9 9 Daily 4: 2 3 6 4 KENTUCKY Kentucky Cash: 0 5 4 (Drawings of July 12, 1991) SUPER LOTTO: The jackpot for today's Super Lotto drawing is worth $12 million. 1.

lEUjJy News spots 1 4 i INI IB CD rrv010 1 i PdiI Knox Numbers on each item correspond to locations noted on the map. Expert says men 'crazy' to have been welding tank 1 INDIANAPOLIS: Two men killed in an explosion at a coke plant should not have been using torches to seal a tank of flammable liquid ammonia, a chemical expert says. "I'd say they were crazy to have been welding a tank filled with ammonia," said Martel Zeldin, a professor of chemistry at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis. Allen Balay, 30, of Indianapolis and Anthony Anderson, 28, of Frankfort died in Wednesday's explosion at the Citizens Gas Coke Utility plant. They were working for a contractor who had been hired to place a seal on the Authorities were unsure Thursday who permitted the men to use torches on the tank, said Delorise Rainey, public affairs coordinator for Citizens Gas.

Fort Knox plan could cost 120 civilian jobs 2 FORT KNOX, Knox authorities say 120 civilians could lose their jobs by October if Congress approves a reduction-in-force proposal offered by civilian personnel officials. Sam Jones, Fort Knox civilian personnel officer, said about 380 positions might be eliminated by the action. Of those, 120 are vacant, while 90 others are expected to be terminated as a result of retirements. Early-retirement authority has also been requested by officials for about 50 other people who would be affected. Jones said he expects an official order by early violated Ohio rules for keeping public records when it had 1989 records burned.

William Shimp, first assistant prosecutor, said the investigation is focusing on whether Palmer McNeal's office destroyed the records before State Auditor Thomas Ferguson completed an audit. Shimp said he was trying to determine whether the records law requires documents to be kept until the actual audit report is released or whether records can be destroyed after they merely are reviewed by the state auditor. He does not believe there are criminal penalties for violating the procedures. On Sept. 24 and 26, 1990, McNeal's office ordered eight years of records burned.

They dated from Jan. 1, 1982, to Dec. 31, 1989, and dealt with an unbid $17.3 million automated mapping project and other expenditures. The records were burned Nov. 26, according to McNeal's office.

Less than two weeks before the records were ordered destroyed, McNeal's election opponent, County Commissioner Hugh DeMoss, began criticizing the mapping project as overpriced. Ex-social worker gets prison in sex case 4 TOLEDO, Ohio: A former caseworker for the Lucas County Children's Services Board was sentenced to prison for having sex with a 17-year-old client. Juvenile Court Judge Joseph Flores found Michael Dibling, of Maumee, guilty after he pleaded no contest Thursday to one count of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Dibling, 26, who was fired in December, was sentenced to six months in jail and fined $750. Police said Dibling picked up the girl from her foster home and took her to a hotel in March, 1990.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Prosecutor questions auditor's record-keeping COLUMBUS, Ohio: The Franklin County prosecutor is checking 3 8000-gallon tank whether the county auditor's office 1r.