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A4 Saturday, September 9. 1995 NW FROM PAGE A1 The Cincinnati Enquirer Radium: Fernald cleanup to proceed CONTINUED FROM PAGE Al a pilot vitrification project involving small amounts of the wastes next year. Full-scale vitrification is expected to begin in 1998 and be completed by late 2001, said Jack Hoopes, FERMCO spokesman. Portman and DeWine met for close to 20 minutes Friday with Energy Secretary Hazel R. O'Leary and Thomas Grumbly, the assistant secretary in charge of the cleanup of former nuclear weapons sites.

They said O'Leary told them there is no conflict, at least now, between the desire for cleanup and interest in the Fernald radium by researchers. "At this point, they are not mutually exclusive," DeWine said. "For the next couple of years, they are not mutually exclusive, if ever." Also this week, Portman, De-Wine and Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio, had their staffs meet with leading scientists who have an interest in the Fernald controversy. Portman said scientists at the meeting reported that it might take 10 to 15 years to develop the technologies that could be used to extract radium from Fernald wastes.

"It is rife with uncertainty," he said. Portman said the uncertainty over recovery of the radium is why he thinks the cleanup should continue. "I don't think it is prudent for us to slow down one bit," Portman said. But one of the scientists who participated in the meeting, Dr. Darrell Fisher of Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories, said he could not recall such a 10- to 15-year estimate being issued.

When asked whether officials would know by 1998 whether extraction is feasible, Fisher said on ly, "I believe that the Department of Energy has the resources and capabilities to make those decisions." Energy Department officials think technologies can be developed that would allow extraction of radium from either raw or vitrified wastes at Fernald, said John Brid-geland, Portman's chief of staff. But it is not clear how long that would take, both Portman and De-Wine said. Fisher said scientists interested in Fernald's radium have no desire to slow the cleanup. The Cincinnati EnquirerDick Swaim Typesetter Sharlene James and reporter Dwight Givan discuss a page layout in the Herald newsroom. Herald: Newspaper depicts different world Take Advantage of these Great Values irr, $21.99430.99 assorted ladies pants $59.99 misses womens 3-piece sweater set 29.99 $29 misses v-neck sweater 8.99 6.99 $19.99424.99 assorted rj qq ladies pants $15 preschool girls A fifl Lion King overall jrs $12.99 school age A (( girls top petite A flfl ski jacket JL Jfjr $34.99 ladies fkfl fleece top fj JrJf $19.99 assorted flfl mens windpants 0 jrjf CONTINUED FROM PAGE Al perspective on national issues and events in other urban communities," Berry said Friday.

"The Herald gave us the African-American perspective on local issues. It filled a need and continues to perform a. great service." When Porter died in a car accident in 1963, his widow, Marjorie Parham, took over the financially strapped newspaper, turned it into a profit-maker and ran it until retiring a few years ago. Spillers, Parham's son, has run the paper since his mother's retirement. Almost extinct The paper's 30th anniversary in 1985 was almost its last not because of financial pressures but because the publishers thought it might have outlived its usefulness.

Black and white Cincinnatians were looking as if they finally had figured out how to get along at least had agreed to disagree, Spillers said. But progress slowed. It stalled. And then it slipped into reverse. As the economy grew more uncertain, people looked for someone to blame.

By the 1990s, there was a resurgence of white supremacist groups. "It was like everything we had fought for was for naught," Spillers said. Betty Winfield, a professor of journalism at the University of Missouri School of Journalism, Columbia, and a mass media historian, said that the black press is as vital today as it was when the first paper was founded in 1827. "The black press gives people a sense of community and shared goals, and that's good," Winfield said Friday. "These publications are necessary.

The first paper, Freedom 's Journal, had the motto: 'We wish to plead our cause. Too long have others spoken for That's as true today as ever, unfortunately." She points to studies that say that while only 30 percent of those living in poverty in the United States are African-American, 62 percent of depictions in the mainstream print media and 65 percent of network portrayals of poverty have a black face. "And you ask if a black press is necessary," Winfield said. On specific issues, she said, the black press is often the only source of the African-American point of view. Working for respect Spillers said the Herald's high point came in the mid-1960s, when it warned of racial tensions that then exploded in the Avondale riots of 1967 and 1968.

"We told them it would happen, and the politicians kept saying, 'Detroit, Chicago, yes. But Cincinnati? No. Not he said. "We then did all we could to appeal for The Cincinnati EnquirerDick Swaim Ken Leslie pastes up pages for the Herald. He also is the arts editor and circulation manager.

calm and reflection and mediation of differences. We'd like to think we made a difference." The Herald made news itself in March 1994, when it was hit by a firebomb. A second-floor newsroom was destroyed. Equipment melted in the fire's heat, and stacks of papers and files were burned. No one was injured.

Spillers said a man had telephoned the newsroom receptionist several times before the blast, threatening retaliation against the newspaper over a guest column published on the commentary page. The column, titled "Blacks and Islam" by a writer named Michael R. Burks, questioned why blacks identify with Islam, an Arabic religion, when blacks "are not Arabs or descendants of Arabia." "Nobody was going to shut us down," Spillers said. The newspaper has failed to publish only once in 40 years that when pages were lost en route to the printer and not found until after the publication date. Spillers is planning for the future.

The paper has outgrown its Walnut Hills offices. He's thinking of expanding to Columbus, once Amos Lynch, publisher of the Columbus Call and Post, retires. He aims to improve the quality of the Herald by reducing the number of typographical errors, and increasing the sophistication of the writing and coverage. "They have really grown as a product," said Edna Howell, news director at Bond Hill's WIZF radio (100.9 FM), another major voice in the black community and one of the city's top-rated radio stations. "I think African-Americans who may not have viewed black media as legitimate are coming to respect us (black-targeted media)." Spillers' foremost goal for the paper mirrors his hope for the black community.

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"It really was the Concorde of its day," said Dan Cupper, a correspondent for Trains Magazine. The service between New York and Chicago by way of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh was inaugurated in 1902 as the Pennsylvania Special. In 1912, it became the Broadway Limited, an allusion not to New York City's theater district but to the Pennsylvania Railroad's wide right-of-way with four and even six sets of tracks crossing the industrial heartland. Except for periods in 1903-04 and World War and occasional disruptions caused by flooding, the Broadway ran east and west daily. "The train was there day in and day out, year in and year out," said Mike Bezilla, a railroad historian.

"It's been there through the world wars, through the Depression, the Sputnik, the atom bomb, you name it there's been a Broadway." After the last runs today, people will still be able to travel between New York and Chicago by train, but they will have to transfer in Pittsburgh, with waits of nearly two hours. $60 wheeled 27" pullman. 18.99 $35 garment ...14.99 $45 25" pullman 16.99 6.99 29.99 JC Penney VISA Items As Priced Available Only Al The Outlet Store. Referenced Prices Are Original Prices As Sold Through The JCPenney Distribution Network. Intermediate Markdowns May Have Been Taken.

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