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B-2MetfO THE CINC INNATI INQURFR Thursday. October 31. 1991 Ax 'I1? IT" Town boasts of 'most haunted street 9 rrwmTn)ranFiP Thursday Monitor 3, fjfc it fcfi 1-1 On, fiVr 1 Waynesville visitors enjoy the unseen-ery BY RANDY McNUTT The Cincinnati Enquirer Before today is over, somebody will walk into the office and ask Ginny Johnson where to find Waynesville's not-so-dearly 1 'r jhlf lit 1 'I 3 iLWs" T- departed. She knows it will happen. When you work on "America's most haunted street," you can expect that sort of thing on Halloween.

As the secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, Johnson works in one of the newer and officially un-haunted buildings in the Warren County village. But her 1835 home on North Main Street is surrounded by buildings supposedly alive with specters, spooks and spirits. The self-proclaimed Antiques Capital of the Midwest, Waynesville has been featured in national magazine and television stories for its ghosts. One writer described Main Street as "America's most haunted." That's fine with local historian Dennis Dalton, who started his October "Not-So-Dearly-Departed Tour" 15 years ago to show visitors where ghosts have been seen in years past. The tour became popular and now, working with the chamber, he takes them to 13 shops and homes of alleged ghosts.

"People are fascinated," he said. "I think maybe it's the intrigue of the unseen." "I don't want people thinking I'm exploiting our folklore. But the truth is, for years we've been told ghost stories because people have had unusual experiences. "In a house on North Main Street," he remembers, "a little girl wouldn't obey her parents and come down the stairs for dinner. When asked why, she replied, 'Because a woman is standing in my Dalton's tour includes stops at the If The Cincinnati EnquirerTony Jones a reputation for being highly spirited in more ways than one.

Waynesville's Main Street, above, has Trick-or-treat hours UNITED WAY OF GREATER CINCINNATI wraps up its 1991 campaign at 4:15 p.m. in the Presidential Ballroom at the Westin Hotel in Cincinnati. Chairman James A.D. Geier will announce final campaign results at 5 p.m. LITTLE DRY RUN ROAD will be closed in Newtown from Main Street to the south corporation limit from 8 p.m.

today until 7 p.m. Friday for installation of water and sewer lines. INSIDE FILE Jobs reunite III. co-workers When David Krings was tapped this week as the new Hamilton County administrator, it felt like old-home week for Quentin Davis, Cincinnati's fledgling economic development director. Until July, the two had worked together in Illinois for 512 years.

Davis was Peoria's assistant city manager in charge of development; Krings had been administrator of Peoria County since 1983. The two had their share of ups and downs, Davis said. "When we'd disagree, we'd disagree," he said, "and then have lunch." Obviously, the two Peorians have stayed in touch. Davis used Krings as one of his references for landing the economic development post in Cincinnati. Krings got the tip about the Hamilton County job opening from Davis.

Upon meeting Cincinnati City Manager Gerald Newfarmer and his staff this week, Krings joked about the relationship: "My first words to them were, 'Don't hold Quentin Davis against REPORTER: Jeff Harrington UNITED WAY PEOPLE Cities, villages and townships, across the area have established official trick-or-treat times. Stetson House and the Wayne Township House, both shops now. Another is the Hammel House Inn on South Main, built in 1822 and restored as an antiques shop and bed-and-breakfast establishment. "I can't say we're haunted, though," co-owner Betty Maudlin said. "I've been here over five years and haven't seen a ghost.

But. Johnson remembers when a man came to town a couple of years ago and asked her where to find a haunted building. She directed him to one on Main Street. He returned and reported seeing an old woman sitting in a rocking chair. "Nobody lived there," she said.

For tours: Waynesville Area Chamber of Commerce, 897-8855. Township, Symmes Township, Union Township in Clermont County, Wyoming. Trick-or-treating from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.: Union Township In Butler County. Trick-or-treating from 6 p.m.

to 7:30 p.m.: Loveland. Trick-or-treating from 6 to 9 p.m.: Amberley Village, Cheviot, Cleves, Colerain Township, Delhi Township, Elmwood Place, Green Township, Harrison, Harrison Township, Mount Healthy, Newtown, North Bend, St. Bernard, Woodlawn. Trick-or-treating from 6 to 8 p.m.: Addyston, Amelia, Arlington Heights, Batavia, Blue Ash, Deerfield Township, Deer Park, Evendale, Fairfax, Fairfield, Forest Park, Glendale, Goshen Township, Greenhills, Hamilton Township in Warren County, Indian Hill, Lincoln Heights, Lock-land, Madeira, Mariemont, Mason, Miami Township, Milford, Montgomery, North College Hill, Norwood, Owensville, Pierce Township, Reading, Sharonville, Silverton, Springdale, Springfield Township, Sycamore IWJMIMl(ll5ipfff Chris Kelly wanted to share her child-care experience and learn from others, so she volunteered with Comprehensive Community Child Care. The United Way-funded agency helps families locate and select child care, helps the community plan child-care services, and provides assistance and trainina for child- Police impound car in student shooting Covington police Wednesday took was indicted Wednesday by a Ham custody of a car they think may have been used in the shooting of Christopher Englemon, 17, a senior honor student at Holmes High School.

Police refused to discuss other details of the investigation. They have made no arrests in the shooting, which occurred Monday night at Greenup and East Robbins streets outside the Jacob Price housing project. Wednesday night, Englemon was listed in serious condition at St. Elizabeth Medical Center North with a wound in his neck. His family said he had been standing with a group of teen-agers when are charged with aggravated murder and robbery in the death of Eric Dukes, 17.

The three allegedly broke into Dukes' apartment at in the 1400 block of Race Street to steal money and food stamps and then struck him in the head with a hammer. Appeal overturns murder conviction The murder conviction of William P. Burnett in the 1989 beating death of Danny F. Thomas of Price Hill has been overturned by the Ohio First District Court of Appeals. The appellate court ordered the case sent back to Hamilton County Common Pleas Court for retrial.

The court ruled the lower court erred when it failed to declare a mistrial after the only testimony that linked Burnett to the death was ordered stricken because it was hearsay. CAMPAIGN Quayles at airport to promote Hopkins Vice President Dan Quayle and his wife, Marilyn, will stop at CincinnatiNorthern Kentucky International Airport this afternoon to support Kentucky Republican gubernatorial candidate Larry Hopkins. Hopkins, a U.S. representative from Lexington, is challenging Democratic Lt. Gov.

Brereton Jones for the office. The rally will be at 2 p.m. in a hangar next to Comair Inc. off Tower Drive. COLLEGES XU physics building named for Lindners Xavier University on Wednesday dedicated its new physics building, named in honor of the Carl H.

Lindner family. The building is part of Xavier's $8.8 million Science Center project. The project includes the two-story physics building and modernization of the university's chemistry and biology facilities. Lindner, a Cincinnati financier and chairman of American Financial donated $1.5 million to the university. COURTS Man is indicted in strangulation Mark Chambers, 24, of the 3000 block of Jay Street, Avondale, was indicted Wednesday by a Hamilton County grand jury Wednesday for allegedly strangling Charlene A.

Edwards, 23, in his home Oct. 1. Police say Chambers became angry when Edwards, of Cincinnati, smoked crack cocaine that belonged to him. Price Hill man accused of arson A Price Hill man accused of setting three house fires in the Loveland area allegedly because he was upset after his girlfriend broke up with him ilton County grand jury. John Damico, 29, of the 100 block of Rulison Avenue, is charged with 11 counts of arson, aggravated arson and attempted aggravated murder.

He is charged with setting a house on fire Sept. 25 on Tuscarora Drive. He also is accused of setting fire to houses on Sioux Drive and Lebanon Road on Sept. 27. No one was hurt.

Damage was estimated at $15,400. Man sent to prison for murdering wife Baron Brand was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years to life in prison for the June 9 murder of his estranged wife, Darlene Gilbert, 29. Brand, 23, broke into Gilbert's Walnut Hills apartment and beat her to death. Judge William Mathews of Hamilton County Common Pleas Court also sentenced Brand to five to 25 years in prison for burglary in connection with the murder. Later Wednesday, Judge Norbert Nadel sentenced Brand to terms of five to 15 years in prison for trafficking in drugs and four to 10 years for drug abuse in another case.

3 indicted in death of teen in break-in A Cincinnati man and two women were indicted Wednesday fly a Hamilton County grand jury in the May 11 slaying of an Over-the-Rhine youth. Richard D. Bell, 42, of Over-the-Rhine; Lana Green, 40, of Price Hill, and Joanne Jones, 29, of Franklin, Chris Kelly care providers. Kelly, a Bond Hill resident and director of the Covington Early Childhood Center, evaluates classes at child-care centers for tne agency. "You're not just the teacher's critic, you're part of a support system," said Kelly.

LOTTERIES OHIO Super Lotto: 1 15 21 23 26 39 Kicker: 8 5 7 9 4 3 Pick 3: 2 7 3 Pick 4: 4 6 7 9 Cards: 6V 84 2 INDIANA Daily 3: 4 9 7 Daily 4: 6 6 0 1 KENTUCKY Pick 3: 9 9 9 Lotto: 5 10 18 24 37 47 LOTTO AMERICA 8 10 30 34 36 37 (Drawings of Oct. 30, 1991) LOTTERY NOTES: Kentucky Lottery officials said there was no jackpot winner in the state-record $32 million Lotto Kentucky game Wednesday night. Saturday's drawing will be worth $37 million. "We sold $3.4 million worth of the Lotto Kentucky game alone today," says Kentucky Lottery Corp. President Jim Hosker said after the drawing.

"That's our best day ever." One person recently spent $1 ,000 on tickets at Mike Walsh Liquor Beer in downtown Louisville, owner Glenn Noe said. And at the Kentucky Souvenir Shop at Milton on the Ohio River, a man drove from Muncie, lnd on Sunday to buy $3,775 worth of Lotto tickets. shots were fired Englemon from a passing car. The teens scattered. Englemon was hit by a shotgun blast.

In the past few days, students at Holmes have been knocking on Principal Richard Howard's door, asking to organize support for Englemon. "There is a lot of talk. They want to do something, but they are not sure what," Howard said. Howard said the school will wait until the initial trauma has subsided before organizing a trust fund. Immediately after the shooting, two psychologists and five guidance counselors were sent to classes where Englemon was enrolled, Howard said.

"At least when you talk about it, you can get some of that frustration out of your system," Howard said. News spots X1 m- ramoHio I LllelontalneRjlf fdlanapjrtls Rj fcirfeinnatl i "It's running about normal, but with a large potential to get a lot bigger out there if things stay dry," he said. Near Fleming-Neon, in southeastern Kentucky, volunteer firefighter John Emerson Spangler, 19, of Mayking was killed and three others were injured, one critically, Tuesday night. Hundreds of firefighters battled more than a dozen arson-related fires that have charred about 2,200 acres in the. Daniel Boone National Forest.

More than 3,000 acres of private woodlands have burned or were burning since the weekend in eastern Kentucky, where rain had not fallen in 14 days. The fires in the Redbird District of the Daniel Boone forest were caused by arson and remain under investigation. Some of the fires in the Daniel Boone forest's Redbird District broke out last Thursday and several others have started since their. The Redbird district includes 143,000 of the 680,000 acres in the Daniel Boone Numbers on each item correspond to locations noted on the map. Ky.

firefighter dies battling forest fire IOHIO and KENTUCKY: A volunteer firefighter has died fighting an arson fire in Kentucky, and Ohio officials are keeping an eye on burning acres in the southeast section of their state. The fires are separate but did lead Ohio officials to decline a federal request for help in fighting fires in Kentucky and West Virginia. Fires broke out Wednesday in Lawrence, Pike, Licking and Washington counties in Ohio, said Bill Schultz, a spokesman for the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. The extent of damage was not clear. About 1,000 fires are reported yearly, damaging about 3,000 acres, he said.

Motive undetermined in 'Playboy' shooting 2BELLEFONTAINE, have not determined a motive in the shooting death of the husband of a former Playboy magazine playmate, the police chief said Wednesday. But several witnesses said an effort by a California man to get permission to photograph Stacy Arthur may have led to the shooting of the woman's husband. "We're not ruling out anything," said Police Chief Brad Kunze. Police said James A. Arthur, 36, was shot Tuesday on a downtown street outside a retail building that he and his wife owned.

The suspect, James W. Lindberg, 32, of California, then apparently shot himself. He died at a Columbus hospital. Stacy Arthur, 23, was the 1990 Mrs. Ohio and the January, 1991, centerfold model for Playboy.

Inmates' supporters to continue protest 3 INDIANAPOLIS: Supporters of four inmates who ended their 37-day hunger strike at the state's maximum-security prison said Wednesday the protest was not in vain and is not over. "The work of this strike is just beginning," said Virginia Burns, a spokeswoman for the Human Rights Coalition of Indiana. are 21 reasons the men began the strike. None of them have been addressed." Sixteen inmates at the Maximum Control Complex in Westville began the hunger strike Sept. 23 to protest alleged human rights and constitutional violations.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS forest. More than 6,000 acres of private woods have been devastated by 278 fires since the fire season began July 1. In October alone, more than 5,600 acres of that total have been destroyed by 241 blazes, he said..