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The Cincinnati Enquirkr METRO Sati'Rday, Dkckmhkr 3, 1994 B5 DeWine gets Sen ate feet wet with party vote cratic senators Metzenbaui? and John Glenn during the traif sition. Two of the top three membe of DeWine's Senate staff are Cincinnati: Nick Wise, who will chief counsel, and Barbara Brigg who will run his Ohio operations. He said he met with Glenn for a' half-hour Thursday. Glenn has agreed to be his escort down the Senate aisle during swearing-in ceremonies Jan. 4.

Although the two were bitter adversaries in the 1992 Senate race and Glenn worked for De-Wine's opponent, Joel Hyatt, this year, the senator-elect said he doesn't foresee problems. thrust" of Gingrich's Contract With America. That plan advocates votes on tax cuts, a balanced budget amendment and eight other policies favored by conservatives during the first 100 days. DeWine said his own priorities are the balanced budget amendment, giving the president a line-item veto and forcing Congress to live under the regulations it enacts for the rest of America. On school prayer, he said it should be voluntary and not dictated by school officials.

He said he will resign as Ohio lieutenant governor around Jan. 4. Nancy Hollister, former mayor of Marietta, will become lieutenant BY PAUL BARTON Enquirer Washington Bureau WASHINGTON Mike DeWine culminated a week of Washington meetings Friday by voting for Sen. Trent Lott, a combative conservative, in the race for Senate majority whip. DeWine, R-Ohio, denied that his pick revealed anything about his own ideological stripes.

His choice, he said, was based on his friendship with Lott, which goes back to their days in the House in the 1980s. Lott is a good friend and former legislative ally of House Speaker-to-be Newt Gingrich. governor. DeWine continued his silence about which committee slots he is seeking. When he served in the House from 1983-1990, he was on the Judiciary and Foreign Affairs committees.

DeWine said his committee assignments would not in any way limit the kinds of issues he pursues. "Sen. (Howard) Metzenbaum is a great example of one who never let his committee assignments get in the way of his ability to impact an issue," he said. DeWine, who captured the retiring Metzenbaum's seat, said he expects things to go smoothly in dealing with the state's two Demo I l. in II III I I I I I LI II II I I HI III II I .11 II IIIII.IU IIIIIIHI I Catholic high schools offer tests, open houses "I have a long relationship with Trent Lott.

This was not an ideological choice," DeWine said as he met with reporters in the Dirksen Senate Office Building. "It was a choice based on friendship and confidence in Trent Lott." DeWine dismissed suggestions that Lott's selection over Sen. Alan Simpson of Wyoming indicated any kind of schism among Senate Republicans or a shot against Bob Dole of Kansas, the Senate majority leader. DeWine, who spent three days meeting with key Republicans and dealing with the "boring mechanics" of setting up his Senate office, said he supports the "general McAuley: Open House 1-4" p.m. Sunday, 6000 Oakwood Ave.

Call 681-1800. McNicholas: Tests 11:30 a.m. Tues, 6536 Beechmont Ave. Call 231-3500. Moeller: Open House 2-4 p.m.

Sunday, 9001 Montgomery Road. Call 791-1680. Mother of Mercy: Tests 8:30 a.m. Dec. 9, 3036 Werk Road.

Call 661-2740. Mount Notre Dame: Tests 8:30 a.m. Dec. 10, 711 East Columbia Ave. Call 821-3044.

Purcell Marian: Tests 8 a.m. Dec. 10, 2935 Hackberry St. Call 751-1230. Roger Bacon: Open House p.m.

Thursday, 4320 Vine St. Call 641-1300. Seton: Tests 8 a.m. Dec. 9, 3901 Glenway Ave.

Call 471-2600. St. Ursula Academy: Tests 8:30 a.m. today, 1339 E. McMillan St.

Call 961-3410. St. Xavier: Tests 8:45 a.m. today 600 W. North Bend Road Call 761-7600.

Summit Country Day: Tests 8:30 a.m. Dec. 10, 2161 Grandin Road. Call 871-4700. BY FRED REEDER JR.

The Cincinnati Enquirer Area Catholic high schools are in the midst of open houses and placement tests that allow parents and children to learn more about the schools. "Parents will have an opportunity to meet administrators, teachers, and students," said Sister Rita Sturwold, assistant superintendent of Cincinnati's Catholic schools. Sturwold said that seeing the schools helps parents and prospective students. "The parents and children can interact and ask questions about the school," she said. "And this way, they both can get a real flavor for each individual school." Some schools have already held their open houses and placement tests.

Here is a schedule of upcoming events and tests: Hamilton Badin: Tests 9 a.m. today at the school, 571 New London Road. Call 863-3993. Elder: Tests 8 a.m. Dec.

9, 3900 Vincent Ave. Call 921-3744. LaSalle: Open House 1-4 p.m. Sunday. Tests 8 a.m.

Dec. 9, 3091 N. Bend Road. Call 741-3000. fbi ends fugitive 14-year run BY BEN L.

KAUFMAN The Cincinnati Enquirer Fourteen years after she vanished from Cincinnati, fugitive credit union treasurer Phyllis Jean Strub was arrested Friday by FBI agents in Louisiana. Strub disappeared during an unannounced audit of the Netherland Terrace Federal Credit Union. Strub told the auditor she had to run to the bank. Instead, she simply ran. Auditors said $247,826.54 everything in credit union coffers was missing.

In 1982, a grand jury charged her with false statements and embezzling. Authorities said she took the money from 1975 to 1980. "As far as I'm concerned, she's dead," a daughter, Julia Brown, responded when told of her mother's arrest. "I wish they'd never found her." Brown said that she and her three siblings haven't talked to their mother since Strub left town on July 17, 1980. FBI agents found her living in a shack in New Sarpy, about 12 miles east of New Orleans, where she was using the name Phyllis Johnson, the bureau said.

There was no evidence of the wealth she is accused of taking. Theodore Jackson, head of Cincinnati's FBI office, said agents originally traced her to Metairie, where she abandoned her 1977 Oldsmobile months after fleeing, "and that's where we lost her." In 1981, Earl Strub, her trucker husband, still hoped for her return. Strub brought home none of the money, her husband said. In the year following her flight, he had paid some of her bills and, for financial reasons, obtained a divorce. Steve Barnett, the Cincinnati FBI supervisor working the case, said new leads followed a dramatization on the NBC television program, Unsolved Mysteries, about two months ago.

That show included a computer-enhanced image of what Strub might look like today in her late 50s. Strub is in custody in New Orleans, awaiting her preliminary hearing. If Strub pleads guilty, the entire affair could be resolved in New Orleans. However, she will be returned to Cincinnati for trial if she pleads not guilty. New Delta expansion lacks clocks BY PATRICK CROWLEY The Cincinnati Enquirer HEBRON The $375 million Delta Air Lines airport expansion has a new terminal, an underground train and moving sidewalks.

But few clocks. In a place where being on time is essential, passengers traveling through the CincinnatiNorthern Kentucky International Airport said it's unusual to look up and not see clocks on the walls. "It's the first thing I noticed when I got in here," said John Hans, a salesman from Indianapolis waiting for a plane to Dallas in Delta's Concourse B. It's not without timepieces. Monitors displaying arrivals and departures have small digital time readouts.

Some clocks can be found next to escalators that transport travelers to the underground tunnel. "As for the large type clocks you see in bus stations or whatever, no, there aren't a lot of those," Delta spokesman Todd Clay said. "Don't the majority of people wear wrist watches?" CHECKS CASHED! NO WAITING! Need Money? See Will! Will i Pawn Jewelry Corner of Gilbert McMllls Ian 861-2223 ffP In whtri you oinilwiyi borrow! CP 1( rM 7 vryvssJ ZAi iv-vv 2 DAYS Saturday, Dec. 3rd Sunday, Dec. 4th Save An Additional fcjc Our Already Reduced Outlet Low Prices T(0)Y -JL JUL lJy On Shop SumJmi frm 10 A p.m.

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