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(on 11 a 1 00 2 Anis 00 at 001 tr THE CINCINNATI September 9, 1981 NEWS deaths John Koelsch, Longtime Aide To Secy. Brown John V. "Jack" Koelsch, 69, assistant to Secretary of State Ted W. Brown for 15 years, died Monday at his home in Lockland. A World War II veteran who won four bronze stars and a silver star for worked as a television repairman' after his retirement.

He was a member of the American Legion and the Cincinnati and Lockland Republican clubs. He leaves his wife, Betty Flowers Koelsch; a daughter, Mrs. Robert A. Hargis of Dayton, Ohio; two sisters, Mrs. Kathryn Willenbrink and Mrs.

Helen Marie Moore, and three grandchildren. Funeral services be 1:30 p.m. Friday at Schmidt-Dhonau Funeral Home, 8633 Reading Reading, with burial in Oak Hill Cemetery, Springdale. Visitation will be 7-9 p.m. Thursday.

Memorial contributions may be made to American Cancer Society. Donald M. Wood, 55, a brother of Hamilton County Commissioner Robert A. Wood, died Saturday in Goodhart, where 1 he had been visiting his son. Mr.

Wood, a longtime resident of the Western Hills, had been a surgical supplies salesman for Crocker-Fels Co. for about 25 years. He was a World War II Navy veteran and a member of St. Episcopal Church in Westwood. In addition to his brother, he is survived by a son, James, of Goodhart, two daughters, Mrs.

Susan Anness of Chicago, and Mrs. Melissa Schwandner of Cincinnati; his mother, Mrs. Mina R. Wood; a sister, Mrs. Gladys Wuerdeman Cincinnati, and two grandchildren.

Services will be 10 a.m. Thursday at St. James Episcopal Church, Montana and Cheviot Aves. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery, Southgate, Ky. Memorials be made to Goodhart Life Squad at Goodhart, 49737, or the charity of the donor's choice.

Dalbert and Woodruff Funeral Home, the Western Hills, is in charge of arrangements. Harry A. Hester, 74, former owner and operator of Sorento's restaurant in Reading, died Monday at Hospice of Cincinnati. Mr. Hester, who originated the restaurant 1962, had been in the vending business for 25 years and had worked as the manager of Century Inn, Glendale.

He retired in 1974. He was a Mason, a former governor of Elmwood Moose and a charter member of Reading Teraqua (sportsmen's) Club. He was a member of Sycamore Aerie Eagles. He was the first man designated as "Mr. Girl Scout" of Reading and a former director of Cincinnati Golden Gloves boxing tournament.

He leaves his wife, Thelma; a son, Daniel Hester; a daughter, Susan Foley; three sisters, Ida Mae Mallot, Minnie Johnson and Mildred Griffin, all of Cincinnati; 10 grandchildren and a greatgrandchild. Funeral services will be 9:30 a.m. Thursday at SchmidtDhonau Funeral Home, 8633 Readin Reading, with burial in Oak Hill Cemetery, Springdale. Visitation will be 4-8 p.m. Helen Smarr Ferris, 74, a resident of Terrace Park, died Monday at Good Samaritan Hospital.

Formerly a buyer for McAlpin's Department Store, she was a member of the Order of Eastern Star, past president of Terrace Park Garden Club and past president of Terrace Park PTA. Survivors include her husband, John R. Ferris; two sons, Ben S. Castleman Jr. of Mount Carmel and Thomas R.

Ferris of Madiera; one brother, Robert L. Smarr, and one grandson. Services will be 11 a.m. Thursday at T.P. White Sons Funeral Home, 2050 Beechmont Mount Washington.

Visitation will be p.m. today and from 10 a.m. until the time of service Thursday. southwest Ohio 'Bat' Flying Again At Amusement Park KINGS ISLAND, Ohio Bat," Kings Island's newest roller coaster ride, is back in service after a three-week hiatus mostly for brake adjustments. Walt Davis, director of engineering and construction, said the ride operated throughout the three-day Labor Day Weekend with only two stoppages.

One of those stops occurred when operators saw a child running on the passenger platform, Davis said, and hit the ride's emergency stop to guarantee the child would not come to any danger from the ride. Legislature Lets County Put Child Aid On Ballot BY MIKE TURMELL Enquirer Reporter The Ohio General Assembly voted to let Hamilton County Commissioners a levy on the Nov. 3 ballot to money for children's services. The bill, which passed the Representatives, 86-0, and the and awaits Gov. James Rhodes was hastily put together after County commissioners failed to appropriate deadline.

Commissioners blamed the deadline on a county prosecutor's which said the county had to file tion by Sept. 4. Commissioners should have levy by Aug. 20. city Old Coney Cincinnati Councilman Joseph M.

DeCourcy wants city hall to annex the portion of Old Coney Island that is not now within city limits. DeCourcy said he would not support adoption of Old Coney as the summer home of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra if revenues from the proposed seat amphitheater do not flow to city hall. "To be honest with you, I don't know how the county commissioners would look upon it," DeCourcy said. The commissioners would have the final say on annexation. "But I will tell you that annexation were out of the question from anybody's perspective, would object to the symphony's going there," he said.

Newest Metro Buses Go On Road Today; Monthly Passes Due Some Queen City Metro passengers will be riding on new buses today, as the system begins operating some of the 87 new Grumman Fixible coaches due by the end of the month. Metro will begin using the new buses on its Downtowner route and routes operated from Walnut Hills, where operator training is complete. Routes operated from the Queensgate division will get new units later this month. And beginning Monday, Metro will sell monthly transferable bus passes that will become effective Oct. 1.

Cost of the passes, which allow unlimited bus travel within the -and the zones for which they are valid- -will be based on 40 peak-hour trips per month. The card, therefore, would cost $20 for a person regular buses within the if he rides express buses. Peak-hour bus fare is 50 cents for regular buses, 60 cents for express buses. The additional charge for zone passengers is $4 per month per zone. Maximum charge for a monthly card that would allow unlimited travel by an unlimited number of persons in any of the eight surcharge zones would be $52, Metro officials said.

The passes will be available at Metro offices at 6 E. Fourth St. Tuesday put generate House of Senate, 31-0, signature, Hamilton meet the missed opinion, the ques- filed the "WE SHOULDN'T make suffer because of a mistake," Helen Fix, R-Cincinnati, the bill through the legislature. The emergency bill passed commissioners until Sept. question to the Board of proval.

Commission President dock, who was in Columbus bill, couldn't say when make that request. "We can't governor signs it" which occur by Thursday. "It really was a case of (Tuesday)," he said. County particularly concerned whether for Tuesday's 'special assembly sufficient for the bill to Annexation plan. -DAVE KRIEGER Health Mural Is Explained "If we don't do it, there's an excellent chance we would derive no revenue from this facility and the events that are held there." DeCourcy said he would propose annexing only the portion of the amusement park that is not now within city limits, not any additional residential or commercial property near the city's eastern boundary.

County Commission President Norman A. Murdock said he has taken no position on the proposal. "I just don't know enough about it to have a reaction," said Murdock. "I don't have a feel for if the thing." Taft Broadcasting which I owns the amusement park, had no immediate objections to the The "mural" approved for a clinic by the Cincinnati Board of Health and harshly criticized by city council members last week is not what the word suggests, a health board member told lawmakers Tuesday. "When one refers to an inner city mural, one normally thinks of a of Pluto painting a wall pop art or pictures contemporary painting," J.

Brendan Ryan told council's Committee. "The present proposal is nothing of the sort. Rather, the proposed work is a three-dimensional painting intended to give the the same architectural appearnaked and fully visible, west wall ance that the other visible walls have." RYAN WAS talking about the $25,000 proposal to weatherproofand paint the west wall of the Elm Street Health Clinic. "When the building was originally constructed generations ago the west wall was hidden by an adjacent tenement house. The architects at the time apparently felt no compulsion to decorate a wall that no one would see," Ryansaid.

Republican Councilmen J. Kenneth Blackwell and Guy C. "We just have to take a look at it, but I can't imagine there would be major problems with it from our standpoint," said Taft Execu.tive Vice President Nelson Schwab III. the children said Rep. who shepherded Tuesday gives 16 to get the Election for ap- Norman A.

Murto lobby for the commissioners will act before the he said might do or die today officials were attendance would be stand a chance of Suggested passage. Without the change, Hamilton County would have had to delay the levy a year, Murdock said. THE GOVERNOR will sign the bill "as soon as he receives it," said his press secretary, Jack Daly. After the governor signs the bill, then commissioners must establish an amount to ask the public to pay. A 1.5-mill tax would generate $9 million, or the same amount the welfare department gets for children's services this year.

The $9 million budget was $2 million less than sought for children's services and $500,000 less than provided in 1980. Rev. William Wagner, executive director of St. Joseph Orphanage, Monfort Heights, said he would prefer to see financial support return to pre-1981 levels. kentucky RUTH EDWARDS Boone Jailer Spends From Her Own Purse To Make Ends Meet He said he has had to lay off personnel because placements decreased at the orphanage's two campuses and so did the fees the county pays for those children.

"They (welfare department officials) would be able to place more children and our financial situation would get better." "We have weathered storms before," Wagner said, "but you kind of wonder about dulle those smaller homes." Murdock said that under the $11 million budget planned, the program would still receive some money from the county's general revenue fund. Children's services received $9.6 million in 1980 and $9.1 million. in .1981, he said. Fees from children's services pay about of the cost for each boy or girl the agency serves. courts Second Lawyer Sues Pembaur For Trial Fees Old Coney straddles the eastern border of the city.

"The city line is Sutton Avenue, so it goes pretty much down the middle," Schwab said. Even the proposed site of the amphitheater is partly inside the city limits and partly outside, ac-. cording to Schwab. The symphony is expected to seek $6 million in contributions 1 to build an amphitheater as its sum- Guckenberger harshly criticized the plan last week. Blackwell demanded that all four health board supporters of the proposal -including Ryan, who Blackwell championed as a voice against abortion last year -resign their posts.

Guckenberger wanted the money blocked. But neither of them attended the finance committee session Tuesday. Blackwell is a member of the panel; Guckenberger is not. THE THREE Charterites and one Democrat present asked Ryan to inform the health board that they wanted the decision reconsidered. "The sentiment of the committee is to ask the board of health to review its actions in -view of capital demands at other clinics," said Chairwoman Bobbie Sterne.

"The trouble with this kind of -expenditure is it gives the appearance the health department has excess money," added Vice Mayor Thomas B. Brush. Ryan contended the more attractive facade might encourage middle-income patients to use the clinic. This would increase the proportion of paying patients and improve service to the poor, he said. police Kentucky Flushing Out Poker Machines The county and commonwealth's attorneys in Kenton County served notice Tuesday that people operating a electronic poker machines had better fold their hands before Monday.

The machines were declared illegal gambling devices in Kenton County under an interpretation of Kentucky law, according to a joint statement Tuesday afternoon by Frank O. Trusty II, commonwealth's attorney, and John Elfers, county attorney. Separately Tuesday, police said they've received reports that the machines, said to gross $10,000 apiece per week and more, were pressed upon bar owners by dis- Boone County Jailer Ruth Edwards has spent almost $3,000 of her own money to keep the cell doors of the county's jail closed, but her money is running out and she has asked the county for help. Edwards will meet with JudgeExecutive Bruce Ferguson and F1- nance Director Dave Zembrodt this week to determine how the county can help finance the jail. Edwards has been paying her four deputy jailers out of her savings account since July and has not paid herself for more than four weeks, she said.

"She is in a bad way over Zembrodt said. "We will investigate her needs and see what the county can do." THE JAIL receives $6.75 a day from the state for each prisoner it houses. The jail holds 13 prisoners. 441 am supposed to pay four deputies, pay myself and buy the food with that money," Edwards said. "It can't possibly stretch that far." The jail is involved in lawsuits challenging the operations and financing of the facility.

Although it is a county jail, Edwards said she receives very little money from the Boone County Fiscal Court. The Northern Kentucky Legal Aid Society has filed a suit against Edwards and county commissioners charging that overcrowding, diet, delivery of medical services and visitation rights constitute "cruel and unusual punishment" for about 250 inmates who were in the jail in 1980 and 1981. A new jail which will hold about 50 inmates is expected to be completed by the end of this year in Burlington. Edwards said she can continue to operate the jail if county commissioners pay for her deputies and reimburse her for the $3,000 she has spent since July. "RATHER THAN close the jail down, I decided to pay the deputies from my savings and not pay myself because the deputies would have lost their jobs and the prisoners would have to be sent to two other jails.

That wouldn't have done much good," Edwards explained. Edwards, who has been the jailer for two years, will be replaced Jan. 1 by jailer-elect Russell Luck, who is currently Boone County Sheriff. College Loans To Get Tougher After Upcoming Deadline BY GEORGENE KALEINA Enquirer Reporter Many college students narrowly missed getting bumped off the rolls of the federally funded Guaranteed Student Loan Program this year, but next year could be tougher, financial officers at local universities and colleges predict. Beginning next month, only students of families with adjusted gross incomes of under $30,000 will qualify for student loans without restrictions.

Families with adjusted gross incomes over will have to complete a "need analysis" form and prove their financial need. Since 1978, when Congress eliminated all financial criteria on the loans, students have had few problems getting the student loans for this school year). Some students defaulted on loans and others invested the funds in high-yielding money markets. Dr. Bertold J.

Pembaur, who was sued by one attorney in June for failure to pay his fees in connection with his Medicaid fraud trial, has been sued by yet another lawyer who represented him. Albert J. Mestemaker filed suit Tuesday in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court, where he seeks $21,885.24 plus interest and court costs. Mestemaker, who now is a Hamilton County Municipal Court judge, said Pembaur hired him April 12, 1979, at a rate of $100 an hour. Pembaur, the suit says, has "failed and refused to make satisfactory arrangements to pay the amount due." Pembaur was sued earlier by attorney Calvin Prem for $33,524.

Prem and Mestemaker represented Pembaur through the same period, both of them quitting the case in November, 1980, because of nonpayment of fees. Pembaur was acquitted in on two charges stemming from alleged Medicaid fraud at his Rockdale Medical Center, Avondale. Pembaur was convicted and sentenced in November, 1980, to 1- 5 years in prison for bail jumping. He had failed to appear for the start of his Medicaid trial in December, 1979, and disappeared until August, 1980, when he turned himself in to Hamilton County sheriff's deputies. He is free on $100,000 bond while he appeals that conviction in the First District of Ohio Court of Appeals.

A jury later acquitted Pembaur of Medicaid fraud. Man Sentenced To 4-25 Years Pre Ronald Walker was sentenced 4-25 years in prison after a convicted him Tuesday of involuntary manslaughter in the death of 13-month-old Kendel Gaines." The baby died July 6, shortly after Walker and the child's mother, Martha Gaines, called police and rescue units. Assistant County Prosecutor William Whalen maintained Walker vigorously shook Kendel because he was upset with child's crying. The child's mother, who lives in an apartment at Winton Terrace address, was in nearby laundry room, when incident occurred. Dr.

Paul Jolly of the Hamilton County coroner's office said child died as a result of a head jury that could be inflicted shaking. But Walker, 20, 5861 Winneste Winton Terrace, told the that he shook Kendel in an tempt to revive the child, who blacked out. The youngster, he said, like a son to him and he had intention of harming him. The eight-woman, four-man jury deliberated only about hours before finding Walker guilty as charged. The sentence was imposed Hamilton County Common Judge Fred Cartolano.

In Death Of Child folles Pre dents knew about it and they applied earli- Xavier University. er than they had in the past," he added. However, students have until March to Last year, UC's financial officer process- apply for the Pell Grant, or Basic Education ed 5,220 Guaranteed Student Loan Opportunity Grant. applications valued at $14 million, Dowling said. In the first eight months of this year, WHILE SOME students applying for aid UC has exceeded that by 1,000, he said.

next year may find themselves in a crunch, the financial aid directors offer these words FINANCIAL OFFICERS at the College of of advice: "Apply early." 'Mount St. Joseph's and Xavier University "It's important that in the 1982-83 school also noted the dollar amount of GSL has in- year students plan ahead and consult with creased this school year. their high school guidance office and Officials at all three schools said stu- university financial aid office," Dowling dents applying for financial aid have de- said. "They are going to have to meet deadpleted all campus-based financial aid lines more so than in the past. The reason is programs, including the national direct that as the available financial aid dollar destudent loan, the Federal Work Study Pro- creases and the number of financial aid gram and the Supplemental Educational applicants increases, it's going to be imporOpportunity Grant.

tant that aid applicants have done everyThey did not, however, feel the depletion thing properly." of these funds attributable to Mr. Rea- Kelly said his office is informing stu-. gan's cutback. "All of our money is de- dents to fill out financial aid forms as early pleted, but that's normal this time of year," as Jan. 1 through Feb.

15 'for the 1982-83 said James Kelly, student aid director at school year. folles to jury that the the a the tributors using high-pressure tactics. The prosecutors sent letters to all law enforcement agencies in Kenton County advising police to notify bar owners to remove the devices by midnight Monday or run the risk of arrest on misdemeanor or felony gambling charges. The announcement caps an eight-month effort by Covington police to stem a growing tide of the machines into city bars. Capt.

Paul Eifert commander of Covington police Criminal Investigations worked out an agreement with many city bar operators several weeks ago by which most the machines were removed volun-. tarily. Five machines were later confiscated by police after Elfert announced he considered the devices illegal and that his officers would seize the devices. Eifert said local distributors of more traditional electronic games such as pinball machines and the newer video devices "expressed concerns about what they considered threats from some of these people (distributing representatives)." THE REAGAN administration cut back the program in its budget this year because of the skyrocketing billon in interest alone last year. The government pays the difference between the or interest and the prime interest rate, currently at "I think there's going to be a decrease in those eligible for student loans," said Earl Dowling, University of Cincinnati's financial aid director.

"A lot of students are going to self-eliminate themselves from the program. They'll know their family circumstances will eliminate them, so they won't bother to apply." Dowling, along with other local financial aid officers, agreed it was difficult to predict whether the cutback in loans would prevent some students from continuing their education. But because of the publicity surrounding President Reagan's budget cuts earlier this year, many students beat the Oct. 1 deadline, Dowling noted. "Basically the stu- the inby jury athad was no two by Pleas.