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THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER FINAL EDITIONNEWSSTAND PRICE 25t TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1981 A GANNETT NEWSPAPER Polish Strikers Control ore mure ines, Threaten Blasts ir.s U.S. talks with allies, Page A-9. Bankers plot response, Page A-9. BY CINDY MORRIS Sports Reporter PEORIA, 111. In the longest major-college basketball game ever played, Doug Schloemer's 15-foot jump shot in the seventh overtime gave the University of Cincinnati a thrilling 75-73 victory over Bradley Monday night.

"Schloemer, who was closely guarded on the play, made his winning shot with one second remaining, after 74 minutes and 59 seconds without deciding a winner. The game ended three hours and 15 minutes after it started. The previous record of six overtimes was set In a Niagara-Siena which said to the miners In a Warsaw Radio appeal: "Christmas is near; your families are awaiting you," also was reported to be arresting Roman Catholic priests and suspending broadcasts of the Mass. Government spokesman Jerzy Urban told foreign journalists Monday that Solidarity leader Lech Walesa "is currently staying Jfiv: -rr "3 All 'I game on Feb. 21, 1953, and tied by Minnesota and Purdue on Jan.

29, 1955. After two 20-minute halves, the score was tied, 61-61. That tie was followed by these: First overtime: 63-63. Second overtime: 65-65. Third overtime: 65-65.

Fourth overtime: 67-67. Fifth overtime: 71-71. Sixth overtime: 73-73. Seventh overtime: 75-73, in favor of Cincinnati. IT WAS a near miracle that.

the Bearcats were even In posi-. tion to win the game. In the fifth Slowdown BERNINGER SAID Murray made a personal appearance at negotiations Friday to tell the FOP that the city would not accept an agreement that Included removal of the city's controversial residency requirement. On Saturday, he said, the FOP made a final offer which included the removal of the requirement. He called that proposal "impossible for us to accept." Dunaway said the FOP will hold two special membership meetings at 10 a.m.

and 6 p.m. Wednesday at Stouffer's Cincinnati Towers to discuss the latest turn in negotiations and possible job action. Bernlnger said he hopes that Dunaway will discuss the city's final offer with the membership at the meetings, and said he conveyed that message In a cover letter to Dunaway mailed Monday along with the contract proposal. indDl Four Sections, 141st Year, No. 257 BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Poland said Monday two mines in the vital Silesian coal region have been seized by nearly 3,000 strikers who have been holding out underground since last week.

Warsaw Radio, monitored in London, said "the difficult situation In the Ziemowit and Plast coal mines at Tychy continues," with 2,896 coal miners on strike. The Soviet news agency Tass said Sunday Solidarity activists had blasted shut one of the entrances to the Ziemowit mine and threatened to close the other outlet trapping 1,300 miners Inside If the government tried to apply force. Tass had no further report on the mine protest Monday. The martial law regime, Column One Holiday Tips Light, Say Waitresses BY ALAN MILLER Enquirer Contributor Jingling what little change she had in her pocket and looking over the sparsely populated counter at Hathaway's restaurant In Carew Tower, Lillle Plummer said this Christmas season is the worst she has seen for business and for tipping. "I've been here since they opened the doors 23 years ago, and I've never seen it so bad," she said.

"I depend on those people and their tips." Some waitresses, like Anita Dornbusch and Joyce Kaeser at Skyline Chill at Sixth and Walnut downtown, said the past few weeks have brought business, and tips, as usual. "We write 'Merry Christmas' on the backs of our checks and people seem to ge Into the spirit I haven't noticed a decrease in tips," Kaeser said. Others say they haven't been so lucky. BEEN noticing that the closer it gets to Christmas the lower the tips get," said Eileen Cohen, who works at the Brown Derby in Fairfield. "The standard gratuity Is 15 and we are lucky to get 10 these days," Cohen said.

"I don't think a lot of customers realize that we only make $2.01 an hour and that we depend on those tips for our livelihood." And 20 of the tips they receive must be split between the busboy and the bartender, she said. 1 Parties of six or more seem to be the largest offenders of the unwritten rule of gratuity, Cohen "It makes It difficult to smile when you know they are only going to leave a dollar or two for such a large group," she said. "It was getting so bad that I got another Job," Cohen said. "The difference between this year and last year Is amazing," said Sue Patton, who also works at the Brown Derby. "I used to be assured of $300 a week after taxes and now I'm lucky to clear $200.

"NO ONE waits tables for their health," she said. "Most are In it for the money. I'm working full time to keep up an apartment and support my husband, who Is in college." Ellen Quatkemeyer, a waitress at the lunch counter at Wool-worth's, 26 W. Fifth downtown, said her tips are down from the usual $20 to $30 per week to $7 to $10, and that they will get even lower in January. "With the economy the way it is, people Just don't have the extra money.

That's why I don't get down on my customers," she said. At Gold Star Chill, 629 Walnut downtown. Diane Overbey said her tips are down and she has not yet received any of the "snpptal" tins she usually Kets from regular customers at in Warsaw," has been visited by his wife and children and was seen Sunday by a priest who said Mass, Warsaw Radio reported. OTHER REPORTS reaching the West said Walesa had been moved because word of where he was being kept had leaked out, but the radio report of Urban's comments did not specify where the Independent union leader Urban also said travel restrictions were being eased and some people have been freed from detention, the official radio reported. He said authories have.

detained 5,000 people; (See POLAND, back of this section) said police officers "won't do that again in January, and that's a promise" if negotiations don't resume. "There's no way I'm going to ask the guys to go out in this kind of weather and write tickets with this (no talks) going on," the FOP president said. Dunaway said the city was at fault in the negotiations Impasse, and blamed chief city negotiator Paul Bernlnger personally for it He called for Murray's Intervention as a replacement for lnger. "He doesn't care if he gets an agreement," Dunaway said of Bernlnger, adding that he believes the negotiator plans to leave the city soon for another job, lessening his incentive for a settlement. BERNINGER DECLINED comment on Dunaway's charge, arguing that his statements on the "totally unrelated" issue the loss of a mother of two," said John Zarbano, who sought $2.5 million for Mrs.

Ritter's husband, Jack L. Ritter, and their two children, ages 12 and 8. A lawyer for the tampon company refused to comment on the settlement. The suit, which was scheduled for trial Jan. 4 in Muskogee, was one of more than 200 that have been filed against tampon manufacturers since the discovery that tampon use was associated with the illness.

An official at the Center for Disease Control In Atlanta said Monday that there have been 1,407 cases of toxic shock syndrome and 80 deaths. Stephen Haracznak, a spokes overtime, UC was behind 71-69 when sophomore Kevin Gaffney hit a jump shot with 14 seconds to play. That tied the game at 71 and sent It to overtime No. 6. Schloemer, who has had a largely unspectacular career at 'Cincinnati after a storied high school career at Covington Holmes High School, came through In the clutch In the sixth extra period.

Bradley took another two-point lead and Cincinnati came down the court again, needing another last-second shot tn tie it. Schloemer made the shot, a 16-foot jumper, with 14 seconds to play, iorcing tne sev enth overtime. Begin Tirade Assailed Foes Plan Vote Against Leader TEL AVIV, Israel AP) An opposition party planned Monday to submit a motion of no confi dence in Menachem Begin's government, accusing the prime minister of inflaming relations with the United States. The motion was expected to igo to debate In the Knesset, Is rael's narilftment. on Tnursaav.

Begin has a bare majority of 61 of cn ir.2 Analysis, Page A-8. the Knesset's 120 seats and is likely to defeat the motion Just as his coalition has beaten back other recent no-confldence moves. Begin was subjected to heavy criticism from newspapers and the Israeli public for his denunciation of U.S. policy on Sunday. Washington suspended a strate gic co-operation agreement last Friday in retaliation for Israeli annexation of the Golan Heights of Syria.

Begin refused to consider rescinding the annexation legislation. The prime minister, accusing Washington of breaking President Reagan's word, told U.S. Ambassador Samuel Lewis on Sunday that Israel considers the alliance canceled. The text of his angry remarks to Lewis was made public. THE TWO-MAN Shlnui, or "Change," faction in the Knesset said it would Introduce a motion of no confidence because of Begin's handling of relations with Israel's vital ally.

The centrist party said Begin was "inflaming the conflict with hasty and Irresponsible words and deeds," and that Israel would suffer "immeasurable political and economic damage" If American backing were withdrawn. Begin's biggest foe In the Knesset, the Labor Party, with 48 seats, announced It would support Shinui's motion. Labor originally opposed the terms of the strategic alliance losing a no-confldence motion on the matter three weeks ago but also was worried about the U.S. policy toward Israel, the party said In a statement. (See ISRAEL, back of this section) SANGER B-1 TV-RADIO C-5 WEIKEL C-3 WORD GAME B-4 SPORTS RESULTS: Tilsphont 369-1005 or 369-1006 TODAY TOMORROW Rain today and tonight with a high near 40 and an overnight low near 30.

Snow flurries Wednesday with a high near 40 and turning colder late In the day. Weather map and details, Page A-2. (TQID NOW) Enquirer photo BY MICHAEL E. KEATING SNOW MOTION: Driving conditions were less than ideal during the evening rush hour Monday as westbound traffic on Fort Washinton Way proceeds cautiously. A three-inch snow earlier In the day and rising temperatures later left many streets covered with a mixture of snow and slush when winter arrived officially at Story on Page C-l.

Dunaway Threatens Traffic Ticket BY PAUL FURIGA Enquirer Reporter Cincinnati police officers may write fewer or no traffic tickets In coming weeks, said Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) president Elmer Dunaway, unless stalled contract negotiations with the city resume soon. Dunaway made the charges Monday afternoon, after almost two days of no talks. In addition to his hints at a ticket slowdown, Dunaway called for the personal', Intervention of city manager Sylvester Murray in the contract talks. The breakdown came the same day that the current FOP contract expired, triggering memories of the several breakdowns which plagued the two- year negotitations process for that agreement NOTING PUBLISHED reports of record collections from traffic-tickets in November, Dunaway would have a negative effect on the negotiations. Bernlnger characterized Dunaway's charges as "typical.

That's what he says every time we negotiate. That kind of talk always bolsters me. My Job Is to keep control of the Issues for the city." City manager Murray said he won't pull Bernlnger from the talks, despite Dunaway's request. In a statement issued Monday afternoon, he called for restraint and said he has "no desire to get personally involved In negotiations this year," as he did last year. "Paul Bernlnger does Indeed speak for the City Manager and City Council," the statement concluded.

Bernlnger in turn blamed Dunaway for the impasse, charging that FOP negotiators walked out Saturday before city negotiators were through presenting their final proposal, which he said Dunaway had requested. Reached man for the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, said that 75 of the toxic shock cases have been filed against Proctor Gamble the manufacturer of Rely, the tampon used by the majority of toxic shock victims. The pending suits against Proctor Gamble Include a $3 million class action suit filed In New York and a $15 million suit filed In Portland. Mrs. Ritter, who ran a babysitting service in her home in Stllwell, became 111 Nov.

9, 1980 and died five days later in a Tulsa hospital. Zarbano said that Ritter, a caseworker for the Stllwell welfare department, planned to establish a trust fund for their children with the money from the settlement. First Toxic Shock Settlement ACTION LINE B-2, BOGGLE B-8 BRIDGE B-7 BUSINESS D-7-12 CLASSIFIED C-5-13 CLASSIQUE COLUMNISTS COMICS D-4 CROSSWORD DEAR ABBY B-2 DEATHS EDITORIALS A-10 ENTERTAINMENT GRAHAM C-8 HEALTH B-2 horoscope b- horse sense b- Jumble b-6 PURDY D-1 RACES D-4 RESTAURANT GUIDE B-11 1981, LOS ANGELES TIMES WASHINGTON The first of more than 200 lawsuits filed against tampon manufacturers in cases involving toxic shock syndrome has been settled out of court, reportedly for more than $500,000, It was learned Monday. Lawyers for the family of Janice Ritter, a 28-year-old Oklahoma woman who died of toxic shock in November, 1980, confirmed that an agreement was reached late last week with International Playtex, but refused to disclose its terms. "WE FEEL we recovered sufficient money to compensate for my client's suffering, although you can't really compensate for cnristmas.

Sue Schmidt at the Cricket, Sixth and Vine downtown, said business has been as good as usual or better, but tips are the lowest ever. "I used to think people would be more kind if we didn't add gratuity to the check, but I don't think so anymore. Everyone has to eat including a waitress. "I have 10 children from age 10 to 27 and I love to meet people, but I depend on their tips," she said. Jk.