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Thursday, November 18, 1982 THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER METRO B-3 Slaying Of Brown County Repairman Remains A Mystery Pictured on the poster is a hearty, middle-aged wearing a worker's baseball-type cap. pictured is a Masonic belt buckle. The poster is displayed at the Clermont County Courthouse, and in numerous places around Brown County. The poster reads: $10,000 Reward for the Arrest and Conviction of Murderer or Murderers of Permon "Gene" Gilbert last seen in Maysville, at Clyde's Supermarket on Saturday, May 22. was driving a brown- and cream -colored 1979 Ford Van.

Also 1 missing are a Masonic belt buckle and a Masonic billfold. -friends and family of Permon 'Gene' Gilbert. "It's been nearly six months since the brutal murder of Gene Gilbert, whose nude body, shot twice Proposed Waste Site Called Hazardous BY STEVE HOFFMAN Enquirer Reporter LOCKLAND-A stage set for the melodrama "Little Nell" was an ironic setting for Wednesday's public hearings on a hazardouswaste facility in nearby Arlington Heights. The Ohio Hazardous Facility Approval Board (HWFAB) representatives and U.S. EnvironProtection Agency (EPA) officials had to sit in the set for the production in Lockland High School's auditorium.

The afternoon and evening hearings considered federal EPA and HWFAB permits for Environmental Enterprises Inc. (EEI) to store and treat hazardous wastes at 435 E. Galbraith Arlington Heights, in the former Borden Chemical Co. plant. GEORGE WALDMANN, Arlington Heights mayor and a critic of EEI, felt afternoon comments were evenly split for and against the waste facility.

The evening session, before a crowd of 200, was quite different. The first 11 speakers were representatives of Lockland and Arlington Heights, all talking against EEI's presence at Interstate 75 and Galbraith Rd. Possibly the most damaging statement was made by Timothy Burke, Lockland's law director. After consulting Ohio EPA records, Burke said EEI drums of empty vermiculite bottles exploded last December at a Williamsburg landfill, hospitalizing two workers with skin burns. BURKE REPORTED the Ohio EPA warned EEI last August that it was storing and treating wastes at its Galbraith Road site without a permit.

He said a waste-disposal truck, containing EEI phosphorous material, exploded on Interstate 74. Lockland Mayor Jim Brown made possibly the most passionate plea. "Asking us to approve this storage facility and the risks that go with it is asking us to take on one burden too many," he said. Judge Diskin Critical After Brain Surgery BY KEVIN CULLEN Enquirer Reporter Campbell Circuit Judge John A. Diskin was in critical condition late Wednesday after hours of brain surgery in University Hospital, Cincinnati, to seal a ruptured artery.

Diskin, 57, who presided over the third Beverly Hills Supper Club fire trial early this year, suffered an apparent stroke while on the bench Tuesday morning. David Bracey, hospital spokesman, said Diskin was in stable but critical condition at 10 p.m. Wednesday. Neurosurgeons John Tew, Raymond Sawaya, Tony Gabray and Robert Loudon performed the lengthy, delicate operation that had ended successfully minutes earlier. Rohrer and beaten, was found by a youth mowing a lawn on Swope Road near Bethel.

Just as residents of Gilbert's hometown, Hamersville, could not fathom why anyone would want to kill the popular and widely known Gilbert, police in two counties can still uncover no solid leads to determine who killed him. The reward is uncollected. The posters are starting to yellow with age. "OH, THERE'S been a lot of hearsay, and a lot of Jim tales, but there don't seem to be any real clues," said Don Snider, Gilbert's brother-in-law. "The whole family is still torn up, and so disappointed that there seems to be no real activity in the case." Snider reported that Gilbert's wife "gets on the sheriff all the time, trying to find out what's going on, but no one's getting much satisfaction over progress in the enforcement officials are no less frustrated.

"There is nothing we can rule out, except suicide," said Clermont County Detective G. P. Schramm. "Our problem is that there was no apparent motive, so we can't rule out anything Plus, the way he was found made things hard, with his body located in Clermont County and the van found in Adams County, and the body being completely disrobed." SCHRAMM SAID deputies in Clermont and Brown Counties, who are working jointly on the case, are still active, "but we're still beating our heads against walls." While there are no new leads, he said, officers have not eliminated any suspect. Gilbert, 46, was widely known because of his skills as an appliance repairman.

He worked for a Cincinnati repair shop, but also worked out of his Hamersville home, answering calls in Brown and Clermont counties. Family members reported he left home early the morning of May 22, a Saturday, to make a service call, a call which he completed. He was reported missing early Sunday and that evening, his body was found in a ditch near Bethel. HE WAS last seen alive in Maysville, about 1 p.m. that Saturday, when he bought a pack of cigarettes.

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His personal physician, Dr. W. Thomas McElhinney, was testifying against two other doctors at the time. McElhinney, with the two accused doctors, Robert O'Conner and William Monnig, may have saved Diskin's life. Diskin, making a ruling on an objection, was stricken in midsentence.

He stopped breathing and instantly turned gray. The doctors stopped him from choking to death by clearing his throat, prying his mouth open and restoring normal breathing. Diskin's heart never stopped beating, McElhinney said. Indiana Man Dies In Crash WEST HARRISON, Ind. -Raymond E.

Moore, 50, RR 3, West Harrison, was killed about 5:45 p.m. Tuesday when he lost control of his pickup truck on US 52 about a mile west of Harrison, Ohio. Indiana State Police said Moore had just passed another vehicle when he lost contol of his four-wheel drive pickup truck, went off the road, over an embankment and overturned. The accident was investigated by Patrolman Richard Midlam of the Dearborn County Police. Deaths Frank Phister Stegeman, 79, Was Barrows Corp.

Chairman Frank Phister Stegeman, 79, Immaculata Church, J. Mount of Fort Thomas, died Wednes- Adams, for Elmont "Mike" day. Mr. Stegeman was a director Marois, who died Oct. 20 at and former board chairman of the Osterville, Mass.

Barrows Corp. of Cincinnati, Mr. Marois, 67, a lawyer, was aswhich manufactures electric signs sociated for many years with and components. Commercial Union Life Insurance Co. in Cincinnati.

He had lived He was also -founder of the since 1961 in Massachusetts, where Kent a metal products he was a volunteer tax adviser for manufacturer, and was vice presi- the Internal Revenue Service. dent of Wadsworth Watch Co. He A graduate of Xavier Universiwas a former member of the Fort ty and the Salmon P. Chase ColThomas Planning, Commission lege of Law, he was a former capand former chairman of the tain of the Northern Hills Campbell County Chapter of the Volunteer Fire Department and American Red Cross. Mr.

Stege- Rescue Squad and active in the man was a member of the board of building of St. Vivian Church and Highland United Methodist school in Finneytown. Church, Fort Thomas, a former Survivors include his wife, member of the board of directors Florence (Schneller); a daughter, of Redwood School, and past Ann Farina, of Cincinnati; a son, president of the Highland Country Luke, of Los Angeles; three brothClub: ers and three sisters. He is survived by daughters, Helen S. Bohm, 85, formerMrs.

Justine Romer, Cincinnati, ly of Hyde Park, died Wednesday and Mrs. Mary Reinermann, at Memorial Hospital, Sarasota, Clearwater, a sister, Mrs. Vir- Fla. She had moved to Florida ginia Ross, and a brother, Robert three months ago. Stegeman, Fort Thomas; 13 grand- Mrs.

Bohm was a founder of children and four great-grand- the Jewish Hospital auxiliary and children. gift shop and served as president of the auxiliary. In the late 1930s Funeral services will be 11 a.m. and early 1940s, Mrs. Bohm was a Saturday at Dobbling Funeral volunteer for the Jewish Family Home, Fort Thomas.

Visitation Service where she helped bring will be an hour prior to services. Jewish refugees into the country Burial will be in Evergreen Ceme- and find jobs for them. tery, Fort Thomas. Memorial gifts She is survived by a daughter, may be made to the charity of the Mrs. Mae B.

Davis, and two granddonor's choice. sons. There will be no services. ConA memorial Mass of the Resur- tributions may be made to rection will be celebrated at 11 Cincinnati Association for the a.m. Saturday at Holy Cross- Blind.

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