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The Cincinnati Enquirer from Cincinnati, Ohio • Page 23

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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 man wearing a worker's baseball-type cap. Also pictured is a Masonic belt buckle. Jfhe 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 the Murderer or Murderers of Permon "Gene" Gilbert last seen in Maysville, Ky, at Clyde's Supermarket on Saturday, May 22. He was driving a brown- and cream-colored 1979 Ford Van.

Also missing are a Masonic belt buckle and a Masonic billfold. frlends and family of Permon 'Gene' Gilbert. It's been nearly six months since the brutal murder of Gene Gilbert, whose nude body, shot twice 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 case." Law 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. Jim Rohrer is The Enquirer's Batavia bureau chief.

Jim Rohrer and beaten, was found by a youth mowing a lawn on Swope Road near Bethel. Just as residents of Gilbert's hometown, Ha-mersville, 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 osed Waste Site Prop mm Sale ends Sunday -November 2) st.

We reserve the right to limit quantities. Called Hazardous wmmmm rCOOK UNITED, INC. (COOK UNITED, INC. ADIvlilonoff Save 3(0 aytex IS Hoy 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 vermlculite 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. 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 hazardous-waste facility in nearby Arlington The Ohio Hazardous Waste Facility Approval Board (HWFAB) representatives and U.S. Environmental Protection 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. I ale Judge Diskin Critical After Brain Surgery Everyday Rink's prices are already 15 below department store prices. Now save an extra 15 on our entire stock! 1 8 HOUR BRA minutes earlier.

A MEDICAL malpractice suit was in progress when Diskin was stricken. His personal physician, Dr. W. Thomas McElhlnney, was testifying against two other doctors at the time. McElhlnney, with the two accused doctors, Robert O'Conner and William Monnlg, may have saved Dlskln's life.

Diskin, making a ruling on an objection, was stricken in mldsentence. 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. Dlskln's heart never stopped beating, McElhlnney said. BY KEVIN CULLEN Enquirer Reporter Campbell Circuit Judge John A.

Diskin was in critical condition late Wednesday after AVt 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 Ga-bray and Robert Loudon performed the lengthy, delicate operation that had ended successfully Indiana Man Dies In Crash Lace cups, stretch side and back panels.

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WEST HARRISON, E. Moore. 50, RR 3, West Harrison, was killed about 5:45 p.m. Tuesday when he lost control of Ms pickup truck on US 52 about a mile west of Harrison, Ohio. State Police said Moore had just passed another 1 Your Heart ft I8HOUR' S.

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Mount Adams, for Elmont J. "'Mike" MaroiS who died Oct. 20 at Ostervllle, Mass. Mr. Marols, 67, a lawyer, was associated for many years with Commercial Union Life Insurance Co.

In Cincinnati. He had lived since 1961 in Massachusetts, where he was a volunteer tax adviser for the Internal Revenue Service. A graduate of Xavler University and the Salmon P. Chase College of Law, he was a former cap-tatn of the Northern Hills Volunteer Fire Department and Rescue Squad and active In the building of St. Vivian Church and school In Flnneytown.

Survivors Include his wife, Florence (Schneller); a daughter, Ann Farina, of Cincinnati; a son, Luke, of Los Angeles; three brothers and three sisters. Helen S. Bohm, 85, formerly of Hyde Park, died Wednesday at Memorial Hospital, Sarasota, Fla. She had moved to Florida three months ago. Mrs.

Bohm was a founder of the Jewish Hospital auxiliary and gift shop and served as president of the auxiliary. In the late 1930s and early 1940s, Mrs. Bohm was a volunteer for the Jewish Family Service where she helped bring Jewish refugees Into the country and find Jobs for them. She Is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Mae B.

Davis, and two grandsons. There will be no services. Contributions may be made to the Cincinnati Association for the Blind. Frank Phister Stegeman, 79, of Fort Thomas, died Wednesday. Mr.

Stegeman was a director and former board chairman of the Barrows Corp. of Cincinnati, which manufactures electric signs and components. was also co-founder of the Kent a metal products manufacturer, and was vice Wadsworth Watch Co. He was a former member of the Fort Thomas Planning Commission and former chairman of the Campbell County Chapter of the American Red Cross. Mr.

Stegeman was a member of the board of Highland United Methodist Church, Fort Thomas, a former member of the board of directors of Redwood School, and past president of the Highland Country Clytr Is survived by daughters, Mrs? Justine Romer, Cincinnati, and'Mri. Mary Relnermann, Clearwater, a sister, Mrs. Virginia Ross, and a brother, Robert Stegeman, Fort Thomas; 13 grand-children and four great-grandchildren. FUneral services will be 11 a.m. Saturday at Dobbllng Funeral Home, Fort Thomas.

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