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C-4 METRO THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER Tuesday, May 3 1 1983 New Head Of Ohio Lottery To Look Into Video Game Lawsuit A Matter Of Honor Group Rejects Pregnant Student COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP)-The new director of the Ohio Lottery believes the key to increased lottery profits may lie in video games. Thomas Chema, the 36-year-old Cleveland lawyer who will take over as director of the Ohio Lottery on June 15, said he wants to study whether electronic video lottery games would be a profitable addition to the lottery. Chema said video technology has been adapted to games that pay cash, similar to slot machines. But adding them to the lottery line would probably require a change in Ohio law. CHEMA SAID studying state law for possible changes to enhance lottery operations was a prime directive when Gov.

Richard Celeste gave him the Job. "The governor wants an aggressive review of all the legislative parameters affecting the lottery," Chema said. But adding electronic games isn't something he would rush into, Chema said. He said he will first study equipment costs, how much personnel training is involved, and operating and maintenance expenses. Chema said he also will study lotteries in 15 other states, especially those that return higher profits than Ohio's, to see if any practices here should be changed.

The Ohio Lottery is expected to set a sales record this week for the fourth straight year. "We have become an $8-million-a-week business," said William Bailey, the lottery's marketing director. "AND WE expect soon to be in the $10-million-a-week area," added John Forristal, who was acting director until last week, when Celeste replaced him with Chema. The lottery produces more revenue for the state than any other agency and does so at extremely low cost. "We pay back to the economy 89 cents-on the dollar," said Bailey.

"That's 48 cents to the winners plus 41 cents to the state's general revenue fund. Then we pay (a) 5 cents commission on each dollar to our agents who sell the tickets. "People talk about the long odds," he said. "Well, Vegas pays 80 cents on the dollar to its bettors. We pay 89 cents." i Medicare Plan Worries XENIA, Ohio (AP)-An 18-year-old Xenla High School senior has filed suit against school offi-' cials, charging that they violated her rights by removing her from the National Honor Society (NHS) because she was pregnant.

Ellen Elliot, who was removed from the school's NHS chapter last fall, filed suit earlier this month seeking reinstatement. Last week, a Common Pleas judge denied her request for temporary reinstatement, something that would have allowed her to wear a special gold tassel during commencement exercises May 26. The National Honor Society, founded in 1921 by the National Association of Secondary School Principals, chooses members on the basis of scholarship, leadership, citizenship, service and character. Each year college scholarships are awarded to top-ranking senior members. Principal Ronald L.

Roth, one of the defendants in the suit, said Miss Elliot was notified by letter Oct. 11, 1982, that she was to be removed from the society. Although NHS guidelines require six weeks' warning prior to removal, they permit immediate removal for flagrant violations. "I would consider this flagrant," Roth said. Roth said a committee deter-mlned that Miss Elliot had violated NHS standards for leadership and character.

School Superintendent Roderick Rice said officials removed Miss Elliot due to her pregnancy because they wanted to eliminate bad examples from the school's society. David Cox, attorney for the school board and other defendants, said Miss Elliot is not currently eligible for NHS membership because her scholastic standing has dropped below minimum requirements. Roth said her grade point average fell below 3.25 for two consecutive quarters, which is grounds for dismissal from the society. C. Douglas Mort, Miss Elliot's attorney, said her removal from the society denies her the advantage NHS membership might provide when she attempts to go to college.

National News I I'lt (I'll n74iw sh Act, will force hospital managers to be more careful. "This is the most dramatic change in a medical-care reimbursement program since the inception of Medicare in 1966," said Frank A. Butler, director of the University of Kentucky Albert B. Chandler Medical Center at Lexington. Under the current system, through which the government pays for many of the hospital costs incurred by the elderly, some Kentucky hospitals have been receiving as much as 60 of their revenue from Medicare.

Nationwide, the hospital industry has been receiving between 35 and 40 of its business from the program. MIKE ABELL, administrator at Louisville's St. Anthony Hospital, where more than half of the patients are on Medicare, said that heMl keep records of tests and other services ordered by doctors for patients. "I plan on making sure (that) when a physician is completely out of kilter from all other physicians, he either gets in line, or we may have to think in terms of limiting his admissions," Abell said. AP Laserphoto RIDING HIGH: Charles W.

Buechele of Newbury Township and his daughter, Lisa, 10, ride boneshakers, bicycles popular in the 1890s. Over the weekend, the bicycles were used to mark a Gay '90s art festival in Elyria, Ohio. i it FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP)-A new government plan to finance care for Medicare recipients is designed to give hospitals and doctors the incentive to hold the line on spiraling costs. But one Kentucky hospital administrator predicts the changes also might force some of the more poorly managed facilities to "go belly up." Under the changes, promoted by the Reagan administration and scheduled to take effect in October, the government will pay Just specific amounts for each of several hundred types of illnesses and procedures.

Hospitals, for example, will receive the same amount for gall bladder operations, no matter how many tests a patient receives or the length of the hospital stay. IF TREATMENT costs are less than the amount given by the government, the hospitals may keep the money. But if costs exceed the payment, the hospitals will take a loss. A harbinger of the changes came last year when the government limited the overall Medicare reimbursement for an institution. And the new plan, which was approved earlier this year in amendments to the U.S.

Social Security AP Laserphoto Festival Crowd Leaves Park A 'Filthy Mess' Nevada Mudslide Kills One Person Hospitals Paul Osborne, executive director of the federally financed Kentucky Peer Review Organization, which conducts annual reviews of Medicare patients' hospital files, said that hospitals will have to aim for getting patients out more quickly than they have been. And that aim, he said, will give his group something new to look for. "We're going to have to review whether the patient got enough service, rather than too much," Osborne said. THERE ALSO will be the potential for a slowdown in development of medical technology, Osborne said, explaining that some hospitals might be reluctant to take on new, unproven services. Jerry C.

Miller, administrator of Westlake Cumberland Hospital at Columbia, said he thinks hospitals that have been counting federal aid for the bulk of their revenue might find rough times ahead. "There will be hospitals that will go belly up," Miller said. "It will happen particularly with hospitals on the Eastern Seaboard, where costs are high, and I think there will be some in Kentucky." from fractures to drug overdoses and heat exposure. GROSE SAID a 12-year-old San Diego girl suffered fractured ribs and a broken clavicle when she was run over by a car as she slept in a sleeping bag In a parking lot Monday morning. Apple computer designer Steve Woznlak, who bankrolled the festival, said he had had enough.

Woznlak said he could lose up to $10 million this year, just as he did at the first festival last year. "I will not bankroll another one myself," he said. Sponsors of the concert estimated Sunday's attendance at 300,000 but the San Francisco Chronicle and the Los Angeles Times both reported that, according to sources in the ticket sales operation, attendance was no more than 165,000. James Dean Estel, 23, of Pomona was beated to death. He was hit early Sunday with a pipe or tire iron after an apparent dispute over a drug sale, Tidwell said.

Estel died Sunday afternoon at San Bernardino Community Hospital. DAVID MICHAEL Planton, 22, of Orange County, and a 17-year-old female companion were both booked for investigation of murder, Sheriff Floyd Tldwell said. The girl's name was withheld because of her age. An 18-year-old security guard was hospitalized with a skull fracture sustained In an early-morning fight Monday involving two other guards, San Bernardino police said. Poisoning 3 1 I fjyj i Yb I.

)V' ft i -J A tx v. RENO, Nev. (AP)-A waterlogged mountain gave way Monday and sent a 15 foot "wall of water" and mud barreling through a recreational area crowded with Memorial Day picnickers, killing at least one person and injuring several others. As it cascaded down the hillside, the mud flooded two lakes, carried trees and other debris three miles to the bottom and fanned out another 1H miles into farm fields below, flinging boulders, a horse trailer and an unoccupied bus in its path. There was only one confirmed death in the slide, which occurred at 10:45 a.m.

on Slide Mountain on the east flank of the Sierra Nevada between Reno and Carson City, said Washoe County Sheriff's Lt. Ernie Jesch. JESCH SAID between six and eight people were known to be injured. In addition to seven homes, the slide destroyed nine vehicles and one motor home, Sheriff's Sgt. Jeff Wise said.

The mud extended across U.S. Highway 395 in the agricultural Washoe Valley, and the road was closed. The slide occurred just north of two state parks busy with Memorial Day picnickers but, contrary to early reports, did not af-' feet the parks. The area Included the slide was part of the Toiyabe National Forest and is used for hiking, picnicking and horseback riding. "Particularly being the Memorial Day weekend, there were a lot of people in the area BY YARDENA ARAR Associated Press DEVORE, Calif.

(AP)-A wild crowd of up to 300,000 hurled rocks and bottles and tore down fences Monday at the US Festival, where one person also was beaten to death and a security guard fractured his skull In a fight with fellow guards. Authorities said the crowd breaking up from a heavy metal concert by Van Halen tore down fences, tossed objects at each other and sheriff's deputies and crashed their cars into police cars. They left the hillside site in what one spectator called a "filthy, disgusting mess." "THEY WERE wild when they came out," said San Bernardino County Sheriff's Capt. Philip-Schuyler. "We were real fortunate to avert a real disaster." By Monday night, there had been 125 arrests since the start of the three-day outdoor rock festival at Glen Helen Regional Park.

More than half were for felonies ranging from assault to drug sales. But, San Bernardino County Sheriff Floyd Tldwell said after the concert broke up, "There'd be more crime than that In a big city The positive news is that things are going pretty well. It could have been worse no riot problems." At least 2,429 people had sought medical attention at eight first-aid centers and a field hospital. Medical co-ordinator Dean Grose said only 28 people required hospitalization for injuries ranging Show Lead and we don't have any accurate count of Just how many," Wise said. The slide occurred when a snow-covered portion of Slide Mountain gave way and crashed into Upper Price Lake, Forest Service Ranger H.B.

"Doc" Smith said. The mud and debris formed a dam in the lake that eventually gave way, sending the muck Into Lower Price Lake, which, in turn overflowed. The result was a 5-foot-to-15-foot "wall of water" and mud that collected trees and other debris as lt crashed down the hillside, Smith said. WASHOE VALLEY resident Anne Ogilvy said she fled the mud and watched helplessly as her $200,000 house was crushed with mud and debris. "I heard a rumbling, and I didn't think anything of Mrs.

Ogilvy said. "A second later I ran out and saw this stuff coming down and toward me. And so I ran off and hid on a little hill. There was clearly nothing I could do but get out of the way." One of the injured, Kathleen Kline, 61, was flown by helicopter to Washoe Medical Center, where she was In satisfactory condition with a leg injury, according to hospital spokesman Jack Bu-lavsky. Rescue workers were being assisted by helicopters from the nearby Fallon Naval Air Station, and the Red Cross and Salvation Army were helping co-ordinate relief efforts.

22; and an uncle, Albert Kenneth Johnson, 53. Webb, who surrendered to authorities Sunday, was being held in the Polk County Jail on Monday in lieu of $300,000 bail. His wife, Linda Sue Webb, was held as a material witness in lieu of $50,000 bail. Funeral services were held in Benton for David Parks, 38, and his 36-year-old wife, Judy Parks. Prayers were said in nearby Cleveland for William Lee "Pee Wee" Burns, 38; Doris Burns Longmire, 29; Dixie Freeman, 21; Sybil Dug-gan, 34; and David Webb.

A HEAVY METAL rock fan gyrates to the sound of rock group Judas Priest on Sunday during the second day of the US Festival at Glen Helen Regional Park in Devore, Calif. Thousands filled the festival bowl to hear the sounds of groups like the Scorpions and Van Halen. Victims Of Explosion Buried Ancient Roman Bones scientific study. In her analysis, Dr. Bisel found that the bones contained a mean level of 84 parts of lead per million.

In contrast, the bones of some prehistoric people discovered in a Greek cave contained only three parts per million of lead. (Various studies have reported finding 20 to 50 parts per million in the bones of typical modern Americans and Britons.) DR. SARA C. Bisel, a classical archeologist and physical anthropologist from Rochester, reported these findings in a lecture at the' annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The discovery of" the skeletons at the Mediterranean seacoast town of Herculaneum was announced last fall.

They were victims of the same volcanic eruption that destroyed Pompeii. Dr. Bisel has now examined the bones of 55 victims-30 adult males, 13 adult females, and 12 children. Another 75 skeletons have been found but not excavated. Because the Romans practiced cremation, thus leaving no cemeteries, this is the largest group of ancient Roman skeletons ever subjected to modern BY JOHN NOBLE WILFORD 1983, N.Y.

Times News Service DETROIT A chemical analysis of skeletons of Romans killed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 indicates that, although they were generally healthy and well-nourished people, some of them may have suffered chronic lead poisoning, an American archeologist reported here Monday. This is the first direct physical evidence that seems to support the popular hypothesis that lead poisoning, which can cause mental retardation and erratic behavior, contributed to the downfall of the Roman Empire. Historical records reveal that Roman food and wine were heavily contaminated with lead. BENTON, Tenn.

(AP)-Seven of 11 people killed when a fireworks factory hidden on a worm "farm blew up were burled Monday, as investigators questioned relatives and other people in town. Dan Lee Webb, 30, owner of Webb Bait Farm, which investigators say fronted for an illegal fireworks factory, has been charged with 11 counts of manslaughter in connection with Friday's explo- sion. Webb, who was reported out of town when the explosion occur-' red lost his mother, Beatrice Webb, 51; a brother, David Webb, ABNORMAL AMOUNTS of lead today are usually traced t6 leaded gasoline emissions and the accidental ingestion of leaded paint, and they are detected through examination of blood and hair samples..

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