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On Kentucky At Issue: Should Coroner Be Doctor Or Not? When the English detective, Sherlock Holmes, needed a medical diagnosis, he turned to one man, Dr. John: H. Watson, M.D. And, having a medical man as a "friend and colleague" of law enforcement officers in Kenton County like Watson was to Holmes has emerged as an issue in this primary election campaign. Dr.

E. L. Smith, Democrat, Kenton County coroner since 1953, is opposed this year by two non-medical men, Paul Seibert, a Democrat, and Republican James D. Catchen. both undertakers.

By statute, the job pays $9600 annually. The issue has prompted Kenton County Commonwealth Atty. John J. O'Hara the Campbell- Frank Weikel Squirrels Eyeing OBSERVATION DEPARTMENT: Noticed a lot of squirrels out the last couple of days. Sunday Eden Park had an unusually high number and Monday Washington Park had a few extra squirrels.

The observation was made while viewing Yippie Leader Jerry Rubin, who spoke at both locations. The firemen in St. Bernard get along well with each other when fighting fires but when it comes to television it's a different story. One firehouse has three shifts and one has its TV-set. When each shift is off, set is kept wits under lock and key.

Incidentally, two of the sets are color and one is black and white. SUGGESTION DEPARTMENT, I received a telephone call Monday from a restaurant owner in Fayetteville, Ohio, who is disturbed over the shooting down of an American intelligence plane by North Korea. Fred Curson of P. O. Box 34, Fayetteville, suggested that a "bounty" of $100,000 be placed on the man in North Korea who gave the order to attack the plane and another 000 on the pilot who shot the plane down.

THERE ARE A NUMBER of area music drama clubs that produce good local entertainment. Many of these clubs donate profits from their plays to aid worthwhile community projects. As an example take the COLERAIN MUSIC DRAMA GUILD. They recently turned over $1550 to five non-profit organizations. MAIL BAG: Hamilton County Treasurer Robert jacobs received the following letter in the mail: "I paid Federal and county taxes yesterday and felt I was being taxed to death until I licked the return envelope you provided for county taxes.

"I now feel I am being poisoned. Never before nave I tasted anything to equal the glue on your envelopes Try one of those envelopes and see if you don't agree that the glue adds insult to injury." It seems that most envelopes fall into this category. Perhaps a glue made with a taste of scotch or bourbon would case the pain of bill paying. Marty Kehoe Page 22 ton Medical Society for a pre-primary election endorsement of Dr. Smith.

The society is expected to act on May 8 well before the May 27 election. "YOU'VE GOT to have a doctor, someone with expertise in medicine, as coroner," O'Hara said. "Cause of death isn't always obvious as a bullet in the heart." TUESDAY, APRIL 22, JAMES OTT The chief prosecutor in the county, O'Hara also cited 1 the coroner's duties in such delicate matters as "rape studies when there is a need for a medical examination" as strictly the work for a doctor. Seibert who filed first last February in the Democratic primary agrees that the coroner should be a doctor. "I WAS under the impression that Dr.

Smith wasn't going to run, but he filed. Personally, I think the coroner should be a medical man, But under Kentucky law there is no requirement." An employee of Henry Linnemann Sons Funeral Home, Covington, and a captain on the Ludlow Life Squad, Seibert, 33, added, "I think that Dr. Smith's done a capable job myself. But if I win, you can 1969 PAGE 13 THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER and NEWS WOMEN'S MORE AREA NEWS ON FOLLOWING PAGE 600 GREENUP -Phone 261-6666 Capitol Hams Senators To Vie In Gastronomic Tests Of Home-State Porkers WASHINGTON (AP) It will be ham day in the Senate Wednesdayno disparaging pun intended. That's the day three senators, from Tennessee, Virginia, and Kentucky pit the reputations of their respective states as ham states against one another.

There'll be Tennessee ham provided by Sen. Howard H. Baker; Kentucky ham from Sen. Marlow W. Cook, and Virginia ham advanced by Sen.

Harry F. Byrd. be sure that I'd be fair and just, and have more coroner's inquests and juries." REPUBLICAN Catchen, 26, minced no words in his recent criticism of Dr. Smith. "In the past, whenever the coroner has been called, he has been taking his time getting there," Catchen told The Enquirer.

Catchen represents, a group of undertakers who are, in the words of one, "upset" with the handling of the coroner's office. An undertaker who preferred anonymity said that the "upset" is caused by a dispute over the county's contract with Linnemann Funeral Home, Erlanger, as the county undertaker. (Linnemann Funeral Home, Erlanger, is a separate corporation operated by G. E. (Bud) Linnemann.

The county pays a $100 fee to Lin- nemann for retriviing and embalming a body listed as a coroner's case.) "THINGS have changed," said Linnemann. "Years ago no one wanted this job. Now, it's profitable, but you don't get rich on it." Linnemann said that the $100 fee just covers costs of the average advantage in havabout, ing the contract, he admitted, lies in the generation of funeral busienss the firm would not have otherwise. SINCE THE bids were nearly identical, County Judge James A. Dressman Jr.

said that the court accepted the Linnemann bid because of Linnemann's 10-year experience at the county work. "The idea of a funeral director as coroner is idiotic," said Linnemann, "and you can quote me. It's not for a funeral director to conJecture whether a person died of a heart attack or a cerebral hemorrhage. It's a physician's job." As a way through the medical issue, Catchen has pledged to name a physician as a deputy coroner. He made the pledge at the insistence of Republican County Chairman John R.

S. Brooking, and Brooking claims to have a doctor prepared to be a deputy coroner. CATCHEN recently left employment at Hugenberg and Niemeyer Funeral Home, Covington. He is on vacation. Boone County's coroner, Ralph Stith, is the operator of the Stith Funeral Home, Florence.

His son, Don, is the deputy coroner. Campbel County Coroner is a physician, Dr. Fredrick Stine. Was Covington Pastor Fr. Judermanns Succumbs To Burns who retired three years ago, died Monday morning at the Cincinnati General Hospital.

The 84-year-old priest was burned over of his body Thursday in a fire that destroyed his Lookout Heights retirement home at 506 Bunker Ct. He me had been saved from possible immediate death by a neighbor who pulled him to safety. HE SUFFERED Judermanns second and third degree burns on his left side. Hook, Line, Sinker The weather was right for fishing, Newport Police Capt. Robert McScorley decided on his time off.

He went to his cellar for a tackle box which held fishing lures valued at $142. The box was missing. Then he remembered that someone had kicked in the cellar window on 9, and that he had replaced window. March. He said he didn't miss the fishing gear until he started looking for it.

He turned in a theft report then borrowed some of his son's gear for the fishing trip. Fr. Judermanns lived at the home with his sister, Miss Clara Judermanns, who was uninjured in the fire. After 56 years in the priesthood, Fr. Judermann's active service in the church terminated in 1966, when he retired as pastor of Covington's St.

Aloysius Church. In his 17 years at St. Aloysius one of his most noted accomplishments was the supervision of the church's extensive redecoration. FR. JUDERMANNS was born in 1882 in the France-Germany borderland environs city of Aachen, and in 1910 was ordained in the Malines Cathedral in Belgium.

After serving 10 years in his homeland area, he came to the United States and was admitted to the Catholic Diocese of Covington. His first year in the diocese was spent on a chaplaincy assignment at Mt. St. Martin's Home for Women, in Newport. Next he held pastorates at St.

Luke's, Nicholasville (1921-24), St. Leo's, Versailles (1924-34), and at the St. Joseph Church, Camp Springs (1934-39). He was then assigned to other duties until becoming pastor at St. Aloysius.

THE TRANSFORMATION of remains will be at p. m. Wednesday from the Middendorf Funeral Home to the St. Aloysius Church, where the Office of the Dead will be said at 10 a. m.

Thursday. Funeral mass of the concelebration will follow, with burial in St. Mary Cemetery, Ft. Mitchell. Besides Miss Clara Judermanns, he is survived by another sister, Mrs.

Katharine McNelis, Erie, and a brother, The Rev. Peter Judermanns, San Rosario, Argentina. 'Port' Board Outlines Terminal Renovations The three who have been arguing the respective merits of their state product will supply the Senate dining with free ham. Then a poll taken of rooms. the diners to determine which ham is best.

All three are predicting victory. Baker has hinted he has a surprise up his sleeve. He's also trying to win the media over to his side by promising to send a platter of Tennessee ham to the press galleries. The Kenton County Airport Board approved Monday expenditures totaling $75,646 for equipment and two parcels of land for Greater Cincinnati Airpot. In addition, it received a detailed report of planned improvements to the terminal building and adjacent areas, totaling $480,000.

improvements, subject to be These. Got Signals Crossed Solon Chides Nunn Forces For Political Flub BY SY RAMSEY Associated Press Writer FRANKFORT A Democratic mountain legislator relates how the forces of Gov. Louie B. Nunn outsmarted themselves in trying to block his re-election. First, he said, the Republicans persuaded a Democrat to run against the May 27 primary.

Then they routinely selected a Republican to head him off in November if he survives the primary. However, the GOP tacticians Agnew To Address Governors' Meet LEXINGTON President Spiro T. Agnew will make his first visit to Kentucky during the annual Republican Governors' Conference. will hold a news conference 30 and attend a reception Agnew, at Keeneland Race Track that evening. The following day he will deliver the keynote address at the conference.

88 88 8288 500 83 28 88 Interpretation failed to keep up to date on events in the area. They did not know the "Republican" they selected had registered as a Democrat. NOW HE merely will split votes with his Democratic colleagues and probably pave the way for the incumbent's renomination and automatic re-election without opposition in November. The incident could illustrate the futility of efforts to stop a resurgence of Demorcats in Antic the house, where the Democratic margin was only 57-43 in 1968. Realistic Republicans don't expect much success in the lower chamber and are resigned to losing perhaps 10 or more seats for the 1970 session.

BUT THE Senate is a different matter, and by a coincidence of timing appears to favor the GOP. All 100 House seats are up for election every two years, but only half of the 38 senatorial seats. Enquirer (Ran Cochran) Photo as it rotates to a selected section of the alphabet. No more stooping down for Covington policemenlike Lt. Arthur Heeger, shown at typewriter--to find the file on "some guy whose last name begins with Total cost of the recently installed equipment was about $3000.

approved by the board, will be made during the next several years. THE TWO land parcels that will be acquired under the airport's ongoing expansion program are the house and lot of William E. and Patricia L. Shirley, 704 Youell $19,200, and the house and lot of Mr. and Mrs.

Ray C. Harris, 730 Youell $16,000. New equipment to be purchased: a grass mower, $3136; a tractor for the mower, $5845; a half-ton pickup truck, $2559, and five four-door sedans and a station wagon, $14,674. WILLIAM REEVES, airport project manager, described the planned improvements as follows: Replacement of the terminal's passenger doors with air automatic, that will afford more entrance space. (The main doors now are used by 1,280,000 persons annually.

The airport has been experlencing a annual increase in In essence the 19 up for election this time are top heavy with senators who often fought Nunn, especially his two-cent increase in the sales tax. In contrast the holdovers contain many Nunn sympathizers. The 24-14 Democratic Senate majority is none too meaningful. The GOP does not aim for party gains as such, but for lawmakers who will cooperate with Nunn against Democratic Lt. Gov.

Wendell Ford, the Senate president, or will stay neutral. ONE OF the few Democrats who supported the governor last session and faces the voters this year is Sen. J. D. Buckman, of Shepherdsville.

His opponent is Bill Gentry, of Bardstown, who is backed by Ford, and a spirited primary contest is likely. Former Gov. Lawrence Wetherby, another Democrat who endorsed Nunn's tax, is not running again in the Frankfort area. Instead, the Republicans are concentrating on the defeat of Robert Hardy, of Frankfort, whose foes in the Democratic primary are Mack Walters, of Shelbyville, and Bill Horn, of Frankfort. Hardy headed the Democratic campaign in Kentucky last fall and emerged with praise for a hopeless task.

WALTERS has had little or nothing to do with the Nunn forces, but they are backing him merely to defeat Hardy and take their chances with someone less partisan. There is no Republican candidate in the district. In Western Kentucky, Senate President Pro Tem William Sullivan, of Henderson, faces opposition in the primary from J. Murray Blue, of Providence. Again, there is no GOP candidate.

Officials Hold Up On Ruling In Drowning The death of a young Covington woman, whose body was recovered from the Ohio River last week near Patriot, remained a mystery Monday. "The autopsy is complete," said Boone County Deputy Coroner Don Stith, "but we haven't determined the immediate cause of death yet." He said that further tests are being made by Kttering Laboratory, Cincinnati. "We should know more in a couple of days," added Stith. The victim was Mrs. Sharon Morris, 27, 11 W.

18th Covington, where she lived with her mother and stepfather, Mr. and Mrs. Ebin H. McDaniel. Mrs.

Morris, a divorcee, was the mother of two children. She had been missing since February 23. "There's nothing to indicate that anything was out of the ordinary." said Covington Detective Harry Seiter, who also is investigating the death. Sullivan is an all-out foe of the regime. Blue has been a senator, but not during a GOP administration.

No matter that Blue might have run anyway and is not. a Republican ally. The Nunn forces prefer him to Sullivan. It's that kind of primary. The Republicans are dabbling openly in Democratic senatorial races to try to elect politicians who at the very least won't be openly hostile to them.

passengers. MAIN LOBBY walls repainted. All concourses will be repaired and carpeted to improve their appearance and reduce maintenance. The south concourse walls may be wood-paneled. Students To 'Assume' Campbell Co.

Offices Campbell county commissioners disclosed plans Monday to take part in a Government Day program at 2 p. m. May 5 at the Campbell County High School. Alexandria, where some 350 pupils from that school and from Bishop Brossart High School will observe regular fiscal court proceedings. Deputy Sheriff Dan Smith, Alexandria, is arrangements chairman for the event.

The two schools will elect from their students persons who will serve as acting officials of the county government and who will sit in on actual court sessions that day. The same evening, as another feature of Government Day in Campbell County, a mock trial will be staged at Mentor School, with Circuit Judges Fred Warren and Paul Stapleton, and Fiscal Judge A. J. Jolly among officials in the cast of characters. At their business meeting Monday afternoon, the county commissioners voted to leave unchanged in the coming year the salaries of all fiscal court elected officials.

Bill Edwards, Mentor, an employee of Louis Trauth Dairy was appointed citizen member of the Campbell County Budget Commission. Other members, by virtue of their offices, are Judge Jolly and County Atty, George Muehlenkamp. Commissioner Al Schneider submitted the motion for Edwards' appointment. Department heads were instructed to submit their budgets to the budget commission early in May. Final action must be taken July 1.

The commissioners heard complaints from Mrs. Marie Wilson, member of the county Planning and Tuesday Movies MADISON THEATER Romeo And Juliet. LIBERTY THEATER- Hell's Belles: The Brute And The MARIANNE. Angel In My Pocket.VILLAGE CINEMA Romeo And Juliet. FLORENCE DRIVE-IN- -Angel in My Pocket; In Enemy Country.

DIXIE GARDENS--Hell's Belles: The Brute And The Beast. PIKE 27 AUTO Angel In My Pocket: Shakiest Gun In The West. Zoning Commission, about drainage conditions which damaged private property along Gary Lane near Cold Spring during recent heavy rain. Commissioner Schneider asked the county to obtain estimates on cost of painting the Alexandria Courthouse. Commissioner Joe Schwalbach submitted a similar request for an estimate on cost of painting trim on the fiscal court building in Newport.

A resolution adopting the 1968 edition of the National Electric Code was approved. The code contains standards of the National Board of Fire Underwriters for electrical wiring and apparatus. Rights Group Urges Schools To Hire Negroes FRANKORT (P) The state Human Rights Commission called on Kentucky school superintendents to hire teachers from among the 325 Negroes graduating from Kentucky colleges this spring. Executive Director Galen Martin said that the commission was distressed that some local Kentucky school districts still make no effort even to hire graduating Negro teachers who are from their own districts. Recruiters from 11 school systems as far away as California, Florida, Michigan, and Nevada visited the predominantly Negro Kentucky State College in February, the commission said, while only six Kentucky school systems recruited there during the entire school year.

Those six systems were Bullitt, Fayette, Jefferson, Nelson, and Oldham County systems, and the Louisville system. Negro pupils comprise of Kentucky's total pupil population, the commission noted, while Negro teachers and other professional staff make up only 5.1% of the total professional staff. A To (Groan) IF YOU were arrested in Covington since the 1930s, chances are that your name is on one of more than 50,000 little white cards in the new electronic manipulated file in the city police department's Bureau of Identification. The new file remains at waist length.