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A 10 TH COURIER-JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1984 Reagan will visit Cincinnati for campaign rally on Monday Draft plank puts Republicans on record against tax increase New law puts the squeeze on offenders Bomb suspect is police officer Continued from Page One were questioning some men loitering near a downtown building. His bulletproof vest stopped the slug, and he suffered only a bruised chest. And 10 years ago, while employed by Western Electric, he rescued a man while scuba diving for scallops Associattd Prass CINCINNATI President Reagan, seeking support in what is considered a key state in his re-election drive, plans to visit Cincinnati on Monday to attend a campaign rally and view the expansion of Procter Gamble headquarters. The White House said yesterday that Reagan is to arrive at the Greater Cincinnati International Airport in Boone County, at midday. State Sen.

Stanley J. Aronoff, a Cincinnati Republican who plans to greet the president at the airport, said Reagan's visit is in line with the strategy previous Republican presidents have used to win in Ohio. "He wants to sock in that solid, conservative urban vote that is necessary to carry Ohio," Aronoff said. James Ruvolo, chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party, said Reagan's Cincinnati visit won't keep the Democrats from winning Ohio. "I think that Ohio's going to be a heavily contested state.

I think we're in very good shape," Ruvolo said by telephone from Columbus. "We're going to beat him in Ohio. He can come all he wants." Reagan plans to visit the downtown site of the Procter Gamble building, being built across the street from the company's current headquarters. Reagan "is interested in taking a look at revitalization and downtown buildings, and since we've got the biggest and the best, he's going to see it," company spokesman Bob Nor-rish said. He said details of the ceremony to welcome Reagan are still being worked out.

Reagan is to attend a Reagan-Bush campaign rally at Fountain Square, a popular downtown gathering place several blocks from the Procter Gamble offices, before leaving the city. Reagan's Cincinnati visit is the latest sign of increased interest in wooing Ohio voters by both his campaign and that of Democratic presidential hopeful Walter F. Mondale. Mondale visited Toledo last week, and he and his running mate, Rep. Geraldine Ferraro of New York, addressed the National Urban League convention in Cleveland on July 31.

Continued from Page One support early yesterday for a carefully crafted plank voicing solid opposition to tax increases but giving the president maneuvering room. "I think the language is totally consistent with what the president, the vice president and everyone at this convention has been saying," Lewis told reporters. But with the ink on the compromise barely dry, members of the platform subcommittee used a comma to stengthen the language. The compromise plank had read: "We oppose any attempts to increase taxes which would harm the recovery and reverse the trend to restoring control of the economy to individual Americans." The panel inserted a comma after the word taxes, altering the sentence's meaning. The revised plank, rather than saying the party opposes any tax increase that would harm recovery, says that any tax increase would harm recovery and thereby be opposed.

Talking about the crucial comma, Lott said, "I think we're splitting the salami too thin," but he said he thought the White House could live with the comma. He also noted that another amendment adopted yesterday this one stating "We foresee no economic circumstances which would call for increased taxation" goes the other way and gives the president even more flexibility. In Los Angeles, chief White House spokesman Larry Speakes suggested that any action taken by Reagan would be guided by his statement Sunday that taxes should be raised only as a "last resort," regardless of what the GOP platform says. "We got everything we want," said Rep. Newt Gingrich of Georgia, leader of a band of ultraconserva-tive Republican House members who had insisted all along on an ironclad statement against tax increases.

Meanwhile, an attempt to commit the GOP to support a new Equal Rights Amendment died in another subcommittee when no one would second a motion by Bill Hughes, a delegate from Colorado, to add an ERA plank. In addition, platform drafters went even further than the White House-blessed draft on anti-abortion language. On a 11-3 vote, the subcommittee on human resources and opportunities voted to adopt a plank committing Reagan to continue to appoint judges who respect "the sanctity of innocent human life." The original draft had only applauded Reagan's determination to appoint judges who hold such a view. Another subcommittee voted to abolish the Department of Energy a plank that had been in the 1980 platform but which the Reagan administration had backed away from. The drafters also declared that the Soviet Union has violated several arms-control agreements negotiated over the last dozen years, and that, in response, the United States should not be constrained by the same agreements.

The same section of the platform says the Republicans "pledge to do everything necessary so that, in case of conflict, the United States would clearly prevail." On domestic issues, one drafting subcommittee, on a vote of 6-4, affirmed a student's "right to engage in voluntary prayer in schools." The same group skirted the issue of busing to achieve racial balance in schools, saying that the party is "committed to excellence in education for all our children within their own communities and neighborhoods. No child should be assigned to, or barred from, a school because of race," the draft language says. Lott said he was not surprised delegates were amending the platform draft and making it more conservative. "We don't pull strings on our delegates like puppets. In the end, the delegates will write the platform, not the president." In all, seven subcommittees worked on a proposed platform draft yesterday.

The full panel is to work on the document today and tomorrow to prepare it for submission to the Republican National Convention next week. Morehead president reassigns 5 top officials in reorganization JIMMY WADE PEARSON Courageous act at Los Angeles was a fraud off the coast of Ensenada, Mexico. Pearson discovered the man semiconscious and clinging to a ledge 60 feet under water. He gave the man his mouthpiece to breathe with, and then swam upwards with the man in tow. During the Olympics, Pearson worked with a special detail assigned to protect foreign dignitaries and "high-risk athletes." Announcement of Pearson's arrest came just hours after a man who spoke English with an accent called the Paris bureaus of The Associated Press and United Press International to claim responsibility for the bomb attempt on behalf of the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia.

Middlesboro schools get superintendent Associatad Press MIDDLESBORO, Ky. A northern Ohio school superintendent has been named superintendent of the Middlesboro schools, starting today. Dwight C. Henn succeeds Jack Clifford, who stepped down June 30, in the office. Henn has been superintendent of a school system near Port Clinton on Lake Erie for nine years and was superintendent of a district near Union City, Ohio, for three years before that.

He has a bachelor's degree from Manchester College in North Manchester, a master's degree from Wittenberg College in Springfield, Ohio; and a doctorate in education from the University of Cincinnati. Frank Chumley, assistant superintendent at Middlesboro, had applied for the district's top job, but withdrew his application after the school board split over hiring him. id candid manner and with a sense of fairness to everyone concerned. These persons have given dedicated service to the university, and the decision to make the changes was not personal." Appointed acting vice presidents were Dr. William M.

Whitaker, academic affairs, and Dr. Stephen S. Taylor, student affairs. Whitaker is currently dean of the School of Business and Economics, and Taylor is director of counseling, testing and evaluation services. Reinhard said national searches will be conducted for those two positions and also for the position of vice president for administrative and fiscal affairs, which was vacated by last month's reassignment of John Graham.

Permanent appointments to all three vice president posts are expected by Jan. 1, Reinhard said. The proposed reorganization will be unveiled to Morehead faculty and staff members on Friday. They will be asked to respond in writing by Aug. 31.

Included in the proposed reorganization is a reduction in the number of academic deans from seven to four through the conversion of six academic schools to two colleges and one school, the news release said. Associattd Prass MOREHEAD, Ky. Morehead State University President Herb F. Reinhard yesterday reassigned five top-level administrators and proposed a university reorganization, a spokesman said. Four administrators were immediately assigned to faculty positions and one vice president was appointed as Reinhard's temporary special assistant, according to a news release.

Reassigned were Dr. Walter Emge, vice president for academic affairs; Burford Crager, vice president for student affairs; Dr. Reedus Back, dean of graduate programs; Dr. Charles Payne, dean of the School of Sciences and Mathematics; and Dr. Alban Wheeler, dean of the School of Social Sciences.

The position of Philip Conn, vice president for university and regional services, will be eliminated about Oct. 1 through reorganization, the news release said. He will become a special assistant to the president for three months and then a full-time faculty member in January, the release said. Reinhard said the personnel changes are designed to "streamline the administrative structure." He said the changes were not easy to make, adding, "they indeed have been made in a very open and Pulaski will start school tax Continued from Page One they are right now," Farber says. Some first offenders also are finding themselves with jail sen tences as well.

Schulten says those sentences are being levied against people with past drunken driving arrests, but who remain technically first offenders because the charges were amended to other offenses, such as public intoxication. "There won't be many first of fenders with records like that who aren't given some jail time, Schulten says. There also will be fewer charges amended to public intoxi cation because the jail term under the new law gives prosecutors a stronger bargaining position, according to Assistant County Attorney Karl Victor. "Nobody wants to go to jail," Victor says, and that makes de fendants and their lawyers much more agreeable when they are offered a suspended sentence in exchange for a guilty plea to drunk en driving. Farber believes the threat of jail time also is responsible for defendants' reluctance to ask for jury trials.

"I thought there was going to be a glut, quite frankly. But most people seem to be biting the bul let," he says. Farber says a lot of lawyers have been asking for continu ances to give them time to exam ine the best approaches to the new law. Attorney Robert Had dad, who has represented some people charged with drunken driving, says that's the pattern with any new statute. "It's too early to determine what the effects will be," Haddad says.

"Everybody's at the stage where they're taking a good hard look at the law." Lawyers and court officials agree that several sections of the law require a second look. Some of them are not likely to stand legal tests, they say. The law's requirement of a mandatory $500 bail for out-of- state drivers already has been declared unconstitutional by a district judge in Hart County. Another legal question lies in the definition of a second offender, who faces harsher sentences under the new law. Is a second offender someone who has been convicted once under the old law and once under the new, or must both convictions be under the new statute? Farber says Jefferson District Court has adopted the first inter pretation, but many attorneys feel the second is the more valid approach.

The 30-day license revocation poses another problem: Drivers enrolling in driver's school are likely to have to wait a great deal longer than 30 days to complete the school and get their licenses reinstated. A driver may not even apply to the school until all fines are paid and admission may take as long as three weeks. Applying for and receiving li cense reinstatement will take even more time. "Except for the wealthy (who can pay fines immediately), you're talking well in excess of 30 days," Victor says. Equally uncertain is the effect the law will have on reducing the incidence of drunken driving.

County police spokesman Bob Yates says it will take at least a to compile valid statistics, because drunken driving arrests traditionally fluctuate radically. Ultimately its the drunken driver who will determine the law's success or failure. One man who pleaded guilty last week and received a six-day sentence along with his fines said he knew about the tougher penalties before he drove while he was drunk. "I was only a mile from my house when I got caught," he says. I thought I would make it." Pineville mayor defends constraints on overtime pay Associated Prtss PINEVILLE, Ky.

Mayor Robert Madon says financial problems that led five of Pineville's 10 policemen to resign last month were unavoidable. The city began the last fiscal year $252,000 in debt, and, Madon said, employees were told not to work overtime without his permission. "And I wasn't authorizing any," he said. Nevertheless, said former Assistant Police Chief Bruce Thompson, who resigned, "We were required to work overtime and were not being paid for it. Every day something was coming up." Police Chief David Hoskins said emergencies included spring floods, escapes from the Bell County Jail and construction projects requiring traffic control.

Thompson said "it doesn't seem like anything except the police department is being cut." However, Madon said other departments kept overtime low while the police department, representing one-sixth of the city's $600,000 annual budget, persistently overspent. One of the five policemen has returned to work. The other four, including Thompson, who now owns a firearms store, have been replaced. Continued from Page One ber who originally voted against the tax, said many people don't know about it yet. "They'll fuss when they get their tax bill this fall," he predicted.

But "then they'll probably accept it," he said. "We all tend to accept what's put on us." Joann Akers of the state Department of Education predicted that Pulaski County's lead will be followed by every other system charging less than the 15-cent tax. "They have too much money involved," she said. Most of the systems affected have already promised to levy the minimum tax, said Mrs. Akers, unit director of local district calcuations.

The state department has heard from most of the nearly 50 districts that have less than the 15-cent tax that they intend to meet the minimum levy, she said. The department is still waiting to hear from Adair, Casey, Clark, Lewis, Livingston and Whitley counties and from the Berea independent school system, Mrs. Akers said. A Courier-Journal check of those school systems found that boards of all but those in Whitley and Clark have indicated a willingness to impose the higher property tax. The school board in Menifee County, the Kentucky county with the state's highest unemployment rate, voted to impose the higher tax rate in June, Superintendent Susan Leib said.

Their final vote will come when they get state certification for the tax rate sometime this fall. Ms. Leib said she hears no complaint from taxpayers. Noting that the system needs some upgrading, she said only half of the county's high school freshman eventually graduate. Among the improvements the system will make this year, she said, are that students will be sent to ad Show Your Team Spirit With Mascot Sweaters Reg.

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how their boards will vote on the 15-cent tax. Clark County's taxpayers already pay 9.1 cents per $100 assessed property value to the school system, Superintendent Donald Pace said. Last year, the system got more than $300,000 in power-equalization funds. "They will be looking at it very closely," Pace said of the board and the tax increase. In Whitley County, a more substantial tax increase will be needed to retain the county's state allocation.

But the county stands to become one of the two-time winners. Because its tax rate is now so low, and because part of the state's formula involves a sort of matching-fund process, it does not get all the power-equalization money it could get. If the Whitley County board increases local property taxes to 15 cents, the school system could not only bring in $233,000 in new local taxes, it could add $258,000 more in power-equalization money, Whitley County finance officer Roscoe Cro-ley said. That means the system could have almost $500,000 more to work with this fiscal year, he said. Superintendent Ernie Siler said he hopes the five-member board will go along.

"I think the $491,000 would definitely help," he said. In 1980, the system went to the voters for a tax increase and was turned down, he said. If they got the chance to vote, they'd turn down a tax increase again, he predicted. While Siler said he couldn't predict how the board will vote, he pointed out that taxpayers will get a chance to cast a ballot on the issue: Three board members are up for reelection this November. Ohio, said yesterday that the commission approved the order at the request of the agency's legal department.

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The state closed it Aug. 3 for reasons unrelated to the i charge against Hodge. Brad Hughes, a spokesman for the Cabinet for Human Resources, said there were problems with the operation of the home and lack of supervision of the children. This is the second time in two weeks that an operator of a state-supervised foster-care home has been arrested for alleged sexual involvement with residents. On Aug.

2, Roy Snider, 41, also of Lebanon Junction, was charged with three counts of statutory rape involving teen-age girls who stayed at the emergency-care foster home he and his wife ran for a year..