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Page C4, Thursday, September 4, 1997 The Beacon Journal Smoke Drive-through boss doesn't mind ID check Continued from Page CI 38 percent in 1995, and 24 percent last year. The August survey (or compliance check) was conducted in 33 Ohio counties. The Ohio Health Department has not received the counties' results yet. But Ron Sherwood, director of the Health Department's Tobacco Risk Reduction Program, said he expects noncompliance rates to drop throughout Ohio this year by at least 3 percent, and probably more because of the ongoing negative publicity surrounding smoking and tobacco companies. In past years, police involved in the checks have issued citations on the spot that cost some retailers up to $1,000 in fines.

Police were not involved this year because it would have involved the "cooperation of more police departments than in past years, and there was some concern that the cent among eighth-grade students from 1991 to 1994, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. The Ohio Health Department reported in 1993 that 24 percent of all high school students smoked every day. Kathleen Kelley, executive director of the Akron-Canton Area branch of the American Lung Association, said education is the key to persuading young people to avoid tobacco. When teens have difficulty buying tobacco, Kelley said, they find an adult to make the purchase for them.

But Kelley said, the health departments' joint effort to boost retailers' compliance is not in vain. "It begins to create an image of unacceptance," Kelley said. stores would hear about the compliance checks ahead of time. Diablo's Drive Thru in Barberton was one of the 100 stores that refused to sell cigarettes to a minor who tried to buy them. Diablo's manager Abed Okab said he doesn't smoke, doesn't want his children to smoke and does not mind asking customers for proper ID when they try to buy tobacco.

"It's not a hassle to check an ED," Okab said. "It's a hassle for the customers. A lot of them (minors) have fake IDs so it's getting harder and harder (to determine their age). They cuss you on the way out and call you all kinds of stuff." In contrast to the survey's promising results, national statistics show that smoking is gaining in popularity among minors. Smoking increased by 30 per ST.

died within days if she had not been given the new liver on Monday, said Dr. Michael Henderson, director of the Transplant Center at the Cleveland Clinic. Her liver had failed. "Her name was put at the top of the organ procurement list because of her need," he said. "This was an example of the system working just as it should." Brezina picked the mushrooms along a city street and prepared them in a meal for three friends who work in her Cleveland Heights restaurant All four suffered cramps, vomiting and diarrhea and were taken to hospitals.

Meuay Vandy, 25, of Cleveland, was in fair condition yesterday in the Cleveland Clinic and also was expected to recover fully, doctors said. The other two victims were released earlier this week. The mushrooms, known as "death angels," resemble a harmless type of mushroom that grows in Brezina's homeland of Laos. Medina Former dentist at jail is indicted on charge A former Medina County Jail dentist accused of inappropriately touching a jail nurse on July 26 has been indicted on a misdemeanor charge of sexual imposition. Dr.

William A. Nichols, 56, was indicted last week by a county grand jury on the third-degree misdemeanor charge. If convicted, he would face up to 60 days in jail. Medina County Common Pleas Judge Judith Cross transferred the case to Medina Municipal Court on Friday because the charge is a misdemeanor, court records show. No date has been set for Nichols' arraignment, municipal court officials said.

Medina Sheriffs Lt. David Baker said yesterday he has been ordered not to release any information about the case and referred questions to Municipal Prosecutor John Lohn. Lohn said that he had no information about the alleged incident, and that a sheriffs officer asked him not to comment on the pending case. l-i- JfW I A i I 3 br jip il 1 "1- ,6 pill I 1 SvCwL 2l 11 in mi i mul rj wl mumm jP is 1 1 J'l If I'j 1 1 I'll Akron Man held in shooting of ex-girlfriend A 30-year-old Akron man who allegedly tried to kill his 17-year-old ex-girlfriend was being held in the Summit County Jail in lieu of $50,000 bail. Joe N.

Broadnax of Hartford Avenue was charged with attempted aggravated murder after Akron police arrested him about 1:30 am. yesterday on Fulton Street The police said the victim, Nicole C. Martin of Wooster Avenue, was shot five times after Broadnax walked up to a front porch of a home on Florida Place where she was sitting and began shooting. Martin was shot in the stomach, arms and legs, the police said. She was in serious condition at Akron General Medical Center.

Plain 1p. Cub Scout secretary charged with forgery The secretary of Cub Scout Pack 34 in Plain Township, who is charged with forgery and the theft of more than $5,000 from the pack's checking account, pleaded innocent in Canton Municipal Court yesterday. A preliminary hearing was set for Sept. 11 at 2:30 p.m. for Natalie Ann Weber, 30, of Nimishillen Township.

She was arrested at her home Tuesday morning and was released from the Stark County Jail on a $5,000 bond Tuesday afternoon. Stark County Sheriffs Capt. Rick Perez said he was notified Aug. 5 that Weber, who had a child in Cub Scouts, may have been writing checks to herself on the pack's account, forging the signature of Cub Master Walter Pittman. Perez said he was able to verify that at least $5,000 had disappeared from the account in the past year, but bank statements may show there was more.

The Cub Scouts earned money through popcorn sales, ticket sales for a Scout-O-Rama and a parent-son cake bake sale. They used the money for scout activities. Franklin TW. Akron pair captured after chase in Tenn. Two brothers who had escaped detection for 18 months were brought back to Summit County yesterday from Nashville, to face charges in connection with the robbery at gunpoint of a woman and her grandson in her home.

Brothers Gary Lee Noble, 30, and Ted Noble, 33, formerly of Akron, will appear today in Barberton Municipal Court on the charges after waiving extradition in Nashville, where they were captured after a police chase. They were identified by people who had seen their pictures in a segment on the television show Unsolved Mysteries, said Franklin Police Chief Dan Davidson. He said the brothers were being questioned last night by detectives, and he hoped they would not be released on bond because of their flight risk. Their cases will be taken soon before a Summit County grand jury for possible indictments, Davidson said. Gary Noble was charged with burglary, robbery and kidnapping.

He is accused of tying up Becky Wood and her 9-year-old grandson, threatening them, then fleeing with a second suspect with a safe containing an estimated $34,000 in jewelry and cash. Ted Noble was linked to the case after the stolen jewelry was pawned in Pittsburgh, police said, but he has not yet been charged with the burglary and robbery. Cleveland Boat owner charged in deaths of couple A sailboat owner was charged yesterday with two marine safety violations in the drowning of two crew members during a storm. The Ohio Division of Watercraft said Gregg Mylett, 33, of Fairview Park, was charged with not having enough life preservers on board and Ming to have proof of ownership on board. Mylett recently bought the boat.

Mylett, contacted at home, said he was unaware of the charges and could not comment. Mylett was skippering his 33-foot sailboat Speakeasy in a race on Lake Erie on Aug. 16 when it overturned in 5-foot waves during a sudden storm. Two members of his seven-member crew, Thomas W. Schertzer, 26, of Lakewood, and his wife, Karen, 25, fell overboard and drowned.

Authorities said they were not wearing life jackets. Cleveland Wild mushrooms send woman to hospital A woman who ate poisonous mushrooms underwent an emergency liver transplant and is expected to recover. Kamnoi Brezina, 54, would have vigilance, the federal law requiring retailers to ID all tobacco customers under age 27, and the sincere wish of retailers to obey the law. "We would like it (the noncompliance rate) to be lower, in the single digits close to zero," Angiu-lo said. This most recent noncompliance rate of 17.4 percent compares favorably with preceding years, and shows a continuing downward trend.

The noncompliance rate was 50 percent in 1994, CAB Stark grand jury still must review case Continued from Page CI East Canton. His case has yet to be reviewed by a grand jury in the court of common pleas, nor has he been arraigned on charges in that court. "I believe it would be more appropriate to wait until the official indictment comes down," Reinbold said yesterday. Police have said that Detweiler and five friends lured Kovarik to a convenience store at Middle-branch Avenue and Easton Street Northeast in Plain Township shortly before 6 a.m. June 1.

Minutes later, Kovarik and Gentry were shot to death inside the cab, police said. The two teens who had been picked up at the convenience store, believed to be Detweiler and Benjamin L. Bickel, 18, of Hyacinth Street Northwest in Plain, fled to a following car carrying the other four defendants, police said. attorney, William T. Whitaker of Akron, said Reinbold's ruling is unfair.

"I think it's very unfair because he's so young and because he's being held under such punitive conditions," Whitaker said. Juveniles in the county jail are housed separately from adults. The juveniles are housed in individual cells. Some of the freedoms offered to adult inmates are prohibited for juveniles. For example, juveniles in the ASK Online columnist says no question is too silly Continued from Page CI to body piercing.

The writers remain anonymous. "Aunt Phoebe's idea is that students might feel a question is too silly," said Debbie Gwin, assistant director of UA's Student Assistance Center, which sponsors the column. "We want students to know that there are no silly questions. All are important." Gwin describes herself as Aunt Phoebe's "official spokesperson." Actually, Gwin spends about 10 to 15 percent of her work time researching and writing answers to the questions, and she expects her online traffic to increase drastically as Aunt Phoebe begins her first fall semester on campus. Why Phoebe? Gwin said the idea came from a similar feature at Cornell University, Ask Uncle Ezra, in homage to college founder Ezra Cornell.

After a little research, Gwin found reference to a Buchtel College student of the late 1800s, Phoebe Cary, a founder of the literary-minded Phoebe Society at Buchtel, the forerunner of UA. "I wanted to find a woman who had contributed to the university in a literary sense," Gwin said. Kent State also has a place on its home page for university questions, which are routed to Margaret Garmon, a Kent communications specialist. She said the questions range from degree requirements to a father who needs his daughter's dorm room measurements so he can order a carpet. The responses are sent to the person asking the question.

But Aunt Phoebe publishes the questions and answers in a breezy, weekly column, helping students learn from others' personal issues. "Advice," Gwin said, "is more my missioa" You know you've found the Aunt Phoebe Web site when you see her icon: a computer terminal with a large wind-up crank on the back. Gwin said she was looking for something humorous. "But we are conscious of gender issues here, so I didn't want Aunt Phoebe to be a little old lady," Gwin said yesterday. She does much of her work in her office in Spicer Hall.

Over her computer is a New Age-type print county jail are let out of their cells for two hours a day to bathe and use the telephone. They are permitted five hours a week for recreation On the other hand, adults are allowed outside their cells from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. to use the telephone or watch television. They also are permitted five hours per week for recreation.

Whitaker said those conditions can take an emotional toll on his client by the time his trial date approaches. A trial date has not been set. "Being locked in a cage for 24 hours a day would have a questionable effect on his ability to cope (in court) or with the enormous problems facing him," Whitaker said. The families of the victims protested attempts to seek bail for Detweiler. "We definitely don't want him let out at all after what he's helped do to our family.

We certainly hope not. It wouldn't seem to be very fair," said Lori Wilson, the sister of victim Valorie Gentry. Whitaker said that his client is remorseful. "He is feeling a great deal of remorse for what happened and would really like to be able to deal with it (through counseling)," Whitaker said. If charged and convicted of two counts of aggravated robbery with gun specifications in the court of common pleas, Detweiler could be sentenced to three years mandatory on each gun charge and from three to 10 years on each robbery count.

If given maximum consecutive sentences, he could be in prison for 26 years. that reads, "Seize the Day." A native of Wadsworth, Gwin is a former UA valedictorian, class of 1970, who went on to Ohio State on a Ph.D. fellowship in music history and literature. Along the way, she discovered university administration. She has been back at UA since 1980.

Gwin said she tries to publish the answer to a query within a week. Often, that requires fairly deep research, however, and Gwin said she is grateful for the help she gets from on-campus experts. Yesterday, she was going through 11 pages of rules to answer a question about UA's policy on pornography on university computers. Yet, Aunt Phoebe has made an impact already. The question on comfortable chairs, for instance, touched a wider concern by Gwin that commuter students have no good place to study.

As a result, the Student Assistance Center surveyed student needs and a learning resource center will be built in the Polsky Building. "Hopefully, this study facility will have comfortable chairs," Aunt Phoebe wrote to "Stressed-out" Interest in Aunt Phoebe seems to be growing, though UA's Web site does not yet have the capability to measure the number of people reading the feature. Phoebe has been discovered off campus. In the week before the UA-Nebraska football game, Gwin found this query in her e-mail: "Dear Aunt Phoebe, What is a Zip? Curious in Omaha." And about that body piercing? "Dear Aunt Phoebe: I wish you would talk a little about body piercing. I am thinking about it -it is soooo cool." This is not exactly Aunt Phoebe's field.

So Gwin hit the research trail, studying such works as Punk and Neo-Tribal Body Art and Aspects of the Mixteca-Puebla Style and the Mixtec and Central American Culture in Southern Me-soamerica. For the advice part, Phoebe ended by quoting philosopher Eric Hoffer "When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other." Gwin looked at the pages of documents yet to study for Aunt Phoebe's column. "I learn an awful lot by doing this," she said. Aunt Phoebe can be contacted at http:www.uakron.edu studentaffairsphoebe KEN LOVEBeacon Journal Kent repairs a window yesterday on Gougler Avenue in Kent. the top of the window so he had squeeze his caulking gun.

Beacon Journal to the north and west of the area, Whipple said. Kahrl declined to disclose the purchase prices for the two parcels while negotiations are pending on another property the park board is trying to acquire. The contracts are "a commitment from the sellers that when the bond issue passes, we will be able to close," Kahrl said. "These are really key parcels because in the case of the Barlow Farm, the location is fairly central, fairly easy to get to in an area that has a high population. And it's land that is virtually ready for use for soccer fields or whatever else we find for active recreation," Kahrl said.

1 Terex Rd. IrSI FRAMING HIS WORK Kris Hudkins of Exteriors of at Unitarian Universalist Church Hudkins' ladder would not reach to squeeze out of the window to GOLF One parcel is ideal for sports playing fields Continued from Page CI the 60 acres. The parcel has some wooded areas and wells to consider, he said. The second parcel is 60 acres surrounding the four-acre Case-Barlow Bicentennial Farm, run by a nonprofit organization of the same name that purchased the Barlow farmhouse and barn last year. The acquisition of this land would work nicely with the organization's goal of making the area a community center, Kahrl said.

The cleared flat land is ideal for the development of playing fields for team sports, Kahrl said. It had been the subject of a preliminary plan for a proposed subdivision of 87 single-family homes, he said. "I think it's really a premiere site for a park," Kahrl said. "We're really happy that this one finally came to fruition." President Douglas Whipple said the nonprofit organization is very excited about the proposed land acquisition. "We have been anxious for some time to ensure that the adjacent property did not get developed into residential homes," Whipple said.

The land also will provide a good buffer from the activities on the farm for the residential homes Barberton School officials ready for levy renewal drive Barberton is gearing up for a levy renewal campaign. The school district has an 8.7-milL five-year levy on the ballot in November, treasurer Paul Wulff told the school board Tuesday. The levy, which first passed in 1993, brings in $2.1 million a year. Wulff said getting approval for the levy is especially important because the district is breaking ground for a new high school this year. Tallmadge School board agrees to buy 132 computers The Tallmadge school board last night agreed to purchase 132 laptop computers from Intelligent Peripheral Devices Inc.

for $30,540. The word-processing computers will be used mainly in the middle school's language arts department, but students will be able to borrow the units when needed to complete projects. The board also hired Mike Srodawa as the head track coach for a stipend of $4,771. Srodawa teaches at the middle school. PHYLLIS MASCOLO Cuyahoga Falls Emotions Anonymous schedules meetings Emotions Anonymous, a support group for people with emotional or living problems, plans to meet every Tuesday this month at 8 p.m.

at Christ Lutheran Church, 1890 E. Bailey Road, Cuyahoga Falls. The group also will meet every Thursday this month at 8 p.m. at Redeemer United Methodist Church, 265 Cuyahoga Falls Akron. For more information, call 330-556-2039 or in Cleveland 216-849-0849.

Akron Firestone musicians asking for donations The Firestone Music Association is raising money to pay off the new uniforms the Firestone High School bands are wearing this year. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept 13, band members will be performing and asking for donations at West Point Market, Acme and the Montrose Borders bookstore. Other band members will seek donations house to house.

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