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Section (1 IavJ Business C2 Obituaries C4 Akron Beacon Journal Saturday, April 27, 1985 MOM 11 fees des Lentini makes his point on jail ign He said qualified firms that are seeking the final design package for a project which represents as much as 80 percent of the total project fee would avoid seeking the preliminary engineering services contract if they knew getting the initial work would bar them from getting the final work. Lentini said afterward that the testimony prompted by his proposal shows that "the credibility of a firm that gets a contract should not be called into question just because they got the design contract." Partly for that reason, they questioned the firm's estimates on renovating the current jail. A jail planning committee is studying whether the county should build one new jail a proposal Lentini and two other council members favor or build a smaller jail for use along with the current jail. The two-jail plan was favored by Gallagher, Mrs. Ceravolo and two other council members.

Among those who spoke against Len-tini's proposal was professional engineer William Norris of Burgess Niple. By William Canterbury Beacon Journal staff writer Summit County Councilman Joseph Lentini withdrew on Friday a proposal he apparently had introduced to make a point to two of his council colleagues. The legislation would have barred firms that had contracts for preliminary design work on county projects from getting the final design contract, ostensibly to avoid any appearance of favoritism. Lentini readily withdrew it after the council rules committee, of which he is a member, heard five professional or con sulting engineers say they opposed it as unfair and non-productive. Lentini, who said he agreed with the engineers, said he introduced the legislation because Councilman Paul Gallagher had questioned for several months the credibility ef recommendations of Voino-vich-Sgro Architects of Cleveland, the county's consultants on building a new county jail.

Gallagher and Council President Gerry Ceravolo said the firm had a vested interest in a jail project because its fee is based on the total cost of building a jail. Lentini charged that Mrs. Ceravolo and Gallagher questioned the credibility of the Voinovich firm "because it served their purpose to defeat the (single-jail) project." The Voinovich firm has recommended that the county build a single, 384-bed jail. The council will be asked Monday to approve hiring another consultant to study whether it would make sense to continue to house prisoners in the current jail. That information will be compared with the Voinovich conclusion that the renovation is too costly.

mum Minn. mi i. mum hp niw. i ti Hvfcv' i I i if1? 0 i Akron's purchaser suspended Manos is accused of misuse of mail By Kathleen By land Beacon Journal staff writer The city of Akron's purchasing agent has been given a 23-day unpaid suspension for allegedly using interoffice mail on non-city business. George Manos, who has overseen the city's purchases for more than five years, will begin his suspension May 1, according to an agreement reached between city officials and his attorney, Edward Riegler.

City sources said the 52-year-old Manos was suspended for his alleged involvement in letters that purported to be from the venereal disease clinic of the city health department. But Manos, who said he was "very embarrassed" about the suspension, declined to discuss the circumstances surrounding the city's action. He described the problem as a "minor scrape with another employee" and a "practical joke that backfired." "I'm not gonna say I was involved but I'm not gonna countermand them," he said of the charges which led to his punishment. In a brief statement issued Friday' afternoon, Riegler said he and Akron officials agreed on the suspension because of the purchasing agent's "alleged use of interoffice mail for non-city business and circulation of unauthorized material to two employees." Finance Director Bart Hild-reth, Manos' supervisor, emphasized that the suspension is not related to his performance as purchasing agent. "He has done a good job as purchasing agent," Hildreth said.

Riegler said Manos will waive his rights to contest the agreement before the Civil Service Commission. Manos has been purchasing agent since December 1979, when he left a similar position with Ak-. ron schools after six years. He is paid $38,480 a year in his city job. 1 r- C- 4 i i-i iiiiiiwh iii )Mimi ml irl 1 1 1 Associated Press Student accuses teacher Says he forced her to have sex A former Ellet High School student testified Friday that Herman Huth, an Ellet teacher and family friend, forced her to have sex with him in August 1983.

The student, now 17, testified for more than two hours on the opening day of Huth's trial before Summit County Juvenile Judge William P. Kannel. Huth is charged with one misdemeanor count of contributing to the delinquency of a minor Huth was among four Akron school employees charged last fall with sex offenses. The three others pleaded guilty to felony charges and are on probation. During testimony Friday, Huth's former student said she had considered herself Huth's girlfriend for two months before the alleged sex.

She said their first sexual relations were in the basement of her parent's home in Ellet. "I didn't fight much but he forced me into it," she testified. She said she willingly' participated in sexual relations with Huth after that. She said Huth was a family friend and often visited her father. On cross examination, Huth's lawyer, Lawrence Vuillemin, pointed out several discrepancies between the student's testimony and statements taken by police, social workers and other professionals who worked with her.

In one example, a police report noted she had talked to Huth nearly every day around the. time of his arrest. She denied that" in court. In another example, she testified that she became pregnant by Huth in the spring of 1984. Later, she acknowledged telling a lawyer once that either Huth or a 17-year-old boyfriend could have fathered her child.

Questioned further by Vuillemin, she said that the first doctor who examined her during, her pregnancy gave her an incorrect estimation of when her baby was conceived. She said the estimate was off by about three months. She said when she learned the correct time period of her conception, she was certain that only Huth could have been the father. Vuillemin ended his questioning after that statement. The student's mother also testified Friday and supported her daughter's testimony.

Testimony in the non-jury trial will continue Monday. press tips onto expressway A trailer carrying a press broke off from a truck and tipped over on its side Friday night, Akron police, said. The driver, Paul Airgood, said the incident occurred at about 9 p.m. on the Akron expressway's central interchange at the, southbound ramp to 1-77. Police said no one was hurt.

Teacher-astronaut nominees Gail B. Klink of Newark and James B. Rowley of Centerville are introduced 2 Ohio teachers are space hopefuls Newark woman, Centerville man are in final 118 Associated Press High school teachers from Newark and Centerville are Ohio's two finalists for a seat on a future space shuttle flight. Gail Klink from Newark High School and James Rowley from Centerville High School were introduced Friday at a news conference at the NASA Lewis Research Center in Cleveland. Clifford Schrader, chairman of the science department at Dover High School, was picked as the alternate.

Ohio's nominees will join 116 other candidates from the United States and its terri in the national competiton. More than 600 Ohioans who applied as part of the nationwide search for a teacher to ride on NASA's Space Shuttle were honored at a program at the center. Area finalists for the slots were Virginia Cook, 39, a sixth-grade science and social studies teacher at Erwine Middle School in Coventry Township; David Koch, 44, a physics teacher at North Canton's Hoover High School, and Ronald Douglas, 36, an engineering and drafting teacher at the Wayne County Schools Career Center in Smithville. tories. Ten semifinalists will be picked in July.

NASA officials will narrow that list to one person and a backup candidate to undergo training for a space flight now planned for 1986. Both teachers are married and have children. Mrs. 44, teaches English and foreign languages. She has three children.

Rowley, 38, teaches environmental studies. He has two children. Both teachers said they were excited to have won the Ohio competiton and expressed confidence that they would do well NUGGETS Libel suit against BJ now goes to the jury City of Medina joins brine disposal fight Smoking banned The Columbus Board of Health has banned smoking in offices, clinics and hallways of the Health Department's downtown headquarters, the first city building to enact such restrictions. Effective May 20, cigarettes no longer will be sold in the building, and smoking will be permitted only in a basement snack bar and a second-floor women's lounge. The 400 employees will not be allowed smoking breaks, although they will be able to smoke during their lunch hours and two 15-minute breaks.

Violators will be given a warning for a first offense and forced to attend a quit-smoking class after a second offense. A third offense will result in disciplinary (action. Ohio racing regulations. The story in question told of a man identified only as Bill who placed bets after races had started. Rules of the Ohio Racing Commission require that wagering stop when the race starts.

Lansdowne, 45, testified that his friends at the track linked him with the story and that he felt it damaged his reputation. The Beacon Journal lawyer told, the jury that the story in question had been accurately researched and reported and that it accurately described what happened at the track. Peter Phipps, the reporter who wrote the story, testified that he had observed Lansdowne placing bets after the start of races. -A Summit County Common Pleas jury will deliberate Monday on whether William C. Lans-downe was libeled by the Beacon Journal in a June 20, 1983, story about the Northfield harness racing track.

Judge John W. Reece told the jurors Friday that he will instruct them Monday morning on the law to be followed in the case. Before Reece sent them home for the weekend, the jurors had listened to final arguments in which Lansdowne's lawyer told them that the Beacon Journal had acted negligently in publishing false statements about Lans-downe and that he had been defamed because the story claimed he had been acting contrary to mile of the city of Medina's four water wells, located near the city's water treatment plant on Granger Road, according to city engineer Thomas Cunningham. He said the four wells, capable of producing about 1.5 million gallons a day, are the city's "only backup source of water." The city gets its drinking water from nearby Lake Medina. Tipka's plan to use annular disposal would create "a very real potential threat" to the well field, Cunningham said.

The county has been fighting annular disposal, saying it poses a threat to underground drinking water. Drillers contend the method is safe and permitted. The city of Medina, fearing for its backup water supply, will join Medina County in fighting underground disposal of brine. City officials will testify Wednesday in Columbus when the Ohio Division of Oil and Gas holds hearings on the annular disposal of brine in Medina County. In annular disposal, brine, the salty byproduct of oil and gas well drilling, is forced back down the well casing and allowed to flow by gravity underground.

The Dover-based Tipka Oil and Gas Co. wants to use the disposal method at an oil well on the south side of Granger Road, east of Weymouth Road (Ohio 3), in Medina Township. The site is within a quarter Fellow students aid boy needing transplants fe 'M must be prepared to live there for six to 12 months while waiting for a suitable donor. Donations and pledges of about $20,000 have been collected to help the Grabowskis, according to Paul Oberli, vice president and manager of the Seville branch of Old Phoenix National Bank. The bank and its 13 Medina County branches are accepting donations and pledges.

Mrs. Grabowski said a series of other fund-raising events, ranging from concerts to car washes, is being scheduled by groups and uncertain how long he might live. If the drive is successful, Michael may have the operation getting both a new heart and new lungs at Stanford University Medical Center in California. Michael must undergo a 10-day medical evaluation at Stanford. That is required before a decision can be made to add his name to the transplant waiting list.

However, Michael's family must show proof that they can pay for the surgery, estimated to cost between $200,000 and They also must show that they have the funds to move to the San Francisco ay area and wanted to help. For the last few weeks, everyone has been asking: 'What can we The fund-raising drive, ized by a facultyrstudent committee, got under way Thursday with a boost from Cleveland Browns running back Charles White and WMMS-FM deejays Kenny Clean and Spaceman Scott. A letter from President Ronald Reagan saluting the students' efforts also was read at assemblies. The school district includes Seville, Lodi, Chippewa Lake, Gloria Glens, Briar wood Beach, Westfield Center and Rittman, as well as Chatham. Guilff rd.

La fayette, Harrisville and Westfield townships. Burkhardt said the cost of the candles or cutting boards is $5, with $3 of each order going to aid Michael, the son of Albert and Joyce Grabowski. Michael's operation and related expenses are expected to cost about $300,000. The rare transplants operation is not covered by insurance because it is considered experimental surgery. Michael is suffering from a congenital heart defect and high blood pressure in his lungs.

Without the transplants, doctors say, he will die. However they are By Bob Downing Beacon Journal staff writer Cloverleaf Junior High School students are trying to raise nearly $15,000 to help save the life of classmate Michael Grabowski of Seville. The 1,000 students will be going door to door in Medina County through Tuesday taking orders for candles and wooden cutting boards to help 16-year-old Michael, who needs a rare heart-lungs transplant to stay alive. "The student body really wanted to get involved and do something to help," principal Norman Burkhardt said. "They really organizations throughout soutjh Michael Grabowski $300,000 expenses -SS'O em Medina County..