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Dick The Beacon Journal Saturday, December 12, 1992 Summit Feagler Friday's Buckeye 5 numbers: 13, 15, 19, 29, 37 Sales: $1,236,526 Friday's Pick 3 numbers: 322 Pick 3 wagers: $1,610,593 Pick 3 payout: $713,788 Friday's Pick 4 numbers: 8210 Pick 4 wagers: $344,461 Pick 4 payout: $190,200 Tonight's Super Lotto jackpot: $20 million Guilty verdict A man who faces federal charges in Detroit was convicted of drug trafficking in Akron. Page C2. Dancing dirty? State agents say dancers at a Norton bar exposed too much and violated liquor laws regulating nudity. Page C3. A Dick Feagler's column does not appear today.

He is on vacation. Deaths Page 4 TV Page 17 NOW Pages 5 to 7 Comics Pages 18, 19 Cash for the final stretch I 1 Ira Jlj mr: IvJ John Glenn: Raised $1,114,572 Paul Swanson: Spent $104,727 Wayne Jones Tom Watkins: Spent more than $550,000 $557,687 spent in ithe Jones-Watkins Ohio House race was probably state record, officials say 1 By Steve Hoffman Beacon Journal politics writer Total spending in the race between state Rep. Wayne Jones, D-Cuyahoga Falls, and state Rep. Tom Watkins, R-Stow, in the 46th Ohio House District in Summit County was more than a half-million dollars, probably setting a state record, according to reports filed at the Summit Board of Elections. Final reports were filed Friday, covering activity from Oct.

15, a few weeks before the Nov. 3 election, through Dec. 4. The Jones-Watkins total also put that race, in which Jones used a last-minute media barrage against Watkins, among the most expensive political contests of any kind in Summit County. In the final reporting period, Jones, who won, received 5242,689 in in-kind contributions See STATE, Page C2 Glenn raised twice as much as DeWine in last days of Senate campaign; challenger went into debt By William Hershey Beacon Journal Washington Bureau WASHINGTON: Sen.

John Glenn, D-Ohio, roared to his history-making fourth consecutive U.S. Senate term by raising about twice as much Republican Mike DeWine in the closing weeks of their bitter campaign. Campaign finance reports available Friday at the Federal Election Commission showed millionaire Glenn pumped $700,000 of his own money into the race. Also, he tapped old acquaintances like former Sen. Birch Bayh, for $1,000 contributions and even looked to Texas for a $250 contribution from former House Speaker Jim Wright, D-Texas, who ate a now notorious 1988 lunch with Glenn and savings and loan executive Charles Keating.

The Senate Ethics Committee See CASH, Page C2 More inside Ohio Supreme Court chief justice out in front in campaign donations. Page C2. Task force Cornerstone of true love es tax hike lire Study panel says combination of half -percent increase and rollback of property taxes would produce enough to ease Summit County's fiscal ills rn 1 HIS i. in i til 1 I I j- sJr a' 9 turn to Gibeault and kiss him repeatedly. He took the opportunity to slip a diamond ring on finger.

After a few minutes, Bob Bur-ford, public relations director for WKSU, couldn't take the suspense any more. "Well, was that yes?" he asked. Maynard's ra- BRICK, Page C2 A ED SUBA JR.Beacon Journal Shawn Maynard is overcome with happiness after Jeff Gibeault proposes to her via an engraved brick adorning WKSU's new entrance. Forget your everyday proposal tell her with a brick By Bob Springer Beacon Journal staff writer Talk of higher taxes no longer is only in the air. About $53 million of it is on the table.

A task force that has studied Summit County's finances called on Friday for a 0.5 percent sales tax increase coupled with a property tax rollback for 3 years. "We propose that (the County) Council approve a -percent sales tax increase at its February meeting, effective May 1, 1993, with collections to end in December 1996," the 13-member Financial Review Committee said in its report to County Executive Tim Davis. He created the panel in June. The report was silent on whether county voters should be allowed to ratify or reject the tax increase. But Davis and others have said voters should have the final word.

And the report, while recommending that the property tax rollback total $10.2 million from 1994 through 1996, did not specify precisely how the tax cut should be accomplished. The report is an important first step in launching what is sure to be a close appraisal of county government's financial house. Now, advocates of more tax revenue have a hard sell with critics, including County Council President Paul Gallagher. Gallagher a week ago said the panel would recommend a half-penny sales tax increase. He called such an idea premature.

Davis' finance chief, William Hartung, who supplied the task force with much of its information, said the administration would be unable to comment on the report until officials had time to study it. tech directory, on Page 243, in the Yellow Pages clinics section, you will find an advertisement that indicates that "safe, gentle abortions" are performed at the Akron Health Clinic. "We have a problem here," said city spokesman Bill Jasso. When the city discovered the error Friday, Jasso said, city officials contacted Ameritech Publish 1 jrlH i paid $100 to have their name engraved on a dedicatory brick. But Gibeault, a marketing director at Sugardale Foods in Canton, decided to put the brick to a different use.

His brick reads, "Shawn, I love you. Will you marry me? Jeff." When Maynard saw the brick for the first time Friday, she was speechless. All she could do was KEVIN CASEY Beacon Journal nr-in Ml li her a See of "The review (rrimittee considered a wide variety of issues 7 relative to the overall financial condition of the county." Report from task force on Summit County finances Summit County's sales tax rate is 5.75 percent. It includes the 5 percent state rate, a half-percent i county general operations rate and a quarter-penny earmarked for the Metro transit system. Each quarter-percent tax raises a little less than $10 million annually, by this year's collections.

The task force's 25-page report, chock full of budget spread sheets, reports from Wall Street bond-rating houses and similar financial appendixes, said the sales and property tax action would generate $52.8 million over the period. It said the money would: Pay for the $29.6 million county jail, which opened in mid-1990 but was built under a court order without plans to pay for it. Erase within four years a thorny welfare deficit that has been around more than a decade. The deficit now is estimated at $7 million but could be about $8 million if the county loses a fight over $1 million in Human Services Department payments the county says the state owes it. Make a rare, 27th payroll next year for county em-See TAX, Page C3 ing officials in Independence.

"What has happened here is a layout person has inadvertently taken the copy from the Akron Women's Clinic listing and placed it under the Akron Health Departs ment listing," Jasso said. The accurate health department phone number 375-2430 was included in the health department advertisement. The ad also lists the name of the health department's nutritionist, Mary See PHONE, Page C3 WNIR morning radio star Stan Piatt. Phone book incorrectly lists agency as abortion provider Ameritech blames layout person for mistaken ad that says Akron Health Department offers service WKSU building Friday and proposed to Shawn Maynard, 30. There was none of the predictable, go-down-on-bended-knee stuff.

Instead, Gibeault said it with a brick. The engraved brick is one of 488 that make up the entrance to the new, $2.1 million building that was dedicated last week. Supporters of the radio station -11. LENDING A HAND I Vfe. BY THRFTY Umrigar Beacon Journal staff writer KENT: He wanted to eat in Kent.

She wanted to go to Hudson. He circled Kent State University's WKSU radio station building twice. He said he was lost. She said she was confused. But it all made sense when Jeff Gibeault, 33, later stood in the blowing snow outside the Akron, state deal to build a trail through park By bob downing Beacon Journal staff writer What a deal! Ray Kapper, Akron service director, swapped a used city back-hoe valued at $10,500 and $1,200 in cash with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources for construction of a trail through Cascade Locks Park.

The state's Civilian Conservation Corps will spend three months building the half-mile trail through the city park that straddles the historic Ohio Erie Canal. The trail marks the city's first development of the park, which lies west of Howard Street between the Akron Innerbelt and North Street. That progress delighted Virginia Wojno of the Cascade Locks Park Association, a grass-roots group devoted to preserving and promoting the park, which lies within the Cascade Valley Park. She said the work would make by Jim Carney Beacon Journal staff writer No, the city of Akron Health Department does not perform abortions. Not now.

Not ever. ait if you open the new phone book being delivered to thousands of area homes this week, you would think so. In the new Akron-area Ameri Piatt is found Akron radio personality Stan Piatt on Friday was found guilty disorderly conduct after the charge was reduced from domestic violence in a plea-bargain agreement. Cuyahoga Falls Municipal Judge William Pike sentenced Piatt to 30 days in jail and fined him $250, then suspended all but $150 and court costs on the condi guilty of disorderly conduct tion that Piatt does not violate any laws for one year. He was given three weeks to pay.

Piatt, morning star for talk station WNIR (100.1-FM), was arrested Sept. 27 after hitting his wife, Pam, following a night of drinking. Pam Piatt refused to press charges, but Silver Lake police did. Aaron Shea, a Ghent Academy second-grader, decorates a tree for the Summit County Children Services Respite Center as part of a school project. The center assists foster parents.

the narrow gorge far more accessible to visitors. A CCC crew of i See TRAIL, PageC2 A.