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The Beacon Journal Saturday, December 12, 1992, Page C3 jnnwujmiii i iiiivuiuup.imj ifo im) i -1 Sister bar of The Nest is cited 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals considered the request. Defense lawyer William Kunstler asked Judge Alice Batchelder to excuse herself, saying she already might have State liquor agents charge Rhonda's Toy Box for allowing partially clad dancers to reveal too much being, though, the Nest is not allowing totally nude dancers. Norton city administrator John Morgan said Friday the Nest is being monitored, and no violations of the city's anti-nudity law have turned up. Because of the citations, the li-.

quor license at Rhonda's could be revoked or suspended. Porterfield said a hearing date will be set before the Liquor Con-1 trol Commission in Columbus, where Fink will have an opportunity to contest the citations. The citations were the first at the bar, according to department records. The bar is owned by Gene Fink, who also owns The Nest, a juice bar that, until Thursday, featured totally nude dancers. Because it serves alcohol, Rhonda's Toy Box, at 3160 y2 Barber, cannot have nude dancers.

Last month, the City Council' passed an ordinance banning public nudity. The law went into effect Thursday, but Fink said he plans to fight it. For the time formerly Gene's Lounge, on Thursday night and cited female dancers for exposing their crotches, simulating sexual acts and making physical contact with customers. The incidents occurred between 8:50 and 9:45 p.m., said Ohio Department of Liquor Control spokeswoman Mari-jean may have feared new probe By Katie By aed Beacon Journal staff writer NORTON: The same day a new city law forced nude dancers at The Nest to cover up, state officials cited a sister bar for permitting its partially clad dancers to reveal too much. Acting on a complaint received by Norton police, state liquor agents visited Rhonda's Toy Box, Sturman Escaped pornography king may have known he was suspect in bombing attempts, report says Associated Press CLEVELAND: Pornography czar Reuben Sturman may have known when he fled a prison in California! that he was under investigation! for the attempted bombings of! Chicago adult bookstores, a pub-1 lished report said Friday.

1 The report, quoting federal law enforcement sources who were not identified, said Sturman may have learned about the investigation before his escape Monday from a Phone Continued from Page CI Ann McGuckin. McGuckin, reached Friday night, said she assumes the advertisement was a simple error. But she said if people call her, she will tell them that she personally is not in favor of abortion. An Ameritech Publishing spokeswoman confirmed that text had been moved in the advertisement. "Ameritech Publishing is currently investigating the situation," said Sarah Saltzman, the company's Ohio public relations manager.

"Certainly we sincerely regret any inconvenience that this situation has on the city of Akron and the health department." Jasso said the error creates two problems for the health department. One is that the city does not perform abortions, he said. The other is that the incorrect information will be in the Yellow Pages for the next 12 months. He said information about vital health department services like services for. women and children, AIDS counseling, environmental health and alcoholism counseling will not be in the Yellow Pages for a year.

However, in the blue government offices section of the phone book, there are 23 phone numbers of Akron Health Department offices. Brick Continued from Page CI diant face was his answer. Those romantic folks at WKSU presented Maynard with a bouquet of red roses. And they also told the happy couple that they would insert a brick inscribed with their names and wedding date next to the original. Gibeault had paid for the brick in July.

Friday was the one-year anniversary of their first date. "In my heart, I proposed to her in July," he said. Pornography czar Reuben Sturman fled prison Monday. said four people who were directly involved in the attempted bombings have been convicted. The bombing attempts are still under investigation, Singer said, but he would not say whether Sturman was a suspect.

Sources told a newspaper that Sturman is the target of a racket interest. The report's No. 1 recommendation began: "We believe it is important to at least protect the current ratings of the county that have existed since 1983. Therefore, it is critical that the welfare deficit is liquidated." Paying off the jail was recommendation No. 2.

The tax ideas came in as the third suggestion. 1992 sales tax collections rose Final state figures Friday showed that sales tax collections in Summit County grew by nearly 5 percent in 1992 over the previous year, reversing 1991's surprising decline of sales tax revenue. Summit County this year raised $19,882,700 for general government operations from its 0.5 percent local sales tax rate, said William Hartung, finance director for County Executive Tim Davis. In 1991, the tax provided $18,971,400 for general county spending, Hartung said. He said 1990 collections were $19,181,900, and last year marked the first time in memory that sales tax revenues did not grow from one year to the next.

A preliminary county budget projects sales tax collections next year at $19.6 million. But Hartung said the unexpectedly robust performance of the tax in 1992 probably indicates the 1993 estimate is low. At least, he said, he hopes that is the case. -BOB SPRINGER Mil I.1IU -r 1 imfflfi QUIP" EE prison camp at Boron, Calif. The report said charges against Sturman in the Chicago probe could have meant he would be moved to a more secure prison and would have faced a possible 20-year prison term.

Investigators suspected the bombings were an effort to get people who were involved in the pornography business to continue paying Sturman money, the sources said. Sturman, 68, disappeared late Monday from the minimum security prison camp where he was serving Zy2 years for tax and obscenity convictions. Jerry Singer, a spokesman for the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in Chicago, TAX Panel says income could pay off jail, welfare debt Continued from Page CI ployees. Because of leap years and the calendar's odd number of days in a year, every ninth year brings with it an extra, or 27th, pay period.

In 1993, that single payroll will squeeze the budget by $1.2 million. Pay for newly required programs or employees in Human Services and the criminal justice system. Because of the jail, new common pleas and domestic relations judgeships and rising criminal caseloads, the growth in spending has outstripped inflation and growth in the county's General Funds budget. The General Funds budget this year is about $58 million, and the task force said it should be $64.2 million in 1993 to meet necessary expenses. "The review committee considered a wide variety of issues relative to the overall financial condition of the county," the report said.

It noted the county's precarious status with the two major bond-rating agencies Moody's and Standard Poor's and said Summit is one of only five Ohio counties with Moody's lowest rating for counties, Baal. The lower the rating, the riskier a county's bonds to investors and the more taxpayers must pay in Maynard moved to Canton from Chicago in September to be near Gibeault. She is a program communication specialist for the American Heart Association in Canton. In his letter to WKSU in July, Gibeault requested a map for his brick when it was placed. "I would hate to think that we never got married because we couldn't find the brick," he wrote.

But on Friday, Gibeault braved bad weather and his own nervousness to come find his brick. And then the" happy couple drove off to keep their dinner date. Gibeault had reserved a table in front of the fireplace at a fancy restaurant. It wasn't in Kent or Hudson either. It was in Aurora.

Akron FBI gives city police $11,372 from bust The FBI on Friday gave the Akron Police Department $11,372 as the department's share of assets forfeited in a joint drug operation that shut down a large-scale cocaine and marijuana distribution ring, ii Friday's check was part of the nearly $500,000 that makes up Akron's portion of the proceeds from homes, boats, cars and cash seized in the operation. The investigation led to the indictment of 22 people involved in a drug ring that allegedly distributed $1 million in cocaine and marijuana in Akron from 1988 to 1991. Cleveland Director of CMHA tinder investigation A federal agency said Friday that it is investigating the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority chief's use of agency letterhead to promote membership in the local NAACP. CMHA Executive Director Oaire Freeman wrote to the housing authority's 1,000 employees last month on the agency's letterhead, urging them to join the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Freeman is a candidate for the executive board of the Cleveland NAACP branch.

i Officials of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development are trying to determine whether CMHA is permitted to spend staff time and money supporting the group. Canton Vandalism case goes to grand jury The case of an 18-year-old Tuslaw High School junior charged with vandalizing two homes, the high school and an elementary school was sent to the grand jury Friday. William A. Valentine of Lincoln Way West in Tuscarawas Township was ordered held in lieu of a $10,000 bond in the Stark County Jail on four counts of felony vandalism.

Valentine and a 17-year-old Tuslaw junior were arrested after windows were shot out, a house was burglarized and a stolen car was firebombed. HARTVILLE Services today for Bontager worker Services for Donald H. Smith, 47, of Harrville, killed when a trench wall caved in on him, will be held at 10 a.m. today at the Bethany Mennonite Church in Harrville. Stow Fire Department officials said Smith was using a shovel to clean loose dirt out of a sewer line trench Wednesday on Pine Hollow Drive in Stow when the side collapsed and buried him.

Smith was a laborer for Bontager Excavating of Uniontown. BARBERTON Her job is changing, and so is her name State Betty Williams is restoring her maiden name, Sutton. Barberton Democrat, who will leave the Summit County Council at the end of the month to go to the Ohio House in January, said she is better known throughout southern Summit County by her family which she gave up about seven years ago when she married She has been divorced about two years and said this week that the time seems right to return to the Sutton surname. Medina Brunswick man indicted in slaying A 20-year-old Brunswick man who police say shot his father in the head was indicted Friday on a' charge of aggravated murder. Medina police say Stephen C.

Kovach killed his father, Alex, 50, Dec. 2. Kovach remained in the Medina County Jail Friday in lieu of $500,000 bond. Cincinnati Judge will remain in Hell's Angels case A judge hearing the appeal of three Hell's Angels motorcycle club members Friday denied a defense request to disqualify herself from the case. The hearing was delayed while a three-judge panel of the formed an opinion in the case.

As a federal district judge in Cleveland, Batchelder had ordered defendant John Ray Bonds jailed in April 1988 for not allowing the FBI to photograph his tattoos under terms of a subpoena. Batchelder said that she would remain on the panel since she didn't remember the Bonds matter and was not biased. Bonds, Steven Yee and Mark Verdi were convicted last year in Toledo of federal conspiracy and weapons charges in the 1988 death of a record store clerk. Columbus High court rules against work stress Mental conditions caused by work-related stress do not qualify an employee for workers' compensation benefits, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled. The justices, in a 5-2 decision, said state law does not recognize mental conditions as an occupational disease unless caused by an on-the-job physical injury.

Justice Craig Wright wrote the decision, which was applied to two cases appealed from Cuyahoga County. Wright said the court recognizes that mental illness is a disease "and we in no way diminish its seriousness." But in "the absence of a clear mandate from the General Assembly that such claims are now recognized in Ohio, we decline to expand coverage of the Workers' Compensation Act," he wrote. Stow Academic boosters selling poinsettias The Academic Booster Club of Stow will be selling poinsettia plants from 9 a.m. to noon today at both the Stow and Munroe Falls city halls. Cost is $4 each.

Akron Food distribution is Tuesday at church The monthly food distribution by the St. John Food Pantry at St. John CME Church, 1233 S. Hawkins will be from noon to 1:30 p.m. and from 5 to 6 p.m.

Tuesday. Distribution will be to qualified persons living in ZIP code 44320. Call Art Minson, food pantry director, at 724-0949 or 864-3060 for information. Akron Receipts can buy supplies for schools Several Akron schools are collecting Hills Department Stores receipts, which can be redeemed for items such as computers, TV sets, videocassette recorders, athletic and science equipment, art supplies and library books. Those collecting receipts are Highland Park, Guinther, Lawndale, Margaret Park, Rimer, Pfeiffer and Smith elementary schools and FJlet High School.

Schools wanting to join the program may contact a Hills store to register. Akron Restaurant in midst of canned food drive Geppetto's Pizza and Ribs will match the number of cans donated by customers to feed the homeless and hungry at each of its 23 locations in the Akron and Cleveland areas. The cans collected from this campaign will be given to St. Aloysius parish in Glenville. Akron Pupils learn lesson in spirit of giving Pupils at Akron's Findley Elementary School are working to make Christmas a little brighter for the homeless.

Kathleen George's fifth-grade class this week is operating a Santa Shop, in which pupils and staff can buy everything from school supplies to ornaments. Proceeds will be used to buy small items to fill about 250 stockings at the school. The stockings stuffed with such items as fruit, notebooks, toothbrushes and toothpaste will be delivered to the Haven of Rest at lunchtime Wednesday. eering investigation in connection with the attempted bombings. Dottie Finnigan, a spokeswom- an for the U.S.

attorney in Cleve-land, said the atorney handling the Sturman case was out of town for the day and was unavailable for comment. Pat Berarducci, a spokesman for the ATF in Ohio, said Friday that he could not com- ment on an ongoing investigation. Sturman lived in Shaker Heights until his conviction on tax evasion charges in 1990 in U.S. District Court in Cleveland. His escape came one week af- ter U.S.

District Judge George W. White in Cleveland turned down Sturman's request for a reduction in the sentence imposed for the tax conviction. Ozko chemical fire Citizens Action will sponsor a public meeting Thursday on the Nov. 25 Ozko Inc. chemical fire.

The meeting will start at at the Red Cross Building, 501 W. Market Akron. The fire at the waterproofing chemicals company, 317 Silver did an estimated $125,000 damage. Arson is suspected in the blaze, which shot smoke and -flames several hundred feet into -the air and took about five hours to bring under control. Officials from the Akron Fire Department and the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency will beat the meeting to answer questions.

Officials from Ozko have also been invited. Summit group offers grants to teachers The Summit Education Partnership Foundation is giving small grants to teachers for innovative projects in the classroom. Any public school teacher ini Summit County is eligible to apply for a grant of up to $300. Proposals are encouraged to emphasize one or more of the following: encouraging parental in-, volvement, helping students develop a sense of pride, improving academic skills, using non-traditional teaching techniques or in-: volving team teaching. Applications are due by Jan.

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