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The Akron Beacon Journal from Akron, Ohio • Page 2

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Akron Beacon Journal Tuesday, December 7. 1982 Briefing People City and region i AKRON For the first time since it was formed in 1973, Goals for Greater Akron Area has a new chairman. Page CI. UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS A proposal by Orthodox Jews to devise an "eruv," a Hebrew word meaning a community in courtyards, has sparked controversy in several eastern Cleveland suburbs. Page CI.

AKRON A 15-year-old Akron girl who was involved in an unusual custody case between her biological and adoptive mothers has reappeared in Summit County Juvenile Court with a different legal problem. Page CI. COLUMBUS Gov. James A. Rhodes has signed a bill requiring seat belts or other restraints for youngsters under age 4 or weighing less than 40 pounds.

Page Cll. (J Black stars are honored for images Singer Leaa Bene and actor Lm Gessett Jr. are among the winners of the 15th annual Image Awards presented to entertainers and sports figures whose work presents favorable images of black people. The awards were handed out Sunday night at the Hollywood Palladium by the Beverly Hills-Hollywood branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said spokeswoman Jew Webb. Miss Home, whose stage show recently opened to rave reviews in Los Angeles following a successful run on Broadway, was named best female artist in the music category.

She also won the Hall of Fame Award as a pioneer in the entertainment industry. Gossett, who played a drill sergeant in the film An Officer and a Gentleman, won the award for best actor. The film was named best motion picture. Image Awards for sports went to California Angels designated hitter Reggie Jacks, running back France Harris of the Pittsburgh Steelers, boxer Sugar Ray Leonard and Los Angeles Lakers guard Earvta "Magic" Jehnara. Stunt safety urged The director of Looking for Mr.

Goodbar urged directors to stand up to studios and demand sufficient time to have stunts performed safely, and "if you don't have a regard for people, then get out of the business." Film director Efchari Brooks spoke at a weekend symposium on movie safety, held in the aftermath of an accident that killed actor Vie Morrow and two children. Some directors spoke against a proposal that states safety marshals be required on sets. "I don't want to be blamed and neither should you be judged by one picture that had an accident," Brooks told the other directors. Morrow and two children were killed July 23 when they were hit by the blade of a crashing helicopter during filming of a war scene for the movie The Twilight Zone. Alabama jam Schools in northeastern Alabama will get more than $100,000 from a benefit concert earlier this year by the country band Alabama.

The group has also decided to establish a $2,000 scholarship at each of DeKalb County's nine schools, give $2,000 to each of the nine high school bands and $2,000 to each of the county's 15 junior high schools. Ii Nation Associated Press Paying last respects to actor Ctmlc producer-director Mel Braoks (right), comedian Cheech Marin and his wife, Rlkki, arrive at Forest Lawn chapel In Hollywood for funeral service for actor Marty Feldman. Feldman died of heart failure in Mexico Friday, shortly alter completing work on his latest fllm, Yellow Beard, In which Marin and his partner, Tommy Chong, appear. Newsmaker Douglas Applegate Enjoy NEW YORK A control room operator on duty when the 1979 accident occurred at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant testified Monday in Federal District Court in Manhattan that he had been caught by surprise. Page A5.

WASHINGTON The Reagan administration put on a giant political blitz Monday to try to save the MX missile from being rejected by the House of Representatives. Page AS. WASHINGTON Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, the Democratic chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, backed by House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill favors making Social Security benefits partly subject to federal income tax as one of several ways to shore up the financially depleted system, committee aides reported Monday.

Page All. WASHINGTON A Reagan administration proposal requiring federally subsidized family planning clinics to use separate staff and facilities for abortions is under fire from critics who say the idea is unworkable and a distortion of what Congress intended. Page All. BARNSTABLE, Mass. Although Joan Kennedy said her divorce from Sen.

Edward M. Kennedy was friendly, she held back tears as they attended a hearing to divide money and property from their 24-year marriage. Page All. U. S.

Rep. Douglas Applegate, Democrat from Ohio's 18th District, was the sponsor of an amendment to the House gasoline tax in-, crease bill, which would require almost all steel, cement and manufactured products in highway projects under the bill to be made in America. Now finishing his third term in Congress, Rep. Douglas Applegate The Carousel Dinner Theatre production of the musical George continues at 8 tonight through Sunday in the theater at 960 E. Main Ravenna.

For more information, call 1-800-362-4100. British vocal ensemble The Scholars performs Renaissance and Georgian music by English and continental composers at 8:30 tonight in Strosacker Auditorium on the Case Western Reserve campus in Cleveland. Tickets are $7 and $3 for students. For more information, call 1-531-7094. Lyric tenor Nicolai Gedda, assisted by pianist Marshall Williamson, performs French and Russian arias and songs by Glinka, Thomas, Gounod, Bizet and Tchaikovsky at 8 tonight in Finney Chapel on the Oberlin College campus.

Tickets are $13 and $11.50. For more information, call 1-775-8200. nas oiten peen a supporter of serves on the House Public Works Committee and three of its subcommittees. Applegate is also a member of the Congressional Steel Caucus executive committee. THE SON of former Steubenville mayor Earl Applegate, he served 16 years in the Ohio Legislature eight in the House and eight in the Senate.

Applegate graduated from Steubenville High School in 1947 and did not continue formal academic education. Beginning a career in local real estate sales in 1950, he became a licensed real estate broker in 1956. Applegate's district is primarily a blue-collar area of the state, with steel production and coal mining its chief industries. Several plants of Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel are located there, and about half of the work force of Weirton Steel of Weirton, W.Va., comes from the district. Applegate co-sponsored the Fair Practices in Automotive Products Act to establish domestic content requirements for motor vehicles sold in the U.

S. That bill is expected to be taken up on the floor of the House this week or next. HE ALSO co-sponsored a bill to impose quotas on importation of automobiles. That measure is pending in the House Ways and Means Committee. He co-sponsored the Steel Caucus Bill, called the Fair Trade in Steel Act, which would provide for "orderly trade" in certain carbon and alloy steel and stainless steel products.

That bill also is pending in committee. In 1981, the National Committee for an Effective Congress, a liberal group, targeted Applegate among 68 congressmen it considered too conservative. Rating the effectiveness of congressmen later that year, syndicated newspaper columnist Jack Anderson did not mention Applegate except on his "biggest bores" list. Applegate's aide Jim Hart noted, "It is ironic, considering the amount of help Doug has given, how little (campaign) support he has received from industry." In the last election, Hart said, Apple-gate was given "in the neighborhood of less than $300" from WheeUng-Pittsburgh Steel. Applegate and his wife, Betty, have two sons, Kirk and David, and two granddaughters.

measures aimed at protecting the American steel and auto industries from what he considers unfair foreign competition. Applegate, 54 1179 AlfWttAft to the House in "P- APP" 1976, succeeding former Congressman Wayne Hays. This fall, he was re-elected to a fourth term, having been unopposed in both the primary and general elections. He is a member of the House Veterans Affairs Committee and serves as chairman of its subcommittee on compensation, pension and insurance. He currently also Getting it straight AN INCORRECT phone number for the Providence Good Samaritan Hunger Center was listed in Sunday's Lifestyle section.

The correct number is 253-8144. The error was made by a reporter. Ohio lottery was the winning number drawn Monday. Ticket sales totaled $1,098,392. Winning ticket payouts totaled $349,087.

The weather In the nation Today's forecast fJ Minneapolis Lr CM Regional forecasts Western Pennsylvania Mostly cloudy Wednesday with a high near 40. Fair Thursday through Saturday with highs in the 30s to 40. Western New York Partly cloudy Wednesday with a high of 35. Fair Thursday through Saturday with highs in the upper 30s. Indiana Cloudy Wednesday, high of 41.

Cold Thursday and Friday with highs in the upper 20s. Saturday, high in the mid-40s. West Virginia i Mostly sunny Wednesday, high in the mid-50s. Rain or snow Thursday, clearing Friday and Saturday. Highs in the 40s.

Kentucky Sunny but cooler Wednesday with a high in the lower to mid-40s. Fair Thursday with a chance of rain both Friday and Saturday. Lower Michigan Snow showers Wednesday, high of 35. Partly cloudy Thursday and Friday with highs in mid-20s. Warmer Saturday.

Associated Prtu Snow and cold Canadian air swept across the northern Plains early today, dropping temperatures into the 20s and single-digit range from the Continental Divide eastward through northern Wisconsin. Elsewhere today, snow flurries were scattered from northeast Nevada through the northern half of the Great Plains to Upper Michigan. Up to 2 inches of snow fell in Rapid City, S. D. Skies were mostly clear through the southern Rockies and the lower Mississippi Valley to the Great Lakes.

Snow was forecast for the northern Rockies and an area of southern Michigan later today, with thunderstorms predicted over much of Florida. Skies will be mostly sunny from the southern Plains to the Carolinas and New England. Area almanac Snow Rain oXaajMM 72 60 ,1 173 Beacon Journal Wednesday's national outlook Area forecast Chance of flurries tonight, low 27. Cloudy Wednesday with a high of 39. Extended forecast Partly cloudy Wednesday, high 41.

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