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Akron Beacon Journal IB etropolitan News tr it Wednesday, July 19, 1978. Treasurer blocks Akron zoning crackdown tax bills on the 250,000 parcels of land in the county and the tax duplicate books listing these are public records. However, the duplicate books only list the addresses of the properties being taxed, not the owner's address where the tax bills are mailed. In addition, about 10 percent, or 25,000 properties, change hands in a year. So the treasurer must post current addresses of owners.

Swanson keeps a separate list of the owners' addresses and that list is what he is refusing to provide. SCHULTZ'S OPINION said Swanson must provide all public records he is required to keep by law. Schultz said Swanson's list of addresses is an "administrative matter to enable him to perform his function of sending out the tax bills." Schultz said the mailing list does not have to be kept because the tax bills "may be mailed or delivered" according to Ohio law. he can't find out where the property owners live. "You can't say these records are available eight months of the year and not the other four," he said.

Swanson said Bickett could get the information from the City of Akron's water department files. HOWEVER, Akron Service Director Robert Edwards said the list at the water department shows only where the bill is sent, which could be a renter or an owner. He also said the list does not show a change of property ownership unless the water service is changed. Swanson said he raised the public records issue because he also is concerned about "the privacy rights of these property owners. "One guy called me from Chile this morning," he said.

"I don't know whether he wants people to know he's living in Chile," Swanson said. at it, to anything on the administrative end of what we do," Swanson said. SWANSON SAID he has not provided the records lately because the treasurer's office has been plagued with a lack of space, shortage of employes and the current rush to finish the second half tax bill mailings and collections. Swanson said sometimes there are 15 people in his office asking for the list. He said they include county and city health departments trying to track down owners of properties they claim have been neglected, private real estate and title firms and lawyers.

"I'm not trying to stop anybody. I've just got no room. Six weeks from now when the tax collection's all done I don't give a damn about how many of them are in there," he said. Bickett said the city's project has already been slowed down because opinion, so he went to Assistant County Prosecutor William Schultz to get the ruling. "We believe these are public records and the treasurer's office is the only place we can get the information," Bickett said.

"We're going to try to work out an agreement with Mr. Swanson first, but if no arrangement can be made we'll have to go to court on it." Bickett said in years past, the law department has had "a working relationship" with Swanson to get the information needed for researching problems involving properties in the county. Swanson said the treasurer's office is too short of staff and space to help "everyone who comes in here with projects." "I'LL BEND over backwards to help a taxpayer, but because somebody shoves their weight around they don't get anywhere," Swanson said. Swanson keeps a record of all the By MARILV NN MARCHIONE Beacon Journal Staff Writer Assistant Akron City Law Director James Bickett thought he'd take break from the work he'd been doing on the city's abortion ordinance and try a different project cracking down on zoning violations, especially those involving downtown properties. Bickett said he didn't think the project would be very controversial or difficult.

He'd simply prepare a list of the properties suspected of violations, look up the owners, find their addresses and pursue the matters with them. But Bickett ran into a snag with the second and third steps of the plan. County Treasurer Arthur Swanson wouldn't give him the addresses of the property owners and said a new county prosecutor's opinion advised him that the information was not public record. BICKETT SAID Swanson wouldn't show him a copy of the lmiMS Arthur Swanson He acknowledged that Swanson would not be able to mail or deliver the tax bills without some list of owners' addresses, but said, "We're taking the position that these are for his own administrative convenience like other indices and card files he keeps." "The city has no rights, as I look Akron police approve pact on 36-20 vote '-kx i li fM 2 0S With about 11 percent of Akron's 490 policemen voting, the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) Tuesday ratified its two-year contract with the city. The vote was 36-20.

Nick Jessup, president of the rival Police Patrolmen's Association (PPA), accused FOP officials of plotting to restrict the voting to a small, select group of officers to avoid the contract's defeat by PPA sympathizers opposed to the contract. FOP President Wayne Darrah denied the charge and said he was surprised that only 56 officers turned up to vote at the meeting. JESSUP SAID he didn't see a small notice about the 3:30 p.m. meeting until 2 p.m. Tuesday.

He said he rounded up a contingent of PPA members for the meeting, but not enough to offset the FOP votes. Most patrolmen belong to both groups. Jessup, who resigned from the FOP earlier this year, was barred from the meeting. The PPA has roughly 220 members among the city's 390 patrolmen. The PPA is expected to challenge the FOP again in January to become the bargaining agent for sergeants and patrolmen.

That challenge could result in a court battle over whether sergeants should be allowed to vote in the next representation election. The sergeants are probably crucial to the FOP's chances in a rematch. The PPA contends that patrolmen have different interests than Beacon Journal photo by Lew Stamp Orchestra conductor Robert Shaw and pianist Grant Johannesen perform at Summer Music Experience SME orchestra plays with polish Nick Jessup sergeants and other supervisors and that only patrolmen should be allowed to particpate in that election. Tuesday's ratifiction vote came after months of delay. Originally, the FOP planned to have three days of balloting last June for a ratification vote.

But the PPA won a temporary injunction against the vote. THE PPA ARGUED that the contract was not in the best interests of its members. The FOP argued it had been authorized to enter into the contract because it defeated the PPA 221-174 in a representation vote last year. Summit County Common Pleas Judge John W. Reece recently ruled in favor of the FOP, clearing the way for Tuesday's ratification vote.

The contract, retroactive to April 1977, includes grievance and other department procedures. It also embodies wage and fringe benefits agreed upon previously. (llaAitsd-fyMlL music. Two times a week, the students give recitals that are open to the public. In order to give the students a real touch of the professional music world, William Appling, director of the school since its inception, has invited noted artists to Hudson each year to take part in master classes and to perform in concerts.

In previous years, such musicians as Lor-in Maazel, Louis Lane, Janos Starker, Martina Arroyo and Claude Frank, among others, have come to the Western Reserve campus. Akron violist David Feltner, 18, is attending the program for the fourth year in a row. "Working with such great musicians is amazing," said Feltner, a June graduate of Garfield High School who will go to Indiana University in the fall. Summer Music Experience is open to any high school student who demonstrates musical ability and has the desire to develop his or her talent. Over the years, the quality has remained high.

Shaw, who has worked with SME musicians for a few summers, always has been impressed. "The students set the standards musicians the opportunity to act as accompanists, here to a world renowned pianist. As always, Johannesen was in fine form in Bach's Concerto in minor, Faure's Ballade for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 19, and Valse-Caprice in G-flat major (for solo piano), Op. 59, and Mozart's Piano Concerto No.

21 in major, K. 467. Under Shaw's direction, the young musicians played with polish and professional spirit. No one was more pleased than the conductor himself. "It's just incredible," Shaw remarked following the concert.

"The quality of the music was exactly right." Thursday evening, Shaw will lead the SME orchestra and chorus in works by Ho-negger and Schubert in the Gartner Auditorium at the Cleveland Museum of Art. SME STUDENTS spend six weeks in Hudson studying with members of the Cleveland Orchestra and other area musicians and attending Blossom Music Center concerts each weekend. Classes are held daily in music history and theory, orchestra, choir and chamber By DONALD ROSENBERG Beacon Journal Music Writer A large, black poodle strutted up and down the aisle just before the concert began. Poor ventilation and the heat easily could have ruined the evening. But once the music started, none of these distractions mattered.

Ellsworth Hall at Western Reserve Academy in Hudson was filled Tuesday night as a bustling bunch of music lovers listened to the Summer Music Experience (SME) orchestra perform a concert with conductor Robert Shaw and pianist Grant Johannesen. Since the summer of 1972, high school aged music students from all over the country (and occasionally from around the globe) have gathered at Western Reserve Academy to have the musical time of their lives. And experience is exactly what the teenage instrumentalists and singers are getting this week as they rehearse and perform concerts with Shaw, music director of the Atlanta Symphony, and Johannesen, president of the Cleveland Institute of Music. TUESDAY'S performance included piano music by Bach, Faure and Mozart, works that do not feature the orchestra but give the 17 United Way Pacesetters lined up Akron man breaks jail in Portage RAVENNA An Akron man who was awaiting transfer to Mansfield Reformatory was being sought today after he escaped from Portage County Jail with another inmate. The other escapee was captured.

Akron police were searching for Charles Logan, 22, of 376 E. Glen-wood who had been sentenced Monday in Portage County Common Pleas Court to 18 months to five years for grand theft. Portage deputies said Logan and David R. Phan, 19, of Mantua Township, escaped about 2:45 a.m. by climbing out a third-floor window and lowering themselves to the ground, using a blanket as a rope.

Phan, who was being held on a burglary charge, was captured about 4 a.m. in Ravenna, deputies said. will help in testing new solicitation methods and developing new promotion techniques. 'It's the responsibility of the United Way to solicit and acquire enable the United Way agencies to provide the essential help and services," Mercer said. "We must do more in the 1978 campaign than just keep pace with Km aritfr OAs the increased funds necessary to inflation.

To make this an increas- Edison union studies pact By PEGGY RADER Beacon Journal Staff Writer Seventeen area businesses and hospitals have been chosen to participate in this year's United Way-Red Cross Pacesetter Campaign. The special campaign begins Aug. 1 and concludes Aug. 15. Campaign leaders Tuesday urged big efforts within the companies as an incentive for the full campaign that begins Oct.

4. The suggested goal for the Pacesetter Campaign is $60 per employe in each business and hospital. "Of course, depending on each company's performance last year, that goal can be altered to a lesser or more ambitious goal," Donald Frey, executive vice president of Summit County United Way, said Tuesday at a luncheon at St. Thomas HospitaL ROBERT E. MERCER, Pacesetter Campaign chairman and president of Goodyear, said the early fund drive, the first of such scope.

ingly better community, the United Way agencies must expand their human services programs and apply more resources to helping solve human problems." The goal for this year's campaign is $6.4 million, 10 percent higher than the $5.8 million raised last year. "There's an extremely pressing need for a totally successful United Way campaign this year and that's the need for a big boost in community morale," Mercer said. Those participating in the Pacesetter Campaign are: Akron City Hospital, Akron Equipment Akron Standard Mold, Akron Children's Hospital, Akron First National Bank, Green Cross General Hospital, McNeil Corp. of Akron, Morse Controls, Mohawk Rubber NRM Ohio Edison, J. C.

Penney, Portage Machine RCA Rubber St. Thomas Hospital, Steere Enterprises Inc. and General VotnrcTprpT A tentative agreement has been reached between Ohio Edison and 1,941 members of the Utility Workers Union of America who have been working without a contract since July 1. John Braswell, Local 126 president in Akron, said the agreement was reached Tuesday after a 10-hour negotiating session with a federal mediator. Braswell would not release details of the agreement until after a vote by union members in Akron and Youngstown.

Braswell said the vote probably will be taken next week. Ohio F.disn officials declined to comment on the talks Tuesday. THE POWER company is continuing to negotiate with Local 1194 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, which represents about 600 Edison employes in Sandusky, Marion, Mansfield, Lorain, Massillon and Warren. Its contract also expired June 30. Local 126 rejected the company's first offer July 6.

The union did not release the vote totals or terms of the rejected agreement. The two unions include power plant workers, line repairmen and metPr reartprs. THE TWO had pried the screen from a window open because of the heat, deputies said. Deputies said the escape occurred on the side of the jail next to the Ravenna police station. A police dispatcher heard a noise, looked out and saw the men fleeing.

Logan had been in jail since he was arrested in Kent on May 22, Akron nnlirv spjf LET'S SCRATCH TJtATLA5T UNy.