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i lie winners: Dallas, Playoffs, bah Football a sport no more Dick Feag'cr, Pcgo 2 'if! 1 iwfr' jGis Chargers, Vikes 4 lr Pago CI Akron ACON JOURNA Copyright' 1S83. Bwacoo Journal Publishing Co Monday, January 10. 1983 Akron, Ohio tr it ir 25 Cents Ohio 9s new guard will be quite a change ANALYSIS tenant governor in the 1970s. From three statewide campaigns, he has a good feel for Ohio's politics and diversity. But he faces awesome problems a state budget deficit of about $500 million for the next six months and a new, two-year budget which Celeste must submit by about Feb.

1 and the Legislature must approve by July 1. Unemployment in Ohio is the greatest since the Great Depression. "We are in a depression of historic magnitude," By Brian Usher Beacon Journal politics writer The era of Richard Frank Celeste has begun in Ohio. It will be a far cry from the era of James Allen Rhodes, if you believe Celeste's words in his 1982 campaign and his actions as governor-elect since then. There will be changes in style and substance, those words and actions say.

A 45-year-old Cleveland Democrat has succeeded a 73-year-old Columbus Republican. The Yale-educated son of an outspoken as Helen Rhodes was quiet and retiring. Bob Evans sausage and Wendy's hamburgers Rhodes' favorite cuisine will be out. At Celeste's inaugural receptions today, wine, cheese and quiche will be in. Legislators will grapple with Celeste's "action agenda" instead of listening to Rhodes' "jobs and progress" slogans.

Peace Corps graduates will replace the Rhodes Raiders in the Cabinet and the global marketplace. Today, a product of the 1960s Kennedy era strode into the governor's office. Out went the man who learned his politics in the Great Depression of the 1930s. Celeste now has the biggest executive job of his life. Rhodes left it after 16 years, the longest-serving governor in American history.

The Clevelander is better prepared than other Democratic governors in the post-World War period. Celeste knows the Statehouse and its people from his years as a state representative and lieu- Italian immigrant has replaced the Ohio State-dropout son of a Jackson County coal miner. In 1983, the Celestes' family life at the governor's residence (formerly the Executive Mansion) will make news instead of Rhodes' golfing vacations in Florida. First lady Dagmar Celeste, articulate and Austrian-born, will be as visible and Governor Cele fP0 nee lane i -WltH'M-- jJ.M n.JI., i JJ i.l.l.lllll Hjj, 11 1 .1.1 llj JHIIII I HMUpiWllj.iMi.l III HW m.II l.l l.ll Ulll. U.

J. I III I II I I I III iim.i The cumulative deficit of the old-age benefit program could reach $200 billion by 1989. Sworn in privately Saturday Plan would tax benefits of affluent 'iBiiflllllf "fill .1 Apia Mmif9 By William Hershey and Brian Usher Beacon Journal staff writers COLUMBUS Gov. Richard F. Celeste today challenged Ohioans to join him in charting the course for a new age, a time of change as sweeping as the Industrial Revolution.

Celeste's inaugural address was prepared for noon, but he actually became governor at 12:01 a.m. today. He took the oath of office privately Saturday evening in a Columbus hotel room from Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Frank Celebrezze. Celeste, 45, a Democrat, said it was customary to be sworn in early so that he could assume full powers under the Ohio Constitution at the beginning of the second Monday in January. In 1975, Republican James A.

Rhodes, who ended his fourth term as governor Sunday, was sworn in before Inauguration Day. Celeste's inaugural address today was to follow a ceremonial re-enactment of his swearing-in and the swearing in of former state legislator Myrl Shoemaker as lieutenant governor. In the speech, Celeste acknowledged the agonies of the new age, citing as examples three quarters of a million people out of work and Ohio families forced to live in their automobiles because they have lost their homes. "The reason for our pain, and the challenge for our future, is the reality that the world has changed in profound ways," Celeste said. We now live in a global marketplace on this tiny blue planet and we will never return to past simpler times." The changing times are no excuse to give up, Celeste said.

Instead, Ohioans must recapture the inventive spirit that helped earlier generations build the nation's industrial might. "There are those who say our See CELESTE, Page New York Times WASHINGTON President Ronald Reagan's commission on Social Security moved closer to a bipartisan agreement over the weekend on measures to shore up the system, according to a Democrat on the panel. The Democrat, who insisted on anonymity, said the package under discussion included an increase in payroll taxes starting in 1984 and partial taxation of old-age benefits for pensioners who have other, substantial income. The proposed measures were intended to raise approximately $170 billion for the years 1983-89, he said. The panel earlier estimated that the cumulative deficit of the old-age benefit program could reach $200 billion by 1989.

The Democratic negotiator said the proposals had the approval of top White House aides. Although the White House had no official comment, three senior presidential advisers participated in the weekend talks. Those three were James A. Baker the White House chief of staff; David A. Stockman, the budget director; and Richard Darman, a presidential assistant.

The panel, the National Commission on Social Security Reform, is scheduled to continue its deliberation this week amid indications that most of the eight Republican and seven Democratic congressional members of the commission are close to an accord on a package. Reagan has set a Jan. 15 deadline for their recommendations, which would be a starting point for congressional debate next month in the House Ways and Means Committee. Sources close to the negotiations said Sunday that some congressional Republicans on the advisory commission, led by Sen. Bob Dole, chairman of the Finance Committee, were showing serious interest in a Democratic proposal to make Social Security benefits subject to federal income tax for the first time, but only for pensioners with substantial outside income.

However, Rep. Barber Conable of New York, the senior Republican on the Ways and Means Committee and a member of the commission, denied that an agreement had been reached. He described the meeting Saturday only as "discussions." Associated Press Governor Richard Celeste, son Stephen, 5, walk to church Sunday in Columbus A governor moves center stage By Bill Osinski Beacon Journal staff writer COLUMBUS At church he was told to be a drum major, and hours later Richard Celeste was indeed center stage. Celeste joined bands and other performers on stage to sing The Battle Hymn of the Republic at a musical celebration in his honor Sunday night. The two-day celebration of Celeste's inauguration as Ohio governor began Sunday with an afternoon church service and the nighttime entertainment The worship was as ecumenical as the talent show was eclectic.

And both events stirred the people who came from all over Ohio to attend. The ministers who led the service were black and white, men and a woman. The entertainment ranged from bluegrass to ballet, from urban black spirituals to a small choir of refugee children singing God Bless America. The vaulted, limestone interior of St. Joseph's Cathedral in downtown Columbus resonated in spiritual and musical harmony during the two-hour afternoon service.

An overflow crowd, some of whom had waited outside more than an hour for the church doors to open, listened as Celeste was given a spiritual challenge by the keynote speaker, the Rev. Otis Moss of the Olivet Institutional Baptist Church of Cleveland. "We have the responsibility in the '80s and beyond to be bridge builders and drum majors," Moss said. Moss compared the efforts that led to Celeste's election to the way a swarm of locusts crosses a river: The ones who See MUSIC, page A7 The text of the inaugural address prepared for delivery today by Gov. Richard Celeste is on page A5.

Barberton man held in Franklin rape case End to N.Y. prison siege sought by negotiating inmates, officials INSIDE Action Line B3 Ann Landers B3 Business C7, 8 City and Region Dl to 4 Classified D7 to 10 Comics B6, 7 Deaths D5, 6 Editorials A4 Entertainment B4 Lifestyle Bl to 3 Movies B8 Sports CI to 6 IY B5 Norman, who had completed a seven-day sentence for driving while intoxicated and under a suspended license, was returned to the jail and held without bail pending arraignment today in Barberton Municipal Court. Wayne County sheriff's detectives, meanwhile, said they are looking at Norman as a possible suspect in the abduction-slaying of Krista Lea Harrison, 11, of Marshallville. Detective Andrew Augenstein said investigators spoke bi iefly Sunday with Norman and are checking into his wher eabouts on July 17, the day Krista was kid-See BARBERTON, page A8 By Tom Ryan and Mary Grace Poidomani Beacon Journal staff writers Franklin Township police have charged a 29-year-old Barberton man with kidnapping and rape in the Dec. 2 abduction of a 17-year-old high school student at a bus stop in the township.

Franklin Township Police Chief Jerry Sharrock said Ricky L. Norman, of Second Street Northwest, Barberton, was arrested at 8 a. m. Sunday as he was leaving Summit County Jail, where he had just finished serving time on another charge. "He has been identified by the girl," Sharrock said.

"We had been looking at him for several weeks and we decided to proceed with the charges Sunday." I Associated Press OSSINING, N. Y. Corrections officials and inmate negotiators faced each other through steel bare today in talks aimed at freeing 17 guards held hostage after a "spontaneous" uprising at the maximum-security prison once known as Sing Sing. Face-to-face talks between five inmates and the members of a sjecial hostage negotiation team began about 7:30 p.m. Sunday, nearly 24 hours after convicts armed with broom handles and night sticks took over Cell Block at the state's Ossining Correctional Facility.

All the hostages were reported safe, the rest of the prison was calm and there was only one mi nor injury, officials said. An ABC television crew was allowed in the cell block for a time late Sunday night in response to the inmates' demands. State Sen. Ralph Marino said overcrowding "is one of the big gripes. They are just very uncomfortable in there." The prisoners also were asking for amnesty, he said.

"Most of the inmates locked in there really don't want any part of this," Marino said. "Eighty percent want the hostages released immediately and returned 'to their cells." Officials originally reported that 16 guards were taken hostage, with one of them later freed. But early today, a state spokesman said that two other missing guards also were hostages. "Two guards were missing and believed to be in hiding in the cell block," said spokesman Peter Johnson. "We did not include them in the direct number count at the time in the interest of their safety." Marino, who heads the Committee on Crime and Corrections, said the hostages were being guarded by a group of prisoners he described as "Muslims." No serious injuries were reported, although an unnamed guard hurt by a blow to the head during the takeover.

He was released early Sunday, about eight See INMATES, page A8 WEATHER: Rain tonight. Low 35. Snow likely Tuesday. High 38. Full report on Page 2.

CHUCKLE: Husband to wife, as they plan their budget: "Let's start with the basics food, clothing and shelter. We have a choice of two.".