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Fran Murphey Business DT)W 3 ft it Akron Beacon Journal Tuesday, November 27, 1979- Baker: U.S. must restore world prestige ByAbeZaidan Beacon Journal politics writer Sen. Howard Baker, who is aiming his presidential campaign at the broad center of American politics, says he's not going to pick a fight with President Carter over the Iranian crisis at least not yet. In fact, the 53-year-old Republican minority leader from Tennessee said in Akron Monday night that he fully supports the President on that issue and will continue to do so until the hostages are released from the student-controlled embassy in Tehran. "While this crisis is in progress," Baker said, "I will support any reasonable move the President takes." But Baker also suggested strongly that Iran is a symbol of it much larger challenge to U.

S. prestige and influence around the world. And, in that broader context, his comments were much sharper. "One way or the other," he said, "we have to convince the rest of the world that the United States is not a patsy." BAKER WAS the main speaker at the annual Jewish Welfare Pacesetters dinner at the Akron Jewish Center. Baker and George Bush, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, are considered the two strongest contenders for GOP presidential nomination from the party's moderate wing.

Although Baker conceded at a news conference that former California Gov. Ron- aid Reagan, a conservative who is moving closer to the center, is the party's'' front-runner, he insisted Reagan's lead could vanish in the early primaries. "The country doesn't want a rerun Qf 1976," Baker said, an apparent refer-'" ence to Reagan's failure to win the non ination and Gerald Ford's loss to Carter; He said Republicans are determined to win the White House in 1980 and are quite pragmatic about the elements of victory. BAKER SAID "electability" would be a major issue in "determining the outcome" of the party's nominating con vention in Detroit, which enhanced his own chances for heading the party ticket. Baker discounted the results of cent informal party straw votes in Maine and Iowa in which Bush finished ahead of the field.

"The straw vote exhibition season is over," Baker said, "and not a single delegate was chosen." Although he minimized the importance of these non-binding shows of hands, Baker's forces had made an all-out effort in both states to win. BUSH'S SHOWING in Maine, where he got 35 percent of the votes at an informal party convention (Baker got 33 percent) was regarded as a surprising "upset" of Baker, who had hoped to couple a victory in Maine with the launching of his official campaign, for the presidency. In the Iowa party straw votes in mid-October, Bush paced the field with 34 percent, well ahead of Reagan's 24 percent and Baker's 13 percent. Nevertheless, Baker said Reagan remained the man to beat. "Ronald Reagan is the front-runner and the name of the game is to catch Ronald Reagan," he said.

"One of us is going to have to do well (against Reagan) in the early primaries." Violations at landfill charged Ban is asked on Lakemore annex action illl Public hearings have been held on the petitions for annexing Goodyear Aerospace and the Gilchrist Road property to Akron, but commissioners have not ruled on the petitions. THE 9TH DISTRICT Court of Appeals has ruled that commissioners must make a decision on the Akron annexations, but com missioners intend to appeal the ruling to the Ohio Supreme Court. Patrick Hart, an assistant Akron law director, said Holcomb filed the two actions Monday because city officials fear commissioners will act on the Lakemore petition before making deciding the two annexations to Akron. By Brace Larrick Beacon Journal staff writer The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency will have a hearing on allegations that the City of Akron's Hardy Road landfill is violating state landfill regulations. The hearing will be Jan.

29 in Columbus. EPA spokesman Allan Franks said EPA investigated complaints by neighbors of the landfill and found them valid enough to warrant a hearing. The alleged improper practices at the landfill are: Waste was not being compacted in layers less than 2 feet thick. The daily cover placed over waste was less than 6 inches thick. Intermediate cover over waste was less than a foot thick.

Intermediate cover is put over waste in an area where it is planned to put more waste on top of the cover a month or more later. Surface water was not diverted away from waste storage areas. Akron service director Robert Edwards said his staff is preparing an answer to the EPA complaint and he could not comment on the specific allegations. "However, I'm sure we've made mistakes," Edwards said. "The problem is the inordinately large volume of waste we've been taking there since other landfills in the area shut down a couple years ago." Edwards said daily volume of waste taken to the landfill jumped in two years from 800 tons a day to the current 1,400 to 1,500 tons a day.

PROBLEMS at the landfill should lessen when the city's downtown Recycle Energy Sys By William Hershey and William Canterbury Beacon Journal staff writers Akron law director John E. Holcomb has opened a new round of court action in the annexation battle involving Akron, Lake-more, Springfield Township and Summit County commissioners. Holcomb asked Summit County Common Pleas Court on Monday that commissioners be prohibited from holding a public hearing on a proposal to annex all of Springfield Township to the Village of Lakemore until they act on two proposed annexations of township land to Akron. Holcomb filed the petitions as agent for property owners involved in the proposed annexations to Akron. One petition was on behalf of Goodyear, owner of the Goodyear Aerospace property in the township.

The other petition was filed on behalf of nine owners of property in the warehouse district along Gilchrist Roadi PENDING BEFORE commissioners are requests that 111 acres including Goodyear Aerospace and 247.5 acres along Gilchrist Road be annexed to Akron. Those requests conflict with Lakemore's request that all of the township be annexed to the village. Township voters Nov. 6 overwhelming endorsed annexation to the village, but the vote was only advisory. Commissioners must hold a public hearing on the village's petition before ruling on the request.

The hearing has been scheduled for Jan. 22. Hart said Holcomb, who is out of town, wanted to protect the rights of the property owners in the proposed annexations to Akron. AL SCHRADER, Springfield Township trustees chairman, said, "It's a shame they (city officials) want to thwart the will of the people to annex the entire area (to Lakemore)." Marvin Manes, Lakemore solicitor, said the requests probably are "the first of many legal maneuvers we expect from the city to thwart the vote." COMMISSIONER Mark T. Rav-enscraft said he still would like to see a compromise worked out in which the city would give up the Gilchrist Road annexations if the Goodyear Aerospace petition Is approved.

Commissioner John Morgan said that if the Supreme Court rules before the Jan. 22 hearing on Lakemore he would vote first on the Akron petitions. He said that if there is no Supreme Court ruling before the public hearing, he would favor voting first on the Lakemore annexation. Morgan said the Lakemore petition was filed before those requesting annexation to Akron and should be acted on first. Ted Cole, the third commissioner, said he wants to hear from the Supreme Court before deciding what to do.

Beacon Journal photo by Paul Tople The real thing It's a good bet you thought you'd never see a walking, talking Christmas tree. But this pointy-headed decoration soon will go before the nation, brought to your TV screen by "Real People." Sidney, Ohio's, Donna Burchette has been pro- claimed by the Ohio House of Representatives to be the state's Official Walking, Talking Tree. And she's out to bring smiles to little tots. Akron Children's Hospital patients see few trees, but Christopher Richards was pleased. Akron 'bubble' building proposed Architects N.

Carlton Buck and George H. Winkelmann have a $1.5 million plan to build a plastic bubble structure in Akron's Opportunity Park urban renewal tem is in full operation sometime next year, Edwards said. The plant, which burns garbage to produce steam heat for downtown buildings, is being broken in. When the plant is in full operation, Edwards said, the daily volume of trash taken to the landfill will drop to 300 to 350 tons. "It's been difficult to devote full attention to the landfill while we were putting up a $50 million plant," Edwards said.

EPA's Franks said that if the allegations are upheld at the hearing, the EPA would issue corrective orders for the city to change its operations and clean up past problems at the landfill. IF THE ORDERS were not followed, Franks said, EPA could take the city to court. A prehearing conference, scheduled for Dec. 18 in Columbus, could result in a settlement of the dispute before the January hearing, Franks added. Alkire, contacted after the caucus, said the proposal doesn't meet the development standards for Opportunity Park.

The standards require buildings of masonry construction or buildings that are masonry-clad, he said. He said it wouldn't be fair to other developers in the area to change the standards. ALSO, HE SAID the land costs are set to compensate for the expense involved in meeting the development standards. "If (building don't meet development standards, we can't sell it (land) to them," said THE CABLES which help sup port the vinyl are heat-sealed in the fabric, said Buck and Winkelmann. The cables make the bubbles manufactured by the company different than similar looking bubble buildings which are held up only by air pressure, they said.

The building would be at the northeast corner of Douglas and West Bartges streets, just east of the Innerbelt. The architects said the vinyl material was developed five years ago and has been used for the Portland, YMCA swimming pool and other structures. said the development would mean the addition of about 50 jobs. The development also would include a four-sided, metal-covered office building connected to the bubble building. The two architects' firm, Team 3, would be located in the building and there would be room for other tenants, they said.

Team 3 now is located in Quaker Square. There would be 25,000 square feet in the three-level office building and 20,000 sguare feet in the bubble building. Part of the bubble would be 18 feet high and the rest 35 feet high. It would be 300 feet long. Peanuts Child care hearing The Ohio Commission for Children will hold a public hearing from 7 to 10 p.m.

today at the Holiday Inn at Belden Village and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday. The hearings are to help the commission define problems and issues in child care with an eye toward setting up local area. James A.

Alkire, Akron planning director, said Monday he likes the architects' plan for a cable and air-supported bubble building for a new manufacturing facility, but he said Opportunity Park is not the place for it. Buck and Winkelmann Monday informally outlined their proposal to City Council's caucus at the Pewter Mug and then said they would try to buy the three acres of land they need for the develop-, ment, despite objections by Alkire and his staff. Buck said their proposal calls for using a relatively new building technique to put up the vinyl-covered bubble which would house Environmental Structures a company now located in Valley View, a Cleveland suburb. ENVIRONMENTAL Structures uses a vinyl material called to make the bubble coverings and the firm's own facility in 11-21 15 THERE MUCH CALL FOR 5MUP6EP CIRCLES? ff THIS 15 A MTSMill 5M0UM FOR? 5 Statements to be used in slaying trial Channel 8 gets WAKR'sRuss for noon news WAKR-TV newsman Dick Russ will replace Virgil Dominic as anchorman on WJKW-TV's weekday noon news program beginning Jan. 1.

Russ, a Cleveland native, has been co-anchoring news on Channel 23 in Akron for the past three years. When he joins Channel 8 in Cleveland, he will also serve as the station's Akron-Canton bureau chief. Dominic, Channel 8 news director, has been doing the station's noon news program since Aug. 27. Russ will join current co-anchors Bob Cerminara and Mattle Majors on the noon news.

Opportunity Park would be an example of how "such a structure could be aesthetically pleasing, Buck and Winkelmann said. The only council members at the caucus were Mickey Eritano, D-7; Vincent Ciraco, D-2; Kathleen Greissing Slader, D-5; Don Plus-quellic, D-9, and Robert Goehler, D-3. The bubble building would use solar energy for some heating and would need little lighting during the day because the Esifilm is translucent, the architects said. The. bubble building would house Environmental Structures Inc.

offices as well as the manufacturing facilities. Plusquellic By Richard McBane Beacon Journal staff writer Recorded statements given by Steven Todd Roy to Akron police in the June 5 rape and fatal stabbing of Pauline Greco in her Chapel Hill area home may be used in his Dec. 17 trial. Summit County Common Pleas Judge Daniel Quillin ruled Monday that Roy's rights were not violated during his questioning at the Akron police station in the early morning hours of June 6. Michael Conway, lawyer for year-old Roy, argued that although police had read Roy his constitutional rights, he had not understood those rights.

He said then 15, and of "low normal" intelligence, was confused and unsophisticated in the hands of experienced detectives. ROY, called by his lawyer to testify at a hearing, told the court he had not understood the consti- ly given and can be used at trial. ROY HAD FIRST been referred to Juvenile Court, but Judge William Kannel ruled he should be tried as an adult. Detectives said that Roy, who had been hired to cut the grass at the Greco home, attacked Mrs. Greco, 60, after an effort to rob her to get money to leave home.

Police said she was stabbed about 17 times with a pair of scissors. tutional.warnings given to him by the detectives, but that he had answered that he did understand because he was "scared and afraid." CONWAY told the court that police should not have questioned Roy for 11 hours, and that they should have advised Mrs. Roy, the defendant's mother, of her son's need for a lawyer. Quillin ruled that) the statements were freely and intelligent -m.