The Akron Beacon Journal from Akron, Ohio • Page 16

3 E2 Akron Beacon Journal Wednesday, October 11, 1978 -MetrolbnMR dick feagler's 53 rn i ff I IM. 1 IH. I ill 1 1 krcw krc a kn Public radio isn't dead yet If that doesn't excite you, let's talk about money about $5 million. The funding agency for National Public Radio is the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. CPB is empowered to award $5 million "upgrading grants" to any deserving National Public Radio station which presents a plan to Improve its local programming and better serve its community.

I LEARNED of these grants from Lee Frischnect, former president of National Public Radio, who now acts as a sort of radio consultant. A couple of weeks ago, while WBOE was getting ready to pull the plug, Frischnect was sitting in the Hollenden House Hotel. He had been hired by the school board to study the operations of WBOE and perhaps make recommendations about its future. The Cleveland school catastrophe made Frischnect's assignment a little weird. It became a sort of death watch.

It was obvious that the school money crunch would soon put the school board out of the radio business. So Frischnect began looking around town for some likely group to take over the station. There were two obvious candidates. One Radio station WBOE died on schedule Saturday night. And tomorrow, while the body is still warm, the Cleveland school board will begin discussing its future.

Obviously this Is screwy timing. There's no point, though, in bawling out the school board for it. At a time when the children of the city are locked out of an education and teachers are on the picket line, the school board hasn't had much pep to invest worrying about the radio business. Somebody should worry, however. WBOE is too valuable a property to get lost in the chaos of the ongoing school crisis.

The school board knows this, even if it hasn't had much time to think about it lately. AT FIRST GLANCE, WBOE might seem like just another one of those school radio stations which features snappy programs like "Fun With Algebra" and "Let's Parlez French." Once this was true. But then, last year, WBOE became a member of the National Public Radio network. Cleveland became the last major city in the country to carry NPR programming which is the classiest and best radio programming in the country. was Betty Cope of WVIZ-TV (Channel 25).

The other was an organization called Cleveland Public Radio, spearheaded by lawyer Brad Norris. OF THE TWO, Norris' is the more fascinating group. He has been waging a campaign to get the station for a long time and has received letters of support from organizations including the Urban League, Common Cause, Women in Communications, Cuyahoga Community College, Cleveland AFL-CIO, NOVA, League of Women Voters, the Sierra Gub, the National Organization For Women and the American Civil Liberties Union. Norris' theory is that this mixed bag can produce exciting community radio programs and that these, the fine shows of the NPR network, education programs for the schools and funding from the Corporation For Public Broadcasting can be combined in a sparkling way. It will be up to the school board already battle-fatigued to decide what to do with WBOE.

I hope it takes its time and decides with care. Otherwise a marvelous radio resource will be just another name of on the casualty list which grows each day during this school debacle. Jackson TV p. holds road levy session Jackson Township Trustees will answer questions about a three-mill road levy on the Nov. 7 ballot at a special meeting at 7:30 tonight at the township hall.

If approved by voters, the levy will raise $600,000 over a five-year period. Cost to owners of $35,000 homes would be about $35 a year. Canton bus building architect hired Massillon architect Gerald Cody has been hired by the Canton Regional Transit Authority to design a $3.5 million maintenance and storage building in the Gateway Industrial Park tn Canton. Cody will be paid $170,100 for the work. Groundbreaking for the building is set for next spring.

Construction is expected to take 16 months. Medina deputies seek overtime pay Medina County Sheriff's Department Lt. John Ribar asked county commissioners Tuesday to set up a special fund to pay overtime to deputies who work more than 40 hours a week. He said deputies cannot collect overtime pay now because of lack of funds. "A guy doesn't want to arrest someone for something minor at 8 p.m.

if he's going off duty and isn't going to get paid for it," Ribar said. He said he does not know how much would be needed in an overtime fund. Commissioners said they would act after Finance Director John Strieker studies how much money would be needed. Kent building chief suspended The City of Kent's chief building inspector, James E. Wither-spoon, was suspended Tuesday pending the outcome of an investigation into charges he allowed construction to begin on a restaurant without a building permit.

The Rev. Victor Myers, chairman of the city's planning commission, has charged that construction of Big George's, a geodesic-domed nightclub and restaurant on Ohio 261, was allowed without a building permit or performance bond. Witherspoon could not be reached for comment. Canton bridge repairs sought Canton Mayor Stanley A. Cmich has asked city council to authorize spending $115,100 for plans for a US-62 bridge repair and roadway project.

The federal government will pay $1.3 million of the estimated $1.8 million project with the city picking up about $540,000. Included are resurfacing, structural deck, abutment, pier repairs and miscellaneous work on railings and joints. Federal jobless checks delayed About 200 jobless former federal employes and ex-servicemen in the Akron area aren't receiving federal unemployment checks this week because Congress has delayed passage of the annual appropriations bill for the departments of Labor and Health Education and Welfare (HEW), according to Albert G. Giles, administrator of the Ohio Bureau of Employment Services. Persons who qualify for federal unemployment should continue to file claims each week even though the payments are being held up, Giles said.

Retroactive payments will be made, Giles said. Most unemployed persons in Ohio qualify for the state program and are not affected by the congressional inaction. The delay affects 2,500 former postal workers, CETA employes and discharged servicemen statewide, and 4.500 laid-off factory workers, mostly in Youngstown, who qualify under a special failing industries bill. iShm ireO, JUNE GOLD, an Ohio State University graduate who has been directing community education for the Stark County Council on Drug Abuse, is the new director of the Mental Health I ki otlf I BALDWIN! (Club Muminum 333 lo BATH AND BOUOOI8 Accissestis 9 OFF riNf AMIIICAN BRASS 4. cn i ikc uric 60 OFF ENTIRE LINE 50 OF? Sog.

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pislBlssejeiewsissssssssiBHSssssiBeeBssisssss if MX DR. C. C. ROUSSI of Akron General Medical Center has been cited by the American College of Emergency Physicians for his work to develop a nationwide examination for emergency room physicians. Dr.

Karl G. Mangold, president of the organization, praised Dr. Roussi for his "tireless efforts over the last three years to develop a certification examina Round Dr tion that will help assure the public of high quality emergency care." The examination tests doctors on their memory of medical knowledge and their ability to simultaneously treat numerous patients. DONALD M. DEER, Director of government relations for the American Standards has been named this year's winner of the William Taylor award by the Kent State University Journalism Alumni Association.

The award is given to Kent State journalism alumni for outstanding professional accomplishments and service to the university. The award is named after the university's first journalism chairman. Deer was named to his present position with the Washington-based firm last year. Deer is a 1960 Kent State graduate and a former president of the Kent State Journalism Alumni Association and board member of the Kent State Foundation. THE BLOODMOBILE will be at the administration building on the Stark Branch of Kent State University in Jackson Township from 10 a.m.

to 4 p.m. Friday. A goal of 150 pints has been set for the visit. Walk-ins will be accepted. Those wishing to schedule donations in advance should call 833-9943.

A SEMINAR ON FETAL MONITORING, for doctors and nurses who care for pregnant women, will be held Oct. 21 at Aultman Hospital in Canton. The seminar, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.. I' a If you liked the Lite-Lunch lunch idea, you're going to love our new casserole varieties.

There's Macaroni and Cheese, Italian Style, and A La King. Every one is hot and hearty, just right for a quick, light bite. You make Lite-Lunch a serving at a time-in practically no time. Just add boiling water. And don't forget the original Lite-Lunch flavors: Beef, Chicken, Stock-pot Vegetable, and Oriental Style, costs $40 and has been approved for five hours of continuing education credit.

For information, call the hospital at 452-9911 and ask for Dr. Alvin Langer's office. A MAJOR GENERAL in the U.S. Air Force will give a report on the nation's "technological health" Oct. 26 at Tangier Restaurant in Akron.

The general, Ai ron native William B. Maxson, will speak at the awards banquet of the Akron Council of Engineering and Scientific Societies. Maxson is director of Air Force development and acquisition. D. director and former president of Ohio Edison, Mxsn Bruce Mansfield Save 15 on your neit purchase ot any tlaror ot Lite Lunch 2 I will receive the society's Distinguished Award of Council.

Cocktail hour is at 6 p.m. with dinner at 7 p.m. Tickets are $10. Call 384-5234 for reservations. DOR FEN CUTHBERT and Grace Bethel, teachers at Canal Fulton Elementary School, have been named by the Martha Holden Jennings Foundation as recipients of scholarships for the 1978-9 Jennings Scholar Lecture Program at Kent State University.

The program honors outstanding teachers and provides recognition for excellence in educating youth. Mrs. Cuthbert, who has been teaching for 29 years, is a graduate of Iowa State Teachers College. In 1976, she was named Northwest Local Schools' Teacher of the Year. Mrs.

Bethel, who has been teaching for 15 years, is a graduate of Malone College. THE NORFOLK WESTERN railroad crossing at Cleveland Avenue and 18th Street SW in Canton will be closed for repairs Thursday beginning at 8 a.m.. Canton Safety Director Frank Burnosky said. Detours will be posted. entr MMnMiowwia COUPS linf um II Lite-Lunch.

jL Hot hearty dishes. From Lipton. St.c;.M VVr-ttt O.t. K'.