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2k Akron Hkacon Journal- etropolitan News '7 Vt Vi Friday, October 13,1978. UFO man has facts, but no 'explanation' (0 "Thanks to Columbia Pictures we all know that," he added. HENDRY SAID UFO researchers are in vast disagreement, their theories ranging from geophysical phenomena, to hoaxes and delusions, to time machines and angels. "Because we've never studied a sighting. They're transient.

We're adopting human testimony as scientific data. We're going to have to turn to different means. We'll have to have better lab analyses, better analyses of radioactive matter and on to the study of animals and their instincts. "We'll have to do this if the next 30 years aren't to be as frustrating as the last 30." with the investigative experiences. "MAYBE I'm the most skeptical of the people at the center," he said.

"I'm in this thing to get an answer to the UFO question, whatever it is. If it's sociological, fine. If it's extra-terrestial, fine. But I know there's no blanket explanation at this time. "I've never seen a UFO and that's probably a good thing, because people might question my motives if I were personally involved." For the skeptics, Hendry presented slides which apparently showed disc-like flying objects, but were in fact photographs which had been double-exposed unknowingly, or distorted by refracted light through an airplane window, or simply staged by pranksters.

Hendry emphasized that the reliability of witnesses is a vexing problem, not because they lie, but because they don't often know what they're seeing. A UFO to them might be nothing more than Jupiter or Mars rising in the night sky. TO TEST witness reliability, Hendry uses an IFO (Identified Flying Object). One of the best rFOs is an advertising plane, Hendry said, resplendent in its blinking white and red lights. When witnesses who said they had seen a UFO were asked to By PAUL FACINELLI Beacoo Journal StaH Writer CANTON Allan Hendry has the slides, the statistics and the knowledge that comes with investigating about 1.500 UFO sightings each year.

But his presentation before about 200 people at Walsh College Thursday night was made with one caution: "The variety of reports we receive prevents any kind of blanket explanation." Hendry is the chief investigator for the Center for ITO Studies, an independent organization based at Northwestern University in Evans-ton, El. Hendry supplemented his slides draw a picture of it, to a person, they drew a saucer-like craft. Hendry also cited a Gallup Poll which said 57 percent of the American people believe in UFOs and 11 percent said they have seen one. Hendry said the overwhelming majority of UFO sightings, about 90 percent, involve a nocturnal light, a disc in the daylight, or a radar sighting. Gose encounters of any kind are rare, he said, making up the remaining 10 percent.

A close encounter of the first kind is a sighting within 500 feet; encounters of the second kind is a physical trace and close encounters of the third kind Is contact with an alien being. Hendry said. Another U. S. suggested for case scheduled to begin Monday it is impossible to project when such a meeting might take place.

Battisti was not available for comment. AKRON BAR Association President Joseph Cook called the resolution "good news," but he, too, said the exact meaning of the resolution would be open to interpretation. He said that while the resolution may imply a desire of the sixth circuit judges to have a separate docket restored in Akron, it does not actually recommend such a step. "Until they change their method of filing cases, there won't be enough caseload here to justify it j- "La. A ft Akron will fight annexation delay i A 'i i v.

It" .1 ,7 center could be self-supporting with revenue from residents who are working, as well as payments from the state for the housing of ex-prisoners. Job counseling should be offered to the residents, they said. "If the funding comes from a variety of sources, we'd never get to the point where everything is closed down and you've got no program for helping these people," Domer said. There are 28 halfway houses throughout Ohio, the study found. Although there is no local help for male ex-convicts, Oriana House in the downtown YWCA has been a home and training center for female offenders since 1976.

A a. 5cary school art work Eleven-year-old Heather Boyd started with some newsprint and paste in her fifth grade art class at Hudson's McDowell Elementary School. Then she added some paint and imagination and ended up with the result at right. Heather and other students in teacher Nancy Gross's art class were given free rein to come up with masks which they will wear Oct. 30 in the school's Halloween parade.

Bmcoh Journal photoi by Marcv Nmwandrr Allan Hendry judge Akron (an additional judge)," Cook said. Weick said the problem may be resolved next year if President Carter signs a bill designed to add two new judges to the Northern District. He said selection of those new judges could take more than a year. WEICK AND SEIBERLING encouraged Akron lawyers and judges Interested in the new federal judgeships to contact Ohio's senators who would nominate candidates for the position. Weick noted that he was the only Akron resident appointed as a federal judge since Ohio became a state in 1803.

"If we keep dragging our feet on this, nothing will get done," Holcomb said. "We have to force the issue." BUT THE commissioners lumped the two requests in with 13 others involving more than 1,478 acres in Northampton, Twinsburg, Bath, Coventry and Copley townships. Hearings already have been held on the 15 requests, but commissioners will take a second look at them during a Nov. 14 hearing before making their decision. Holcomb, who represents the property owners wishing to annex to Akron, said the commissioners have no authority to hold more than a single hearing.

DURING a long discussion on the annexation issues that face them, the three commissioners said the Nov. 14 session would give them a chance to voice their objections. Commissioner Ted Cole cast the lone vote against deferring action on the 110 acres of Northampton. "I have questions about annexation, but we have no alternative but to allow these," he said. "They're clearcut.

We don't have any choice because the courts have said it's the property owner who decides." Cole was referring primarily to a 1976 decision by the Ninth District Court of Appeals that commissioners essentially must bow to the wishes of a property owner making an annexation request. Commissioner Frank Gaffney, who until last month was a Bath Township trustee, said the two requests on the commissioners' agenda Thursday amounted to "piecemeal" annexation and the commissioners could oppose them on that basis. COMMISSIONERS also could block the two requests, he argued, because they would not be in the best interests of either the city or the township. Commissioner Mark Ravenscraft pushed for the public hearing. He told Gaffney his objections would not be on the record if the commissioners' eventual decision is challenged in court.

"That's why I want another hearing," be said. In addition to the two requests considered and postponed Thursday, these requests are pending with commissioners: Fifty acres of Copley to Akron; 445 acres of Twinsburg Township to the Gty of Twinsburg; 245 acres of Bath and Northampton to Akron; one acre of Coventry to Akron; 10 acres of Northampton to Cuyahoga Falls; individual requests of 3.3 acres, 108 acres, 49 acres, 25.68 acres, 149 acres, 257 acres, 17.5 acres and eight acres all from Northampton to Akron. A jf At By RICHARD McBANE Beacon Journal Staff Writer The Judicial Council for the U. S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati has recommended that another judge be assigned to sit part time in Akron to help U.

S. District Judge Leroy J. Contie. The resolution was directed to Chief Judge Frank J. Battisti in Geveland.

The Akron and Geve-land federal courts are part of the U. S. Sixth Circuit Court's Northern District of Ohio. CIRCUIT JUDGE Paul C. Weick, a member of the judicial council and an Akron resident, said the council is recommending that a Geveland federal judge be assigned to Akron whenever the case load here becomes too great for Contie to handle.

He also said that if Battisti accepts the recommendation, federal cases originating in Akron will be tried in Akron. "It should mean that." Weick said. "It's foolish to send Akron cases up to Geveland." Rep. John Seiberling (D-Akron), a longtime supporter of adding a new federal judge in Akron, said he was "gratified by the Sixth Circuit's action." IN JUNE, Battisti tried to ease Contie's case load heaviest in the district by implementing a lottery system of assigning cases to the six Northern District judges, rather than routinely sending all Akron cases to Contie. The Akron Bar Association, however, opposed that system because it meant five out of every six cases originating in Akron would be tried by one of the five federal Judges in Geveland.

Battisti asked the bar group to allow the system a three-month trial. Weick said Battisti probably will accept the judicial council's recommendation. "I think that while Judge Battisti will understand that it just says 'recommend' that we really think he should do it," Weick said. "It wouldn't be right for us to force him, at least not just yet, unless he refuses" to make the temporary assignments. THE SIXTH CIRQTr resolution notes that to relieve the docket in Akron and to make full use of the court facilities here, an additional judge should be assigned to sit in Akron "as the occasion arises." Some court observers believe that if the "common pool" case assignment system is continued, there might be few occasions for an additional judge to sit in Akron because Contie's docket has been relieved.

Contie, however, noted that it may still take him two years to catch up on his docket, even with many Akron cases going to Geveland. Contie did not speculate on the possible meaning of the sixth circuit resolution. "I will meet with Judge Battisti and discuss it with him," Contie said. He indicated, however, that with the Akron school desegregation of the world they live in." Center officials last month organized a voter registration drive, an effort which added the names of 550 of the institution's 800 residents and many of the previously unregistered 1,100 staff members to voter rolls. "Although in need of residential treatment for various levels of emotional problems." Fireman said in a letter inviting candidates to West-em Reserve, "our residents are intellectually equal to the general population and have a keen interest and concern in the community's government and leadership." RESIDENTS of Ohio mental insti- sp pounnN, pw c-4 By BOB YON STERNBERG Beacon Journal Staff Writer Summit County Commissioners weren't ready Thursday to decide on the annexation of about 110 acres of Northampton Township to Gty of Akron, so the city plans to take them to court to force a decision.

After commissioners decided not to take action on two annexation requests until Nov. 14, Akron Law Director John Holcomb said the city probably will file suit next week to compel the decision. Holcomb maintained that commissioners should have decided more than a month ago on the requests by owners of 55.46 acres and 55 acres of Northampton. State law says commissioners will decide on an annexation request within 90 days of a hearing on the request. Hearings on the two requests were held June 13.

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Within about three years, the Politician By JERRY MORTON Beacon Journal Staff Writer SAGAMORE HILLS The usher led the woman to a row of folding chairs near the free-throw line of the dimly lighted gymnasium. "Sit up ck)se," he said. "We've got a big wheel from Columbus coming today." Both are residents of the Western Reserve Psychiatric Habilitation Center (formerly Hawthornden State Hospital). They and about 200 other residents and staff members had come to hear Franklin County Commissioner Michael J. Dorrian, a man who, as the usher indicated, is a politician from Co Because Akron is the largest metropolitan area in Ohio without some kind of halfway house for ex-convicts, the Summit County Criminal Justice Commission is being prodded to do something about it.

Since May, the commission staff has had a study on the need for such an operation, but it will be December before the study is even presented to the commission. That bothers Robert K. Domer, one of the authors of the study, which was requested by the commission. "We've got a vast number of ex-offenders who need this kind of thing as soon as possible, but I'm afraid it's being swept under a rock by the commission," he said. MICHAEL MAGISN, executive director of the commission, denied Domer's charge.

The proposal was not presented at the commission's meeting Thursday because of the press of other issues, but it "probably" will be presented at the next meeting, he said. "I think it's a reasonably fine study, but we've got only a limited amount of money to deal with," Mazinn said. Although Domer estimates there are about 2,500 male ex-convicts in Summit County under probation or other supervision at a given time, he said there have been no halfway-houses to aid them since the closing of Denton House's operation in early 1977. Domer offered job training for ex-convicts through a nonprofit group called Opportunities Unlimit goes off beaten track HO'J. VUST BE A 600P HOPER.i lumbus seeking bigger political fortunes this fall.

Dorrian, Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor, conducted his Thursday morning campaign appearance like most others he will be making this fall: conferring briefly with an aide before giving a 10-minute talk, then presiding over a question-and-answer session. THE OCCASION, though, was hardly routine. For it marked the first time a politician had visited the center to solicit votes. "The goal is to get people involved, to participate." Western Reserve Supt. Barry I.

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