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3y THE BEACON JOURNAL TUESDAY, SEPT. 27,1983 REGION STATE Akron officer Fran Murphey 2 named employee News in brief 3 of month 3 Business 6-10 SECTION ukakis trying to evoke oast Cleveland speech first after debating Bush By John Funk and Carl Chancellor Beacon Journal staff writers country." Dukakis talked about universal health insurance, protecting Social Security benefits and making college more accessible. But he never mentioned economic development or jobs areas that Ohio voters have consistently named as the most important problem facing the country, according to Beacon JournalUniversity of Akron polls. The Cleveland visit was a chance for the Massachusetts governor to begin putting it together in Ohio, with 23 electoral votes up for grabs. A visit to Cleveland in August did not include Sen.

John Glenn or Gov. Richard Celeste; a subsequent trip to a jet-engine See DUKAKIS, page C4 Dukakis seemed to forget, however, that Kennedy lost in Ohio. "You all know what happened," Dukakis said. "He (Kennedy) won the election and history is going to repeat itself with your help on Nov. 8." Dukakis said that George Bush, the Republican nominee, "offers the easy way" instead of challenging the country the way Kennedy did.

"He (Bush) sees no challenges," Dukakis said. "He offers no solutions. And he will lead American nowhere as president of the United States." Dukakis then invoked Kennedy's inaugural refrain: "Ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your Riding the crest of a tie in a nationally televised debate Sunday, Michael Dukakis made his first public appearance Monday before some 12,000 supporters gathered in Cleveland's Public Square and did his best to mimic John F. Kennedy. But Kennedy, 28 years ago, drew 700,000 to a motorcade tour of Cleveland, Akron, Lorain and Mansfield the day after appearing with Richard Nixon in the nation's first televised debate.

It took only eight minutes into the speech for Kennedy's name to crop up. Beacon Journal photo Jocelyn Williams Michael and Kitty Dukakis wave to fans in Cleveland Police check Akron youths, find rowdyism but no gangs as adult is sought Teen is held in girl's death By Marilyn Miller Roane Beacon Journal staff writer Akron police, school officials and several youths say the city has no organized street gangs, just groups of loud and rowdy kids who have little or no respect for adults or authority. By Yalinda Rhoden Beacon Journal staff writer For the past several days, police have been monitoring the actions of area youths, making sure they do not cluster in any one area on the north or west sides. Patrol Lt. Ron Black said, "Any violence has the potential to be fatal and we try to do the best we can to take action before it becomes a major prob- Black lem." Black said police don't know what sparked an incident at the Akron Rubber Bowl last Friday in which four police officers and two civilians were injured and one man was arrested.

Sterling Campbell, 20, was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. Capt. Lynn Callahan, who worked that night, said a fight broke out about 8:20 p.m. involving 50 to 60 males and the officers were able to get them out of the Rubber Bowl before several more fights broke out. One youth allegedly placed a derringer in Callahan's back before Robert McLaughlin, police liaison for juvenile court, knocked the gun See AKRON, page C2 Summit County Prosecutor Lynn Slaby filed a request in juvenile court Monday to have a 16-year-old Northfield youth tried as an adult in the Sept.

15 rape and murder of 13-year-old Lori Ewald. Donald Shedrick lives with his mother at the Sunset Plaza Motel on Northfield Road where Lori also lived. She was stabbed to death. He was arrested Saturday at a friend's house in Macedonia and charged with delinquency by reason of aggravated murder and rape. Donald reportedly had helped enter the Ewald room after Lori's younger brother looked through a window and saw her lying on the floor.

Convicted last year of attempted aggravated murder, rape and felonious assault, Donald was paroled in July from the Riverview School for Boys in Powell, near Columbus. The convictions stemmed from a March 1987 incident in Warrens-ville Heights, where Donald formerly lived. Summit County Sheriff David Troutman said law enforcement officials are continuing to compile evidence for a "strong" case against the youth. Troutman would not say if anything was found during a search of the Shedricks' room Friday that led to the youth's arrest the next day. "We presented our evidence to the prosecutor and he believes we have reason beyond any doubt to prosecute," Troutman said.

Juvenile Court Judge William, P. Kannel is to decide within six weeks if Shedrick should be tried as an adult. But some of Shedrick's schoolmates at Nordonia High School say they are baffled by Shedrick's arrest, mainly because school officials have accounted for his whereabouts at the time Lori was attacked. Convinced of his innocence, several students phoned and visit-See TRIAL, page C2 Akron schools switch stations By Yuvonne Bruce Beacon Journal staff writer The Akron Board of Education unanimously voted Monday to enter into a one-year contract with a Cleveland public television station instead of renewing the contract of an Akron-area station. Although the district made the decision to change stations in August, fears of a legal battle between the two stations caused the district to temporarily put a hold on awarding a contract to Cleveland-based WVIZ (Channel 25).

James Hardy, the schools' assistant superintendent for curriculum, said the switch from the Kent-based WNEO and WEAO (Channels 4549) to WVIZ came after six months of study and was a matter of economics and selection of educational services. Although the two stations did not differ in basic educational services a $27,000 package paid for by the state for Akron's participation Hardy said the difference came in auxiliary services pro- I Tt Akf Vr" 7. Beacon Journnl photoOtt Gangl The mysteries of nature With autumn seeming more like mid- ferth, 4, of Akron and Katy Mrrrell, grassy, flower-filled field near St. summer on Monday, Joseph Sleg- 5, of North Canton wandered a Thomas Medical Center in Akron. See SCHOOLS, page C2 Priest denies charge of indecency in park KSU jams renew talk of wider Summit St.

By Sallie Cook Special to the Beacon Journal By Todd Burkes Beacon Journal staff writer r-ri. nJ university Morris Rd. NX 1 PROPOSED U.S. 250 in Plain Township. In another case involving the park, William F.

Campbell Jr. of Wooster, who was convicted by a Wayne Municipal Court jury on Sept. 14 for public indecency, will be sentenced at 11:15 a.m. Oct. 17.

Police said they found Campbell, 19, and another man in an embrace in the restroom of the park on Aug. 4. His alleged companion, Randall S. Britton, 42, of Wooster, is scheduled for trial at 9 a.m. Wednesday.

Public indecency is a fourth-degree misdemeanor that carries a maximum penalty of 30 days in jail and a $250 fine. A Shelby, Ohio, priest pleaded innocent Monday in Wayne Municipal Court to a charge of public indecency at Wooster's Span-gler Park. The Rev. Bernard A. Kokocin-ski, 50, pastor of the Most Pure Heart of Mary Catholic Church in Shelby, was arrested Sept.

15 for allegedly masturbating in the restroom of the city park. Kokocinski is free on a personal bond. No trial date has been set. Since July, police have arrested 11 men on charges ranging from soliciting to public indecency at the rural, wooded park off Beacon Journal heavy traffic periods at lunch-time, morning and evening, but that traveling on campus is virtually impossible without using the street. Kent City Engineer Alan Bru-baker said traffic has been a problem on the street since KSU planners began shifting the focus of the campus from Main Street on its north border to Summit Street.

The University built its student center on Summit and eight years later built Campus Center Drive, which cuts a path from state Route 261 to Summit Street. Dix Stadium, where the KSU football team plays, is also on Summit. The problem was intensified this year when KSU moved most of its administrative offices to a building on Morris Road, which intersects Summit. "They certainly now have made that (Summit) their main entrance," Brubaker said. "Summit Street was not designed to be the main access for Kent City Councilman John Thomas said Monday the widening of the city's Summit Street deserves another look.

It has been 10 years since City Council gave up on an idea to widen the road, which cuts the southwest border of the Kent State University campus, but traffic problems there have not gone away, he said. Kent State University student Julie Isch shifted into a stand-up act when asked Monday about traffic problems on Summit. "I bring lawn furniture out here on my way to class in the morning," she said. "Sometimes I order a pizza while I'm waiting to cross the street." But for a number of drivers and pedestrians who use the street, the problems on Summit are anything but funny. Drivers interviewed Monday while waiting at stop lights or waiting to make turns said they try to avoid the road during NUGGETS (the oldest part of the campus known as front campus) was built, everything moved in that direction." Schwartz, who said the university is giving "serious consideration" to building a pedestrian bridge across Summit, said he would be delighted to see the road widened to three, four or five lanes.

So would anything." He said he wished KSU officials had informed the city of their plans before Main Street was widened in 1974 and 1975. Kent State President Michael Schwartz said, however, it was no secret that the KSU was going to grow toward Summit. "How many directions do we have to grow?" he said. "That's the only direction we could have gone. After the original oval AH the better to see with The 241-mile Ohio Turnpike has become the nation's first toll road to install a newly developed reflective glass bead mixture for its entire length to replace reflective lines on both sides of the highway.

Officials said the mixture will improve visibility of the roadway's edges durtig rainy, foggy and snowy nights. See KSU, rage C2 -r.