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Saturday, June 22, 1996 LOCAL0 110 NEWS The Advocate3A Si' a 4 1 Parents defend crosses WATERVILLE (AP) A transportation official said he has decided not to remove two white crosses that were placed along y.S. 24 in memory of two teen-agers killed in a car accident. The victims' families had put up the 3-foot-high crosses as reminders of the dangers of the 77-mile stretch of highway between Wa-terville and Fort Wayne, Ind. Community leaders have been trying to get the state to widen the twisting, two-lane road for years. The state has agreed to review conditions on part of the highway.

Steve Bergman, district manager for the Ohio Department of Transportation in Bowling Green, said he had been worried that the crosses would distract drivers from road and traffic conditions. "You can't tell me that a white cross out there is hurting anyone," said Dawn Hertzfeld, whose son, Joshua, was killed Dec. 9, 1994. Joshua's friend, Ryan Jurski, also was killed in the accident. "I don't think that distracts any more than all the billboards along the roads.

And if it helps save one more life I don't want anyone to have to go through what we've pone thrmich Mrs HprtrfplH Pastors plan for crusade Continued from Page 1A "Years and years and years after we leave we want the impact to remain," he said. In the short term the executive committee must create an interim budget to handle immediate expenses and begin selecting committee leaders, Marti said. The local crusade will have an office at 25V2 Park Place that will be staffed by two or three full-time workers. The Rev. Stephen Cole, pastor of Newark Brethren Church and executive committee secretary, admits ministers will have to work hard to convince their congregations to commit money and time to the crusade.

To do that, pastors should mention the crusade in their prayers and sermons in the coming months and make timely announcements of certain pre-crusade events, Cole said. "It's progressive. You have to plant it in their minds," Cole said. "The Billy Graham name does attract because it's high quality." Cole said his church is will give a portion of its annual missions budget to the crusade. Based on the ministry's experience in communities of similar size, Marti said, about 5,000 people can be expected to attend each of the four nights.

Marti said the Billy Graham association will conduct 32 "associate crusades" this year. Taking a dive Swimming instructor Gretchen Grubb shows students how to dive into the water during a level four class at Heath Municipal Pool. (T.R. Gleason, The Advocate) Rare cats may need to find a new home AKRON (AP) Federal budget cuts are threatening the future of Len Davidson's "devotion of love" 29 rare South" American cats that are both a hobby and a part of cancer research. Davidson and her husband, John Lauers-dorf, lost their jobs as employment counselors about two weeks ago when funding was cut for the federal Youth Employment and Training Program.

Now they are trying to figure out how to pay the $400 a month in food and litter for their Geoffroy's cats. Down the road is about $7,000 annually in veterinary bills. "This is not our business," Davidson said Friday. "It's a devotion of love and wanting to do something meaningful for animals." She began gathering the species about five years ago from zoos and private owners. She and Lauersdorf have established embryo transfer to reproduce endangered species.

"Without Len's Geoffroy's cats, we wouldn't have been able to do this research, because these cats are so rare in this country and the few that are here are so spread out that we would have spent most of our time traveling," Swanson said. Davidson will not send her cats elsewhere because they are most valuable to researchers as a whole population, and hers have all lived under the same conditions. Also, she estimates she has invested more than $50,000 in the animals. The cats also are being used in bone marrow cancer research at the department of veterinary clinical sciences at Washington State University, and they have been subjects of genetic research by the National Cancer Institute. the Northwood Felid Research and Education Foundation, which is licensed by the U.S.

Department of Agriculture. The small, leopard-like cats, which are an endangered species, are found from Brazil to Argentina. The Geoffroy's cats are important to medicine because they appear to have a natural immunity to virus-induced leukemia. Scientists are studying the cats in hopes of transferring that immunity to humans. Researchers from the Conservation and Research Center of the National Zoological Park of the Smithsonian Institution in Front Royal, set up a lab in Davidson's home this week to do reproduction research on 12 cats.

Researcher William Swanson is trying to determine whether it will be necessary or possible to use artificial insemination and said Friday. The flap began last month when Bergman called Mrs. Hertzfeld and told her he had received three complaints about the crosses. Mrs. Hertzfeld said Bergman for her permission to remove them.

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Spokesmen for two of the state's largest school districts, Cleveland and Cincinnati, said Friday their districts are trying to overcome problems of serving poor students and managing sprawling school systems plagued by urban ills. Fox's committee is examining the performance of Ohio's big-city school districts in hopes of cutting costs and improving student performance. Paxson Communications wants to rent space next to radio station WCLV FM. The city planning commission has scheduled a public hearing July 8 on the request. If the plan is approved, WAKC will move to Warrensville Heights in September, station general manager Glenn Schiller said Friday.

Bill makes lying to the media OK COLUMBUS The state is about to make it legal to lie to the media. Gov. George Voinovich is expected in July to sign a bill eliminating a decades-old law that makes lying to the media a crime. The rarely enforced law says it is illegal to knowingly make untrue statements or allegations to the media. The crime carries a maximum punishment of six months in jail and a $500 fine.

The law was intended to keep people from misleading newspapers when they asked for a correction in a publicatioa Compiled from Advocate news services. Jobless rate increases to 4.9 percent COLUMBUS The state's unemployment rate increased slightly to 4.9 percent in May, the Ohio Bureau of Employment Services said. The rate was 4.6 percent in April. The nation's unemployment rate last month was 5.6 percent, compared with 5.4 percent in April. "Ohio's labor market remained relatively stable in May with very little change in the number of working Ohioans," Debra Bowland, administrator of OBES, said.

WAKC applies to move out of Akron WARRENSVTLLE HEIGHTS The owners of WAKC Channel 23 have applied to move the station's headquarters from Akron to this Cleveland suburb later this year. Christian Endeavor A Caring Church! 1415 LondondaJe Parkway, Newark 43055 Steven D. Osborne, Pastor Worship 8:00 10:30 AM each Sunday Christian) Endeavoring to know and make known the love ofChrut!) Real Estate Facts by Myra Stoll Enjoy The Savings! Report says urban schools are failing Buying a home? Will this be the final move to your "Forever or just a stop along the way? The answer to this Suestion could point le way to dramatic Continued from Page 1A He said urban schools need to concentrate their teaching staff in grades kindergarten through fourth, when students are most at risk. Ron Marec, Ohio Federation of Teachers president, said poverty not union influence is geting Fox in television, news-, paper and radio advertisements in his southwest Ohio district for his support of school vouchers and charter schools. But Fox said vouchers and charter schools would give parents more control over schools.

Fox said many schools may claim their graduation rates are higher because they use more favorable methods to calculate the figures. One of the various ways is to figure the graduation rate by comparing the number of students who received diplomas at the end of the year to the number of seniors at the beginning of the year. the main reason graduation rates have declined so much in urban schools. "We've got literally 13-, 14-and 15-year-old girls giving birth to he said. "Out of the poverty cycle, you have a whole slew of the problem areas Marec's union has begun tar When it changes, how much can it change? Most often, the rate can change no more than 2 up or down, finally, what is the maximum rate change allowed over the life of the loan? This is most often 5-6.

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