Chillicothe Gazette from Chillicothe, Ohio • 13

I rea, state Monday, March (, 1978 Chillicothe 0. Gazette-13 Jackson plant bankruptcy may cost U.S. uazette photo SHOOTERS CONDUCT QUICK TARGET CHANGE Time-limited events included in Statehood shoot which drew about 100 contestants Hardy 'frontiersmen spectators brave elements for Statehood shoot on a sale of real estate apparently the plant site to Jackson Steel, the newspaper reported. The bankruptcy records also indicate that Schott invested another $200,000 in the firm before it went bankrupt. Stockholders in the reorganized firm, in addition to Schott, included Rhodes who held a minority interest in his wife's name; Fred P.

Neuensch wander, state develoment director during Rhodes' first two terms and later a partner in James A. Rhodes and Associates, the governor's development company formed after he left office in 1970; J. Gordon Peltier, currently state commerce director; Fred Rice, state registrar for Rhodes in the 1960s, who died in 1974; Ernest and William Harwell, a father-son team from Lorain who served as president and vice president for the reorganized firm. Although the project meant jobs in Jackson, there was doubt the venture would succeed, the Beacon Journal said. "Most people thought it would never get off the ground," said Joseph Oths, a Jackson lawyer now representing some local creditors in the bankruptcy action.

The attempt to revive the steel company included the Ohio Development Finance Commission's approval of a 90 percent guarantee for a $1 million loan to Jackson Iron and Steel from Cleveland Trust. The newspaper reported that commission officials had some doubts about the loan, but felt it should be approved to avoid an accusation that refusal was politically motiviated. Former Gov. John J. Gilligan was running for re-election against Rhodes at the time.

JACKSON, Ohio (AP) A financially troubled steel plant in Gov. James A. Rhodes' hometown could cost the federal government more than $1 million. Jackson Iron and Steel Co. went bankrupt in 1976, when it owed $3.8 million and had assets of only $729,365.

The company had closed in 1969 and its assets were taken over in a merger with American National a firm owned by the late H.C. Schott of Cleveland, reportedly a Rhodes campaign contributor during the governor's first two terms in the 1960s. Schott was later a business associate of Rhodes in an attempt to revive the steel plant, according to the Akron Beacon Journal. The U.S. Farmers Home Administration approved a 90 percent guarantee on a $2 million loan to the steel company from Cleveland Trust Co.

in 1975. Cleveland Trust took a first mortgage on Jackson Iron and Steel assets at the time, the newspaper said. If Cleveland Trust is unable to recoup its loan from Jackson Iron assets, it can look to the FHA to pay its losses up to 90 percent of its $2 million loan. Half of the $2 million went to pay off a $1 million loan guaranteed in 1974 by the Ohio Development Finance Commission. The attempt to reopen Jackson Iron and Steel started in May 1974 when American National sold the physical plant and surrounding land to the reorganized steel company.

Property records show the land was sold for $100,000. But bankruptcy records show that Schott's American National Corp. filed a claim for $1.1 million based a'. bA- -V xi Ik 1 1 I I 171 1 af 1 i it lvv 1 By DEBBIE HATFIELD Gazette staff writer The smell of black powder floated in the air as buckskin-clad men walked around with flintlock rifles cradled in their arms, i Such was the scene at the highest level parking lot at the Sugarloaf Mountain Amphitheatre as spectators and contestants gathered Saturday and Sunday for the Seventh Annual Statehood Day Muzzleloading Shoot. Cold temperatures didn't prevent shooters from attending in pioneer dress.

More than 500 spectators gathered each day to watch the 100 contestants carry out their skills with muzzleloading rifles. About 50 persons camped over the weekend and several Chillicotheans passed the cold nights in a tepee without modern conveniences such as sleeping bags in an effort to recreate the circumstances their forefathers experienced. Marksmen from all parts of Ohio and other states came to participate in two-day shoot. Chuck Blender of Pennsylvania, active in muzzleloading com-' petition since 1962, was on hand. The seven-time Pennsylvania state champ and four-time national championship winner was a big winner during the weekend "I make my rifles.

I also hunt my muzzleloader because it gives you a better challenge. There's more concentration involved, and, it's a bit more difficult, too." Many of the black powder enthusiasts make their own guns. good rifle bought will cost you. anywhere from $450 on up," Blender said. Another champion on hand was Thomas Dick of Peebles.

A National Cham-! pionship winner in 1973 and 1974, Dick has been involed in the sport for 22 years. Not only does he make his rifles but he has also sold several. "I have sold two in England and one in Australia," he said. Muzzleloading as a competitive sport is growing. "There are enough shoots now that you could go to about three a week Market-union feud erupts in violence Gaitttt photo CUSTOMED CONTESTANTS RELOAD FOR RELAY Mike Myers, right, Toledo, and Jerry Gier, Carey, relood os two youths watch The on-going, six-month feud between the owner of a local supermarket and a Columbus-based union erupted into violence Saturday morning.

In a report filed with the Chillicothe Police Department, two employees of County Fair Supermarket, 104 E. Main were apparently struck several times by persons protesting the fact Charles Halm, owner and manager of the store, employs non-union personnel. Halm said this morning he has been in contact with his attorney who is planning to investigate the incident which occurred about 10 a.m. Saturday at the store. According to the police report, Leonard Lewis, 826 Evergreen Lane, and Roger K.

Tatman, 465 Mill were beaten after Lewis attempted to take a photograph of a recreational vehicle which apparently housed the protesters. The report said Lewis and Tatman could not identify their alleged assailant. The protesters were reportedly from Retail Clerks Union Local 1059, Columbus, which has been seeking to unionize Halm's employees ever since the store opened last September. Halm said there were about 30 persons in the parking lot who were involved with the union. In the past, the union has circulated handbills In the area asking persons not to shop in the store because Halm's employees work in "substandard conditions and are paid substandard The issue has been before the National Labor Relations Board, but petitions requesting an election to determine if the 41 employees are interested in joining the union, were withdrawn after Halm said the clerks' union said it would not honor the election.

somewhere," Dick said. Another marksman who has had international experience was Bill Bigelow of Sidney, Ohio. Bigelow, who was part of the team event Sunday, attended the Sixth World Championship for muz-zleloaders in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1976. A member of the winning U.S. team, he took a bronze medal there.

"We are hoping that there will be a black powder London, won the gun-give-away and Sam competition in the 1984 Olympics. Right Cryder of Kingston won the pistol kit. Ed now there are rifle compititions, but they Green, Ohio representative for the are with modern rifles." National Muzzleloading Association, Winners of the team event were the Columbus, was the biggest winner of the Daniel Boone Club of Rardon, Ohio. day. The winner of the card shoot, in Team members were Walt Miller, Brian which a playing card was to be split in Withrow, Dave Sheridan, Thomas Dick, half at a distance of 25 yards, was Paul and William Bigelow.

Fred Chesser, Kazee, who split the card twice to win. Strip miners in minority on vote Public gets look at new crisis center Greer, whose local voted 382-213 for the contract, said one reason miners are upset is that the coal operators did not follow the old contract. "One of my bosses told me in 1974 he was going to tear up the contract word for word," Greer said. "And he tried. The operators should abide by the contract just as the miners do." Both Greer and Kongkoleski agreed that surface miners do not have all of the problems that deep miners have.

"They're more crowded and there is more danger underground," Kongkoleski said. "I know, I worked in deep mines five years." W.J. "Junior" Pyles, whose IKal 1785 at Clarington voted 637-74 against the contract, advocated federal takeover of the mines. "It would be to everybody's benefit to get the government to come in and look at the profits versus the wages they (mine operators) are paying," he said. "Any time steel or automobile profits are up, the workers get major gains.

Now, for the last eight years, coal profits have been up surface or "strip" miners in an eight-county region of eastern Ohio. The other 38 locals rejected the proposal by margins ranging from 2-1 to 20-1. "This obviously is a clear mandate to the bargaining council to bring back a contract that the rank-and-file can live with," said Jerry Binni, secretary-treasurer of District 6. "At some point they have got to come up with a negotiated settlement between industry and labor." Asked what happens next, Binni replied, "I imagine we are looking at some kind of government controls." President Carter is reportedly prepared to invoke the Taft-Hartley Act which requires withdrawing pickets. "I think most miners disdain the Taft-Hartley and prefer some type ofgovern-ment seizure," Binni said.

Rich Vargo, an executive board member for division 3 in District 6, said President Carter has several options: "He can put us back to work under the 1974 contract or he can put us back to work under this contract. I think most of the miners would prefer the terms of the 1974 contract if it's got to be done." i DILLES BOTTOM, Ohio (AP) coal miners in eastern Ohio may have been trying to protect the United Mine Workers union when they voted for a "new contract while thousands of others rejected the package Sunday. Miners in the District 6, which encompasses Ohio and the West Virginia panhandle, voted against the contract "Most of those who voted for it were afraid the union might go down the drain," said Charles Greer, president of UMW Local 1604 at McConnelsville, Ohio. "I'm sure some of them don't like the contract but felt they wanted to protect the union." Herman Kongkoleski, president of Local 7690 near Cadiz, said he thinks his local voted for the pact "because the men want to go back to work." "We've got some level-headed people in our local," he added. "The majority of them are older; about 25-35 years.

The average seniority at our mine is 25 years." Only five of District 6's 43 locals voted for the contract. All five are comprised of About 75 persons attended the Crisis Center open house Sunday at its headquarters, 425 Chestnut sponsored by the Ross County Mental Health Association. The event was held in appreciation of the volunteers who will be acting as crisis intervention staff at the center, which opened Sunday at 8 p.m., and will operate seven days a week, 24 hours a day. Fred Eblin, president of the Mental Health Association, told the volunteers he commended them for "going beyond the point of just caring. You have volunteered your time to make the Crisis Center program a reality.

You have said, 'I want to do more than just say I care -I want to show that I Dr. James Hagen, coordinator of the Crisis Center, said that people in the mental health field see people who are unhappy, repeating patterns that get them into trouble. "It can be depressing but then we see volunteers who balance that. It (the center) couldn't exist without the volunteers, who are part of the community. "Volunteers have spent their time and energy in the training.

Of the 75 who initially expressed interest as volunteers, 58 were interviewed and 53 began training for the Crisis Center hotline. Forty-one finished the training, giving up eight hours a week learning new ways to handle problems. Volunteers had to deal with areas that aren't pleasant to deal with. The 4-8 hours a week they will serve at the center not only serves the community, but will make the community aware of some problem areas." A new training session for additional volunteers will begin Sunday. Applications are being accepted now for the training.

Persons interested in being volunteers may call the center at 773-HELP (4357). and we haven't gotten any of it. We want what some of the other unions already have. "We must have cost of living and our health and welfare benefits back. Also, coal miners have never heard of supplemental unemployment pay, like the auto workers have, or guaranteed jobs or guaranteed pay.

We have no job descriptions. A man could go in and be told to dig coal or pick up rubbish." A retired miner, 65-year-old John Munchick of Shadyside, Ohio, doubted whether invoking Taft-Hartley would do much good. "I went through all that back in the 40s," he said. "If they put in Taft-Hartley, the men won't work. If they seize the mines, you have to work; you're working for the government.

But Taft-Hartley leaves the company in control. Even if the men go in, who can make them work? There would be belts slashed and machinery torn up." Study rates congressmen LORAIN, Ohio (AP) Most members of Ohio's U.S. House delegation faired well in effectiveness, leadership, service to constituents and other factors according to a study released today by two Ohio newspapers. The Washington bureau of the Lorain Journal and the Mansfield News Journal rated as the five best representatives Democrats Thomas Ashley, John F. Seiberling, Charles A.

Vanik, Charles W. Whalen Jr. and Republican Clarence J. 1 Brown. The five worst were Democrats Douglas Applegate and Charles J.

Carney and Republicans Samuel L. Devine, Tennyson Guyer and Delbert L. Latta. Ranking high in the study were Republicans John M. Ashbrook, Willis D.

Gradison, Ralph S. Regula, Chalmers P. Wylie and J. William Stanton, and Democrats Donald J. Pease and Louis Stokes.

Below that level, but above the bottom by the were the rest of Ohio's representatives: Republicans William H. Harsha, Thomas N. Kindness, Clarence E. Miller, Ronald M. Mottl and Democrats Thomas A.

Luken and Mary Rnf" ftlrnr. Local news briefs Bainbridge Teen seminar Council to discuss upcoming issues A special preventive educational BAINBRIDGE The Bainbridee and to establish strategies for the recruitment and promotion for the 1978 Teenage Institute to be held Aug. 6-10 at Denison University. Health grant A $150,000 grant for the Ohio Valley Health Services Foundation Athens, has been approved for the 11th year by the Appalachian Regional Commission, according to Congressman William H. Harsha.

The foundation previously served as the health planning and development agency for the seven counties of Clermont, Brown, Highland, Adams, Ross, Pike and Scioto. This year, it will receive funds to convert into a primary health care management corporation and will Serve residents of the seven counties as well as 21 other counties in Appalachian Ohio. The total cost of the project is $200,000, with Inral source1 rontributin? seminar for teenagers within the 10-county area of the Southern Ohio Regional Council on Alcoholism will be held Friday and Saturday. The youths invited to attend the session are those who participated in the statewide 1977 Teenage Institute on Alcohol and Other Drugs. These students have served as a Youth Advisory Council for the region and have volunteered much time to increasing the awareness of alcohol misuse and abuse among the young people in their communities.

The session will be held in Portsmouth at the Evangelical United Church of Christ. Purposes of the institute are to help youths examine their own values, attitudes and beliefs and gain self understanding; to gain a better understanding about alcohol abuse patterns and how to react to someone needing help, Village Council will aaply for a federal disaster rebate on the $600 spent on snow removal costs during the January blizzard. Gertrude Scott, clerk, said the rasyo: will apply for the assistance in a Logan meeting next week. The village could receive a 75 percent refund of snow removal costs if the application is approved. The council discussed the application in a Thursday night meeting and also attended to regular business, Mrs.

Scott said. Correction An accident report in Friday's Gazette incorrectly listed William Bennett's age as 44. Bennett, of Route 10, is 33. cluding the payment of about $30,000 to private contractors for snow removal work and the method of financing the renovation of City Hall and the Annex. Mayor Alexander said today he will present more information concerning the purchase of a new emergency squad vehicle and a four-wheel drive pick-up truck for the Fire Department.

He said he will ask for a transfer of revenue sharing funds to obtain the two items. Other possible discussion may center on the traffic situation on Western Avenue. Ust week, the council received a petition signed by about 30 residents of Brewer Heights asking the council to reconsider building a second access road to the subdivision. With no pending legislation, the Chillicothe City Council is expected to discuss tonight several items which may be introduced at next week's regular session. The council is meeting in a review session tonight at 7:30 on the second floor of City Hall.

The meeting is open to the public. More discussion is expected to take place concerning the two water and sewer tap-in ordinances Mayor Clark Alexander vetoed in February. Formal action on the two measures will more than likely take place next week. Councilman George Vaughan has requested one hour In tonight's meeting to discuss several financial matters, in.