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Local and state Alan Wild, local news editor, ext. 74 Wednesday, December 30, 1992 Chillicothe Gazette 3A Briefs New enterprise center to help small businesses be at the Chillicothe Ross Chamber of Commerce every other Tuesday and at the Pike County Chamber of Commerce the third Wednesday of every month to provide business counseling and analysis, sources of credit and financing, marketing and other services. The center works with the U.S. Small Business Administration and the Ohio Department of Development, networking with other regional, state and federal programs to assist small businesses. More information is available by calling the Hillsboro office at 1- 800-860-7232.

Senior center has new small van A new eight-passenger van will allow the Ross County Senior Center to pick up elderly people who live on narrow roads that couldn't be acessed with its larger, 22-passenger wheelchair bus. The center's executive director, Marlin Easterday, said the county commissioners helped secure state grant money that paid 80 percent of the bus's $28,000 cost. The smaller van will get better gas mileage as it takes as many as 30 senior citizens each week to doctor's appointments, the grocery store or to functions at the center in Chillicothe, Easterday added. The van replaces a similarly sized van with 150,000 miles on it. Christmas tree collection to begin Christmas trees will be collected by Chillicothe workers starting Monday and continuing through Jan.

15, according to a news release from Mayor Joe Sulzer. Trees must be set on the curb separate from refuse and will not be collected in alleys or by special arrangements. The city will not accept trees from non-city residents. They will not be deposited in Yoctangee Park. CHS grad to dot 'i' on national TV A 1988 Chillicothe High School graduate will dot the when the Ohio State University marching band performs their "Script Ohio" marching routine in the New Year's Day Citrus Bowl match against the University of Georgia.

Drew Musser, a fifth-year OSU senior who was selected by fellow members, also dotted the last year. Musser is the son of JoAnn Kunzelman and William Musser of 5 Oakwood Drive. Clothing available for flood victims MASSIEVILLE Anyone who sustained flood damage last summer and is need of clothing may visit the Iva Cooper Missionary of Floral Baptist Church, Massieville Road. The church will pass out clothing from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Saturday at the church. Miami U's president to retire OXFORD (AP) Paul G. Pearson is retiring as Miami University's president amid praises from fellow educators. Joseph Steger, president of the University of Cincinnati, said Pearson has demonstrated leadership skills. "'He really knows exactly what it means to select a mission and keep the institution on it, Steger said.

Pearson, 66, is to retire Thursday. He taught for 26 years at Rutgers University before coming to Miami in 1981 as its 18th president. Paul G. Risser, 53, will succeed Pearson. He most recently was provost and vice president for academic affairs a at the University of New Mexico.

Man dies in police custody CLEVELAND (AP) A man who was restrained by officers while resisting arrest for driving a stolen car died in police custody. Mike Pipkins, 22, of Cleveland, was pronounced dead at 10:46 p.m. Monday at MetroHealth St. Luke's Medical Center, the coroner's office said. He had been taken to the hospital from the 4th District police station, police said.

Witnesses: Police car didn't slow BRUNSWICK (AP) A Hinckley Township police cruiser involved in a fatal traffic accident while on an emergency run was going at least 55 mph, witnesses have told Brunswick police investigating the death. The witnesses have told police that Hinckley Patrolman Daniel Huff, 24, swerved his cruiser around three cars stopped at a red light before his patrol car hit a woman's car, killing her early Sunday. State law mandates that emergency vehicles, when responding 1 to emergency calls, "shall slow down as necessary for safety to traffic" when they approach a red light or stop sign. Bonnie Hanshaw, 38, of Brunswick, was killed in the crash. Agenda Thursday Green Township Board of Trustees, 10 a.m.

in the township hall. Pike Metropolitan Housing Authority, 6 p.m., Waverly. Scioto Township Board of Trustees, 11 a.m. at 164 S. Watt St.

Liberty Township Board of Trustees, year-end meeting, 5 p.m. in the community building in Londonderry. Union Township Trustees reorganization meeting, 1 p.m. at the township house. Ohio lottery Tuesday's drawings: Buckeye 5: 1-7-9-21-23.

Pick 3: 846. Pick 4: 8665. There were three tickets sold naming all five numbers drawn in Tuesday night's Buckeye 5 game and each pays $100,000. The jackpot for Wednesday's Super Lotto drawing is $8 million. Jobs available The following are job openings listed with the Chillicothe office of the Ohio Bureau of Employment Services.

Applicants must register at the office at 38 Marietta Road, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays, except Wednesdays when hours are 8-noon. Phone 775-3322. Full-time positions Tractor-trailer driver (CDL required), carpenter, insurance sales, live-in companion.

Part-time positions Fast-food worker, snow shoveler (on call), clerk, youth leader. State: Until Dec. 31: CCI Penal Workshop Specialist in chair factory; RCI sales manager for commissary. Correction The hours of Pike County government offices for New Year's holiday closings was incorrect on Page 3A Monday. The Pike County commissioners' office will be open all day Thursday, but several of the county offices, including the courts, recorder, auditor, clerk of courts and the treasurer, will close at noon.

Ross County has a new resource to help small businesses start and thrive. The Enterprise Center for Economic Development will serve Adams, Brown, Highland, Pike and Ross counties. Representatives will Dayton cops seek motive Suspects may have killed to impress friends The Associated Press DAYTON Misguided friendship, a bad childhood or peer pressure may have motivated four people charged in a killing spree that left five people dead. It was more than a simple lust for killing that provoked the 40-hour shooting spree that also left three people injured, three mental health specialists said Tuesday. Two adults and two juveniles are charged with aggravated murder and robbery in connection with the shootings that began Thursday.

The Dayton Daily News reported today that Marvallous M. Keene, 19; Heather N. Matthews, 20; DeMarcus Smith, 17; and Laura Taylor, 16, were part of a gang that called itself the Downtown Posse. Police have said greed and robbery motivated the four to begin the shooting spree that ended when they were arrested on Saturday in a car stolen from one victim, Joseph Wilkenson. But Charles Bensonhaver, a psychiatrist and professor at Wright State University in Dayton, said there may be more to it than that.

Any of the four may have been victims of child or drug abuse or their sex may have motivated them in part, he said. "These young fellows get out of control. They have too much of a primitive, aggressive ego that hasn't been civilized and that all gets reinforced with their peer relationships," he said. "They push each other and bring out the worst in each other." The females involved may have been "wrapped up into this Bonnie and Clyde sort of thing" to impress their male friends, he said. Don Gordon, a professor of psychology at Ohio University in Athens, in southeastern Ohio, said peer pressure could have provoked the violence.

"It's a shared adrenalin experience," he said. The fact they are all so young also may be telling, he said. "They are adolescents forming their own identity. These kids are not threatened by the loss of approval of a parent figure," he said. Patrick Donnelly, an associate professor of criminology at the University of Dayton, said that those who commit such crimes "are very much on the margins of society.

"They are experiencing a great deal of hopelessness and despair," he said. These suspects "don't place an awful lot of value on their own lives, so they don't see other peoples' lives being as any more valuable," he said. The beginning of what could be a lengthy legal process began Tuesday when all four suspects were arraigned. Dayton Municipal Judge Daniel Gehres set $5 million cash bonds for Ms. Matthews and Keene.

Both are charged with aggravated murder and aggravated robbery. Tim Zane Trace students have one of the biggest computer labs among Ross and Pike schools. Many other education leaders say improving computer and electronic equipment is one of their top goals for 1993. Computers ers and link schools of And they make biology class By JANE SCHMUCKER Gazette Staff Writer go the scissors as Nate Manson cuts the heart out of a frog and drops it into a dissection tray. He tosses a few other organs into the tray, then pieces the frog back together so it's good as new.

The operation all takes place on a Macintosh computer screen, where Manson and his 10th-grade Zane Trace classmates can practice in comfort computer frogs don't get squishy and smelly. "When they got to the real dissection, the biology teacher thought they knew more about what they were talking about," said Roger Oney, who coordinates Zane Trace's 41 student computers. "'This is an addition to anything we've ever been able to do before, and it's really paid Other area school districts are hoping for similar payoffs from computer labs in 1993. The opportunity has never been better, thanks to the fiber optics lines the Chillicothe Telephone Co. are installing at each Ross County high school, Pickaway-Ross Vocational Center and Ohio UniversityChillicothe.

Computer hookups are one direction the fiber optics network could go. Another already is happening by the beginning of next semester, Zane Trace, Unioto, Chillicothe, Pickaway-Ross and OU-C all should have classrooms Watch Night services The Scioto Valley Community Watch Night Service will be held New Year's Eve (Thursday) at 10 p.m. at the Zion Baptist Church, Mill and Locust streets. The speaker will be Melvin Maughmer, pastor of the Glorious Church of God. Music will be provided by the Glorious Church choir.

The event is sponsored by the Scioto Leadership Conference, whose participants include the Zion Baptist churches in both Chillicothe and Beaver, Glorious Church, Floral Baptist Church and Bethel Cross display sparked by Klan The Associated Press CINCINNATI A man says he plans to display a cross on Fountain Square for 10 days beginning Thursday because he was disgusted by a Ku Klux Klan cross on the square. Raymond Jones, 40, of Cincinnati, said he also wants to restore respect for the cross because protesters smashed and spat on the 10-foot wooden cross the Klan erected. Jones said he picketed the Klan cross last week when it was erected, but then decided to counter the message by obtaining a city permit to display a cross of his own. The group sponsoring Jones's display of a 6-foot cross is Cincinnati Concerned Citizens Association. He said he formed the group three months ago to help hungry and homeless people, but now has extended its mission to combat racism and discrimination.

"'We oppose what they stand for," he said of the Klan. Jones said he hopes to arrange a procession of about 60 people Thursday to bring his cross onto Fountain Square. The U.S. Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, based in nearby Hamilton, obtained its 10-day cross display permit after a Jewish group obtained a similar display permit for a Hanukkah menorah on the square. The menorah was taken down Monday after its permit expired.

The Klan group removed its cross today when the permit expired. Police have cited at least 10 protesters on charges of disorderly conduct for having toppled or damaged the Klan cross since the display went up Dec. 21. Two crosses were broken. cables AGENDA equipped with televisions, microphones and other equipment to allow students and teachers at different locations to hear and see each other.

This school year they will try out the new equipment with some short study skills and science classes. Retiring Union-Scioto Superintendent Paul Folmer said that in the next few years he hopes students will have the option of studying almost any language they choose in the electronic classroom. However, superintendents say they need more money to bring area schools into the computer age. "Our biggest problem is the same as everyone else's finances," says Scioto. Valley (Ross) Superintendent Dennis Thompson.

"We need more money before we can improve our programs, but that's not how the powers Full Gospel. Andersonville United Methodist Church will hold its service 8:30 p.m. until midnight. Special music provided by Witness II and the Sounds of Latter Reign. Food provided.

Austin United Methodist Church, Wesleyan Watch Night Service begins at 8 p.m. Participants are asked to bring snack and beverages. Games and snack time will proceed until 10:30 p.m. when the service begins. First Church of the Naz- future less messy that be see it.

That's like saying if you get well, we'll take you to the doctor and give you some Folmer, whose retirement is effective this week, thinks the medicine might come from a lawsuit the Ohio Public School Coalition for Adequacy and Equity of School Finance has brought against the state. The case should be in court by spring. Money doesn't necessarily have to go straight to schools to improve education, according to Larry Meredith, superintendent of Pike County Schools and Vern Riffe Joint Vocational School. He sees many students who don't do as well as they should in school because their families are poor and don't have good food, warm houses and clothes that make children proud of their appearance. Too often youngsters try to escape those problems through drugs, alcohol and sex and find themselves with addictions and babies they can't afford.

And instead of calculus and chemistry, schools must offer courses helping pregnant girls cope with the reality of having a baby and counseling for students who use drugs. "If we can provide a better quality environment for our students, everything else comes together," Meredith says. "My Christmas dream would be to eradicate all the ills of our society." arene, 781 Madison will hold its service 8 p.m. until midnight. Featured will be the Christianaires of Chillicothe, Roberta Strawser and others.

Shady Glen Church of Christ in Christian Union, Shady Glen Road, service starts at 8 p.m. Thursday with special speakers and special singers. Fruit Hill Church New Year's service Thursday at 7:30 p.m. with Kim Fannin's family, David Gallaugher's family and Bob Combs' family. Massie trust disburses $76,000 The Gazette staff The David Meade Massie Trust has granted $76,022.14 to the following organizations: Medical Center Hospital, lifeline units $5,000.

Chillicothe Professional Firefighters Association, replacement power pack for Jaws of Life $5,000. Jefferson Township Trustees, air masks and equipment for Fire Dept. $4,662. Civil Air Patrol XIV, fuel and continuation of services $1,200. Hopeton Village Residents Association, activities and equipment for residents $706.14.

I Ross County Chapter of the American Red Cross, equip vehicle with mobile unit and radios $5,000. I Pickaway-Ross Joint Vocational School, career education passport kits $5,000. Londonderry Elementary School, whole language materials $5,000. Ross County Board of Education, computer for at-risk students $4,785. South Central Ohio Big Sisters Association, computer system and equipment $3,899.

Scioto Valley Arts Council, performance fees for concerts $2,300. Adena Local School District, computer equipment for information services $5,000. P.R.A.V. Health Services, seating for waiting area at the facility $2,980. Twin Youth League, construction of shelter house $3,816.

Richmond Dale United Methodist Church, air conditioning and doors $5,000. Church of God, computer $1,624. Ross County Commissioners, mini-microfilm reader and printer $15,050..