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Local and state Friday, February 25, 1994 Chillicothe Gazette 3 A Gere McClellan, local news editor, 773-21 1 1 Ext. 66 Briefs Teacher clause on home schools axed The Associated Press WASHINGTON Enlist thousands of people to swamp the Capitol's phone lines and what do you get? Democracy at its finest, says the president of the Home School Legal Defense Association. "An unnecessary solution to a non-existing problem," says Rep. William Ford, chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee. The home school organization was a key player in a telephone campaign designed to ensure that home schools remain free of federal hosts and others.

"This was not some ad hoc operation," said Rep. George Miller, the author of language that started the controversy. "This was a very disciplined and widespread and coordinated activity." Miller said that he never intended to assert federal control over home schools and that the teacher certification requirements would have applied only to public schools. Asked if the House vote was an attempt to quiet the phones, he said, "The vote wasn't on the merits because there was no control. Both of Ross County's repre-sentativesf Democrat Ted Strickland and Republican Dave Hobson, said they received plenty of calls on the matter.

At issue was an amendment to an education bill that required certification of teachers in the subjects they teach, and questions about whether it applied to parents who instruct their children at home. Moving quickly Thursday to end the controversy and quiet the phones the House approved language stating unequivocally that the federal government will not try to license parent-teachers or assert any control over home schools, private schools or religious schools that receive federal funds. Telephone campaigns are being used with increasing frequency by lobbyists attempting to sway congressional opinion. Pioneered more than a decade ago by environmental and consumer groups, the practice has spread and is used by everyone from corporations to the religious right. In this instance, the home schoolers' message was spread by religious broadcasters, talk1 show Wrong turn -i Sri 1 City report cards out next week Chillicothe City Schools will issue interim reports March 4 instead of today.

The end of the third nine weeks will be March 25. The change was made due to days lost to inclement weather. Library hours change after renovation ends As renovation of the Chillicothe and Ross County Public Library, 140-146 S. Paint draws to a close, there will be some changes in public service hours next week. The library will be closed all day Tuesday and Wednesday and open just 5 to 9 p.m.

Thursday for the laying of new carpet and cabinetry work. The library will be open for normal hours Monday and Friday, although some areas will not be accessible Monday until evening. Fines will not be charged on materials due on days when the library is closed or open only part of the day. There will be no preschool story hours or toddler program next week. 'Swim for Diabetes' to be heldatYMCA The Ross County Chapter of the Central Ohio Diabetes Association will have a "Swim for Diabetes" 1 to 6 p.m.

March 6 attheYMCA. Proceeds will go to educational programs, Sue Noble, president of the chapter, said. Swimmers and volunteers interested should register and obtain a sponsor as soon as possible. Registration is free. Donations should be turned in to the association by April 1.

To obtain a sponsor sheet, volunteers can write to the Central Ohio Diabetes Association, 1580 King Columbus, Ohio 43212 For vr i urn 4w problem." He predicted that the home-schoolers would follow up on the House vote with direct mail fund-raising. "This is not new; it's just as well-coordinated as you can see," he said. Ford conceded that he saw no problem with Miller's language, even as he offered an amendment to delete it from the bill and to state that nothing in the measure would affect home schools. The amendment was approved 424-1. "Although that language had nothing to do with home schooling, we go the extra mile," Ford said.

Speakers kick off special day By KIMBERLY KENDLE Gazette Staff Writer Statehood Day celebrations will get started with guest speakers discussing the day's importance with students at four area high schools today. Mayor Joe Sulzer and Ron Wagner, Statehood Day chairman, will kick-off the weekend of events planned with 15-minute presentations that will be broadcast via the fiber optic interaction video system. "As we go into our Statehood Day, we felt this would be a nice way to get the high school kids involved in something in our community," Patty Griffith, director of computer services at Ohio Uni-versitv-Chillicothe, said. Sulzer will speak on the present state of Chillicothe and its future. Speaking at Chillicothe High School, he will also discuss the importance of youth taking an active role in government.

Wagner, speaking at Zane Trace High School, will discuss Chilli-cothe's history. "I'm going to talk about when this part of the country was formed and how they were trying to develop the legislature in 1802," Wagner said. Wagner, said the most significant thing he wants the students to remember is how Ohio came to be accepted as the 17th state. Huntington High School and Pickaway-Ross Joint Vocational School will be the other schools participating. The Great Seal Education Network is sponsoring the event.

Will I I Tim JohnsonGazette Snow and icy roads were the cause of a tractor-trailer overturning on U.S. 35 just east of Richmond Dale Thursday icy roads were the cause of a tractor-trailer overturrjjrig on U.S. 35 just east of Richmond Dale Thursday morning. The tractor-trailer spilled building supplies and blocked traffic on U.S. 35 tor'about two hours, according to the State Highway Patrol.

There were no others vehicles involved and the driver, David Papenbrock, "43, of South J08U Or I-OUU-45 Amherst, was not injured. Order sought against education testing while 76 percent of white seniors have passed all four parts of the test, only 60 percent of black seniors have passed. "We will defend the state aggressively," Sanders said Thursday. "We think it's attendance and not race that is a strong prediction of who passes the test. "I think the proficiency testing has had a very beneficial effect on the state," he said.

"I don't believe the testing is racially biased. We have been careful to make sure it is indeed fair." About 70 percent of the 70,000 students enrolled in the Cleveland school district are black, and many have been ill-prepared for proficiency testing, said lawyer James L. Hardiman, who wrote the motion along with two other desegregation lawyers. The lawyers said in court documents that "no other single factor so greatly predicts failure to pass" all four parts of the test as race citizenship skills. The class of 1994 is the first affected by the law.

Students who do not show a ninth-grade level of mastery in all four parts still may graduate, but would receive a certificate of attendance rather than a diploma. The students' lawyers said black students in Cleveland didn't do as well as white students, indicating the tests might be racially bias. The lawyers cited statistics from Cleveland schools showing that The Associated Press CLEVELAND State School Superintendent Ted Sanders said Thursday the state will stand behind its ninth-grade proficiency tests, which have been labeled unfair by lawyers for black students in Cleveland public schools. The students' lawyers are asking U.S. District Judge Frank J.

Battisti to exempt all Ohio public school students from a state law requiring that they pass a four-part test of reading, writing, math and Officer is city's top employee The Gazette staff Sergeant William Stansberry was recognized as the 1993 City Employee of the Year -Thursday Strickland on GOPV'hit list' Ouch! rfir' ii'-M'M Ii 4 a' I "He took that extra mile or that extra step to excel," said Edna Reed, the mayor's assistant, of why Stansberry Re-organization set up by Scioto trustees Scioto Township trustees have re-organized and divided duties into three categories. Russ Walkup, president, is in charge of cemeteries. His phone number is 663-4187. Don Ault is in charge of fire and rescue squads and can be reaching by calling 773-3461. Ray Storts is in charge of roads.

His phone number is 772-1491. Clerk Harold Rich-ter is in charge of financial matters and can be reached by calling 775-9068. Vocational school site of equity meet A regional meeting on the Ohio equity and adequacy in school funding trial will be 7 p.m. Tuesday at Pickaway-Ross Joint Vocational School. Lawyers will talk with residents on the likely decision of the trial and its impact on Ross, Pike, Pickaway and Vinton counties.

Adena kindergarten registration coming Adena Local Schools kindergarten registration will be March 29 at Adena Primary. To register, children should be 5 years old on or before Sept. 30. Students whose lasts names begin with A-K should arrive at 8:30 a.m. and those with last names L-Z should arrive at 12:30 p.m.

Parents should bring the child's birth certificate, social security number, immunization record, and custodyadoption papers, if applicable. Ohio Lottery Thursday's drawings: Pick 3: 6-4-0 Pick 4: 4-9-9-7 Buckeye 5: 5-7-11-29-32 Saturday's Super Lotto jackpot is $4 million. i 'v- 4 3 primary. But Frost said the council is more likely to issue no endorsement. Sawyer's primary opponent, plumber Kenneth Mack, did secure the early endorsement of another labor unit, the Building Trades Council.

Republicans believe "there's a question about how enthusiastic the grassroots are going to be about working for" Sawyer, Paxon said. The winner of that primary will face Summit County Prosecutor Lynn Slaby, a Republican who gave Sawyer his only difficult congressional election. NAFTA also is an issue in Mann's race. Local labor leaders recruited a primary opponent, state Sen. William Bowen, D-Cincinnati, because Mann voted against labor's wishes.

For Brown, Fingerhut Strickland, "the tax bill is going to be an issue," Paxon said. Republicans have a long lineup of candidates waiting to take on those freshmen. And Democrats have plenty of hopefuls wanting to run in the fall against a GOP freshman, Rep. Martin Hoke. In the race for the Republican By KATHERINE RIZZO The Associated Press WASHINGTON The head of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee said his party stands a particularly good chance of winning seats in Ohio this year.

Rep. William Paxon, said Thursday the GOP has recruited candidates that appear strong enough to give some incumbents a run for their money. Paxon said the state offers "top of the nation opportunities" for his party, and all four freshman Democrats Reps. Sherrod Brown. Eric Fingerhut, David Mann and -Ted Strickland are on its "opportunities" list.

The GOP list also includes the open seat of Rep. Douglas Apple-gate, D-Ohio, who is not running "for re-election. Paxon' said the GOP also has high hopes in a northeast Ohio district where the North American Free Trade Agreement is an issue for labor backers of Rep. Tom Sawyer, D-Ohio. Jim Frost, president of the Akron-Medina County Labor Council, has said he has been encouraged to endorse the first-time candidate running against Sawyer in the May nomination in Brown's district are tax accountant Shawn Vallery of Medina, Lorain County Prosecutor Greg White and Professor Kenneth Stachowski of Brunswick.

In Fingerhut's district, the Republican primary features Lake County Prosecutor Steven LaT-ourette, Randall Lundi of Perry and Tucker Marston of Gates Mills. In Strickland's district, a primary is under way among Republicans Frank Cremeans, a Gallipolis businessman; Robert Kelley, a vocational educator from Scioto County; state Sen. Cooper Snyder of Hill-sboro; and James Weisman of Rio Grande. Hoke, who defeated Democratic Rep. Mary Rose Oakar in the last congressional election, has no primary but plenty of action to watch in the Democratic primary.

The field there includes Brook Park Mayor Thomas Coyne; Joanne Janos DiCarlo of North Olmsted; William M. Feighan of Lakewood; Frank Gaul of West-lake; Richard M. Oldrieve of West-lake; and Helen Knipe Smith of Cleveland. The general election is Nov. 8.

Tim JohnsonGazette Iggy the Iguana has been a limping lizard since he broke his leg. Owner Jelani Pet-tiford, 18, tried to walk his young iguana on a leash. Iggy rebelled and broke his leg in the process. The lizard was in luck: veternarian Vicki Britton was able take X-rays, then set the broken leg with a small critter cast. The cast comes off Saturday.

Iggy and Pettiford live in Roxabel. Stansberry was chosen. He has been with the Chillicothe Police Department since 1974 and was promoted to sergeant in 1983. During his stint with the police department, Stansberry has been involved with crime prevention and initiated a program, "Cops and which has been nominated for national crime prevention honors. Through the program, juvenile offenders are informed by inmates of what they have to look forward to if they remain involved in crime.

Inmates address citizen groups on how to prevent burglaries and other crimes. Prisoners incarcerated for child sexual abuse are involved in a training workshop for detectives and child abuse investigators on that subject and artistically inclined inmates make original creations of wall signs and drawings for children's crime prevention coloring books. Stansberry was selected from a pool of 12 city employees of the month 'because of the things he did above and beyond his normal duties," Reed said. He was honored at an awards ceremony at Volunteer shop receives award from program Agenda Hospital for research," she said. Since the shop first opened in 1966, more than $200,000 has been donated to the Cancer Society, Wade said.

The shop is operated by a group of 20 volunteers, ranging in age from 65 to 89. Hours of operation are 1 to 4 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday and 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday.

Angie Trego, a volunteer worker who helps teach dance classes; and the Mead Corp. Cheer Committee. The Stop Cancer Shop offers customers "a little bit of everything clothing, kitchen things, bedding, shoes all donated by people in the Wade said. 'Our money goes to local cancer patients or to the American Cancer Society and some to James Cancer champagne brunch in Columbus. She credited former shop president, the late Doris Walker, for her 15 years of volunteer service which made winning the award possible.

"Doris was our shining light through the years Wade said. Others from Chillicothe nominated and receiving second-place non-cash awards included Deloros Parker of the Ross County Coalition Against Domestic Violence; The Gazette staff The Stop Cancer Shop, 172 E. Main was one of five volunteer organizations honored Thursday by" the Columbus Dispatch Community Service Award program. Ann Wade, president of the shop, said 30 groups vied for the honors, which included a $500 cash award and a wall plaque "It was a tremendous thrill," Wade said after returning from the Saturday Ohio State Legal Services and Southeastern Ohio Legal Services board of directors, 10 a.m. at OSLSA, 861 N.

High Columbus; if you wish to attend or have questions, call Patricia Brown, '6.