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NASA ANOTHER MISSION EYES MARS A5. THURSDAY September 2, 1993 Harbor and Ottawa County Serving Port Clinton, Oak Weather TONIGHT: Occasional showers and thunderstorms. Low in the upper 60s. TOMORROW: Showers and thunderstorms, mainly in the morning. High in the mid-70s.

Complete weather, A2 Fishing Boating FISHING: Perch fishermen don't mind the rain so they'll be out today trying their luck, according to a Hi Way Bait Store employee. North of Kelleys Island and along the shoreline near Davis-Besse Nuclear Power station have been the hotspots. LAKE ERIE: Scattered showers today. Highs near 80. Southeast winds of 10 knots or more, becoming southerly winds later.

Waves 2 to 4 feet, subsiding by evening. Chance of rain, 60 percent. Around Ohio AMONG THE FIRST: The State Highway Patrol said it charged 29 people with driving under the influence in the first five hours after a tougher antidrunken driving law took effect. Sgt. John Born, patrol spokesman, said the number of citations issued from midnight to 5 a.m.

Wednesday was about average. He said the 29 motorists charged reflected only patrol arrests, not those made by other law enforcement agencies. The new law provides for on-the-spot license suspension of drivers who flunk a blood-alcohol test or refuse to take it. Vehicle seizure, immobilization and forfeiture are mandated for repeat offenders. AV West Virginia man is believed to have been the first driver charged in Ohio under the new law.

Pomeroy police Chief Gerald Rought said Gale Wolfe, of Mason, W.Va., was charged at 12:32 a.m. Wolfe was charged with driving under the influence, operating a vehicle under license suspension, and driving left of center. He was released on a recognizance bond after appearing in court Wednesday morning. Rought said a conviction would be Wolfe's fourth DUI offense in the last five years. Lottery ONE WINNER: There was one ticket sold naming all six numbers drawn in Wednesday night's Super Lotto game and it's worth $4 million, the Ohio Lottery said.

The winning ticket was sold at a Convenient Food Mart in Willoughby. The jackpot for Saturday night's Super Lotto stays at $4 million. Here are Wednesday night's Ohio Lottery selections: Super Lotto, 2-18-25-36-39-45 Kicker, 8-1-8-4-0-1 Pick 3 Numbers, 6-0-6 Pick 4 Numbers, 0-2-8-5 Deaths George Vargo, Port Clinton Abbie L. Bertok, Graytown Call Us Port Clinton 734-3141 Oak Harbor 898-7451 Index Entertainment Sports Comics Neighbors. TM Find the familiar phrase, saying or name in this arrangement of letters.

block by Solution: B4 The News Herald is printed on recycled paper. A GANNETT NEWSPAPER News Herald Gala to reopen bridge You're invited to OAK HARBOR The public is cordially invited to attend the opening ceremony and dedication of the Ohio 19 bridge in Oak Harbor at 11 a.m. Friday, Sept. 3. on the Locust Street-north side of the bridge.

Taking part in the ceremony will be V.F.W. Post and American Legion Post color guards; Terry Clark, president of Oak Harbor Chamber of Commerce; Village Mayor Pete Macko; Steve Arndt, president of Ottawa County Commissioners; the Oak Harbor High School under the direction of Jim Murray; Jim McCarty, deputy district director of the Ohio Department of Transportation; and Rev. Gene Hegemier, St. Paul United Church of Christ. Traffic resumes on the ber 1992.

State bridge Friday after an 11 the condition a.m. ceremony. deteriorated "The bridge closed Novem- close the Boxed in ribbon cutting The first vehicles passing over the bridge will represent the Ohio State Highway Patrol, Ottawa County Sheriff's Office, Oak Harbor Police Department, the Oak Harbor Area Chamber of Commerce in a 1930 Model Ford owned by Harold Wadsworth Mid County EMS, Ottawa Ambulance Service, U.S. Postal Service, B- C-S school bus, a Portage District fire truck, and an ODOT snowplow. The long-awaited ribbon cutting to open the span to traffic will be performed by Macko, Arndt, and McCarty.

The public will then have approximately one hour to inspect, take pictures and walk the new span before the barricades are removed and the bridge is officially open to traffic. officials said nally was set to open July 31. was so badly "Oh, you can't believe how that they had to happy we are," Bassett's structure. It origi- Bakery Manager Paul Weich- OPEN OTHER END News Branda Jeffrey Walter, 4, 746 Taft Street, drops a stick into a refrigerator box holding Samantha Conte, 6, 745 Taft Street, Clayton White, 9, 1112 Kaspar Street, and in back of the box, Conte's brother Keith Conte, 9, 745 Taft Street. Standing behind Walter is Michael Bloom, 5, 750 Taft Street.

The Contes get a refrigerator box (not a new refrigerator) every year to play in. The box was in front of the Conte house Wednesday afternoon. man said. "We lost a lot of our summer tourists. They directly bypassed us." "It's going to be a relief for the people and the said Oak Harbor Chamber of Commerce Secretary Jo Thompson.

"It's been a burden for all the merchants. They really have been hit hard by this." To celebrate the moment, PIGSKIN PREVIEW Inside By CYNTHIA L. REZA Staff writer OAK HARBOR A crumbling Portage River bridge left Oak Harbor shoppers hottempered and cursing over the past 10 months while the thoroughfare has been closed for repairs. Friday, a crumbling bridge is again on the lips of shoppers. This time, though, they're.

smiling with every delicious bite. Twenty to thirty dozen round sugar cookies iced with a bridge silhouette, sky and water will appear in the display counter at Bassett's IGA, 279 W. Water St. A dozen cookies sell for $1.99. Bassett's bakery wizardry is one of a number of plays off the long-awaited opening of the Ohio 19 bridge over the Portage River bridge popping up around the village.

SCAN calls it quits Drug task force officially disbands By CYNTHIA L. REZA Staff writer PORT CLINTON SCAN, the six-county drug task force which Ottawa County, has been part of for three years, will disband Sept. 30. A high personnel turnover and unexpected liabilities led to the decision to drop the Northwest Ohio undercover force, said Ottawa County Sheriff Craig Emahiser. The decision was made Tuesday.

The membership had tentatively agreed to disband a week earlier. Tuesday, worth of equipment including office supplies, guns and binoculars was divided among group members. Ottawa County got a body wire worth about $5,500. "The decision was easy for us," Emahiser said. The sheriff's department body wire, used in recording conversations in undercover drug buys, has been in for repairs twice in the past year.

During the next month, the Findlay-based SCAN office will wind down. Case files and intelligence related to Ottawa County will be turned over to the sheriff. "It's a shame, honestly." Emahiser said. "We've turned SCAN around in the county as far as getting the police behind it." much attention compared to By ROBERTA L. GEDERT one level.

and electricity, among other rage that was blown away in larger counties. Police chiefs Staff writer Renovations to the building things. the storm was rebuilt, and were upset because talks for GRAYTOWN Ardy and were necessary after a tor- About $60,000 in damages the flush entranceway to the a similar county network Glen Gaines, owners of Gray- nado blew through the small resulted, and although the es- establishment is new. The inwere in the works and possi- town's Country Keg and town in July 1992, flattening tablishment never closed, the side, which used to be cooled ble state grant funding was Store, are calling the new the establishment, which has Gaines have finally finished off by big fans, now has an hurt. look for their establishment been a mainstay in Graytown clearing away the last ham- air conditioning system.

When he took office, the town's only "topless for more than 50 years. mers, nails, saws and debris The couple plan to have a Emahiser didn't have plans to bar," but there's nothing The Gaines have owned the that helped rebuild their busi- grand opening celebration, stay with SCAN beyond scandulous about it. Country Keg for 17 years. Be- ness and achieve the new which will include gifts, Crosser's 1993 commitment. "We aren't going topless, fore that, people might re- image.

prizes, and a night on the In the past few months we just went topless," Ardy member the old-fashioned There are other changes to town, including limosine SCAN has been an important Gaines explained, laughing. looking establishment as ap- the bar as well. The old win- service, dinner and dancing. tool in local drug probes. The Graytown resident pearing the same, but.

with dows and the crumbling The winner of the night out The sheriff's office has means that one of the make- the name of "Frieda's brown stucco on the outside will be chosen on Graytown made approximately 90 to overs the two-story structure Place." of the building, have been re- Day, Sept. 18, the town's an100 drug buys since March, Ema- went through was. the re- When the storm was over, placed with two-tone gray nual celebration. To register moval of the second floor, the Gaines found themselves siding, a new, roof, and to win, stop by the store, at See SCAN, A3 shaving the building off into minus a chimney, windows, brand-new windows. The ga- 1790 N.

Walker St. For convenient home delivery, call 734-3141 or 898-7451 businesses are getting creative. The National Bank of Oak Harbor is offering 5.9 percent financing for cars purchased at the two Ohio 1 19 lots just south of the bridge, Tri Motor Sales Inc. and Vern Miller -Oldsmobile, and one in-town lot, Spangler Motor Sales, 121 Locust "We're all working together to get the promotions going," said Dick Ross of Spangler. High thrills Cedar Point unveils 'screamer' of a coaster Associated Press SANDUSKY -Cedar Point is building a roller coaster that promises to take riders to new heights.

"It's unlike any roller coaster in the world because of its seating," Cedar Point spokeswoman Janice Litke said Wednesday. "The seats don't have a floor to it. It's like a ski lift. Your feet will actually be dangling below." Cedar Point on Wednesday announced plans to build the "Raptor" roller coaster for $12 million, the largest investment in the park's history. It will open in May.

The ride, designed by Bolliger Mabillard of Monthey, Switzerland, and named for a prehistoric predatory dinosaur, will be the world's fastest, tallest inverted coaster, Ms. Litke said. The Raptor will be 137 feet high, travel 57 mph and have a 45-degree, 119-foot drop. It will turn riders upside down six times and have a 100-foot tall vertical loop. "It's like a cross between a roller coaster and a highspeed ski lift," she said.

"It will set the pace for the next century of roller coasters," said Richard Kinzel, Cedar Point president and chief executive officer. She said the Raptor will help the park strengthen its record for having more "scream machines" than any other park in the work. Emahiser is a former police chief who was at first against Ottawa County's joining SCAN in mid-1990 when the agency was forming. Former sheriff John R. Crosser in office then.

"County officials worried Ottawa County wouldn't get Country Keg new look is topless C66L.