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'Ail Indy fever Page 1-G Making older much better Sunday magazine Page 1-C Foaling time at Pickwick Farms Mansfield, Ohio May 25, 1986 75C hupQn I asmundI I DiC1n) ews Journal SUNDAY mOOW North Central Ohio's Foremost Newspaper KNOX Home delivery 524-3530 Classified ads 524-3545 Other calls 522-3311 By Ron Simon Newi Journal High liability costs take some fun out of summer recreation Loudonville Go Cart track. Children might not be able to enjoy horseback and pony rides. The problem is liability insurance, the rising cost of it and, very often, the lack of it. Liability insurance is the means by which promoters and operators of festivals, fairs, amusement rides and shows protect themselves in case of a lawsuit. In the past year, the premiums for that kind of insurance have been rising, sometimes several times over as the amount of coverage increases.

That happened to the Orrville Railroad Heritage Committee earlier this year. Howard Wade, a member of the committee, said a steam locomotive excursion to Pittsburgh had to be canceled when, with only a few weeks notice, the committee learned it had to increase its liability insurance coverage from the $3 million to $25 million. The premium for the two-day event was close to $3,000 "and we only had a few weeks to shop around," Wade said. Another member of the committee, Bob Bixler of Apple Creek in Wayne County, discovered liability insurance coverage for his hometown's Johnny Appleseed Festival, held on the last Fri-See Liability Page 6-A When people in the tourist industry talk about the insurance crisis, they may be referring to all the water slides in the Mohican River area that are closed this weekend. They might be referring to the steam locomotive excursion at Orrville in early May that never happened.

Looking ahead, the traditional fireworks at the Knox County Fair have been canceled. Were it not for a swift act of the Ohio Legislature, there wouldn't be a sixth season for the i. 1 1 "'MCI ffi'" Ohio ready to join nation in hand chain i 1 5. Ifc i i p. 'n.

TtMAuodatadPrau It's been called impossible, outrageous, audacious. But almost 800,000 Ohioans are hoping to call it a success when they fill Ohio's link in the nationwide Hands Across America chain. For 20 minutes, beginning at 3 p.m. today, an estimated 5.4 million Americans will join hands to form the world's largest human chain to raise money for the hungry and homeless. The chain forms in Long Beach, and ends in the tip of Manhattan in New York City.

It is expected to cross 556 municipalities in 16 states and the District of Columbia before all is said and done. "Nothing is a sure bet," said Mike Cull, press secretary for Hands Across America in Ohio. "But nobody can tell me after what I've seen in this effort that just because something has never been tried that it can't be done. I say this is do-able. Very do-able." Not everyone agrees.

Recently officials in several Cleveland suburbs, including Rocky River and Solon, went public with their objections to the event. They say the event is too large to be conducted safely and without damage. But Cull and others say they have invested the past six months in making sure nothing goes wrong today when some 790,000 people stand hand-in-hand along the 593-mile trail through Ohio. Officials in Columbus even held a dry run several weeks ago, when they rounded up about 300 people and tried to make them stand in line. "There's no way you can make even 300 people do what you want If all goes according to plan, Mans-f ielders standing near the intersection of Ohio 61 and Ohio 6 near Vermilion will link hands at 3 p.m.

today to join a chain of millions of other Americans from coast to coast. Contingents have been organized from most north central Ohio communities. While the official deadline for registration was Friday, local coordinators said they will accept registrations right op until the joining of hands at 3 p.m. Any donations will be accepted, and any volunteer is welcome anywhere along the route. Mansfielders are advised to follow Ohio 13 to Norwalk and then take Ohio 61 north to Ohio 6.

The Mansfield mile is just east of the intersection and will be marked by a banner. A Bucyrus car caravan is scheduled to leave the high school at 12:30 p.m. them to do and we saw that we're going to have some problems," Cull said. "But basically, I'd say it worked." But on Friday, as 37 volunteers juggled phone calls, interviews, paperwork and visitors in the Columbus Hands Across America office, confusion reigned supreme. "Unfortunately at this point, I have absolutely no idea how many people we've actually got.

I understand it's about 85 percent," he said. "But nobody will know until Sunday. And even then, how the heck are we going to count them?" Between 1,320 and 1,400 people will be needed to fill each mile "depending on how wide they are," Cull See Hands back page Scott Rollman, an aviation maintenance technician, checks the oil in a plane at Galion Municipal Airport. (Photo by Robin Layton) Small airports gateways that wait By Julie Carr Newt Journal marketing director. "This airport will survive on general aviation and business flights." All the small airports in this area serve general aviation needs, meaning they provide runways, taxiways and aprons for landing of airplanes, provide fuel and have some type of storage, either space to tie planes down in open ports or in enclosed hangars.

Fischer Bros, is unique among small airports because, although it is headquartered in Galion, planes fly out of airports around Ohio and Michigan. They also no longer offer charter service or flight instruction, two of the common services at small airports, to Galionites. See Airports back page, this section est to them that they have someplace to land their planes." Like most smaller airports, Morrow County Airport is not supported by its number of flights or rentals, but by a business in their case, crop-dusting based at the airport. Galion Municipal Airport, operated by Fischer Bros. Aviation, is one small airport that has ties to scheduled passenger flights.

But the airport has recently joined the Northwest Orient Airline and no longer flies passengers directly from Galion, but rather from Mansfield. "The people of Galion didn't really use the service anyway," said Ralph Baker, Fischer Bros. Five years ago most small airports in north central Ohio saw themselves as providing an incentive for economic expansion in the areas they served. Today, despite the fact that most of the towns they serve are worse off economically than five years ago, these airports still believe they are gateways to business development. "The airport is a selling point to industry," said Maria Fisher, who manages Morrow County Airport along with her husband, Carl.

"It is of inter Safe-workplace law starts Memorial Day in Mansfield, Madison Nrm Journal Mansfield Memorial Day observances will begin at 9 a.m. Monday when American Legion Post 16 conducts memorial services at the World War I doughboy monument in Central Park. The official Memorial Day parade, which will include all Mansfield veterans groups, will begin at 10:30 a.m. at Prospect School on Reba Avenue and march to the Mansfield Cemetery's amphitheatre, where a special service will be conducted Out-of-town parade units are to meet Monday at 9 a.m. at AMVETS Post 26, 1100 W.

Fourth before the parade. After the parade, Post 26 will host a ribs and chicken dinner beginning after 1 p.m. The Madison Memorial Salute, which is being held in place of a Fourth of July celebration this year, will start at 8 a.m. at the Ramble Inn at Madison Comprehensive High School, where breakfast will be served until 11a.m. The parade on Ashland Road gets under way at 11:30 a.m.

and will go from Illinois Avenue to Stewart Road. Games, rides, food and entertainment by the Madison bands, Leiderkranz Dancers and Madison Marchers will begin at noon outside the high school. Other activities during the day include Bingo, from noon to 6 p.m. in the Madison High Cafeteria and a Craft-a-Rama, featuring homemade crafts, in the high school gymnasium. Elementary Olympics will be held at 2 p.m.

at Ram Field. Tickets are $2 for adults and $1 for students. The day's festivities conclude at 8 p.m. at Ram Field with a patriotic program complete with musical salute, followed by fireworks at 9 m. dress.

It doesn't ban any substance or order reduced exposures; it's strictly an information standard." Robert Moran, former chairman of the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission and now a private attorney specializing in workplace safety and health issues, predicts the impact will be much greater. Employers, he said, can expect a flood of lawsuits, such as when a chemical that was not judged as hazardous "is later thought to be the malefactor in some media story or genuine industrial accident." "It's going to change the way eve-See Safety back page WASHINGTON (AP) Beginning this week, some 300,000 businesses across the nation can be fined by the government if they haven't told their estimated 13 million employees about hazardous materials where they work. At an initial cost of more than $600 million, new regulations by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration taking effect today provide a "right to know" to more than half the estimated 25 million workers who face potential exposure to hazardous chemicals in their jobs. "This is the most significant action ever taken by OSHA," said Patrick Tyson, who resigned two weeks ago as acting head of the 15-year-old agency. "It requires that people who work with hazardous substances are aware of the dangers and are trained to effectively protect themselves." Formally known as the hazard communications standard, the regulations were recommended more than a decade ago by a federal advisory committee to combat the annual 100,000 deaths and 340,000 disabling illnesses and injuries blamed on occupational diseases.

"In the past, if employees wanted to know what they were being exposed to on the job, there was no obligation by an employer to tell them," said Christopher Graybill, an OSHA spokesman. "That's the kind of situation this regulation is designed to ad Quick Roads Index 136 pages, 13 sections Baby graves Nearly half the infants who died in New York City from 1981 to 1984 were buried in mass graves at a paupers cemetery because their families couldn't afford or didn't bother about a private burial, according to a report released Saturday. It called for better programs for the poor, including a higher burial allowance. Some 3,070 infants, those younger than a year, were buried in Potter's Field between 1981 and 1984, the report said. That was 47 percent of the roughly 6,500 infants who died during the period.

8" A Hostages Eight French hostages held by Moslem groups in Lebanon will be released over the next nine days, the leftist Beirut newspaper as-Saf ir reported Saturday. Four hostages will be released within two days and "the remaining four will be freed within a week afterwards," the newspaper quoted sources as saying. The two-paragraph report did not identify the hostages to be released. The newspaper said its sources "indicated that they obtained their information from parties con-fiected with the case. 7-A Thatcher Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher arrived in Israel Saturday for a three-day trip, becoming the first serving British prime minister to visit the Jewish state since its independence from Britain 38 years ago.

She said on arrival at Ben-Gurion Airport that she would discuss with Prime Minister Shimon Peres how Britain could help towards "peace with security for Israel and for the other peoples of the region." Mrs. Thatcher is also expected to discuss with Peres the international war against terrorism. Advice 3-1 Moneymatters 1-C Chartwatch 5-F Obituaries 4-A Editorials 2-B Perspect 1-B Emerg. 2-A Real estate 1-D Entertain. 1-F Rukeyser 1-C Farm 3-C Sports 1-G Focus 1-1 Stocks 5-C Grapevine 3-B Sunday 1-J Homevid.

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