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News-Journal from Mansfield, Ohio • 9

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11 4 1 Thursday, January 7, 1982 News Journal, Mansfield, O. Ohio 9-A Torriai Out Digest IBody found near creek School district to return windfall to struggling businesses LOCKLAND, Ohio (AP) Because of a quirk in the way that taxes are computed, the Lock land School District received a windfall this year. But officials of the suburban Cincinnati district have decided to refund the surplus money to homeowners and businesses. "Pthink the main thing to point out. is that our situation is Just the opposite of so many school districts," said Superintendent Gary Stamm.

1 "When business is bad, inventories are up because goods don't sell. Inventories now are at an all-time high, which means personal property taxes are also high. I don't think many people realize bow bad business is." Inventories and business merchandise are the basis for calculating personal property taxes, and in Lock-land, those taxes provide 77 percent of the district's revenue. The companies that pay taxes in the heavily industrialized school district include General Electric, Stearns Foster, Celotex and Diamond International. Their larger-than-usual inventories for this tax year would have meant 9500,000 more to the district.

But Stamm said that the school board decided ft did not need the money for the 775-student district and felt it would be doing a greater service to the community by reducing taxes. At its December meeting, the board reduced the district's school tax from 24.19 mills to 20 mills, effective on tax bills that will be mailed out early this year. 1 Stamm said that the decision was made after the Hamilton County auditor told him that the district's personal property tax collections would be much higher than expected, mostly because of the stockpile of merchandpe held by businesses. "As soon as business gets better, (companies) will start selling again and our valuation will go down," Stamm said. "It's a very unusual situatiop we find ourselves in.

Our valuation fluctuates so much. One company can move out and just destroy us." Another unusual aspect of the surplus is that personal property taxes in the district also increased because Tenneco Chemical Co. realized this year that it mistakenly had been paying taxes to the neighboring Reading school district, rather than to Lock land. That mistake has been corrected. FREMONT (AP) A 48-year-old woman whose body was found Wednesday apparently froze to death while taking a shortcut home last Saturday night, officials say.

The body of Janet Emrich, 48, of rural Sandusky County was found by a caretaker near a creek which flows through Fremont Country Club grounds. The Sandusky County coroner, Dr. Samuel Lowery, said Mrs. Emrich apparently died of exposure. She was reported missing last weekend.

Lowery speculated she was taking a shortcut to her house after leaving a store and collapsed after crossing the creek. The county sheriff's dffice is investigating the death even though officials said there was no evidence of foul play. School bus driver charged WESTLAKE (AP) The driver of a school bus that struck and killed a 9-year-old Westlake school student was charged with vehicular homicide Wednesday, the city prosecutor said. Patricia Tiedemann, 51, was charged with the first-degree misdemeanor, prosecutor Jeff Largent said. She is to appear in Westlake Municipal Court Jan.

19. She is free without bond pending a court appearance, Largent said. The bus struck and killed Preeti Sandhu Tuesday morning. According to authorities, Miss Sandhu had stopped in the path of the bus to pick up something. Ms.

Tiedemann had been a bus driver for 15 years without an accident, a spokesman for the Westlake schools said. Grim economic data from budget experts Legislative panel begins yearlong 'tax study Sheriff to beef up jail staff AKRON (AP) Summit County Sheriff David W. Troutman, in answer to a federal court order, will add 24 people to his jail security staff. U.S. District Judge Robert B.

Krupansky has said Troutman could be held in contempt unless his office acts to comply with a federal court order setting guidelines for the operation of the county's jail. Krupansky issued the guidelines in 1975 in response to a lawsuit filed by a former inthate who charged that his civil rights were violated. The Judge's interest in the case was renewed by another complaint recently. The sheriff said Wednesday 17 deputies will be shifted to jail duty and seven laid-off deputies will be recalled for jail duty. COLUMBUS (AP) A House-Senate panel has started a yearlong study of Ohio's tax structure against a backdrop of more grim economic data from budget experts.

The Legislative Budget Office (LBO) says tax receipts through Dec. 31, 1981, were $71.4 million below estimates of the Office of Budget and Management included in the budget that took effect Nov. 15. "The most significant tax losses are in the areas of the sales tax, which is $57 million below estimates and the personal income tax which is $13.6 million below estimates," Richard G. Sheridan, LBO director, said in a memo to legislative leaders.

Receipts from the auto sales tax were $12 million below estimates through the first six months of the current fiscal the reduction, one-time surcharges in the corporate franchise and public utility excise taxes may be imposed. The I4-member tax study committee was created by the' budget-tax boost measure. It is to determine how the current tax system affects business, industry, property owners and individuals and consider the needs of local governments, including school districts. It is to propose recommendations for tax alternatives by Jan. 1, 1983.

Sen. Charles L. Butts, D-Cleveland, said at the group's organizational meeting Wednesday he hopes it will be cerned with tax reform instead of searching for new ways to generate revenue. Sen. Richard H.

Finan, R-Cincinnati, the group's co-chairman, said it faces an uphill battle to -complete its work by the end of the year: Legislators in both chambers will have to spend time in their districts campaigning in the primary and general elections. The panel is expected to examine taxes in other states, but members said they do not expect to turn up many new tax sources. Finan said a tax on soft-drink syrup levied under the current budget stemmed from a 1972 revenue study. He said proposals to extend the sales tax to repairs and installations, also in the current budget, had been proposed In 1965 and 1972. Rep.

William E. Hinig, D-New will act as co-chairman along with Finan. Hinig is chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. Finan heads the same committee in the upper chamber. year.

Revenue from the non-auto sales tax was off $45 million. The total decline of $57 million represents a variance of 6.2 percent from estimates, the LBO said Senate Minority Leader Harry Meshel, D-Youngstown, said be was not surprised. "Although I hope desperately that I am wrong I think it will continue that way," he said. Meshel said the figures virtually guarantee that a 'three-part hedge in the budget against a slump in revenues would have to be triggered. That package provides for a 1-percent reduction in agency appropriations to be imposed in March if the Office of Budget and Management certifies that such a step is needed to offset an income shortfall.

If the fiscal problem remains after Police base pay $26 000 CINCINNATI (AP) Cincinnati police will have the highest base pay in Ohio as a result of City Council's approval Wednesday of a three-year wage pact with the Fraternal Order of Police. Under the terms of the contract, the base pay will rise from $20,927 for a three-year veteran to $26,000 by 1984, said the president of the Cincinnati FOP chapter, Elmer Dunaway. The pact calls for a 10-percent increase immediately and pay boosts of 7.3 percent and 7 percent, respectively, for the second and third years of the contract. Police also gained a dental plan and time-and-a-half pay for overtime. 2 for Plastic 34 bushel laundry basket, 10 quart pail with pour spout, or 10 quart wastebasket.

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Steven Kurtz, 25, pleaded no contest Wednesday in Hamilton County Municipal Court to a charge of criminal damaging. Kurtz' defense attorney asked Judge Albert J. Mestemaker to provide "innovative" sentencing the nature of the offense. "Oh, it'll be innovative all right," said Mestemaker. "The cost of a 20- foot Colorado blue spruce is more than a new Toyota, you know." Mestemager suspended a 9750 fine and a 90-day jail term when Kurtz agreed to plant 10 new Colorado blue spruce trees, with each to be at least 6 feet tall, in the Mount Airy Forest before June 30.

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Quirk fired Fawley's son, who was a probationary police officer. Akron police said that the younger Fawley was led out of the restaurant and was questioned about carrying a gun. There was no arrest made. Quirk said when he learned of the incident he was upset that the chief did not tell him about it. The dismissal will force Fawley, 51, who had been on the force since 1954, to forfeit his pension.

Fawley said that his dismissal was politically motivated because he had tried to investigate the mayor and other city officials. He had been chief since July 1979. It is not yet clear if Fawley will appeal the firing. Capt. Donald Kirkhard, a 20-year officer who is head of the Cuyahoga Falls department's uniformed division, was named acting chief.

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Sam Mihailoff of the missing persons unit said Wednesday. So Toledo officers are now asking 3,000 coroners and medical examiners across the nation to check unidentified bodies to see if they include the missing woman, Cynthia Anderson, 20, of Lambertville, just north of Toledo. on the morning of Aug. 4, 1981, Miss Anderson went to work at a Toledo law firm. She was seen working alone in her office at about 9:45 a.m.

by a custodian. But by 10 a.m. the telephones in the office were not being answered, police said. At noon, attorney James Rabbitt, 36, a partner in the firm where Miss Anderson worked, entered the office. He later told police the offices were locked, the air conditioner was running, the radio was on and the telephones were ringing.

But Miss Anderson was not there. Babbitt thought she was at lunch and went to lunch himself. When he returned, Miss Anderson was still missing. Rabbitt called police. They talked with friends and relatives but no one knew where she might be.

A search of her home in Lambertville, turned up no evidence. Miss Anderson's car was in the park. ing lot outside the office building. Her tan purse Was not pn her desk. There were no signs of a struggle in the office.

And there the trail of Cynthia Anderson began and ended. Reports that she was seen in Texas were never confirmed, Mihailoff said. Now, through the Cleveland-based International Coroners and Medical Examiners Association, Toledo police are circulating a description of the woman and a photograph of her, along with a letter asking for help. Mihailoff said the letters are to be distributed to members with the assocation's next newsletter, probably at the end of January. "In terms of evidence, the case is right where it was several months ago we've gotten nowhere," Mihailoff said.

"We've checked out a lot of leads. But in terms of the bottom line, the answer is nothing." Mihailoff said the case is considered an active one, and the FBI has looked Into the matter informally. "They won't enter the case on a formal basis because there's no evidence of a crime," said Mihailoff. "The woman just vanished." Various organizations have offered rewards totaling nearly $10,000 in the case, but the money has produced few leads. The detective said a thorough investigation of her background led police to discount rumors she had fled on her own.

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