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4.1111.0110, lik 1 I i rqi 41 pm Ici a II gni pm gal Ror News Journal business hours Thursday, August 12, 1982, Mansfield, 0 3-A. -ews Journal elilifIC 1171.110CC Subscriber Service Newsroom Classified Ads Mou.Fri., 8 a.m.-7 p.m. Moa.111., 8 'mot pm. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. 6 amenoon 8 a.m.miduight 6 amenoon 9 a.m.-8:30 p.m.

522-3811 asks i i 1 i Cross ir I ercent, hike 7 7,7, 7 7 I 1 MANSFIELD Blue Cross of rate increase for non-group policy. Northeast Ohio has filed for another holders last year. It had requested a rate Increase for non-group sub- 102-percent rate increase which was scribers, this one a 33-percent hike to have generated $30 million. in its 11-county service area, which The new request. made in July, t' Includes Richland County.

was not publically announced. It More than 1,500 Richland County would affect 151,000 non-group sub. 1,0 residents, most of them direct-en- scribers, Including 93,500 covered rollment subscribers who purchase by Medicare complementary con1 the hospitalization coverage on their tracts who would pay an additional own, will be affected. $2.57 a month for basic Medifill coyerage. -1 i A hearing on the proposed rate in- The company said it stands to lose i I 1 crease will be held in Cleveland next $20 million this year and next if the month, said Robert H.

Katz of the higher rates are not '1 I Ohio Department of Insurance. If The insurance department can 1 the department of insurance aP- deny all or part of a proposed in- I i proves the increase, the new rates crease if the state agency finds that will be effective Dec. 1. the carrier has not done a good Job Blue Cross received a 72-percent holding down health care costs. ti Disputed bridge to be replaced 4 1,, ---r I i ,4 i.

I CLEVELAND (AP) A disputed rect her spelling and referred to the pr 1 bridge is to be replaced six years af- residents she spoke for as a group of gm orw 1 ter the political career of a Cuyaho- "moochers, scroungers, chiselers 1 I 1 i ga County engineer fell flat after an and parasites." I i 4 111111 1, 1 i iii i it it ,3 1 exchange with a 12ear-old girl i i Porter lost the next election al- i I i i 1 1 1 I I 1 11 1 1 i 1 i 1 0 t. I I '-f I. i ,011 over the span. though he had been a political power 1 a a 1. i A i a ok a db a a a a a i a a I i 1 a .4.

a a a 4,, 1144.1.4101, tla .1 I fig 4 ilit tL 1 Beth Ann Louis of Olmsted Town- for nearly 30 years. He died in 1979. ship had written a letter to County Ms. Louis now is 18 and attends Engineer Albert S. Porter, saying Cuyahoga Community College.

the old bridge in Olmsted Falls near rounta rommiszeinnart ha ra MANSFIELD Blue Cross of Northeast Ohio has filed for another rate increase for non-group sub. scribers, this one a 33-percent hike in its 11-county service area, which Includes Richland County. More than 1,500 Richland County residents, most of them direct-enrollment subscribers who purchase the hospitalization coverage on their own, will be affected. A hearing on the proposed rate Increase will be held in Cleveland next month, said Robert H. Katz of the Ohio Department of Insurance.

If the department of insurance approves the increase, the new rates will be effective Dec. 1. Blue Cross received a 72-percent Disputed bridge CLEVELAND (AP) A disputed bridge is to be replaced six years after the political career of a Cuyahoga County engineer fell flat after an exchange with a 12-year-old girl over the span. Beth Ann Louis of Olmsted Township had written a letter to County Engineer Albert S. Porter, saying the old bridge in Olmsted Falls near rate increase for non-group policy- holders last year.

It had requested a 102-percent rate increase which was to have generated $30 million. The new request. made in July, was not publically Announced. It would affect 151,000 non-group subscribers, Including 93,500 covered by Medicare complementary contracts who would pay an additional $2.57 a month for basic Medifill coverage. The company said it stands to lose $20 million this year and next if the higher rates are not The insurance department can deny all or part of a proposed increase if the state agency finds that the carrier has not done a good Job holding down health care costs.

to be replaced rect her spelling and referred to the residents she spoke for as a group of "moochers, scroungers, chiselers and parasites." Porter lost the next election, although he had been a political power for nearly 30 years. He died in 1979. Ms. 1416 now is 18 and attends Cuyahoga Community College. County commissioners, at the re.

News AfikatiA Journal business hours Subscriber Service MonelFri.o a.m.-7 p.m. I cmonoon Sum, I cmonoon 1,71, Newsroom sniffed Ms M0s.411., 8 sm.11 pm. MosrrL, I awed p.m 8 s.m.midolght 9 sm.8:30 p.m. 522-3311 her school shouldn't be replaced by a wider structure because it would "scare away the wildlife and men (sic) the beauty there." Porter replied that she should cor quest of the current engineer, Thom. as J.

Neff, approved plans to replace the span over Plum Creek on Bagley Road as part of a $1,1 million project to improve the road. I work on the roof at the 365 Central Ave. home of Glenn Baker as program. From left to right are Leslie Smith, Tom Hale, North porch is Louis France. (Photo by Mark Menke) Cox file officially closed, but memories Chapter 12 On a cold January night in 1950, West Point Cadet Richard Cox of Mansfield, dressed in full uniform, signed out in the company logbook at the U.S.

Military Academy and seemingly vanished from the face of the earth. Despite the efforts of the FBI and U.S. Army, a massive nationwide search for the 22-year-old failed to find the cadet or explain his mysterious disappearance. The 12-part series concludes today. What really happened to Richard Cox? 1 attOwt X' 0 OP Ca0 U.

'ow 41( 111.111.11.11. 7-year-old boy tries robbery at restauarant CLEVELAND (Al') A 7-yearold boy, with his 5-year-old brother standing guard outside, unsuccessfully tried to rob a fried chicken franchise at knifepoint, police said. The 4-foot, 45-pound would-be bandit entered a Church's Fried Chicken store on the city's east side, brandishing an 812-inch blade, while his 3-foot-8, 30-pound brother watched outside for police. "I thought it was a joke," said Laverne Hill, an employee at the store, "but he had a mean expression on his face, like he really meant business." Ms. Hill said she tried to talk the unidentified child out of the robbery by telling him she would call his mother.

She said the boy didn't flinch and said, "You don't know her number." Ms. Hill said she then told the boy she would call police. The boy left but returned with his brother about a minute later, making new demands for money and barricading the door with chairs until two police officers arrived. Police said the 7-year-old lunged at one officer eight times before being subdued and disarmed. Both boys were taken to 4th District police headquarters, where they were questioned and released to their 27- year-old mother.

"Even Jesse and Frank James didn't start out this early," said Lt. Richard A. McIntosh. "These kids need some kind of help" Jim Underwood The News Journal The last government document in Bureau File 79-23729 is a memorandum for the Identification Division of the FBI. The memo, dated May 28, 1976, reads, "Department of the Army advised Richard Colvin Cox no longer wanted by the Army.

Maintain stop for deserter desk and missing person. Subject missing from West Point Military Academy since 1-14-50." And with that, the U.S. government technically closed its file on 1 Richard Cox, the missing cadet. In reality, with the exception of the 1960 sighting of a man identifying himself as Cox in Florida, the FBI closed its files on the case in 1956. Former FBI Director Edgar Hoover, in a July 1958 letter to Min nie Cox, noted that the bureau was checking its files to see If "the location of (Richard Cox) is still desired by you." Mrs.

Cox penned her answer on the bottom of Heover's letter: "As you note, seven years will have elapsed Jan. 14, 1957, since my son disappeared. In (Ohie) at that time he will be declared legally dead. Please keep file open." Richard Cox was declared legally dead and the small insurance policy on the cadet was distributed to his surviving brother and four sisters. "She didn't keep a dime," recalls Nancy Allen, one of Richard Cox's sister.

"She split it up and gave it to Minnie Cox is 91 years old. The Weather. Up on the roof Workers from Richland Renovating part of the city's housing renewal Cunningham and Mark Hale. On the Hilton Head, S.C. He still has the ramrod military presence of a West Point cadet, and points proudly to his flying association with astronaut Michael Collins and military memorabilia personally given to his family by Gen.

Douglas MacArthur. He remembers Minnie Cox. "She was a remarkable woman as I recall," he said. He said an FBI agent once told him that the bureau has personnel permanently assigned to Central Park in New York City to just look at faces, to search out certain missing persons. "The agent told me that Cox is on that list.

The theory, I suppose, is that sooner or later, everybody shows up at Central Park sometime during their lifetime." Urschel said at first he thought Cox dead. Since then, he's not so sore. Urschel was only 18 when Richard Cox disappeared. The sisters Emily, Nancy, Mary and Carolyn recall some details about their brother vividly. Other details have been lost to the years.

"All we remember about him is that he was our little brother, and we loved him," Emily Beard recalls, adding that after 32 years, most of the family has come to accept the loss of Richard Cox and have gotten over the pain that the family suffered. Almost all of the surviving family members embrace the theory that Richard Cox was murdered. But The Forecast For 8 a.m. Friday. August 13 I Low Temperatures 70 NIAtiortal Weetther Service NOAA Dept of Commerce Fronts: Cold Warm VW 1:114.141 50' 60 6 I 11 1H It itetto, I alikil flilli 60 ilk ti I 70 tk 70 70 NA 'nal Weetther Syr vtLe NOAA US Dept of Commerce linger on they admit to that shadow of a doubt that looms through the volumes of papers and documents that trace the search for the missing cadet.

They find some of the material disturbing and unsettling. Carolyn Colby is delighted at the expressiveness in some of her brother's letters. Nancy Allen says she hopes the retelling of the Richard Cox mystery will answer; some questions surrounding her brother's disappearance for her children and grandchildren and for the people who still occasionally ask her, "Did you ever find out what happened to your brother?" In the 32 years since the disappearance of Cox, a new generation has grown up in Mansfield, many of whom perhaps have never heard of Richard Cox or about the intriguing mystery of Mansfield's missing cadet. It is a piece of Mansfield history that Is, 32 years later, yet unwritten. The same unanswered questions of 1950 remain unanswered in 1982.

If Cox is dead, why was a body never discovered? Why was he so curious about the "Russian situation" in Germany? What compelled him to attend America's bastion of military leadership when his letters indicate such a distaste for the military? Was it really Cox who was seen in Washington, D.C., and Melbourne, Who was George? And how did Richard Cox come to associate with someone so bizarre, so out of character with other known associates? Who was Alice and why was she so much on the mind of the young cadet? EDT Rain Showers Snow ED Flurries Ar7lic 11111111 A Occluded 11Pv Stationary si last time she laid eyes on her son was in December 1949. She didn't realize then that she would never see him again and that her life, and the lives of her family, would be touched by something one family friend said was worse than a tragedy. Tragedies are painful but short-lived. Minnie Cox has lived without really knowing what happened to her son. There are those who would say Minnie Cox is the tragic figure.

Rosemarie Vogel Padgett, the mysterious German woman to whom Cox reached out before his disappearance, lives with painful memories of her native Germany under the iron fist of Hitler and untold cruelties of the postwar years. She remembers Richard Cox as a man who was kind to her and her. family. Joseph Groner, a close Army friend of Cox, now semi-retired and living in Florida, blushes noticeably when he recalls how he and Richard Cox sold black market cigarettes at a county fair. "Everybody did it," Groner recalls, and then he would laugh about another humorous exploit with his GI friend Cox.

He always believed that his friend Cox would call him or drop him a note if he was still alive. Joseph Urschel, Cox's roommate at West Point, now lives in a lashionable section of Toledo, having sold his lime company and currently contemplating an early retirement LO Pic Ottk 111 71 LOS cdy 0 61 .02 cir 93 73 clr St cdy 91 .35 rn 77 St .36 cif VP 77 .11 cdy 70 56 dr 76 52 edy 71 56 .36 rn 71 63 .06 cdy It 70 Mcdy SO 62 cdy 64 46 Cif 711 .25 dr 05 65 .06 IS cdy 46 cdy 65 54 cir 75 51 ra 1 ctr 76 51 COY 75 56 re Stip-Tampa 10 ra as 77 SS cdy 50 cdy 66 cdy 91 71 .411 cdy cif Washingto 03 63 cir Wichita 13 111 cdy 50 I 16 i 50 4 1 441P illallr IV. e.i 60 00 1 rillit Ng 47 itlimmniwil (ii(0' 01 A 'Nation's lows The As Wield Pre HI LO Pie On HI LO Prc Otik lbny 74 47 cdy Doshioines 74 51 cdy Nortol ibuque 02 61 cdy Detroit 72 41 cir No.Pla merino 01 610 cir Duluth 61 43 cdy nchoroge 60 45 .12 rn ElPase II cdy Ornalti thy'll 80 64 .59 dr Fairbanks 65 II cdy Orions Kanto Si IS cir Fargo 78 59 cdy Philad tlantcCty Si 51 CI1 Flagstaff II 54 in Pholin ustin 97 71 aly GroatFolis 111 52 .03 cir Pittsbi aitirnore SO 61 .24 cir Hartford 76 61 .01 cdy Ptiand Minos 95 63 dr Hollins 15 41 ,24 dr Ptland irminghm 4, 70 Honolulu 90 77 cir ProviS lsmarck 79 62 cdy Houston 90 SO CdY 01110 olio II 49 cdy indnoplis 71 52 cir oston 77 65 cdy JacksnMS 90 72 .05 re Nino rownsvile 10 71 cdy Jacksnvilo 92 73 cdy Itichm uffaie 70 49 cir Junisao 57 41 cdy SaitLa urlington 75 51 re KansCity 74 63 .01 to Sankn asp" 66 'dr Knoxville 12 71 .04 cir SonDli harlstnSC 91 78 cdy Leslitgas 103 10 cir lanFri haristnWV 70 57 .07 eir 1.ittleitock SO 65 anis harittoNC 13 69 .30 cir LosAngoles SO 66 cir Shrew heyenne Si 59 cdy Louisville MI 56 .36 cdy hicage 77 47 Or Lubbock 91 cr StLoul incinnati 71 54 .0 dr Momphil Si 71 i cdy StP-Ta levolond 72 41 cir Miami 87 in St5toN imblaSC Si 71 cdy Milwauksie 70 51 Cie Spoitel olumbul 15 49 cir Mg's-5CP 71 52 cdy Syract Dal-FtWth 94 75 cir Nashville 16 CdY Toisoki Dayton 72 51 clr NowOri1.n1 SI cdy TIJCSOI Drover 90 61 NowYork 44 .31 cW Tulsa Waskii Norfolk No.Plett OhleCity Omaha Orlando Philedohle Phoenix Pittsburgh Providence Raleigh PopidCity Reno Itichmend SeitLoke SonAntonle SnDleg lonFron 46 cdy Seattle cir Shreveport .36 cdy Siovosils dr Moots cdy ro StSteMerie dr Spokane cdy Syracuse cdy Topeka cdy Tucson .31 Cir Tulsa Nation Flash floods and high winds accompanied scattered thunderstorms from the Pacific Coast through the Rocky Mountains early today, and winds in Boise, Idaho, gusted over 60 miles an hour. Flash floods in California and Nevada caused few problems, but near Bonanza, Utah, two men were injured one of them swept over a 70- foot embankment during a desert storm late Wednesday. Winds as high as 68 mph tore through Boise, Idaho, uprooting trees and snapping power poles but causing no serious injuries.

Gusts measured at 60 mph hit Boise's airport. They were described by a National Weather Service spokesman as the second-worst on record there. Gusts up to 40 mph hit Salt Lake City, Utah. Showers and thunderstorms also hit a wide area from the Gulf Coast up the Atlantic seaboard states into southern New England, while fog settled over areas from Kansas to Tennessee and the upper Ohio Valley. Skies were mostly fair elsewhere in the nation.

The National Weather Service forecast showers and thunderstorms for the lower Mississippi Valley, from the southern Atlantic coast to southern New England, and from Arizona to the Dakotas. Temperatures before dawn ranged from 42 in Marquette, to 89 at Las Vegas, Nev. Ohio Record book Precipitation 24-hour period ending at 7 cm. today: none Yesterday's high: 71 Overnight low: 49 Record high today: 86 in 1975 Record low today: 46 in 1967 Normal high and low 83 and 62 Temperatures a year ago today: 78 and 57 Sunset today: 8:33 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow: 6:38 a.m.

Regional forecast Pleasant temperatures and clear skies remain the order of the day with the weatherman calling for clear and cool tonight and Friday. The low tonight Will be 48 to 50 and the high Friday will be near 76. The chance of precipitation is near zero percent tonight and Friday. In the extended outlook for Saturday through Monday, more fair weather is on tap for the weekend with highs reaching 80 to 85 and the lows in the 60 to 65 degree range. A broad area of high pressure building over the eastern United States is responsible for Ohio's spell of clear skies.

A northwesterly flow aloft is ushering cool, dry air into the state. Ohio skies will be sunny through the weekend. Tonight will be quite chilly and some records may be set in the northeastern parts by Saturday morning. Temperatures will gradually warm into the 80s during the weekend. I 471 40k.wOkamine Axxvi-ia tift t-.