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Your community Obituaries 5jdM 8 Region news Senator wants -level lawyer fees Public defenders paid less than other state-hired lawyers robbed his client of an effective defense. Welcome to chicken month. Gov. George Voinovich gave the poultry industry what it wanted when he crowed about its importance while designating September as "Ohio Chicken Month." The former Cleveland mayor has posed for pictures with cattle, pigs and horses in the past as he tries to develop a reputation as the agricultural governor. So far as is known, there was no photo op with a hen for the latest promotion.

But Voinovich and the Ohio COLUMBUS (AP) When the state hires lawyers to handle special cases, it often pays them $95 an hour, and sometimes more. When the state hires lawyers for indigent criminal defendants, the rate drops. A lot. Sen. Ben Espy, D-Columbus, is a member of the state Controlling Board, the agency that often is asked to waive competitive bidding rules to hire outside lawyers for certain work.

"It's kind of funny how we don't pay defense lawyers to represent these indigent people at the same rate we pay other attorneys," Espy said last week. What drew his attention was a Espy wants the state to consider a change. "I think to level the playing field we've got to do something to adjust these rates because you get sometimes what you pay for," he said. Last week, a court-appointed attorney resigned from representing an inmate accused of killing a guard during the uprising at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville. Charles Boss of Maumee said in Franklin County Common Pleas Court records that low pay had request to let the public defender's office hire a lawyer for $45 an hour.

"They're always paid at lower rates than people representing the prosecution," Espy said. The lawyer in question would represent one of seven death row inmates whose sentence was commuted to life in prison when former Gov. Richard Celeste was about to leave office in 1991. A challenge to Celeste's order is before the Ohio Supreme Court, which is to hear the case later this month. Vendor pops back to his youth By Gary Hunt News Journal 4 jJii'i 'v "it if OHIO in brief Rock tossers injure two RAVENNA, Ohio CAP) Two people were injured and at least seven cars were damaged by rocks thrown from overpasses in southeast Portage County over the weekend, authorities said.

William Daugherty, 27, of Canton, remained in satisfactory condition Monday at Robinson Memorial Hospital after he was hit in the face by a 32-pound cinder block Saturday night, the Ravenna post of the State Highway Patrol said. Nina Hauger, 42, of Boardman, was treated at the Ravenna hospital and released. A rock came through her windshield and struck her hand and shoulder as she drove east on Interstate 76, the patrol said. Dog burned by kerosene EASTLAKE, Ohio (AP) A dog was badly burned after someone poured kerosene on the dog and ignited it, police said. The dog survived but was later euthanized.

Police in this Lake County city about 20 miles east of Cleveland had made no arrests Monday. Sgt. Steve Kupstas said someone poured a gallon of kerosene on the dog in the backyard of its owner's home Saturday and then ignited it. The burning dog ran into a nearby woods, where a small fire started. Auto workers getting overtime DAYTON (AP) Some Dayton auto workers who have been working overtime to keep up with higher sales say they're running out of gas.

Thousands of workers in auto parts factories and assembly plants have been punching in 10 to 12 hour days on the time clock. More people are buying American-made cars and trucks, and sales are off to their best start since 1989. The industry has also trimmed its work force in recent years. For 17,000 workers in the Dayton area, overtime averaged 11.1 hours a week through the first six months of 1994. That was 12 percent more than the first half of last year.

Engine sparks burn Michael Fay DAYTON (AP) Michael Fay, the teen-ager caned in Singapore for vandalism, was burned and bruised while working on a car with some friends, his father said. Poultry Association offered some facts to demonstrate the industry's importance to the state: Ohio meat-chicken producers raise 28 million birds a year, making Ohio the 20th largest meat-chicken producing state in the nation. Ohio's meat-chicken industry uses over 5.2 million bushels of corn a year. The poultry industry uses over 10 percent of the corn and 33 percent of the soybeans. Ohio chicken producers generate 135 million pounds of chicken per year.

And as Col. Sanders might testify if he could, sale of that much chicken produces a lot of scratch. Mansfield native hit by flood Woman runs North Carolina clinic By Dan Kopp News Journal MANSFIELD Mansfield na-tive Judy Davis-Hallman has seen first-hand the devastation caused by flooding. Hallman is administrator at the Collettsville, N.C., Medical Center, which was filled with nine inches of mud and water in August when the Johns River behind it overflowed. It was closed for three and a half days.

Medical center workers were in the process of finishing some remodeling in the building with volunteer labor and salvaged material when the flood hit. They were converting one large room into smaller patient areas, and a new lab and offices, Hallman said. Now, newly installed paneling is warped, and the carpet is a mess. Although Hallman said it might be saved, it will have to be professionally cleaned. "Basically what we remodeled was lost," Hallman said.

She said the air conditioning is being kept at 55 degrees to help dry out the carpet. Patients are wrapped in blankets to stay warm. Paper medical gowns and other equipment were lost. Hallman is taking records home to dry in her clothes dryer. Hallman said the medical center serves an area within an hour and 15 minute radius and serves about 40 patients a day.

She said the center gets some assistance from the state; and while patients pay for services, many are charged only according to their ability to pay, and some patients are treated free. Brent Childres of the Lenoir News Topic, an area newspaper, said the entire town of Collettsville was flooded. It has about 300 people and 40 to 50 homes. Hallman said it will take from $6,000 to $7,000 to clean up the center. Hallman, a graduate of Mansfield Malabar High School, was visiting relatives and friends in Mansfield and Columbus when the flood hit.

MMmm mm YJ ft mill! iilii II 1 1 1 MANSFIELD One festival worker sees the Carrousel Arts Festival as a trip back in time. Rick Sayers spends much of his time working with numbers as an accountant at General Motors. But one day a week, and throughout the weekend festival, he sells popcorn at the carrousel. He takes his job as popcorn vendor seriously, wearing an old time costume and hat. "As a kid, I remember going to Chippewa Lake and Cedar Point," Sayers said Monday afternoon.

"There was a certain attraction to that period, and those people who worked there were kind of our first heroes. "I was determined to wear the costume. It gives some more spirit to the popcorn wagon." The fourth annual festival completed three days of festivities Monday in Mansfield's historic Carrousel District at Fourth and North Main streets. The annual Labor Day Parade started the festival off Monday, as it wound down North Main Street to end by the carrousel itself. Visitors came throughout the day to enjoy food, art exhibits and events like a karaoke contest and children's face-painting.

Sayers said he has been involved with the Richland Carrousel Park from the day before it opened. "I believe this thing is bringing back the spirit to this area," he said as he gestured toward the carrousel. He said the festival's success is impressive in light of the fact there were similar events in Fre-dericktown, Galion and Milan over the weekend, plus a barn-raising at Malabar Farm, which drew thousands Sunday. "People have been kind of torn between what they want to do and what they want to see," Sayers said. Though his legs were tired from three days of selling popcorn, and his throat was growing hoarse from talking to people, Sayers said he was still enjoying himself Monday afternoon.

He gave his age as "48 and young at heart." "How can you not be young at heart after a weekend like this?" he asked. ksft: i Volunteer Rick Sayers holds a puppet that children think is the real thing at the Carrousel Arts Festival in downtown Mansfield on Monday afternoon. Sayers, dressed in a costume to match his work, sells popcorn at the carrousel. (Photo by Annette M. Drowlette) Mansfield killer to appear on 'America's Most Wanted' By Jodi Andes News Journal Popular television series featured another Mansfield convict in 1991 I 1 I featured last year.

Spillman was out on parole from a 6- to 20-year prison sentence when a woman accused him of rape again. After the woman's allegation, Spillman fled Mansfield. He was captured in Texas in December 1991, four days after appearing on "America's Most Wanted." News Journal MANSFIELD Lester Eu-banks is not the first Mansfield convict to appear on "America's Most Wanted." In the show's six years on the air, Mansfield has had one other criminal highlighted in 1991. Eddie Spillman, a convicted rapist, jumped parole and was Court outlawed the death penalty and Eubanks' sentence was converted to life in prison. A year later, officials at the Department of Corrections allowed Eubanks and others to go shopping unescorted.

News reports at the time indicate that the policy of allowing inmates to go shopping unescorted changed after Eubanks's escape. A reporter at "America's Most Wanted" said the show became involved in the case after receiving an anonymous tip. Mansfield Police were called upon to supply details from the original arrest, but deputies from Franklin County will be in charge of arresting Eubanks on the 20-year-old escape warrant, Arcudi said. In a 10-minute segment, "America's Most Wanted" will feature the story of Eubanks' 1966 conviction for killing 14-year-old Mary Ellen Deener. In 1965, Mary Ellen went to a laundromat near her home with her sister.

Mary Ellen left the laundromat to get more change, but never came back. When police found her body more than an hour later, she had suffered two gunshot rounds and a blow to the head. Police discovered Eubanks had recently purchased a handgun and called him in for questioning. Eubanks willingly came in to the police station and confessed. MANSFIELD Twenty years ago, a convicted Mansfield killer was taken out of prison to go shopping for a day.

He never came back. The shopping trip was the Ohio Corrections Department's idea of rehabilitation for a man sentenced to life. Since his 1973 escape from a Columbus shopping mall, there has been no trace of Lester Eu-banks, Mansfield Capt John Ar-cudi said. Saturday, the Fox network's 9 p.m. television show "America's Most Wanted" will try to put the man, who would now be 50 years old, back behind bars.

23. For six years, Eubanks awaited execution while attorneys won delays for him. Then in 1972, the U.S. Supreme This is a age-enhanced photo of Mansfielder Lester Eubanks, who was convicted of murdering a 14-year-old. He is now 50 years old.

Eubanks, an honor inmate at the old Ohio Penitentiary, was originally sentenced to die in the electric chair in 1966 at the age of.