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What's in store for area students this E-GAZETTE KY Camping fun Search to ffllpot cntfiiM No 'butts' about it here Check finds few cigarette vendors selling to area kids if "We don't have access to the people that the OSBA has," Gier-hart said. The OSBA met with the board Thursday and picked its top five applicants. The board then picked two other applicants and plans to interview all seven next week. "We're hoping in September to have interviews for the final two or three candidates," Gierhart said. Gierhart stressed that the best person will get the job, even if the process has to start all over.

"We are always looking for the right person," Gierhart said. "We are not settling with anybody." Former superintendent Hoy Seckinger is in the position on an interim basis until a successor is found. Dr. Daniel Ross left Pickerington Aug. 1 to be superintendent at Avon Lake near Cleveland and applica- (See SEARCH2A.) By ED MILLER The Eagle-Gazette Staff Superintendent searches at two area school districts have both school boards hoping to locate new administrators by October.

Berne Union and Pickerington have to start the school year this month without permanent replacements at the head spot. Donna Boylan left Berne Union this summer to lead East Knox schools, and the school board asked the Ohio School Boards Association for help in searching for her replacement. "I have been really happy with the OSBA," Berne Union Board of Education President Sharon Gier-hart said. "If we had tried to do it ourselves, it would have been difficult." The OSBA garnered 24 applications for the position, with some coming from as far as Arizona. Bloom-Carroll may seek levy By CARL BURNETT JR.

The Eagle-Gazette Staff Kids in Fairfield County may be smoking cigarettes, but chances are they are not purchasing the tobacco products themselves. The Fairfield County Health Department last week conducted its tobacco vendor compliance checks at area businesses, and the results are in. Out of 45 businesses checked last week only at two busi-. nesses were kids able to purchase a pack of cigarettes. "This is really a great result," Fairfield County Health Educator Teresa Cramer said.

"It is not illegal for minors under the age of 18 to purchase or possess tobacco products, but it is illegal for vendors to sell them under federal law. The survey shows that most vendors are obeying the law." The compliance inspection was part of Ohio's effort to meet federal requirements for reducing youth access to tobacco products. If the state does not meet federal standards, Ohio could lose up to 40 percent of anticipated federal dollars for substance abuse programs over the next four years. In Fairfield County there are 130 licensed vendors selling tobacco products, and the Health Department randomly selected 45 vendors to approach. Tobacco buys were then attempted in the cities of Lan (See VEND0RS2A.) INSIDE In weather It will be warm today, cloudy with a chance of showers.

See page 2A In sports Stebleton wins Bill Stebleton of Lithopolis won the Ohio Public Links Golf Championship Friday by seven strokes. See page IB. In other news UPS strike Pressure being applied to end UPS strike See page 3A. By ED MILLER The Eagle-Gazette Staff The Bloom-Carroll Board of Education will discuss putting a permanent improvement levy on the November ballot at Monday's board meeting. The board meets at 7 p.m.

in the junior high building. The proposed 1 mill, five-year levy would fund building improvements and maintenance only. District voters passed a .75 percent income tax increase for school funding last November. The board will also vote on the Keeping rhythm Jury convicts Carroll man shot by state trooper Camps are in full gear In Fairfield County this month as the school year approaches. In the photo above, canoe instructor Dave Goslin teaches campers the finer points of canoeing at Lake Lo-retta at Alley Park during the Kids Nature Camp on Friday.

At left, 7-year-old camper Sara Hergett takes part in a knot tying contest with help from program director Kathy Williams on Friday during the Girl Scout Camp at Camp Wyandot. (E-G photos by Dick Prochaska) Wharf's attorney, Thomas Eagle of Franklin, said Wharf had a death wish, based on the conspiracy and biological warfare propaganda that was swirling in his head. "He accomplished his goal when he got shot and he thought he would die and he gave up," Eagle said. Eagle, contending that Wharf was insane, said his exposure to people such as white supremacist Larry Wayne Harris of Lancaster and his message of doom helped put his client over the edge. Harris was convicted of wire fraud in federal court in Columbus earlier this year and placed on probation for 18 months for illegally obtaining three vials of the bacteria that causes bubonic plague.

Called as a defense witness Tuesday, Harris, 46, talked about how Iranian terrorists are poised to start biological warfare in the United States. price tag jilted, queen of the First Wives Club. But the soft-spoken 40-year-old mother of three maintains she didn't do it for vengeance. "I'm not looking at this as getting back at anyone. I'm standing up for my family," she said.

"I could either accept and say it was OK to do what they did, or stop it "The only way I could do that was to file a suit against her, which I did." i I did not pay for gas. When Evans approached the vehicle after finally pulling it over, Wharf allegedly pointed a loaded rifle at him. Evans, 27, fired several Wharf shots at Wharf, one of which grazed the top of his head. In addition to the rifle, Wharfs car had a weapon and about 400 rounds of ammunition from a vehicle that was stolen from a Louisville, car dealer, the patrol said. "This was a continuous course of criminal conduct," Warren County Assistant Prosecutor James Beaton said in his closing argument Thursday.

"I'm hoping that America's speaking out and saying that family is important, that we agree that marriage is a gift from God," said Mrs. Hutelmyer. "It's not right for someone to come in and destroy that gift" Since Tuesday's state civil verdict on the rarely used grounds of alienation of affection, Mrs. Hutelmyer has been hailed by women from around the nation as the hero of the resignation of Greg Dosch as social studies instructor, golf coach, faculty manager and senior class adviser. At other area board meetings Monday: LAND AND COMPUTER LEASING AT LU-T Liberty Union-Thurston Superintendent John Schiller will update the school board Monday about purchasing land around the elementary school.

The district has been looking at the land north and east of the building for the last two months. (See SCH00LS2A.) kZ7 1 7 LEBANON (AP) A jury has convicted a Carroll man shot by a state trooper after he pointed a rifle at the trooper during a traffic stop last November near this southwestern Ohio town. After 6'A hours of deliberation Thursday, a Warren County Common Pleas Court convicted Stephen Wharf, 23, of aggravated robbery, failure to comply with an order of a police officer, having illegal possession of a weapon and receiving stolen property. The jury acquitted Wharf of felonious assault on a police officer. Judge Neal Branson will sentence Wharf Wednesday.

Three years will be added to his sentence because he was found guilty of using a gun to commit the crimes. Trooper Matthew Evans chased Wharfs car at high speeds through Clermont and Warren counties early on the morning of Nov. 12 while responding to a report of a motorist who Stolen love has big Also Inside today Classified 5B-9B Comics 11B Lottery. 2A Moyjes 10B Obituaries. 5A Opinion 4A GREENSBORO, N.C.

(AP) When Dorothy Hutelmyer's husband ran off with his secretary, she didn't just get mad. She took the little home-wrecker to court. In one of the biggest get-evens in the history of matrimony, a jury sided with Mrs. Hutelmyer and ordered the secretary to pay $1 million for breaking up what once was a "storybook marriage." Percussionist Debbie Schoffner performs as part of the Lancaster Community Band, which held a concert Friday night as part of the Friday Night Bandstand series. (E-G photo by Rose Shriver).