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The News-Messenger from Fremont, Ohio • 1

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Teri Hatcher Courthouse security ICayden leads SJCC is flying high becoming a reality to sectional crown jz. 'Superman' actress in new film Sandusky County prioritzing projects Junior hits two homers in 8-5 win I vy7 1-nl) Page A7 Page A3 Page Bl 1 JJtee Stag Fremont, Ohio Friday, May 10, 1996 35 Cents II bank as $242,07 do ID Tonight: Flash flood watch Low around 50. Saturday: Showers likely. Breezy with a Longtime U.S. House rep overpowers opponents when it comes to campaign funds high 50 to 55.

Complete weather: A8 Columbia Township, who was defeated by SannHoro in tho fldmn. 1 crat nrimarv. also did not have a report on file. Candidates are not required to file reports until they have By PAMELA BROGAN News-Messenger Washington Bureau WASHINGTON Republican Rep. Paul Gillmor has a campaign war chest of $242,070 compared to the underfinanced candidates seeking to challenge him in November Annie Saunders, a Democrat Norwalk City councilwoman, and David J.

Schaffer, Willard, who belongs to the Natural Law Party. Federal Election Commission reports show Saunders has a treasury of $1,086, and a campaign debt of $989. Schaffer has no campaign report on file at the FEC. Norbert Dennerill of More Inside List of contributors for Paul Gillmor and his opponents, A5. The campign reports of U.S.

Rep Marcy Kaptur, D-Toledo, and her opponents, A5. Coming Saturday A look at the campaign reports for area candidates for state representative and state senator. Some of Gillmor's biggest PAC donors were National Association of Life Underwriters and United Parcel Service, $4,000 each; Continental Cablevision, and Morgan Stanley Better Government Fund, American Medical Association, Securities Industries Association, American Sug-arbeet Growers, American Trial Lawyers Association and Owens-Corning Better Government Fund, $1,000 each. Gillmor made headlines earlier this week when the Associated Press See GILLMOR, A5 GILLMOR raised or spent $5,000. Gillmor raised $60,850 for the three-month period ending March 31.

He spent $18,535, and his campaign is debt-free. Gillmor raised $11,050 from individuals and $50,000 from special-interest political action committees. Don't ever forget Mom, especially this Sunday Area under Associated Press SHEHREVER MASTERS: "I am almost 100 percent certain they will 1 I 1 'f I fire me. Tough Toledo teacher expects to be fired Associated Press flood watch TOLEDO A tenured science teacher says he expects to be fired for being too tough. "I am almost 100 percent cer tain they will fire me," Shehrev- 1 er Masters said Thursday after the Toledo school district held a four-hour, closed-door hearing on whether to fire him.

-it During the meeting, district officials repeated concerns about the number of students who flunk his classes or drop the course, Masters said. Students also have complained that his News-MessengerAndrew Morrison MARC HARRIS takes a look at a Mother's Day card as Gift Horse employee Sandy Houghtaling straightens a row of cards. Harris, 1706 Mario Place, was looking for the perfect card during his lunch break Thursday afternoon. course is too demanding. Of the 125 students enrolled in his classes at the beginning of the school year, 44 remain, and nearly half of those are failing.

Only two of the 15 original stu Kids, stores ready for another Mother's Day News-Messenger reports The sun rose Thursday in dense fog and set amid ominous black clouds. And in between, the sun did peek through and temperatures at 82 degrees were finally springlike. But rain totaling a half inch and more in the forecast today has prompted a flash flood here for today and Saturday. Many area schools were delayed Thursday morning by fog which was literally washed away by a heavy downpour about 8 a.m. Severe thunderstorm warnings were issued at about 8:30 p.m.

and county weather spotters were deployed at that time. No funnel clouds were reported. Today's forecast calls for warm and breezy conditions, with showers and thunderstorms likely this afternoon. Some of the thunderstorms could be severe and include heavy rain. Temperatures should be reach the lower 80s.

Tonight there is a nearly 100 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Some of the thunderstorms could be severe and have heavy rain early. Saturday doesn't look much better. There is a chance of more showers and much cooler temperatures, with a high of 50 to 55. Guest column, A4 $53 should please her The cost of Mother's Day gifts average about $53, according to the USA Today library and other national statistical sources.

This includes 155 million cards, more than 122 million phone calls, more than 100 million roses, more than $330 million in candy and untold amounts of jewelry, fragrances, restaurant dinners and children's art But a Gallup survey in April 1995 showed mothers don't always get what they'd really like for holiday gifts. The survey reports: 14 percent of women expecting gifts on Mother's Day would like jewelry. But only 8 percent of purchasers had jewelry in mind. flight percent of moms wanted perfume or other scented products. But four percent of purchasers were planning to get something scented.

36 percent of moms wanted flowers. About 31 percent of purchasers were likely to get flowers. dents remain in the honors class. Masters expected a decision in about two weeks. He gives his ninth-grade students a five-minute quiz at the start of every class and a test every week.

He also gives some D'sandF's. He requires students to spend at least 15 minutes a night doing homework. But the Toledo school district has said what makes Masters tough makes him ineffective, and his job is on the line. "My guilt is that I have been teaching. They want some sort of day care," Masters said.

He will fight the district in court if he is fired, he said. By PAULA WETHINGTON Staff writer If you've forgotten that Mother's Day is Sunday, you probably haven't been in a classroom or gift store this week. From children's art projects to greeting card sales, preparations for the holiday are in full swing. "Everybody thinks of Mother," said John Schwartz, owner of The Gift Horse Hallmark shop at Potter Village Shopping Center. Young children especially enjoy this holiday.

Sharon Radsick, kindergarten teacher at Vine Street Elementary in Clyde, has done holiday projects all week. "I do kind of make it a big thing," she said. Wednesday, her kindergarten students designed greeting cards that include their photographs. Thurs- See DON'T, A8 Gas prices are cheap in U.S. compared to other countries Deaths Mary Henning, Bowling Green Obituary, A2 Ohio Lottery Thursday's winners: Pick 3: 957 Pick 4: 6283 Buckeye 5: 7-10-13-32-33 Super Lotto Jackpot: $12 million Inside By EVELYN TAN POWERS Gannett News Service Here's a reality.check for all the U.S.

drivers who are getting bent out of shape because of rising gasoline prices: mm 1 Virtually everyone else on the 'Mantis' debuts at Cedar Point Riders on Cedar Point's newest stand-up rollercoaster, "Mantis," plunge down the ride's 137-foot first hill while experiencing the $12 million record-breaking coaster during Media Day Thursday at the Sandusky amusement park. "Mantis" is Cedar Point's 12th roller-coaster. The park opens Saturday. B8 Local Advice planet pays more to fill up their tanks. Back Page B8 Nat.World B4 Take Sally McNulty, a 50-some- A2 Classified B4-6 Records thing public relations executive in leeway to tax gasoline.

Department of Energy spokesman Thomas Welch says that if gas taxes were removed, the average price in Europe would be $1.06 a gallon, compared with 87 cents a gallon in the USA. But the taxes are there, so most drivers overseas consider $1.29, or even $2, for a gallon of gasoline a steal: "Lucky Americans," French researcher Gerard Francillon says glumly when told of the U.S. prices. Francillon, 64, pays $4.54 for a gallon of unleaded in Grenoble. Dutch application support engineer Wilco Ridderikhoff, 27, pays $4.50 for a gallon of regular unleaded in Woerden, the Comics B7 Sports B1-3 London.

House panel OKs gas tax suspension Gasoline tax relief is a step closer to passage in the House. The House Ways and Means Committee on Thursday by a 23-13 vote approved legislation that would suspend the three-year-old 4.3 cent-a-gallon surcharge for the rest of the year in hopes of providing relief to motorists from soaring prices at the pump. House GOP leaders predicted a vote to approve the bill before Memorial Day. exchange rate. The cost of fuel is higher outside the USA because people depend more on public transportation, which gives governments more A6 A2 State Deaths McNulty, a San Francisco B7 Editorials A4 TV A8 Entertain A7 Weather native, said that when she read about the uproar over prices ranging from $1.29 a gallon in the eastern USA to about $2 in California, she fell over laughing.

"What are they gome on The News-Messenger is printed on recycled paper. A Gannett Newspaper Copyright 1996 about?" she wondered. McNulty pays the equivalent of Associated Press $3.33 a gallon, at this week's.

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