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Ofl Showers Possible Variable cloudiness today and tonight, with a chance of showers or thunderstorms. For complete details, see Page 2. one VOL.70 NO. 333 COSHOCTON, OHI043812 THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 19. 1980 TWENTY CENTS rmfl ti a nn i lie uHociQE in ODOT Involved Ohio Lawmakers Seek Primary System Changes Milleson Wants Action At Local Intersection 4 i 1 A I waiting for the results of the study also.

The sheriff noted his department can only recommend. Any action, he said, must be taken by the highway department. Meanwhile, Milleson noted he will push for measures to correct the situation. "A total of eight accidents in the last two years, not including I960, show that something needs to be done and should be done quickly," Milleson said. "Hopefully it will only be a matter of weeks before the signs are put in place." City's Police Fighting Rise In Crime Rate tersection.

No injuries were reported in the Friday mishap but an ambulance, transporting patient to Columbus from New Philadelphia, was involved. The patient was transferred to the West Lafayette Emergency Squad for transportation to Columbus. Two of the five accidents at the intersection since April 14 have resulted in fatalities. A county deputy noted following the accident it is really hard to say if the figure is high for one intersection because it is such a highly traveled area. "We need to get something done there," Milleson stressed.

A spokesman for District in Newark said Wednesday no action can be taken until the results of a recent traffic study come back from Columbus. The spokesman was opposed to the idea of installing a traffic light at the intersection. "There are no federal funds available to put in such a light," he said. "Also, stop lights often cause more accidents. The intersection is well-signed according to federal regulations and Ohio law." Alternatives to installing a traffic light, as reviewed by the spokesman, include concentrated fining of speeders, advance warnings and stop signs.

It was noted earlier this week that area residents could contact the sheriff's department requesting a report be sent to ODOT. Sheriff David Corbett said Tuesday his department will recommend and request whatever action should be taken to remedy the situation. He is By DICK BROWN Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON Two Ohio congressmen hope a look back at the long and painful 1980 primary season will convince other legislators that there's a better way to select presidential candidates. Rep. Douglas Applegate D-Steubenville, wants to hold all the state primaries on the same day the first Tuesday after the first Monday in May.

Rep. John Ashbrook R-Johnstown, has proposed allowing states to hold primaries on any of four dates the first Tuesday in March, April, May or June. Both men say their proposals would save time, money and wear and tear on candidates and would be a better system of determining the national favorite. The primary bills submitted by the Ohio congressmen are just two of at least eight proposed in Congress this session, and more are likely before the year is over. If Congress remains as reluctant as it has been to change the priamry system, those bills will do nothing but take up space in filing cabinets.

But it's also possible that voter dissatisfaction will come to a head this year and force Congress to make some changes. Many voters dislike both President Carter and Ronald Reagan and say a different nominating system would produce better candidates. "The current system. become too complex, too expensive and too drawn out to serve its intended purpose," Applegate said. "With the conclusion of (the) primaries.

have accomplished no more than we could have in a direct single-day nation-wide primary." would give states only six weeks notice of their primary dales, the object being to reduce campaign time. Sen. Howard Baker of Tennessee, himself a former presidential candidate, has proposed clustering primiaries according to the four time tones. Naturally, each primary proposal has its critics. Some people say a national primary such as that proposed by Applegate would force emphasis on national issues to the detriment of state, local and regional concerns.

They also say small states would be ignored and little-known candidates without big media budgets would have little chance of being nominated. None of the primary proposals are unique to this session of Congress. Similar proposals are unique to this session of Congress. Similar proposals in the past have died in committee. That may happeli again this time, but some of the proposals may get a longer look on the Senate side.

Sen. Claiborne Pell chairman of the Senate Rules and Administration Committee, has tenatively agreed to hold hearings on the primary bills before the November elections. Carter Off To Summit WASHINGTON (AP) Pres ident Carter, leaving on an eight-day European trip aimed at restoring unity to the Western alliance, called today for the allies to present a unified front against Soviet aggression. "I will be totally frank with you, as I will be" with leaders of the alliance, the president said REP JOHN ASHBROOK voting age population in each state in that region or five percent in any one state. The primary system proposed by Ashbrook would set things up differently.

A political party could place its candidate's name on the ballot only if that party had gotten at least 10 percent of the national vote in the previous presidential election. Ashbrook's bill does not forsee elimination of party conventions but does propose that anyone getting 10 percent of the vote in a state be awarded elegates. In states such as Ohio, current party rules give delegates to winning candidates on a district basis. A candidate can get 10 percent or more of the total state vote and not get a single delegate because he or she didn't win any districts. Other legislators also have proposed clustering primaries by regions.

One Senate bill would establish a lottery that IN? 1 or By BETH GRACE Tribune Staff Writer Speaking in Columbus earlier this week, Robert Diegelman, director of the Law Enforcement Assistance Association's office of planning and management, said people who think crime is running rampant through American society are County Approves Program The Coshocton County commissioners approved Section 18' of the Capital Assistance Program (non-discrimination on the basis of handicap) at their Wednesday meeting. The approved section reads, "No handicapped person shall, solely by reason of his handicap be excluded from participation in, denied the benefit of or otherwise be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity that receives or benefits from federal financial assistance administered by the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration." Phillip Brown, executive director of the Kno-Ho-Co Community Action Commission said the program was for handicapped applicants receiving funds from the U.S. Department of Transportation. The Sarah Hay Wilson Seniors appeared before the board to ask about arrangements being made regarding the Sycamore School, 338 Sycamore St.

The commissioners, along with the Coshocton City Board of Education and Kno-Ho-Co Community Action Agency, signed an agreement to allow the Kno-Ho-Co group to use the school for a housing center for senior citizens and other community centered activities. Brown said he has not seen the building yet, but it will be made available to all interested senior citizens and community groups as soon as the building is ready. There was discussion between the commissioners and Brown about the possibility of moving the Comprehensive Training Act office into the Sycamore building. No definite decision has been made. State Sen.

R. Kinsey Milleson, D-Freeport, has joined the drive, to correct the dangerous situation at the intersection of U.S. 36 and Ohio 93. In a phone conversation with The Tribune Wednesday, Milleson, in response to the urgency of sufficient warning lights at the intersection, said he has begun work with Division of the Ohio Department of Transportation in Newark and the Ohio Highway Patrol to install hazardous warning signals for better motor safety. Milleson said he and Coshocton County Commissioner Alan Dusenberry began work immediately after reading an editorial in Tuesday's Tribune which pointed out the immediate need for further safety precautions.

The senator also noted he received several calls from concerned area residents. "I was told that there have been two fatalities within the last six weeks in relation to this intersection," Milleson said. "Even one fatality is reason enough for better warning signals at this After Dusenberry telephoned Milleson, various calls led to the Division position that 500 feet prior to the intersection on Route 36 hazardous warning signs with blinking lights would be placed. "We definitely had to respond because of the fatalities that have occurred there," he said. "Something needs to be done." The need to correct the dangerous situation surfaced again over the weekend after the fifth accident in a period of two months took place at the in NEWS IN BRIEF A SENATE committee has recommended passage of a major bill designed to enhance the marketability and use of Ohio's high sulfur coal.

Story on Page 3. THERE HAVE been some changes made in Iran's top military command. Story on Page 16. RONALD REAGAN'S eight-year statehouse tenure in California may provide the best indication of what voters can expect if the Republican candidate is elected to the presidency. Story on Page 6.

AFTER zo years in Congress, independent presidential candidate John B. Anderson is looking forward to returning to the courtroom as a lawyer again. This time, he will argue on his own behalf in federal court in Columbus. Story on Page 3. THE INDIANS and the Reds were both losers Wednesday night.

See stories in today's sports section. STLNNED BY the rejection of the Equal Rights Amendment in the Illinois House, disappointed supporters solemnly vow to push on for ratification. Story on Page 16. TWO OHIO power plants still may be the basis of a lawsuit by the state of Pennsylvania against the federal Environmental Protection Agency despite new EPA emission standards. Story on Page 3.

No Left m3 a kizJA fs-' i.rL. 7h ru -r i h- vv fi SEN. MILLESON Wants Action wrong. He noted the perception that cities are not safe, that the elderly are most victimized and that juvenile offenders are hardcore criminals is not backed by facts. Lt.

Earl Summers of the Coshocton Police Department would tend to disagree with those statements. Summers noted Wednesday the crime rate is going up in Coshocton. He said the rate is higher especially in areas of vandalism, juvenile crime, drug abuse and theft. Summers says that the Coshocton police force can handle it, but if the rate keeps rising, it will need more men to handle the overflow crime. "It's not out of hand," he said.

"It's just a handful." Summers attributes the higher rate to the current economic situation. "The hard times are making it go up," Summers said. "It's easier to make money selling drugs than it is to work for it." He added the local force has created some programs to help reduce the crime rate. It has sponsored neighborhood talks on crime reporting and organized neighborhood crime watches. In this program, private citizens who have witnessed a crime are urged to call the report in to the police dispatcher.

The report may be made anonymously so the caller does not have to become involved. This is both a public service on the part of the citizen and also helps the police find the guilty party. "If more people did this," Summers said, "it would cut down on crime all around." Coshocton County Sheriff David Corbett said that on the county level, the juvenile crime rate is rising. He felt the cause was the changing nature of society. To combat crime, Corbett said, the sheriff's department has instituted a program similar to that of the police department.

Officers have given talks through the Neighborhood Watch Program sponsored by the National Sheriff's Association. The topics of these meetings range from how to combat crime to self-protection for women. Corbett said the crime rate for Coshocton is below the national average. Death Penalty Action Set WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate, rebuffing the Democratic leadership in eagerness to take an election-year stand on capital punishment, is poised to vote on restoring the death penalty for some federal crimes. By a startling 50-36 vote, the Senate rejected a plea Wednesday from Majority Leader Robert Byrd, to postpone action on the issue until there can be a more thorough debate later in the summer.

Byrd succeeded in delaying the vote until today, giving him only overnight to convince some of his colleagues to change their minds. He argued that the Senate was being intemperate by rushing to judgment. Sen. Jesse Helms, a strong supporter of capital punishment who engineered the move to force a vote, said that if the Senate doesn't vote now, it probably won't have the chance anytime this year. The bill would restore the death penalty for treason, espionage-and some other federal crimes, including the murder of the president and other high-ranking federal officials.

There has been no federal capital punishment law since 1972, when the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional INDICTED A federal grand jury indicted Rep. Frank Thompson, of New Jersey and Rep. Frank John Murphy of New Jersey in Washington Wednesday. They are the fourth and fifth congressmen charged in the FBI's undercover Abscam investigation. (AP) Index Area Briefs 2 Bridge 3 Business 18 Classified 15, 16 Comics 14 Deaths 2 Editorials 4 Markets IS Modern Living 8 Ohio News 3 People 17 Public Notice Legals 16 Sports 10-12 Television 14 Today's Reports 2 Weather 2 REP.

APPLEGATE The 1980 primary season was the longest ever. From the time Philip Crane began running on Aug. 2, 1978, more than a dozen candidates spent over $100 million in 37 state primaries that stretched from February to June. Under Applegate's bill, that primary season would be compressed into one day, although campaigning probably would still begin well in advance of the election. The congressman said his bill also would eliminate the need for party conventions, which cost several million dollars and are partly financed with federal funds.

Applegate's bill would divide the country into five regions, and a potential candidate would have two ways to qualify for inclusion on every state's ballot within each region. He or she would have to obtain the signatures of 1 percent of the effect, killing, in the Legislature a citizen-initiated bill that would make more sweeping changes in the state's tax structure. That gives the Ohio Public Interest Campaign, which circulated petitions for the proposal, extra time to obtain 85,301 signatures more to qualify for the fall ballot. Had the ways and means panel, headed by Sen. Neal F.

Zimmers D-Dayton. not acted, the group would have had less time to circulate petitions in advance of the Aug. 6 fall election filing. break for some are Tyrone Tracey Heard, Butch Ford. tn his statement tor a wnue House departure ceremony.

"The industrial democracies are being tested. We, must sustain world opposition to Soviet agression and not allow the Soviets to derive any permanent benefits from their invasions of a neutral nation." The Western alliance has been shaken by serious disagreement over how to deal with turmoil in Afghanistan and Iran and the stalled Middle East peace negotiations. Carter will meet with the leaders of France, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, Canada and Italy in Venice on Sunday and Monday in an economic summit conference that has been expanded to include a broad discussion of major international political issues. "It will be an opportunity for Western leaders to consult on broad political and strategic issues at the outset of the decade of the 1980s," said a senior White House official who asked not to be identified. He said the summit nations face some of the most "profoundly complex strategic and political issues" of the post-war period.

It will be Carter's first trip abroad since the last economic summit in Tokyo a year ago. He will go first to Rome, for meetings Friday with Italian Prime Minister Franceso Cos-siga and other officials and for an audience with Pope John Paul II at the Vatican on Saturday. High Court Throws Out Crime Rule CLEVELAND (AP) The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that the state's organized crime law is unconstitutional, thereby upholding the dismissal of organized crime charges against Cleveland City Council President George Forbes and 11 others in connection with carnival kickback cases. The law governed cases in which five or more persons collaborated on a continuing basis in a crime for profit. The Cleveland officials and a carnival operator had been charged with working together to promote gambling at carnivals.

"That's wonderful," said Councilman Ceasar Moss, one of those who had been charged in the cases. "Certainly I'm pleased We've always felt that it was unconstitutional." Cuyahoga County Prosecutor John T. Corrigan said he probably would not appeal Wednesday's 4-3 ruling. In the majority opinion. Justice Paul W.

Brown wrote that the law was too vague to ensure due process as guaranteed by the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. Raiding The Cherry Tree -flr III. In JT --'i "'T sb it The cherry tree, located on Chestnut Street near the Chatham Apartments, had some hungry visitors Wednesday, The children pictured were playing in the area when they decided to take a sweet treats. The pickers shown Anderson, standing on the branch, Erica Heard, Dennis Hosfelt and (Tribune Photo by Gary Anderson) Ohio Voters Could ace Two Tax Plans He said the vote to postpone consideration of the measure was "an effort to be fair and remove the bill from this particular arena." Supporters gathered the names of more than 97,000 voters on petitions to enable the bill to be introduced in the Senate last March. Under state law, legislators had up to 120 days to act on the bill before attempts could be launched to place it on the ballot.

That time period expires June 27, a week from Friday. COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) A Senate committee has set the stage for a November election in which Ohio voters could be confronted with two tax-relief plans. The Senate Ways and Means Committee recommended for passage Wednesday a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow the Legislature to tax residential and agricultural property differently than other real estate. All classes of property now must be taxed at uniform rates. The committee voted to indefinitely postpone action in Turn Sign Posted was erected Wednesday by city crews.

City officials hope the sign will help curb congestion coming off the bridge. (Tribune Staff Photo Coshocton area motorists are reminded that a aew no left turn sign has been posted in the city. The sign is located at the Second Street intersection coming off the Three River Bridge. It.