The Journal News from Hamilton, Ohio • Page 9

Leads prove scarce in teenager's death No new leads have developed in seeking the killer of Cynthia Beuerlein, 15, 726. Smiley Springdale, whose beaten body was found last Thursday in a ditch along Beckett Road in Union Township. Dr. Garret J. Boone, Butler County coroner, said the Princeton High School student had been criminally assaulted.

The body was fully clothed when discovered about 6:30 p.m. by a youth on his bicycle. The spot is about a quarter mile south of Lakota High School. Dr. Boone said the girl had been brutally beaten on her head and face.

He said she suffered severe blows to the right side of her skull. Butler County Sheriff Harold J. Carpenter and Union Township police believe the girl had been hitchhiking late Wednesday for her home. She regularly hitchhiked along Rte. 4 from Springdale to visit friends in a i authorities learned.

Funeral services for the victim were scheduled at 11 a.m. today at St. Mathias Church, 1044 W. Kemper Road, Parkdale. fFairfield Off the Beat by Diane Triangi FIREMEN help clear scene of accident on State was killed llen Rte.

27 south of Oxford Sunday night where woman photo Dick Burns. at left. Journal-News Monday, June 17,1974 Lost license plate leads to county's 21st auto death By JOE CELLA Journal-News Writer A 59-year-old Oxford woman who attempted to retrieve a license plate which had fallen from her automobile was killed about 11:30 p.m. Sunday when struck by a passing vehicle on U. S.

Rte. 27 in front of the College View Motel, south of Oxford. The victim was Mrs. Aileen Teegarden, 218 W. Withrow an employee of Miami University.

Butler County Coroner Dr. Garret J. Boone said the victim suffered chest and head injuries and was dead at the scene. Driver of the car was Glen R. Gammell, 17, 6439 Canastqta Drive, Hamilton, according to the Butler County sheriff's office.

Patrolman Larry Huffman reported Mrs. Teegarden apparently had lost a license tag to her car and pulled into the motel where she was staying. She reportedly walked into, the roadway to locate the plate. The officer said Gammell, northbound, apparently did not see the woman standing near the centerline in the northbound lane. The impact knocked the victim into the southbound lane, the officer said.

Patrolman Huffman said a license tag and a broken flashlight were found near the body. Mrs. Teegarden was a domestic worker in residence halls at the since 1965. The traffic fatality is the 21st in Butler County this year as compared with 36 at this time last year. The body was taken to the Moore and Parker Funeral Home, Augusta, where services are being arranged.

Behind-the-wheel daydreaming becomes nightmare in reality By SAM PENDERGRAST Weekend Editor OXFORD It was almost prophetic. Two hours earlier, as I had driven from my apartment in Oxford down the hill to Hamilton to do some late-night ca'tch-up work on Tuesday's leisure page, I was thinking what a dangerous stretch of pavement twists and rolls between Oxford and Hamilton -particularly at night. Besides being narrow and tortuous, it is one of the more heavily traveled lesser thoroughfares in this area, and it is complicated by heavy student travel afoot or on bicycles. (I don't know what the law is in Ohio, frankly, but it seems monumentally foolhardy to ride a bicycle with your back to the vehicular traffic -yet I can't recall seeing a cyclist pedaling in such a way as to face oncoming traffic.) At night, as you meet othen cars, there is simply a blind spot I was literally thinking as I drove toward Hamilton last night and you just pray there isn't somebody on a bicycle or afoot where you can't see. At about 11:30 Sunday there was apparently somebody in one of those blind spots.

She was Eileen Teegarden, 59, a long-time employee at Miami University and intermittent resident at the College View Motel about half a mile south of the campus. Police theorized one of the license plates had fallen off her car as she turned into the motel parking lot earlier, and she had crossed the road afoot to look for the plate. She may have forgotten to look both ways on the busy highway before starting back across the pavement. If so, it was her last mistake. As I started back up the hill toward Oxford shortly before midnight, I was passed by a Sheriff's Department squad car with blinking lights and keening siren, and as I crested the last hill south of the College View Motel, I came upon the always terrifying scene: at least a dozen emergency vehicles with flickering lights and that ominous hush that falls upon crowds in the presence of death.

I parked at the motel and.walked to the scene of the "incident," but I had forgotten there were only three or four exposures left on the film in the camera. By the time I found another roll of film back at the car and returned to the site of the accident, they had removed the sheet-covered heap that had been a woman. Oxford Fire Chief Kent Shoemaker was supervising grimly as his men hosed down the flesh-and-blood- spattered death car and the highway. Less than an hour after I heard the siren, the last of the backed-up traffic was departing, the coroner was rounding up his grisly work, and the highway was open with only a slick wet stretch as testimony to the passing of a human being. It is a damnably dangerous stretch of highway, I reminded myself as I drove slowly home.

Mrs. Teagarden had been wearing dark clothes Sunday night rather than the white uniform in which she customarily came home to the motel. That may have been a contributing factor. But no matter how you're dressed or how you're moving afoot, by bicycle, motorcycle or automobile it's worth remembering: it is a damnably dangerous stretch of highway. 1,100 voters could decide for 20,000 in police question By CHUCK ELLIOTT Journal-News Writer America's system of the 'majority rule' will be outdated Tuesday when less than 1,100 voters may decide the police protection question for Union Township's 20,000 residents.

Union Township's Police Levy is a 1.5 mill tax on assessed property The township's estimated population is the eligible voters number and the Butler County Board of Election estimates only one-third to one-half of the eligible voters will case ballots. One-third of the voters is 2,027 and 1,014 votes can either pass or defeat the police levy in the special election. Six polling places will be open Tuesday in Union Township. The hours are 6:30 a. m.

to 6:30 p. m. The paper ballots will be counted at the precincts and then transferred to the Board of Elections office in Hamilton for final tabulation. Polling places include Union Elementary School, Crestview Presbyterian Church, Hopewell School, Lakota High School, Pisgah Community Church of the Nazarene, and- the Pisgah Fire House. I am a murderer.

I didn't know when I accepted a cupful of foaming evil-smelling sour-dough starter that I would become so attached to i or did it become attached to me? Whichever, it became a part of my life. It grew and grew and grew. Every week I fed and nurtured it. Eventually it outgrew my largest container one which fills the bottom shelf of my refrigerator I decided that I had, in self-defense, to make bread with it. When one makes sour-dough bread, one has to have an entire free day to devote to it.

Finally I mixed the foaming brew up with the other ingredients and let it rise, as the directions said, Until double in bulk. Then came the kneading process. I'd made bread before, but never had I seen such a sticky mixture to be kneaded. Called a friend. "Is it supposed to look like thick soup?" I inquired.

"Well, it's not very thick," she saia. "Just knead some flour into it." Not too much help there, but I kneaded and kneaded and kneaded and KNEADED. The sticky mass was beginning to look better, but I was exhausted. Middle daughter took over. "Just slap it down any old way," I informed her in a weak voice.

The growing mass was too much for her to handle. Back I went to the exhausting procedure. Finally it was put into the pans to rise again. After several hours it had risen enough to bake. Oh, the heavenly perfume of baking bread so aromatic that all the work was worth it not to mention the feeling of housewifely satisfaction at the results of what I had produced with my own two hands.

The taste of that bread was beyond description. Suffice it to say that it was hoarded for special occasions like for me and Darling Dad when the kids weren't around. But finally it was gone. Made more bread and biscuits. A friend gave me a recipe for sour-dough coffee cake.

Assembled all the ingredients. Picked up the recipe to begin the long process, but suddenly it flew from my hands and down BEHIND my BUILT-IN kitchen counter. End of recipe for coffee cake. End of my career as baker. Beginning of a career as murderer.

Because of the loss of the recipe, which was too long to take down by phone, I put the sour-dough starter back into my refrigerator. Then I committed the ultimate sin for a sour-dough baker. I FORGOT TO FEED IT. It died. I know logically that it wasn't human it couldn't feel, or talk.

But it BREATHED. Anything which foamed and bubbled and grew the way it did has to breath--therefore it had to be alive. I threw the remains down the toilet. Goodbye, sour-dough bread, coffee cake, biscuits, and FRIEND. Goodbye.

Western Alumnae honor 1874 grad in 1 st gift Begins Thursday at Hamilton Campus School justice theme of lecture series By PETE CHAPPARS Oxford Editor OXFORD--Pocahontas McCoy Carr, Class of 1874, Western Female Seminary, is memorialized in the first gift to the new-born in- a Alumnae Association. The Western College for Women Class of 1930 gave the second gift. Both gifts were accepted Sunday morning at the first meeting of the board of trustees of non-profit corporation. All legal acts will be ef- 'ective July 1, date of turnover of the campus jroperty, across the street 'rom Miami University, which is assuming the $3.3 million debt and making the 121-year-old neighboring college a unit of its university. The gift in the name of Pocahontas McCoy Carr was made by Miss Jean The first forum in a Miami "What techniques of University "Justice in Our education or training are Schools" series will be appropriate for human Thursday at 7:30 p.m.

in the beings who are citizens of the United States in the last quarter of the 20th century?" The organizers of the series hope to show that our answers to questions such as these determine our ideas about how our schools auditorium on the Hamilton Campus of Miami. The title of this first forum is "Tutor or Trainer: Human Nature and the Techniques of Education." The specific topics deal with two questions: "What techniques of education or training are appropriate for the human animal?" and should be run. Richard Erlich, director of the project, said "once a person has defined for himself 'human being' and has put together his idea of the Good Society, he has already made most of his decisions about education." Featured in the discussion will be Ernest van den Haag, Jack L. Michael, and Hugh Wilder. Van den Haag is a conservative social philosopher and the author of several books, including "Education as an Industry" (1956); "The Fabric of Society" (1957), "Passion and Social Navy commissions for Golden Triangle Miami grads LIONS Dr.

Phillip R. president of Shriver, Miami OXFORD--Two Miami University graduates were commissioned as ensigns in the United States Navy at ceremonies held in connection with the university's 135th commencement. Robert W. Albrecht, husband of the former Sue Ann Schirmer, 580 Hermay Drive, Hamilton, received his degree in engineering technology from the Miami School of Applied Science. A resident of East Greenwich, Rhode Island, Albrecht has Edward Alden 105 Wednesday at the YWCA, Oberhn Court Oxford Michael an Reived management chairman ann unced degree from the Miami School of Business A i i a i Talawanda graduate will report to Naval Flight Officers Training, Pensacola, after assisting with the summer recruiting program for incoming Miami freshmen.

FAIRFIELDTWP. The women's auxiliary of the Fairficld Township fire department will meet Tuesday at 7 p. m. at the firehouse, Tylersville Road, Grace Sroufc, president, announced. Constraint" (1963), and "Political Violence and Civil Disobedience" (1972).

One of van den Haag's major concerns has been the balancing of the need of state authority with the need for individual liberty. Michael is a behavioral psychologist, much influenced by B. F. Skinner. Michael was a recipient of A i a Psychological Founda- i i i i Teaching Award.

He is the author of "Laboratory Studies in Operant co-editor of "Behavior Modification in Clinical and has worked extensively on the application of behavioral principles to the understanding and control of human behavior. At Arizona State University and at Western Michigan University, where he now works, Michael has a i acknowledged success to apply techniques of behavior modification to his own teaching. Wilder is an assistant professor of philosophy at Miami University. He will moderate the discussion and bring to it his expertise in the philosophy of language and the philosophy of science. Wilder has been very interested in the social and ethical implications of the learning theories of B.

F. Skinner. He is especially concerned with the question of individual liberty versus authority in learning situations. "Tutor or Trainer" is the first of four forums at the Hamilton campus, covering a wide range of ethical, legal, and moral questions in education. Future forums will be on Thursday evenings June 27, July 11, and July 18.

These forums will cover practical questions about the financing of education, day-to-day justice in schools, and about the future of American education. This program is sponsored in part by a grant from the Ohio Program in the Humanities, a state- based program of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The remaining support is provided by a matching grant from from Miami University and by volunteered labor. Admission to all forums is free, and the public is invited to attend and to participate in the discussions. Further i a i about the programs is available by calling 529-4427 or by writing Justice in Our Schools, McGuffey Hall; Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056.

Carr, Class of 1915, Connersville, and Mrs. Ruth Carr Rowley, Class of 1911, Akron, her daughters. It also memorializes their sister, the late Mrs. Mildred Carr Dreis, also of the Class of 1911. Their present gift is valued at $600 and that of the Class of 1930 at more than $500.

The class had planned to build up its fund for later presentation but decided to give the money now, a spokesman said, Mrs. Carr is credited with planting peonies on the campus, also with crocheting a bedspread still in use in the college guest rooms. Mrs. Mary Lee Clayton Brandenburg, Class of 1942, 798 Oakwood Drive, Hamilton, retains her position as president of the unincorporated alumnae association until July. Mrs.

Nancy Boerner Larkin, '48, Indianapolis, will take official charge of the presidency at that time. Already hired by vote Sunday was Mrs. Elizabeth (Bee) Seibert, 6393 Contreras Road, Oxford, as first executive secretary. She is not an alumna of Western. Her salary and that of a typist will be paid by Miami i i Patterson Place, traditional home of Western's first family, now occupied by Dr.

William C. Spencer and family, will be their headquarters. Two women pictured on the front page of The Sunday Paper were inadvertently identified only as "happy homecomers." They were Mrs. H. R.

Jobes, Greenville, and Mrs. H. Cecil of New Carlisle, Ind. They are 1914 graduates, 60-year alumnae. About 50 other "50-year class" alumnae, including 23 of the Class of 1924, were present.

They concluded three days of activities Sunday morning. Talawanda to act on job contracts OXFORD--The Talawanda District Board of Education will meet at 7:30 p.m. today to consider contracts with teachers and other employes. The agenda calls for recommendations of the superintendent on personnel actions, a memorandum of agreement with the Talawanda Educators' Association, a memorandum of agreement with the a a a a Employees Association, Chapter 308, Ohio Association of Public School Employees, and of a grant under Title I Elementary and Secondary Education Act for fiscal year 1975. Dr.

Marius P. Garofalo, superintendent, is recommending acceptance of tentative agreement with the teachers effective Sept. 1 and with the other em- ployes effective July 1. He is also recommending acceptance of a $30,333 grant from the Ohio Department of Education under the Title I act. Long night in store for Oxford council By PETE CHAPPARS Oxford Editor OXFORD Oxford Council at 8 p.

m. Tuesday will face a long and varied agenda that includes everything from a preliminary 1975 budget to announcement of the biggest Fourth of July celebration in recent history. Only ordinances on the published agenda call for a first reading of a mobile home and mobile home park ordinance and second reading of acceptance of the plat of Edgehill Subdivision, Section II. Spring St. improvement plans.

Reports of commissions and boards include two by the planning commission: zone change of four blocks in northern Oxford and recommendation of enactment of the mobile home act. Staff reports listed are by finance director for May, city manager for May, Parkview signal lights, newspaper recycling of DeMolay boys, storm sewer bid tabulations, easement over property of Robert and Marcia Williams, hook-up with the Southwestern Butler County Water Association, the 1975 tax budget, police handling of school investigation, and "bagging" meters. A of parking communication Resolutions include actions authorizing employment of the Follmer Juniper Hills sanitary sewer firm of Hamilton for in- communication by the city stallation of storm sewers attorney, on Church Street, N. Locust A letter from Oxford Street, and Tallawanda Retail Merchants asks Road; widening to 40 feet of approval of Dog Day Spring and approval of sidewalk sales Aug. 2 and from Station WOXR offers a forum for council members Sunday, June 23, at 8 p.

m. and another from the Talawanda High School Amateur Radio Club asks proclamation of this week as Amateur Radio Week. The 4th of July celebration will include July 5, 6, and 7 in a planned combined program of the Oxford Retail Merchants and the city department of parks and recreation. July 4, at dusk, the largest display of fireworks in history is to be set off at Talawanda High field. An uptown carnival is scheduled for four days, with 25 competitive booths and 15 rides.

Discount tickets will be given to merchants. A square dance is scheduled for July 6, led by Maurice Corso, and an art show is set for Tollgate Mall..