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1 ETV here expected by fall 1 222 2866 it '1 1 I i "I '( i -rlu 1 V--1 Action Line cuts red tope, gets answers, right wrongs. Dial 222-2866 anytime. Or mite Action Line, The Journal tlerald, 37 South Ludlow SL, Dayton 45401. I i The Plummers: "Where can you find a farm for the price you paid My husband and I are making plans to travel to Europe this summer. We signed up with the Anglo-American Assn.

in England to take advantage of a charter flight. It cost us $10 for a membership and $130 down payment. Now we're worried about being stranded by a shaky organization. Should we be? Mrs. E.

Delaware Yes British-American Chamber of Commerce doesn't have a record of your firm, says you should be warned away from it. The they say, is that charters work only from the country of origin. And if you're asked for a membership fee and not required to be a member for six months forget the whole thing. U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board guidelines are: (J) Charters may not be held open to the, public by advertisement or solicitation, but must be limited to a specific group; j(2) those in the group must have been members at least six months before the flight.

We have the CAB's information sheet on 'charter flights, or readers can write Civil Aeronautics Board, Washington, D.C. 20428. lvalues By Brainard Piatt Journal Htrald uslntsi Editor Conversion of Channel 16 into an educational television station in time for the fall school year is virtually assured. Dave Fornshell, executive director of Ohio Educational Television, expects the Federal Communications Commission to approve the transfer by early June. He said an agreement has been reached to pay Kittyhawk Broadcasting amaximumot $550,000 for the station.

THE PRICE in eludes the transmitting equipment, but not the studios or the production "It will be up to the operating consortium, Wright State, Central State and Miami University, to provide the production equipment and work out a program," he said. FOrnshell said all the necessary steps have been taken. Ohio Educational TV and Kittyhawk both filed application for the license transfer with the FCC late in April, he said. And, he said, the appraisal of equipment, necessary because Ohio Educational TV can't pay more than the appraised value, has been made. Once approval to the transfer comes through and the contract is signed, Fornshell said the station probably will go off the air while plans are being made for the new operation.

FINANCIALLY troubled Channel 16 went off the air Feb. 27 after three film companies filed a petition for involuntary bankruptcy, alleging the station owed them $68,880 for unsecured licensing of films. It resumed telecasting on April 27, the date the FCC said it must resume broadcasting to keep its license, but the station has been on for only four hours a day, meeting the minimum requirement of 23 hours a week. The station has denied it is bankrupt and has been negotiating the sale to Ohio Educational Television. Channel '16 has been having difficulties since early 1970 when the American Broadcasting Co.

revoked its network affiliation and later awarded it to Channel 22. question ournal "lerald A A V. who've been hearing about Ceasar's Creek lake ever since the idea was conceived as a flood control project in 1933 and who've seen it off again, on again, they didn't believe it The Plummers have looked at 23 farms and they say they can't afford any of them for theprice they have been offered for theirs. This week, they got the condemnation notice that they must sign in 15 days or be taken to court. "Where can you find a farm ,9 JOURNAL HERALD Friday, May 21, 1971 for their harness racing horses and to restore a huge brick house to its 1839 elegance.

Like most persons in the county years ago at the dead end of Middletown Road near Harveys-burg. They wanted to have a place By Martha Edmiston Journal Harold Staff Writer HARVEYSBURG The embattled farmers of Caesar's Creek aren't taking their removal just sitting on their acres. They know they'll have to move. The majority of them think that the damming of the creek and the resulting lake will be a great thing -for the economy of the area. Arid most give wholehearted approval to the benefits of flood control.

BUT WHAT'S bugging them is the appraisal of their lush farmlands, particularly by appraisers they claim are from south of the Ohio River and. don't know the value of land in Warren County. The Army Corps of Engineers maintains that all the appraisers are members of the Appraisers I i that some are Warren County men contracted for the task and that no matter where they come from, all will give the same appraisals based on "fair market value." The farmers say: "We don't want fair market value we want replacement value, not in Boone County, or in Tennessee, but in the county where we have lived our lives and worked our farms." And they say land runs high in i Warren County. ROGER AND ALMA Plum-mer, formerly of Lebanon, bought their 151 acre farm five My father and boyfriend disagree with me over throwing cigarette butts out of the caf. They say the butts are biodegradable and won't hurt anything.

Who's right? J.G., Dayton It makes quite a difference whether 'smoke filtered cigarettes or not. Filters take "a long time to degrade in a landfill, but that's better than flushing them down sewers. How about disposing of the butts along with the regular trash? Psychologists say tossing cigarette butts away anywhere or any kind of litter, for that matter is ait indication of how people really feel about their environment. And tell your dad and boyfriend to stay away from Singapore unless they reform. There's a $166 fine there for cigarette butt litterers.

for the price you paid even five years ago? How many groceries can you buy for the same money you spent five years ago?" asks Mrs. Plummer. SHE'S BEEN a leading organizer in the battle for "replacement price not current market." There have been inumera-ble meetings in her home. She broached the matter to Ralph Nader on the Phil Donahue Show and she's written almost every official on the roster. Now she's arranged to have U.S.

Rep. Walter E. Powell of the 24th District come to her house for a 1:30 p.m. meeting Sunday. Mrs.

Plummer isn't the only person who's finding she didn't know what she had until she lost it. Leroy Towson, Massie Twp trustee, said: "It's not adequate replacement value. 1 had 150 acres with 110 tillable acres and two ponds. I could buy only a 75-acre farm with what they gave me and I still went into debt. "The house I have now is not as good.

1 used to have $60-a-year heat bills. Now they're $100." TOWSON TOOK issue with the "reasonable percentage paid him to help move under 1971 U.S. land acquisition law. "We couldn't get help to move for less than $2 an hour and they allowed me only $1.50 an hour. Their interpretation of 'reasonable in any of their dealings isn't the same as ours.

They rob you blind." 'The Corps of Engineers says it offers square deals in buying up land around the lake which, in 1975, ill flood more than 11.000 acres between Harveysburg and New Burlington. Robert R. Humphreys, chief of the corps' land acquisition branch, said the "fair market value" offers are ordained by federal law, that "replacement value" offers would be not only impractical, but illegal. "None of our appraisals are made without reference to the local real estate market recent sales between willing buyers and willing sellers," he said. "This procedure is followed by both our staff appraisers and our contract appraisers." CONTRACT appraisers, said, are local real estate ex- (Continued on Page 37) jyr ta" 41 House built in 1839 will become victim of the lake pond IPP ves again understudy Dayton Power Light Co.

is considering an electrical rate increase, Robert Klllen, president of the company, said yesterday. He outlined four factors that will be considered in reaching any decision on rate increases. He said a decision is expected later this year. He said the factors to be considered were: Cost of borrowing money, which has nearly doubled. Increased wages and salaries for employes.

Increased taxes which may increase as much as $2 million a year with proposed new taxes. Cost of materials bought by the company. Killen also discussed power outlook for the summer. That story Is on page 27. In our Joint Vocational School chemistry class we disagree with our teacher who says the viscosity of blood changes with changes In the weather.

We think the blood remains fairly constant because our body temperature is constant. Who's right? right? T.M.. West Alexandria We'll have to grade you A-minus, give teacher, a C. Blood experts at Ohio State University say the body has a complex system of feedback which keeps blood 'chemistry within very narrow limits. Thus your blood stays fairly consistent as to viscosity.

Major changes would take place only in extreme conditions, such as i-under or over hydration. THOMAS TIMMER, owner of the plant, got a $3,000 bill for the fish last November from the owners, the Miami Conservancy District, and, after assorted grumblings, paid it. But things are different in the pond now and Scott says its various systems are recovering. The technical cause of the kill "a pollution-induced imbalance of the pond's oxygenarr bon cycle" is no longer present Scott says. Recent samples from the pond show dissolved oxygen concentrations outweighing carbon dioxide in what Scott calls a By Bonnie Russ Journal Harala Staff Writer TIPP CITY A lot of tomatoes and 200.000 dead fish later, the Tipp City levee pond is coming back to life.

The pond which, ecologi-cally died last Labor Day weekend from a bad case of tomato peelings "has recovered from the conditions which resulted in a fish kill on Sept. 5. 1970," Ralph D. Miami Cc-nser-" vancy District ecologist, said in a report this week. The fish turned belly-up when decomposing tomatoes dumped in the pond by the nearby Tip Top Cannery caused an oxygen deficiency.

"vital cycle of the pond ecosystem." Other things in the pond including aquatic life and food chain links are also showing signs of reviving, the report says. The food chain includes a "population of pollution sensitive mayfly larvae," Scott reports. THE ONLY LIFE In the pond that could run into trouble, Scott warns, is the fish. "Test netting revealed that the September fish kill did not totally destroy the fish population as previously believed," he says. But not enough predatory fish are living in the pond and that could bring trouble to the small population of pan fish currently living there namely over population, he says.

Present conditions in the pond will give Tipp City some good-sized pan fish "but it will also produce, in the very near future, an imbalance In the size-age ratios of the pan fish species due to an absence or severe reduction in such predatory species as bass, crappies etc." Tipp City Officials and the Miami Conservancy District will handle all future use, fish stocking, management and development of the pond, he says. ACTIQNjLINE new National Pushtime? A Ron Goldwyn Our, scats at Memorial Hall for operas and the Kenlcy Players are on the second floor. no drinking fountain there. I'm arthritic and find it a problem and am sure others do, too. Why isn't there a second floor fountain? A.O.

Dayton. Fred Ackerman, Memorial Hall manager, says yours is the first such complaint he's had. The problem is, the excessively high cost of getting through those solid 1907 walls and floors. And exposed piping isn't very feasible either, he says- So the closest oasis is the mezzanine ACTION REACTION The' playoff finals were Wednesday. The 1971 Push Football season is ended.

The champion is crowned. Only the ice cream sticks and the archives remain. It started several months ago, in the Catalpa-Hillcrest laundromat. A half doztn of us brought our dirty laundry, a tape recorder, a guitar, a bottle of wine, a six-pack, some carryout hamburgers, a few magazines and some soap for our monthly party. Fatefully, the Scrabble game had been forgotten, but one member found a soiled ice cream stick in a trash can.

The game was an immediate success. Everyone clamored around to get a shot at the self-proclaimed champ of this exotic game. Goldwyn took 'cm one at a time, it was a team effort. He won almost every time. Ice cream sticks appeared In the office.

A pleasant enough diversion around lunch time, or when work was put away. Soon games were creeping Into the mid-afternoon schedule. Competition became fierce. New "champions" began to emerge. Who was supreme? "ANNOUNCING: The long-awaited, first annual.

Journal Herald PUSH FOOTBALL round-robin tournament and playoff championship." The signup list grew. An enviable assortment. Men and women, Catholic and Jtw, blurk and white, middle management and copy boy, even a Cleveland Indians fan. By opening day, 10 teams were signed up. Now you ask what is push football? It's played on a table or A player gets two chances to shove this Ice cream stick 10 it dangles over the opposite edse.

If it dangles, touchdown. If Its short or over the edge, It's the other guy's shot. (The offensive team can opt lor a field goal. In which he props up the stick and f.icka It with a finger, aiming for goal posts formed by hi opponent's thumbs as upright. First team to swore point int.) It was evident before we stjrtrd.

we nrcded noma structure. The loose, haphazard way everyone had been playing Just wouldn't ork, A standardized field was drawn up, 13 by 30 im hrs, and way-to-goldbricking has become an oer-structured office pastime that even has the unofficial backing of ma-agement, I resign. J. 3abcock." A RESPOS'SE was required. It came in two parts: "Statement from the Board of Trustees: It is with deep regret that we note tht? passing of Messrs.

Alexander and Babcock However, the board feels it necessary to take note of the carping and somewhat churlish nature of the letters of resignation Any undo pressure or organira-tional eat, some hae unjustly charged, is for simple purpose of completing our season." The second respor.se was a winged victory statuette, holding aloft a golden ice cream stick, with suitable engraving on the base. The laggards, with new Incentive, snapped to it. The regular season ended an three-way cliff-hanger for the last playoff berth, with Martindale ousting Jackson in a special preliminary playoff. Six of the tiKht teams that firlshed the season moved Into the playoffs, which dre increasing crowds of emotional fans as the series nrogressed. At one point fans were told to cool it so the handful ol workina journalists could ply their trade, the clods.

WORTH, WHO SWFPT to the regular season title, ended up in the fimil against Schumacher. After the tradludmal handshake, a brief rereiihor. of the National Anthem and the d'slontins ol an in.pirt.ttl judas. the scries was on. The Schu jumped to a 2 0 lead but Worth, a ded by conservative itruic-y b-Md on sure-thing field goals, won four might took the serlci, six games to four.

The city room was wrarkPd with cheer, photographers h'iMled tntj i option for the ceremony, and the M-jmgtnj! alitor emerged to present the irophv. wbli'h hsi tK-tn diihbe-1 the "Ra'phie This paper's policy agimst homr ccrcnien.cs publication the picture.) We ore no Baseball. In the Interim, tha paper is beirg published. standardized goal posts were constructed with copy pencils and used notebooks. Rules about missed field goals and two-point extra points were codified.

At last it was April 12: Opening Day. THE CITY EDITOR threw the first stick onto the turf of Schumacher Madium (desk) and the Puss-Schumacher series was underway The die was cast early. Schumacher was a league co-favorite. Russ had been Libeled promising but erratic. Then, In the second game Of their scries Ruks stunned The Schu.

5217. Later that day, Russ bludafono Goldwyn to games out of four. This league was going to be tough. The excitement qukklv Htracted two more would be's. Seilcr and A.

Alexander. Th; lesaue Doard of Trustees held an Informal caucus and dcide1 to admit thi-m. The pa'e was furiouv. HC cams in til? ftrt 10 days. Daily standings were posted.

Much to the surprise of veteran otamers. up.start Worth st ined the cla of the league. His open-thumb tap was proving dcutly on thre crucial second shots, outhinint; the traJamnalWi' forefinger punch. Then th doldrums People starffd coin back to work. The I.Jiid of Trutteps ttinl to grt remaining gams pljiyrd so th lrrisue could moe into the piavatt.

Sowhmrs the lining turned to or so some of the lizards claimed. or "sample: Due to the this thing llut-benan-as-an offbeat- I jumped ship In 1314 and entered the US. illegally. I used an alias and that name Is on a Kentucky marriage license from 1918. I'm a citizen nowandwpuld like to have my true name on the license.

Nobody I've talked to seems to know what to do. Do you? W.C., Spring Valley Get a lawyer. The Kentucky attorney general's office says you need to file suit in the circuit court of the county fn which you were married. The bar association in that county or a nearby city should be able to locate a helpful barrister. Is this a sure-fire solution? Well, you've still got to uJn the case..