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TawcJay, April 1 975 Page 17 CAYTOX. OHIO soys' Puois 1 i v. 5 V. DIAL V222 2S66 trad THOSE PLAN'S include: Assignment of "an ombudsman type of person (to hear complaints and problems" of "employes which are not serious enough to warrant filing a grievance and which the employe would prefer not to discuss with his or her supervisor. Utilization of an exisiting "advisory council" of bureau counselors representing offices throughout the state which should meet periodically with Richard P.

Oestreich, RSC administrator; Periodic "spot checks" of client case records by an HEW team to assure the files contain proper documentation. The department also proposed the bureau's grievance procedure be and made known to all employes" and thatj supervisory employes be given, additional management training. been falsified to meet a bureau-imposed quota of closed cases. According to the sources, the tornado victims were given minor aid by the bureau, enrolled as handicapped clients, then closed as having been rehabilitated. SOME SOURCES claimed in affidavits that they had been pressured to a 1 i records, some of and at one point were told to classify all the storm victims as psychoneurotics in order to facilitate the quick They claimed the aid provided by the bureau could have been provided in disaster relief funds of another agency, and therefore dollars earmarked to help the handicapped were squandered for the sake of quick closures.

The administration of th Dayton area a office has emerged as the chief culprit in the controversy over the last three months, and that fact was underscored by the report. THAT REPORT states the Rehabilitation Service Commission has admitted that "there are acute administrative problems in the Dayton office many of which have existed for years. "These take the forms of poof communications, distortion of." job duties, pressures to act in unethical ways and extreme emphasis on numbers of closures ith the resultant lowering "of staff morale and discontent with supervision. In the report, the department proposed plans to assure the accuracy of client files and also to open communication between nonsupervisory employes and the bureau's central office in Columbus. continue its efforts to ascertain the person or persons responsible (for giving the data to The Journal Herald) and to take the necessary disciplinary action This disciplinary a i.o must be taken regardless of the circumstances which prompted the breach." UNAUTHORIZED dissemination of the -bureau's client case files is prohibited under federal and state law, although Ohio law provides no penalty.

The bureau is a state agency designed to help rehabilitate i handicapped to keep them employed or help them find jobs. The controversy surrounding the re a 's disaster efforts erupted in December. when a series of Journal Herald stories outlined the 1 a i of sources from within the agency who said scores of records had THE REPORT said the bureau's tornado "client" case records contain "inaccurate docu-m a i and distortion of fact" and said there is "sufficient evidence to assume the accuracy of this allegation, if not totally, in enough cases to warrant the charge." The report said many of the disaster victims "were unaware of the sources of the aid they were receiving" from the bureau. And it would be of "no value" for the department to further check the case files of the nearly 880 victims served by the bureau for false or inaccurate records because "to continue to verify what is already admitted as fact would serve no beneficial purpose." But all else aside, the report said it is "incumbent" upon the Ohio Rehabilitation Services Commission (RSC) parent agency of the bureau "to By Keith McKnight and Andrew Alexander Jcornol Mtruld S'o Wnttrt Although conceding the charges were true, federal investigators have urged punishment for news sources who gave The Journal Herald confidential date to prove a state agency falsely claimed it a i 1 i-tated" hundreds of Xenia tornado victims. In a report released yesterday, the U.S.

Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare said its probe of the Ohio Bureau of Vocational Rehabilitation's handling of aid to tornado victims has ended with the state agency agreeing to be docked in future appropriations for all the federal money it spent on the storm victims. That loss could cost the bureau nearly $80,000. Eighty percent of the bureau's funding comes from the federal department. Action Line culi red tape, ansven, rights Dial 222-2866 oi'me.

Or write Action Line, The Journal Herald, 37 South Ludlow St Dflvton 45401. focus on house Lunous I thought that at ape 63 you had free poU priviiepcs on the Dayton courses, on at least a limited basis, but only if you're a Dayton property taxpayer. Golfing would be ideal for me, but I recently moved to an apartment after 35 years of homeowning. So, no a no golf! Shame! E.W., Dayton You may be a pro on the course, but you're a duffer at getting information. You qualify on the same basis as every other senior citizen of Dayton.

City Recreation Department explains you can play free between 9 a.m. and noon Monday through Friday at Madden, the Hawk course at Kitty Hawk, and Dales at Community. For just $5S a season you can play at these three plus the Kitty at Kitty Hawk anytime weekdays or after 2 p.m. weekends and holidays. If that's no bargain for you, play at those four after 2 p.m.

for $2 weekdays or $3 weekends-holidays. Only Eagle at Kitty Hawk or Hills at Community give you no breaks for age or handicap. where 11 in family died III ft 1 I ft r.TW, Hb T2te wild voY 10 ark By Roz Young Journol Herald Stuff Writer HAMILTON The house at 633 St. where 11 members of the same family died horribly Easter Sunday is roped off from curiosity seekers, but all morning the street has been filled with, cars, just meandering past. A woman leading a dog dashes up the middle of the street dodging cars.

"Did Jimmy really do it?" she gasps. "I can't believe it. 1 went to school with him. I never thought fie would do a thing like that. He was always such a quiet person.

I can't understand it. Why didn't some of them run out the door? Why did they just stay there and let him do it?" The questions burst from her like gunshots. There are no answers and the people in this neighborhood have only the empty house on which to focus. THERE WAS no school Easter, and three youngsters sat on a stone aTln thefSunr-staring at the if Adrian Huentelman, 13, and two young schoolmates, Billy .1, Phofo by JamejRuMe3 Site: of slaying, 635 Minor Ave. lived 495 where lu of the victims Police don't have a motive for slaying of II in Hamilton family, Page 1 Where were the lirst uniformed deputy sheriffs in the U.S.? I've heard that it was in Marion County W.

starting in 1933. J.M., Fairborn The National Sheriff's Assn. in Washington found this an arresting bit of trivia, but jJso something Ihey'd never heard. Historian thereat, suggested that since sheriffs more or less came with the English colonists, 1933 might be a littje late for development of uniforms. How-, ever.

Action Line deputized the Fairmont (W.Va.) Times and West Virginian staffs to investigate the matter; that, being Marion County. They'd never heard of it either, but quickly uncovered a key Witness for your case. Felix Yanero, retired Fairmont chief of police and former Marion County "deppity," recalled that he took office Jan. 1, 1929, along with several other- young fellers under SHeriff W. W.

Conway. About six or eight months later they received uniforms and claimed to be (repeat, claimed to be) the first uniformed deputy force in the U.S. Now that the word's getting out, there may be other claimants. The Sheriff's Assn. (1250 Connecticut Ave.

NW, Washington, D.C. 20036) expects to hear. The owner of the vacant lot next door refuses to cut the weeds. We've had this problem for two years. Trash collects, rats infest it, It's a health problem.

We've called and called. What else can we do? B.F., Beavercreek upturned by the back steps and two scrubbed garbage cans await the mistress of the She ill never come. The neighbors look at the house, and talk. A YOUNG mother directly across the street at 610 Minor St. stood in her doorway, holding her 20-month-old son, Sean, who has a cold.

"I never slept a wink all night," she said. "Billie Ruppert I always called her Billie but now I hear on the TV her name is Charity she was always friendly but 'she kept pretty much to herself. We'd wave when we got the mail and say a little something. She was nice to the kids in the neighborhood, I just can't believe this has happened." She stopped to light a cigarette. "I've been smoking all night and all day and just light them and put them out.

I have to sit here and look over there and know the awful thing that happened. 1 knew them all. Pinky, that's the son that was killed and his wife and eight children and Billie, 1 just can't believe it. It's a nightmare. I looked out there last night and saw all these lights and the police had Jim up against the house.

He's been here the past two weeks; I always know when he is here because he parks his cat out in front. They took his car away and Pinky's and Billie's, too. She never used it much; just went to the bank in it. Went to the grocery on the corner, "Beauty shop?" she laughed. "I heard them say on the TV this is an upper middle-class neighborhood.

It's not. I' can't afford to go to the beauty shop -and neither could Billie. We do our own hair on this street." Keep calling but only to find out "1 1 rK i 1 I aJ-'ii iii MUcMW wm jwatw ir lit. Goodman and Andy Levine, just sit and watch, barely able to see through the crush of autos. "Jimmy lost his job," said Adrian.

"He was a draftsman. So he come to live there with his mother. He's been there about two weeks. He's the one called the cops last night and pretty soon there were about five sta-. tion wagons out here with red lights blinking and they kept bringing out the bodies and there was about 1,000 people tramping all The old lady was sitting in the chair in the front room.

She got shot in the chest. All the rest was shot in the head. He had three revolvers and a rifle, but there was only one bullet left. He used just the revolvers. He was a real marksman.

I was right at home and I never heard a thing. I bet he used a silencer." AND THAT said, Adrian and friends turn back to the house. It is a small house, one room wide and two tall, two rooms deep with a one-story lean-to on the back. The porch light is burning and.in theTrbnt window between the drawn blinds and the glass, two potted plants send up slender shafts of green. The backyard, in contrast to its neighbor on the corner, is clean and neat as if it has already been raked of its winter debris.

Three trees shade the yard and eight daffodils have put out their yellow coats. In a tinv shed at the end of the lot, two lawn chairs, a lawnmower. a rake and several bushel baskets wait in the gathering dust and gloom. A few flower pots have been AP Wirephot slaying A recent picture of the Leonard Ruppert family, all victims in mass where to write. Send WRITTEN complaints to Robert Anderson.

Beavercreek Twp. zoning inspector. He'll inspect and if the weeds are "noxious" the owner has 10 days to clean up or the township does it and bills the owner. Your absentee neighbor may get the point after several go-rounds with Anderson. news this morning," said 'the' woman behind the bar.

Two men sitting over beef pot pie looked up. "What happened?" asked "The murder's right, in, i block; didn't you hear about it?" "Sure didn't. More than one?" "More than one! There were 11!" "Right here in this block?" he asked. "My God!" And the fork fell out of his hand. heart attack.

I saw a policeman I know. What happened? I asked him. 'MY man there are dead bodies all over in he said. 'I counted five or six and I had to get out of Around the corner on Hooven is Bob's Cafe, a pleasant bar and restaurant where workers, torn the neighborhood drop in for lunch. "I just couldn't believe jt when I heard it on the had a good job and eight He'd come in here and be Jiiii, thoug'h, he was different, He'd come, in and say but that's all.

AH these years, I never got to know him; You know, it may be an awful thing to but if it had to happen, I'm. thankful; that they all went; If one of kids had Jived or the mother they'd be marked for life. When I first heard the went down. I thought maybe Billie had had a 0-4 SOUND Hessler, pleasant looking in gold rimmed glasses, seemed stunned. "I've had this store here for, 21 vears' he said.

"BilHe lived here before I started the store and she's been coming here all the time. A nicer woman you wouldn't want to know. Quiet like, but friendly. She was just in here Saturday. I don't know what she got, but my wife waited' on her.

Wait a minute. Fran!" he shouted and disappeared. In a few minutes he came back. "She fill-in things for an Easter dinner like 20 Karris gets 4 to AT THE CORNER Robert I want to "sound" a compliment, not a complaint. We bought a Welsh Co.

crib in Richmond, and when my husband went to put it together found one of the rods was defective. I wrote to the company in Gordonsviilc, and a week later they sent the part plus others for a better fit. There was no charge for this, cither. I think they should get good publicity for their interest and prompt action. And the baby is enjoying the crib! Mrs.

J.W., Greenville NCR union takes strike vote today Pinky was going to bring in the rest," he said. "She got celery, eggs, bread, lettuce. She said the whole family was coming." He his head. "Now Pinky, he had the brains. He FAA plane hits after takeoff DUBOIS, Pa.

(AP) A Fed- a Aviation Administration plane crashed at DuBois Airport, seriously injuring four FAA officials hours after they had presented a safety award to the airport. The twin-engine DC-3, with 11 persons ou board; crashed into a ravine just after takeoff, witnesses said. One of the plane fell to the ground just after the craft rose into the air. The aircraft nose-dived and crashed into the muddy ravine. prompted an investigation by-the county prosecutor's fraud section under Jeffrey E.

Froe-lich. After his guilty pleas in January, Karns attempted unsuc-; cessfully to have Rice set them aside on the grounds Karns had been misled by his former attorney, Ray White. In court yesterday, Karns pleaded for leniency. He said his wife and four children need him, and he promised to make full restitution to his victims if he could be released on probation. But Rice refused, saying that in light of Karns' record, "Your promise to make restitution would be meaningless." He has 30 days to appeal.

On Jan. 13, Karns pleaded guilty to: Two counts of larceny by trick in obtaining more than $7,400 from Lloyd A. Cooper Sr. of 5639 Terrace Park Drive and Jason Brown of 8123 Upper Miamisburg Road in separate home improvement schemes. -Theft by deception in selling a phony stock certificate for $-100 to an employe.

Rick Perkins of 4710 Croftshire Drive. Passing a bad check for $250 to a workman. Roger Glenn of 2407 Winwood Ave. COOPER'S AND Brown? complaints against Karns were revealed by The Journal Herald a year ago in a series that Leroy Karns, a Dayton build-i g' contractor- who admitted bilking his customers and employes, was sentenced yesterday to four to 20 years in prison. In Montgomery County Common Pleas Court, Judgt Walter H.

Rice issued the maximum penalty of one to four years on -each of four fraud counts. Rice ordered Karns serve them consecutively, not all at the same time. The judge refused to grant Karns a stay to "get his affairs in as requested by defense attorney Bobby Joe Cox. IMMEDIATELY AFTER the sentencing, Karns was taken to the Montgomery County jail to await transfer to the Chillicothe Correctional Institute. Direct Line Reporf errors in news stories, request correc ons, complain or inquire about The Journal Herald news coverage and new policies by collecting Direct line by phone or letter.

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Ludlow Doyton iSQ 1. Members of United Auto Workers Local 1616, will vote today on whether to give the union leadership authorization to strike NCR Corp. Hours of voting are 5:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. All active employes can vote at" either the NCR Credit Union parking Jot, 16C0 Crown or at the Shell service station and Main and Stewart streets.

The union's contract w'th NCR expired at midnight, but is being extended on a day-to-day basis. Correction The average age of members of United Auto Workers Local 1616 is approximately 53 years. The Herald yesterday quoted union President Earl Hampton as saying the average age of union workers at NCR Corp. was 63 years. Hampton said yesterday the correct figure is 53 years.

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