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Sept. 26, 198S THE JOURNAL HERALD Dayton, Ohio .3 in ft, y. i wn itnesses link car i i -'i Iky 'it 7 Action Action Line cuts red tape, gets answers, rights wrongs. Cai anytime. Or write Ac-Don Una, The Journal Herald, 37 S.

Ludlow Dayton, Ohio 4S401. JimZofkie, Editor murder suspect Km i i Twana Burns, Derek AH. Reporters "IV JJ I I v. ft 1 '1 I 1 si I i 7 U'l; I Li For many years, our family has traveled to Cincinnati to celebrate birthdays at Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour restaurant. Now I've learned Farrell's is closed.

Is the store closed permanently, or has it moved? D.Y, Kettering. If you're not averse to traveling to Columbus, you can still enjoy a family outing at Farrell's. The national business is undergoing a pruning process among many of its franchises thoughout the country. Cincinnati did not escape the ax, but Columbus did. Farrell's was founded on the West Coast about 20 years ago, company president Ken Weber said from his Washington, D.C., office.

Displeased that expansion was not progressing to the extent he wanted, Farrell's owner, Bob Far-rell, sold the company to the Marriott Corporation, the hotel people, some 10 years later, Weber said. Marriott increased the number of units, and expanded to 35 states at one time. In 1982-83, Farrell's was sold to a group of private San Francisco investors who began a selective closing of units. Although Farrell's now is back under Marriott management, the closing of stores continues. "On a long-term basis, we will probably get out of the Midwest and concentrate on the East and West Coasts," Weber said.

All the units in Chicago already have been closed. The Columbus Farrell's is in the Graceland Shopping Center at 30 Graceland Blvd. Coats said she couldn't identify either man. Prosecutors said during opening statements last week that several tfiP ferent people rode in or drove the Perrine car during the period it fc'af missing. Barnes, the 15-year-old resident 150 Mia said she was reluctant to cooperate with police in identifying Williams because she is a friend of one of Williams' younger sisters.

Barnes' mother, Bernice Hall, ano Ronald Patterson, of 150 Mia also said they were reluctant to get involved in the case. They didn't report what they knew until police, acting pn the reports from Coats and her soow mate, began interviewing other residents on Mia and Whitmore avenues. Patterson, when first interviewd by police, denied knowing anything about the case. But Barnes, Hall and Patterson each pointed out Williams in the courtroSrk as the man they saw in and around the car in the alley. Patterson said Williams nearly ran over Hall with the car as Patterson and Hall walked through the alley one morning on the way home from a quor store in the Westown shopping center.

Barnes, Hall and Patterson all said they saw no one other than Williams or around the car. v. The three witnesses picked Wij Hams' picture out of a photo lineup, but Patterson admitted under cross-examination that he first picked out a picture of a different man. He said he corrected his mistake after talking to Hall. Defense attorneys Bobby Joe Cb)t and Victor A.

Hodge used their cross-examinations to attack the credibility of the witnesses who identified Williams. They tried to get Barnes and Hall'tp admit they picked Williams from the photo lineup because they recognized him from the years they had been neighbors and that they didn't really see him painting the car in the alley The defense attorneys also pointed out Wednesday that Harold Michael Pullen lived with his grandfather at 4535 Dayview an address about two blocks from where the car was found and about five blocks from where it apparently was painted. By James Cummings SMWrMr Three witnesses testified Wednesday in the aggravated murder trial of Augustus Williams that they saw Williams painting Mary Perrine's car in an alley between the 100 block of Mia Avenue and the 100 block of Whitmore Avenue. One of the witnesses, 15-y ear-old Gwendolyn Barnes of 150 Mia said Williams approached her in the alley behind her house and asked her for newspapers one evening in late February. "I asked him, 'What do you want them and he said he needed them to paint this car," Barnes said.

Barnes said she recognized Williams because she had lived two blocks from him on Cleverly Road before moving to Mia Avenue about a year and a half ago. "The last time I saw him he was littler," she said. "(When I saw him in the alley) he had grown up. He had a mustache." Barnes said she knew Williams' last name at the time he approached her in the alley, but did not mention to him that she recognized him. She said Williams addressed her as "Miss" and gave no indication that he recognized her.

Williams, 18, of 737 Cleverly Road, Dayton, faces charges of aggravated murder with death penalty specifications, aggravated robbery and kidnapping in connection with the Feb. 18 disappearance of Mrs. Perrine, a 52-year-old nurse from Miami Twp. Her body has not been found. Testimony in Williams' trial in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court began Monday, but Wednesday was the first time any witnesses linked Williams directly to Mrs.

Perrine or to her car. The car, a blue 1981 Plymouth Reliant was missing from Feb. 18 to March 6, when it was found parked on Almond Avenue within three blocks of Williams' residence. Testimony Wednesday indicated that the car was spray-painted white in an alley about six blocks from where the car was found. Two women who lived at 140 Mia Ave.

said they saw the car several times in the alley by a garage behind 133 Whitmore. They said the car some- I Perrine times would be away from the garage, but they kept spotting it from their kitchen window over a period of about two weeks from late February to early March. The women said they called police after they recognized the car in television news reports on March 7, the day after police found the car. "The first time I saw it, it was blue," said Barbara Coats. "It was taped up like it was being painted.

The next time I saw it, it was being painted by a black man." Coats said the man she saw painting the car was thin and appeared to be in his late teens or early 20s. A few days after she saw a man painting the car, Coats said she saw a different man drive the car into the alley and walk away. The second man also was black, but wore glasses and was broader across the chest than the first man, Coats said. She said the second man appeared to be 25 to 30 years old. Staff photo by Ty Greenlees Up against a wall A window cleaner at Wright State University is well seated and well suited assuming he has no fear of heights for his task at Allyn Hall as he prepares to go to great, or at least high, panes to allow students a better view.

The sunny skies and warm weather Wednesday made it a great day to be up for such a task. Law gutting welfare program not waived But on Wednesday, Tracey Feild, deputy for program development with the state department, said the agency had no choice but to reject the county's plea for help because it can't just waive state' law. She said, however, the department was assembling a study cdnV mittee to develop recommended statutory changes. "While we recognize that their program is probably doing a lot of good, we don't have any authority to give a waiver to state law," Feild said. "We would like to see the counties have more flexibility to put in programs of this type." She said officials from several counties, legislators and welfare rights representatives will be invited to serve on the study panel.

Rice said Montgomery County officials also will consider whether to push for a change in the law. In the meantime, he said, "We will try to continue to struggle on, trying to help as many people as we can on a voluntary basis." in unskilled public sector jobs. The new program teaches general relief recipients how to find and keep jobs in the private sector. Rice has said that 65 percent of the people who completed the training last year stayed off the welfare rolls. One secret to the program's success was a rule that allowed the department to penalize people who failed to attend training classes, Rice said.

Those who missed classes had their relief checks suspended for 90 days. But in rewriting its general relief policies, the Ohio Department of Human Services eliminated the rule that allowed penalties for non-attendance, after discovering It went against state law. When the change took effect late this summer, attendance at the training program fell off markedly. In August, Pat Barry, director of the state Human Services Department, indicated the rule would be changed or the county given a waiver. By David E.Kepple Staff Writtr Montgomery County apparently will not find an easy way around a state law that inadvertently gutted a successful job-preparation program for general relief recipients.

Stephen A. Rice, director for the Montgomery County Department of Human Services, said Wednesday that state welfare officials will not grant the county a waiver of a state law which prevents the county from penalizing clients who don't attend the program. "Obviously, we are very disappointed," Rice said. "We are, in fact, continuing the program. "The unfortunate reality is we have a 77 percent no-show rate for the clients that we ask to show up for the screenings, and that is directly related to our inability to mandate them to show up." The county started the program last year as an alternative to work relief, which has recipients working for their welfare checks Speedy trial waived in beating Teachers request arbitration 4 1, nOllrtlMilalaaTl liTfllWIlN til 1 1 bond.

i. He was represented at the hearing by Karen Sherlock, an assistant public defender for the Montgomery County public defender's office. She said the waiver of a speedy trial rule' was requested because more time was needed to review the case. Before his arrest, Dearth told police that on Sept. 13 Pamela was attacked by a group of neighborhood youngsters at the rear of her apartment.

Dearth said he was baby-sitting for Pamela at her mother's request. The girl's mother, Kathy Hayden, said that Dearth told her' 'that the boys struck her daughter with rocks and boards. Police said Dearth has made a statement to police in which' he said that he beat the girl because she would not stop' crying. At the court hearing, it was mentioned that police had videotaped a statement Dearth gave them. Charles Dearth, 24, who is charged in the beating death of 3-year-old Pamela Hayden, on Wednesday waived his right to a speedy trial because his defense attorney requested more time to gather information about the case.

Dearth appeared before Montgomery County Common Pleas Court Judge Robert Brown. Under Ohio law, the state must take a defendant to trial within 90 days if the defendant is in jail, and within 270 days if the defendant Is free on bond. Dearth was charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of Hayden, who lived with her mother at 510 Forest Ave. The Montgomery County coroner's office said that an autopsy showed the girl had a broken back, bruised skull and head and other bruises. After the hearing Wednesday, Dearth was returned to the city-county jail, where he Is being held on a $25,000 cash A good will charm I found an unusual coin with my metal detector.

One side has a swastika and the words "The Dayton Savings Trust Dayton, Ohio." The other side says the coin 'has the value of 50( toward the opening of a new savings account or the rental of a safe deposit box. I would like to find out as much as possible about this coin. RJW Dayton. First, let's make it clear the swastika on the coin has nothing to do with Nazi Germany. Centuries ago, the swastika was considered a symbol of good will, good luck or good omen.

The insignia is found in the art of the early American Indians and other primitive cultures, according to the Funk Wagnalls dictionary. Germany's Adolf Hitler first used it in 1919 as a symbol for the National Socialist Party, but it did not become the official insignia of the Third Reich until September So, when your coin was circulated in 1927 as part of a Dayton Savings and Trust Co. promotion, the symbol was used simply to spread "good will" to would-be clients. The Dayton Savings and Trust according to Montgomery County Historical Society Archivist Judith Wehn, was formed in 1903 and opened for business in 1904. In 1930, Dayton Savings and Trust and the City National Bank and Trust Co.

combined to form the Union Trust which at that time was the wealthiest bank in Dayton. By 1931, Union Trust had 12 branch offices serving Daytonians. Then the depression struck. Ike Jones, a retired president of Winters National Bank, was a state bank examiner in those days, and he remembers Union Trust well. "We had an all-night meeting on Halloween Eve, trying to save the bank," he said.

But on Oct. 31, 1931, Union Trust was closed, and in 1932, the balance of assets and liabilities was passed on to Winters. Your brass "coin" has little monetary value, but it packs a wealth of historical background. Dearth Hospitals appeal psychiatric bed denial than inpatient services are needed in the community. Dartmouth asked to add 35 beds most of them for children to its 38-bed psychiatric hospital.

Miami Valley asked to convert six of its general care medical-surgical beds to beds for adolescent psychiatry. Dr. David Jackson, state director of health, said in a recent interview that the low occupancy rates in local psychiatric units don't justify the need for additional psychiatric beds. If hospitals want to add or expand services, such as those for children, Jackson suggested they might want to shift beds in existing units to a ByDJ.Hill StaNWrttar Miami Valley and Dartmouth hospitals have appealed the state's rejection of their applications to enlarge their psychiatric units. The Certificate of Need Review Board, the agency that assesses such appeals, said It would make decisions on the two cases at the end of this year or the first of next year.

The Ohio Department of Health had denied both requests, saying the existing psychiatric beds In the community are underused, and more outpatient rather new use. Although the conversion to psychiatric beds at Miami Valley might result in a relatively low construction expenditure, in the long term it would add to operating costs, Jackson said. The additional beds might mean more unused beds and a subsequent higher cost to patients In that section, he said. Dorothea Rye, senior vice president for hospital operations at Miami Valley, said a recent renovation of the psychiatry unit didn't leave sufflcent room for reshaping the unit, however. By Tom Beyerlein Wirrtn County Bureau Teachers in Franklin may take a strike vote unless school administrators agree to non-binding arbitration to restart bogged down contract talks.

The Franklin Education Association on Monday night turned down the board's final offer on language for a new master contract. On Tuesday, teachers union officials requested advisory arbitration by the American Arbitration Association to resolve nine areas of dispute. FEA President Ruth Charles declined to say which issues remain unsettled, but said they concerned management philosophy involving "teacher-administrative situations." "I think the feeling of the teachers is we all hope an agreement can be reached without going to extreme measures," Charles said. Franklin schools Superintendent Al Porter and school board President Gail Creech said school officials have not met to discuss their reaction to the FEA request. Porter said he doesn't know whether officials will approve the arbitration idea.

"We're weighing the Interests of (students) versus the vested interests of staff members." he said. "Obviously, we have some things to resolve yet." "We just have to keep In mind that the kids come first, and some of the language changes they (teachers) want could hinder that," Creech said. She said no meetings have been scheduled before Monday, when the master contract language expires. The contract initially ran out July 30, but has been extended twice. An impasse was declared in July and teachers requested the services of a federal mediator.

The mediator met with representatives of both sides on three occasions, but they were unable to resolve the nine Issues, Charles said. The current dispute does not involve salaries or fringe benefits, officials said. WPTD-WPTO gets new president said. "I believe a public television station today can be a community telecommunications resource tomorrow." He will assume his new duties Oct. 1 4.

In addition to his fund-raising and program development duties at WHRO, he guided the station's advanced technology linkups with the community, as well as its cable and educational TV distribution capability. He worked with the school systems in the area to develop a shared computer-based regional center for instruction, and he was on the founding board of the Interactive Videodisc Consortium of PBS stations. "I'm not prepared to say that those are the types of things I'll be doing in Dayton," Wareham said after Wednesday's meeting in Oxford with the Channels 1416 board of directors. "As I just told the board, the development of a public TV station is a wholly local thing. I plan to explore many opportunities In Dayton." By Terry Morris Staff Ftatura WrHtr Jcrrold F.

Wareham of Norfolk, Is the new president and general manager of Greater Dayton Public Television Inc. The 37-year-old Wareham's appointment Wednesday ended a three-month search for the person to replace the retiring Dr. Clair R. Tettemer, head of WPTD (Channel 16, Dayton) and WPTO (Channel 14, Oxford) throughout the station's 10-year history. A native of Clinton, Iowa, Wareham has been vice president of WHRO, Norfolk Public Television and Radio, since 1980.

He started there as director of development and public relations In 1976 after working in public broadcasting in Iowa and Maine, As president of WPTD-WPTO, he hopes to "be driven by a vision of what Greater Dayton Public Television can be," he Call Reader's Rep Have a comment, complaint, or question about the content ol The Journal Herald or the Dayton Dally News? Call Jim Zofkie, our Reader's Rep, at 225-2404. Address written queries to ZotVie at 37 S. Ludlow Dayton, Ohio 4S401. For delivery or billing complaints, call our customer service department at 222-5700. Wareham.