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THE jOLTfiU CAlX Ca-'aOrj 3 hump says tip led to discovery of Orick tax bill. 135 By David E. Keppie STAFF WRITES A spirited round of Abner Orick-bashing, led by Montgomery County Democratic Party Chairman Joe Shump. highlighted Thursday night's meeting of the party's central committee. The'day before, Shump, wearing his county treasurer's hat, had recounted for the news media details about delinquent tax bill of $6,145.51 owed by Judith Orick.

the wife of the Dayton city commissioner. Orick then responded by calling the raising of the tax matter In other business, Shump announced: The major fund-raiser of the year in Dayton for the Richard CelestePaul Leonard gubernatorial ticket will be at the Dayton Art Institute May 27. Cost will be $500 per couple. Both the governor and his running mate will attend. The reorganization of the county central committee has been scheduled for 7 m.

May 28. A total of 487 central committee precincts will have been filled, the highest number in "quite some time," Shump said. "I think that's 1 very healthy and very good." a politically motivated cheap shot, and said the taxes would be paid. Orick is the Republican candidate challenging State Rep. Robert Hickey.

D-Dayton, in the 39th district Ohio House race. At Thursday night's meeting. Shump told Democratic precinct captains he first became aware of the matter two or three months ago when a person came to his office and told an employee. 'We understand that Abner Orick owes back taxes and that Joe Shump is covering it Then, we get an anonymous phone call," Shump continued. "The question came: Does I can think of something better to do at 10 o'clock at n'ght than talk about Abner Orick.

Secondly, I know that being there, they would really want to aggravate Joe Shump. So I cant see any sense in me going to that kind of a function." Concerning Orick's charge that the tax delinquency was brought up for political reasons, Shump told the group, "If you say there's politics in it. it's only to the extent that the man's in public lite. We've got to set an example that we are tax-paying, law-abiding citiiens. And I would expect all of us to do that." Orick owe any real property tax.

which is on real estate. When we went to check that, the answer's yes bingo a piece of property that hadn had any taxes paid in two years on it." Shump said he started getting phone calls rapidly from the news media on Wednesday concerning the matter. "I know someone was getting the word around pretty fast," he commented. He added that he got a call Thursday from a local radio station, "Wanting to know if I wanted to be on the 10 o'clock program tonight to talk about Abner Orick. Well, in the first place.

j-2C; Ts Jaw vi. i Police seeking 2 men in downtown assaults Incidents nag block targeted for improvement JlsILJLJUL 1 lfZH niat It i -if Four muggings in last two weeks lt 7lQEjj one man was accosted and threatened as he walked to his car at a parking lot at west isixin ana bourn uiaiow. i ne man was unharmed when he swung his fj -4- -'-Li' 1 i briefcase at the pair and ran into the street, according to police and the vie- -tim's account of the incident. About two hours later, a 44-year-old man was beaten and robbed by suspects match- ing the description given by the victim III Hie II1M lliuueiu. WALLY NELSONSTAFF PHOTOGRAPHER During the previous weekend, two Iowa men in Dayton for a convention were accosted and beaten between Fifth and Sixth streets in the earlv eve- Roof collapses By Mark Brunswick STAFF WRITER Dayton police are seeking two suspects in four assaults in the last two weeks in a block-long area of South Ludlow Street downtown.

The area of Sixth and Ludlow streets is a section targeted for improvement by Dayton's business community, and police said they plan to work quickly to dispel any perception of a serious crime problem in the area. "We've made some big strides down there," said Col. James Newby, deputy director of the Dayton Police Department. A former commander of the downtown district, Newby said that since the late 1970s concentrated efforts have been made to rid the area of crime. He said the city objected to the renewal of liquor licenses for bars in the area and cracked down on a prostitution problem.

But Newby said "businesses like Reynolds Reynolds bringing new business to the area have made a bigger improvement than anything the police department has done." i Reynolds Reynolds, the Dayton-based business forms company, plans to expand its properties to include a block-long area on the northwest side of West Fifth and South Ludlow streets. A local businessman has indicated an interest in developing the corner property previously occupied by Mac's Bar, across from the new Reynolds Reynolds property. Police also credit the Old Spaghetti Warehouse at 36 W. Fifth St. as a business that made one of the first commitments to an area that for years has been crowded with adult bookstores, bars and boarded windows.

Police said the closing of some bars and increased police attention have improved the Ludlow Street area. But the two suspects in the recent mugging incidents are tarnishing the area's efforts to improve. Both suspects have been described by victims as in their late teens. The two are believed responsible for a string of assaults and attempted robberies in the area. Last Friday evening, ning.

A description of the assailants matched the descriDtion of the susoects A portion of the overhanging roof fell off a Stop Go in the 2400 block of North Main Street at sponded but no Immediate cause of the accident was reported. noon Thursday. Several businesses occupy the building, and no one was Injured. Firefighters re- in the most recent incidents. Lt.

Barry Overholser, commander of the police department's Central Busi- ness District, said police have suspects in tho nccaiilts hut havp nnt heen ship to Patterson protests plan limiting work-study make an arrest. A Dayton woman who may have been robbed by the same pair earlier this month had identified the two as her assailants, hut later declined to orose- cute, Overholser said. cause of Its cooperative education program, which offers work experience. Smith also said students in Patterson's cooperative education program are being hired but lack basic skills to perform their jobs. However, Whiteman said Smith's concern about the lack of basic skills Is not justified by the results of the California Achievement Test scores of Patterson students.

Patterson students did as well or better in every category than did students from other Dayton public high schools, Whiteman said. Meanwhile, at a press conference Thursday, the Dayton Education Association said the school board's decision not to rehire 37 teachers districtwide has serious implications for staff recruitment in the district and said the board should reconsider Wednesday's decision. Dayton school officials have formed a task force to look at the needs of students at its five high schools and to recommend a restructuring of secondary programs for the 1987-88 school year. "It that kind of frustrating thing with this case," he said. Overholser.

said police are using varying tactics to curb the mugging problem, but he declined to be specific about the tactics. This year, assaults in the Central Business District have increased by 26 percent over 1985, according to police records. There have been 19 assaults since January this year, up from 15 during the same period in 1985. Given the low numbers, Overholser said the percentage meant a "marginal increase." the plan in a letter to Smith, dated March 17, and i accused the district's administration of having "lied to him about the future of "My greatest concern relative to the plan is the elimination of the co-op work-study program for juniors," he wrote. "Our work-study plan on the co-op basis is unique at the high school level, and no other high school in the country has done it successfully.

"It has served the youth and industry of this community extremely well for over 70 years. It would be a shame for a single decision to eliminate that opportunity for many youngsters. "The plan to keep juniors in school full time without the advantages of the work-study experience would also create a space problem which would undoubtedly be compounded during the 1987-88 school year when freshman are returned to the high schools," Whiteman said. The district also is reviewing the progam at Patterson in the wake of complaints by other principals that academically talented students from the district's four comprehensive high schools select Patterson be By Nathaniel Madison STAFF WRITER Dayton school administrators want to limit the work-study program at Patterson Cooperative High School to seniors. But the school's principal has angrily objected to the plan.

Under a plan that is being reviewed by Superintendent Dr. Franklin Smith, juniors would no longer participate in the program. Rather, they would devote more time to academic course work. Referring to the plan drafted by LaQuita Ingle, director of vocational education, Smith said most juniors aren't ready for the world of work. "The jobs aren't as plentiful today In the areas we're training students in," Smith said.

As an example of what he sees as a shortcoming of the program, Smith said a student working in the dental arts vocational program is employed at a fast-food restaurant because of the scarcity of jobs in the profession. Patterson principal Nelson Whiteman objected to Judges to weigh Moreland's life Ex-Dayton officer named police chief in London Residency violation cost officer his Dayton job where the killings the residence occurred. injured. The three-judge panel that heard the case against Moreland, Carl D. Kessler and Walter A.

Porter of Montgomery County and William W. Young of Warren County, also will preside over Monday's hearing. Defense attorneys will present evidence of mitigating factors that they believe should prevent More-land from being sentenced to the electric chair. A hearing Into whether Samuel Mor-eland should get the death penalty for his conviction on five counts of aggravated murder has been set for 1 p.m. Monday in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court.

Moreland, 31, also was found guilty Tuesday of three counts of attempted aggravated murder in the Nov. 1 assault on eight members of a South Ard-more Avenue family. Moreland lived at Gienna Green, 46, Moreland's girlfriend; her daughter, Lana Green, 23; Lana's Green's daughter, Voilana, and Datwan Talbott, 6, and Daytrin Talbott, 7, grandsons of Gienna Green, were killed. Three other grandchildren, Dayron Talbott, 11, Gienna Talbott, 2, and Tia Green, 5, were seriously Samuel Moreland The Dayton Civil Service Board upheld the dismissal. Harrison appealed his firing but on Feb.

6, a Montgomery County Common Pleas Court judge upheld the Dayton Civil Service Board's decision. On March 1, Harrison appealed that decision in the 2nd District Court of Appeals. Harrison, who has been working as a police officer in Jamestown, Is expected to get his law enforcement degree next month from the Dayton branch of Capital University. London has been without a police chief since Aug. 1 when former chief Jim Bates resigned to become a ball bondsman In Springfield.

Cartoonist Caniff, 79, to receive heart surgery soon FROM STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS Former Dayton police Officer R. Keith Harrison, who was fired for violating Dayton's residency requirement, has been named chief of police in London, Ohio. Harrison, 35, will take up his duties on May 5. A six-year veteran of the Dayton police department, Harrison was fired in 1981 for allegedly violating the city's residency requirement by moving from Dayton to Huber Heights In October 1978. Under the residency rule, Dayton employees who lived in the city on June 28, 1978, are required to maintain a residence in the city.

and underwent a battery of preliminary tests Thursday, according to longtime friend Willie Tuck. The surgery originally was scheduled for Thursday, Tuck said, but doctors told the family more time was needed to evaluate the test results. "We talked to him (Thursday) and he was quite uncomfortable from all the tests," Tuck said. Cartoonist Milton Caniff did not undergo heart surgery on Thursday but will do so soon to replace a defective heart valve, a friend of the Caniff family said Thursday: Caniff, 79, a syndicated cartoonist for 52 years and creator of the Steve Canyon comic strip, was admitted to New York University Hospital on Wednesday Doctors discovered the leaky heart valve during a routine physical examination and told Caniff the valve must be replaced immediately, Tuck said. Doctors have told Caniff, a 1925 graduate of the old Stivers High School, that he will be unable to work for about a month after the surgery.

Caniff recently said he has finished a month's strips to be used while he Is recuperating. County GOP chairman considered for federal judgeship Li The appointment will be made by President Reagan and must be confirmed by the Republican-controlled Senate. Normally, senators of the president's party recommend judicial appointments In their states. Because Ohio Sens. John Glenn and Howard Metienbaum are Democrats, the state's U.S.

representatives agree on recommendations In consultation with Ohio party leaders. The sources said that the state party's judicial screening committee Is expected to discuss the recommendations today. By Tom Price WASHINGTON BUREAU WASHINGTON Montgomery County Republican Party Chairman Patrick Flanagan Is back In the running to become a federal district Judge, and this time he has a "good chance" of being nominated, according to well-placed congressional and Ohio Republican Party sources. The sources said they expect the names of Flanagan and one or two other Ohio lawyers to be sent to the Reagan administration for consideration. Flanagan's claim on the nomination would be very strong, they said.

"He fits the basic criteria," one source said. "He's Ideologically conservative. He has trial experience. He has the Republican Party credentials." Flanagan was among five Ohio lawyers recommended by the state party early last year for a vacancy on the Southern Ohio U.S. District Court In Columbus.

The state's 10 Congress members agreed to send one of the names that of Fjanklin County Common Plras Judge Frank Reda to the Justice Department for The Justice Department since has asked for additional names for the appointment, and Flanagan Is expected to be one of those recommended, the sources said. On Thursday night, Flanagan said he had been told by state GOP chairman Michael Colley that he would be one of three submitted for consideration. "I still think It's a longshot," Flanagan said. "There are three and maybe more people to be considered. It's an honor to be considered." He said the Justice Department Investigation of the candidates would take at least four to six months, and as long as a year.

Pa inck Flanagan.