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Cleared Robbery Suspect Vows to Avoid Ohio Forever Bv BRUCE ELLISON, Daily News Staff Writer SPRINGFIELD When somebody asked Elisha R. Searles today if he planned to come back to Springfield, he told them, "Never! Never. I'm never even going to set foot in Ohio again." Searles. 50, a chief inspector for the Air Force at the General Motors diesel engine plant in Indianapolis, had just been freed of armed robbery charges by Clark county Common fleas court Judge Stanley Husted. IT HAD TAKEN Searles exactly six months to clear himself of charges that he had robbed a drugstore and a motel here, despite the fact that he could prove he had been at work in Indianapolis on the days the robberies occurred.

Searles, who had stopped here to buy a toothbrush on his way' back to Indianapolis from a family visit to New England, was arrested Aug. 13 by two city detectives as he left the drugstore. He was taken to police headquarters, he said, frisked and put in a lineup, where five persons "positively" identified him as the man who had robbed both businesses. ALTHOUGH SEARLES tried to show police his identification, he said today in a telephone interview from his home in Indianapolis, "Nobody ever checked my credentials or called my supervisor here, even though I offcrd to pay for the call. "When I told the detective what I did, and that I supervised 20 people here, he just smirked," Searles said.

Searles was jailed from Aug. 13, a Thursday, until the following Monday, hen his co-workers were able to get his bond lowered from $10,000 to $3,000, and raise the funds needed to free him. SEARLES RETURNED to his preliminary hearing here with affidavits from his co-workers, certifying that he had been at work in Indianapolis on the days the robberies occurred. He even produced a telephone bill that showed he had spoken from Indianapolis with his daughter in Washington only 17 minutes after one of the robberies occurred. His bond was increased back to $10,000, and he as jailed again.

After his wife scurried frantically to raise the additional money to get her husband out of jail, he said, officials decided they didn't want the increased bail after all, and released Searles. With Searles slated for trial in December, following his indictment on two armed robbery counts, his attorney, Thomas Bush got a continuance. He persuaded county Prosecutor James Berry to go with him to Indianapolis to talk with Searles' supervisor. Searles also took a lie detector test. WHEN THEY returned, prosecutor Berry agreed to ask that the charges be dropped and Judge Husted agreed Thursday, exactly six months after the bizarre tale began.

"Before this," Searles said after his release, "there was no greater believer in law enforcement than I. But now, when I read in the papers that someone has thrown a tomato at a policeman, I have to wonder whether he didn't deserve it," "I CAN'T SEE why I had to go through all this," he said, "when all they needed to do was check out my story." Searles added that in the lineup where five witnesses picked him out. he was placed along with men who had not even the slightest resemblance to him. One, he said, was over six feet tall, another bald. Searles, who holds several Air Force security clearances, was last Springfield in 1915 when he was stationed at Wright-Patterson Air Force base.

His stop for a toothbrush last summer was the first time in 26 years he has visited the city. And his last. "I will never go back there again.Never." EWS BAY THE WEATHER Sunny, colder Saturday; high 9-11. Chance of snow flurries tonight; low near zero, (More weather, Page 39.) Vol. 95, in.

127 TON DAILY Da) ton, Ohio, Friday, January 11, 1972 o2 Pages wi i' 1 yt 4 Get Out of i Y- Country, 7 K. HP II cheuer oviets Congressman Accused Of Stirring Up Jews MOSCOW (UPI) The Soviet Union today expelled visiting U.S. Congressman James H. Scheuer of New York for allegedly encouraging Jews to emigrate to Israel. 5P f-c (-' ir'V I' i i I Scheuer said the apparent motive was to break up a dinner party at the home of Alexander Lerner, a professor of cybernetics who left his teaching job at a Moscow institute last year because he applied to go to Israel.

The application later was rejected and Lerner has continued his efforts to emigrate. Scheuer said he met Lemer last week and was invited to the dinner to discuss Jewish problems in Russia. Krcr STREET, WROISG HOUSE Dorothy Irwin's house sustained $5,000 damage last February during an earthquake in Sylmar, Calif. But it suffered a lot worse than that when a bulldozer Thursday reduced it to a pile of rubble by mistake. The house to be demolished was a few doors down the street.

Mrs. Irwin says her house was valued at $24,500, and had been unoccupied since the earthquake, awaiting repairs. Channel 16 Gets Universities' Aid Winter To Stay; Near Zero Dae By TOM HOPKINS, Daily News Television Editor Funds for nighttime programming on Dayton's, new public television station are on the way, State Rep. Tony Hall (D-Dayton) said today. Pay Bill, Remap Fail in House REP JAMES H.

SCHEUER Held Four Hours TONY HALL Reveals Accord Channel 16. The funding agreement apparently means I i is back in. He was unavailable for comment. THE OHIO ETV Network commission has purchased the station from Kittyhawk Television Corp. The company's bankruptcy proceedings are now being completed.

The commission hopes to put Channel 16 on the air by mid-February. It has applied to the Federal Communications commission to change the call letters from WKTR to WOET (for Ohio Educational Television). Programming i i ial 1 would come from i a i 's WMUB. It would consist of the same a i and evening programs now seen on Channels 14 and 72. By RICHARD BRAGAW Dnily News Columbus Burtau COLUMBUS It took members of the Ohio House until 1:05 a.m.

today to accomplish absolutely nothing. 10 Cents Mother And Child Found Dead By JAYNE ELLISON Daily News Staff Writer A 22-year-old mother and one of her three young children were found dead this morning in their small white frame home at 304 Tyson Ave. in Residence Park. She was identified as Mrs. Sheila Banks, who neighbors said was separated from her husband.

The dead child was tentatively identified as Ronnie. TWO OTHER pre-school age boys, Teddy and Carl, were at the home when the police arrived about 10:30 a.m. today. Sources at the scene said the woman may have been raped and then killed. Dayton homicide detectives were measuring and photographing footprints in the snow leading away from the home.

A SCREEN on a window- of a back porch appeared to have been forced open. The coroner's office also was investigating. Next-door neighbors, r. and Mrs. Robert Stanley of 800 Tyson described Mrs.

Banks as 'very pretty," and said she was a quiet, sweet person, and a good mother who looked after her children. NEIGHBORS said the dead woman's divorce from her husband, Theodore Banks, would have been final on Jan. 26. Friends said Mrs. Banks had been attending college and working part time at an ice cream store.

They said the children usually were in a nursery school when she worked or went to school. A SPITZ dog at the Banks home kept up an almost continuous barking after the bodies were discovered this morn- ing. Mrs. Stanley said police had visited the Banks home Thursday to investigate what she thought was a theft or burglary. She said she understood a tape recorder had been taken.

bonds if the county didn't. Owners of the Gems have spurned a stock transfer deal that would have placed the Gems outside Dayton. Negotiations for disposal of the Gems is under way. CLOUD said a requested that county commissioners issue general obligation bonds because they are easier to sell due td their being backed by tax money. Deneau, who has said he will make application to the Community Improvement was not available for comment.

Meanwhile, it was learned from reliable sources that 1 a are. under way that would line up private capital to build the facility. With an inch and a half of snow and the coldest temperatures of the season so far, overdue wintry weather finally has come to the Dayton area and promises to stay awhile. The thermometer dropped to seven degrees this morning and the forecaster warned that tonight's low could be near zero. The mercury probably on't be much above 10 degrees on Saturday, he said.

BITTER COLD weather is expected to continue through Sunday and Monday, with a chance of snow and warmer temperatures about Tuesday. Today's reading is the coldest since last February. Previous low this winter was 10 on Jan. 6. 7 UPI Telepholo The project was hailed by the A EC as a momentous step toward development of a breeder reactor industry which President Nixcn has said would offer "our best hope for meeting the nation's growing demand for economical clean energy The AEC said construction of the plant will begin this year, probably at Sevier, about 63 miles from Knoxville.

Arena By John Thomas Daily News Staff Writer Paul a has been turned down in his attempt to SESTZlSTiSS obligation bonds to build a eat, $5-million sports arena in Dave Hall plaza. Commissioners Thomas A. Cloud 'f 'y ncau asked commissioners on Jan. 4 to issue general obliga- tion bonds lo build the arena, which would house the new World Hockey association franchise here. "It would be irresponsible for the county commissioners 10 lssue general obligation bonds for a hockey arena," Cloud explained.

GENERAL obligation bonds A U.S. embassy spokesman said the U.S. consul in Leningrad, Culver Gleysteen, informed the New York Democrat of the Soviet decision. Scheuer is in Leningrad with six other members of the U.S. of Representatives.

They are on an a i study tour. SCHEUER'S administrative assistant in Washington, David Cohen, said the Soviets also had protested the activities of the other members of the delegation, which is headed by Rep. John Brademas but did not order their expulsion. The Soviets singled out for criticism two members of the delegation Rep. Alphonzo Bell (R-Calif.) and Rep.

Earl Landgrebe The Russians charged that Landgrebe had handed out religious articles and literature, but no specific charges were mentioned against Bell. Cohen said the Soviet charges specified that Scheuer "sought meetings with a certain category of people to con-duct communications with them of a character hostile to the Soviet Union." COHEN SAID three speeffle charges were outlined against Scheuer: that he invited Soviet Jews to leave the Soviet Union, that he spoke in conversation of a new organization in the United States "which has as its aim to speak out against the existing sys-tcm in the Soviet Union," and that he gave a letter to his Soviet Jewish host Leonid Rigerman. Cohen said the Soviets claimed to have a copy of the letter to back up its charges, but did not reveal its contents. SCHEUER TOLD newsmen by telephone from Leningrad that he would fly to Stockholm today or Saturday. Scheuer told newsmen he had met some Soviet Jews while the group was in Moscow earlier this week "but all of them had previously made up their minds to seek emigration to Israel." Scheuer, who is Jewish, told newsmen in Moscow he was arrested Wednesday as he sat down to dinner at die home of a Jewish scientist who has tried to go to Israel.

"THEY TOOK me to the local pokey where I sat incommunicado for 40 minutes in a small room with a light bulb," he said. "It was a scene out of Kafka, or perhaps a Franz Lehar musical comedy." He was released with apologies. General would pledge the full faith and credit of the county, and, in case of default in payment of the bonds, tax money would be committed to pay them off. However, Cloud said, the Montgomery County Community Improvement Corp. probably would issue industrial revenue bonds for the project if three conditions are met.

Those are: Dayton city commissioners approve of putting the arena in the Dave Hall plaa on the northern part of block two, which is bounded by Main, Jefferson, Fourth and Filth Sts. Deneau and other backers of the World Hockey association resolve their differences with the Dayton Gems. Tennessee lo Gel 'Breeder9 A-Planl lecislator.s went into session at 11 a.m. Thursday, hoping to complete final action on state employe pay raises and congressional redisricting. After more than 14 hours of floor action, repeated recesses for party caucuses and committee meetings, neither bill passed the House.

THE SENATE, which ad-j in frustration late Wednesday night after an attempt to pass the redislricting bill failed, had. better luck Thursday. On reconsideration, the redislricting bill passed the Senaie, 22-8. It needed 22 votes to pass. "When the redislricting bill reached the House floor for concurrence in Senate amendments late last night, it needed 66 votes two-thirds of 99 House members to pass as an emergency measure.

The bill must pass as an emergency so it will take immediate effect and meet a Feb. 2 filing deadline. The bill received 62 yeas and 28 nays and was defeated. Later, it was reconsidered, but lost again, 63-26. Daytnn Democrats Tony P.

Hall and Thomas Fries ctcfl against the redislricting bill. Republicans David D. Albrit-ton, Frederick N. Young and John M. Scolt of Fairborn voted for it.

Rep. C. McLin Jr. (D-Dayton) was absent. THE REDISTRICTING bill went back to the Senate today, where a conference committee was called to try to resolve the differences between the two Houses.

The House vote on the bipartisan compromise plan to redraw Ohio's old 24 Congressional districts into 23 new districts was baffling because the Senate made few major changes in the plan approved by the House last week, 71-22. Nine House members including several who said they were fed up with the interminable legislative debate were absent Thursday. But last year's legislative session was the longest in Ohio history. EVEN MORE baffling was the House vote on the state employe pay raise bill. It would provide pay increases anticipated since last June for some 50,000 state employes.

The Senate passed the pay raise bill by a unanimous 'M voic last week. It had been introduced last Mar. 23. but was held up while legislators debated a budget and tax package. The pay raise bill also carried an emergency clause, so See PAY BILL, Page 3.

The presidents of i State, Miami and a 1 State universities have agreed to share the $33,000 cost of night-time transmission to e-tween February and July 1, taking money out of their operating budgets, Hall said at a press conference. AGREEMENT WAS based on a promise by John D. Millett, chairman of the Ohio Board of Regents, "that monies will be channelled down to the three universities" to insure night-time operation of Channel 16 between July 1, 1972 and July 1, 1973. The agreement is still subject to ratification by trustees of the three schools, but Hall said "iPs about as final as it can be." Frederick A. White and Robert Kegerreis, vice presidents of Wright State, said trustees will be asked at their February meeting "to authorize Wright State to operate Channel 16 in a consortium of other area schools.

"THIS REQUEST is based on the representations of Rep. Tony Hall that additional state funds will be forthcoming to support such broadcasting in the future." When the Ohio General As-s 1 cut out funds for night-time programming, Wright State president Brage Golding told Millett he wanted out of the consortium of the three universities that regents had designated to operate Bonds THOMAS A. CLOUD Three Conditions Developers show they can sell the industrial revnue bonds. Those are tax-free bonds, with only the credit of the developer backing them up. In case of default, the WASHINGTON HI Plans to construct a $500-m i 1 1 i "breeder" atomic power plant as a major step toward sharing maintenance of the nation's atomic power fuels for "tens of thousands of years" was announced today.

The Atomic Energy commission said the plant will be built in Tennessee and operated by the Commonwealth Edison Co. of Chicago and the Tennessee Valley Authority. The project would be the nation's first demonstration plant for producing atomic power, the A EC said, and at the same time it would breed new atomic fuel. Plan Rejected SIDE' Ren. MeCullodi Unlikely lo Run 1 Pen.

William M. McC'illuch is unlikely to seek re-election Amusements 32-34 from Ohio's Fourth Page 4. Bridge 33 FBI LIMITS CONTACT of agents with critics who might SdNwS '42 Classmed J9-49 cause ,1. Dcar Abby 28 TROY'S IIO'URC BUflS. CO.

elects chairman, new presi- 39 dent in srcui.i.'aRmd Page 20. Editorials 22,32 Home Family 27-29 NAI ION ECONOMY spumed early in 1971, then slowed Horoscope 32 to crawl, Commrr.e depart i.ient reports. Page 20. Magazine Page 26 DALLAS Rl spins Nu Bnoniconii's defensive talents as "cn Bchind Bars 37 much as Miami Dolphins Bob Lilly's. Si-inns.

Pace 1 1. mi leleviMiin 52 SWEtPi.V; CHANGES in criminal court rules proposed Vital Statistics 12 by Ohio Supremo cn-rt 9. Weather 39 I not the issuer, would be liable for paying off the bonds. City commission will hold a public hearing Jan. 27 to consider changing a development plan for block two to allow construction of the sports arena.

COMMISSIONER ohn C. Smith says he will vote against permitting the construction of the arena on the city-owned land. Smith and fellow commissioners Paul Roderer and Mayor James H. McGee also have come out against the city's issuing industrial revenue bonds for the project. Before Smith and Roderer be- came commissioners, the commission said it would issue the.