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Judge 'Despirits Liquor Agents for Empty Case Serial la The KkIIX Kmt OXFORD Two itate liquor agents took it on the chin In Butler county court. They even received lecture from the Judge on how to prepare casei. The agents won a minor victory in the cae of Peter S. Wendt of Oxford, on a charge of unlawful transportation of liquor, but lost three others. JUDGE CLEM IMFELD JR.

found Watt guilty, fined him $100 and costs, then said he didn't have to pay anything. Wendt was charged with buying beer on the Indiana side of College Corner and bringing it into Ohio, which is illegal, but is done all the time. Judge Imfeld chlded the agents for impounding Wcndt's automobile until the case was heard. He pointed out law permits an agent to release a car If valid bond is posted. The judge criticized failure of the agents to produce positive evidence that a drink allegedly sold to a minor by Agnes Wolf in an Okcana bar was alcoholic.

THE DEFENSE attorney for the 18-year-old girl said the only "proof" was the girl's statement she ordered a "screwdriver" and Miss Wolf sold it to her. "You should know better than to come to court without a chemical analysis of the drinks involved in these various cases," the judge told the agents. "You hnve facilities available to you. Why you show up without such analyses, the court doesn't know. You haven't given us the proof we need to find someone guilty beyond a reasonable doubt." The agents lost another case even though Henry Boyd of Oxford pleaded guilty to buying liquor in the College Corner package store and transiting it to Oxford.

The court ruled the section of law on which the agents made their arrest carries no penalty. "You lost the booze and the time you spent get-ting it," Judge Imfeld said, "but otherwise there is no penalty provided for the particular offense with which you are charged." THE AGENTS suffered a final defeat in the case of George W. Willis, driver of the car which took Boyd to College Corner. The court found him innocent of unlawful transportation of liquor. One of the agents Identified himself as David Meek.

The other, who muttered his name unintelligibly, refused to give his name later. "It's against the law to 'use our names," both protested. 'a :,1 Second Section Thursday, August 21, 1969 Page 11 ONE LEVY, OR TWO Greenville Facing Big School Decision Teachers Putter For Money, Fun Dull New 8hHby Comity Bureau 111 W. Footer eldnry. Mint SIDNEY Summer employment is no longer a problem for Boyd Marcum, John Wolfinger and Tom Fogt, all teaching staff employes of Sidney school system.

The three have owned and operated the Putter miniature golf course on Route 23A north of Sidney since March. They bought the business from another teacher, David Brickner, wlw operated Putter Golf last season. During the school year, Wolfinger teaches American government and directs the athletic program at Sidney high school. Marcum is principal at Parkwood and Port Jefferson elementary schools. Fogt coaches and teaches mathematics and algebra at Bridgeview middle school.

THE THREE teacher-businessmen set up their operation as a franchise, with Marcum serving as president, Wolfinger as vice president and Fogt as secretary. The outlay provides 18 holes in miniature golf and two baseball batting machines. "These are the only batting machines I know of in this area. Players come from as far as Lima to use them," Foft noted. Wolfinger commented, "This is a good business when It doesn't rain." He estimated that 300 to 330 persons use the Putter Golf facilities during a good weekend.

The three have installed new carpeting on the putting greens, completely remade one hole and plan to completely remake another. "Cutting the grass is the biggest problem," Marcum noted. He pointed out that the miniature golf fairways make irregular patterns in the lawn. "It takes about seven hours to do a good job on the grass," he said. THE BUSINESS requires about 70 hours of work each week, but the three operators stagger their schedules.

The toughest putting holes, Marcum said, are the "dog house" at number 4, the windmill at number 13, and a "water hole" at number 9, now under construction. Both Marcum and Wolfinger have masters' degrees In education. Fogt has been accepted as a master's candidate at the Xavier university college of business. "It's refreshing to work out-of-doors. We see many youngsters we work with at school.

This doesn't hurt our ncwal and additional) levys went down to defeat. Prior to that, the trend was more than 90 per cent in favor of passing combined issues. Ron Bonfiglio, the lone board member in favor of combining the issues, said the May election "shouldn't influence the whole pattern." "LAST MAY was the only time in the last several, years people were not overwhelm' ingly in favor of combined issues," Bonfiglio A final decision is to be made before the Sept 1 deadline. School officials apparently want to wait- until the last minute to find out how much state aid will be forthcoming. THREE SCHOOL TEACHERS ENJOY THEIR SUMMER EMPLOYMENT Miniature Golf Course flood Public Relations With Youngsters Two Diamonds' To Spout Water Icuching public relations," Wolfinger commented.

Recently, L'5 youngsters competed in a "player appreciation" miniature golf tournament. TOURNAMENT play was in three divisions, full handicap, in which all qualifying rounds determined han-. (Ii up: 80 jier cent handicap and no handicap. Brien McGee won the no-handicap division with a 95 total for 36 holes. Don Snavley was runner-up with a 96 total.

Fogt commented, "Where else around here can you play miniature golf and hear Cincinnati Reds games at the- same time?" 'This is a good business when it doesn't Daily Dark County Burma 3li4 Hruver lirernvllle By JACK WILLEY GREENVILLE School officials here must make a decision between two adages. Should they shoot the works? Or is a bird in the hand worth two in the bush? THE QUESTION centers on recommendation submitted last week by a citizens' education committee. The group wants a new five-mill tax on the November ballot An old levy of 16.3 mills is up for renewal. The question to be resolved is whether the issues should be separate or combined. Four of five board mem- bers have indicated a reluc- tance in combining the re- quests.

The committee voted overwhelmingly to package the millage. The board members are re- 1 luctant because they feel an all-or-nothing stand of 21.3 -mills is too risky. "There is a big danger in putting them both together," said board president James Mannix after hearing the com- mittee's recomm endation. "We need both, but we have to have the renewal in order to keep the schools open. If we lose both, then we're really in trouble." Projected figures show the I system will be in trouble either way.

By the end of 1970, the prediction is schools will be $138,000 in the red. The board has one alter- 5 Dally New Miami Comity Hurra 11 S. Plum MM Troy TROY Facilities to treat enough water for decades got the traditional launch Wednesday. shovel! on wielded the gold-plated Mayor Ivan Terrell the 6.5-acre site. All three are Reds rooters.

Sometimes, they admit. business is better than pleasure. Repeal Income Tax, Tipp Manager Asks TWO LITTLE LEAGUE baseball fields were casualties of progress. According to Franklin Ruck, water works superintendent, the eight-million-gallon plant will be in operation in 640 calendar days. The present plant, built in 1937 and enlarged in 1952,.

has a capacity of two million gallons a day. Ruck said the new plant can be enlarged to handle 16 million gallons every 24 hours. OVER THE past several years Troy has spent $434,000 to upgrade water wells and the distribution Water rates were doubled in 1968 to pay for the pro posed improvement which also includes an elevated storage tank, two wells and distribution lines. Overall cost of the package is pegged at $3.2 million. about $120,000 annually.

"Anyone closely associated with Tipp City government is aware of needs, the village manager said, "but citizens want a more specific plan for the allocation of these funds." Council is expected to take a close look at Jen-kin's recommendation when it meets in September. The village manager assured council that if there is citizen objection to a future income tax proposal, it will also be subject to a referendum. JENKINS BECAME village manager May 5 under the village's new charter. If council exercises its perogative and repeals the .8 per cent tax the issue would be dropped from the ballot. additional sources of revenue in 1970.

Any income tax proposal should be closely tied to a thorough examination of what expenditure pressures will have to be met next year and beyond and the revenue which could be expected from the various rates of taxation." JENKINS said the original tax measure fails to name specific purposes for which the money would be applied. The ordinance states the tax is necessary "to provide funds for general municipal operations, maintenance, new equipment, extension and enlargement of municipal services, facilities and capital improvements." ESTIMATES ARE that the tax will produce Dlly News Miami County Bureau i'i 8. Plum Trey TIPP CITY Village Manager Martin Jenkins has asked council to repeal its .8 per cent income tax because he feels revenue needs should be spelled out in a specific program. Actually the tax, which had been reduced from 1 per cent and adopted last Nov. 7, never went into effect.

Opponents blocked collection with a referendum which is set for this fall's general election. "I THINK THE current ordinance should be repealed," Jenkins told village fathers, "so we'll have time to consider Tipp City's fiscal position carefully. "We know the general fund is going to need Officials Look Over I Waste Plant Proposal STOLEN 1906 FILM TOO HOT TO HANDLE Nurse Attack Suspect Issues Denial on Stand native. If voters defeated a combined levy in November, officials could come back in December with a special election on the renewal. They could also seek approval of separate issues.

Five years ago, city voters rejected a three-mill increase in two separate elections. Later, with backing from the citizen's committee, a 4.5-mill increase was approver overwhelmingly. The four board members who lean toward separate issues are Richard Gower, Dr. Jack Lehman, William Rhoades and Mannix. Gower cited last May's election as another reason.

In that election, more than 52 per cent of all combined (re- Wreck mils Motorcyclist MASON A motorcyclist died Wednesday after he collided with a car that made a left turn into his path, the state patrol reported. Richard L. Koch, 24, of Mason, died in Hamilton Mercy hospital two hours after the accident at 4:35 p.m. He was the father of a 3-year-old-boy. The patrol said Koch was northbound on U.S.

42 at the south edge of Mason when he struck a southbound car driven by Arthur R. Wise, 63, of Mason. Dally Nr Warm County Buna 2ti Bunk Lebanon FRANKLIN A new process of garbage and trash disposal was demonstrated Wednesday in Middletown for city, county, and township officials in Butler county and the Franklin area. The disposal system at Black-Clawson Co. is a scaled-down version of a million-dollar solid-waste treatment plant proposed at Franklin.

Construction could begin early next year if a two-thirds federal grant is awarded on schedule. The plant would be finished late next summer, lt would handle solid wastes from the Franklin-Carlisle-Springboro area. CARLISLE councilmen and a 1 in township trustees learned details of the process LOS ANGELES Ml Officials at the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History are a little shaky about the thief who stole a 15-minute film of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. They're afraid he might try to show it. The movie, in addition to its age, has a nitroglycerine base.

If viewed on modern-day equipment, it might explode endangering the projectionist and possibly others present. The film, described as the only copy in existence, disappeared from a desk at the museum over the week end. A museum curator estimated its value at $5,000. J. Stewart, asked him.

"No, sir," the youth replied. Williams said he spent several hours that February Monday with Richard Mc-Cambry, who is also under indictment for the assault, whom he identified as being a friend of his brother. The youth said he and Mc-Cambry had started for the Harriet St. home of a relative of McCambry's when an acquaintance picked them up and took them for a ride in his new car. THEIR CAR developed trouble, he said, and they By WALTER MORRISON Daily News Staff Writer Billy Eugene Williams, 19, who is being tried for the rape of a Dayton nurse, Wednesday denied from the witness stand that he took part in the Feb.

10 attack. Williams did say he spent part of the day in the com- pany of one of the eight' youths indicted for the attack and that he knew some of the persons arrested for the offense by name or on sight. "DID YOU rape this nurse?" Williams' court-appointed attorney, Clarence Wednesday night and saw a movie of the Black-Clawson operation. Local officials from Butler county were invited to the demonstration because, that county is considering acquiring land for a sanitary landfill to serve the county. The problem with landfills, Franklin city manager Bernard Eichholz said is that good landfill sites are becoming scarce and landfills are a possible source of pollution for underground water supplies.

Black-Clawson engineer William Herbert said the new process reduces the volume of solid waste by 90 percent, and the inert residue can be buried without threat of pollution. PART OF the process is a liquid pulping machine that converts all organic waste, including sewage sludge, into a flaky material that would be incinerated with almost no residue. Inorganic materials such as glass or metal would be compressed and cast out and later buried. Officials a Wednesday's meeting also heard Miami conservancy district engineer Wesley Flower tell of the regional sewage treatment plant the conservancy plans to build and operate on a 230 acre riverside site at Neighbors Thwart Y. Springs Abductors drove into a Stewart St.

service station where it was repaired. Williams, a barber, said he then went to the shop at N. Broadway St. and W. Riverview Ave.

where he prepared for the next day's work. Leaving the shop about midnight, Williams said, he could not get a bus and went into a W. Third St. bowling alley where he ran into a Middle-town friend, known to him only as "Bobby." "Bobby had two girls with him and we went to the Hoover lanes," Williams said, After bowling and eating, the youth said he asked to be driven home and arrived at his N. Kilmer St.

residence around 1:15 a.m. WILLIAMS denied knowing the nurse or ever having seen her before her appearance in court Tuesday morning. During Williams' cross-examination, Herbert M. Jacob-son, who is conducting the prosecution, asked if he had ever tried to reach the Middle-town persons he had mentioned. "I've written letters, but some have come back, and some may not have gone out," Williams replied.

ASKED BY Jacobson if he had discussed his actions that day with his mother, Williams Cashier Named PIQUA Larry W. Cathcart, who has been employed by the Miami Citizens National Bank and Trust Co. since 1958, has been elected cashier, according to R. M. Davis, president.

break-in at another home. The youth was questioned after the owner saw someone crawling from a window. Cecile Wins 'Vote' For Lt. Governor Job The Dally Xrm iwne County Bnrrnu SO 8. Itetrolt Xeula YELLOW SPRINGS An apparent abduction was thwarted about midnight Wednesday when a girl's screams brought people from their homes to investigate, Investigation disclosed that two men in a car attempted to abduct a 20-year-old Yellow Springs woman who was walking near High and Center Col lege Streets.

She said the car was a light blue 1967 or 1968 model. Sidney to Get New Bridge Next Year; Fair May Suffer Democratic chairman Eugene P. O'Grady and State Sen. Douglas Applegate (D -S u-benville). In the governor's slot, John J.

Giliigan polled 60 per cent of the votes cast during the week-long fair. Former Astronaut John H. Glenn narrowly edged out Giliigan and Sen. Stephen M. Young as the favorite for U.S.

senator. Giliigan received 296 of 1,024 votes cast, while Giliigan and Young each garnered 243. Others receiving consideration for the U.S. senate seat were former Gov. Michael V.

DiSalle, former U.S. Rep. Robert E. Sweeney of Cleveland and U.S. Rep.

Charles A Vanik, also of Cleveland. SPRINGFIELD -Robert E. Cecile, a Central state professor who has indicated he may be a candidate for lieutenant governor in 1970, received 71 percent of ,089 votes cast for that office during a straw poll at the Democratic Party booth at the Clark county fair last week. Cecile, an Enon resident who was the unsuccessful Democratic nominee for U.S. representative from the Sev-enth Congressional district last fall, said today he has not decided whether to seek the lieutenant governor's seat next year.

HE OUTPOLLED former Atty. Gen. Mark McElroy, former state Democratic chief William L. Coleman, present Franklin. THIS project also awaits a federal grant amounting tp nearly half the $1.3 million construction costs.

Flower said the time table calls for construction to start next spring and to finish in late summer. The plant would hanriie sewage from Franklin and the five paper mills there. It also could take sewage from Carlisle, which has no sewer system now, and from Chautauqua and subdivisions in the Clearcreek basin. Dally Nrw Shflby County Bnrpan IIS W. Poplar Sidney.

Ohio SIDNEY Work on a new Fair Rd. bridge over Penn-Central railroad tracks may begin next year, a possibility which will please most motorists and irritate six property owners and the Shelby county fair board. A new $500,000 level bridge with a four-lane approach would replace a deteriorated two-lane "camel-back" bridge which offers limited visibility to motorists. But the project would take two acres off the south-southwest corner of the fairgrounds and part or all of six residential properties. FRED LINKER, president of the fair board, estimated the fairgrounds would lose 150 to 200 parking spaces to the bridge project.

Several of the property owners have indicated that they may take action to block acquisition of their properties. William Fultz, Shelby county engineer, said property owners would have ample time to relocate and would receive pay for property damages or relocation costs. Fultz hopes to have matters settled in time to take bids by early next spring. FEDERAL funds total 80 per cent of the project. Shelby county and Sidney will pay the balance.

Stricklen-Belsheim and Associates, Worthington, are preparing plans. SHE SAID one of two men in the car jumped out and tried to grab her. She screamed and ran, she told officers, and the men drove away when several persons came out of their home to investigate. Yellow Springs police are also investigating the theft of a television set from a home. The door of the home had been jimmied police said.

A 13-year-old boy was questioned in connection with a said he had talked about it with her. "She would always start crying," he said. Williams said, under cross-examination, he had signed a statement waiving his "Miranda rights." He said T. J. Spells, a Dayton patrolman, had told him "Go ahead and sign and be as truthful as you can." 7 I.