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2B SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1993 DAYTON DAILY NEWS Metro State Channel 14 gets grant for upgrade he said. "Sometimes early morning fog and mist will affect the microwave, system and we can't even get our signal down there." Channel 14 also is getting a boost from new Federal Communications Commission rules that require cable systems to pick up all stations in the broadcasting market. Continental Cablevision recently added the station on its Greater Dayton system, and Dayton Viacom will add Channel 14 on Oct. 6. Fogarty estimates that 400,000 cable subscribers in the Miami Valley will be getting Channel 14 by October.

Channel 14 also was added by Warner Cable in Cincinnati on Sept. 1 as well as on cable systems in Middletown and Hamilton. ago, when the Oxford station began a lineup of educational and instructional programming. Programs are relayed from the WPTDWPTO control room in Dayton to an antenna on German-town Road to an antenna in College Corner to the receiver at Miami University in Oxford. The new system will eliminate the College Corner site.

Fogarty said the improvements won't increase Channel 14's power or its coverage area, which ranges from the southern tip of Dayton southward past Middletown and Hamilton. "But viewers will see a better signal." Fred Stone, chief engineer for Greater Dayton, called the microwave system "a little deficient." "It tends to break down often," pay for a transmitter and microwave antenna system, to be replaced over the next 18 months. The grant represents half of the cost of the project almost $1 million. Greater Dayton, which operates Channel 14 and WPTD-TV (Channel 16), Dayton's PBS affiliate, will seek additional support from state and local sources to match the grant. "The equipment is very antiquated.

It's about time," said U.S. Rep. Tony Hall, D-Dayton, who announced the grant Friday. "This is very good news for people who care about public education." Hall said it was the largest NTIA grant given to any Ohio station this year. Channels 14 and 16 had simulcast programming until 14 months By Tom Hopkins DAYTON DAILY NEWS One morning in August, viewers tuned into WPTO-TV (Channel 14) in Oxford, expecting to see the station come on the air at 7 a.m.

They were disappointed. The station didn't sign on until 11 that morning. "We've got equipment at Channel 14 in Oxford that is as old as the station, and that's 34 years old," said David Fogarty, president and general manager of Greater Dayton Public Television. "It's time for an update." The update is coming, thanks to a $492,138 grant from the U.S. Commerce Department and its National Telecommunications and Information Agency.

Fogarty said the grant will help AVEY, Helen Jane, 89, formerly of Dayton, Wednesday in Dale City, Va. Marker Heller, North Main Street CALL, Kathy Jo, 37, of Dayton, Friday. (George C. Martin) CLARK, the Rev. Ernest, 81, of Miamisburg, Friday.

Services 10 a.m. Tuesday, West Carrollton Church of the Nazarene. (Swart) DWYER, V. William, 74, of 4032 N. Main Thursday.

Services 10 a.m. Tuesday. (Neeld, Xenia) FISHER, John 78, of Kettering, Wednesday. Mass of Christian Burial 10 a.m. Monday, St.

Mary Catholic Church. (Meyer GIBBONS, Anna BeUe, 61, of 1341 Reid Xenia, Friday. Services 10:30 a.m. Tuesday. (McColaugh, Xenia) KESTER, Helen L.

(Stout), 71, formerly of Dayton, of Cincinnati, Thursday. Services 4:30 p.m. Sunday. (Ho-dapp, Cincinnati) KNOOP, Shirley 63, of Dayton, Thursday. Services 10:30 a.m.

Tuesday. (Baker-Hazel) McCOY, Henry, 45, of Dayton, Thursday. Services 2 p.m. Sunday, Peebles Church of Christ. (Wallace-Thompson, Peebles) McGUIRE, Robert Dixon, 69, of Dayton, Wednesday.

Services 1 p.m. Monday, McKinley United Methodist Church. (Loritts) PETERS, Samuel, 67, of Greenewood Manor, Xenia, Tuesday. Private services. (Neeld, Xenia) PETTICREW, Donald 65, of West Carrollton, Thursday.

Services 10:30 a.m. Monday. (Gebhart-Schmidt-Par- ramore) PURVIS, Joel 62, of Beavercreek, Thursday. Services 11 a.m. Monday.

(Tobias, Beavercreek) ROSENSWEET, Robert 60, formerly of Dayton, of Sunrise, Friday. (Marker Heller, North Main Street) SCOTT, Gabriel Lena, 75, of Dayton, Thursday. (House of Wheat) SHANK, Robert Michael, 82, formerly of Dayton, of Tamarac, Thursday. Service 10 a.m. Monday.

(Mason, Tamarac) SMITH, Louesa 97, of Dayton, Thursday. Services 10 a.m. Friday (Baker-Hazel) SNYDER, Robert, 80, of Washington Twp Sept. 11. Services 11 a.m.

Monday. (Tobias, Watervliet Avenue) TERREY, Mary Margaret, 88, of Beavercreek Thursday at The Villa, Fair-bom. Mass of Christian Burial 10:30 a.m. Monday, Ascension Catholic Church. (Tobias, Beavercreek) THORNTON, Emma, 85, of Dayton, Thursday.

(McLin, Northern Hills) TSIKAS, Vasilios, 70, of Oakwood, Thursday. Services 10 a.m. Monday, Greek Orthodox Church. (Meyer Boehmer) WILLIAMS, Jeanette 74, of Dayton, Friday. Services 2 p.m.

Monday. (Terebinski) WYATT, Carl 82, of Beavercreek, Thursday. Services 2 p.m. Sunday. (Tobias, Beavercreek) YOUNT, Harry 65, formerly of Dayton, of Vera Beach, Sept.

1. (River Cremations Vero Beach) 2 local hospitals to offer free prostate cancer screenings What: Free screenings for prostate cancer. Whan: Starting Monday for KMC and Sycamore; Sept. 27 for St. E.

Where: Kettering Ptaza, 1259 E. Dorothy Lane, Kettering; Sycamore Ambulatory Medicine Center, 2150 Leiter Road, Miamisburg; St. Elizabeth Family Practice Center, 601 Edwin E. Moses Dayton. How: By appointment only.

Kettering or Sycamore, call 296-7899. St. Elizabeth, call ASSOCIATED PRESS Honest Abe has believable look-alike Former state Rep. Bob Hagan, portraying Abraham Lincoln, is greeted by children in Lincoln hats after he spoke Thursday at the rededication of a plaque commemorating a speech at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus by President Lincoln in 1859. BEAVER: Alta Mae Bowman, 46, Thursday.

Services 1 p.m. Sunday. (Cox) CAMDEN: Isabelle Harris, 70, of 245 3. Main Friday. Services 2 p.m.

Monday. (R.C. Nein Sons) GERMANTOWN: Larry A. Barnhart, 61, Friday. Services 10 a.m.

Monday. (Dalton) JACKSON CENTER: Barbara K. Dudgeon, 44, of 17191 Morris-Rose Road, Wednesday. Services 11 a.m. Sept.

25. (Van Horn) LEWISBURG: Carolyn L. Scott, 41, of Sonora Road, Thursday. Services 3 p.m. today.

(Barnes) PIQUA: Judith K. Branson, 52, of 9010 KnouffRoad, Thursday. Memorial services 2 p.m. Sunday, Westminster Presbyterian Church. (Jamieson Yannucci) ST.

MARYS: Maxine M. Gottschalk 61, of 119 Cherry Thursday. Services 2:30 p.m. Monday, St. Paul's United Church of Christ.

Folk) SIDNEY: Rodney H. Kay, 68, formerly of Sidney, of Columbus, Thursday. Services 1 p.m. Monday. (Cromes) SPRINGBORO: Robert John Adams, 45, of 65 Deer Trail, Thursday.

Services 7:30 p.m. Monday. (Unglesby-Anderson) TROY: Irene L. (Werts) Laughman, 67, Friday. Graveside services noon Sunday, Casstown Cemetery.

(Baird) TROY: Bobby W. South, 59, Friday. Services 2 p.m. Monday. (Baird) TROY: Jean (Frankel) Weinberger, 91, formerly of Troy, Thursday in Cincinnati.

Graveside services 1 1 a.m. Sunday, Beth Abraham Cemetery, Dayton. (Bradford-Connelly Glickler, Dayton) WAPAKONETA John F. Weber, 73, of Bay Road, Thursday. Mass of Christian Burial 10:30 a.m.

Monday, St. Patrick Catholic Church, Glynwood. WAYNESVILLE: Martin O. Boggs, 71, Friday. (Stubbs-Conner) WORTH INGTON: Robert T.

Boggs, 66, formerly of Worthington, of Browns-burg, Thursday in Cumberland Lake, Ky. Services 1 p.m. Monday. (Rutherford-Corbin, Worthington) By Julia Helgason DAYTON DAILY NEWS Prostate cancer has outpaced lung cancer as the most common cancer in American men, striking one in 10 by age 80. The prostate is the gland that produces semen.

About the size of a walnut, it is located below the bladder and above the rectum. Though prostate cancer is rare in Africa, black Americans have the highest rate of any group in the world. The rate for black Americans is 40 percent higher than for white Americans. The reason is unclear. Some researchers suggest dietary factors might play a role.

Detected in the early stages, prostate cancer is highly treatable. Fifty-eight percent survive if treated before the cancer spreads. Periodic prostate exams are recommended for all men over 40. To assist with early detection and to observe Prostate Cancer Awareness Week, two Dayton-area hospitals will offer free screenings. In addition to rectal exams, some men will also have blood tests as part of a nationally sponsored study.

Kettering Medical Center will conduct free exams weekdays starting Monday at two locations: Kettering Plaza, 1259 E. Dorothy Lane, Kettering, and Sycamore Ambulatory Medicine Center, 2150 Leiter Road, Miamisburg. The screenings are by appointment only and may be scheduled by calling 296-7899. St. Elizabeth Medical Center and WHIO-TV will sponsor their fifth annual prostate screening beginning Sept.

27, at St. E's Family Practice Center. Exams are by appointment only, and can be scheduled by calling 229-7070. FROM WIRE SERVICES VOINOVICH 4TH ON GOVERNORS' SALARY LIST: Gov. George Voinovich's $110,250 salary was the fourth-highest among state governors, according to a Money magazine survey of salaries and perks.

Money magazine's seven-month study of salaries, housing, transportation, pensions and other benefits of all 50 governors will be published in the October issue. The average salary for governors was $85,000, but most receive additional money in fringe benefits and fees. 2 CHILDREN PULLED FROM CINCINNATI FIRE: Two children were critically injured in an apartment fire in a near-downtown Cincinnati neighborhood. Firefighters pulled Demetrius Stokes, 3, and Shuantel Kelly, 4, from a burning second-floor bedroom Thursday. The children were in critical condition Friday at the Shriners Burns Institute.

The children and their mother, Rochelle Stokes, 22, had been visiting a friend, Elinor Kennedy, 21, in the building. CORONER SAYS INMATE WASNT BEATEN: The Lucas County coroner said there was no evidence police had beaten a black man Teens Slaying case defendant wants hearing closed Prosecutor, media object to motion who collapsed while in custody Sunday and died Monday. Toledo police Chief Marti Felker said Thursday the department will not investigate further unless it is determined that John Toyer, 40, of I oieao aid not die from natural causes. DIESEL FUEL SPILLS INTO CREEK: Ohio wildlife officials continued Friday to assess the damage a diesel oil spill caused to a creek is the main source of drinking water for Fort Wayne, Ind. Edgerton fire Chief Scott Blue said about 8,000 gallons of diesel fuel from a ruptured pipeline spilled into Fish Creek, a St.

Joseph River tributary in northwest Ohio. The pipeline, which Norco Pipeline Co. owns, broke in a field Wednesday in DeKalb County, Ind. 2 RESCUED AFTER HOURS ADRIFT ON LAKE ERIE: Two men had to tread water for about 10 hours after the mast snapped on their 18-foot catamaran and it capsized on Lake Erie near Geneva. Patrick Quinn, 37, and James Cermak, 34, managed to reach shore early Thursday.

The catamaran capsized soon after the two left from Geneva Sailing Club on Wednesday. HEATH WOMAN KILLED WHEN CAR LOSES CONTROL: An Ohio woman was killed when the car she was riding in went out of control on westbound Interstate 68 in Preston County, W.Va., a sheriffs deputy said. Kinue Rote, 63, of Heath was thrown from the car Thursday after it entered the median, overturned and landed back on its wheels, Deputy Bob DeLauder said. The driver, Mariko Harris, 66, of Columbus, was in good condition Friday at Ruby Memori- al Hospital in Morgantown, an admissions clerk said. HARRISON HOPES TO LAND GUARD CENTER: Harrison County officials hope that an Ohio National Guard training center, which 'will provide 200 to 300 full-time jobs, will be built in the county.

Harrison County is offering a site that lies in parts of Athens, Moorefleld, Short Creek and Cadiz townships. ByRobModic DAYTON DAILY NEWS A defendant in the death of a 3-year-old boy wants a judge to close a court hearing on the evidence against him. However, a prosecutor and an editor of the Dayton Daily News said they intend to oppose the request. Mary E. Donovan, representing Glenn Weatherspoon on a charge of involuntary manslaughter, filed the motion this week in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court.

"His case has already received widespread media attention. To date, at least 20 articles have appeared in the Dayton Daily News alone. The case has also received local and regional broadcast coverage. This case has proven to be a media bonanza which has already jeopardized Glenn's right to a fair and impartial jury," Donovan wrote to Judge Patrick Foley. Duehart died Jury 18 at Children's Medical Center.

He was found unconscious in his home, 1950 Republic Drive, after his mother, Shtunka Duehart, called 911. Nicholas Gerren, who represents the mother as a co-defendant, said he had no objections to media coverage of the hearing scheduled before Foley on Wednesday. A trial date has not been set for the pair. Leon Daidone, assistant county prosecutor, said he intends to oppose Donovan's motion with a reply to be filed next week. Max Jennings, editor of the Dayton Daily News, said Friday that the newspaper had filed objections on Friday to the request.

The Miami Valley Broadcasting WHIO-TV, Channel 7, joined the newspaper in its effort to keep the hearing open. Duehart, 18, and Weatherspoon, 31, her fiance, are being held in the Dayton-Montgomery County Jail on $200,000 bonds. Earlier this week, the couple also was charged in connection with welfare fraud. Duehart was charged with three counts of grand theft. Weatherspoon was charged with six counts of complicity to commit grand theft.

I laid down the rules he said he wasn't coming home. Thompson said she also had problems with Clemmons' older brother, Anthony Clemmons, 18, who is in prison on robbery charges. She said her son Terry and his twin brother, Jerry, often did not want to get up and go to school. Clemmons' probation officer told referee Cross that the teen had not followed the probation rules since he had been released. Thompson told the court that her son did not come home on a daily basis and did not keep a curfew.

"He started hanging around in the streets and got with other kids whose parents don't care," Thompson said. "He was driving a car and he doesn't have a license." At the maroon two-story Home Avenue house that Shirley Grant shares with several family friends, Ramona Chappel sat on a torn and sagging couch worrying about her son, Raymond Chappel, for whom police are still looking. She said she saw her son Thursday and asked him why he wouldn't turn himself in. "He just seen what happened," Chappel said. "He's scared.

He knows he's in trouble and going to get locked up anyway for staying out late and breaking his probation. He says he's not ready to do his time." All three mothers described their children as unwilling to live under their rules. "They don't like anybody telling them what to do," Ramona Chappel said. She said she finally relinquished her son to a foster family after he continually ran away. Chappel said Raymond lives with a foster family and spent a month in a group home this summer.

Tara Hall, 24, a family friend who also lives at the Grant home, said the teens just wanted to grow up too fast: "They all just want to be grown-ups. They can't be grown. They're still kids and they got to listen to somebody." CONTINUED FROMIB searching for clean clothes to wear to her son's arraignment. "I heard they was pushing. I told them: 'If you do it, I don't want to see you selling it from my She said as many as 15 teenagers would hang out in front of her house.

All she could do was move them down the street. Grant admits she is a former crack addict who's gone through treatment and is still struggling. Since homicide detectives arrested James Grant on Thursday afternoon, Grant says she has been looking for her 19-year-old son. Sgt. Larry Grossnickle said police believe the 19-year-old shot the gun that killed Johnson, and police plan to seek murder charges.

"He probably did it. But if he did it he needs to give it up," Shirley Grant said of her son Travis. "His friends say he's shook up and nervous. He's slow in the mind. He's in a second-grade book at school.

He's 19 but he plays like a 9-year-old child." Dayton police have been unable to find the handgun that was used to shoot Johnson as he sat in the driver's seat of a borrowed pickup truck in the 300 block of College. Johnson pulled away in an attempt to flee, but the truck stopped when it hit several parked cars. He later died at St. Elizabeth Medical Center. On Friday, probation officer Roy Mollis blamed lack of attention by the teens' parents for their troubles with the law.

"Basically there's not a lot of defined rules," he said of Clemmons' family. "The family is totally fragmented. In this situation, I think definitely James and Terry were not bad kids. Had the parents been more focused, had they shown more attention to the kids, they would not be here today." Hollis said all four teen-agers connected with the slaying have been tested as slow learners at school. Tammy Thompson admitted she had lost control of her son, Terry Clemmons, who had not returned home since he was released from the state's Training Center for Youth in Columbus, where he was serving a six-month sentence for stealing cars.

She said her son was still a freshman at Belmont High School. Shirley Grant said Clemmons had been living with her off and on for three years. "He wanted to stay with friends," Thompson said. "He'd come over every blue moon. I'm very strict and didn't like him running around with his friends.

After Clinic Tip leads authorities to county jail escapee CONTINUED FROMIB Bob Bent, of the Jericho Project, local arm of the more militant Operation Rescue group, said he did dot know Allen. He said Jericho members "are committed to nonviolence in word and deed against persons or property." Melanie Miles, executive director or the Right to Life Society of Oreater Dayton, said she ran a membership check and did not find Allen's name. Neighbors on Wltherby Drive said they, too, knew nothing of Allen in relation to the antl-abortlon movement. And they hadn't seen him carrying guns. They Just knew him as a man who drinks, and police said they hive records of several complaints dfeainst Allen Involving intoxlca-tion dating back a number of windows." But the same residents said that Allen and his widowed mother, Ann, with whom he lives, have been good neighbors.

Neither Allen nor his mother could be reached for comment. At the Women's Med Center on Friday afternoon, two employees were using scrubbers and high-pressure hoses to try to remove the red paint splattered on the steps and driveway. Police said evidence on Allen and in his car linked him to the incident, which could result in a criminal damaging charge. Other weapons charges also are possible, police said. An employee at the clinic declined to comment, referring questions to the clinic's doctor.

Dr. Martin HaskeU, who could not be reached. In Kettering Municipal Court on Friday. Judge Larry Moore continued Allen's arraignment until 9 a.m. next Friday.

Allen was released on $2,000 cash ball The rifle was kept as evidence. By Anna Cearley DAYTON DAILY NEWS Daniel Russell Nixon, who slipped out of the Dayton-Montgomery County Jail in August, surrendered to police Friday morning after an anonymous tip led them to the Vandalia residence where he was staying. "We are very happy to have him back in our custody and we will make every effort to make sure he is here for the rest of his incarceration," Jail administrator James Olin said. Nixon, 21. escaped from the jail Aug.

24 after he and another inmate forced open the lock of a Janitors' closet with a plastic comb and left through a plumbing access panel that led to an outside hallway. The escape raised concerns over the effectiveness of the new $19 million jail addition, where the two were staying, that opened in June. The other escapee, Paul E. Means, 33, was arrested a day after the escape at a bar In the 2000 block of East Third Street. Vandalia police received an anonymous tip Just before 5 a.m.

Friday that Nixon was staying in a Vandalia residence on Whitehorn Drive. Officers drove out to the home and spoke with Nixon over the phone. After two hours of negotiations, Including assistance from Nixon's family members, Nixon surrendered and was whisked back to the Montgomery County Jail. Nixon will be arraigned Tuesday In Montgomery County Common Pleas Court on an escape charge. GET IT VHe ud at all hours, and vou ap near ms utu aticccmiiK uuwn im driveway," said one neighbor "We always wonder when It might come through one of our.