Gazette News-Current from Xenia, Ohio • Page 9

2ND MAN RELEASED Rape, kidnaping are charged in abduction FOR FIRE VICTIMS A 25-YEAR-old Fairborn man has been charged with kidnaping a 19-year-old woman who was abducted from Fairbqrn and raped in a corn field off Trebein Rd. in Bath Twp. Monday.night. Charged is Willis E. Dupree of 10889 Haddix Rd, Charges have not been filed against a second man, who was arrested with Dupree by Sheriff's Del.

Vauglm Mitchell Tuesday night. Information concerning the rape, abduction, and arrest of the two men was not released to the Daily Gazette until Wednesday afternoon. Oct. Mitchell reports the rape allegedly occurred late Monday night. The woman told detectives she was walking along S.

Maple Ave. in Fairborn near the overpass when a man got out of an auto and approached her. He forced her into the car, driven by a second man, and she was driven to Trebein Rd. The woman reported one of the men took her into a field and raped her while the second drove around the area. She was then driven back to Fairborn and released on Grant St.

She was taken to Greene Memorial Hospital for observation. SHE TOLD detectives that during the course of the abduction, she "played up" to the men, as not to be harmed, She reported she convinced one of the men that she liked him, and gave him the name and phone number of a girlfriend. Police contacted the woman and Tuesday the man called her. A meeting was set up at the Fairborn Baker High School parking lot between the woman and the two men. Police were waiting in the lot instead.

At about 9 p.m. Del. Mitchell and Fairborn police arrested the two men who went into the lot. Dupree was taken to Fairborn city jail, and the second man was taken to county jail, then released pending further investigation. Fire destroys barn Fire destroyed a large barn on US 35E, one mile east of Jamestown, Wednesday afternoon.

The barn was located on a farm owned by James Crothers, of 5636 Spalir Rd. Jamestown fire officials report arson is being investigated as a possible cause, and state fire marshals have been called in to i i a i deputies report children had been playing in the area in the past, and it was learned this morning that a tractor in the barn had been moved. The fire reportedly began at about 3 p.m., and units from the Jamestown, New Jasper Twp, and Silver- creek Twp. fire departments responded, but could not arrive in time to save the barn. Inside, 90 head of hogs, at least seven cows, a tractor, a gravity wagon, and a large amount of hay and straw were destroyed.

Mrs. said this morning that there was no dollar loss estimate as yet. "We are still taking inventory to see what all was lost inside," she said, She added, however, that the loss would be considerable. new precincts are drawn for elections As would be expected, some portions of Greene County have grown by leaps and bounds while others have remained more steady where population is concerned. The result at election time has been obvious.

Some polling places were swamped, with nearly 700 registered voters, while the polls where only 200-300 voters came had a "more reasonable" workload. However, starting with the up coming November election, this county will have an additional 70 precincts, boosting the total to 195, according to Juanita Gleadall, director of the Board of Elections. "There are now around 250 to 300 voters per precinct everywhere but Bowersville, which only has 120 registered voters, so there is nothing to divide," Mrs. Gleadall said. Each person affected by the change of boundaries will be notified by mail, Mrs.

Gleadall said. A list of the new precincts and their polling areas will be published in The Daily Gazette prior to the election. Tilrce of the more "glaring" areas where great growth was noted by Mrs. Gleadall are: Xenia's Windsor Park, the western portion of Bellbrook, and Beavercreek north of Dayton-Xenia Rd. and bounded by N.

Fairfield and Beaver Valley Rds. The latter precinct is where registration neared 700 electors. School breakfast to be served this year Xenia schools will initiate their first breakfast program in the district at Spring Hill School next month. Seventy-five to 80 children are expected to participate at a cost of 25 cents each, and families of the children in the program also may be served at an a la carte charge equal to the food cost. Mrs.

Lillian Davis, cafeteria supervisor, said that schools where one third of the student body receives free lunches must provide breakfasts in order to qualify for' the U.S. Department of Agriculture food nutrition program. A report in March indicated that 36 per cent of Spring Hill's students, 164 of its student body of 455, received free lunches. Next highest percentage of free lunches occurred at Cox, with 26, followed by Simon Kenton with 22 per SUPER DOG took rs P' ace ne costume category of last night's dog show Its a plane, its a frog no its sponsored by the County super dog. Jenny Seyfang, 7, of Recreation and Park Department Fairborn and her dog "Tonto" (Mike Fender Photo).

THE XENIA DAILY GAZETTE Thursday, August IB, 1977 Future still unclear By DORETTA DONOVAN DAJLy GAZETTE writer Only three days after a major downtown fire on Greene owners of the four businesses damaged to a still-undetermined extent by flame, smoke and water are in a state of limbo on the future. After inspecting the remains of Chakcres Xenia Cinema Tuesday, owner Michael Chakeres of Springfield said he could make "no specuallions" on the theater's future in this town. "Insurance adjusters were there ahead of me," he said Wednesday, and Chakeres said he is waling for their loss estimates and a decision from Xenia attorney Philip Aultman. Aultman represents the Lawrence Hibbert family, owners of the Cinema and Singer's of Xenia buildings, and must decide whether to repair, rebuild or remove the structures. Contacted this morning, Aultman said, "Nothing has been decided because the decision is really up to Chakeres." Fire Chief Charles Bcason noted that the Cinema leased Greene St.

spaces from the Hibberts and Mitchell Singer sub-leased from the thealer. Attorney Robert Brewer, who handles the Pantree binding, owned by his wife. Alice, said Ihis morning, "Nobody really knows anything. I haven't talked to my insurance people and I haven't talked to Mr. Cinemas) Fister (citybuilding inspector), so I can't talk to Mr.

King until I know what they will allow me to do." Nelson King operates The Pantree with his wife, Debbie. "It's a little premature for me to say anything and probably premature for everybody, except the tenants, who, of course, want to get going as soon as they can," Brewer said. BREWER ADDED, "I bet it takes throe months just to go through all the city procedures" necessary to repair or rebuild. "1 realize now its a lot more severe than I thought in the beginning, that night," he said of the damage. "I just got a sick feeling in my stomach about what happened." B.

Morris, Xenia attorney whose Greene St. offices were among those damaged Monday, owns the portion of the building he occupied. "If the building is reparable, we'll do it depending on the amount of money it'll cost me," he said today. "It depends on the condition of the common wall between my office and The Pantree. The understanding I get from Al Klose (county building inspector) is that if The Pantree was going to go, there was a good likelihood that the part of our common wall in my room upstairs would go with it." Morris said if costs were prohibitive, he would not rebuild even though he would prefer to do so.

"A structural engineer is supposed to contact me," he said. Klose said he will inspect the wall in question today. Morris said a number of local attorneys have offered him office space and he is close to a decision on temporary quarters. Singer was meeting witii his staff at press time Ihis morning and said he would make an announcement on his immediate plans later today. Seaman bid awarded Another step was taken to complete the Frank Seaman Parkin Jamestown Tuesday when County Commission awarded a $42,701 bid to the R.H.

Lewis Excavating Co. for the construction of four baft fields, access road and parking lot. The a located on Cottonville was named after Seaman donated 20 acres with a value of $52,000 to the community. a development of a swimming pool and shelter house is planned for the park. temperatures Atlanta Boston Dallas Denver Kansas City Los Angeles Miami New York Seattle Washington Xenia HI LO 83 68 79 60 95 73 80 58 80 61 80 68 88 77 77 62 80 57 80 63 75 55 FANS MOURN Elvis Presley fans mourn the death of their they stand in line Wednesday at as Memphis to view the body.

Thousands waited for hours for the viewing. Services will be conducted today (AP Laserphoto). cent, Shawnee 20, McKinley 16, Spring Valley and Tecumseh 13 and Arrowood 8. Mrs. Davis said serving time will be 9 to 9:30 a.m.

and the menu will consist of a fortified doughnut, juice and milk on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and cereal, juice and milk Tuesdays and Thursdays. One cafeteria employe will work one hour in serving the breakfast. City Commission to meet today City Commission will meet in special session today at p.m. to discuss its next move after receiviiig only one bid for the major phase of downtown streetscaping by yesterday's 10 a.m. deadline.

Ifl such instances the single bid remains unopened until such a time as Commission decides to open and accept it if it is within 10 per cent of the city engineer's estimate, or re-advertise the project. Assistant City Martager David Spahr reported that at least severt contractors had picked up plarts and specificatiorts for the work. Firike ConstrucUort now working on underground conduit installation in the first phase of streetscaping, was the ortly firm to bid ort the project. No progress on Fries legislation phone service coining Ohio House Majority Whip Thomas Fries said this morning that his House Bill 218 to aid large township incorporation efforts has not progressed since the Ohio Legislature adjourned late July. Fries Aide Darryl Dover said just prior to the recess, Fries and Ohio Rep.

C.J. McLin of Dayton would meet during the recess to discuss possible further amendments McLin wanted added to the bill. compromise measures were being considered to help assure passage of the bill by the powerful House Rules Committee, on which McLin sits. Once passed by the Rules Committee, the bill will go to (he full House for a floor vote. the firefighters' strike and a possible strike by Dayton police have kept him and McLin from meeting on the issue.

He said he plans, however, to get together with McLin before the Legislature reconvenes Sept, 19. A A i a customers of Ohio Bell Telephone Co. will be converted to the new measured business calling plan in phases beginning in October. Jerry Mines, Ohio Bell commercial manager here, said the Bellbrook area will be i scheduled for conversion, Oct. I.

Other target dates in the Xenia office area are Bowersville, April 1, 1978; Cedarville Jan. 1, Jamestown March 1, Spring Valley April 1, Xenia Jan. 1 and Yellow Springs- Clifton, April 1. All of Ohio should be converted by July 1, 1978. The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio on Aug.

13,1976 approved Ohio Bell's proposal to institute measured calling, and the delay in effecting it has been caused by the installation of measuring devices in all the company's central offices, Mines said. Rationale behind the move was to find an equitable way for all businesses to pay their fair share for calls, with high volume users assuming a greater portion of the cost. THE MEASURED call plan has been in operation in the Cleveland area since the early 1920s, and in areas where it has been im- plemented, more than 60 per cent of the users have not experienced rate increases, Mines said. Under the plan, a business will be permitted 80 free local calls, with charges to begin on the 81st. Only completed local calls will be counted, not busy signal or no-answer attempts, and calls to the telephone company will be free, Mines said measured calling requires that businesses monitor calls carefully, in most cases eliminating person calls and making effective use of calls which are completed.

Customers will receive notification by mail prior to their conversion. Bus contract awards made Contracts for six new school buses at a total cost of $100,559,18 were awarded by Xenia Board of Education Tuesday night. Contracts went to Swigart's Garage of Xenia for International chassis and Superior Coach Sales of West Carrollton for bodies. The board also named President Barbara Falls and Vice President Walter Sellers delegate and alternate to the Ohio School Boards Association Capital Conference in Columbus Nov. 14 to 17.

Supt. Carl Adkins noted that Sellers la president- elect of the Southwest Ohio School Boards Association, COLLAPSED One side of the Engle Mill Rd. covered bridge collapsed Monday, apparently after a well drilling rig traveled over the span, which is posted with a three ton weight limit. According to County Engineer Richard P. Eastman, Champion Bridge Co.

of Wilmington has been hired to study whether the bridge can be repaired (D.J. Whitehair Photo)..