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13 The Cincinnati Pod Thursday Sept 1 1977 Hot skater plays it cool Is Joe Ryan a daredevil? You might think so looking at the pic-' tares that accompany these articles out the 14-year-old skateboarder puts safety first never been hurt seriously but skinned up my knees a little" he said "Wow I wear a helmet gloves knee pads and elbow pads" He thinks all skateboarders should at least wear to guard against concussion And he thinks cheap skateboards are dangerous Get a good one from California he advises It'll handle rocks and slick pavement better Joe ought to know been skateboarding about 18 since he was inspired by a movie called "Free and now he can do seven kinds of handstands tail wheelies (back wheels on the ground front ones in the air) head- -stands and something called end-overs (we were too squeamish to ask about that one) Joe says easier than it looks Easier that is if you ride all day dur- ing the summer ana whenever possible during the school year Easier too if you're a limber 14 and a well-conditioned athlete (wide receiver on the football team) at Purcell High Easier too if your long-range career plans include maybe professional skate-1 boarding (or maybe forestry) Joe admits to doing one hard trick: headstands harder because you see where he said PIMograpiiar: BRUCE CRIPPEN and a slalom and eyes Joe Ryan does a handstand Skateboard acrobats and accidents are related to said Dr Jon Singer director of die emergency room at Children's Hospital However he said the bicycle is still "number when it comes to the causes of accidents Second to die bicycle he said are injuries attributable to other vehicles children love including roller skates sleds and skateboards estimate that in good weather we probably see a daily bike injury and close to a daily roller skate injury Singer said SKATEBOARD INJURIES usually are sprains strains fractures of foe lower legs or arms wrist or elbow but BY BOB WOMACK To kids a skateboard plus good weather equals a lot of fun But to an increasing number of doctors that combination also is coming to mean the possibility of painful injury and even death The Consumer Product Safety Commission a federal agency reported recently that there were 13 deaths due to skateboard accidents between 1973 and April of this year And skateboard ranging from fractures to cuts and totaled about 188000 last year a startling increase of 159 per cent over the 72000 in 1975 the agency said jumping Equipment defects that might should be checked for cause accidents Don't leave the skateboards on foe sidewalks or stairs where someone might slip and fall on the equipment Helmets elbow and knee padding or even just wearing long pants while skateboarding will protect the child against injury The Consumer Product Safety Commission noting that the estimated number of skateboards was up from 14 million in 1975 to more than 20 million in 1976 said the industry itself is developing voluntary safety standards and that the commission is participating in the work Energy "The city must assure that its own facilities practice energy conservation to the extent and Council should use its rate oversight authority to assure that makes adequate provision for natural gas supplies" Blackwell said Unemployment Blackwell has urged the creation of a task force to study ways of producing new private sector jobs within Gncinnati Gty development Blackwell has said he believes there must be a balance between downtown development and neighborhood development cannot focus so much energy downtown that all we end up with is an attractive area for work shopping and entertainment for suburbanites Black-well said Research provides game plan Blackwell Council race based on precinct-by-precinct study UlSIDE cmcmnflTi a headstand or bicycle offers big dangers for skateboarders rare for a youngster who is appropriately supervised or taking all the precautions to get injured" Singer said SINGER OFFERED these tips to parents whose children have skateboards: Make sure foe child has foe physical particularly a good sense of to use a skateboard Singer sug- gested that children should bp at least 4 or years old before being permitted to use a skateboard "and it would have to be an advanced Make sure foe child skateboards oh foe sidewalk in paries or on a playground not in the street Ptioteyphir: MtMl Blackwell pauses in his office FULLER thing everyone wants it to do so Council must establish priorities to determine what will be accomplished within finite resources "Basic police and fire protection street repair sanitation must come he said "The corollary to this is keeping foe city out of areas where it has neither an important service to deliver nor foe expertise to do it he said citing Council's expenditure of more than 5500000 to repair the scoreboard at Riverfront Stadium as an example of "the type of thing Council ought not to be BUT BLACKWELL says he does not warn to be perceived as a one-issue candidate and to that end has to demonstrate the fact that I have the knowledge and ability to deal with a' wide range of problems Some of foe other issues Blackwell has discussed include: City -county relations "I believe there is increasing recognition that the county must bear its share of the cost of services presently disproportionately provided by the he said "Such services as public transportation and correctional facilities can best be provided on a regional bas" CINCINNATI IS no exception to the trend although physicians who see emergency cases report any recent rash of injuries due to skateboard accidents Major area hospitals reported that they have statistics on the number of local skateboard injuries but Good Samaritan treated one person for a leg fracture this week and Christ reported a patient with wrist and ankle sprains from such an accident in the last few months But Hospital whose emergency room most of the victims probably would visit reports a noticeable increase "THERE HAS BEEN an increase in the popularity of foe skateboard and because of it there are more injuries Wiedemann brewery brqke his ankle on Sunday and won S6000 on almost He injured his right ankle stepping off a low stone wall near the practice green during the- annual husband-wife tournament at the Ft Mitchell Country Glib Aug 21 Duke played nine holes anyhow until rain forced a delay in the tournament He took time for an X-ray which disclosed the broken bone The next day Austin attended Xavier University's annual outing for alumni and friends HE BOUGHT a 5100 ticket on a 56000 jackpot The winner was picked in reverse As each name was drawn that ticket holder was eliminated It came down to Duke and one other contestant and a 30-minute recess was called During that time Duke who has the reputation of being a nice guy sold 525 shares to three men who work for him They each got 51500 of the 56000 prize when Duke turned out to be foe lucky survivor Courtroom capers Defense lawyer Eugene Smith was quizzing prospective jurors during the trial of his client Flora Courtney Cincinnati Public School teacher charged with aggravated menacing dunng the May strike Smith probed prospective jurors' feelings about unions and strikes trying to weed out those who might be biased because of Ms involvement in the strike Finally Smith came to a serious-minded young man employed by a printing firm there a union at your Smith asked one for shipping partment employes but not for my the young man replied do you rely upon to get Smith asked the young man answered He was dismissed as a prospective juror by the prosecution Contributors to the column this week: Tom Wall and Si Cornell there also is a hii juries Singer sail incidence of head in- afety Cc I ana 78 1 mission said all of those killed and 78 per cent of those in juried were males Hie 10-14-year-old age group sustained 54 per cent of the injuries and 15-19-year-olds sustained 21 per cent SINGER SAID foe accidents usually happen somebody isn't appropriately supervising the youngster or the youngster does not have foe appropriate skills and tries to exceed his capacity by going too Or the youngsters will be doing stunts or playing games or skate into traffic in foe street Being pulled by a car Council candidate Kenneth Blackwell is a native Gncinnatian who is nearing a graduate degree in business and those facts are emphasized heavily in campaign literature Blackwell's roots are Firmly planted in the Queen one niece of Blackwell literature states and Blackwell adds that fact that I have a real connectedness rootedness in this city is a big factor working in my favor during this AS BLACKWELL has campaif neighborhoods across four months he's always willing to speak at length about those he grew up in Avondale and the West End ami is a graduate of Hughes High School and Xavier University Blackwell who lives in Bond Hill taught at a local junior high school before returning to Xavier to teach in 1971 Speaking in a soft voice with a slow measured cadence he ticks off those simple facts whenever he campaigns DURING HIS CAMPAIGN Blackwell has talked often about the city's economic crunch and says city will never have enough income to let it do every- WELL has campaigned in across the city for foe past e's always been more man BY DICK RAWE i Speak up Debbie Fame and fortune may await the Debbie Taylor who in a Dermasage TV commercial says she is from Cincinnati The Post has attempted to find that Debbie Taylor There are at least 10 Deborah Taylors in this area but only one is in the telephone book under that name and she never has done a TV commercial However she has received some interesting telephone calls meant for the commercial-making Debbie One man identifying himself as a Hollywood producer said song lyrics written by Debbie (the one in the commercial) had been accepted by his studio and he wanted her to sign a contract Another caller said he was Dr Blue Harvey New York parapsychologist and told her he had found her through ESP He correctly said that she nad been to Maine (she and her husband Dan honeymooned there) seven years ago However he went astray when he began 'describing the sister she never had MRS TAYLOR of 441 Crestline Avenue said she has received calls from record companies requests to do commercials and letters from friends of foe other Debbie An official of the Colgate- Palmolive Co which makes Dermasage dishwashing liquid has repeated calls from The in its attempts to find Debbie Tayhr So will foe Debbie Taylor of commercial fame if she lives in I Cincinnati please stand up and col-- led her and her mail and telephone calls? "His and hers" Rolls A deputy clerk in the auto title division thought Pete and Karolyn Rose had and Rolls Royces Not so Pete traded in the old one on a new 543000 model which Karolyn says is mostly hers One man's luck Perry (Duke) Austin Cincinnati general sales manager for the BY BARRY HORSTMAN Christine Davis Cincinnati Gty Coun-' cil candidate Kenneth Blackwell's campaign manager leaned back in her chair ana patted a thick book in her lap is my Davis said we do everything this book says we have to do going to have Ken Blackwell on DAVIS' contains a sophisticated research project that is the heart of campaign and was used to target 119 precincts that Blackwell's staff believes are essential to his chance of election The research project is a precinct-byprecinct breakdown of own 1975 Cincinnati Board of Education race and the recent races of other black Theodore 1973 Council race and the 1975 Council races of Steven Reece and Dwight HUery By combining those Figures with me 1 other foe number of Democratic- Charter Coalition candidates who finished in the top nine slots on individual voters ballots in foe Blackwell staffers were able to assign a priority ranking to each precinct in foe city THE TARGETED precincts are considered precincts for Blackwell a Chart erite and will be given the heaviest emphasis in the door-to-door neighbor- -hood canvassing phase of campaign said Davis research has given us a good game Davis said allowed us to run a real classy campaign with little money being spent to date because it gave us a clear direction so we flounder around in the beginning We did not want any misspent effort in Bus campaign" THAT the only piece of research that has played a key role in foe Blackwell campaign A poll conducted by Blackwell's staff showed that the two attributes that Cincinnatians believe are most important in a Council candidate are being a native Gncinnatian and holding an advanced business degree "The Bung about the business degree was really said Hm Burke one of a number of experienced political strategists working for Blackwell "Maybe it's just that people have some sort of notion that with foe city in the Financial shape it is a business degree is a desirable attribute for someone serving on SURPRISING OR NOT the findings of that poll are virtually tailored to fit Blackwell the 29-year-old director of community relations for Xavier University- BLACKWELL AND DAVIS have created a campaign organization that directs the activity of about 175 volunteers throughout the city An 18-member steering committee meets bi-weekly and there ace "Blackwell section operating in foe eastern western and central parts of the city Blackwell's major hurdle is the same one that faces most other non-incumbent Council an inability to attract much media attention NEVERTHELESS Blackwell's supporters believe he can overcome that obstacle largely because the visibility he gained in his 1975 school board race has given him a name according to Charter is recognized by significantly more voters than die names of other non-incumbents In addition his supporters often cite the fact tiiat the number of votes he received in the school board race would have been enough for him to place eighth in that Gty Council race ONE MINOR PROBLEM facing Blackwell is that he of tens speaks in a rather professorial manner causing him to appear a bit stiff or formal For example while campaigning door-to-door in Gif ton Heights one who was standing on a ladder painting his house at the asked for Blackwell's opinion on the residency requirement Rather than merely saying that he supports the residency rule which he does Blackwell delivered a lengthy confusing answer in which he cited district court and US Supreme Court rulings in the area of residency requirements or no would have the man said looking rather perplexed.