The Cincinnati Post from Cincinnati, Ohio • 1

I2C 1HK rm Thursday September 4 19M Regional report Cut off from cut rates for General Telephone's home office In Marlon the first heard about that And I would have beard If It was In the In addition to the 5900 home and business telephones In Oxford Miami University' has 5000 more one In each residence hall room as well as phones in the academic and administration buildings For administrators and professors to reach out and touch someone a WATS line Is available allowing them to dial numbers all over Ohio The students calling from' their rooms use regular long-distance lines generally sending the bill to dad wish we could service said Dan Wlssell of Allnet talked to a lot of people up -there longing for a system like ours" Darrell Richardson General district supervisor In Oxford said companies like ours have no say In whether we offer Sprint MCI or Allnet access to our system Those companies have the blessing of the Federal Communication Commission to go where they want going to the major metropolitan areas where the volume He said General Telephone In Oxford has been contacted by none of these companies offering alternative long-distance service Long-distance service Is provided as before by which as one condition of the divestiture must still provide long-distance service everywhere In the country according to Richardson But Out program Just Inaugurated through which you can get an worth of long-distance calls for available In Oxford either said the operator In Oxford Ohio not served by a Bell company for your local service Sorry at this time the program Is not available It may be available by the first of the news to said Donald Detweller spokesman By Dick Perry ftt SMTMipertar OXFORD out and touch someone" so a telephone company advertises 1 Unless that Is you live In Oxford home of 5900 Outsiders can call In using cut-rate long-distance lines but Oxford residents cant call out using similar types of service Although services like Sprint Allnet and low-cost alternative long-distance telephone companies In competition with offer service In Greater Cincinnati none Is available to the 5900 Oxford subscribers who are serviced by the General Telephone Co Additional charges filed in death HAMILTON Additional charges of aggravated vehicular homicide reckless operation and leaving the scene of an accident have been filed by the Butler County sheriffs department against Gregory Caldwell 30 of 1696 Wichita Drive New Miami The charges are in connection with the traffic death early Sunday of a pedestrian In St Clair Township Caldwell was charged originally with driving under the Influence of alcohol Kenneth Whitt 32 of 16 Meadow Drive Hamilton was killed as he walked south on Hamllton-Cleves Road Just south of Hamilton Deputies said a northbound car went onto the berm and struck Whitt The driver fled the scene Caldwell was arrested shortly after the accident at the home of a girlfriend deputies said Tire fire in Middletown was set MIDDLETOWN Inspector Darrell Yater of the Middletown Fire Department said arson was the cause of a fire Involving about 200000 tires It started about 9 pm Tuesday and put out until Wednesday afternoon Yater said an Investigation Is under way to determine what was used to start the fire at 2224 8 Main Bt No arrests had been made Wednesday He said Don Banks uses the vacant lot to store tires Yates said the tires will probably smolder for a few days He said perhaps 25 firefighters were at the scene at the peak of the fire Several of them were treated for minor Injuries mostly pulled muscles Yater said Two blocks of Main Street were closed because hoses were spread across the street and fire trucks were on It Immunization clinics scheduled HAMILTON The Butler County Health Department will hold weekly Immunisation clinics from 1 pm to 4 pm each Tuesday In September In the Rosin Health Center at the Butler County Administrative Center 130 High St Immunisations will be for dlptherla Jiertussls and tetanus oral polio measles and mumps Since July 26 the mumps vaccine Is required for all school children In Ohio No appointments are needed for the clinics and a sliding fee scale will be used based on family else and Income No one will be denied use of the clinics because of the Inability to pay Parents having questions about their immunisation status may call the department at 867-5785 Miami student sues over dismissal Daniel Wltham student business manager of the newspaper at Miami University has filed suit against the university and Its Office of Affirmative Action charging that he a white man was fired as business manager after he fired a black female staff member The suit was filed Wednesday in U8 District Court In Cincinnati Wltham said he fired Angela Brown a business staff member of the Miami Student on May 25 1984 Ms Brown later won her appeal for reinstatement at hearings before Dr William Grade Jr chairman of the Committee on Student Publications Ms Brown in turn filed a grievance against Wltham charging him with discrimination and sexual harassment An Investigation of these charges resulted In dls- missal according to the suit Wltham Is asking for reinstatement as business manager with back pay plus compensatory damages set by the court j'- i 1 r-'jy''' 'if 1 'i' i -'V V- V' -'s: 'V 'V 'j-' S' -i 'V- i VV -'v f' -v 'y Vi 1 1 'I i-' Tri-state report creation Batesville Ind resident Bob Ziegler an employee of Premiere Construction of Cincinnati works on what will be the kitchen of Warren County's newest tourist attraction the Ohio Valley Renaissance Faire The kitchen-dining hall is among the buildings that will be erected to re-create a town from the mid-1400s The $500000 venture is along Interstate 71 just north of the Little Miami River Police file remains open on unsolved '82 murder Walkers take in Hamilton with the Clermont County Sheriffs Department said Wednesday that there have been new Is a suspect" said Brown County 8herlff John Wesseler still looking and searching for someone with the right Wesseler Gilbert traveled to numerous homes and businesses repairing' or installing appliances He met hundreds of people None of those people appears to have a motive for killing Gilbert he said Shortly after death 'authorities speculated that' drugs may have been behind his murder Pennington said however my knowledge" there Is drug to murder HAMERSVILLE It was a Saturday morning In May 1982 when Permon Gilbert told his wife Joann he was leaving the house to run few The 45-year-old father of four was never seen alive again His nude body was found the following evening May 23 In a ditch on Swope Road near Bethel The Hamersvllle man had been beaten and shot three times with a 38-callber revolver About 240 people have been questioned since his death but Clarence Pennington inspector Harvesting oats Little else except continue to Interview the people who were acquainted with Gilbert according to Wesseler Even that Is no easy chore Employed by General Electric -Leonard Penix Water bills may drop HAMILTON Saturday will be a good day to take what those In the know call a volksmarch The walk sponsored by the Miami Indian Trek-kers it Is an at-your-own-pace stroll through the historic districts of Hamilton: German Village Day-ton Lane and Rossvllle You start any time between 8 ajn and 8 pm at Bt Mary Church Front and Court streets If you are registered and reach the finishing point by 5 pjn you get a card saying you accomplished the stroll There are several courses according to the organizers listed an easy walk on pavement with no significant hills could be walked with a child In a called a walk with steep hills and rough designed for der huffen-puffers Also on the calendar of events the 17th annual Ohio Honey Festival opens today and continues through Saturday on the downtown streets of Lebanon The first festival parade will begin at 7 pm today followed by the crowing of the Little Miss Honey Bee at 8:15 pm and a 9 pm show by magician and Illusionist Marc Steele The festival Is spread out over downtown streets which have been closed to traffic Food booths and a variety of entertainment are scheduled from 11 am to 11 pm each day Parades are held each night at 7 said -Warren County sanitary engineer Dick Renneker A contract between the city and county expired and the reduced rates were sought by the county commissioners The residents were paying 200 percent of the regular rate being charged to the city's residents In negotiations the county wanted that reduced to 150 percent of the regular rate while the city countered with an offer of 175 percent said Renneker met halfway" Renneker said The agreement which still must be acted on officially by both sides was outlined In a meeting between county commissioners and Middletown city commissioners Renneker said the documents should be ready for signing by the end of the month The rate cut would cost the city's water fund about $31000 a year said Middletown officials LEBANON Residents of about 650 homes In western Warren County may get lower water bills beginning In October Middletown which supplies water to areas of Franklin Township ind Warren County have reached an agreement that would mean a 175 percent reduction in water bills For every 810 county residents now pay to Middletown they can expect to pay only Manyard Troyer loaded oats Wednesday onto a wagon at a farm outside Sugarcreek Ohio The crop had been drying in the fields for two weeks Suits filed over polluted wells PAINES VILLE Ohio Twelve families In Perry Township have filed two lawsuits seeking a total of $50 million from gas-drllllng companies In Cincinnati and Canton for alleged contamination of their drinking water The families charge that Viking Resources Corp of Cincinnati and Mobile Air Drilling Co Inc of Canton carelessly dug and maintained gas wells on neighboring properties causing salt brine contamination of their wells viking Resources holds the leases to the property where the drilling took place and Mobile Air did most of the drilling The suits filed In Lake County Common Pleas Court on Tuesday seek $364 million from Viking Resources and $20 million from Mobile Air Drilling Officials of both companies declined to comment on the suits Police farmers fight pot growth LOWELL Ind Marijuana growing wild In northern Indiana may be eradicated In a Joint effort by farmers and state police State Police Lt Larry Delaney said the department has been spraying a non-toxic weed killer on fields in Jasper Porter Pulaski and Starke counties Delaney said authorities have been involved with the operation since the latter part of July and have sprayed more than 3 million plants been spraying over the wild and cultivated he said here marijuana Just grows The Indiana Farm Bureau Inc is cooperating with the state police in the eradication effort people (the Farm Bureau) have the expertise the manpower and the equipment to do the spraying and we use our expertise to find the Delaney said Marlon Stackhouse president of the Farm Bureau said officials came to them in April and asked whether they would be Interested In participating in the program Independent kept off ballot an early deadline filing was abolished But Porter stated In his opinion the early filing deadline for local Judicial candidates Is necessary to give the public enough time to learn about the candidates Local Judicial candidates receive much less media attention so the required deadline advances Interest of voter he ruled LEBANON -AUA District Court Judge has ruled that an independent candidate for Judge In Warren County cannot have his name on the November ballot Robert Ray who filed as a candidate for common pleas Juvenile and probate division challenged law on the number of required a signatures for an Independent petitions He also questioned the filing date of 75 days before the major primaries challenge was similar to one by John Anderson a third-party presidential candidate In 198a Judge David Porter referred to the Anderson case In which a.