The Press Gazette from Hillsboro, Ohio • 1

WEATHER High near 80 Thursday and partly cloudy Chance of showers riday and also on Saturday INSIDE THE PAPER A local man Is kn named the 1992 93 director for a Kentucky theater group' Please see the "Relaxation Guide on page nine I THOUGHT OR THE DAY "Habit Is habit and not to be flung out of the window by wee any man but coaxed downstairs a stop I at a time" Mark Twain The Press Gazette Vol 19 No 78 18Pages 2 Sections Hillsboro Ohio 40 Cents Thursday June 25 1992 Serving Highland County Since 1818 IzUfTI BBsS 1 j'BEr A JWraSs eLzs? VI I varet V'V kUBK tuBbr" gBjHV v7? iBim IRSTRIDE Normally confined to a wheelchair Angel takes her first horseback ride during Kamp I Dovetail (a special camp for handicapped children sponsored by Hopewell) at Bdcky ork Lake Pictured to the right assisting Arnold onto the horse are Jeff and Ebbie Cook (Photo By Mary Banks) Water project begins to cut pollutants in East ork watershed District say getting a good bit of silt and sedimentation with fertilizer attached to (in the way to East ork Lake in Clermont County The East ork watershed in Highland County is in the county's northwest corner and covers about a fifth of the county said Dave Parry conservationist for the Highland Highland County streams that bound the upper watershed of the Little Miami East ork are getting some attention in a recently started water quality improvement project The East ork water project in cludes Highland Clinton and Brown County Soil and Water Conservation counties ana is meant to cut down on the silt and also fertilizer sewage and livestock pollution that is drawn from the watershed and makes its recreational East ork Lake) said Parry However the problem is real severe" said Clinton County District Conservationist Bob Coblentz The East ork project is one of between 20 and 40 similar efforts in the state he added be working with landowners on crop rotation and different tillage methods to improve the water quality in the stated Parry till and minimum till be preaching also hope to do a better job with fertilizer management by landowners That way when yoti do get sedimentation run off there is less fertilizer being brought said Parry There is some money Available to assist livestock farmers to build storage facilities for animal waste Please Turn To Page 5) District wide votes tallied automatic recount is still on US Rep Bob McEwen increased his primary election lead after the official district wide results were completed Tuesday but the margin remains less than 5 percent and by law requires an automatic recount And in a related matter th Ohio Secretary of office might announce by riday whether it will pursue a formal investigation requested by US Rep Clarence Miller opponent into the vote tabulation on election night in Highland County we get the certified total here we will draw conclusions and respond to request for an investigation So far we only have the vote numbers phoned in but expect the certified numbers by riday at the said Maureen Brown communications director for Secretary of State Bob Taft McEwen picked up a net gain of 28 votes for an official 297 vbte win out of 66141 votes cast Unofficial results election night showed McEwen on top by 269 votes Official results include overseas military ballots and walk in voters who voted election day at county board of election offices instead of precinct polling places because of a change in address Meanwhile the Highland County Board of Elections held a special meeting Monday to hand count all Republican ballots which would not be read by the computer on election night The hand counting was done at the request of the secretary of office after Miller raised questions about the duplication of ballots on election night here Local elections officials duplicated ballots by hand election night when the computer would not read them (Please Turn To Page 5) Rocky ork Lake Days begins riday at East Shore Marina Rocky ork Lake Days takes place this weekend near the East Shore Marina at Rocky ork Lake The event is sponsored by the Highland County Antique Machinery Club and entertainment and events begin on riday There is no admission charge ac cording to Charley Caldwell secre tary for the machinery club and the performances are free More than 75 area arts and crafts booths are scheduled to be on dis play with antiques and homemade items on sale Exhibits will include 100 antique tractors and 200 small engines ac cording to Caldwell Parades willbe held daily begin ning at 1 pm and 6 pm The Hillsboro Club will be displaying and selling tickets on a new John Deere riding tractor which will be given away during the estival of me Bells Live entertainment includes Mahanes a gospel group performing at 7 pm on riday Tractor events are set to start at 10 am Saturday followed by the Citizens performing at 2 pm and then evening enter tainment provided by Kelly and the Blue Ridge Mountpin at 7:30 pm Sunday begins with special church services at 10 am led by the Edwards amily gospel singers from Leesburg everything is free no way of telling how many people we had last year but there were quite a Caldwell said We just go down there and have Mayor among those gathered to oppose bill preventing expansion Hillsboro Mayor Betty Bishop was one of the municipal leaders gathering Monday at a Columbus meeting called to oppose a federal trade bill that Bishop says would prevent expansion at plants such as Weastec 5100 proposes production at the 1992 level for foreign owned operations Bishop said Tuesday Last week the bill moved forward from the House Ways and Means Committee paving the way for a vote by the full US House of Representatives The bill was in troduced by US Rep' Dan Rostenkowski (D Ill) my base of opposition is jobs for our people In the past the state of Ohio actively sought to compete for companies to come to this state and its communities and now for somebody to try to pass legislation that in its present form would prevent expansion at foreign owned or foreign joint venture companies is something I stated Bishop The mayor added that the bill not address American owned companies that take jobs outside the US killing American Supporting HR 5100 said Bishop would the job market' and is catering to the Big Three She continued get me wrong I have nothing against the Big Three (General Motors ord (Please Turn To Page 5) TEEN HELPERS Pictured are teen volunteers and guests helping this week at Kamp Dovetail a camp provided for handicapped children at Rocky ork Lake Pictured are (on ground) Steven Doss (seated front left to right) Rene Mills Peggy Peters Robert Hawes (seated back left to right) Connie Neal Robert Vance Travis Brown (standing left to rightl Cris Scott Tammera Osborne Ken Lewis Homer HoistedRaymond Hughes Mark Dukelow Co nty women celebrate ore ha Scientist sees Leesburg farm as a prototype for the 1 990s By GARY HUENBERGER chemist with the Monsanto research City Editor Leesburg area farmer David Roehm and family had a research chemist as a house guest last week and the scientist came away seeing Roehm as a prototype for the farmer of the 1990s plying the planter trade with personal computer radio system and know how was very impressed and pleasantly surprised with his network which includes his contacts with the extension service area research farms The Ohio State University and so on along with his being very well versed in computer software and hardware all part of an effective net facilities in St Louis Mo Essinger was in Highland County via the American arm a program and thanks to his employer Monsanto which paid expenses Essinger is not a stranger to the production end of agriculture: he grew up on his farm in northwest Ohio 20 25 years ago But still he found it interesting to visit Roehm's 1200 acre cash grain farm and to hear Roehm and other area farmers discuss using corn for fuel grade ethanol That topic came up says Essinger So instead of sitting in a laboratory and dreaming up chemical for says James Essinger a (Please Turn To Page 5) a century of life KB ALICE ALVSAKER 103 (V ip JI JESSIE TROTH 102 By LIZ JOHNSON Editor Six women have celebrated birthdays within the past six months that mark at least a century of life' 'iliey range tn age from 100 to 1 10 and although their bodies are weakened their spirits remain strong even af ter all these years Being bom in some cases almost two deeades be fore the turn of the century these women witnessed the major turning points endirjg the pioneer days and marking the beginnings of our modern day world Although some of the women were unavailable for interviews their accounts have been outlined by fam ily members biographical records and health care per sonnel Mr Mabel Roads is perhaps the county's oldest living resident and was bom near New Market 1 10 years ago at a place referred to as At the time of birth in 1881 the country was just beginning to recover from the shock of the assassination of Ohio native and President James A Garfield and Clara Barton was in the pro cess of establishing the American Red Cross Booker Washington was laboring in Alabama founding the' Tuskegee Institute for black education and Russian Jews were beginning to immigrate at a steady pace escaping pogroms within their native borders Currently residing at the Oakland Nursing Center in Hillsboro Roads attended Western College Please Turn To Page 2 'X VoU STELLA ROUSH 102 GLADYS L'lBLE 100 MABEL ROADS 110 JI i i BL i 1 oaKMlBMUBBB ETHEL AITKEN TURNER 105 RBH 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