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Troy Daily News WARMER: Weather Map on page 6 Wednesday April 18 1990 Troy Ohio 45373 Vol 81 No 202 18 pages 50 cents newsstand WWe can survive ISH Troy News photo by Jim Witmer wrong with this picture? Last movie at Sherwood Thursday viewing set over weekend prototype INSIDE owner Marge Schott ordered them to wear tuxedos to make the first home game of the year seem more The tuxedos did look a little strange however with the grounds crew tennis end of this year at Mayflower trend is toward smaller audi he said would have one auditorium in the front of the He also pointed out that work on the mural will be donated and money for wall stabilization was raised bn the promise the mural would be one designed by Peremya The artist he added was the major financial contri butor to the project Pansing said Peremya was unable to meet with the BAR on Tuesday and it for there might be adjustments in color selection She offered to bring Peremya and color samples to the next boaid meeting The committee had hoped painting Can this be the right place? This is Riverfront Sta dium it? And a baseball game is about to begin it? grounds crew members wore tuxedos for game Club By NANCY BOWMAN Associate Editor By NANCY BOWMAN Associate Editor shoes Ever pushed a wheelbarrow full of dirt while wearing a tuxedo? or coverage of the home opener turn to page 7 i By BOB DERBY Arts Editor NEW YORK (UPI) The Soviet Union made a shrewd choice in cutting deliveries of irreplacable Soviet natural gas to Lithuania rather than oil which could be replaced by imports from the West energy analysts said Tuesday Since natural gas pipelines flow from the East to the West West really do said Robert Ebel vice president for international affairs for Enserch Corp of Washington DC and a former US intelligence analyst really nothing we can said John Lichtblau president of the Petroleum Industry Research oundation in New York Natural gas is fuel that be replaced by outside he said a real problem for the guy who sits at 1600 Ebel said referring to President Bush If the Soviets had cut supplies of oil imports from the West could have been brought in by ship Ebel said A Piqua review of an allegedly illegal pornographic video may serve as a model for addressing obscenity issues in other communi ties including the Mapplethorpe con troversy in Cincinnati believes Ste phen Klein Piqua law director More than 45 Piqua residents selected as a representative sample of the population of Piqua by local marketing expert Gordon Wise will view the targeted videotape Pays the in sessions Thursday through Saturday Panelists will view the 80 minute tape1 in private via televisions with videocassette recorders in classrooms at Piqua High School After the viewing panel members will be asked to answer two ques tions The responses then will be used to set a community standard on whether the tape is seen as acceptable gamble one screen if you guess at the wrong picture and nobody comes you die for four he said only single left in our circui is the one in Wapakoneta and trying to convince the landlord there to put in a Sherwood officially closes after film and the equipment be sure true I have a direct line to The telegram from the Soviet gas company was read in the Parliament as the legislators were debating a response to ultimatum deputy prime minister Romualdas Ozolas in an interview before the telegram was received said if Moscow the there would be serious problems in less than a month gas (for heating) will dis appear in 20 days and the situation with electricity is the Ozolas said i Lithuania has been talking to Scan dinavian and other Western countries about helping out if Moscow cut off energy supplies but Western industry analysts said Tuesday there had been no indication of any plans to help Lithuania replace the Soviet gas MOSCOW (UPI) Lithuanian President Vytautas Landsbergis pledged will even though the Soviet Union said it was cutting natural gas deliveries to Lithuania because the republic ignored an ultimatum to rescind inde pendence legislation Landsbergis told British radio Tuesday such a move from Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev was unexpected but said it would not weaken the resolve can survive in poor condi Landsbergis told Independent Radio News in London sur vived in war conditions in terrible post war conditions without any gas without any oil We will A telegram from the Soviet West ern Trans Gas company to the Lithua nian gas company said Moscow had ordered the supply of natural gas to the republic beginning Tuesday Oil supplies also were reportedly threatened A spokeswoman for the Lithuanian republic in Vilnius said gas was still apparently flowing through a pipeline from the Soviet Union Tuesday despite the telegram announcing a curtailment of supplies but she did not know if the amount had been reduced The spokeswoman said an employ ee of the oil refinery at Mazeikiai reported the facility got a call from Moscow saying oil supplies would also be cut off today There was no independent confirmation of that report action was the first sign Gorbachev was carrying out threat to cut off key raw materials to Lithuania if the leaders failed to rescind independence laws by Sunday In Washington National Public Radio reported that Gorbachev already was planning to restore gas supplies to Lithuania today basing its Tass senior news analyst Daniel Schorr said he was at a reception with Matyash and Webster Tuesday night and heard the Soviet journalist say Gorbachev would rescind the order because he wanted to avoid a confron tation over Lithuania Schorr asked Matyash if he was certain Matyash replied: can Plans for a new look on the mural wall overlooking Prouty Plaza ran into some questioning and were stalled Tuesday Members of the Troy Board of Architectural Review (BAR) which reviews all exterior changes to struc tures in the downtown historic dis trict raised sortie questions about suitability of the proposed new design by local artist Aka Pereyma for the mural wall However their final decision was to delay a vote on mural plans to further review the proposed color selections with Peremya At least two board members said they were uncomfortable with the bright tones of colors presented Approval of a new design similar to the former Sun Setting for sale or rental in Piqua or if it is considered illegal obscenity The panel determination differs from thepormal use of a jury to deter mine a community standard and was agreed upon last year by Klein and Louis Sirkin of Cincinnati Sirkin is attorney for Home Video Ventures the Piqua store named in a lawsuit filed by Klein alleging the video was illegal pornogra phy Sirkin also is attorney for the of the new mural could be completed by the Tree City USA celebration in Troy on April 26 but knows it now cannot because repairs to the wall need to settle before painting Pansing said Painting now is planned for mid May Board members discussed receiv ing additional public input on feelings of the suitability of the design1 but then agreed that could come at the yet unscheduled next BAR meeting on the mural In addition to Wyckoff board members are Carolyn Miller Ken Willis Howard Cherrington and Steve McLain Beautification committee rep resentatives were concerned about questions with the suitability of a modem design They said no com plaints were heard until recently when a letter to the editor called for leaving the new brick wall bare and again noted repair contributions were had looked at designs other than a modem art pattern you ask six people you will get six different said Richard BOSTON (UPI) Scientists for the first time have found a gene that appears to be linked to alcoholism providing strong new evidence the disease affecting 18 million Americans is caused at least partly by hered ity it was reported A study of tissue from the brains of 70 human cadavers concluded the gene was present in 77 percent of alcoholics and absent in 72 percent of non alcoholics the researchers reported Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association This is the first reported link between a particular gene and the pre sence of alcoholism in individuals although there has been a growing body of evidence suggesting a role for heredity The findings could lead to better ways to identify people at risk of becoming alcoholics and a greater understanding of the underlying causes of the disease which could lead to new treatments and preventive measures The gene a form of the so called D2 receptor is believed to influence how an brain responds to alcohol per haps making him need more alcohol to get a sense of pleasure The researchers stressed the results should be interpreted cautiously Unlike diseases that have been clearly tied to a genetic defect alcoholism is a complex disorder that may have both genetic and environmental causes they said The findings of the panel are expected to be released Monday morning in Piqua Wise who will talk briefly with each group of panelists before the viewings said he will ask participants to not discuss their feelings on the video until the screenings are com plete The request is to avoid influ ence on other panelists before they attend the viewing Wise said If the majority of panel members determine the video is both patently offensive and has no social purpose it will be found illegal The tape is representative of a number of other tapes and the city would then take action against other Piqua stores offering similar videos Klein said If the majority does not find the video is illegal obscenity the city will comply with its findings and not take further action unless run into material different than Pays I Klein said may see this as a based on another Peremya design send the money back because it went into the Shel lenbarger said He added that he liked the new design but might favor a more scenic display such as a depiction of storef ronts as suggested to him by one city resident However he said financial constraints prohibit such an enterprise money were unlimited and we could have a realistic scene and com mercial painting I would like it but it be Shellenbarger said Pansing said alternatives to the proposed volunteer designs by Peremya were not considered is such a visible wall it seemed the only solution was to repair and repaint the she said of the action Editorial page 4 and seats will be out by the end of the month Also closing is the video store at Sherwood out of the video he said too much competi story on a remade made to CIA direc tion for us to get by with only 800 tor William Webster by Vladimir tapes funny you know Matyash Washington bureau chief until you close how many friends you for the official Soviet news agency had and how many people relied on you for their tapes just want people to know that the Mayflower Cinema is still there and the Goody Shoppe is still there nothing has changed as far as that Teicher said the drive in and Sherwood closing Mayflower now has an even better choice of films to show The Sherwood Cinema a movie house in Troy for the last 20 years runs its last film Thursday evening The demise can be attri buted to rising costs and the trend in the industry away from single screen cinemas said Alan Teicher who has run the Sherwood Cinema for the last 10 years theaters seem to be obso lete at this Teicher said this morning too costly The rent goes up The payroll goes up along with insurance and utilities With a Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Cen ter whose display of photographs by the late Robert Mapplethorpe is under attack by officials in Cincinnati The city and Sirkin have agreed that the determination of the panel will be the resolution of the Home Video Ventures case The Piqua approach Klein believes a more sane way to pro with the question of illegal por nography He pointed to a recent poll in Cincinnati in which 55 percent of respondeants said they felt prosecu tion in court was not the way to handle the Mapplethorpe controversy are apparently groping with the same concerns we have been deal ing Klein said is approach may end up in Cincinnati since Sirkin is spearhead ing the defense and may suggest a similar thing to he added believe the only way to determine a standard is to do it this way We may see this as a the Rent poor Scientists say gene' linked to alcoholism Natural gas shrewd choice In addition to the color scheme board member Maurice Wyckoff twin cinema the payroll stays the same and running two Tpirhpr hac rtnrnA hiicinncc hnth ways for the last few years in Troy building and two in the back He also owns the Mayflower Cinema Teicher said the single screen at which he converted to twin theatres Sherwood represented too much of a two summers ago He said some of the seating and equipment from Sher wood may be added to the Mayflow er and he might even add a third screen there of the equipment will go to upgrading the other theaters with the possibility of adding a third screen at he said Teicher said the third screen may be added before the Questions stall approval of new mural mural painted undcr of the old mural direction and designed by her in I was sought by members of the mural committee of the Troy Beautification questioned whether the committee Committee The committee recently completed a drive to raise $20000 for repairs to the deteriorating wall which is on the side of the Mayflower building own Shellenbarger of the beautification ed by Alan Teicher committee The committee used that money to repair wall damage caused by age and water leakage and is coordinating volunteer donations of paint arid pro fessional painters to apply the new mural Janet Pansing of the beautification committee presented the BAR with a small version oi the proposed new mural The design was settled on by four committee members from four prop osed by Pereyma she said noting it is close to the modern geometric design 11 "7 i wii 11 i 1 Ci life WWW i i A MH i HMM I 1 1 I I I 1 4 REMEMBERED: Civil rights leaders mourn the death of the Rev Ralph David Aber 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