Dayton Daily News from Dayton, Ohio (2024)

DAYTON DAILY NEWS 20 a MONDAY, MARCH 9, 1992 Metro State Auditor: No action on book Celeste publication stopped at presses COLUMBUS (AP) State Auditor Thomas E. Ferguson will take no action to recover the $142,153 cost of an unpublished book by former Gov. Richard Celeste, a spokesman for the auditor FROM WIRE SERVICES RESIDENTS FIGHT TO KEEP CATHOLIC CHURCH: Residents and various groups in Shawnee in central eastern Ohio are trying to save a 112-year-old Roman Catholic Church scheduled for closing June 6. Bishop James Griffin said there were not enough priests and members. The Shawnee Historic Preservation and Business Development wants to block the planned razing of the building.

TOLEDO POLICE NAB 3 IN THEFTS: Two men and a woman believed to be part of a shoplifting ring were arrested after police found about $12,600 worth of what apparently was stolen merchandise In a car. Also found were plastic bags with a special lining that keeps a store's security sensors from reacting when merchandise is removed from the store. FAULTY INDICATOR LIGHT FORCES JET TO LAND: A Delta Air Lines Boeing 727 en route from Toronto to Miami made an unscheduled stop in Columbus on Sunday after a co*ckpit indicator light gave a false report of an engine fire, an airline spokesman said. The plane landed without incident at Port Columbus International Airport about 4 p.m. and the 41 passengers were transferred to an alternate flight.

STATE PR A $2.6 MILLION INDUSTRY: A survey conducted by a newspaper shows that Ohio pays more than $2.6 million annually for public relations employees. The Columbus Dispatch said Sunday that the average salary for 69 state communications employees is $38,166 per year. The average pay for the top 10 communicators In the survey is $54,395. 'PLAIN DEALER' NAMES EXECUTIVE: Thomas H. Oreer, top news executive at The Plain Dealer In Cleveland, has been named to the new position of vice presidentsenior editor.

ASSOCIATED PRESS Cones head out A road worker drags warning barrels onto Interstate 275 near Sharonville on Sunday, preparing to close one lane in each direction between U.S. 42 and 1-75 for repairs. Weapon said. Gov. George Voinovich halted publication of the 184-page book, Years of Progress, Years of Change, on Jan.

14, 1991, his first day in office. Voinovich said it was a waste of taxpayers' money. Ferguson's office first began examining book expenses more than a year ago. "We have not asked anybody to pay anything," Ferguson spokesman John Conley told The Columbus Dispatch in an article published Sunday. "No action is anticipated." Conley could not explain why the auditor won't pursue the matter, the newspaper said.

"Our questions have been answered," he said. Conley denied the auditor's office dropped the issue because Ferguson and Celeste are Democrats. Voinovich is a Republican. The book was to have included an assessment of Celeste's eight years as governor, including an evaluation of accomplishments of every department. The auditor's final audit of the governor's office in the Celeste administration was released Feb.

28, 1991. The audit recommended that the governor's office refund $127,551 to state agencies because Voinovich killed the book's publication before it was finished. The findings prompted Ferguson to ask Attorney General Lee Fisher for an opinion about the legality of Celeste's charging state agencies for printing the book. CONTINUED FROMIB caway" gun carried by Eckert before the shooting behind the Cornell Supermarket, 3409 Cornell On March 2, the officers' attorney, Neil F. Freund, asked police to try to trace the gun a routine check overlooked during investi- gations by the department's Internal Affairs Bureau, homicide unit and reviews by a Montgomery "County grand jury and the Mont- gomery County coroner's office.

Detective Wade Lawson, who 1 I. Sabina woman, 45, dies in 1-car crash near county line WILMINGTON A Sabina woman was killed Saturday in a one-vehicle accident near the Clinton-Fayette county border. Ursula Adkins, 45, died in the 11:09 p.m. accident, according to the Wilmington post of the Ohio Highway Patrol The patrol said Adkins was traveling north on Borum Road when she drove off the right side of the road, then went back across the roadway. The auto struck some railroad tracks and flipped over.

The patrol said Adkins, who was not, wearing a seat belt, was partially thrown from the vehicle. She was dead at the scene. and shot them. Eckert, according to testimony, was accidentally struck by a third bullet fired by Bowman while Eckert was struggling to control Stone. That bullet passed through Stone's hand before striking Eckert In the chest when Stone grabbed Bowman's gun as he was about to shoot, according to testimony.

Eckert is now on a disability retirement. It has been obvious for years that physical evidence would be critical to determining what happened. Both officers have long maintained that they are unable to remember many of the details surrounding the incident as a result of the trauma caused by their wounds and because they were focused during the shooting on trying to save each others' lives. Mrs. Evans said after her testimony that her sister dated Charles Stone in the 1950s and that she also knew Dwayne Stone.

Linking the gun to an acquaintance of Stone would not only have challenged one of Davis' major theories in the lawsuit, but supported Freund's contentions as to why Stone shot the officers. Stone, Freund has charged, would have faced a felony charge of carrying a concealed weapon if Eckert had discovered the gun while attempting to search him. Deputy coroner Dr. David Smith has suggested another motive for Stone's behavior. Smith has testified that the combination of alcohol and traces of marijuana and cocaine found in Stone was sufficient to have affected his judgment and inhibitions.

Both Eckert and Bowman have testified that it was while trying to search Stone that he drew the gun physical evidence linking Stone to the gun but they had never been tested for fingerprints. It took only minutes March 2 to discover the gun's owner. Lt. John Barnes, commander of the department's records bureau, testified Wednesday that the gun was registered in 1973 to Jean A. Crosby-Evans of Dayton.

Mrs. Evans testified that she gave the gun to her daughter in 1986 or 1987 and has never seen it again. Freund was not permitted to ask Mrs. Evans if she knew Stone's family and time has run out to trace it further. The case goes to the jury today in U.S.

District Court in Dayton. Earlier in the trial, Stone's father, Charles W. Stone, 50, testified that he knew Mrs. Evans. Freund might try to make that connection to the gun during closing arguments.

"vestigation, testified that he never tried to trace ownership of the gun. Citing the officers account of the shooting and the cartridges found in Stone's pocket, Lawson said he didn't think ownership of the gun was even an issue. The cartridges were the only Time for Wings backers to take to stands old size DALE HUFFMAN f0 1 I I nut risize" ''Iw 1 Burden NurriSysrem Ji clienr One gift of support that we can easily give to Kantor and his team is the gift of a record attendance. The record attendance figure in the jyBL is 10,743 helcTby Calgary. It was set on June 15, 1991, when Halifax visited.

"If we can top that and reach a new league attendance record May 1, that would make my season. That would be the ultimate gift," Kantor said. Tickets for opening night will be $4 for adults, and $1 for young people 15 and under. For information, call 429-4000. And if you know of those who simply can't afford the price of a ticket, write to me at the newspaper, 45 S.

Ludlow 45402, and we will see If we can find a sponsor so they can be a part of this special happening. In addition to the pre-game party, entertainment is scheduled for half time, and the game will be televised by Sports Channel America And oh yes. We are sending an invitation to Bush to attend. We like to give everyone a second chance. This is all I need: 10,744 loyal people who like Dayton, support Dayton sporting events, and want to help make history.

I need them to help set an attendance record May 1, when the World Basketball League champion Dayton Wings make their season debut at the Ervin J. Nutter Center. Last year the Wings soared to the top and won the league championship in their first year. Though they were champions, there was no ticker tape parade down Main Street. There was no gigantic rally anywhere in the state or city, and President Bush ignored the team by not inviting them to the White House.

"The President has a busy schedule and will not be able to meet with you and your team," a White House aide wrote to Milt Kantor, owner of the Wings. "But he congratulates you on your fine accomplishment." When we wrote about it in October, Kantor said his team's accomplishment was pretty well ignored. "Maybe next time around someone will throw us a parade, or a party," he had said. I vowed to give Daytonians a second chance to rectify the oversight, and with Milt Kantor's blessing, this is our plan. On May Day, opening day of the 1992 season, the Wings will meet the Calgary 88's at 7:30 p.m.

at the Nutter Center at Wright State University. From about 7 to 7:20 that evening, we want to throw the party-that-never-happened for the Wings at the Nutter Center. We will invite basketball legends such as Oscar Robertson, Wilt Chamberlain and others to be on hand to lead the cheers. We'll have music and dancing, and lots of fanfare before Kantor hands out the championship rings. nutrisize Thomas Van Meter, your life.

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