THE PLAIN DEALER, TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1991 Survey results take United Way back to basics 4. FRANCES ROBLES ical in the survey probably would receive DEALER REPORTER more funding than other areas. Food, clothing and health care 1 Having such basic needs top the survey, United Way's list of needs in Lorain topped. according to Bostwick, says that people are County, not taking advantage of services now availprompting the agency yesterday to make' able. those items its priorities.
In The United Way of Greater Lorain "It tells us the structure is in place, but first 1 needs-assessment survey in 10 there clothing are and still utility people out payments." there needing food, Lorain County years, county residents named 2 28 areas She said the $38,000 survey would be used that needed to be ad- by United Way and other local social service dressed. agencies to gradually implement new United Way Executive Director Fran Bost- programs. wick said issues that were deemed most crit- "We're not going to say to the agencies, 'Here i it is, you have to change all your pro-' most crucial issue facing Lorain County. grams now, said Jim Kidd, executive vice Each person also was asked to respond to the president of Lorain National Bank, who importance of various issues. served on the survey steering committee.
Issues were listed in groups. According to "They'll gradually adjust." the survey, issues in order of importance afHe said he hoped the adjustment would ter food, clothing and affordable health care take place within a year. were: The survey was conducted by consultants public I Employment, education. for families and services from Kent State University. The results were compiled from interviews with 310 Lorain and Affordable alcohol abuse housing, prevention youth-neglect of drug County residents as well as 132 city and so- and cial service workers, 39 United Way clients, programs.
11 community focus groups, and business I assistance Drug to and the alcohol treatment services, and civic leaders. homeless, affordable child care, services for the elderly and affordable Each respondent was asked to name the mental-health services. I Protection and safety, discrimination, communitywide planning and services for the physically disabled. The remaining two groups included issues such as job training, the environment and affordable legal services. Bostwick said it worried her that basic needs surfaced on the survey.
"As the executive director of the United Way, I feel the problems of the community are on my shoulders. It's even more so among the people providing those services," she said. Copies of the survey are available for $17 each through the Community Foundation of Greater Lorain County or the United 1 1 6 Akron police seek suspect's samples in burning death By SCOTT STEPHENS Akron and Elyria police have been PLAIN DEALER REPORTER examining a possible link between Lutz's death and the March 30 killing Akron police this week plan to of Rachael M. Johnson, 23, of Talseek a court order to obtain bodily is lmadge. Johnson was beaten, raped samples from an Elyria man who and stabbed 10 times in the chest becharged Amherst in woman the and burning is a death of an fore her suspect in a North body was dumped on a similar slaying in Akron.
Akron street, doused with a flammable liquid and set on fire, Maj. Leonard Strawderman, dep- Akron police said. uty chief of the Akron Police Department's investigations subdivision, Police said they believed Wilson said police might obtain a court or- lived near Akron at the time of the der as early as tomorrow to get the death and returned to Elyria about a samples from Daniel E. Wilson, 21. month ago.
"We're prosecutor in to the get a process court of order seeing so the we Meanwhile, Portage County aucan get hair, sem*n and blood thorities are exploring whether there samples," Strawderman said. is any link between Wilson and the shooting deaths of an elderly Atwater to Elyria police said Wilson confessed couple April 5, 1990. The investigaof the Amherst. May 4 killing of Carol L. Lutz tion began after authorities learned the trunk of her burning about that at one time Wilson lived about a Her body was found in hours after she and Wilson were seen mile away from car 12 Cora and Bernhardt leaving an Elyria tavern, police said.
Hartig, both 81. $16.1 Wilson, who is being held under Portage County Prosecutor David $200,000 cash bond, was arrested Norris said the Portage County SherThursday night. He pleaded not iff's Department was exploring simiguilty in Elyria Municipal Court to larities between the cases, but he deone charge of aggravated murder. clined to elaborate. Authorities said additional charges, such as kidnapping and arson, were Plain Dealer reporter James likely.
A Ewinger contributed to this KENNEDY Truck jaws 1 Ken Lamphear repairs a truck outside motor. Tiger Transportation on Smith dep Rd. in Medina. Lamphear climbed into the engine compartment yesterday to replace parts of the 3 BARBARA KINGSLEY Council rejects DEALER REPORTER Avon City Council last night rejected a proposal that would have forced developers to present plans to the Army Corps of Engineers, which is responsiable for policing development of federally protected wetlands. The council, by a 4-2 vote, rejected the measure, which would have been the first of its kind in Lorain County.
The proposal, recomAvon mended 3-2 by the Planning Commission in 1990, would have forced housing developers to show proof that the corps either granted a permit to fill wetlands or determined a development site did not include wetlands. Council members Donald Hubbard, Jean corps role in wetlands plans Scrivens, James Muzzy and Ed Krystowski voted against the legislation. William D. Hyde III and Anthony Conti voted for Hyde, an early supporter of the proposal, said the Planning Commission had granted approval to many projects that were later discovered to be in wetlands. "I'd just like to remind council that their children may not be able to breathe the air and drink the water," said a disappointed Hyde.
"Give the developers time and it may get to that point." But most council members said the proposal was premature and raised too many questions. "We're leading ourselves into litigation and possible cost to the city, and I think the outcome doesn't justify the risk," Krystowski said. He Garrettsville woman wins $1 million ASSOCIATED PRESS would use her winnings "to enjoy A Portage County woman life." She said she would invest claimed a $1 million Ohio Lottery some of it. prize yesterday as the Millionaire She bought her ticket at a proof the Month for May. duce stand in Garrettsville, where Donna Mellinger of she spends about $16 per week on Garrettsville said she saw the win- lottery games.
ning serial She made claim at the lotPortage number of tery's headquarters in Cleveland County her ticket with after arriving relatives in and a friends. limousine along announced Saturday night during the lot- Super Lotto tickets showing tery's weekly Cash Explosion tele- three of six numbers drawn qualvision show. ify for the Millionaire of the Technically, she will be a bit Month drawing. The lottery ranshort of being a millionaire. Her domly selected the serial number lump-sum cash prize will amount (107-02619307-144) of her game to about $765,000 after federal and ticket.
There have been three prestate taxes. vious Millionaire of the Month Mellinger, a machinist with one drawings, with a claim made each daughter, told lottery officials she time. 1 Suspect in pizza worker's rape drops plea Man stabbed to death in quarrel A Cleveland man, 33, was stabbed 8:18 p.m. at St. Luke's Hospital of a to death last night in a street quarrel stab wound in the groin.
Police a few doors from his home, police arrested a woman acquaintance. said. A friend said an East Herbert M. Johnson Jr. of the Technical High School graduate, 13700 block of Durkee Ave.
died at worked at a restaurant. By MARK ROLLENHAGEN PLAIN DEALER REPORTER been Medina County dina $250,000 cash bond. held in the MeCounty Jail since September under A Medina County judge has allowed Richard Sproles, accused of raping a pizza deliverywoman, to withdraw a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity, a move that should bring the 9-month-old case to trial next month. The alleged kidnapping and rape incident occurred in August. Sproles, of Medina, has The case has had several No talks are scheduled in Morton mine strike added that he believed the corps' definition of wetlands was too broad.
Scrivens said the "theory of the ordinance is good, but there were questions about what the city would be liable for. As long as the government is still revamping the wetlands requirements, this is not the time to pass this legislation." But Douglas Petersen, a former Planning Commission member who co-sponsored the ordinance last year, said council missed the point of the legislation. "We're dealing with the planning process. Council made this an economic issue, an 1 anti-wetlands issue, which it wasn't meant to be," Petersen said. Corps officials have said the ordinance would have created a wave of inspection requests that it was not equipped to handle.
No new talks have been scheduled between negotiators for Morton International and striking union workers of the Grand River salt mine. Administrative employees con.tinue to report for work, Greg Castle, Grand River company spokesman and negotiator, said yesterday from Morton's Chicago headquarters. He declined to comment on whether operations essentially had been shut down or whether workers would be called in to handie jobs held by striking employees. AL Union workers, represented byLocal 7-967 of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union, went on strike early Sunday after talks broke down the previous day. The union represents 128 workers, including equipment, operators, mechanics, electricians and main-: tenance workers.
Union officials said issues that divide the two sides include management's proposals to require overtime for workers, raise weekly health coverage payments from $3 to $30 and reduce benefits for retirees. Negotiations for a new threeyear contract began April 23. Workers last struck in 1988, for about four months. State agents arrest 192 in liquor sale sweeps State liquor agents and local police are sweeping bars and carryouts in a crackdown on illegal sales to minors. Police in the Cleveland area arrested 18 violators and liquor agents cited seven establishments in Cuyahoga, Lorain, Lake and Geauga counties.
The statewide sweep began Friday, resulting in 192 arrests and 40 citations in 36 counties, according to the Ohio Department of Liquor Control. Those cited will appear before the Ohio Liquor Control Commission and may face losing their liquor licenses, suspensions or fines. Criminal charges will be heard by local municipal courts. The sweep targeted bars, carryouts and drivethroughs where illegal sales to underage minors have been reported. It is the fifth time since 1989 the department has conducted such sweeps.
The Liquor Department's Akron office, with jurisdiction over 22 counties, cited eight businesses and police arrested 28 people on criminal charges in the purchasing or selling of alcohol. Those cited in the Cleveland area were: Broadway Beverage and Ice Cream, 88 Broadway, Bedford, was cited for sale furnishing beer to an underage person and for not having a liquor permit on the premises. Four people were arrested, including a 17-year-old for pur- man telephoned Domino's in Medina on Aug. he planned to plead guilty to spare the victim 26, 1990, and asked to have a pizza delivered the ordeal of a trial, according to the to an address that turned out to be a closed detective, Lt. David Shows.
factory in a remote part of town. The 21-year-old deliverywoman was kidnapped ber But he when Sproles went to court in Septemand raped, according to authorities. pleaded not guilty. He later asked Common Pleas Judge Phillip Baird to bar Sproles, 28, was arrested Sept. 2 in prosecutors from using his earlier statements Johnson City, where he has relatives, at trial.
and charged by Medina police after an Baird informer's tip. rejected the request, ruling that Sproles had been properly advised of his Domino's provided a corporate plane to fly rights before making the statements. Sproles a Medina detective and Domino's chief of se- has denied making the statements. curity to Johnson City to take Sproles into custody. with After the Baird's court ruling, Sproles filed a notice that he intended to present an On the way back to Medina, Sproles told alibi defense.
He said he was fishing at the the detective and the Domino's official that time the rape and kidnapping occurred. chasing beer, two 18-year-olds for sharing the cost Dairy Deli, 6219 W. 130th Parma Heights, of alcoholic beverages, and a 20-year-old who was was cited for selling furnishing beer to an charged with selling beer to an underage person. underage person. A 20-year-old was arrested for Ricardo J.
Perez, the store manager, said author- purchasing beer and for using a false identificaities should do something about fake identifica- tion to do so. A store employee, who declined to tions. "I'm not going to jeopardize my (own) kids give his name, said the 20-year-old had identifimoney just to sell some kid's he said. "I ask cation that showed he was old enough to purchase for IDs and they show me IDs that says they are beer but it was actually someone else's identifiold enough and I sell it." cation. Convenient Food Mart, 19100 Lorain Holland Oil Party Store, 7198 Broadview Fairview Park, was cited for sale furnishing Parma, was cited for selling furnishing beer to a minor.
Two people were arrested, a beer to underage people. Two 17-year-olds were 51-year-old clerk who sold the beer and a arrested for purchasing beer, an 18-year-old was 19-year-old who purchased it. A store employee arrested for selling the beer and two other working yesterday declined comment. 18-year-olds for sharing in the cost of purchasing Peoples Choice Deli, 10522 Superior of beer. Darryl Hanic, the store's assistant Parma Heights, was cited for furnishing manager, said the store had established a new beer and liquor to an underage person.
Two people policy requiring two identification cards for anywere arrested, the store re employee, 27, who sold the one who looks under 30 and is purchasing alcoalcohol and the 19-year-old who purchased it. holic beverages. Company officials could not be reached for com- Frank D. and Judith L. Corso, listed ment.
holders for as permit the Pizza Cutter Beverage, 153 Lear Lake's Beverage, 6328 Pearl Parma Avon Lake, were cited for selling or Heights, was cited for selling furnishing ing beer to an underage person. A 19-year-old was beer to an underage person. The 19-year-old per- arrested for purchasing beer and a 43-year-old person buying the beer and the 38-year-old store em- son was arrested for selling the beer. A store em; ployee selling it were arrested. A store employee ployee declined comment, referring questions to declined to comment.
her superior who could not be reached. Prosecutors reacted by filing a motion in lawyer's fees partly because Sproles "was asking for more details about the alibi, in- a particularly demanding client." cluding the names of anyone who might have Baird appointed Christopher Collier as seen Sproles fishing, but Sproles didn't re- Sproles' new lawyer and would not let spond to the request. Sproles withdraw the insanity plea until he Instead, his lawyer, Gerald Piszczek, filed had consulted with Collier. The not-guilty a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity for plea Sproles entered in September still Sproles on March 8, three. days before stands.
Sproles' trial was to begin. If the insanity plea remained, the trial On could have been delayed further because porters March and said 11, he Sproles wasn't called crazy and newspaper wanted re- Baird would have had to order a psychiatric to withdraw the plea. Piszczek quit the case for Sproles. exam the next day, telling the court he was with- Sproles had been convicted of simple drawing because Sproles "failed to cooperate assault in 1989 and felonious assault in 1984 in regard to his defense." in of separate incidents in Medina County and burglary in Johnson City about 10 years Piszczek asked the court for an extra $665 ago. twists since a bu i- i 1.
