News-Journal from Mansfield, Ohio • 7

Tuesday, March 5, 1985 Newt Journal, Mansfield, O. -Obituaries Communities 7-a Elma Taylor Lexington hit with bad news LEXINGTON Council members got a double dose of bad news during a very routine Village Council meeting last night. The first grim report came from Village Administrator Charles Pscholka who reported that new En-viromental Protection Agency standards for waste-water treatment facilities would probably force the village to eventually dip into its coffers for necessary improvements to Lexington's plant. Pscholka told council that interim guidelines which go into effect in July could be met. But he said that permanent guidelines, slated to start in July 1988, could not be met without plant modifications.

To further dampen the evening, council learned that Lexington was 433th on the EPA's funding priority list, virtually assuring the village of no EPA money. City engineer Dennis Cox noted that only the top 40 priorities usually see any funds. Council also learned that work has been delayed on the East Main Street Bridge. The Ohio Department of Transportation has run into several nation nas run inio several snags in surveying the Dnage, torcmg construction until 1986. work to be postponed Council had originally hoped repairs could be completed this summer.

Cox did say, however, that such delays are not uncommon because surveying work on such old property can be time-consuming due to past surveying mistakes. The latest timetable calls for bids to be accepted next winter with construction in the summer of 1986. Several routine ordinances passed Mast services MANSFIELD Services were held for former Mansfielder E. Taylor "Cannonball" or "Moose" Mast, who died Dec. 7 in Lee Memorial Hospital, Fort Myers, after a two-year illness.

Born Jan. 12, 1910, In Canton, he and his family moved to Mansfield when he was a child. Ten years ago, he retired from Westinghouse after 39 years of service. During the 1940s, Mr. Mast was a member of the Civil Air Patrol and was a member of the group that became the Mifflin Township Volunteer Fire Department.

He is survived by his wife of 42 years, Jane; two daughters, Sherry and Terry; a son, Jody; and five grandchildren. Cline services SHELBY Funeral services for Florence Keller Cline, 84, of 28 Mohican who died 7:20 a.m. Monday in Shelby Memorial Hospital, will be held Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. in the Barkdull Funeral Home by the Rev. Carl L.

Johnson. Burial will be' in Oakland Cemetery. Calling hours are today from 4 to 9 p.m. Memorial contributions may be made to the church in care of the funeral home. Mrs.

Cline was born July 23, 1900, in Bucyrus, and had lived most of her life in Shelby. She was a member of the First Lutheran Church. She is survived by a brother, James D. Keller of Shelby. She was preceded in death by her husband, Frank, and a son, Donald.

William Jones MANSFIELD William Jones, 70, of 516 Burns St. died Sunday evening in Ripley, W. Va. Mr. Jones was born March 14, 1914, in Mannington, W.

and had lived in Mansfield since 1948. He was employed at Westinghouse for 28 years before retiring eight years ago. He was an active member of Grace Church of the Nazarene and the AM-VETS. He served with the U.S. Army in the European Theater in World Warll.

Survivors include his wife, Evelyn Isner Jones; one brother, Paul of Salem, Ohio; five sisters, Mrs. Ester Schwartz of Palmetto, Mrs. Mary Louise Andrews of Calcutta', Ohio, Mrs. William (Hazel) Martin of San Fernando, and Miss Ruth Jones and Mrs. John (Martha) Pugh, both of Chester, W.

Va. Services will be held Thursday at 1:30 p.m. in the Grace Church of the Nazarene by his pastor, the Rev. William D. Reid.

Burial will be in Mansfield Cemetery. Calling hours are from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday in the Finefrock Funeral Home. The Joint Veterans Council will conduct military honors at the graveside. Maiufltld Richland Co.

without much fanfare, but one piece of legislation that was only given a first reading is expected to cause some public uproar. A resolution calling for improvements to Ohio 97 within the village limits also calls for landowners to be assessed for part of the repair cost. A public hearing on the resolution is not required, but the village will have to send out assessment notices to affected landowners, with an estimate of the assessment. Cox said that process could be completed within two weeks. Also approved was an ordinance that prohibits parking on the south side-of Holiday Hill between Pembroke Boulevard and Tamiami Terrace.

Councilman Roy Walter cast the lone dissenting vote, noting that parked cars might lielp slow down vehicles that travel the area. ijCAiiigiuii iasiu tQ watch watef LEXINGTON Village Council was told that rusty drinking water might be a problem in Lexington for the next few days as several fire hydrants will be opened to help crews clean storm sewers and drains around the village. Village Administrator Charles Pscholka urged Lexington residents to carefully examine their water before using it at least until Thursday. workload at Ohio Brass' North Main Street Foundry, bought out in early December by foundry employees. The foundry is now Mansfield Ferrous Castings and makes steel castings on which the porcelain insulators hang.

No Mansfield Ferrous Castings officials were available this morning to say if the permanent shut down would affect their business. The Barberton plant closing will follow the transfer of the remaining limited assembly activities to Ohio Brass' Aiken, S.C., operation. The transfer is planned also for May. Company representatives will be meeting with Local 747, United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America, to -discuss details of the closing. Ohio Brass is a subsidiary of Harvey Hubbell, headquartered in Orange, Conn.

All nurses meeting the criteria and working in Ashland, Crawford, Holmes, Huron, Morrow and Richland counties are eligible for the local competition. In connection with the state award, a $500 educational grant, the North Central Ohio Chapter of the March of Dimes will award a $100 continuing education grant to the Chapter Nurse of the Year. 30 is the entry deadline. Ohio Brass permanently closes Barberton plant Nature huffs, puffs hardest at Mansfield By Jeannie Gorgas Newt journal MANSFIELD Strong winds roared into north central Ohio on Monday, causing scattered power outages and giving Mansfield the distinction of having the highest wind gust 61 mph in the state. Small power outages were reported in Lexington, Bellville and Mansfield because of the windy weather.

The 61-mph gust was recorded at the National Weather Service Office at Mansfield-Lahm Airport at 10:24 a.m. Monday. In Lexington, about 122 customers in the Graham Road area were left without electricity when tree limbs were blown onto lines and wind blew power lines together, according to Don Lambillotte, area manager of the Ohio Power Co. The outage occurred about 5 p.m., and power was restored about 6:40 p.m., he said. About the same time, 50 customers in Bellville in the Bellville Road North area had power cut off by a utility pole that was blown over.

Lambillotte said the ground around the base of the pole had washed away. Power was restored later in the evening. The utility executive said his repair crews faced 45-mph winds, but were grateful not to be hampered by snow. Both the Shelby Municipal Light Co. and Ohio Edison in Mansfield reported blown transformer fuses that caused small power outages.

Carl Burkhalter, superintendent of line distribution at the Shelby-owned utility, said about a dozen customers had power cut after a transformer fuse blew on West Smiley Avenue. He also said a tree blew over some lines at a West Jefferson Street residence, pulling the service lines loose from the house. Malcolm Cash, division manager of Ohio Edison, said only minor problems were caused by the wind, mostly where trees had fallen over lines. In addition, crews were in the Massa Avenue area this morning checking a blown transformer fuse that cut power to about 15 customers, Cash said. In other weather-related problems, Madison Township firefighters were called at 6:34 p.m.

Monday to the Ralph Leathers home, 567 Flemings Falls Road, where wind blew a metal chimney apart. The chimney fell onto power lines, but the wind tinisnea us work by blowing the chimney off the electrical lines. The rain and accompanying high winds that hit Ohio on Monday were a blessing to some and a worry to others. The rain doused forest and brush fires that flared up in Scioto County but threatened to flood some rivers in the northwest part of the state. High winds fed 17 separate fires in the hills of Scioto County, including ones that threatened residential areas in West Portsmouth, Sciotoville and South Webster.

Firefighters used shovels and plows to dig firebreaks around those areas, and no damage was reported to the residential areas. Most of the fires were under control but still burning when the rain came in the early evening. By 11 p.m., all the fires were reported to be out. in it MANSFIELD The Ohio Brass Co. has announced it will permanently close its Barberton plant in May.

Production of porcelain insulator products had been suspended at the plant since June, pending a thorough review of market conditions, outlook and alternatives. According to company officials, market conditions do not support the continued production of porcelain insulator products. Last April, when the intended suspension of operations was announced, company officials described the suspension as indefinite but not permanent. The company had said then that the electrical- industry is demanding more polymer insulators, which replace porcelain insulators. Last year, the company had also said suspension of production at the Barberton plant would reduce the Harold E.

Volk MANSFIELD -r Harold E. Volk, 37, of S71 Wiles Road died Monday morning in Cleveland Clinic after a short illness. He was born March 25, 1947, in Mansfield, where he had lived all his life. Mr. Volk was manager of the roofing and painting department for the Mike Volk Co.

He was a member of St. Peter's Catholic Church, the Liederkranz, the Elks, the YMCA and the YMCA Century Club. Surviving are his wife, Sarah Harb Volk; one son, John Michael; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mike Volk; two brothers, Dieter of Longview, Texas, and Roland of Baton Rouge, and his grandmothers, Eva Volk and Magdalene Glaesser, both of Mansfield.

Private service will be held Wednesday at 10 a.m. in the Ontario Home of Wappner Funeral Directors by St. Peter's Catholic Church. Calling hours in the funeral home are from 7 to 9 tonight, with vigil services at 6:30. Burial will be in Mans-' field Memorial Park.

Gerald Godlove WILLARD Gerald Godlove, 84, of Euclid Street died Monday in Barberton Community Hospital following an extended illness. Arrangements are pending at Secor Funeral Home. Mike services MANSFIELD Funeral services for Beatrice Estella Mike, 903 W. Main Crestline, who died, Monday morning in Crestline Memorial Hospital after a brief illness, will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday in the Finefrock Funeral Home by the Rev.

Lester E. Rigdon, pastor of the Shelby Christian Missionary Alliance Church. Burial will be in Mansfield Memorial Park. Friends may call at the funeral home Wednesday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. The widow of Harry B.

Mike, she was born in Huron County and has lived in the Crestline area since 1929. She was a retired licensed practical nurse, a member of the Shelby Christian Missionary Alliance Church, the Dolly Madison Club, the American Legion Auxiliary Post 15, the Richland County Licensed Practical Nurse Association and the Senior Citizens of Galion, and was active in the Richland County Democratic Association. She is survived by four sons, Paul A. Snyder of Deming, N.M., Carl F. Snyder of Surprise, Kenneth O.

Snyder of Galion, and Charles L. Hayes of Phoenix, five daughters, Sandra C. Scheiber of Crestline, Mary Ann Varbel, Haleda F. Weiss and Karen H. Zeigler, all of Phoenix, and Harriet J.

Walker of Scottsdale, two brothers, Jesse D. Conklin and Charles Conklin of Shelby; 22 grandchildren; 26 greatgrandchildren and four great-greatgrandchildren. proposing to cut federal revenue sharing. If that happens, the commissioners will be faced with making up the difference. They have already discussed the possibility of asking for an increase in the county's sales tax.

Still said the department heads will be notified, probably today, of their final budgets and the amount they can allocate for. salary increases. During budget reviews of the individual departments, the commissioners requested that department heads not ask for any salary increases. But the commissioners have now been able to allocate funds for those departments that have not given raises or do not already have funds in their budgets earmarked for raises. "It's up to them what they give employees, not us," Westerhold said.

Of the individual departments, the commissioners had the highest increase more than $103,000. "More than $75,000 of that is for an increase in insurance rates. Our insurance premium has Increased by 125 percent because of the loss of sovereign Immunity," Still explained. rors Brown claimed were made by Judge Max Chilcote of Richland County Common Pleas Court do not warrant reversing the conviction. Chilcote made the correct decision in letting jurors see three color slides of Jeanette's body, Ault wrote in a 15-page brief.

Brown argued the slides prejudiced the jury without being relevant to the cause of the child's death or the legal issue of whether. Mrs. Albanese purposely caused Jeanette's death. Brown also argued Chilcote improperly let three lay witnesses give opinions about whether Mrs. Albanese was faking insanity.

Ault countered that Chilcote has the authority to decide when lay witnesses can give opinions, saying the lay witnesses in Mrs. Albanese's case knew her well enough to be qualified to give opinions about her sanity. Chilcote also did not err by letting MANSFIELD Elma Tavlor. 63. of 1191 N.

Trimble Road, wife of Wallace Taylor, died Monday afternoon in Mansfield General Hospital after an extended illness. Funeral arrangements are pending at Wappner Funeral Directors. Aden S. Bender MANSFIELD Aden S. Bender, 88, of 659 W.

Fourth St. died at his home Monday evening following an extended illness. Arrangements are pending at the Finefrock Funeral Home. Rhodes services SHELBY Services for Ruth N. Rhodes, 87, of 21 E.

Gaylord Ave. will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Barkdull Funeral Home by the Rev. James L. Smith.

Burial will be in Oakland Cemetery. Calling hours are today from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Memorial contributions may be made to the church and left in care of the funeral home. Mrs. Rhodes died at 8:15 p.m.

Sunday in Shelby Memorial Hospital after an extended illness. She was born June 26, 1897, in Canton, and lived in Shelby for 48 years. She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, past president' of the Ladies Guild and past president of the Amy Allison Auxiliary of the church. Mrs. Rhodes was also a former member of Shelby Memorial Hospital Guild and Shelby Garden Club and a past sponsor of Eta Phi Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi.

She is survived by her husband, B. W. "Dusty" Rhodes; one brother, John R. Noel Of Columbus; and one sister, Mrs. H.B.

(Mary) Anderson of Pittsburgh, Pa. Ella Jordan MANSFIELD Ella Worthington Jordan, 69, of 410 Empire Road, widow of Bruce Jordan, died in Mansfield General Hospital on Monday morning following an extended illness. Mrs. Jordan was born in Greenup County, June 6, 1915, and had been a Mansfield resident since 1942. Surviving are three stepsons, Bruce Jordan, Vera Jordan and Alfred Jordan, all of Chesterville; four stepdaughters, Mrs.

Benton (Anna) Mahan and Mrs. Brent (Emma) Chipps, both of Chesterville, Mrs. David (Robin) Lester of Edison and Mrs. Jeff (Vicki) Sargent of, Frederick-town; two brothers, Lloyd Worthington and Cal Worthington of Mansfield; and 19 stepgrandchildren. Services will be held Wednesday at 11 a.m.

in the Finefrock Funeral Home by the Rev. Wayne Castle, pastor of the Bowman Street Road Church of God. Burial will be in Mansfield Cemetery. Calling hours will be at the funeral home today from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. (g) Nonmlk Huron Co.

"Liability insurance is tough to get and if you do, you have to pay a high price." Higher utility costs and the cost of computers were also cited as reasons for the increase. The next largest increase, from $224,778 to $266,338, went to Prosecutor Michael Fegen for increasing staff with another investigator and another attorney. The largest decrease was for the Children's Home, which registered a $51,673 decrease, because Rita McComb, director of Human Services, said the $388,673 allocated in 1984 was too much to run the department. Westerhold said the budgets of the two county's judges are the same as they have been the last couple of years. "We've reviewed budgets with the judges and we kept them the same amount as they had last year.

They had too much to start with," The Juvenile and Probate Courts budget is $392,883. Still said Judge Thomas Heydinger will not get any money for raises, because he had already gave them to his employees. a defense psychiatrist say Mrs. Al banese could nave recurrent psycnoi-ic episodes, Ault wrote. Even if it was error, the defense caused it by having the psychiatrist give similar testimony, he wrote.

Brown had also argued that Chilcote should have acquitted Mrs. Albanese because the prosecution failed to prove she purposely caused Jeanette's death. Ault argued that witnesses said Mrs. Albanese "tortured the victim for a period of three hours," with death being a natural and probable consequence of the torture. Ohio law sets the presumption that a person purposely intends the "natural and probable consequences of acts deliberately done," Ault wrote.

The appellate court now will schedule the appeal for oral arguments by Brown and Ault, probably in Fremont. Nominations being sought Huron balances '85 budget; county workers to get raises OFF EYEGLASSES 'Mm Although it took $341,000 of federal revenue-sharing funds to do it, the 1985 Huron County budget is balanced. Most county employees will even get a raise. County Commissioners Roy Palm and James Westerhold approved the final budget at Monday's meeting. Commission President Thomas Cara-bin was in Washington D.C.

The general fund, divided among the county's departments, totals $4,580,117, an increase of $107,597 over last year's budget. The commissioners, faced with iih creased operating costs in all departments, had no choice but to dip into the federal revenue funds because the county budget must be balanced, with receipts and expenditures equal, County Administrator Ed Still said. He said supplementing the general fund left only about $136,000 in federal revenue-sharing funds for such things as capital improvements. "We really went deep enough as it is," Still said. "If we don't have revenue-sharing next year, it will be another story." President Reagan is MANSFIELD The March of Dimes is looking for outstanding nurses.

The charity, along with the Ohio Nurses Association, is sponsoring the ninth annual Nurse of the Year Award. Candidates must be registered nurses and members of the Ohio Nurses Association and work in the field of maternal child-health practice. Candidates may submit their own names or be nominated by a colleague or consumer. 50 Ot ooooo i tmm I Pi Through March 30. Choose from our Contem-po Collection o( 200 fashion frames.

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In a prosecution brief filed in the case, Ault countered six arguments defense attorney Charles Brown raised when appealing Mrs. Al-banese's conviction to the 6th District Court of Appeals. The Toledo-based court will hear the appeal because Mrs. Albanese was tried in Fremont. Mrs.

Albanese, 49, is serving 15 years to life for murdering her granddaughter, Jeanette Lea Gurik. Jeanette died last March 22 during a daylong cleansing ritual at Mrs. Al-banese's Walker Avenue house. Jurors rejected an insanity defense in convicting her. Ault argued that six procedural er LAZARUS.