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November 3, 1981 News Journal, Mansfield, O. Obituaries. Merl E. Mowry MANSFIELD Merl E. Mowry, 70, of Harlan Road, Lucas, RD 1, retired employee of Fisher Body, died in Peoples Hospital early this morning after a brief illness.

Mr. Mowry was born in Richland County Feb. 13, 1911, and lived in this area all his life. He had been employed with Fisher Body until his retirement in 1974. Mr.

Mowry was a member of the Mt. Zion Lutheran Church and United Auto Workers Local 549. Surviving ae his wife, Mrs. Esther E. McFarland Mowry, three daughters, Mrs.

Fred (Julie) Ferrell of Mansfield, Mrs. John (Jane) Brubaker of Windsor Road, Mansfield, and Mrs. Roy (May) Thompson of Polk, Ohio; two sisters, Mrs. Ruth Lord of Oregon and Mrs. Paul Selby of Mansfield; eight grandchildren; one great-grandchild.

Funeral services will be conducted in the Mt. Zion 1 Lutheran Church, Lucas, Thursday at 11 a.m. by the Rev. Don Saylor, pastor. Burial will be in Mt.

Zion Cemetery, Lucas. Friends may call in the Finefrock Funeral Home Wednesday from 6 to 9 p.m. The family requests memorial contributions be made to the Mt. Zion Memorial Fund. Howard Ross MANSFIELD Howard Ross, 90, of Spartanburg, S.C., died Monday afternoon in the Spartanburg Convalescent Center after an extended illness.

He was born Jan. 28, 1891, in Carbon Hill, Ohio. Mr. Ross was a former employee of the Mansfield Tire and Rubber Co. and retired from the Goodyear Tire Co.

in Akron in 1956. Surviving are two sons, Richard Ross of Spartanburg and Don R. Ross of Colorado Springs, one daughter, Mrs. Vivienne Ross Shababian of Huntington Beach, one stepdaughter, Mrs. Kenneth Riggle of Barberton, Ohio; 16 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; one brother, Carl Ross of Lima, Ohio; and one sister, Mildred Hutchison of Inverness, Fla.

Graveside services will be held Thursday at 3 p.m. in Mansfield Memorial Park by Dr. Wray C. Smith, pastor of the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church. Friends may call at the Ontario Home of Wappner Funeral Directors Wednesday from 7 to 9 p.m.

Collins services MANSFIELD Funeral services for Cynthia Collins, 41, of 308 Seventh who died Sunday morning in Mansfield General Hospital, will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. at the Mark A. Schneider Funeral Home in Crestline. Friends may call at the funeral home from 7 to 9 tonight. She was born April 26, 1940, in New York, N.Y.

Survivors include four sons, Donald Jr. of Naples, Danny of Mansfield, and Dennis and Douglas, both of Crestline; a daughter, Mrs. Tom (Cathy) Ward of Naples, four brothers, Jack, Rick and David Feliciano, all of California, and Alfred Amato of California; and a sister, Ardene Amato of Brooklyn, N.Y. Julia C. Beller BUCYRUS Mrs.

Julia C. Beller, 89, of 300 East Warren Bucyrus, died Monday morning in Bucyrus Community Hospital after a two-week illness. She was born Dec. 13, 1891, in Crawford County. She had moved from Bucyrus to Canton in 1916 and had lived in Canton until 1972, when she moved back to Bucyrus.

She was a member of the Grace United Methodist Church and the Progressive Sunday School Class. She was a member of the Bucyrus Golden Agers and past noble grand of the Elta Rebekah Lodge 9, IOOF. Survivors include one niece, Mrs. Marvin (Betty) Kreh of Bucyrus. Services will be held at 1:30 p.m.

Wednesday at the Wise Funeral Home by the Rev. Millard W. Mead. Burial will be in Oakwood Cemetery. Friends may call today at the funeral home, where the family will receive friends from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.

Lloyd S. Yeater ASHLAND Lloyd S. Yeater, 74, of 939 County Road 1754, Ashland, RD 6, died at his home Monday morning. Born July 8, 1907, in Ashland County, he had been an Ashland County resident all his life and was a member of Stone Lutheran Church. He was also a member of Hayesville Lions Club and worked as an engineer for the Tidewater Pipeline Co.

for 20 years. He also worked for the Ohio Fuel Gas Co. for five years and farmed from 1949 until he retired in 1970. He worked as a part-time employee of the Hyco Co. in Ashland during his farming years.

He operated a welding and machine shop, and since his retirement in 1970 he had operated a woodworking shop. Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Richard (Joy Sue) Cook of Raleigh, N.C.; four sons, Gene Jerry L. and Tommy, all of Ashland, and Jim L. of Polk; and 15 grandchildren.

Services will be held Thursday at 1:30 p.m. at the Stone Lutheran Church by the Rev. Richard L. Beal. Burial will be in Miller Cemetery in Ashland County.

Friends may call at the Denbow-Primm Funeral Home from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday and at the church an hour before the service on Thursday. Rachel Pearl Miller GALION Rachel Pearl Miller, 75, of 542 S. Boston St. died Sunday afternoon in the Galion Community Hospital following a brief illness.

She was born in Crawford County Dec. 30, 1905. She attended the Galion schools and was a member of the Galion Church of Christ. She retired from North Electric after 30 years of service. so Her husband, Charles 1 E.

Miller, died in 1977. Survivors include two brothers, Elwin Kitzmiller of Galion and Delno Kitzmiller of Phoenix, and one sister, Mrs. Cecil (Georgia) Amick of Galion. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday at the -Richardson 1 Funeral Home by J.

William Overbay, minister of the Galion Church of Christ. Burial will be in the Rivercliff Cemetery in Mt. Gilead. Friends may call at the funeral home from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. today.

Morrow couple reach finals of farm bureau competition COLUMBUS A Morrow County ored at a luncheon during the Columbus couple, Kenneth and Lois Stauffer of meeting. The four regional winners will Edison, are finalists in the Ohio Farm receive awards and recognition, and the Bureau Federation (OFBF) Outstanding 1981 Outstanding Young Farm Couple Young Farm Couple Award contest. will be named. The Stauffers, who operate a dairy The couple will automatically comfarm, are one of three couples chosen pete in the American Farm Bureau Fedfinalists from the northwest region. eration Young Farmer and Rancher Twelve young farm couples throughout Award program for national honors and the state have been named finalists.

a chance to win free use of a tractor for The winning couple will be named a year. during the Ohio Farm Bureau Federa- As Ohio's winners, the couple will tion annual meeting in Columbus, Nov. receive an expense-paid trip to the 30. American Farm Bureau Federation anThis year each of OFBF's four regions nual 1 meeting in San Diego, Jan. has three finalists in the competition.

10-14. From this group, one couple will be se- The Ohio Farm Bureau annual meetlected from each region as the outstand- ing will be Nov. 30 to Dec. 2 at the Ohio ing couple from that area. From these Center in Columbus with the theme of four regional winners, the OFBF Out- "Pride in Production." During the sesstanding Young Farm Couple will be sion, delegates from throughout the named.

state will determine policy for the orThe 12 regional finalists will be hon- ganization for the coming year. U.S. Postal Service will observe holiday schedule Veterans Day MANSFIELD The Mansfield services will be available on a continubranch of the U.S. Postal Service will ing around clock basis at self-seroperate on a holiday schedule Veterans vice postal centers. Self-service units Day, Wednesday, Nov.

11. stocked with stamps, postal cards, Donald F. Harants, officer-in-charge, stamped charts envelopes, weight scales and said regular mail deliveries and usual rate and currency changing maoffice lobby services, except for chines are located in the Mansfield Post post lockbox will be stopped for the Office, 200 N. Diamond St. service, day.

Mail pickup from collection boxes will Delivery of certain expedited mail also be on a holiday schedule, as posted services, including special delivery and on individual boxes, or determined by express mail, will continue during the calling the post office. holiday. Normal mail service will resume Nov. Harants noted postal products and 12. Payment ordered to auto junkyard MANSFIELD In accordance with a judge for the vacationing Max Chilcote, jury verdict returned last week, Judge presided over the jury trial last week.

Rex Larson of Richland County Common Pleas Court has ordered the county The jury decided Milliron, who runs commissioners to pay Grant Milliron an auto wrecking business, should get $20,000 as compensation for land used in $5,000 as payment for the land used by the widening of Trimble Road. the road project and another $15,000 to Larson, substituting as a visiting correct ensuing drainage problems. communities 7 Council favorable to boulevard signs By Barb Brucker The News Journal MANSFIELD From all indications at Monday's City Council caucus, the Glenwood-Parkwood Boulevard Association's signs will stay up; but the neighborhood's current R-2 residential zoning may be headed for what residents will consider a welcome tumble. It was, as association member Robert Kahn quipped, "Glenwood-Parkwood night" at the caucus with the agenda sporting a proposal sponsored by the association to rezone a broad area from R- 2 residential to R-1 residential, and a separate measure granting the group a variance for signs erected last month at entrances to the boulevards. Kahn, who co- chairs the association's rezoning committee, told council members that the rezoning proposal grew out of informal discussions that have spanned the last few years.

He also emphasized that the request is not aimed at stopping any particular project. Instead, the group has billed the project as an attempt to preserve the residential character of the neighborhood before it is faced with any specific threat. The area involved is roughly bounded by Bartley Avenue, the rear property lines of lots on the south side of Park Avenue West, the rear property lines of lots on the west side of Shady Lane and Maple Street. Originally, the south side of Park Avenue West was included in the association's proposal, but was excluded for reasons including that the street is classed as a major thoroughfare, with an overlay zoning district that is more permissive. In addition, Kahn said, the group decided that asking for an R-1 residential classification for that portion Avenue would amount to "legal fiction" since so many of the properties lining the avenue already are being used commercially.

But he stressed that the GlenwoodParkwood Boulevard Association remains "very concerned" about the future, of Park Avenue West, which Kahn said is "being eaten up, more or less a block at a time" by commercial development. Also speaking in favor of the rezoning proposal was Jack Davis, past president of the association, who said the group wants to protect what he called the "unique" neighborhood. Members of the association reportedly have collected more than 400 signatures from residents who support the rezoning proposals. The Glenwood-Parkwood plan also has been endorsed by council's zoning committee. If council agrees, the rezoning proposal next will be forwarded to the city planning commission for a formal recommendation.

A public hearing before Willard waterline dedication canceled WILLARD A ribbon-cutting ceremony for the opening of a new Plymouth-Willard waterline, scheduled for Friday, has been canceled and will be held at a later date. The work on the line is not completed, according to information given to City Council Monday night. Still to be done are electric work installation of automatic controls at the pumping station on Ohio 61 just north of Plymouth. The ceremony is tentatively planned for the latter part of this month. Letters are being sent out today asking residents along the new line to sign up to pay Willard water rates.

Persons living outside the Willard city limits who tap into the new line must pay double the regular city water rate. Council held a public hearing on a rezoning question on Oct. 27. But it was unsuccessful, councilmen said, because of a lack of attendance. Councilmen want to change the designation of property on Front Street from residential to business-commercial.

Councilman Roderick Shininger and Council President Wade Eden talked with some of the residents about that lack of attendance. They said the answers from some were "Why go?" and "Council will do what it wants to do anyway." Shininger said he felt residents concerned were confused and did not understand what the purpose of the public meeting was. One of those citizens, Edna Metcalf of 20 Front Street, reportedly told Eden she was concerned that council would use the eminent domain law to force her to sell her home. Shininger and Councilman George Gaich offered to go door to door in the Front Street area to explain the zoning change and answer questions. Law Director David Harwood said it is mandated by city ordinance to have a second public hearing on the matter.

Huron Co. Council received a notice from the Ohio Department of Liquor Control concerning transferring a liquor permit from Lawsons to Lawson's G.B.A. Discount Drug Mart on Ohio 224 inside the city. Council approved the transfer of the liquor license by a vote of 5-1. The "no" vote came from Gaich, who said, "In my opinion it would ruin the store.

I think the store is a nice place and this will bring in undesirables. A lot of young people frequent that place and I hate to see this happen." City Manager Paul Capelle said he is re-assigning a maintenance man, Dennis Hammond, to the recreation department on a temporary basis. Hammond will be named as recreation director and recieve the higher salary that goes with that title. Capelle said leaf pickup is under way and will continue for the next two weeks. Malpractice lawsuit refiled MANSFIELD A Mansfield couple have refiled a malpractice suit against Dr.

Sam A. Lerro in Richland County Common Pleas Court. Robert G. and Carolyn Norris, 65 Lilac Court, did not ask for a specific amount of monentary damages but rather "for relief, expenses herein and all other remedies to which they are entitled in law and equity." A trial by jury was demanded in the case, which was assigned to Judge Max Chilcote. Norris claims that while he was under IF YOU PUT $10,000 INTO OUR MONEY MARKET CERTIFICATES BETWEEN NOV.

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Also relating to the Glen wood Boulevard Association is legislation sponsored by 3rd Ward Councilman David Dalton to grant the group a variance for signs erected at the entrances to the boulevards. The city's codes and permits department determined that the signs violate the city's sign ordinance on several counts. But Davis and Charles Riley, association president, both appealed to the city to waive the requirements. Dalton also asked his fellow council members to vote in favor of his legislation. Also at the caucus, residents of the Shady Lane area turned out to protest a proposal to rezone from R-2 residential to B-2 business a lot at 825 Park Avenue West for use as an antiques and crafts shop.

Residents complained that the business would create traffic and safety problems on their street, and would threaten the residential nature of their neighborhood. But Charles Koehler, one of the prospective buyers for the property, said he thinks there are alternatives that might satisfy both the buyers and the neighbors. That rezoning request and another measure that would grant a legislative variance for 92 Gibson Ave. to permit the operation of a group home for mentally retarded persons will be aired during public hearings scheduled to get under way at 7 tonight. In other action Monday, attorney James Calhoun appeared on behalf of Kendall House Inc.

and its request for authorization of about $900,000 in industrial development revenue bonds to acquire, remodel and refurbish existing Kentucky Fried Chicken stores at 301 Ashland Road and 1447 Lexington Ave. The remodeling is to include for drive-through service. Calhoun, who estimated that about 20 percent of the financing package would be for remodeling, said he thinks the request represents an appropriate use of the industrial development revenue bonds program. He said he doesn't think there should be any "stigma" because the project involves a retail business. Also up for council consideration tonight will be ordinances accepting, but not necessarily pledging implementation of a parking utilization and street study in the central business disone trict; accepting a $500 donation to the police department for crime prevention programs from Dianne Berrier, who helped organize area self-defense classes earlier this year; accepting the donation of a 1977 station wagon from the United Telephone Co.

to the police department for use in its canine program; and a measure authorizing engineering plans to replace the heating system at the water treatment plant. Norwalk State plans for Mansfield schools vary by $700,000 Willard MANSFIELD Political haggling between the Ohio House and Senate on the 1982-83 state budget may mean a difference of $700,000 in money provided to the Mansfield City Schools in 1983. A joint Ohio-Senate conference committee meeting Monday agreed on 71 of 88 amendments to the House version of the budget but postponed decisions on major issues until later this week. Both the House-passed version and the Senate-passed version would bring the city schools $7,517,493 in 1982, an increase of $1.28 million over what the district received this year. However, while the House version would up that amount to $9,113,189 in 1983, the Senate- passed budget would increase the funding to only $8,430,405 in would the second year of the biennium.

Mansfield City Schools Superintendent Barton Cromer said that he naturally favors the House version, but both budgets, biennium provide fail "inadequate" to ensure funding auto- matic adjustments for inflation over the and years. Both versions "fail" as long-term so- and lutions to state school funding problems, he said. The effects of the relatively liberal House version on other Richland County and school districts follow. State funding al- locations for 1981 are listed in and parentheses, and the proposed 1982 and 1983 increases follow: Shelby City Schools ($1,451,111) $1,552,174 and $1,600,338 Fork Valley Local Schools ($1,574,768) $1,683,967 and $2,132,139 Crestview Local Schools ($1,230,077) $1,314,451 and $1,341,075 Lexington Local Schools ($2,568,631) $2,748,561 and $2,790,940 Lucas Local Schools ($653,478) $698,756 and $710,364 Madison Local Schools ($3,941,470) $4,221,265 and $4,683,114 Plymouth Local Schools ($1,230,003) $1,315,152 and $1,664,438 Ontario Local Schools ($449,602) $480,869 and $509,332 The Senate version, passed last week, provide these amounts to the schools: City Schools ($1,451,110) $1,552,174 and $1,656,855 Fork Valley Local Schools ($1,574,768) $1,683,967 and $2,040,187 Crestview ($1,230,007) $1,314,451 $1,404,515 Lexington ($2,568,630) $2,748,561 $2,939,400 Lucas $653,478) $698,755 and $747,111 Madison ($3,941,470) $4,221,265 $4,513,335 Plymouth $1,230,003) $1,315,152 $1,594,019 Ontario ($449,602) $480,869 and $513,742 against Mansfield doctor Lerro's care for three months in early caused him to lose earnings and earning 1978 the doctor negligently failed to capacity, the suit claims. warn him of "the risks of the procedures and surgery performed upon The Mrs.

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