6-BNW 6-BNW METRO BRIEFS $200,000 bond set in Shaker schoolboy rape Bond was set at $200.000 yesterday for Bernard W. Travis. 28. of Cleveland, who was charged with kidnapping and raping a Shaker Heights boy, 7, last Thursday. Travis appeared before Shaker Heights Municipal Judge Paul R.
Donaldson and said he had three children under age 7 and was not capable of such a crime. A hearing was set for 10 a.m. Monday. The boy was snatched from the street as he walked to Lomond Elementary School and was dropped off near the school later, police said. Travis.
who is unemployed, has been charged with kidnapping and felonious assault of a Cleveland woman earlier Thursday. City offers fix-up loans Cleveland is seeking homeowners who want to improve their residences to apply for an landlords who are not owneroccupants, the rate is 8.8%c. HUD has $223 million to lend nationwide for the 23-year-old program. old, underused federal low-interest loan program. Owner-occupants of dwellings 'of up to four suites can get $33,500 per unit at interest for 20 years.
Mayor George V. Voinovich announced yesterday. A family of four can earn up to $28.000 to qualify. For those above the income guidelines, or Contra-aid protest set Some 200 to 300 Clevelanders are expected to protest against continued U.S. government aid to the Nicaraguan contra rebels at 5 p.m.
today in front of the Old Federal Courthouse 011 Public Square. The protest is being organized by the newly formed Central American Coalition of Northeast Ohio. Bay taps councilman Thomas 1 B. Brough. 48.
has been appointed to Bay. Village City Council to succeed Ed Smith, who resigned Feb. 16 because of a job transfer to Alaska. Brough will be sworn in as Ward 4 councilman at next Monday's council meeting. Race tickets go on sale Tickets went on sale yesterday for this year's Budweiser Cleve- Colombians in $500,000 A shipment of high-grade Colombian cocaine reportedly worth more than $500.000 on the street was seized in Cleveland over the weekend, according to Cleveland police.
Narcotics detectives arrested three Colombians and one Cleveland-area man. Pascual Arteaga, 37, and Angela Arteaga, 36, both of Bogota, Colombia, and Hector Quintero, 44, a Colombian national from Miami, were charged yesterday with aggravated trafficking in cocaine. The three Colombians appeared yesterday 1 in Cleveland Municipal Court, where a preliminary hearing was scheduled for March 11. They Trans-Am 100. Tickets for both July 4 holiday weekend events begin at $20.
Tickets for the Trans-Am event alone are $10. They may be bought at Ticketron outlets, at the race office at Burke Lakefront Airport, or by phone from Teletron, 524-0000. Human service session Travis Sociologist William Julius Witson and economist Pat Choate will be the main speakers at the Federation for Community Planning's 46th annual Health and Human Services Institute at Stouffer Tower City Plaza Hotel March 10. Wilson, whose book, "The Truly Disadvantaged," examined the ills of the American underclass, will be the luncheon speaker. Choate.
director of policy analysis for TRW will address the 9 a.m. keynote session. All-day workshops will include topics about juvenile corrections and mental health services. Registration is $10 to $36, depending on the number of workshops attended. Computers in business Small business entrepreneurs can learn how to best incorporate computers into their operations on Friday, March 18 at the second annual Computer Compare Fair at the Hollenden House Hotel.
It is sponsored by the Council of Smaller Enterprises. For further details, call 244. charged drug bust were being held without bond in City Jail. The Greater Clevelander has been released pending grand jury action. Lt.
Martin Flask of the narcotics unit said he expected additional charges would be filed. Flask said police, acting on a tip, were watching the four Saturday at a Brook Park hotel. The four left the hotel, parking lot in a Police followed and stopped them about 5 p.m. at E. 49th St.
and Hamilton Ave. Using a dog trained to sniff out drugs, police found 6.6 pounds of pure cocaine in a fender well. Flask said the Colombians were delivering the cocaine to a buyer. Bogus goods importers get probation, are fined The principal members of a counterfeit merchandise operation here were placed on probation and fined a total of $130,000 yesterday for their part in the importing and sale of bogus goods. Chung Chen, 36.
and her husband, Ange Chen, 38, both of Chester Township and owners of the Tai Pan Enterprises in Highland Heights, were assessed fines by U.S. District Judge George W. Chung Chen was placed 011 probation for five years and fined $100.000. Ange Chen must serve two years' probation and was fined $30,000. The Chens.
were arrested last September by the FBI in an investigation of counterfeit merchandise. Many of the items seized i in raids conducted in connection with 10 Mentor library Mentor Public Library trustees plan an expansion to provide for a 14 reading room, a children's room, community rooms. additional parking and a computerized checkout system if a $4 million bond issue is approved May 3, according to the library's director. Voters in the Mentor school district also will be asked to approve an added 0.5-mill, five-year levy for library operating expenses. The library, at 8215 Mentor would be expanded from 10.600 square feet to more than 41,000 Planning a trip? Read The Plain Dealer Travel Section first.
-THE PLAIN DEALER, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1988. Bill to boost child abuse reporting Added to the list of those who now must report known or suspected abuse would be home -care and child day-care workers, school aides. employees of domestic violence shelters, nursing home workers, paramedics, on-duty police officers and medical examiners. The current law says physicians and nurses, along with most other medical professionals and certain lawyers, must report to designated local authorities when the condi- COLUMBUS (AP) The House voted yesterday to strengthen Ohio's child abuse reporting laws, despite claims that the from proposal some unfairly seeks expertise non-experts who work with children. Warner loses JACKSONVILLE.
Fla. (AP) A federal bankruptcy judge has denied a request by former Ohio financier Marvin L. Warner to dismiss his $4.5 billion reorganization case. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge George Proctor ruled last week that Warner's creditors would receive more protection under federal bankruptcy laws than under Florida laws.
State may TOLEDO (AP) An Ohio Department of Natural Resources spokesman says his agency may restock the Sandusky River, where a recent chemical spill wiped out thousands of fish. Todd Ambs also said Monday he expected fishing in the Sandusky to be good this spring and summer, even though a fishing advisory is in effect until March 15. The department is still trying to determine the extent of the fish kill caused when a Sun Pipe Line Co. pipeline ruptured near Tiffin two weeks ago, he said. About 100,000 gallons of toluene leaked in a swampy area and then spilled into Sugar Creek, a tributary of the Sandusky.
The Sandusky flows into Lake Erie. 'If these people are not professional enough to know, then who can we turn Rep. Francine A M. Panchal tion of a child under 18 "reasonably indicates abuse or neglect." Besides expanding the list of those who must report, Rep. Francine M.
Panchal's bill also imposes strict liability for failure to make a report, meaning the possibility of a fine or jail term. Panehal, D-8, of Cleveland, said the legislation was needed to conform state laws with those of the federal government that seek to deal with a problem of increasing concern across the nation. bid to By keeping Warner under Bankruptcy Court supervision, creditors will have the right to proportionally divide his assets instead of trying to acquire them on a first-come, first-served basis. Warner filed for protection from creditors Oct. 22 under Chapter 11 of the bankruptcy code, saying he hoped to consolidate over 30 suits restock Sandusky "Restocking the river is something we are looking at.
As we get a better tally on the fish kill, we will be able to assess monetary damages for the loss of wildlife to Sun Oil, the company responsible for the spill," Ambs said. "Often times what happens when we assess those sort of fines is we use the money to restock a particular area that's been harmed by a kill. I'm not sure if that's going to be the case, but it may be," he said. Smallmouth bass, carp and catfish, were among the fish killed in the chemical spill. Ambs said new fish could be placed in the river by the summer.
The Ohio Department of Health on Friday issued an advisory She also said that without her bill, the state could lose $450.000 in federal funds for child abuse prevention programs. Panchal, whose bill went to the Senate 71-21. discounted claims by Rep. Joan W. Lawrence, R-87, of Galena, and Rep.
Richard E. Rench, R-90, of Milan, that even medical experts had trouble spotting some abuse, including sexual abuse. Lawrence said that even under present law, of the reports dismiss against him. Proctor said it was impossible for Warner to handle all the cases. Proctor allowed three creditors to proceed with suits against Warner from the March 1985 col-: lapse of ESM Government Securities Inc.
of Fort Lauderdale. and the subsequent collapse of Warner's Home State Savings Bank of Cincinnati. River after against eating fish caught in the Sandusky River. Despite the fish kill and advisory, Ambs feels the area will be good for sport fishing in the spring, Clinic's Florida Doctors at the Cleveland Clinic's outpatient facility in Florida treated 50 patients on the first day of operation. Cleveland Clinic Florida opened Monday with 23 doctors in an office building in Fort Lauderdale.
The clinic hopes to build a health complex including a 400-bed hospital, and is awaiting state approval. ENJOY THE WARMTH OF THE SINGLE BEST SYSTEM: GAS HEAT. "are found to be unfounded." Rench asserted that the bill unfairly applied even to volunteers of certain types of children's services. "The penalty is going to jail. That's going too far," he said.
Panchal responded by saying that the need for the bill was critical. noting, "If these people are not professional enough to know, then who can we turn to?" The bill makes numerous other refinements in existing law. Some of these would authorize investigators of child abuse reports to take pictures of a child's environment, as well as of the child, and require protective service employees of county human services departments to wear photo identification cards. bankruptcy case .1 Warner was convicted last March of illegally transferring funds from Home State to ESM without approval of Home State's board of directors. He was acquitted of fedcral charges stemming from Home State's failure.
Warner, former ambassador to Switzerland, lived in Cincinnati and now lives in Ocala. chemical spill especially for the annual walleye run. "It should not have any lasting impact on the river. When new fish come into the river, they shouldn't be affected." facility is open The outpatient facility is expected to draw area residents and former Ohioans and others who previously traveled to Cleveland for care, said a clinic spokeswoman. The outpatient facility is expected to have about 80 doctors by the end of the year.
Doctors expect to treat 700,000 people a year. the arrests were imitation items that bore name-brand labels such as Rolex, Cartier, Movado, Gucci and Louis Vuitton. Others sentenced yesterday were: Robert N. Becker, of Valley View. who was accused of purchasing goods for resale, was placed on three years' probation and $10,000.
Hee Sook Chun. of Mayfield Heights, was given two years' probation and fined $10,000. Chun's business in East Cleveland. U.S. Hair, was raided by the FBI in the September arrests.
Sok Chan Cho, of Strongsville, the operator of two downtown shops raided by the FBI, was given three years' probation and fined $5,000. seeks bond issue square feet, said Director Dale W. Craig. The library, built in was the busiest in Lake County last year and has become overcrowded, Craig said. "We have our books on top of shelves we can't even reach," he said, "and we have 3,000 books we can't even put out." The library serves residents of Mentor, Mentor-on-the-Lake and portions of Concord Township, Craig said.
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