THE PLAIN DEALER, SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 1989 Oberlin offer." applied Hayden for said admission, 3,961 and students 2,275 of those were accepted. bulging housing Sandy unexpected Hougland, coordinator, number the of said students college's the at seams vation forced the plans, college which to would delay reno- have closed a dormitory that houses Enrollment mark 21 students. The college also allowed more set for 1989-90 juniors and seniors to move off campus, she said. Freshmen and Oberlin College will begin its sophom*ores are required to live 1989-90 academic year Wednes- in university housing. day with 2,950 students, the lar- While all students did receive gest enrollment in the school's housing, Houghland said the col157-year history.
lege had filled its housing stock. The college also is welcoming "There's no room at the inn a record 908 freshmen and trans- anymore," she said. "We are fer students, said Thomas C. definitely full." Hayden, Oberlin's director of Most colleges have had record admissions. numbers of applicants in the last 1 "It is rather unusually large, few years, Hayden said, but that but these things happen in col- trend appears to be waning.
lege admissions," Hayden said. Oberlin, like most other schools, "You can't always anticipate how actually had fewer applicants for many people will accept your this year's freshman class. sort, artist sells houses, housing Marjorie S. Church is still going strong at an age when most people are content to find a rocking chair and just sit for a spell. During recent months, she has been using her communication skills to promote the Chagrin Falls chapter of Habitat for Humanity, an effort to provide housing for needy families.
"I do it because I want to help all the people I can," said Church, who has spent more than half a century in a career that has included working as an artist in the fashion advertising section for the old Cleveland Press from 1937 to 1942. Her job now is selling houses out of the Chagrin Falls office of Dolores C. Knowiton Realtors. Church began handling public relations for Habitat when her church, Federated Church (United Church of Christ), joined with other Chagrin Falls and nearby Geauga County churches in the housing project. "One house already has been built is being occupied, a second is now under construction and one is being remodeled," said Church.
"All the work is being done by volunteer A METRO WATCH Women's group sponsors Walk for Equality The WomenSpace Roundtable will sponsor its first Walk for Equality today at Edgewater Park. Registration for the event, which commemorates the 69th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote, begins at 9 a.m. The day's activities include a one-mile walk with about 35 women dressed as suffragists speeches by Diana Winterhalter, president of the Ohio League of Women Voters, and by Sherrod Brown, Ohio secretary of state; a picnic lunch and a kite-fly. Cost is $10, but $8 will be returned to a women's organization of the participant's choice. POLICE COURTS Woman dies on 1-90 ne man out reportedly of a W.
forced 117th a St. Cleveland tavern and Chester Township woman was drove him to Edgewater Beach on fatally injured early yesterday on his motorcyle. Interstate 90 near E. 140th St. when According to Cuyahoga County car struck a concrete divider, Sheriff's Detective Harry Acklin, Gary police said.
T. Jedenasty, 37, threatened to kill Cassandra Miller, 19, of Wellswood James A. Hooper, 31, of W. 160th Trail, died at 2:57 a.m., about an if Hooper did not leave the hour after the crash, at University Legends Bar, W. 117th St.
and Hospitals of injuries to her head, Detroit with him on July 12. chest and abdomen, according to Acklin said Hooper escaped from Cuyahoga County Coroner Elizabeth Jedenasty by kicking over his K. Balraj. motorcycle at the park and fleeing. A passenger in the car, Rhonda Jedenasty was charged in a secret Fickes, 19, of Chester Township, was indictment that was opened listed in stable condition at Meridia Thursday.
Jedenasty, who is in Euclid Hospital. County Jail under $50,000 bond, will Cleveland Police Detective Richard be arraigned Monday. Zoss said Miller was traveling east on 1-90 when she apparently lost control of her car. He said the accident was New trial in rape case La still under investigation. La The Ohio Court of Appeals (8th held in robbery District) Eugene has Nero, 47, ordered of a new Cleveland, trial for who Woman FBI agents yesterday arrested a pleaded guilty in 1979 to rape, Cleveland woman and charged her aggravated burglary and attempted with violation of federal bank robbery aggravated burglary.
laws. The court ruled that Nero was not 8 1. Robert L. Hawk, FBI spokesman, told by Cuyahoga County Common said Lori Ingram, 30, of Tuscora Ave. Pleas Judge Sweeney that his guilty appeared before U.S.
Magistrate plea to rape was a Jack B. Streepy. If convicted, she non-probationable crime. could face up to 20 years in prison. Sweeney, now a Court of Appeals Hawk said FBI agents arrested her judge who did not rule on the case, at an apartment building on Granada sentenced Nero to five to 25 years in Blvd.
She was unarmed, and prison for the rape and break-in at surrendered without a struggle. the apartment of a 19-year-old East Ingram is charged with robbing the Cleveland woman on Terrace Rd. on Ameritrust Co. branch at 5703 Sept. 2, 1978.
Broadway on May 26, Hawk said. He Nero is serving 10 to 25 years in 'said Ingram was under investigation Lucasville prison for a 1986 in connection with the May 24 conviction on charges of obstructing robbery of Society National Bank, official business, vandalism, rape and 800 Superior Ave. aggravated burglary. Gas line leaks Reward in holdup The Berea branch of Ameritrust Co. and Kohler Hall, a A Sandusky jewelry store owner is Baldwin-Wallace College dormitory, offering a $10,000 reward for of were evacuated briefly yesterday information leading to the arrest while Columbia Gas of Ohio Inc.
two men who robbed the Huron crews repaired a 2-inch gas line County store of $48,000 in gold and under Seminary St. that was ruptured Neal diamonds. W. owner of Erie Gold 1. by Berea Fire Chief Robert Strong Exchange, said he suspected the a construction crew.
Bass, said a small amount of natural gas merchandise had turned up in Cleveland, according to tips he has escaped. Fifty people in the dormitory were received. Nothing has to been Sandusky evacuated as a precautionary recovered, according measure, Stong said, and the police investigating the July 21 Ameritrust branch at 118 Front St. robbery. down for 30 minutes.
Neal said two men entered the shut at 12:50 store and browsed for about 20 The line was repaired No one was injured. minutes before pulling a gun diamond and p.m. ordering loose diamonds, rings and gold chains dumped into a Kidnapping Indictment white pillow case they carried. A Cuyahoga County grand jury The jewelry store is on Cleveland has indicted a Michigan man on near the entrance to Cedar Point aggravated kidnapping charges after amusem*nt park. TODAY'S PROFILE 1.4, Not the retiring MARJORIE S.
CHURCH Age: 76. Born in Springfield, Her husband, John, is a descendant of the third settler in Chagrin Falls. Mother of three; grandmother of six. Writes poetry for her own enjoyment; worked for several publications as art director from Kansas City to Maine, including one stint in New York City. Church, who holds a bachelor of fine arts degree from Ohio State University, retired five years ago after 16 years of working at the Trader, a shoppers-advertising paper in Solon.
But retirement was not for her, so she began work in real estate. Darrell Holland Hill plan faces tough sledding By PAUL SHEPARD STAFF WRITER Score one for the old folks in Rocky River's generational battle over a proposed sledding hill in Linden Park. Mayor Earl Martin met with residents opposed to the hill Wednesday night and said Thursday that he was now less than Rocky River enthusiastic about the city constructing the slope. "6T am concerned that the hill would be an attractive nuisance and that motorcycles and others would use the hill when children aren't sliding on it," Martin said. Martin said he was considering erecting a rail fence around the hill, if it is built, to keep sledders out.
Earlier in the summer, Martin expressed support for the plan to build the hill. His change in attitude will come as a disappointment to the youthful combatants in what the mayor is calling "a fight split along age lines." In July, John M. Hoppesch, 8, presented a petition to Martin on behalf of 19 city youngsters asking that the city build the planned sledding hill in time for winter. The city had been planning to build an 18-foothigh, 56-foot-long slope at the southern end of the park on Linden south of Center Ridge working at the park for the last 10 years and takes great picked up. Wallace admits to being a senior citizen; a she's 82.
pride in keeping it swept, raked and man whose business is nearby says STONE Clean living Elaine Wallace of Cleveland goes about her duties of sprucing up the West Side Market Park, W. 25th St. and Lorain yesterday. A park maintenance employee, Wallace has been Columbus' ranking Listing as 185th best place to live COLUMBUS (AP) Mayor Dana Rinehart has a succinct answer when asked what he intends to do with a Money magazine national survey giving the capital city low marks as an attractive place to live. "Burn it," the mayor snaps.
Rinehart said the survey was silly, Money was stupid, and he didn't care how it ranked Columbus. Money's 1989 list of the 300 best areas to live in the United States places Columbus 185th, down from the 1988 ranking of 129th. Ranking higher than Columbus on the 1989 list were Cleveland, 38th, Cincinnati, 55th, Akron, 82nd, Lorain-Elyria, 93rd, and Dayton, 142nd. "It's just silly," Rinehart said when asked about the ranking this week. "People vote with their feet.
That's how people vote, not some stupid magazine. We've had 134,000 new jobs in this city in the last five years. We're sitting on unemployment that's right at and going down. This is the youngest city in the United States with a median age of 27 years old," he said. riles mayor 'stupid' to Rinehart Rd.
But neighbors of the park complained that the hill would make the area less secure No decision will be made on the hill until mid-September when the City Council returns from recess, Martin said. The sledding hill is part of a $400,000 park refurbishing that includes new tennis courts and playground equipment. will cost $10,000 to $20,000 to build, according to Martin, who added that he might seek additional opinions from city dwellers on the hill proposal. "I'm thinking about sending a survey to all the residents of the area near the park," Martin' said. "I want to get some sort of a consensus on this." Suit asks home for retarded City won't grant a zoning permit By AMY WESTFELDT STAFF WRITER A non-profit corporation that tried to develop a group home for eight mentally retarded adults in Brooklyn Heights has sued the city for refusing it a zoning permit.
North Coast Community Homes which develops homes for the retarded in Brooklyn Northeast Heights charged in a federal lawsuit filed Thursday that Brooklyn Heights' zoning code, which allows only relatives to live in single-family dwellings, violates the Fair Housing Act. The corporation bought a large house at 211 E. Schaaf Rd. in 1987 to renovate and lease to the county as a home for the retarded. The home received a permit from the city zoning board April 2, 1987, but the City Council overturned that decision three weeks later, citing the relatives-only rule.
A lawsuit filed in Common Pleas Court against Brooklyn Heights is pending, said Gail White, North Coast's lawyer. White said she filed a separate federal action because the zoning code violates the Fair Housing Act. The act, banning housing discrimination based on race, religion, or national origin, was amended in 1988 to include the handicapped. "This is a very touchy subject," Brooklyn Heights Mayor Robert Tonne said yesterday. "Our attorneys have been advising us on this all along and I have to rely on their advice." Dan Kolick, the lawyer hired by the city to defend the case, was on vacation and could not be reached.
Councilman Bruce Cichocki, a defendant, said Thursday that council proposed a new zoning ordinance in July to make sure the zoning code complied with federal law. Cichocki said he expected council to pass the ordinance at its Sept. 5 meeting. He declined comment on the suit. The suit says the proposed ordinance would allow a group home for the retarded in only two of the village's eight zoning districts and only six homes exist within those two districts.
Sara Casciato, of Brooklyn Heights, joined in North Coast's suit on behalf of her daughter, Renee, 29, who is retarded. White said Casciato cited her daughter's emotional distress over council debate in which residents allegedly expressed a fear of the retarded living in their community. population of Columbus is going up steadily. I mean, by the thousands every year. We can't build houses fast enough, and if you ask me to give you in one word the challenges of Columbus, I'd have to tell you, growth.
That's it," he said. "They're not suffering from that in Cleveland and Detroit, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati, you pick the city," he said. Money's survey, which ranked Seattle first in the nation, was conducted by asking a sample of its subscribers to rank 10 attributes in order of what was most important to them in a place to live. The sample's median age was 41 and household income was $42,500. "Who cares what some stupid magazine says? I don't.
Plus we're going to pull their magazine out of the City Center Mall. They're not going to sell it there," Rinehart cracked. The $200 million, threelevel downtown shopping complex opened recently. Money rankings of other Ohio cities for 1989 were Steubenville, 189th; Hamilton, 213th; Toledo, AP MAYOR DANA RINEHART: Scoffs at magazine survey that says Columbus isn't a good place to live. 214th; Youngstown, 238th, Canton, 262nd, Lima 285th and Mansfield, 293rd.
Cocaine sales suspect arrested Cleveland police said they arrested a 32-year-old Cleveland woman, believed to be a wholesale drug dealer, who was carrying one kilo of cocaine with a street value of $95,000. Sgt. Gary Gingell of the 2nd District vice squad said the woman was arrested yesterday at her W. 4 School board candidate jumps in and out of race thought the school board might be one of them. Deadline for school board candidates was 4:30 p.m.
De Jesus said when he filed after 7 p.m., Robert E. Hughes, chairman of the elections board, told him he would be ruled off the ballot. "So I said, 'Fine, I'll said De Jesus. A potential Cleveland school board candidate, who filed his petitions after Thursday afternoon's filing deadline, yesterday withdrew from the race. Hiram De Jesus, 31, said Thursday he would not file his petitions because the Cleveland Civil Service Commission ruled he was prohibited from engaging in political activity because of his position at City Hall.
De Jesus is a project director in the Office of Equal Opportunity. Yesterday, De Jesus said business leaders urged him late Thursday to file his petitions and told him they would help him find other work. The filing deadline for some political offices was midnight Thursday and De Jesus said he 49th St. home. Gingell said Detectives Charles Escalante and Richard Presti also arrested a 43-year-old man and a 23-year-old woman who are being held for further questioning in the case.
The two detectives had the suspect under surveillance for several days, Gingell said, before she was nabbed at 2:10 a.m. In addition to the cocaine, they confiscated $7,600 and a handgun loaded with Teflon-coated, armor-piercing bullets, he said. Gingell said police expected to charge the woman by Monday with aggravated trafficking..
