Chillicothe Gazette from Chillicothe, Ohio • 1

Chillicothe Monday April 8, 1991 35 A Gannett newspaper Oldest newspaper west of the Alleghenies Established 1800 Chillicothe, Ohio Vol. 192, No. 7 I Keeping schools on right heading Superintendent says financial moves cannot replace funds generated by levy 1 By JANE SCHMUCKER Gazette Staff Writer Superintendent Dick Cline refers to the financial changes "5 can be the flagship, we really can be. Academically. Fiscally.

Community." Cline is a goal setter; a dreamer who puts a time line with his ideas. And he admits he's a bit behind the schedule in his mind. When he first came to Chillicothe, he hoped to have his improvements in place in three years. Now he's thinking five years. But it won't happen without renewal of the five-year emergency operating levy which will appear on the May 7 ballot, Cline said.

The $2.3 million the levy generates is about 25 percent of the school's operating budget. There's no way to cut that much and still meet state standards, according to Cline. But the savings that have been made will help. They'll help a lot, according to board members who've lived through deficits in previous years. Here are some of the savings in the district since Cline took office in late 1989: Reduced two positions in the central office.

The business manager quit and the director of transportation retired and neither were replaced. Installed a underground fuel tank for buses at a cost of $12,000. In the first nine months, $10,000 was saved, Cline said. Established a self-funded insurance program with a projected savings of $300,000 to $400,000 over two to three years. Eliminated two bus routes by streamlining routes and purchased three new buses with 100 percent state funding.

Sold used buses for $1,000 to $5,000 rather than trading them in for $200 to $600. Increased textbook purchases with lottery funds. Bought more materials through the bidding process to seek lower prices. Cut overtime payments in half by adjusting work schedules of nonteaching employees such as. maintenance workers where overtime was practically eliminated.

Sold obsolete textbooks and other items rather than giving them away or throwing them out. made in the Chillicothe City School system in about 18 months to "dinghies" in his flagship plan. "Just trying to get our ship in order Cline here," Cline said. "I think we Baseball slides into new season Umpires settle dispute in time for first games Sports, Page 6A Vote is expected on Haas water tap Decision is due tonight on trailer park request Local news, Page 3A Magazines cover issues for fathers Dads seeking respect, as their role increases Lifestyles, PagelB Carlisle foil of memories 1. 1 in v- J' City building faces auction block April 26 By ELIZABETH WOODS Gazette Staff Writer In 1972, Harriett and Bronson Smith decided to buy a childhood memory the Carlisle Building.

"It was such a vital part of my life," Harriett said. "We were just out of the service and he (Bronson) had an interesting job in Columbus and I needed a project." That project has consumed most of the last two decades for Harriett and Bronson, a retired U.S. Air Force colonel. But on April 26, the 106-year-old building will be sold in an absolute auction. Built in 1885, the Carlisle Building is on the National Weather Tuesday showers and storms likely.

A complete weather package, Page 2A if We just need to sell it now. nj Ej Register of Historic Places. "The auction is going to decide our future," Harriett Smith Section A Section Local 3 Abby 4 Naiton 5 Classified 7-8 Opinion 4 Comics 4 Roundup 2 Entertainment 3 Sports 6-7 Lifestyles 1 Weather 2 Nation 5 World 5 Obituaries 2 Copyright 1991, Chillicothe Gazette A.J. WolfeGazette Harriett Smith sits in the Model A Ford at the entrance of the Harvester restaurant, located in the Carlisle Building. Smith, and her husband Bronson, have owned the building for almost two decades.

Building possesses possibilities Harriett says with a hint of sadness in her voice. Quickly, she is diverted though, chatting about all of the knickknacks that she and her husband have bought over the years to fill their 'little shopping mall. To patrons, the black Model A Ford, parked in front of the Harvester Restaurant, is classic Carlisle. The couple drove the car cross-country from Denver, to Chillicothe. It was a topsy-turvy journey, Harriett said.

The car had belonged to an Air Force sergeant the couple had met when Bronson was stationed in Japan. "We couldn't ship the car because it would get vandalized," Harriett said. "So, we were driving and on the first day the water pump blew." The wooden barn doors, on the sides of the Harvester, come from Harriett's Pike County farm. "All the tables and benches were made in our workshop," she said, adding that the couple operated the restaurant for about six years before they sold it to current owner Cathy Bryer. Just around the corner from the restaurant is a small chapel, snuggled in the corner near the Paint Street entrance.

"When we bought the building, we See CARLISLE, Next Page Kurds seek protection from Iraqis The Associated Press DIANA, Iraq The cold, hungry and rain-soaked Kurdish refugees marooned in Iraq's hostile northern mountains are beginning to get some relief tons of supplies dropped from British, French and U.S. planes. But the food, blankets and tents do little to solve the predicament of the hundreds of thousands of ethnic Kurds who fled a failed rebellion, fearing the vengeance they say Saddam Hussein's forces are exacting. "What we need is the same treatment given to the people of Kuwait protection from the savagery of Saddam," one Kurd, a university lecturer, told reporters in the See KURDS, Next Page Smith said. "It's a very, very unique building," Stanley said.

"I don't think it's ever been auctioned before." But what is the future of the handful of businesses that lease the first floor of the Carlisle Building now? "The businesses there now, if they have a lease on the property the lease will override the sale," Stanley said. "Just because the property is being sold, that doesn't change the lease. If you're a month-to-month tenant that's a different story." John Carlisle, an Irish immigrant and the building's namesake, first set up his mercantile log cabin at the famous corner in the early 1800s. His sons reopened their father's business and built a two-story brick building. The current Carlisle has stood since 1885.

By ELIZABETH WOODS Gazette Staff Writer Penthouse apartments. A bed and breakfast. Corporate offices. Any of these are possibilities for downtown's 106-year-old Carlisle Building, says auctioneer Henry Stanley III of Stanley and Son Auctioneers. The building, at the corner of Paint and Main streets, will be sold at an absolute auction April 26.

"Whenever you see absolute auction, that means the property will sell to the highest bidder regardless of price and there area no minimums and no reserves," Stanley said. "The thing about that, it tells the buyers that if they show up and they look at the property and they are the last bidder, they will own that property. Stanley said the Carlisle holds a score of It's a very, very unique building. Auctioneer Henry Stanley 111 opportunities for its next owner. "The way the building is designed, it could be a beautiful penthouse, or apartments.

You could have a beautiful bed and breakfast there. There could be corporate offices in the building, there are so many ideas. "People have expressed interest in this property from all over," Stanley said, adding that he has mailed out countless brochures detailing the auction. The building was bought by the Harriett and Bronson Smith in 1972 for $80,000, but no one knows what price the new owners will pay. There is no appraisal of the building, Adena could feel pinch from budget Columbus man is caught with crack "TTf.7 r4 is ki -Til Workers receive the minimum wage, $4.25 an hour, Lewis said.

The program is aimed at developing good working habits, not making them rich, he added. The program is a descendant of the original CCC created during the "New Deal" by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s. The program was phased out during World War II, but was revived by President Jimmy Carter in 1978, Lewis said. President Ronald Reagan cut funding to the program in 1980, but the state has sponsored the CCC since then, Lewis said.

"It is in the governor's (spending cuts) proposal," Lewis said. "It still has to be approved by the House and Senate." The Portsmouth CCC post has about 45 young adults and 17 full-time staff members, Lewis said. Probably five Ross and seven Pike countians work in the program, he" said. By LOU MOLITERNO Gazette Staff Writer Adena State Memorial might not get the landscaping and property tending this spring it has received in past years, says horticulturalist and groundskeeper Richard Warn-ock. The Civilian Conservation Corps which has routinely sent workers to Adena over the past 10 years to help out with caring for the grounds and performing other odd jobs has fallen victim to cuts in the state budget.

Gov. George Voinovich's budget would cut the program from $8 million, to $3 million next year and phase out the corps by 1993, said Randy Lewis, supervisor for the Corps' Portsmouth post. That could mean fewer workers at Adena, Warnock said. "It's going to effect us quite a bit," Warnock said. "We depend on them to do quite a bit of work here at Adena.

We don't know if when the car was pulled over for speeding by a sheriffs deputy and Sheriff Thomas Hamman. The car was pulled over at Brown's Sohio, at High and Orange streets, and city police also responded to the scene, the report said. Hamman searched the interior of the Cadillac, confiscating the crack cocaine in the Desenex can and $1,108 in cash, the report said. As law officers attempted to place Slade under arrest, he broke free, running west across Safford Avenue, Erie, Delano and Ohio streets and Piatt Avenue, the report said. Slade was charged with aggravated in cocaine.

Ector was cited for driving 75 mph in a 55 mph zone, the report said. By LOU MOLITERNO Gazette Staff Writer A Columbus man was scheduled to appear in Chillicothe Municipal Court this morning on aggravated drug trafficking charges after law officers found crack cocaine hidden in a can of foot spray he was carrying. James Antwon Slade, 20, of Columbus, lead Chillicothe Police officers on a foot chase through the city's north end Saturday after investigators discovered 20 rocks of crack cocaine with a street value of about $500 hidden in a hollow can of Desenex foot spray, according to combined police and sheriff's reports. According to the sheriffs report, Slade was a passenger with two other Columbus men in a white Cadillac driven by Paul W. Ector, 24, also of Columbus, A.J.

WolfeGazette Randy Lewis, project supervisor at Adena State Memorial, works on a fence with William Walker, near right, and Scott Conley. we'll be able to pick up the slack or has been done by CCC workers, not." who must be age 18 to 23 to qualify In recent years, much of the for the state-run program, Lewis fence mending and brush clearing said..