-THE PLAIN DEALER, FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1985 County, interchurch council have hunger pangs WILLIAM F. MILLER and RONALD RUTTI STAFF WRITERS The Greater Cleveland Interchurch Council and two of the Cuyahoga County commissioners agreed yesterday they were caught between federal social service cutbacks and increasing needs of the poor. Kordisch, director of the hunger task force, told com-missioners at the last day of the bud'get hearings that $1 million was needed from the county this year to feed the 51.000 people who monthly it come into 21 hunger the county needs $185.000 more than make up for gave help but have it was the the poor on an Commissioners and Mary 0. Boyle nity to attack the tion for cutting and for placing the and state taxpayers. Hagan called it 4.
seize Cuban at Hopkins, charge 'he's 'co*ke' courier 1 By MAIRY JAYN WOGE STAFF WRITER Narcotics agents accompanied by a drug-sniffing dog and a Spanish interpreter yesterday arrested a suspected Cuban drug courier at Cleveland Hopkins, International Airport. Agents said they seized about a pound of cocaine. Eduardo Marti-Ortiz, 24, who speaks no English, was charged with a. drug law violation. Common Pleas Judge Franics E.
Sweeney set bond at $1 million cash. Cuyahoga County sheriff's Sgt. James Veres said Dade County. police Marti-Ortiz notified the sheriff's department at 9:30 p.m. Wednesday that Marti-Ortiz was aboard a Cleveland-bound Midway Airlines flight and was carrying a lot of cocaine.
1 The department enlisted help of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration and the State Bureau of Criminal Investigation. BCI brought a drug-sniffing golden retriever. Veres said two packages of cocaine were found in pockets. The dog sniffed out three more packages in wa small overnight bag Marti-Ortiz was carrying, he said. Veres said the packages contained a pound of pure valued at $40,000 uncut.
but worth a potential in street sales. In the last several months Marti-Ortiz has been making two trips a week from Miami to Cleveland, Veres Agents believe he was taking the cocaine to the West Side. said a Cuban national, came to the United States in May 1980 in a boat lift from Cuba. Veres said he probably was a runner for the Cuban Connection, an organized crime syndicate out of Miami that distributes from Columbia in the United States. He may be using an alias, Veres added.
Veres said the Immigration and Naturalization Service was checking to determine whether Marti-Ortiz is deportable. a Drug raid recovers silver loot By MAIRY JAYN WOGE STAFF WRITER Drug agents raiding the home of a Clark- Ave. couple yesterday recovered silver heirlooms worth at least $10.000 that had been stolen from a Chagrin Falls home. 1 Cuyahoga County sheriff's Sgt. James Veres said burglars probably had exchanged the loot for drugs.
en Billy Jo Murray, 51, and Lora Lee Niskale, 21, both of the Clark address, were arrested after a Cuyahoga County grand jury indicted them on charges of drug trafficking, including sales of Dilaudid and Demerol, which sell for 15 cents to 20 cents a pill. said deputies and federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents made 12 undercover drug buys from Murray in the last two weeks.He said the agents learned that Murray was paying other people to obtain prescriptions from doctors and was selling the prescription drugs at a profit. When they went to the house yesterday, agents found felt bags containing three silver trays, two tea and coffee pots. sugar dishes and creamers, silverware and antique fruit forks, Veres said. He said the items had been described in a police bulletin after a Feb.
21 break-in at the home of Jan Harris of Chagrin Falls. Chagrin Falls Police Chief Lester R. LaGatta identified the items. He said some of the silver pieces date to the early 1800s. He placed their minimum value at $10,000.
A Cuyahoga County grand jury had indicted: Murray Jan. 14 on charges of violating of drug laws, possessing criminad tools and receiving stolen property in connection with sales of drugs from Woodbridge Ave. Murray was free on bond on those charges when he was arrested. Murray was freed yesterday afternoon on new bond of $2,500 set by Common Pleas Judge Stephanie Tubbs Jones. Niskale was in County Jail, also under $2,500 bond.
centers. She said to contribute it did last year to foundations that once disbanded, saying government's job to help ongoing basis. Timothy F. Hagan used the opportuReagan administrafunding for the poor burden on county "mean-spirited" for Reagan to threaten cutting $20 million from county programs. The county anticipates a $38 million deficit at the end of 1986 and commissioners have said it is impossible 1 to fund all programs.
3 The council's demands on the county have grown -from $400,000 in 1982. a result of increased unemployment and inadequate welfare payments, Boyle said. Yesterday: commissioners also dealt with the subsidy for Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital and C. BARMANN Sheriff's Sgt. James Veres displays bags of cocaine bags seized a Cuban national.
ADVERTISE IN THE PD WE HAD TO START WITHOUT Due to delivery problems on some items in our March Home Sale Catalogue, we had to start the sale without them. We just got word that they'll be here in time to enjoy the rest of our sale! Item 3A, Henredon's Folio 16- wall unit, hitched a ride on a slow boat from North Carolina and is due to make port March 15th. Stowed away in the hull of the boat, as it docked in New York, we also found item 6C, our tuxedo sofa. Due to arrive next week: Our Irish guests, Waterford lead crystal lamps, never known to miss a St. Patrick's Day, from page 15, items 15A and How's that for a bit o' Irish luck? Adding new Dimensions to our sale will be items 20A and 20B, from Vaccaro-Smith.
20C, Pillows from California, add fluff and pomp to the Dimensions design. And somewhere over the Plaid by Barclay, just waiting for the ship to pick them up. Items 24D and 24E, shears, carving set and bottle opener, and 24H Vicky Davis mats. Items 26G and 26H, from Pyrex. Item 27C, the flatware patterns shown will not be available, but we do have others.
Items 29B, was listed as having polypropylene handles, but instead has wooden handles. And out seeing the sights somewhere, due next week next week to enjoy the sights in Cleveland, are items 37B, Tasco binoculars and 37D, Tascot spotting scope. Items 34D and 34F pictures were switched, item 34D is the 479.00 Zenith VCR; item 34F is the 599.00 Zenith VCR. Higbee's University Hospitals of Cleveland WOMEN'S HEALTH DAY March 7, 1985 Stouffer's Inn on the Square 02 Information Call 844-1590 Session 19:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m. Session Il 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
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Women's Health Day University Hospitals of Cleveland 2074 Abington Road Cleveland, Ohio 44106 the welfare department. Last week Hagan headed off a push by the hospital trustees to be a private hospital by establishing a committee to study indigent health care here and the affect on the hospital. Yesterday Hagan promised to name committee members next week and to step up the one-year timetable. Besides Metro employee hospitalization insurance costs of $6.4 million, commissioners subsidized the hospital by $24.6 million last year. The hospital wants $29 million this year in addi tion to the hospitalization money.
Trustee William Gaskill said Metro will seek to increase its occupancy. Last year's occupancy rate was 76.6%, down from 80.7% in 1982. increase in occupancy results in $1.6 million in revenue." Gaskill said. The county budget office has recommeded a total $30.4 million for the hospital this year. Commissioners did not commit themselves to a figure.
The budget is expected to be adopted March 25. During the welfare session, Institute for Child Advocacy spokesman James Lardie said the welfare department is not being held accountable for its actions. Lardie said $800.000 was given to the department last year to change client service from casebanks, through which any number of social workers would deal with a client, to a plan by which a single caseworker has total responsibility for each client. He said 46 new workers were hired, but the casebanks remain. Hathaway ay Brown joins city schools for computer 'talk' By TRACEY L.
ROBINSON STAFF WRITER Cleveland public schools and Hathaway Brown School will participate this weekend in "Schools Colloquium '85," a two-day workshop focusing on computer literacy. The cooperative effort, the, first of its kind between public and private schools in this area, will begin tonight at 8:30 p.m. at Hathaway Brown, 19600 North Park Shaker Heights. It is designed to instruct teachers and administrators in the uses of LOGO computer language in the classroom. Speakers will include Robert Jastrow, the noted physicist, Michael Tempel, training director for LOGO Systems Inc.
of New York, and Geral-. Kozberg, founder of the St. Paul (Minn.) LOGO Community School Only of By STEVE STAFF WRITER Of 259 citizen complaints of misconduct filed against Cleveland police last year, were either withdrawn, unfounded or determined to have insufficient evidence to pursue, Safety Director Reginald M. Turner said The of the complaints found to have merit brought some reprimands against policemen, although no one was fired as a result of any citizen complaints, Turner said in a report submitted to Mayor George V. Voinovich yesterday.
Complaints against police are first investigated by police and then Hathaway Brown and the Cleveland teachers who were concerned about schools use LOGO, a computer lan- the need to train more teachers to use guage designed about four years ago computers and increase awareness of. that some educators say is easier for the benefits of technology as a learn-! pupils to understand than others. ing tool. "We all have a common goal to For about three years, Hathaway improve the quality of computer liter- Brown, a private school for girls, has acy in the schools," said Joanna Van- provided training under. a George: Oosterhaut, chairman of the collo- Gund Foundation grant for teachers quium.
"By exchanging ideas, we from any school system. ultimately can supplement each other and accomplish more." "The success of LOGO in the classAbout 90 room depends on how well teachers teachers will get hands-on are able to understand it," said Jane labs training equipped in five 0-hour computer Healy, Hathaway Brown learning spewith Apple and IBM cialist. computers. Speakers will discuss learning in a computer culture and The advantages of LOGO, she comparisons between natural and are that it intrigues and motivates artificial intelligence. pupils to learn.
"Instead of the smart The idea computer making the dumb pupil do! for the workshop origin- what it wants, the smart child is tak-; ated with VanOosterhaut, a Hathaway ing charge of the dumb computer," Brown parent, and Hathaway Brown Healy said. police complaints pursued 14 reviewed by the Department of court ruling preventing the formation Safety's Investigative Standards Sec- of the panel. tion. Complaints from citizens about: Voinovich is eager to show the city police misconduct last year ranged is still taking an active interest in from harassment to use of excessive reviewing complaints against police- force. The highest percentage of commen lish a even though an attempt to estab- plaints, came from the 3rd Dis-, civilian review board trict.
which includes downtown. designed complaints to objectively review such The report also shows: was rejected by Common Pleas Judge James F. Kilcoyne White policemen were involved in in December. of the complaints of all Kilcoyne ruled the civilian review Cleveland policemen are white). board, which was approved by Cleve- Males were involved in of the land voters in November, could not be complaints of the department is implemented because it contradicted male).
labor agreements that established Voinovich has vowed to appeal the in more than one incident. processes for disciplining policemen. of all cases involved officers 14 I 1' L-.
