www.pal-item.com Monday, March 6, 2006 Palladium-Item A5 OBITUARIES Michael J. Huber CONNERSVILLE, Ind. Michael J. Huber, 31, of Connersville, died Saturday, March 4, 2006. Born July 14, 1974, in Richmond, the son of Mark Huber and Jan Brendel was a plumber at TNT Plumbing Heating in Laotto for 10 years.
Survivors include his wife, Angela Blakely Huber; stepchildren, Cody and Kayla Blakely and Niles Thomas; his father and mother. Service will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Miller, Moster, Robbins Funeral Home, Connersville, where visitation will be from 4-8 p.m. Tuesday. Betty Huth CENTERVILLE, Ind.
Betty Huth, age 80, of Centerville, died Saturday, March 4, 2006, at Reid Hospital. She was born March 18, 1925, in Richmond to William and Madeline Laugel Winters and was a lifelong resident of this area. Betty was a graduate of Centerville High School. She retired from the Kmart Corp. as an advertiser.
She was involved in Girl Scouts of America. Survivors include her daughter, Anita Huth of Centerville; adopted daughter, Barbara Lacy of Port Ritchie, and her children, Verl T. Palmer Jr. of Miller, Jody McMahel of Knightstown, and Judy Gerassimoff of Tucson, two greatgrandsons, Jon Eric McMahel and Austin Palmer; and three great Lauren McMahel, Alexandria Gerassimoff and Madison Gerassimoff; two sisters, Edna Mae Justice of Lakeworth, and Barbara Jean (Jack) co*ker of Athens, many nieces, including Donna Dowell and Dawn Walters; and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband, Harold E.
Huth, who died March 10, 2005; and her parents; two sisters, Beatrice Clevenger and Hermeonia Cohee; and one brother, Howard Winters. Memorial services for Betty Huth will be held at the convenience of the family. There will be no public visitation. Doan Mills Funeral Home of Richmond will be in charge of arrangements. Entombment will be in the Earlham Memorial Mausoleum.
Memorial contributions may be made to: Achieva Resources P.O. Box 1252, Richmond, IN 47374. 030606-29660596-231 Nellie G. Mason WINCHESTER, Ind. Nellie G.
Achors Mason, 91, of Winchester, died Saturday, March 4, 2006, at Randolph Nursing Home. Born Dec. 12, 1914, in Green County, the daughter of William and Emma Dicky Achors worked at the Frozen Food Locker Plant, Indiana Pride and Randolph County Hospital. Survivors include her daughter, Barbara Barnes. Graveside service will be at 2 p.m.
Tuesday at Fountain Park Cemetery, Winchester. Walker Funeral Home, Winchester, is in charge of arrangements. Gary W. Smith DUBLIN, Ind. Former Dublin resident Gary Wayne Smith, 60, of Afton, died Thursday, March 2, 2006, while on a business trip to New Orleans, La.
Born July 19, 1945, in New Castle, the son of Gordon and Norma Jean Smith was a marketing representative for Lemic Insurance Co. Survivors include his wife, Lynda Smith; five daughters; parents; and brother, Terry Smith. Service will be at 3 p.m. Wednesday at Waskom Capitol Hill Chapel, Cambridge City, where visitation will be from p.m. Wednesday.
PENDING SERVICE Williams, Suzanne of Richmond, died March 5. Arrangements will be announced by Doan Mills Funeral Home, Richmond. SERVICES Minneman, Charles of Oxford, Ohio, died March 2. Service will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Trinity Lutheran Church, Klemme's Corner, Ind.
Visitation will be from 3-8 p.m. Tuesday at Phillips Meyers Funeral Home, Brookville, Ind. Robinson, Mary I of Richmond, died March 3. Service will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Riggle- Mortuary, Richmond, where visitation will be from 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
Tuesday. Sparks, Timothy, of Brookville, died March 3. Service will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Church on Fire, Harrison, Ohio. Visitation will be from 4-8 p.m.
Tuesday at Urban-Winkler Funeral Home, Connersville, and 9-10 a.m. Wednesday at the church. DEATHS IN THE NEWS Phyllis Huffman LOS ANGELES Phyllis Huffman, a casting director for Clint Eastwood's best picture Oscar winners "Unforgiven" and "Million Dollar Baby," has died. She was 61. Huffman died Thursday in New York City after a brief illness.
In a statement Friday, Eastwood called Huffman "a visionary casting director with a true sense of what makes an actor right for the role." Huffman, who cast more than 15 films for Eastwood, described in a 2004 interview with The Los Angeles Times how they chose actors by viewing audition tapes. "If he says, 'He's good, he's really Iknow that this actor doesn't have the job," Huffman said. "If he looks at an actor and goes, 'Show me that tape that means a done deal; the actor's got the job." Born in the Bronx, N.Y., Huffman graduated from Webster University in St. Louis and worked as a flight attendant. moved to Los Angeles in the mid-19708 with her husband, actor David Huffman, and began In 1985, Huffman's husband was stabbed at age 40 while trying to chase down a burglary suspect.
Huffman later moved back to New York and formed her own casting company. She also remarried. Olga Marcus LOS ANGELES Olga Marcus, who raised money for progressive causes from her dentist husband's rich and famous clients, died Feb. 22. She was 97.
Marcus, the widow of Beverly Hills dentist David Marcus, died at her home in Westwood of natural causes, her family said. Her husband performed cosmetic dentistry on wealthy Hollywood clients in the 1940s and '50s, when the practice was so new that few dentists offered it. Marcus tapped her husband's clients for money for an array of causes. She was also acity commissioner and co-founder of Women which bills itself as the city's oldest women's political action committee. Marcus and co-founder Ethel Longstreet created Women For: in 1964.
Unlike those in other organizations of the time, its membersresearched and interviewed candidates and offered endorsem*nts, said Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, a political analyst and University of Southern California professor. She was also co-founder of the Therapeutic Education and Child Health Foundation, which lobbied on behalf of and raised funds for special- -needs children. Robert J. Sandoval DUARTE, Calif. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert J.
Sandoval, one of the city's first openly gay prosecutors whose high-profile cases included the prostitution charges against Hugh Grant, died Feb. 28, his partner said. He was 56. Sandoval had a heart attack while being treated for leukemia at City of Hope Hospital, said Bill Martin, his partner of 23 years. Sandoval, who was recruited to the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office in 1978, ended the practice of announcing in open court the results of AIDS tests given to people facing prostitution charges.
Among his high-profile cases was the 1995 prosecution of Grant. The British actor pleaded no contest to lewd conduct in a public place. "He was totally respectful of the rights of everyone in the process. That was one of the reasons everyone thought so highly of him," Superior Court Judge Michael Nash said. first REALTORS 966-SOLD www.firstrichmond.com 0000040024 FOR THE RECORD Fire runs WAYNE COUNTY Richmond 6:37 p.m.
Saturday Smell of smoke, 800 block North West Fifth Street. 9:47 p.m. Saturday False report of medical emergency, 2100 block North Salisbury Road. 10:53 p.m. Saturday Medical emergency, first block North West 15th Street.
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12:21 a.m. today Overheated truck, Interstate 70 at mile marker 155 in the eastbound lane. 2:53 a.m. today False alarm, 300 block Industrial Parkway. Centerville 12:18 a.m.
Friday Medical emergency, 4000 block South West Street. 10:09 a.m. Friday Medical emergency for person with foot trapped under frame of vehicle, 3700 block South West Street. 6:23 p.m. Friday Medical emergency, 300 block South Third Street.
8:16 p.m. Friday Auto accident, 1700 block Willow Grove Road. 4:57 a.m. Sunday Auto accident, 4800 block National Road West. 6:59 p.m.
Sunday Smell of smoke, 2200 block West Grove Road. Police report WAYNE COUNTY Arrests Steven Watson, 22, 422 West Drive, Richmond: Class felony operating while intoxicated, Class A misdemeanor Associated Press photo by Rick McKay Dayton, Ohio, native and Libert is shown in Fairfax, ment and file cabinets full quest to find the wreckage of LaSalle's fleet, which ing its maiden voyage in amateur explorer Steve with diving equipof his research from his of the Griffin, the pride disappeared in 1679 durLake Michigan. Libert has spent 30 years, hundreds of thousands of dollars and unaccountable energy trying to solve the mystery of what happened to the ship. Now, at 51, the man who first considered trying to find the Griffin as a junior high school student feels he's on the brink of finding out. The search for Le Griffon DAYTON, Ohio Steve Libert was just an eighth grader in suburban Dayton when he first became intrigued by the mystery of Le Griffon.
It was one of those times, he said, when stopped gazing out the window wand paid rapt attention. He wasriveted by thequestion of what happened to this ship the flagship of explorer Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle that disappeared in mystery in 1679. "It caught my attention and imagination," he said. After almost 30 years of searching and researching, Libert, 51, now of suburban Washington D.C., may soon find out. In 2001, during the last scuba dive of the season and with about three inches of visibility in Lake Michigan's waters, Libert swam into what he believes is the bowsprit of La Salle's sunken ship.
The Griffon- thought to be 30 to 40 feet long and built by La Salle and his men on the banks of the Niagara River carried no cache of gold and jewels, and its bounty of fur is longgone. But the shipwreck itself could be a buried treasure. It could provide invaluable keys to what La Salle faced as he embarked on explorations that culminated in him claiming for France land that became the Louisiana Purchase. The Griffon is not the only piece of history that's captured the imagination of Libert and his team, a group of Dayton-area buddies that include brothers Tom Kucharsky of Dayton, Jim Kucharsky of Centerville and Vance Skowronski of Tipp City. For them, scuba expeditions to Michigan are the equivalent of other men's hunting or fishing trips though they're serious enough about this hobby to have formed a company, the Great Lakes Exploration Group, LLC, devoted to working on this particular project.
In the mid-1980s, they found what they believed was the Captain Lawrence, a sunken schooner from the 1930s thought to have gold aboard. A legal fight with the state of Michigan prevented Libertfrom salvaging that wreckage. For clues about the Griffon, Libert scoured the journals of La Salle associate Father Louis Hennepin and used his experience as a government intelligence analyst to come up with fresh theories on where the ship might be. The Griffon was designed as a commercial vessel to haul furs and explore the Great Lakes. It disappeared on its maiden voyage.
Libert's prey was elusive. But during that last dive of the season, with his oxygen tank running out of air, he came upon a piece of timber sticking from the bottom that could be the underwater equivalent of the elusive 30-point buck. He marked the spot and returned the next spring to examine the pole again. This time, he brought an infrared video camera. He showed his evidence to Scott Demel, a curator at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History, who was intrigued enough to visit the site in 2003 to take samples of the pole for carbon dating.
The test found Libert's discovery has a 33 percent probability of datingback to 1679. Demel said even without overwhelming test results carbon dating is better at tracking dates thousands of years ago than hundreds of years other evidence is promising. The bowsprit appears to be handhewn, or made with an ax, as it would have been in the mid-1600s. It appears rough enough to have been made under duress, which is consistent with records that American Indians threatened La Salle and his men as they crafted the ship. Mostly white campus looking to recruit more inner-city students UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, Ohio -John Carroll University, a Gothic island in an upscale suburb, wants to renew its Cleveland roots by aggressively recruiting top inner city students with an offer of 15 new full scholarships aimed at city young.
sters. The -run John Carroll, which is looking to increase its racial diversity and national profile under a new president who has worked in San Francisco, the Philippines and the Bahamas, often will compete against better-known, colleges with deeper pockets. "The competition for these students will be intense," said Rev. Robert L. Niehoff, who became president last fall at John Carroll, founded in 1886 in Cleveland andrelocated 10 miles east to University Heights in 1935.
"John Carroll is still committed to Cleveland," Niehoff told The As- sociated Press. He wants to increase the minority presence on campus, now about 8 percent or 9 percent black, to provide students with a more realistic life experience. "It's not like we haven't been doing this. We haven't been doing it this aggressively or publicly," Niehoff said. Niehoff said John Carroll wouldn't lower standards to recruit students with the new scholarships.
The Cleveland school district, about 70 percent black and one of the nation's poorest, has a 50 percent dropout rate and its reading and math scores ranked among the worst of 11 urban districts in a national survey released in December. In addition to the 15 scholarships set aside for Cleveland public school students, John Carroll also has created another 15 full scholarships aimed at its historic base FREE Blood Pressure Blood Sugar Testing on March 8th, 2006 RICHMOND APOTHECARY ARY A NEW-FASHIONED PHARMACY, WITH -FASHIONED SERVICE 1626 East Main Richmond, IN 966-2225 1-800-532-1186 Fax: 966-4362 www.richmondapothecary.com Is your IRA an IOU to the IRS? Harrington-Hoch Elder Planning Specialists 1 Independent HA 1126 Richmond, East Main IN 47374 Street Agent Insurance www.harringtonhoch.com Trusted (765) 962-9502 0000040048 possession of marijuana, Sunday. Accidents 8:58 p.m. Saturday No injuries in a two-vehicle accident, National Road East near Garwood Road. Drivers: Lori Woods, Richmond, and Bruce M.
Raymen, Englewood, Ohio. 10:45 a.m. Sunday No injuries in a two-vehicle accident, South 52nd Place. Drivers: April A. Robinson and Robert E.
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Deanne, Centerville. Incidents reported The following individuals or businesses reported incidents to the police: Ryan and Chastity Woolridge, Richmond: Breaking and entering, 200 block North West 18th Street, Saturday. Demitricus McConnell, Richmond: Mischief to vehicle, 300 block South 11th Street, Sunday. More grant funds sought for Richmond runway The City of Richmond is going after additional grant money 1 to make runway improvements at the Richmond Municipal Airport. Richmond Common Council is expected to authorize the city to apply for the grant at its regularly scheduled 7:30 p.m.
meeting today. Funding is available from the Federal Aviation Administration up to $1,020,000. A local match of 5 percent or about $53,684 is needed to receive the funding if the city is awarded the grant. students from Catholic high schools in Cleveland and suburban Cuyahoga County. The scholarships, each worth full tuition of $24,782, are available for students entering with the fall freshman class and are aimed at students with financial need and ranking in the topfive in their class.
The money was allocated from John Carroll's pool of financial aid, which totaled $23 million this year, Niehoff said. Scholarship winners must live on campus, a requirement meant to enhance campusdiversity full-time instead of subsidizing tuition for commuters. Death announcements The Palladium-Item publishes free death notices for deceased residents as well as paid obituaries. To help ensure accuracy, all information for pending services, free death notices and paid obituaries must be verified by the funeral home that is handling the arrangements or a death certificate. Free notices are edited to meet Palladium-Item style and word limits.
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