1 28-A THE PLAIN DEALER, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1976 Voters in Seven Hills win referendum um breakthrough ugh By Pauline Thoma A Seven Hills charter change giving voters the right to challenge emergency legislation through referendum was hailed yesterday as a breakthrough that will make officials responsive to the wishes of the people. The electorate, by a margin, the amendment Tuesday allowing referendums on ordinances passed as emergencies. "It is unusual. I have not experienced this type of issue on a ballot before and I wish more communities had it, said Mary A. Tyuluman, chairman of the Ohio Coalition for Voters Protection.
"It's going to make the government of Seven Hills more responsive to the people and should stop a lot of legislation from being passed in favor of special interest WINS all active groups." Mrs. rezoning in gaining in Tyuluman, that voter of city. Parma, control This over was year, the U.S. Supreme Court, ruling on an Eastlake case, said such restrictions are constitutional. The Seven Hills amendment will not be fought by the city, according to Law Director William J.
Slivka. "This has been voted on by the people. and it's my duty to defend it," he said. "It is not an automatic referendum on every piece of emergency legislation, though. It should be known that there must be referendum petitions presented to the council signed by at least of the electorate to take the legislation to the ballot." He pointed out that before the charter change, only initiative petitions could be used to counter emergency legislation, but they could not hold up enactment of the legislation.
The filing of referendum petitions would stop legislation from becoming effective. Voters in Seven Hills and several. other communities, taking their cues from the Eastlake decision, also passed charter amendments giving them the right to decide on zoning changes. 6 Brecksville Mayor Jack A. Hruby said the amendment passed in his city "is a blow against the elected representative form of government." He also said he fears the change "stymies expansion of the tax duplicate." The amendment goes beyond control of zoning.
It also includes changes in the use of streets, replatting of land, and the sale, rental or lease of city property. Hruby said two projects are immediately jeopardized. One is a hospital planned for the south side of the city. Land for it would have to be rezoned. Hruby said plans cannot be ready by the municipal election next November which means the issue would have to wait for the municipal election in 1979.
He said the city was in line for federal and state payment for resurfacing and curbing of Ohio 21. Because the job includes some lane configuration changes, it will have. to. go on the ballot. Money for the project, slated to start next year, could be lost.
Hruby said he cannot believe voters fully understood the complexities of the amendment. Some modification may be proposed 3 city tax hikes had support cincts approved the income tax increase and gave it enough votes to pass citywide by about 100 of 7,200 votes cast. Mayor Jack Kafer said employe work slowdowns, bipartisan campaigners and municipal employes contributed to passage. Henry Barr, unsuccessful candidate for council president in 1975, joined Council President Richard O. Clough as campaign cochairmen.
All of the increases are effective Jan. 1 and will mean restored services or added spending in 1977, officials said. There had been employe layoffs and service cuts in most cities seeking increased wage taxes, including' a $1 million service cut in Cleveland Heights. Some voters said they approved an Olmsted Falls tax measure because they thought it would decrease taxes. The measure, which will reduce the tax credit, will increase taxes for persons working in other cities will not change tax rate for per- sons working and living in Olmsted Falls.
The credit rate was reduced from to a rate increase for commuters from 1.25% to 1.50%. Layoffs, cutbacks possible By V. David Sartin Income tax increases passed in Painesville, Cleveland Heights and Berea because of wide support from political foes and partisan groups. That i is the view of local officials after Tuesday's election where residents in those communities raised their pay tax from to 1.5%, a increase. Voters in Olmsted Falls increased their income taxes, but some apparently endorsed the measure thinking it would reduce Municipal income tax increases were defeated in Fairview Park, Rocky River and Wickliffe.
City Manager Robert A. Edwards of Cleveland Heights said the increase passed there only after gaining support from groups usually opposing each other. Street clubs, civic groups and political organizations worked to pass the tax proposal. A similar measure had been. defeated in June.
In Painesville, a chapter of the League of Women Voters endorsed the tax increase for the first time. It had been defeated in five straight attempts, but the endorsem*nt added creditability to the city's plan, said Geoffrey T. Kent, council president. In Berea, voters in 17 of 24 pre- Stow, Barberton defeat city income Plain Dealer Special AKRON Residents in Stow and Barberton turned down city income tax increases Tuesday, which may mean layoffs and service cuts in both cities. Stow Mayor C.
Paul Hutchison said city workers may be laid off and city services curtailed after the defeat of a city income tax increase from 1.5% to 1.7%. The vote against the tax will leave the city with an estimated $250,000 deficit in 1977. Hutchison also said voters may be asked again next year to consider a property tax increase to solve the city's financial crunch. In Barberton, Service Director Stephen Despot said the defeat of a proposed city income tax increase also may mean layoffs and city service cuts there. Voters turned down a of increase, 4,864 to 4,684.
Despot said the city budget will dip $200,000 into the red by the end on next November's ballot, he said. Seven "Hills Mayor Richard Ganim said the charter change ing voters zoning control will developers from coming into city because they will not want wait a year or two for the approval. "I feel our city has now become stagnated and we can't do anything about a mishmash like Broadview Rd. is," he said. He said the amendment aimed at proposed zoning changes on Broadview between Sprague Pleasant Valley roads from general and local retail and residential general retail.
Zoning changes were also under consideration for the south side Rockside Rd. from W. 9th St. to Independence city line from residential to office-building district. Among zoning changes, Bratenahl voters, upset by the conversion Bratenahl Place One from apartments to condominiums, passed amendments requiring occupancy permits in high-rise buildings requiring approval of tenants before converting a rental building to condominium.
In Chagrin Falls, voters decided there should be no rezoning without ballot approval. In North Olmsted, the charter was amended to give citizens control over future rezoning for apartments. In Broadview Heights, residents gave themselves final say on zoning and land-use changes. In Bay lage, voters turned down the bid Frank P. Celeste to build condominiums on Cahoon Rd.
by pealing an ordinance rezoning land. The issue had been hanging fire since 1972. Geaugans Republicans A. givstop the to was and to of the of and a Final unofficial returns from Geauga, Lake and Lorain counties showed Democrats won the majority of county offices in Tuesday's general election. A Democratic takeover in Geauga County was particularly noteworthy.
The semirural county, which never Associated Press All in the family Motorists pulling into a Covington, service station will find Ann Smith, right, and her daughter, Donna, running the operation. Dems win most county spots in I Geauga, Lake and Lorain Vilof rethe The throw out in historic turnabout By Lou Mio James Mueller probably spoke for the five Democrats who made political history in Geauga County Tuesday, when he said: "I think everybody in the county decided it was time to throw the rascals out." Republicans who have always controlled the county. Voters elected five Democrats in seven contested races. For the first time in Geauga's history, Democrats will control the county commissioner's office. Mueller easily beat four-term incumbent Wain Parsons and Richard C.
Ford made it a two-man Democratic majority by defeating Robert W. Clark. Other offices to be held by Democrats for the first time are county treasurer, where Barbara Varanese, Chester Township clerk, defeated Donald C. Muchmore, seeking his fourth term, and prosecutor, which was won by John F. Norton.
The Republicans split their vote between incumbent Jerry Petersen, a Republican who ran as an independent, and Robert E. Zulandt, the party's candidate. Democrats also elected Hans Veit to Common Pleas Court. He beat Gene Henry, former county prosecutor, in the race for a new judgeship. Joan R.
Haines, Democratic party cochairman in Geauga, said voters "exhibited great independence in their 26 printers, 4 cited in Canton Plain Dealer Special CANTON Twenty-six striking printers and four sympathizing members of the Newspaper Guild were arrested yesterday on riot charges at. the strike-bound Repository. The printers. members of Local 219 of the International Typographical Union, struck the Repository and four other Ohio newspapers owned by Thomson Newspapers Inc. Sunday over job security.
The Repository and the other papers have been publishing with picket lines set up around their plants. Yesterday's incident was an attempt by the pickets to prevent trucks from distributing the newspapers. It was reported that nails were thrown under the trucks' wheels and that one truck turned back with a flat tire. James F. Patterson, the third commissioner and a Republican, said it is time to set politics aside, which is "secondary now to the fact we are commissioners and the business of this county must take precedence." Mueller and Ford hit hard at 170 years of Republican domination, asking voters to restore political balance at the county level.
Mueller said yesterday he and Ford want to slow the county's gowth "through proper planning." Mueller said the basic issue of the campaign was "what this county wants to become in the future." He would like all undeveloped land rezoned to three- and five-acre lots to maintain Geauga's semirural atmosphere. Mueller and Ford campaigned on a platform of no urbanization, which aso meant. no sewer installations. Democratic officials know their five victories came with Republican help in a turnout of 26,631 out of 31,846 registered voters. Democrats simply do not have the party muscle to do it alone.
And Mrs. Haines is already looking down the road. "Our candidates must be good officeholders," she said. "We want to come up with some good programs for the people of Geauga." She and other Democrats realize that Republicans votes that elected five of their candidates can go just as fast the other way. newsmen strike Pickets had been limited at each entrance to the building under a temporary injunction issued Monday.
It was reported that many area stores refused to accept the paper for sales. The arrested printers were released on $1,000 bond. The guildsmen were released on their own recognizance. A hearing is scheduled for this morning in Municipal Court. Meanwhile, negotiations continued last night between the newspaper's management and union officials, with a federal mediator, David Newman, president of local 219, said the 85 members of the union struck over the projected loss of 35 to 40 jobs as a result of the paper's plans to automate production.
has had a Democratic commissioner, now has two. Final unofficial results from Ashtabula County gave incumbent Judge Edwin T. Hofstetter a narrow win over William P. McLain in the contest for the Ohio Court of Appeals (11th District). McLain, buoyed by a edge in his home county, Trumbull, appeared the winner until Judge Hofstetter took Ashtabula County.
The court district also covers Geauga, Lake and Portage counties. Following are the final unofficial returns, including issues incumbent, Republican, Democrat, I independent, write-in): 11th DISTRICT COURT OF APPEALS Edwin T. William P. McLain 99,398. GEAUGA COUNTY Commissioner (Jan.
2 term) Richard C. Ford (D), Robert W. Clark (R), 9,170. Commissioner (Jan. 3 term) James A.
Mueller (D), 14,093: Wain L. (R), 7,946. Prosecutor John F. Norton (D), Jerry A. (I), Robert E.
Zulandt (R), 5,784. Sheriff Carl E. (R), John Strava (D), 7,929. Treasurer Barbara Varanese (D), Donald C. (R), 9,888.
Common pleas judge Hans R. Veit, Gene Henry, 8,615. Clerk of courts Raymond W. (R), Richard L. Seyer (D), 9,170.
Cardinal schools 5-mill added levy, lost 960 to $635,000 bond issue, lost 795 to 1,146. Geauga County 0.2-mill renewal levy, health board, lost 11,074 to 436; 0.05-mill added levy, health board, lost 7,657 to 0.7-mill renewal levy, children's services, won 13,497 to 8,988. Hambden Township 0.6-mill renewal levy, fire protection, won 635 to 164. Ledgemont schools $550,000 bond issue, lost 303 to 343. Montville Township 2.8-mill added levy, fire equipment, won 282 to 176.
Thompson Township 4.8-mill added levy, police equipment and salaries, lost 265 to 317. Troy Township 1-mill added levy, fire protection, won 258 to 197. LAKE COUNTY Lake County increase in sales tax for countywide mass transit, lost 27,119 to 0.9-mill added levy for mental health, won 38,228 to 31,049. LORAIN COUNTY Commissioner (Jan. 2 term) Alan J.
Zaleski (D), Eugene N. Davis (R), Anthony C. Naples (I), 4,076. Commissioner (Jan. 3 term) Fred M.
(D), Adelle N. Baker (R), 27,127. Coroner William E. (R), Richard S. Buchanan (D), 31,243.
Engineer Lawrence V. McGlinchy (D), 41,062: Charles P. Waryu (R), 35,313. Prosecutor Joseph R. (D), Roy A.
West (R), 33,949. Recorder Margaret Bulzomi (D), Dorothy L. (R), Willie Mae Lamb (I), 3,697. Sheriff Vernon M. (R), Watson O.
Beal (W), 188. Treasurer J. Grant (D), Thomas J. Ferguson (R), 356. Common pleas judge (Jan.
1 term) Floyd D. Robert J. Corts, 29,830. Common pleas judge (Jan. 2 term) Adrian F.
Betleski, Frank J. Janik, 25,635. Clerk of courts Natalie B. Neeson (D), William H. Ward (R), 22,259.
Lorain County 0.5-mill added levy, Golden Acres Home, won 116 to 0.2-mill renewal levy, tuberculosis patients, lost 37,624 to 0.25-mill added levy, drug enforcement, lost 30,202 to 0.75-mill added levy, juvenile bureau, lost 26,060 to 50,592. tax hikes of the year. City officials will meet this week to discuss possible layoffs and cutbacks. In Summit County races, County Commissioner Donald M. Stephens overcame his opponent, Democrat Robert Trout, to sour Democratic hopes of controlling the commissioners' office.
Stephens, the only Republican to survive the Democratic sweep of county offices, leads 94,652 to 337 in unofficial returns. Akron City Councilman Mark T. Ravenscraft handily defeated his Republican opponent, Harold Schoonover, 137,505 to 52,272 in unofficial totals in the other commissioner's race. Ravenscraft, a Democrat, was successful in his second try as a county commissioner. In the race for Summit County common pleas judge, Akron Law Director William Baird defeated Akron Municipal Judge Robert Colopy, 96,677 to 75,938.
For and savers who want a higher yield. During 1975, the daily Plain Dealer carried 1,079,894 lines of financial advertising. That was 62.6% of the total financial advertisers in Cleveland's metropolitan dailies. The Sunday Plain Dealer published 210,830 lines of financial advertising in the same period. Daily and Sunday, then, the Plain Dealer ran 66.7% of the financial advertising carried in Cleveland's major papers.
When you add it all up, the daily Plain Dealer was in front of the number-two newspaper in financial advertising by 435,308 lines in 1975. And when the Sunday figures are added to this lead, it becomes 646,138 lines. Financial advertisers, it seems, invest more of their advertising dollars in the medium that pays better dividends. MAIN DEALEI They invest them in The Plain Dealer. 0 neu Figures here are compiled from report by Media Records, he,.
