SERVING THE OHIO VALLEY SINCE 1852 www.portsmouth-dailytimes.com THURSDAY, MAY 13, 2010 Vol. 158 • No. 328 • 50 cents daily/$1.25 Sunday Potential Buyer Looking At Waverly Plant Gov. Announces $50,000 Grant To Assist Workers At Pike Cabinet Factories BY FRANK LEWIS a buyer to come in there, continue PDT STAFF WRITER to operate and provide the jobs and benefit the community,” At least one company is show- Strickland said. “When I first ing a serious interest in the prop- talked to the CEO not too many erties of two plants set to close in weeks ago, quite frankly, the Pike County. impression that I got, was that Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland was they thought the possibility of a at a meeting Wednesday in new owner coming in and contin- Waverly with several government uing the operation was remote. I agencies, workforce profession- think they, and certainly I, have als, and elected officials, conduct- been pleased and surprised to ed by the Director of the Ohio learn there have been a number of Wayne Allen ■ Daily Times Closing Up Department of Development, contacts. And as I am sure all of Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland and Ohio Director of Development Lisa Patt-McDaniel Lisa Patt-McDaniel. you know, at least one on-site were among the state and local officials in attendance at the Masco task force The meeting was the second in visit. We have been in communi- meeting in Waverly on Wednesday. DOW JONES the last month concerning the cation with that entity, I believe, closing of two Mill’s Pride cabi- earlier this morning. So there is think my responsibility and all of workers regarding what we know 10,896.91 +149 netry factories, owned by Masco. that possibility. I don’t want to our responsibilities is to be total- “Our first desire is to try to find hold out any false hope, but I ly transparent and honest with the See MASCO, A3 ■ STOCKS, A3 36 Counts of SPORTS Schoolhouse Rock! Child Abuse Filed Against Couple BY FRANK LEWIS PDT STAFF WRITER A Scioto County couple faces a combined total of 36 charges, several involving a child said to have received multiple injuries over a period of time. Jennifer Carver, 24, and Derek Hossman 29, are each Final Results charged with six counts of felo- Track meet winners nious assault, a felony of the announced second degree; six counts of ■ child endangering, a felony of SPORTS, B1 the second degree, and six counts of endangering children, Field Trip a felony of the third degree. Portsmouth Capt. David Hall said the two Portsmouth Even Start list several addresses, including takes trip to garden shop Martin Cemetery Road in ■ GARDEN, B8 Elementary Lucasville. Carver was arrested earlier, Preparing Hossman hours later at a differ- ent location. For Play “They are charged with abus- Weather ing a little 10-month-old child,” The Portsmouth Elementary School Scioto County Sheriff’s Detec- Today T-storms High 85 fifth- and sixth-grade Choir and tive Paul Blaine said. “The 10- Tonight T-storms Low 69 Drama Club will present month-old child suffered several “Schoolhouse Rock Live! Junior” broken bones. Some are fresh High Low Outlook Friday and Saturday at Portsmouth injuries. Some injuries were FRI 75 51 T-storms Elementary School Auditeria. being healed at the time.” SAT 71 49 M. Clear Members of the main cast have Blaine said the sheriff’s office spent at least two hours per day/ learned of the possibility of the SUN 71 49 M. Clear four days per week since February child being injured in October MON 71 51 T-storms rehearsing. This entertaining and 2008. enjoyable musical will be take “It has been an ongoing inves- place at 7 p.m. Friday and tigation,” Blaine said. “Actually, Saturday. Tickets cost $5 for the case was submitted to the adults and $3 for students. (Scioto County) Grand Jury, Tickets are available at the door through the (Scioto County) or in the school office. Prosecutor’s Office back in Wayne Allen ■ Daily Times See ABUSE, A3 Kirby ‘Searched The World Over’ For 1920s Glass Obituaries BY G. SAM PIATT ucts, too. The colored opaque • Rick DeBord Timothy Dunn PDT STAFF WRITER glass was versatile and lighter and • Fred Brown considered a more durable alterna- of Vitrolite • Alice Arnold William “Pop” would have tive to marble. Specialist been so very proud of his grand- Eighty-six years later, Kirby’s, works to cut a See Page A2 daughter, Elisa Kirby-Valli. owned and operated by Kirby- piece of glass Pop Kirby started Kirby’s Flow- Valli and her cousin, John Kirby that will be put Index ers & Gifts shop on the corner of Jr., is still going strong. on the outside However, in 2008, water got in of Kirby’s Advice ......B5 Local......A2-8 Gallia and Findlay streets in Portsmouth in 1924. In the early behind the squares of the exterior flowers on Calendar ..A2 Lotteries....B2 1930s he had the exterior walls of glass and it began to push out from Tuesday. Class ......B6-7 Puzzles ....B4 the building covered with squares the walls. Kirby-Valli, fearing it Wayne Allen Comics......B4 Sports ....B1-3 of burgundy and tan Vitrolite, a might fall on some pedestrian’s ■ Daily Times Editorial ....A4 TV ............B5 decorative glass touted as the head, had to have it all removed. “architectural darling” of the Then her problem was what to See Page 1920s and ‘30s. have the exterior walls of the A3 for building covered with. Her deci- Storefronts and theaters sported another Vitrolite, either Vitrolite or Car- sion from the beginning was, if at rara, which was the same product all possible, to replace the exterior story about only made by a different company. decoration with the same Vitrolite Dunn’s Some home interiors of the well- specialty to-do were tiled with these prod- See GLASS, A3 work. May is Better Speech Your Hearing and Ear Experts Serving the Area for Over 30 Years and Hearing Month Hearing is our concern. Experience the most advanced hearing aid technology available today. 30 day trial. 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Legal Services will have a dropped off at the com- interpret Lavon Van • Porter Township Spring • Lisa Knittel — 11 a.m. public do-it-yourself legal munity center. Williams work through Clean-up, drivers’ licenses Thursday at Roger W. clinic concerning domes- Contact Mary Williams choreography, free, Davis Funeral Home in checked, dumpsters, Service tic relations issues includ- at (740) 820-4211 (home) open to public, South- West Portsmouth, with or (740) 285-4359 (cell) Department, 8809 Green St., ing custody, visitation and ern Ohio Museum, callers 10 to 11 a.m. Thurs- name changes from 6 to or Angie at (740) 820- Wheelersburg, 7 a.m.-6 p.m. 825 Gallia St., noon day. Interment in Scioto 6:30 p.m. Monday, May 3137 for drop off times. • Taking Angel Food orders for Burial Park. 17, in the Robert Copley May, cash or food stamps, Pot- north to Kinney’s Lane; six to eight John Shaw OLBH offers free • — 11 a.m. Meeting Room of the ter’s House Ministries, 5409 Win- hours, beginning 6 p.m. Thursday at Brant Funeral Portsmouth Public smoking cessation chester Ave., Sciotoville, 9 a.m.-6 • Sixth annual County Wide Home in Portsmouth. Library, 1220 Gallia St. Our Lady of Bellefonte p.m.; Cornerstone United Interment in McKendree Summer Reading Kick-off for Required court forms Hospital (OLBH) invites Methodist Church, 808 Offnere Cemetery. Greenup County Libraries, free will be provided at the anyone wishing to stop St., 10 a.m.-2 p.m. for families, food, prizes, inflata- • Dorothy Toller — 11 clinic, and court rules Fred A. Brown, 86 smoking to join its free • Consumer Helping Con- bles, games, etc., Greenup a.m. Thursday at Gaydos concerning the forms will Fred A. Brown, 86, of Funeral Home in Vance- smoking cessation pro- sumers Thrift Shop, open, 725 Christian Church Family Life be explained. gram. The next session Fifth St., 9 a.m.-5 p.m. West Portsmouth, died burg, Ky., with callers 10 to SEOLS is the legal aid Center, 711 Main St., Greenup, Tuesday May 11, 2010, at 11 a.m. Thursday. Interment begins Monday, May 17 • Hours, Portsmouth Library, Ky., 6-8 p.m. law firm for low income with classes meeting Hempstead Manor. He was in Black Oak Cemetery. persons in Scioto County. 1220 Gallia St., 10 a.m.-8 p.m.; • James Dickey Post American born May 5, 1924, in • Charles Sprouse — Mondays at 6 p.m. at the Lucasville Library, closed; New For more information OLBH Human Motion Legion, bingo sponsored by Assis- Lawrence County to the late Noon Thursday at about SEOLS services Boston Library, closed; Northwest tance to the Handicapped Inc., Grover and Schneider-Griffin Funeral Vitality Center confer- Library, 13056 Ohio 73, Room 12, and/or the legal clinic call ence room.