Don’t miss the Herald’s Baby to Grad and Graduation tab in Miller City ousts Kalida, p6 Monday’s newspaper. THE DELPHOSTelling The Tri-County’s Story Since 1869HERALD 50¢ daily FRIDAY , MAY 14, 2010 Delphos, Ohio Upfront Severe storm tears down trees Nancy Spencer photos A severe storm ripped through Delphos in the early-morning hours today, uprooting trees, shearing them off and disrupting power and cable service. Above left: The top of this once-large evergreen on South Canal Street was sheared off by strong winds. Above: The top landed in the roadway and was moved off to the side by city workers. At left: A large tree was uprooted on South Canal street south of the Cleveland Street intersection. Cable was disrupted in the neighborhood. Below: large branches were ripped from a tree on North Franklin Street during the storm. Power lines were also down in the Jackson Street area. See more photos on page 12. Sports Fort Jennings Miller Memorial set for Board wraps up school year June 4-6 The Nathan Miller During its regular meet- office and all other fed- Memorial Baseball Classic, ing Thursday, the Fort eral and state programs formerly the “Boys of Jennings Local School in the Comprehensive Summer” tournament, will be Board approved its esti- Continuous Improvement held June 4-6 at Stadium Park. mated 5-year forecast and Program and other grants It is a 16-team tournament rounded out the school if they become available. for boys ages 10-12 (age year with other routine In other action, the cutoff is May 1) and features business. board: pool play, with a 3-game Certificated supple- • Accepted a few small guarantee. Players must be mental contracts were donations and $3,288 from from the same school district. approved as follows: Sue the activity boosters for Deadline to enter is Apple, 14 days extended the band trip fund. May 23. For more informa- service; Vanna Abbott, • Adopted a resolution tion, contact Sam Miller 10 days extended ser- authorizing membership at (419) 692-7017. vice, FCCLA advisor and in the Ohio High School TODAY Sectional Baseball (5 p.m.) National Honor Society; Athletic Association was DIVISION IV: At Perry: Mary Lou Altenburger, passed. Jefferson vs. Allen East; Science Day coordina- •Approved member- At Crestview: Crestview tor; Rose Stechschulte, ship in Northwest Ohio vs. Spencerville; At Academic Bowl advi- Educational Technology. Columbus Grove: Columbus sor; Susan Siefker, JV •OK’d the high school Grove vs. Leipsic. Academic Bowl and handbook. Dena Martz photos Regular Season: St. John’s Home Page advisor, shop • Approved Mini cheer- at Coldwater, 5 p.m.; Elida maintenance of equip- leading camp dates for Mini Relay kicks off in Delphos at Lima Senior, 7:30 p.m. at ment, 20 days extended June 15-17. Fifth/Third Field, Dayton service and eight hours • Granted commen- Hundreds of children, parents, teachers, survivors and volunteers are walking Regular Season Softball for computers; Melinda dations to Rosemary for a cure for cancer today during the seventh annual Mini Relay. Above: Franklin (5 p.m.): LCC at Kalida; Losh, yearbook advisor; Warnecke and all students Elementary first-grade teacher Sandy Suever, center, is honored for her dedication Elida at Paulding. Jeff Jostpille, high school involved for an excel- to the Mini Relay by coordinators Melisssa Myers, left of St. John’s Elementary and Track and Field (4:30 student council advisor, lent high school and ele- Joyce Wiechart of Franklin. Suever is retiring from teaching this year. Below: Katelyn p.m.): MAC at Fort Recovery; Envirothon advisor and mentary spring concert; Goergens paints the face of Lauren Grothaus during activities this morning. WBL at Shawnee. assistant Science Day Nathan Wurst and Michael Tennis: Sectionals advisor; Joy Noriega, art Herman for best of show at UNOH, 9 a.m. show coordinator; and at the county art show; Forecast Kathy Verhoff for supple- to Kristen Maag, Jamie Mostly sunny mental duties. Saum, Seth Ricker and Saturday; high Supplemental contracts Andrea Ricker for partici- in upper 60s. were approved for senior pating in the state science See page 2. advisor for Jostpille, Mary fair; and to the Envirothon Jean Schweller and Abbot; team for placing first and and junior advisor for Losh second at competition. Index and Cheryl VonLehmden. The elementary school’s Obituaries 2 Classified supplemental music and art show begins State/Local 3 contracts were granted to at 7 p.m. Monday and Politics 4 Mary Jean Schweller and the awards day will be Community 5 Marianne VonSossan for 18 Wednesday. The high Sports 6-7 days extended service; to school calendar includes Church 8 VonSossan for elementary graduation on Friday night Classifieds 10 cafe cashier; and to Cheryl and a teacher workday Television 11 Schnipke as head cook. May 28. World briefs 12 A motion was approved May 27 is the last day to participate in Title VI-B of classes and report cards for special-needs stu- can be picked up for all dents through the county grades on June 3. 2 2 – The Herald Friday, May 14, 2010 www.delphosherald.com For The Record OBITUARIES BP tries tube to siphon Mary Ann Schuck Zoe Ilene Michele The Daily Mary Ann Schuck, 63, of Crider Delphos, died at 6:45 a.m. HeraldVol. 140 No. 281 spewing Gulf oil to tanker Oct. 7, 1999 - May 12, 2010 today at her residence. Nancy Spencer, editor By ALLEN G. BREED While some data were being sional and administrative hear- Funeral services will begin Zoe Ilene Michele Ray Geary, business manager and CURT ANDERSON transmitted to shore for safe- ings. They suggest there were at 10:30 a.m. Monday at St. Crider, 10, of Mendon, died Don Hemple, advertising manager The Associated Press keeping right up until the blast, both crew mistakes and equip- John the Evangelist Catholic Wednesday morning at Van Tiffany Brantley, officials from Transocean, the ment breakdowns at key points Church. Wert County Hospital. circulation manager Undersea robots tried to rig owner, told Congress that the day of the explosion. Friends may call from 2-8 She was born Oct. 7, 1999, William Kohl, general manager/ thread a small tube into the the last seven hours of its Buzbee said that when p.m. Sunday at Harter and in St. Marys to Sean and Eagle Print Elizabeth (Krick) Crider. Her jagged pipe that is pouring oil information are missing and Halliburton showed BP PLC Schier Funeral Home. The Daily Herald (USPS 1525 into the Gulf of Mexico early that all written logs were lost and Transocean officials the Further arrangements are mother, Elizabeth Krick, sur- vives in Mendon. Her father 8000) is published daily except today in BP’s latest attempt in the explosion. Earlier tests results of the pressure tests incomplete at the funeral Sundays and Holidays. to cut down on the spill from that suggested explosive gas that suggested gas was leak- home. survives in Rockford. Funeral services will begin By carrier in Delphos and a blown-out well that has was leaking were preserved. ing, the rig workers were put area towns, or by rural motor pumped out more than 4 mil- The gap poses a mystery on “standby.” BP is the rig Nathaniel “Bill” at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at route where available $2.09 per lion gallons of crude. for investigators: What deci- operator and leaseholder. Mendon First Church of God, week. By mail in Allen, Van IT WAS NEWS THEN The company was trying to sions were made — and what Buzbee said one of his cli- Milo Lucas Pastor Dean Bruce officiat- Wert, or Putnam County, $105 move the 6-inch tube into the warnings might have been ents told him the “Transocean June 5, 1929 - May 12, 2010 ing. Burial will be in Mendon per year. Outside these counties leaking 21-inch pipe, known ignored? and BP company people got Nathaniel “Bill” Milo Cemetery. $119 per year. as the riser. The smaller tube “There is some delay in the their heads together,” and 40 Lucas, 80, of Hillsboro and Friends may call from Entered in the post office will be surrounded by a stop- replication of our data, so our minutes later gave the green formerly of Delphos, died 3-8 p.m. today at W.H. Dick in Delphos, Ohio 45833 as per to keep oil from leaking operational data, our sequence light. Wednesday at Laurels Nursing & Sons-Hellwarth Funeral Periodicals, postage paid at into the sea. BP said it hopes of events ends at 3 o’clock in The attorney said the Home in Hillsboro. Home, Mendon, and from Delphos, Ohio. to know by this evening if the the afternoon on the 20th,” Halliburton crew members He was born June 5, 1929, 9:30 a.m. until time of ser- No mail subscriptions will be tube works and can siphon the Steven Newman, president were not shown any new test in Delphos, to Nathaniel “Bill” vices Saturday at the church. accepted in towns or villages oil to a tanker at the surface. and CEO of Transocean Ltd, results. and Barbara (Miller) Lucas. Preferred memorials are to where The Daily Herald paper Since an April 20 drill- told a Senate panel. The rig “They said they did their He leaves behind a wife, donor’s choice. carriers or motor routes provide ing rig explosion set off the blew up at 10 p.m., killing 11 own tests, and they came out Diane Estel; three children daily home delivery for $2.09 catastrophic spill, BP PLC workers and unleashing the OK,” he said.