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Low near 60. morning BG News Friday Bowling Green State University September 10, 1982 City sued for alleged prejudice in rejection of housing project by Becky Bracht on their agenda for the Dec. 2, 1981 would give it for $1 to the abutting stafl reporter meeting. The plan was discussed at neighbor," she said. this time, but no decision was made Kinney said she abstained from the The city of Bowling Green is facing on the approval or disapproval of the vote because she is a good friend of a $3 million lawsuit in a housing site plan. this "abutting neighbor," and be- discrimination case. H. Burkley A public hearing to discuss the cause she lives on a street parallel to Showe, a Columbus contractor, and development was scheduled for Jan. Klotz Road and would be close to the area resident Margurite Leimgruber, 6, 1982. However, because of a snow proposed development. filed the suit in the Federal District storm that day, the hearing was re- According to the minutes of the Court of Toledo on August 9. scheduled for February, Kinney said, meeting, one of the reasons for the According to Municipal Adminis- adding that this was why the commis- negative votes derives from too many trator Wesley Hoffman, Showe al- sion did not vote on the matter until unresolved questions regarding the leges the city exhibited March. firoject. There also was concern that discrimination against both federally he population pattern the devel- subsidized housing and minorities in ONE OF THE CONCERNS the opment would establish would be in- its rejection of his site proposal for a Commission had about the plan sur- consistent with that of the 48-unit housing project on the east rounded the issue of street dedication, surrounding area, according to the side of Klotz Road. she said. If a street is dedicated it minutes. The attorney for the two plaintiffs, must be built according to the city's ON AUGUST 16, Bowling Green C. Thomas McCarter, said both par- standards. The city will then assume City Council passed an ordinance ties lost money because of the denial the responsibility of maintaining it. agreeing to hire a lawyer to defend of the project. Showe sustained losses Kinney said the site plan did not the city, as well as the individuals because of the time and money in- indicate that the street leading into named in the suit. Toledo attorney volved in the preparation of the plan, the group of proposed apartments Ellis Robinson has taken the responsi- McCarter said. Leimgruber, owner of would be dedicated. bility. the property, lost money she would "We also wanted the buildings re- "We're still in the investigative have received had Showe been able to versed and sidewalks extended and process right now," Robinson said, purchase the land for the devel- some added," she said. adding that he could not comment on opment, he added. Although the Board of Public Utili- the details of the case at this time. "We allege there was a denial of ties had given approval for a sewer Although Showe lost any federal housing for racially motivated rea- hookup, the city engineers were in funding he would have received for sons and we intend to be able to prove conflict over the adequacy of the the Bowling Green project, he did get that in court," McCarter said. sewer to handle the additional bur- federal funding to build a simihar den, she said. project in Fostoria. THE SITE PLAN was rejected 1-7 "We're all lay people," Kinney There was some controversy sur- by the city Planning Commission last said. "I don't know how we can judge rounding the acceptance of the pro- March and was unanimously rejected that (sewer adequacy) without rely- ject. However, Fostoria's City by City Council at their May 17 meet- ing on the experts and they were in Council voted to approve the plan last ing. conflict about it." February, according to Fostoria The proposal for the housing pro- Mayor Kenneth Beier. ject was first heard by the city Board SHOWE TOLD the Commission he The problem the city faced was the of Public Utilities in November, 1981. would only use between six and seven land the developer wished to purchase At this time, the Board voted 3-2 to acres of the 15 acres he wanted to is located outside the Fostoria city allow the developer to tap into the purchase, Kinney said. limits. The site is located on State existing sewer system. "When we asked him what he was Rnntf 23 in«* nnrth of town Nancy Kinney, chairman of the going to do with the back part which The plaintiffs were unavailable for Planning Commission, said it was put would become landlocked, he said he comment. in the Electrical shortage injures NEWS student cafeteria worker Browns' bruiser? CLEVELAND (AP) — He doesn t sun up in a jersey and pads, but John A student employee at Founders leaking, causing the short-circuit. Ted" Chappelle will be a key de Quadrangle cafeteria was treated An ambulance from Wood tender (or the Cleveland Browns and released from Wood County County Hospital was summoned to this season. Hospital Thursday after he re- the cafeteria, but Painter was The former New York City police ceived an electrical shock from a taken to the hospital emergency detective won't even get his name in short-circuited cooling cart. room in a Campus Safety and Secu- the Browns' press book because he rity vehicle, University News Serv- joined the learn too late. John Painter, a junior selling and ices reported. A student nurse in But Chappelle. 50. isn't concerned sales major, was removing food the emergency room said Painter about that as he works to coordinate from the cooling cart and placing it was released at 11:30 a.m. security at the Browns three of on one of the cafeteria lines at fices in Berea and the training about 11 a.m. when he received the "He did get an electric shock and camp at Lakeland Community Col shock, Norma Lein, cafeteria gen- we felt for precautionary measures lege. eral manager, said. we should send him to the Wood The job of the 5 loot 9, 240 County Hospital," Lein said. "We pound Chappelle is to protect players found the young man to be fine." at all times, especially on the road. photo/Tim Westhoven Environmental Services Safety Mike Woroniecki, a cross-carrying, traveling evangelist, was on campus Thursday, prea Officer Glenn Cook, who reported ching the gospel and passing out religious tracts. "I think that modern Christianity has gone to the scene of the accident, said The News was unable to contact Double losers 'Across 'campus wrong they've taken the cross out of the gospel, " Woromecki, a native of Grand Rapids, M the cooling element in the cart was Painter for comment. COLUMBUS. Ohio (AP) — Neither ich.. said. President Reagan nor former Presi- dent Jimmy Carter have been very good at handling the nation's econ- omy, says Alfred Kahn, Carter's top inflation fighter. "I think both performances have been pretty lousy.' Kahn said while in Hostages freed in raid on embassy Columbus to address a meeting of state utility regulators. BERN, Switzerland (AP) - Red-hel- embassy press attache, told The Asso- seized the embassy and 13 hostages in Poland. siege was hailed as "a total success" "Reagan adopted the recession meted anti-terrorist police stormed ciated Press after the lightning res- Monday. Justice Minister Kurt Furgler said by Swiss officials, who conducted side of the stick to cure inflation. the Polish Embassy Thursday, res- cue. Eight captives were released Tues- afterwards that the Swiss govern- virtually uninterupted telephone ne- It has always been known that one cuing five hostages and capturing About 20 policemen wearing gas day and Wednesday through negotia- ment would "never accept black- SDtiations with the gunmen, clad in way to cure inflation is to deflate four gunmen in a bloodless assault masks and bullet-proof vests stormed tions, but the gunmen threatened to mail." The government decided to ark green camouflage fatigues and the economy, if you're willing to that lasted only 12 minutes. the two-story building after blowing in blow up the embassy and kill the send in the police because "negotia- armed with submachine guns. take a high enough price in terms "I'm overjoyed to be freed. Al- the front door with a remote-con- others Friday unless they got $1.45 tions served no further purpose," he They were led by a 42-year-old of unemployment." he said. though I am very tired, none of us trolled stun bomb they hid in a food million, safe passage to either China said. former convict. Flonan Kruszvk. the But Kahn, former head of the came to any harm," Stefan Piwowar, container to fool the gunmen, who or Albania and an end to martial law THE SWIFT CONCLUSION to the see HOSTAGES page 4 Council on Wage and Price Stability, acknowledged that "we did a lousy job on the inflation side." Careers concern of dean Reagan vetoed Mike Towle in a place like Wyoming is it's marvel- not be released until after Sept.