Thursday, April 9, 1998
Cincinnati City Council is considering a pay increase for the fire chief, assistant fire chiefs and police chief.
The proposal would increase their salaries by 2.75 percent. The general-merit increase would be retroactive to Oct. 5, the date management merit increases became effective.
Current salaries for those positions are from a base of $69,551 to a maximum of $95,711 for the fire chief; from $67,546 to $77,700 for assistant fire chiefs, and from $69,275 to $96,311 for the police chief.
The proposal is scheduled to go before council's finance committee April 21.
Bar association to honor three
The Cincinnati Bar Association will honor three area attorneys at its annual meeting 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. April 30 at the Omni Netherland Plaza Hall of Mirrors downtown.
Retired Judge Robert L. Black Jr. will receive the community service award and Milton M. Bloom and Michael W. Hawkins will receive the trustees' award, which recognizes outstanding service by an attorney to the bar association, the legal profession or the general community.
Child with lighter causes $25,000 fire
A 6-year-old child playing with a lighter in a closet set a fire that did $25,000 Wednesday in South Fairmount.
The blaze started in a second-floor bedroom at 1874 Knox St. and did heavy smoke damage to the second floor and attic.
The home had working smoke detectors, and the child's mother tried unsuccessfully to extinguish the blaze before firefighters arrived. No one was injured.
The American Red Cross is assisting the two adults and four children with clothing and shelter.
2 elude police dog after eatery holdup
COLUMBIA TOWNSHIP -- Two men held up the Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant on Ridge Road late Tuesday and eluded a police dog and handler as they escaped through a woods behind the store, Hamilton County sheriff's deputies reported.
The men, one armed with a chrome-plated handgun, demanded money from a cashier and fled. The police dog tracked the suspects through the woods, but lost the scent, deputies said.
The men took an undetermined amount of money. The cashier could only provide a description of the man who had the gun.
He is black, about 5 feet 8 inches tall and 170 pounds. He wore a camouflage ski mask and an Army type jacket, deputies said.
Support group to meet today
The Parents Empowerment Coalition will meet at 7 p.m. today at 655 Eden Park Drive at Gilbert Avenue in Walnut Hills.
The group works to reclaim the rights of parents to discipline and protect their children.
It provides support, education and training about parental rights.
The meeting is open to the public. For additional information contact Ethel Whitehead, president of the group, at 729-2161 or attorney Lisa Crawford at 651-2009.
Firm agrees to pay $5,000 fine to OEPA
A Crosby Township company has agreed to pay a $5,000 civil penalty to the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (OEPA) for paperwork omissions.
In the late 1980s, Albright & Wilson Americas Inc., 10818 Paddys Run Road, handled and stored drums containing hazardous waste. OEPA said the firm failed to maintain liability insurance, lacked an estimate of closure costs, and hadn't provided funds to assure proper closure when it quit handling the waste.
There was no allegation any waste was mishandled.
OEPA said the hazardous-waste operation has been closed down properly and the company no longer must maintain liability or closure assurance documents.
