3 -THE PLAIN DEALER, TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 1990 White's transfer of police to basic patrol upheld By BOB BECKER STAFF WRITER An arbitrator yesterday upheld Michael R. White's controversial transfers of special-unit police to basic patrol. Chief Edward P. Kovacic sin February transferred 47 officers -from special units to basic patrol duty. and five other patrolmen and detectives received other transfers.
The department had more than 4.50 vacancies in patrol units, which White had pledged would be the "foundation of his reformed Police ent Department. Some veteran officers in special units regarded the transfers as demotions. The binding arbitration resulted from a grievance filed by the Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Association (CPPA) on behalf of 31 of those transferred. The CPPA had initially filed. then dropped, a lawsuit against the transfers in Cuyahoga County Commmon Pleas Court.
None of the transferred officers received cuts in pay or rank. White said in a statement yesterday that the ruling by arbitrator Hy- Akron-Canton ton air show is ready to take off By JAMES EWINGER STAFF WRITER It's always dangerous and just a bit presumptuous to call anything othe first annual." but that's just awhat they're calling the air show this weekend at Akron-Canton Re6 gional Airport albeit informally. 134. The show will be Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
on Summit County the west side of the airport in Summit County's Green Township off Ohio 241 and accessible from Interstate 77. Admission is $1 for adults, and free for children under 12. The trouble with using "annual," even informally, is that the promoters only have to miss the next year in order to blow it. But they don't plan to blow this one. The full, formal name is Aviation Days '90.
"And we'll call next year's Aviation Days '91," beamed a confident Don Armen, president of McKinley Air Transport Inc. and a board member of the East Central Ohio Pilots' Association. ECOPA, the airport, and the Confederate Air Force, a group dedicated to the restoration of World War II aircraft, are sponsoring the show jointly. "The general public's exposure to the airport is the noise you just heard," said Armen as a Boeing 727 screamed past on a nearby runway yesterday. "We'd like to say.
'Come on out and enjoy a little aviation with Armen rolled out a small sample of that aviation yesterday with the visit of a B-25J Mitchell bomber, the aircraft that framed the United States' initial answer to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The bomber yesterday was piloted by Col. Glenn H. Lamont, a retired Air Force pilot. That craft will be on display this weekend, along with about seven other restored World War Il-era airplanes, about a dozen experimental aircraft and some modern craft, including a Cobra helicopter gunship from the local Army National.
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For many officers, the special units are seen as a career advancement, giving them extra and a higher profile within the department to showcase their work. But administration sources have said some officers were using the special units to "hide out" from their duties. "We are pleased with the ruling and intend to continue working with the police unions to ensure that Cleveland residents are getting the best police protection possible," White said. "We think the reassignments were made in the best interest of the department and in the best interest of city residents." In his ruling. Cohen wrote that the transfers did not violate the city's contract with the CPPA.
He also said Kovacic's selection of the transferred officers sought a balance between his own choices and their seniority. Cohen also concluded the transfers were not punitive measures against supporters of former Council President George L. Forbes. whom White defeated in last year's election. The CPPA had asked that officers with the least seniority be transferred first.
Karl Bort, CPPA president, said he was disappointed with Cohen's decision because the union had expected to win. Decisions by other arbitrators upheld transfers based on "inverse seniority," Bort said. Bort said the union's board would meet next Tuesday to review its options, which include an appeal of the ruling in Common Pleas Court. "We're at odds with the decision," he said. Bort said the transfers lumped all officers together without regard for their individual circ*mstances Bort said the union challenged city's method of making the transfers, not its right to do so.
White has said previously the transfers were made to fill the city's basic car plan, which required 700 officers. 0 CHAN Col. Glenn Lamont with his B-25J Mitchell bomber at Akron-Canton Regional Airport yesterday. Pilot Lamont named his second bomber "The Guardian of Freedom" and took it on the air show and exhibition circuit last year. He especially enjoys showing it to younger spectators.
"Young people should see the aircraft that defended this country in World War II," he said. "I enjoy flying to events like this." City the way to go. In 1979, Greater Cleveland had 276,300 manufacturing jobs and 182,500 service jobs. By 1983, the recession's low point, the number of manufacturing jobs had dropped to 207,300 while the number of service jobs climbed to 195,700, according to the Ohio Bureau of Employment Services. By last month, the number of manufacturing jobs was still at 207,000 while the number of service jobs jumped to 260,500, OBES fig.
ures show. William Plato, vice president of economic development for the Lamont cruised about 2,500 feet above the Summit County countryside at a leisurely 180 miles per hour yesterday while photographers snapped away from a chase plane. Earlier, he told his passengers not to believe those World War II movies in which the crew is casually chatting. You don't carry on a conversation in a B-25 with two 1,700 horsepower engines a few feet away. The passengers quickly learned another thing about the B-25 it Greater Cleveland Growth Association, said a balance between manufacturing and service industry jobs should be struck, so the region would be hit hard again by changes in the economy nationally.
"We would be happy to increase the number of manufacturing jobs at a steady, but gradual pace," he said. The city increasingly is being seen as a relocation site for all types of companies, because of its location, access to water and more stable political climate, he said. "Jobs alone do not reflect economic activity," said Richard Shatten, executive director of Cleveland Tomorrow, adding that such reports do not take into consideration plant improvements. "No one thinks we should be complacent." HELP YOUR HEART American Heart Association offers free information on nutrition, exercise, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, stop-smoking programs, stroke, heart attacks and more. Call 791-7500 or 1-800-331-5124.
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Bev Demko of Chardon, one of the volunteer ground crew, is a little shorter than that and recalls working in the cramped tail section last winter. "I spent two months in the tail with a toothbrush," she said. "There were 17 years of dirt in there." Demko, a pilot who flies her single-engine plane out of Geauga County Airport in Middlefield, volunteered to help Lamont because she is a World War II buff. She became interested in aviation when she was a child and got an airplane ride from her doctor. But there are a couple reasons she hasn't flown the B-25.
One is she isn't qualified for multiengines but that's secondary. "I fly right seat (co-pilot)," she said. "Nobody flys it but the colonel." Percent of lost manufacturing jobs regained during economic recovery Feburary 1983 to March 1990. Manufacturing of lost Rank City Jobs gained jobs Dayton 12,700 38.5 2 Columbus 7,900 37.1 3 Cincinnati 11,100 29.9 4 Akron 3,800 16.7 5 Canton 2,700 15.1 6 Toledo 2,500 10.8 Youngstown 700 2.2 8 Cleveland 1,500 2.0 Sources: Council for Economic Opportunities in Greater PD graphic Ohio Bureau of Employment Services Fire hits retirement home; 22 treated YOUNGSTOWN (AP) Twenty- two-story building. The cause was one people suffered smoke inhala- not immediately known.
tion and another was hurt in a fall The home is operated by Ohio while fleeing a two-alarm fire in a Presbyterian Retirement Services. retirement building last night, au- Mary Cochran, acting executive dithorities said. rector of the complex, said the fire Residents of the Park Vista Re- began in the closet of a resident's tirement Community building, room. Cochran estimated damage at about five blocks from downtown, $5,000. were routed by the smoky fire Assistant Fire Chief Patsy Romeo about 10 p.m.
The blaze was under said the residents were allowed to control within an hour. return to their rooms after the fire None of the injuries appeared to was extinguished. be serious, the hospital officials Romeo said the building had a said. sprinkler system, which activated Fire officials said the fire started an alarm and helped reduce the in a first-floor patient's room of the fire damage. WATCH FOR Comics Competition TOMORROW! It's the colorful, new Plain Dealer section that keeps your funnies-side-up every Wednesday! A special bonus for home-delivery subscribers.
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