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THE CINCINNAT EM FINAL EDITIONNEWSSTAND PRICE 25t i A GANNETT-NEWSPAPER Liontlay Hay 2G, 100Q The 205th day of captivity for U.S. hostages in Iran. ar Memorials Fade With Time's Passage uv- an tue insine IS 0 Veterans of Vietnam are without a memorial, Page A-12. TODAY TOMORROW Sunny skies today and Tuesday, with a high near 80 today and In the mid 80s Tuesday. Weather map and details, Page C-10.

smile Our strength as humans Is that we can laugh at ourselves for being ridiculous. Our weakness Is that we have to do It so often. primary preview Four full pages of candidates and Issues In the upcoming Trlstate primaries preview what voters will find on their ballots. Pages C-l, 2, 3 and 4. metro -ji X-s, vh i 4 ft-; 1 ciU Ti hit' Garfield Place Is turned Into an International dining room at "A Taste of Cincinnati" festival, featuring fare from 16 downtown restaurants.

Page C-5. nation BY JIM SLUZEWSKI Enquirer Reporter On a cool Sunday afternoon In November, 1945, more than 2,000 Mohawk residents gathered at Ravine and McMlcken Sts. to dedicate a memorial to their neighbors who fought In World War II. Fresh with the fervor of an Allied victory in the war, Mohawk residents yearned to build that memorial. They lobbied Cincinnati City Hall for more than a year to get the privilege.

Mohawk Business Men's Association raised about $4,000 to construct the 18-foot brick monument on a small triangle of city-owned land. It Included a bronzed list of more than 500 men and women who fought in World Warll. It is difficult in retrospect to envision that post-war enthusiasm. The Mohawk Honor Roll Is barely recognizable today. Vandals have defaced the monument and ripped three long bronze name plates from its front and side.

Another bronze plate is half gone torn right from its bolts. ALTHOUGH THE City of Cincinnati ensures that weeds around the honor roll are cut, litter is heaped in the area. Two nearby shade trees lack color and life. Three old cars have been parked immediately behind the monument. No flag waves from the staff there.

Mohawk's business association, which had promised to care for the memorial, dissolved in about 1964. The city, owner of the property, was left to do what minimum maintenance it could afford. "Really, the weeds are cut as often as we can, but not as often as we would like," said Louis Lippen, administrative assistant in the Cincinnati Highway Maintenance Department. The department, he said, "occasionally" is called by a neighbor when weeds grow particularly tall around the honor roll. The Mohawk Honor Roll, although much worse than most, is somewhat typical of war monuments in Cincinnati.

THEIR SIGNIFICANCE, it seems, has mellowed into insignificance for many in a generation since World War II. Only on days like today Memorial Day-or Veteran's Day (In November) are they marked by ceremonies and recalled camaraderie. "There is, and has been over the years, a general decline in what persons refer to as patriotism," theorized Gordon H. Scherer, who was a Cincinnati councilman when American soldiers were returning triumphantly from World War II. "In some quarters, it (now) is a nasty word-patriotism.

They laugh at you when you talk about it," said Scherer, also a former Republican congressman. In 1945, though, there was no laughing about the 359,000 Americans had who lost their lives in World War II. Instead, Greater Cincinnatians argued quite heatedly about how to remember war veterans. ONE SEGMENT of the community said small, "abstract" monuments should be avoided. A more fitting remembrance, it said, was a large "utility" memorial, such as an ampitheater or convention center.

Despite years of bickering, opinion polls and The Enqulrefa editorial crusade, no such memorial was built. Later, in 1955, the new Public Library of Cincinnati Hamilton County was dedicated to those who had died in World War World War II and the Korean War. At the same time, some Cincinnatians argued for traditional war monuments to be placed throughout the city's neighborhoods. Alfred Bettman, head of the City Planning Commission, warned in 1944 that "there would be a tendency to forget neighborhood memorials within a period of 15 years." As the arguments about war memorials dragged on, community, veterans' and service groups began independent campaigns to erect plaques, memorials and honor rolls. DOZENS OF them were built in the Trlstate area before 1950.

By 1952, neighborhood residents began complaining that some of them were neglected, vandalized and unsightly. A couple were removed from their memorial gardens. Others were repaired and maintained by public or veterans' groups Still others, like the one in Mohawk, fell into perpetual disrepair. Frederick Payne, commissioner of Cincinnati parks, said a number of war memorials on park property still are used regularly by those recalling the wartime strife. Ceremonies and Memorial Day wreaths remember monuments, such as Hero's Grove and the Battery Memorial in Eden Park, Gen.

Robert McCook's statue in Washington Park and the Marine Memorial in Lytle Park, Payne said. The statue of a charging World War I sol-dler In front of the Workhouse in Camp Washington is, like some, recognized primarily by those who currently or previously lived in that neighborhood. WAR MEMORIALS in some communities have lost their significance over the years. For example, residents of Pleasant Ridge contributed more than $20,000 in 1949 to erect the Honor Roll Memorial on a triangular tract of greenery at Montgomery and Woodford Rds. In was placed in the trust of the Cincinnati Park Board.

The names of soldiers from Pleasant Ridge once filled that towering brick monument. It was cited In 1949 as "a lasting tribute to the men and women who were In military service and those who gave their lives." But the names on that monument were removed over the years. And all that remains is a graffiti-splattered pile of bricks. No sign or plaque marks It as a war memorial. No flag hangs dally from the adjoining pole.

In Cincinnati, a town rich in war heritage, monuments can be found from nearly every armed conflict involving Americans. "I GUESS in a subtle way, the Pioneer Cemetery (near Lunken Airport) is a memorial to the Revolutionary War veterans," Payne said. Civil War veterans by the troop are burled In Cincinnati graveyards. And at Knowlton and Mad Anthony Northside, a small stone monument to Gen. "Mad" Anthony Wayne and Gen.

Arthur St. Clair is surrounded and enveloped by outgrown bushes and high weeds. General St. Clair and his army camped at that spot in 1791. Two years later, General Wayne and his troops also stayed there, the site of Ludlow Station.

History has reputed Wayne's final words to be, "Bury me near the flagpole, boys." At his monument in Northside, the flagpole is missing. Two strong earthquakes registering about 6.0 on the Rlchter scale Jolt a wide area of California. Page A-2. Frustrated antl-nuclear demonstrators resort to blocking highway traffic when a new police tactic blocks their plans to continue their assault on the Seabrook power plant. Page A-3.

A steady stream of Freedom Flotilla boats arrives from Cuba, pushing the total of Cuban Immigrants to more than 76,500. Page A-13. The South Korean government's martial law command says Insurgents holding the provincial caltal of Kwangju have "broken off" negotiations, and speculation mounts that the army will soon try to retake the city by force. Page A-2. Lord Killanln, president of the International Olympic Committee, says that the door Is still open for countries seeking to enter teams In the Moscow Games this summer.

Page A-3. Israel's defense minister, Ezer Welzman, resigns abruptly from the government. Page A-6. Enquirer Photo BY ALEX BURROWS A YOUNG child runs past the war memorial at Knowlton and Mad Anthony Sts. in Northside.

sports New Iranian Parliament Holds Fate Of Hostages Volcano Spits Out Black Ash Cloud, Turns Rain To Mud Johnny Rutherford wins his third Indianapolis 500 with an average speed Of 142.462. Page B-l. people toy ay The lives of two-career couples are not always beautiful, organized, calm and efficient. Page E-l. in our opinion Memorial Day ought to be observed as Memorial Day.

Editorial, Page A-14. Douglas Fraser of the UAW argues It's time for toughness on auto Imports. Page A-14. An official of Washington's Department of Emergency Services, Jim Thomas, said in Olympla, the state capital, that local visibility was down to zero. He said the counties affected were being asked to advise motorists not to drive this Memorial Day weekend.

WITH ZERO visibility, Thomas said, "people can get confused, trapped or lost." The volcano's outburst, which continued intermittently with lessening intensity through the morning, caught thousands of motoring tourists at coastal resorts, where roads and highways soon quickly turned treacherous. By 7 a.m., the vast cloud of ash had turned the young day into night from the Kelso-Longvlew area to Toledo, 25 miles to the north. The heavily traveled Interstate 5 was closed from Longvlew to Olympla by the state's highway patrol when some stretches of the road surface became coated with up to an inch of muddy ash. While the greater eruption a week ago was preceded by two strong earthquakes, only a few tremors foreshadowed by three minutes the plume of ash that shot up from the crater Sunday. Scientists had expected further eruptions but seemed surprised at such a strong one after Just one week.

DWIGHT R. Crandell, the volcano hazards coordinator of the United States Geological Survey, said that It was too early to tell what Sunday's event foretold about future activity on Mount St. Helens, but he discounted the possibility of lava flow. The volcano began to rumble two months ago after 127 years of inactivity. The eruption on May 18 blew away more than 1,500 feet off the volcano's peak.

Its elevation was previously listed as 9,671 feet. The eruption set off a mushroom cloud reaching 60,000 feet into the air and left at least 32 people dead and an estimated $1.6 billion in damages. As many as 88 people were still listed as BY ASSOCIATED PRESS Iranian President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr was quoted Sunday as saying responsibility for the 53 American hostages will be transferred from their militant captors to the new Parliament when it is installed. The Majlis, or Parliament, opens Wednesday, and Is expected to debate the fate of the hostages in several weeks. Banl-Sadr, as quoted by a Kuwaiti newspaper, gave no specific date for the assembly to take responsibility for the Americans, nor did he specify the extent of that responsibility.

"The assembly will vote on the fate of the hostages, and Its decision will be implemented. If the Imam (Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini), the assembly and the government decide to release the captives, then there will be nobody who alleges that the decision Is faulty," Bani-Sadr was quoted as saying by Al-Anbaa, an Independent daily whose past reports have been reliable. Khomeini, Iran's Islamic leader, addressed members of the new Parliament Sunday, urging them to avoid dissension. MEANWHILE, THE militants who seized the U.S. Embassy tightened their grip on the hostages with new "security" measures.

Banl-Sadr, claiming the United States was trying to kill the hostages In order to Justify overt intervention in Iran, said security precautions were taken to "protect the lives of the captives," according to Al-Anbaa. U.S. spokesmen declined to comment publicly on the allegation, but one privately dismissed it as "ludicrous." the Americans prohibited further visits to the hostages after "suspicious-looking" groups, posing as tourists or foreign correspondents, were seen in some of the 17 towns where the Iranians say the hostages are held, Tehran Radio reported. Banl-Sadr all but ruled out a visit to the prisoners by Adlb Daoudy, Syria's United Nations (U.N.) ambassador, according to Al-Anbaa. Daoudy is a member of a U.N.

commission of inquiry that visited Iran earlier seeking a solution to the U.S.-Iran standoff. Daoudy, who talked for an hour with Iranian Foreign Minister Sa-degh Ghotbzadeh, said the five-man commission might be allowed to return to Iran to complete Its task, but did not say what conditions were set. DAOUDY WAS one of four foreign politicians in Iran Sunday seeking answers to the hostage dilemma. Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky, former Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme and Spanish Socialist Party chief Felipe Gonzalez arrived Sunday on what Kreisky called "a pure information trip" on behalf of the Socialist International. The three met with Banl-Sadr but gave Western reporters few details of their talks.

The last outsider known to have seen any of the hostages is Barbara Timm of Oak Creek, who saw her son, Marine Sgt. Kevin Hermen-lng, April 21 for about 45 minutes. Iran has been without a Parliament since the February, 1979, revolution led by Khomeini which ousted Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. and continued to coat the city into the day. Leaves and lawns turned a dull gray, and cars In driveways, hosed off by motorists, were coated again within an hour.

The ash that was carried into Portland came on prevailing southerly winds at a low level; more was propelled north and west by higher winds moving in those directions, sending clouds of the ash toward Seattle. The airports in both Portland and Seattle were closed. Up to an Inch fell on the already afflicted city of Vancouver and on Longvlew, Kelso and Castle Rock, near the volcano. Some residents of low-lying areas already had been evacuated because of the possibility of flooding. FARTHER UP the Washington coast, at Hoqulam, City Police Patrolman Anthony May reported emergency highway conditions.

"We're asking tourists to stay put," he said. "The windshield wipers can't handle it, it scratches the windshield and there's up to an inch of it." As the ashen plume spewed as high as 40,000 feet above sea level before subsiding, its fallout caused the failure of telephone circuits and electric transmission lines in parts of the darkened countryside below. Some computers were shut down to protect them from serious damage. Four radio stations in the area were knocked off the air. Muddy ash also forced the suspension of National Guard helicopter search and rescue flights out of Toledo and 1980, N.Y.

TIMES NEWS SERVICE PORTLAND, Ore. -Mount St. Helens spewed a new column of destructive volcanic ash miles Into the atmosphere early Sunday. For the first time, the wind poured the ash onto the most populous areas of coastal Oregon and Washington. The eruption had none of the explosive force of the cataclysm a week ago, when the mountain blew up with an energy scientists computed as equal to a major nuclear blast.

But it lofted vast new quantities of the abrasive ash that moved across central and eastern Washington last Sunday, immobilizing Spokane, Yakima and smaller communities. Sunday, along the populous central Washington coast, a misty rain turned the ash to what amounted to a descending fog of mud, spawning a number of one-car accidents. Vancouver, was showered with ash. The evacuation of two small towns about 10 miles southwest of the volcano itself, Cougar and Yale, was ordered as a precaution. Officials also advised the residents of Toutle, a town about 25 west of Mount St.

Helens, to leave their homes temporarily. THE DUST also drifted some 200 miles northward over British Columbia and dusted the northern population centers of Puget Sound. In Portland, ash sifted down in a fine, gritty film in the early morning darkness after the eruption, which took place at about 2:30 a.m. index Six Sections, 140th Year, No. 47 ACTION LINE E-2 BIORHYTHMS E7 BRIDGE EJ BUSINESS 07 CLASSIFIED COLUMNISTS A-14, 15 COMICS CROSSWORD Ej4 DEAR ABBY E-2 DEATHS C-13 EDITORIALS A-14 ENTERTAINMENT GRAHAM E-7 HEALTH E-2 HOROSCOPE E-4 HORSE SENSE JUMBLE E-4 LANG EO PURDY B-l RACES SOCIETY E-3 TV-RADIO WORD GAME E4 SPORTS RESULTS: Telephone 721J600 or 721-0616 missing.

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