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THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER FINAL EDITIONNEWSSTAND PRICE A GANNETT NEWSPAPER Concert, Game To Share Riverfront Tonight GQtDFdQy lC0.1Q,fDQQ The 287th day of captivity for U.S. assigning 28 uniformed officers to crowd control checkpoints on the coliseum plaza and another 22 non-uniformed officers to enforce drug and liquor laws. hostages in Iran. CLOUDY CLOUDY TOMORROW TODAY Partly cloudy today with a high near 80, and the low tonight in the mid 60s. Partly cloudy Sunday with a chance of thunderstorms BY DAVE KRIEGER Enquirer Reporter Riverfront Coliseum emerged victorious Friday from Its first formal confrontation with Cincinnati City Hall since the Dec.

3 rock concert at which 11 patrons of the arena died. After a four-hour hearing, Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Rupert A. Doan denied the city's request to bar the coliseum from holding tonight's concert by ACDC, an Australian hard-rock band. The 9 p.m. show will begin one hour after the scheduled kick-off of a Cincinnati Bengals-Chicago Bears pre-season football game at adjacent Riverfront Stadium.

The dual attractions were the basis for the city's objection. The show will go on, but how many people will be there to hear It is another question. BECAUSE OF publicity surrounding the city's attempt to cancel the concert, "Our ticket sales have dwindled down to next to nothing in the last three days," coliseum President Brian E. Heekln said. A spokesman for the concert promoter, Electric Factory Concerts, said sales began to fall as soon as the city's refusal to grant permission for the show became known.

Sponsors were hoping for as many as 10,000 customers to hear ACDC, but only slightly more than 4,000 tickets had been sold than a capacity stadium throng. City officials scrambled to put together a security plan for the dual events following Doan's ruling. "We're going to try to provide for the public safety as best we can," said city attorney Jan M. Holtzman. Police Chief Myron J.

Lelstler was back In his office working on the plan late Friday. BECAUSE ACCESS to the coliseum will be allowed only to ACDC tlcketholders, Lelstler said Bengals fans will not be permitted to cross the walkway Unking the stadium plaza and the coliseum plaza. Football fans will be able to get directly to the stadium from the parking garage beneath It or the pedestrian walkways from Third Street. "We're going to have to make the best out of a very difficult situation," said Mayor J. Kenneth Blackwell.

"I said before that I couldn't guarantee the safety standards that were established (for rock concerts)," noted Safety Director Bret J. McGlnnls. "Now, I'm doing my best." McGinnls said he sought co-operation from the Fraternal Order of Police late Friday for off-duty officers to volunteer for weekend work. If the 50-offlcer rock concert detail cannot be assembled from volunteers, however, "then we're going to call them up," McGlnnls said. Since the Dec.

3 tragedy, the city has been by Friday. As a result Heekln left the door open to possible legal action by the arena against the CITY LAWYERS argued before Doan that Public Utilities Director Joseph L. Rochford had authority to refuse permission for the concert under terms of a lease for use of the stadium parking garage. That lease requires the coliseum to get Rochford 's peijnlssion for any performance simultaneous with a stadium event. Doan ruled that provision applies only to potential parking conflicts, however, and that the written approval of Bengals Assistant General Manager Mike Brown effectively nullified that claim.

The city also contended that the simultaneous events, particularly with only two weeks' notice of the concert, constituted a threat to public safety. DOAN FOUND, however, that city officials can adequately staff both events and still provide police protection to the rest of the city by calling In officers scheduled to be off duty. "The position of the city really was one of not wanting to be bothered," said lawyer Jacob K. Stein, who represented both the coliseum and Electric Factory at the hearing. With police expecting perhaps 40,000 fans for the Bengals game, Stein argued the combined crowd for both events will be smaller and a high near 80.

Weather map and details, Page B-12. CITY OFFICIALS who declined to be named said part of their concern centers on the potential for trouble In Over-the-Rhlne this weekend, where memorials to a slain youth are planned. In testimony before Doan, Police Lt. Dale J. Menkhaus expressed doubt that simultaneous events at the coliseum and stadium can be conducted with adequate safety provisions under any circumstances.

"My personal opinion Is that we should have no simultaneous events of any kind," said Menkhaus, who heads the special operations detail outside coliseum rock shows. And Holtzman attacked the coliseum's regard for public safety In his closing argument. "Mr. Heekln waited five days before he even began to consider" safety Issues, Holtzman charged. "He was too concerned with making arrangements for entering into his contracts and selling his tickets." Stein countered that city officials are overreacting to potential hazards In the wake of the Dec.

3 tragedy. "They are an overreac-tlve set of guidelines," he said of the standards established after the deaths. This is the only season of the year wnen candidates admit that problems can be solved by cutting government spending. The season ends election day. C2lfD Beverly Hills fire Jurors are dismissed for the weekend after hours of deliberations.

Page "S3 D-3. Conflicting projections emerge over whether passage of the SORTA levy will put a hold on bus-fare Increases. Page D-l. I 1., ft The nearly completed Martin Luther King Jr. Industrial Park Is another step closer to getting its first tenants.

Page D-2. President Confident Of Victory NEW YORK (AP)-President Carter, predicting that his political fortunes have "turned the corner," left here Friday expressing confidence that Democrats will unite against Ronald Reagan and declaring that he has "no doubt whatsoever" of winning in November. Flying off to begin a vacation at the presidential retreat at Camp David, Mr. Carter declared himself "underestimated" as a candidate and unfazed by the apparent coolness of his one-time rival, Sen. Edward M.

Kennedy, D-Mass. He said Kennedy's appearance Thursday night on the convention platform was a "gracious" and much-appreciated gesture. a a Brink's employee makes off with $1.85 million In cash. Page A-2. Sonar equipment picks up the outline of what Is believed to be the lost luxury liner Titanic.

Page A-5. South Korean President Choi Kyu-hah resigns In favor of "new leadership," signaling the assumption of the presidency by military strongman Gen. Chun Doo-hwan. Page A-5. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat calls for an Amerlcan-Egyptlan- Israell summit after the VS.

elections In November. Page A-18. Jimmy Connors has been added to the field of the ATP tennis I tournament that begins next week at the Jack Nlcklaus Sports Center. Page B-1. THE PRESIDENT said the convention painted an accurate picture of "a dynamic party, a party of diversity and deep commitment, a party of strong beliefs, strong hopes and participation.

"Although it may have started out doubtful and kind of rocky and somewhat divided, there was a steady buildup, both of enthusiasm and unity," Mr. Carter said. The President and his wife took a break from politics for more than an hour and a half Friday morning as they toured an exhibit of painting, sculptures and drawings by the late Spanish master, Pablo Picasso. The President will not dive directly Into the general election campaign. His Camp David vacation Is for an uncertain duration, with at least one campaign break a day trip to Boston next Thursday to address the annual gathering of the American Legion.

NO OTHER events are on the President's schedule until Labor Day, the traditional starting point of the fall campaign. Before leaving New York, Mr. FLASH FLOOD FATAL: Clifford E. Robinson stands near what Is left of his garage Friday in Brady's Bend, after flash floods roared throught this western Pennsylvania community and killed at least seven persons. Wilson Robinson, Clifford's brother, and Wilson's wife and daughter were killed in the flood.

dob In the midst of a month-long sales campaign, area auw aeaiers am at.m hnvtntr trouble lurlne Soaring Food Prices Reverse Cost Trend money-pinched buyers. Page B-6. Output of the nation's mines and factories WASHINGTON (AP)-Reversing iuu. months of declining Inflation, food prices soared In July and led a surge in wholesale prices that was double the June rate, the government reported Friday. "Working," Steven Schwartz's new musical at CCM, is a must tor summer viewing.

Page B-13. Wholesale prices for finished goods increased by 1.7 in July the largest boost since November, 1974. A full year's Increase at that rate would result in inflation at the wholesale (producer) level of 22, more than twice the 10 rate Carter got a rousing reception from a group of black delegates, many of whom had supported Kennedy. He told them that he has a close rapport with minority groups and said that is "a secret weapon" that will C2CI3 tHay At 85, Cincinnati's Dr. Eslle Asbury Is something of a recorded in June.

The Labor Department blamed most of the help him withstand Reagan's Bluegrass Renaissance man. Pagec-i. July inflation on a 3.8 Increase in food prices, due chiefly to one of the century's worst heat waves. Poultry prices Jumped 23.5 as millions of "The overall backdrop for Inflation, because consumer demand Is down so (much) due to the recession, is favorable," Sinai said. But one element of the Producer Price Index indicated still more Inflation In food prices is likely.

Food prices at the crude (unprocessed) stage wheat, for example skyrocketed by 9 In July. When that wheat is milled Into flour and later turned Into bread, higher food prices are likely. IN CONTRAST to the rise in wholesale food prices in July which, If continued for 12 months, would mean an annual rate of around 40 food prices had actually dropped at a 4.6 annual rate In the first half of the year. Beef prices rose 7.4 in July; pork was up 13.7. Previous declines in fruit and egg prices were reversed.

Prices for consumer goods other than food rose at a 0.9 clip, more than In the previous two months. Leading the way were cars, clothes, tobacco, furniture and drugs. Energy goods showed a 0.6 price decline for the second straight month after a 75 Increase in the 12 months ending in May. Gasoline prices dropped 1.2 in July; home heating oil prices were steady. tumbled by 1.6 during the month, compared with a 2.4 average in April, May and June.

That left production 9 below the figure at the start of the year and 9.2 under the July 1979 level. The Federal Reserve reported a 2.1 curtailment in production of materials used to manufacture finished products. The 1.1 decline In output of consumer goods in July was about the same in June but a considerable Improvement over the previous two months. The report attributed that Improvement chiefly to a 9 increase in production of automobile assemblies resulting In an annual rate of 6.4 million units. The output of durable consumer goods (those with expected lives of more than three years) still was down 18.6 from a year earlier.

CHIMERINE, THE private analyst, said the figures are evidence that underlying conditions in the economy are improving, although he forecasts at least another three or four months of sluggishness. "But the bulk of the decline is over," he added. Another economist, Allen Sinai of Data Resources viewed Friday's inflation report as only a temporary spurt, due mainly to weather-induced increases in food prices. chickens were killed by the heat. pno "When you eliminate the zigs and zags, this report is perfectly consistent with our view that the best we can nope for in tne next couple years Test Scores Up In City Blackwell as the key to a better transit system.

Page A-6. Is inflation of 10," said Lawrence Chimerlne, chief economist for Chase Econometrics. THE FEDERAL Reserve Board, meanwhile, Cincinnati public school achieve issued a second report, which showed some im provement in the recession that has gripped the ment scores In basic skills have risen significantly for the fourth U.S. economy since February, industrial produc Four Sections, 140th Year, No. 129 time in a row.

tion fell in July for the sixth straight month but the decline was not nearly as sharp as in the sec School officials plan to an ond quarter. nounce their good news at a press conference Monday afternoon. Sources said student achievement Is up at every grade level In both read ing and mathematics. GM Reports Hike In Car Prices For 1981 Models The achievement gains were made despite a school year disrupted by a three-week financial closing last fall and extension of the school year Into June. DETROIT (AP) General Motors Corp.

(GM) will raise 1981 list prices for Its cars by an average of 1.9 or Unlike previous years, however, $176, the No. 1 automaker announced Friday. the Metropolitan Achievement Test (MAT) was given only in grades one, three, five and seven this year to save money. Previously, It was given to students in every grade from one ACTION LINE C7 BtORHYTHMS C-2 BUSINESS B-5-9 CLASSIFIED COLUMNISTS M.7 COMICS C-4 CROSSWORD C-3 DEAR ABBY C-2 DEATHS C-5 EDITORIALS A-6 ENTERTAINMENT B-12-14 GRAHAM B-12 HEALTH 02 HOROSCOPE C-3 HORSE SENSE C-3 JUMBLE C-3 LANG C-1 PURDY BO RACES B-4 RELIGION B-10-12 RESTAURANT GUIDE C3 TV-RADIO B-15 WORD GAME C2 SPORTS RESULTS: Telephone 3-W0S or M9-10M In a continuation of its profit- building strategy on small cars, sub- through eight. compacts and compacts were boosted more than the average and some larger models actually were re Cincinnati's MAT scores have will mean the X-cars will have risen 35 since they first came out GM's subcompact Chevrolet Chevette was boosted by $474 to $481 or 9.8 to 11.

The cheapest will now cost $4,673 versus $4,198. GM has Increased prices every quarter for more than a year, and said lt expects to continue that policy. Introductory 1981 prices will be 7.5 higher than introductory 1980 window stickers. GM said Its new prices had been reviewed with the Council on Wage and Price Stability and were within the council's guidelines. The company is the first to announce its 1981 prices.

be "In the high end" of a range of 15 to 20, said spokesman Cliff Merrlott. The base price of GM's popular "X-car" line of front-wheel drive models will be Increased S543 or $548, or 8.6 to 9.6. The cheapest of those models, a Chevrolet Citation, will cost $6,148 compared with $5,600 now. That will put lt above Chrysler forthcoming competitive "K-car" model, which Chrysler dealers were told this week would list for $6,056. BEFORE THE 1981 increases, GM had Increased Its X-car prices by an average of 24 since their introduction in AprU, 1979.

The 1981 prices GM said it would have liked to Increase prices further to recover higher costs but did not think it could make higher prices stick. Of 108 Chevrolet, Pontlac, Olds-mobile and Bulck models whose prices were given, eight were unchanged and 10 were reduced slightly. Cadillac prices, though incorporated In the computation of the average increase, will be announced separately later. GM SAID lt was reducing dealer profit margins on its larger cars. Margins increase as the size of the car increases.

Counting options, large-car margins had been running more than 20; now they will duced. been rising since 1975. Last year, 37.5 of the students scored at or above national median In reading, compared to 31.9 In 1975. The increase results from In mathematics, 39.3 of the computer-controlled emission systems being applied to all models to meet pollution standards, GM said. students were at or above the na tional norm last year, compared to The company said that without that equipment, the 1981 prices would be less than final 1980 prices by about $500.

34 In 1975. (If the school system equaled the nationwide median, those figures would be 50.).