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Posted by Austin Leedom at 1:00 a.m. Thursday, June 16, 2005

EPA cites 18 companies for clean-air violations CONTACT: William Omohundro, (312) 353-8254 For Immediate Release No. 04-OPA015   CHICAGO (Feb. 11, 2004) -- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 has notified 18 companies that it believes they violated federal or federally enforceable state clean-air regulations. These are preliminary findings of violations. To resolve them, EPA may issue compliance orders, assess administrative penalties or bring suit against the companies. The companies have 30 days from receipt of the notices to request meetings with EPA to discuss resolving the allegations. "EPA's mission is to protect public health and the environment," said Region 5 Administrator Thomas V. Skinner. "We will take whatever steps are needed to ensure compliance with the Clean Air Act." [NOTE TO EDITORS: Companies alleged to have violated federal clean-air regulations received a Finding of Violation (FOV) and companies alleged to have violated federally enforceable state regulations received a Notice of Violation (NOV). Four companies received both.] COMPANIES RECEIVING FOVs

OSCO Industries Inc.
11th and Chillicothe Streets
Portsmouth, Ohio
and
OSCO Industries Inc.
Athens and Chillicothe Streets
Jackson, Ohio

applications for the foundries.

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The above information was obtained from the EPA website after we

read about the local OSCO receiving a Finding of Violation from an article

posted on Moe’s Forum today, Thursday, June 16, 2005.

The posting on Moe’s Forum is copied below:

“My example of what are not journalist skills is the PDT

(Portsmouth Daily Times) not reporting OSCO being charged with polluting

our air. Two weeks ago the Jackson paper reported a story concerning

OSCO Industries in both the Jackson Community and the Portsmouth

Community being charged with illegal air emissions (pollutants); the

Jackson paper also included an interview with Mr. Burke.

Did anyone see an article in the PDT or for that matter did anyone see an

article in any of our local newspapers? Maybe for up-to-date and accurate

news we need to subscribe to local newspapers from the surrounding

communities like, Jackson, Chillicothe, Ironton etc.

If the PDT would get out of the SOGP’s *** and start investigating and

reporting all the facts and information they might, and I say might very

loosely, achieve some sort of credibility, which I can't say I've seen in my lifetime.”

Posted by Austin Leedom at 1:00 a.m. Thursday, June 16, 2005

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Less than 36 hours ago John Welton published on www.dougdeepe.com a copy of a letter written under the letterhead and logo of the Grand Realm of Alabama, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. This letter was addressed to Mr. Roy Aeh of 1559 Charles Street, Portsmouth, Ohio 45662 and was signed by David J. Duke, Grand Dragon.

Doug Deepe’s investigation also revealed that in this 1980 recall effort hooded Ku Klux Klan marchers performed a terroristic nighttime parade around the homes of Councilmen Andy Clausing and Harold Daub. Also a casket on a float-type trailer was paraded down Chillicothe Street with enlarged photos of Harold Daub, Andy Clausing and Mark Price attached to the casket. The float also was adorned with KKK crosses. And, the Portsmouth Daily Times encouraged and gave intensive publicity to these Ku Klux Klan events, and urged the recall of three honest councilmen.

For more details about the ghastly Un-American activities of the Ku Klux Klan in league with the Portsmouth Daily Times read exclusive articles on www.dougdeepe.com .

BELOW IS A LETTER FROM A CHILD VICTIM OF THE PORTSMOUTH DAILY TIMES'  VICIOUS LIES

(Letter from H. Justin Daub; this letter was first posted on Doug’s Forum January 27, 2005) AN OPEN LETTER TO THE PENIX FAMILY ! (lets pray for our city together) I can understand your family’s efforts to save Mr. Penix’s reputation, and I send my respects and sympathy to your family. Sometimes a man must do whatever to keep his family. Many have fought in wars for the betterment of the same. I have been fighting this same battle for my family and myself for many years. In todays editorial by Rick Greene he stated " The Portsmouth Daily Times will take full advantage of the First Amendment and freedom of the Press it ENJOYS !" THIS SOUNDS LIKE THE SAME ATTITUDE USED AGAINST THE THREE COUNCILMEN IN 1980! Which is O K. But they used it in the wrong way! They distorted the truth and heightened sensationalism to sell papers and destroy three men’s families forever. Now, please I would like to state my side if I may? The importance of the Penix letter is irrelevant to me, although I was very shocked when I read it years ago! But what I would like to bring out is the things I’ve had to face in my life due to this character assassination on my father and family by the Portsmouth Times. While I was only a year old when The Portsmouth Times was feeding its readers a daily dose of spite and hatred toward my father as though he were a mass murderer on the loose. I looked at some old letters to the editor and they started condemning him nine days after he took office. He still loves and cares for this city today! We could have moved but chose not to. Our family has been here for two hundred years. When I was old enough to understand why I was being treated as some type of outcast, my mother brought out all the old newspaper clippings including the letter in question. I was shocked and appalled to see the front page showing the casket parade with my father’s picture on the side, and signs saying WANTED and MURDERER, Not to mention an everyday editorial or other slanderous statements and many orchestrated letters to the editor. I asked my parents many times why the truth was never brought out? Well, who are you going to take it to? The Portsmouth Times? The same people that poisoned people against you everyday for six months? Not to mention the local radio station blasting him every chance they got. Ms. Penix I would like to share a couple of small experiences since I started school up to today. You should be grateful your son Paul Jr. didn’t have to go through what I did thanks to The Portsmouth Times character assassination of my father. It still goes on today. In my early school years I was already being chastised and didn’t know why. When parents found out that a DAUB was in their child's class they would send their imbedded hatred from the Portsmouth Times against my father to unleash them on me. They would say awful things to me and even to the point they brought in old paper clippings. I had to change schools several times to try to escape this ridicule not only from the kids but also from some teachers! There was a time I didn’t know it happened, at the time, a hate imbedded parent sent cupcakes into school for their child’s birthday, for all the kids to share. I didn’t know this until many years later when my mother showed me the teacher’s note. The note stated there is enough cup cakes but one short and asks the teacher that Daub not be given one! This teacher was very kind to me and I didn’t know this until many years later. The teacher sent a note home with me for my parents unknowing the content. My mother kept this note and I’ll share it with you today. "I’m sorry but I feel compelled to tell you what happened in my class today. Cup cakes were sent in for a small birthday celebration, a note was sent in with them to exclude your son! I thought about sending them back home with the child but it was not the child's fault. I gave your son mine and sent a note home with that child, that was the wrong thing to do to a small child! And I would not. " When I read this I still get a tear in my eye. Other incidents like birthday parties my mother gave every child an invitation to attend my party at skate land, need not bring any gifts only have a good time. I later found out many did not show up because their parents stated they were not allowed, I was a Daub. But when I went to a schoolmates party at skate land they were all there? When I grew older and started showing an interest in girls around town like most young boys! I was told by some they were not allowed to be with a Daub, and if they were caught they would be punished! WHAT DID I DO? WHO DID I MURDER to deserve this type of treatment? After graduating from high school I began looking for employment around the area. Everywhere I applied they all asked the same question? ARE YOU THE SON OF THAT HAROLD DAUB? THE RECALLED COUNCILMAN? What could I say. but yes?. Needless to say all the people that asked or brought up the 1980 city council subject never called me back! But less qualified people did .

Dear Ms. Penix be glad for your son, that he wasn’t tormented and branded all his life for things printed against his father in The Portsmouth Times. IT’S BEEN HELL! It’s hard to explain all that’s happened in this short note over 25 years of being chastised for something simple as my father trying to fire a crooked city manager. Feldman left a couple years later with a pocket full of the taxpayers money. He never looked back on Portsmouth. I know this site has a small readership nothing like the thousands of papers put on people’s porches each day by The Portsmouth Times, but I thought I needed to reply, and at least let you know a little about my life. One question Ms. Penix only you can answer! You stated to my mother and father that you later found out you and the paper were being used and that those people were wrong in what they did to my father. My question is you stated you and Paul started your own paper The Community Common because you didn’t like where the Times was going? Then why didn’t you or your husband ever write this in your paper and help clear the names of the families the Times destroyed? Clausing, Price, and Daub. One last thing about this letter two God loving men have gone to their grave believing this letter to be the truth. And by all the slander these people took it looks to be real too many. Unlike the obituary you posted of James Secrest boasting he was a city councilman, these men asked it not be mentioned in theirs. They wanted to go out quietly, for fear they would even be smeared in the final day. A message to Rick Greene, I just wonder if you would put the casket parade on the front page today? With my fathers picture below the words WANTED AND MURDER? I think you would! Your paper is the biggest problem with Portsmouth ! It’s all about the love of money, and the ability to take it away from you, the taxpayers. H. Justin Daub (son of Harold Daub) Below are responses from readers of Doug's Forum.

Re: AN OPEN LETTER TO THE PENIX FAMILY ! (lets pray for our city together) (Response from a reader) Justin, You wrote an awesome letter, from the heart. It took a lot of courage to come foraward as you did. I know a bit about having a reputation ruined by unscrupulous people, so I can empathize with your plight. I hope for the sake of your father and mother, and you and the rest of your family that this matter is finally cleared up and put to rest. I believe that it's high time that they let the truth come out. Regardless of who is alive or dead, those that were shamefully smeared should be cleared. If the Penix family knows what really happened then the HONEST thing is to stand up and admit it. The time for denials and accusations is over. A shameful, terrible incident has happened. It should be rectified, it can be rectified. A challenge has been laid at the feet of Ms. Penix and her family. Can you, will you, accept it and set the record straight? How can you serve our city and county with honor and integrity while knowing of such a lie? How can you stand yourself knowing that you have the ability to clear a man's name, yet have withheld that information for years? Portsmouth is in shambles because of underhanded dealings, rumors, and mudslinging, and basically outright theft from it's citizens. When is it over? The city cannot be changed until the people responsible for such reprehensible actions are exposed and the people that were harmed are cleared. Too many lies. Too much deceit. Too many innocent people harmed. Enough is enough! Gravel Email: copinawheelchair@hotmail.com

Re: A OPEN LETTER TO THE PENIX FAMILY ! (lets pray for our city together) (Response from a reader of Doug’s Forum) Justin, Although I was not a part of the horrendous acts that took place with your family, I still feel that I owe you an apology. Why? Because, for a long time, I sat back, unaware of what REALLY was happening. My blind faith in our City officials and The PDT inadvertently allowed this to happen. That's why, once awakened, I joined forces to help rid this town of the vermin and stinch. Thank you for your willingness to share a small portion of your torment with the rest of us. I'm sure it wasn't easy. Claudette Email: curlyraye@adelphia.net EDITORS NOTE: The writings above were posted on Doug’s Forum on January 28, 2005 by H. Justin Daub, the son of Harold and Darlene Daub. (Responses by citizens to his letter are printed below Justin Daub’s letter.) Harold Daub, along with two other honest councilmen were removed from office by recall in 1980. Mr. Daub had been in City Council only nine days when he was first attacked by the Portsmouth Daily Times. The Portsmouth Daily Times attacks against Daub began when Councilman Daub refused bribes from a group that included Attorney Clayton Johnson and the Publisher of The Portsmouth Daily Times. The almost daily attacks by the Times continued; The Times encouraged attacks and demonstrations against the three Councilmen. Reports of the number of participants in events such as the orchestrated Casket March down Chillicothe Street were greatly exaggerated and published (May 8, 1980) on the front page of the Portsmouth Daily Times. (The casket used in the March was adorned with photos of three Councilmen and large signs such as " MURDERERS" and "WANTED" were affixed to the casket.)  Photos of the nighttime march of persons garbed in KU KLUX KLAN robes and hoods around the homes of Andrew Clausing and Harold Daub were not frontpaged by the Times. Mrs. Harold (Darlene) Daub, a young mother, was home alone with her small child Justin, when the KU KLUX KLAN marchers made their frightening night-time parade around and around her home. She  was "terrified." As the above writings of young Justin Daub attest, this event was only the beginning of a lifetime of abuse, discrimination, humiliation, and mistreatment for the child. Thousands of lying words were published by the Portsmouth Daily Times in their continuing efforts to discredit the three councilman who were trying to avert a monstrous theft of public funds from the city treasury by a small group of greedy opportunists. Twenty-five years later the program is still in place at The Portsmouth Daily Times as people who write and publish falsehoods for pay are still co-operating with the Same Old Gang Program (SOGP.) The suffering of untold thousands of citizens and the decline of Portsmouth is the history of the disgraceful Portsmouth Daily Times. The above commentary written and published by Austin Leedom, Editor of the Shawnee Sentinel Website www.portsmouthohio.info at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday, January 29, 2005.

An Open Letter to Portsmouth Daily Times Editor Rick Greene.

Another year is about to end. Perhaps next year will be kinder to you. I respectfully hope so. You have much talent. You have a degree in journalism. You have experience, and are an excellent writer when you are allowed to write honestly. You know how to investigate corruption; you proved that to the Shawnee Sentinel reporters when you worked with us and government investigators in our inquiry into the thefts from the city by former-City Service Director Mike Blackburn, and other investigations. You were with us when we were investigating the missing funds from the Drug Task Force and the fraudulent Martings Building sale.

You told us that you agreed to be Editor of The Times when you were promised you could really be the Editor and make the decisions as to what you could and would write. You were mis-informed. Your investigations and writing were fine until you began asking the Southern Ohio Growth Partnership (SOGP) about their financial records. Then you were told by the Chamber of Commerce (a group that is controlled by SOGP) that if you continued your investigations and writings they were going to withhold advertising money from your newspaper. They did withhold their ads from your Big Special Edition last spring, but you produced a very fine publication without their support.

Your investigation into the May 2002 purchase of the old Martings Department Store Building by the City Council from Clayton Johnson (who is also known as the Richard D. Marting Foundation) brought more grief to you. Then the SOGP summoned you to the offices of White-Collar-Crime King-Pin Clayton Johnson where you were, in effect, put on a short chain and muzzled.

You ignored the vicious slapping of a Shawnee Sentinel reporter’s wife by a gun-toting thug (Dean Conklin) employed in the office of City Prosecutor Mark Kuhn on Black Friday, February 27, 2004. The police and medical records were available but you were ordered not to write the story. Mark Kuhn was running for the office of County Prosecuting Attorney. The SOGP (Clayton Johnson) did not dare let Kuhn’s opponent Eric Wrage win the election. Attorney Wrage promised, "equal justice for all." You were silenced, again.

The SOGP forced you to support the felonious Mayor Greg Bauer when the citizens sought to recall him. Your writings to keep the Mayor in office were in vain. The angered people of the City of Portsmouth disregarded your backing of Mayor Bauer and recalled him by two-to-one vote.

Then you knew that you had lost your power to influence the informed voters of Portsmouth.

But, you were forced to back Councilwoman Ann Sydnor in spite of her lengthy record of enriching herself at the expense of the citizens, and her felonious record of tampering with election petitions. You also had to support Councilwoman Maddeline Carol Caudill despite her actions in illegally being a lead player in the purchase of the $762,000 Marting building for $2,000,000. You were fully aware that the illegal sale of the old Martings building was simply a bail-out to relieve Clayton Johnson (SOGP) of $600,000 in personal indebtedness. You had to keep silent, except to praise the criminal council members and urge the voters to retain them in office.

You lost again. The citizens voted them out despite your best efforts to sustain corruption in City Council.

Following a suit by Bob and Teresa Mollette against the council for illegally buying the old Martings Building, Scioto County Common Pleas Court Judge William T. Marshall ruled that the purchase was illegal and ruled the purchase null and void.

Sadly, today you caused an editorial to be published in your newspaper that said that the City of Portsmouth should ignore the ruling of the Honorable Judge and refuse to pay any court ordered fees due the Molettes’ attorney.

As I wrote earlier in this article, Rick Greene, you are educated, talented, are easy to work with; you have a good personality, even charming at times. You are an excellent investigator, a good writer. You have done well as Managing Editor in producing a newspaper seven days a week. Sadly, I, and others have seen a very noticeable deterioration of the ethical editor we once knew. Your appearance has suffered, your attitude is a fearful one and confidence in yourself is as shattered as the public’s belief in your truthfulness.

Rick, as the old lyric goes, "You gotta know when to hold, You gotta know when to fold." Next year can be much better for you, Mr. Greene. Here in Portsmouth the citizens have voted and they say, "Thou art weighed in the balance and found wanting." (Daniel 5:27)

You would do well to do as many good people have done when they became tired and frustrated by the pervasive corruption of Portsmouth; leave town. Find an honest employer who will permit you to perform ethically. Dress up again, shine your shoes, put on your tie, iron your shirts, get a haircut and start smiling again. Look like an editor again. Then you may regain your confidence and your honor; once again you may be of value to society. You can once again be clean and healthy morally, physically and spiritually. You can write and write honestly. Don’t let yourself and your family go down with the dregs of dishonest society you have been forced to associate with and write for, here in this City of Corruption.

May you have a happy, prosperous and ethical New Year. You owe it yourself, and your family. You have the rest of your life before you. You can be whatever you think you can be. "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." (Proverbs 23:7)

Sincerely,

Austin Leedom  December 31, 2004