Volume 73, Issue 6

unneeded. Freeman also claimed that Leonard sues state, that Leonard was angry and hostile toward him and his staff that was with WINS! by Jonathan Shaw him on Thursday. On Friday, June 14, 2013 the City of On Friday in the court room there Leonard met with their personal attor- were many witness present includneys and witnesses about the upcom- ing members of the City of Leonard ing case against Tyler A. Freeman and both of the nurses from BBS. One outside the Honorable 2013 Buckeye nurse stated that Once blood is dry it Boys State Supreme Court at 024A is dead and cannot carry any diseasFounders Hall. es. One piece of evidence that FreeAccording to both parties Freeman man provided was a pizza box with entered Warner County on Wednes- a bloody rag inside. Freeman stated day and proceeded into Leonard City. that the diseases where coming from Once in Leonard City Freeman post- and found in pizza box on the rag. ed and explained a handwritten letter The nurse also stated that There is stating that due to several diseases no way any type of virus could have Leonard City will be fined $650,000. lived in the pizza box with the temOn Thursday Freeman came back and perature not being correct and any handed the city council a typed letter one with the diseases stated in court stating what the handwritten letter would not be allowed at Boys State. said and also added additional infor- The court hearing was recessed at mation that was not on the handwrit- 10:40 A.M. for lunch. Everyone was ten letter. The letter was typed by an told to come back at 12:50 P.M. the unknown city council member of Di- same day. Once back in session the eringer City. When talking about the court ruled that Freeman was going to typed letter Freeman stated in court on Friday I did not read the letter, I just signed it and the Attorney General Jesse Rines also commented by saying It is his [Freemans] fault for not reading the document . The City of Leonard stated that Freeman was aggressive towards them and when he came back on Thursday he brought Sherriff officers and threatened to use force by the national military and government. CJ Cunningham stated in the first court hearing The second visit by Freeman was Photo by: John Shaw, Leonard City

Saturday 6/15/2013 be charged with one count of inducing panic which could have hurt the city because no one was sure whether they were under quarantine or were allowed to go to work. Freeman is also charged with one count of excessive fine and one count of defamation of city. Freeman was also informed that he needed to pay $115,000 to Leonard City. Freeman is also now being charged with grand larceny by the state for not using a private attorney instead of using the Attorney General Rines to represent him.

by Cody Wintermute The State Department held its daily cabinet meeting at 9 A.M. Friday morning with the goal of raising spirits in the office and addressing confusion that has made its way into the state. In his address, Governor Knipper discussed the payroll debacle, which plagued both the state offices as well as the rest of the working class. With money on the mind, the Governor went on to discuss budget and financing, which he says will be balanced before too long. With dozens of departments and hundreds of employees in the state government, a balanced budget is a particularly successful accomplishment for this administration. On the General Assembly, Mr. Knip-

Knipper addresses issues of Boys State

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per stated that the executive and legislative branches were finally in agreement, and education and gun control were gaining more speed than ever before. He added that infrastructure has been moved to the back burner for the time being. He also strongly encouraged any state sponsored bills to be in his desk for review and submission to Congress no later than the end of Friday. Despite the complex and strenuous roles everyone has been placed in this week, Governor Knipper strongly promoted optimism in his offices so that everyone could make this experience as memorable as possible. While he was only addressing cabinet with this statement, it can truly be extended to everyone here as Buckeye Boys State. A positive outlook can make all the difference in any situation, no matter how impossible it may seem at the time. by Colter Flynn On Friday, June 14, sources spending the American dollar is not investigated the office of Aaron Rein- only legal but encouraged in a capiing, the Director of the Department of talistic market. Even though gamAging, from which they secured a to- bling may not be the healthiest way tal of 91 discarded and scratched out to spend $91.00 it is still a legitimate lottery tickets. Each lottery ticket was purchase with Reinings own money. marked $1.00 and none of them were Allegedly, Reining has also purchased winners. The same source also noted 2,000 BSD [Buckeye State Dollars] an extensive pile of shavings thought worth of raffle tickets and was audited to have come from the used lottery for the absence of campaign funds. tickets upon Reinings desk. But having said this, it As a result of the find, one makes one wonder about the Direcconcerned citizen of the Buckeye tors management of money within Boys State Government had this to his jurisdiction and the use of the say about the Director of Aging who Buckeye Boys State currency. One heads a state office in charge of facili- such concern is the alleged proposed tating the senior citizens of the pro- transaction between the Department gram [age 18+]: of Aging and Bangham city. Accord He is an honest and decent ing to anonymous sources, Bangham man with no idea how to spend mon- city officials came to Reining who ey. then proposed donating 250,000 BSD continued on page 4 To be fair, the private of

State delegate caught in gambling scandal

Insurance salesman being sued by 24 cities

by Marc Blanc Daniel Joseph of the city of Favreau is being sued by 24 cities for false advertising. Joseph went city to city yesterday selling car insurance for $700. He allegedly told customers that his car insurance is mandatory. On Thursday afternoon, the well-over one hundred customers who purchased insurance from Joseph began accusing him of false advertising, stating that his prices were unauthorized and his insurance was not mandatory. Joseph currently maintains his innocence. For one, the insurance agency told me that insurance is mandatory, he said. I am basing all my information off of what I was told when I took my test to begin with. According to Joseph, the insurance salesman exam was held on Thursday at 9:30 A.M. He heard it not from any Legionnaire, but by people who were going around saying, hey, come to this room, come take this test. Whether car insurance is mandatory and the other laws of car insurance at Boys State have been hotly debated over the past 24 hours. State Deputy Cody Shaw told us the real rules of car insurance at Boys State. [Legal] insurance sales should be $300 and if someone is signing the back of your operators license, [his insurance] is false. Daniel Joseph has been proven to have signed the back of customers licenses and dozens of witnesses attest to his pricing of $700. Joseph has yet to be given a court date and no information has yet been disclosed concerning how much he is being sued for.

art by Josiah Roberts

by Tim Piotrkowski This year at Buckeye Boys State will be the last for long-time Legionnaire known as Ralph Waite. He has his own city named after him in Warner County and plays videos over in Falcon Heights about different stories of war. Ralph Waite has been helping out the Buckeye Boys State program since 1968. Ralph Waite worked at his family funeral home until he retired in 2000. He was on Medinas school board of education and he was involved with the boy scouts for twenty years. He also helped out with rotary exchange and was able to help many foreign exchange students. Ralph Waite was a Buckeye Boys State delegate in 1943 at Ohio State University. Little did he know that he would be signing up for the army in one year. He started basic training for field artillery in the Army on June 20, 1944. The training was seventeen weeks long and after it was complete he was ready to face the challenges ahead of him. He had a ten day delay en route to his hometown Medina, Ohio. He then spent four weeks in Fort Main Marylyn. Next he set sail at the age of eighteen on the Queen Merry, one of the few ships that did not have escorts. The ship made it to Scotland without any trouble. Ralph and his fellow soldiers made their way to England and to France in January of 1945. Ralph Waite was part of the 99 infantry division and was there for the Battle of the Bulge. His infantry also were in one of last big battles of the war the Crossing of the Rhine. His infantry was then sent to Volochok, which was a city in Germany. A D-day outfit came into the city to

Ralph Waite: A great man

send people home. Ralph Waite was not one of those people. He stayed there until the Fourth Infantry came to interview to find men for the invasion of Japan. He received training for the invasion of Japan. But after the atom bomb was dropped, he no longer needed to go. After two years in the Army he was able to get out in the May of 1946. He was a sergeant in rank. When he attended Buckeye Boys State in 1943, he was one out of 400 and he had a great deal of respect and admiration for the World War I vets that were there during his time. He loved how they taught him and the other young men so much about how government works. He decided that he wanted to be able to help out and keep the program going. The mayor of Medina helped him to get involved with Buckeye Boys State. Mr. Waite felt that the young people needed to be part of government and learn about it as much as they could. After he got involved he fell in love with the program. He was the President of Boys State in 2005. When he retired he had full time to devote to the program. Ralph Waite has done abundance for the Boys State program. Ralph is one of the people who have helped make Buckeye Boys State the best it could be. He believes that this program helps make a difference. He is a great man, a beloved veteran and will be missed. Photo by: Jason Miller, Copeland City

by Colter Flynn Richard is a BBS State Trooper who expected his job would mainly be arresting citizens throughout the day. In reality, his job resulted in a more educational experience such as practicing marches and patrolling the quiet campus of Bowling Green University. His job also had its unmentioned educational perks such as meeting with an actual S.W.A.T. team and Canine Unit. Richard is not alone in how expectation and reality didnt quite meet. Because of the many spots to be filled in the Buckeye Boys State Government many citizens faced surprises about their job that they did not expect. Even those who vied for the career of their choice will be undoubtedly face challenges and workloads that they did not foresee. For example, many of the jobs associated with the banking system at first hinted at a very mathoriented workload due to math being a primary subject on the admissions test. However, after interviewing multiple Buckeye Boys State Bank staff, they all agreed that a math-heavy job was expected. The actual job became focused on paperwork and helping other citizens manage the payment of bills. Some jobs, such as the Clerk Court of Appeals and the governments Head Cashier, were flooded with much more work than anticipated in the form of countless checks and searches. Even though the workload may be surprising, the author of this article would like to congratulate all those who were interviewed on the topic of expectation. Yes, some were surprised with differences or irregularities, but out of the 20+ individuals who were interviewed, none had let such changes affect their performance.

Expectation vs. reality

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continued from page 2 to the city for a menial program in which senior citizens read stories to minors. The same source also notes that Bangham City is in debt. Had the transaction actually been approved or gone unnoticed it would have easily fallen under the definition of a state government giving unnecessary money to a local government with the suggestion of using the money for means and actions besides those that had been prescribed. eye. Kinold County was suing the bank for anti-trust practices and violation of chapter 1331 of the Ohio Revised Code, stating the rules of trusts and monopoly. The Buckeye Boys State Banks business practices are prohibitive to competition and illegal under Ohio law, said Kinold Assistant County Prosecutor Luke Brantingham. The drama began as soon as the banks head attorney, James Burns, entered Judge of Common Pleas Shane Richardsons court room, declaring Kinold Countys misfiled paperwork, or more accurately, lack of paperwork. While Kinold filed the summons to the bank, it did not file the law coding of what the bank violated to the bank nor the judge. If it wasnt for word on the street, we wouldnt know what we were sued for, and it doesnt count if its not on paper, said Burns. Richardson declared the case dismissed, and the Kinold officials immediately decided to re-file for the case. Questioned Josiah Roberts is a 17 year old skilled cartoonist heading into his senior year at Berne Union High school. His would like to attend college out of state majoring in graphic design, video, or animation. In his free time he enjoys drawing, dancing, skateboarding, listening to music and spending time with his family and friends. by Burns on the necessity for a second trial, Brantingham responded, Our job is to uphold the law. As Brantingham exited the court room, Austin Nagy, head of Buckeye Legal Firm and Burns assistant on the case, shouted Make sure you actually cite laws this time! Tension continued to grow as time went on, and Brantingham promised to be back for a retrial of the case that controls so much of Boys State.

by Logan Plumley As delegates and counselors from cities in all parts of Buckeye Boys State filed into the Kinold County court room for the highly anticipated trial threatening to dissolve the Boys State bank, the tension grew inside the court room outside of the public

Courtroom becomes heated in banking controversy

Meet the artist

Weather for 6/15 A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 81. West wind 5 to 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

American Legion Buckeye Boys State Officers, Trustees and Commissioners

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PAST PRESIDENTS Richard Alberts William Balser Darell Bishop Jim Dieringer Steven Peltier William Schnug Leslie Spaeth Joseph Stockner Edward Voisard Ralph Waite COMMISSIONERS Charles Armstrong Salathiel Baker Nathen Brenke Jerry Brove Jim Campbell Ron Chapman Dennis Clausing Leland Codding Richard Conaway Lou Dimmerman Richard Dirham Tim Espich Richard Fortman Charles Kvochick David Lofty John Looker Robert Narimo Steve Masowick George Monroe Mary Oliver Stanley Pleasant Donald Schreiner Ryan Spodar Douglas Whitney

TRUSTEES Richard Alberts Ray Allison Virgil Arling Chris Ballard William Balser Richard Beeker Darell Bishop Leroy Brinkhoff David Burnett James Carter Raymond Carter Gary Cox Walter Croswait Ruth Crutcher Michael Davey Jim DieringerTerry Estepp Thomas Faller Dan Favreau Melissa Fowle Susan Frasher Tom Gabel Richard Gallaher Maria Garcia Jim Garrity Charles Heller George Holmes William Johnson Mike Jordan Bob Kimball Ron Kimball Ron Kline James Koppin Don Kring Art Langerman Rev. Raul Lehenbauer Richard Lentz Curtis McPherson Jim Morris Thomas Old Larry Patton Steven Peltier William Pennell

Robert Ray Don Reader David Ridenour John Ruddock Rev. Fr. Louis Schmit Robert Schmitt Richard Schuck John Singleton Howard Snook Charles Sollberger Joseph Stockner William Strong James Vaughan Ralph Waite Mark Welden James Welsh Paul Wiehe Richard Zulch

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Counselers
Senior Staff Grant Grace- Chief Mike Leone- Assistant Chief Todd Gerber- Logistics John Garvey- Elections Pat Lang- Elections Matt Brown- Dorm: Falcon Heights Chris Schmitt- Dorm: Towers East Cory Dickman- Dorm: Towers West Steve Scherer- Sectional Relations Jesse Thomas- Media Warner County Jonathan Turney- Leonard City Dominic DeVito- Merritt City Alex Kemper- Waite City White County Steven Stoffel- Suhr City Benjamin Meinking- Dieringer City Leo Burlett- Bishop City Reid Smith- Gabel City Welsh County David Dubiel- Sklenicka City Nathaniel Diekman- Stockner City Xavier Morris- Peltier City Spencer LaHue- Stellar City Konold County Cody Buchanan- Brady City Scott Pinto- Copeland City Nicholas Miller- Alberts City Galbraith County Phillip LaHue- Balding City Charles Wiederhold- Allen City James Sforza- Bangham City Deweese County Cody Mack- Abele City John Jones- Madaffer City Zane Roelen- Spaeth City Wagonseller County Matthew Ducey- Hartpence City Karl Xia- Schnug City Corey Godine- Favreau City Munson County Mike Bodie- Kitchen City Andrew Wentz- Estepp City Alex Turzynski- Garrity City McQuigg County Steven Profitt- Downing City Chris Durr- Balser City Paul Williams- Voisard City Sectional Counselors Joshua Laney- Athletics/Campaign HQ Jared Tacey- Athletics/Campaign HQ Cameron Price- Band Derek Snider- Bank Benjamin Bravo- City Evaluation John Buycks- City Evaluation Louis Doenges- City Evaluation Andrew Hesch- City Evaluation Patrick Nusbaum- City Evaluation Dillon Thornakos- City Evaluation John Vrzal- City Evaluation Jacob Welch- City Evaluation Dan Zurcher- City Evaluation Andy Pokrivnak- Computer Support Michael Ramey- County Garrett Goehring- Courts Colin Dunlap- Hetuck Nathan Grace- Hetuck Christopher Daniel- Legislature Muata Howard- Legislature Nathan Putrick- Legislature Stephen Oechsle- Public Relations Cody Dye- School Board Dan McGann- School Board Darren Fossett- State Jacob Havens- State Matthew King-Smith- State John Macre- State Andrew Peters- State Drew King-Smith- Utilities Tyler Marcum- Wizard