THE PLAIN DEALER, SUNDAY, JANUARY 11, 1987. 9-BE Wooden fantasy Carver loves his carousel horses 3: GREENVILLE, O. (AP) A large, detailed blueprint of a carousel horse hangs on the wall in David L. Gwinn's garage, but when Gwinn starts carving, he ignores it and lets his imagination run wild. It's appropriate for Gwinn's fantasy horses, whose lineage would more likely descend Pegasus than a Kentucky thoroughbred.
"That's for all those engineers who say you can't build anything without one," said Gwinn, 38, tossing his head defiantly toward the blueprint. When Gwinn carves, he does it freehand from pictures of the work of the immigrant artists who. brought the carousel and its A whirling menagerie to popularity at the turn of the century. Never will he copy a horse exactly, although he said he had been asked. "To me, that's an infringement of the ability of the old carvers," Gwinn said.
5 His rural house south of town is marked by a two-dimensional carousel horse outside. Sometimes in summer, he said, dozens of people stop at his garage to watch him carve. In the living room, the childhood amusem*nt park memories come flooding back as Sherif, a brownmaned beauty with his head tucked under, and Sinbad, an erect black pony, guard one wall. Gwinn will sell Sherif for $1,800 and Sinbad for $1,600. With the resurrection of folk art in recent years, people are willing to pay that and much more, Gwinn said.
a Sinbad is the ninth full-sized horse he has carved. Gwinn also has carved dozens of miniatures. He had never carved one until about four years ago, although he dabbled in painting and photography. Gwinn had been a carpet layer until a bad back and knees forced him out of the business. "You learn (in carpet laying) how to hold a knife and how to apply just the right pressure to make the cut," he said.
His favorite carving tool is a simple utility knife. A few small chisels, a band saw and a power rasp are the only other tools he needs. Gwinn said he took up carving SIDELIGHTS For Christmas trees, Ja January's a real grind Ever wonder what happens tot those discarded Christmas trees after they're left at the curb? In CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, they become mulch for residents' yards. City Manager Robert C. Downey Jr.
said the trees were collected and ground into mulch, which is available to residents free of charge at Forest Hill Park. Downey said the trees made for better mulch than other kinds of trees. 0 EUCLID has decided to borrow money from itself to meet its payroll, because it's cheaper than getting the money from an outside source. Council last week authorized the transfer of $1.5 million from the city's bond retirement fund, which contained $2 million. The transfers are being made in increments of $500,000, the first last Friday to meet a $425,000 payroll.
This marks the first time the financially strapped community has dipped into its bond retirement fund for general operating expenses. In authorizing the transfer, the city has been both good and kind of unfair to itself. It saves on the expense of getting an outside loan, and will repay the bond retirement fund 3.5% interest on the loan from city income tax collections. But the fund now is earning about interest. Can the city appeal to itself for a better rate? .0 LORAIN COUNTY commissioners got a chuckle.
Thursday when they received several envelopes from the Bureau of Motor Vehicles containing license plates for the county's Board of Mental Retardation vehicles. Postmarked Jan. 5, 1987, the envelopes were stamped "State of Ohio, James A. Rhodes, Governor." The delivery prompted Commissioner George I. Koury a Democrat, to quip, "Either they ordered a lot of envelopes five years ago, or Rhodes was sure he was going to win." 0 Terry Coleman of WILLOUGHBY is getting to be a very busy man.
He makes a living managing his towing service and makes a habit of springing stray dogs from the Lake County dog pound at Christmas. Coleman's most recent undertaking, with the blessing of Willoughby officials, is that of volunteer coordinator of the community's emergency response program. He will be charged with marshaling the city's fire, police, business and industrial resources to 1: 1 A Boy's leg lengthened; he itches to run CINCINNATI (AP) Aron Boyles can hardly wait to return to Fairview Elementary School in five weeks. That's because it will be easier for the 11-year-old to run with his classmates now that both his legs are the same length for the first time. Aron suffered a hip infection at birth that caused his left leg to grow much more slowly than his right leg.
The shorter leg was lengthened in surgery at Children's Hospital Medical Center. "I can't wait to get off my crutches. I want to have nothing to do but walk and run and go to school." Prospective ROCK ISLAND, I1. (AP) A prospective juror for the trial of convicted murderer Alton Coleman was charged with contempt of court after he walked out of a holding room to buy a candy bar. Dennis Ryan, 33, of Moline, was arrested and handcuffed Friday shortly after deputies began searching the Rock Island County courthouse for him.
Ryan, who was missing for a pre-lunch roll call, was carrying an unwrapped candy bar when deputies seized him. He was later released on a $10,000 7 personal recognizance bond. He is to appear before a Rock Island County judge Jan. 20 on the contempt of court 1 charge. While awaiting questioning, potential jurors have been held in seclusion in a holding room because of publicity Robbery suspect kills himself as police close in UPPER SANDUSKY, O.
(AP) A Columbus man suspected in an armed robbery at a Lawson's convenience store died after shooting himself as a authorities closed in on him. Paul A. Blair, 19, used a handgun to kill himself Friday after he tried to outrun officers chasing him across a field, said Wyandot County Deputy Sheriff Tom Menningen. He said Blair was a suspect in an armed robbery at an Upper Sandusky Lawson's store Thursday night and several other robberies in surrounding counties. The deputy said Blair fled across a field, dropping two duffel bags.
The bags contained cash and clothing matching that worn by the Lawson's store robbery suspect, Upper Sandusky Police Chief Mel Sanford said. A respond to natural and man-made disasters. Mayor William G. Ryan said the city had tornadoes and toxic chemical spills in mind more than the Perry nuclear power plant when officials decided an emergency response plan was needed. Coleman, a 21-year part-time firefighter who doubles as a paramedic, said he had wanted the city to adopt an emergency response plan for the last five years.
"All of our city services are in place; it's just a matter of coordinating them," he said. In BROOK PARK, where folks sport UAW or USW jackets and back labor unions with a punch, City Council wants an end to the USX work stoppage. While rumblings of a settlement between workers and man; agement were circulating last week, council passed a resolution urging a solution to the contract dispute without further confrontation. 'After all, Frank Valenta, director of United Steelworkers of America District 28, who was injured in a blockade at the plant last November, lives in Brook Park. And as Councilman James Cavanaugh quipped, "They can't go hitting our a 1 AP David L.
Gwinn finishes another of his carousel horses. carousel horses because he vowed he would not collect disability and because his wife, Louanna, loved them. "Anything I think I see that I like to do, I'll learn to do it. But there's nobody to go to to learn how to carve these carousel horses," he said. "It's all learned by and error." His first horse "looked like a sawhorse with legs and a head" and ended up in the wood stove that heats his garage.
He decided there was money to be made when his second one "sat out there to dry for an hour and a half, and a lady came by and wrote me a ($100) check for it." Gwinn said he was willing to sell any of his horses, but as he stroked Sherif's mane, it was clear they don't leave without a tug at his heartstrings. "You get attached to them," he said. "I do talk to them. If you're living with them and you walk past them, you can't help it." He estimated that two years ago there were about 25. carvers trying to preserve carousel art.
Now, said Edward F. Gallenstein Dr. Alvin Crawford, head of pediatrics at the hospital, has performed 20 such limb-lengthening processes in the past eight years. Aron's case was special because the growth plates in his hip had been damaged by the virus. "Normally, when you have a case of one leg being longer, we can slow down the growth of the longer leg and match them up.
That is a very simple process," said Crawford. Aron's hip required surgery in 1985 to prepare him for the limb lengthenwas painful, mostly because it strained the muscles and skin. But it juror charged surrounding the Coleman case. But Ryan left the holding room. Robert Kirk, a WHBF radio reporter covering the trial, said Ryan returned just after he had been reported missing.
"Deputies arrested, handcuffed and held him over the noon hour," Kirk said. Ryan was among several people scheduled to be interviewed Friday as potential jurors. Two more jurors were selected, bringing to 11 the number chosen. Later in the day, Lake County of Cincinnati, president of the National Woodcarvers Association: "It's very much alive and growing. As it becomes more and more of a collector's item, the demand for it goes up." Author Charlotte Dinger estimated there were about 300 handcrafted carousels left in the country.
Gwinn's animals are not made for working carousels, but for display. He implants a steel nail in his horses as a trademark and as protection against someone trying to pass a Gwinn horse off as an antique. Otherwise, he follows the old. method of building a box out of low poplar boards fastened together with wooden dowels and glue. The relief is carved out of that, with other pieces, such as the legs and saddle, glued on: Gwinn's work starts with the head, which is carved separately and attached to the body.
The expression determines the look of the rest of the body, he said. "When I'm working with my horses, I forget everything," he said. "It's like a drug. Once you get studying carousels, you get hooked on them." 1- felt good sometimes, too," Aron said. longer than the other, to make up for Crawford said the boy's thigh bone faster growth" in the right leg, Crawwas broken in surgery and screws ford said.
were inserted above and below the "We had counseling for us and him," break. Metal bands were inserted said Aron's father, Dr. Gerald Boyles, between the screws. The screws were a psychologist. "After that, he was all turned daily to lengthen the leg by 112 right.
He can deal with it." millimeters or about one centimeter a "This was exactly the right time to week. Eventually, the leg became do it" because of the boy's growth about 7 centimeters longer, Crawford pattern, Boyles added. said. "It hasn't been easy for Aron or us," Meanwhile, bone fragments were said Aron's mother, Barbara. Aron inserted between the ends of the bro- has an older brother, Dylan, 12.
ken bone and grew, Crawford said. Aron said he wanted to put the proThe fragments were taken from the cedure behind him. "I want to play boy's pelvis. little short," baseball. he I said.
did before, but my leg was "We extended the leg to a with contempt Judge Fred Geiger ordered unusual old girl is alleged to have taken place weekend court sessions yesterday and in Waukegan, jurors are being possibly today to speed jury selection. selected in Rock Island he because could not of Coleman, 30, of Waukegan, is Coleman's concern that defending himself on charges of find an impartial jury in his homeaggravated kidnapping and murder in town. connection with the slaying of Vernita Geiger has said he wants to start Wheat, 9, of Kenosha, Wis. the trial on tomorrow in Waukegan, if He has already received three death selection of the 12-member jury and sentences in Ohio and Indiana on mur- three alternates can be completed. der convictions resulting from a 1984 Jury selection has gone slowly crime spree in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, because the judge is excusing poten- ColeWisconsin, Kentucky and Michigan.
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