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June 23, 1999, Wednesday

SECTION: NEWS , Pg. 1B

LENGTH: 559 words

HEADLINE: HELPFUL ACT FAILS TO GUARANTEE JOB FOR POSTMAN

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Helping a woman stricken by the heat was enough to earn postal worker David Scheer a jacket, pin and certificate of appreciation from the Columbus postmaster last week.

But it wasn't enough for him to keep his job. Scheer, a temporary postal worker, has delivered mail in Columbus for six months. His term ends next Tuesday. Scheer has been called a hero by some for helping an elderly woman who was suffering heat-related problems when the temperatures were in the 90s earlier this month. The postal worker managed to persuade the disoriented women to follow him to a nearby library and waited with her until paramedics arrived.

Scheer said he hopes to eventually get a permanent position as a mail carrier. He recently took a test for the job, and the results will determine who gets hired when positions open up.

"I'm just hoping I'll get a high score on my test and get called back soon,'' he said.

-- Steven Cook

Linking up for medication

Dr. Daniel L. Thompson of Dublin might not be offering prescriptions over the Internet anymore, but his Web site isn't exactly shut down.

With the state medical and pharmacy boards, as well as the Franklin County prosecutor, scrutinizing his six months of online prescribing, Thompson suspended operations at www.get-it-on.com in March.

But a few recent visits to the site found that there are links to other online medical- consulting firms that prescribe drugs, including the weight-loss drug Meridia and the impotence medicine Viagra.

-- Mark D. Somerson

Doctoring up a title

When Roderick G.W. Chu was appointed higher-education chancellor in early 1998 by the Ohio Board of Regents, his background was unusual for the post.

Chu's career has been principally in business, where his master's degree in business administration from Cornell University was an impressive credential. Yet he assumed oversight of Ohio's colleges and universities, where almost everyone who's anyone has a doctorate in something or other.

Earlier this month, Ohio's academia made him one of its own, when the University of Rio Grande presented Chu with an honorary doctorate of public service.

"Now I can stop correcting people when they call me Dr. Chu,'' he said recently.

-- Scott Powers

Stepping back for progress

It's impossible to stop the hands of time, but at one Downtown newspaper box, time seems to have stopped 2 1/2 years ago.

It isn't some superhuman feat that has managed it, but rather construction on the Fifth Third Center.

The paper box, located on High Street near State Street, holds some old copies of two publications -- The Plain Dealer of Cleveland and the Daily Reporter of Columbus -- both dated Dec. 31, 1996.

The issue of The Plain Dealer covers the death of a Cleveland police officer and the Daily Reporter recaps the top 10 business stories of 1996. The No. 1 business story: the effort to bring a new arena and stadium complex to Downtown by summer 2000.

Bill Schottenstein, a representative of Arshot Investment Corp., which owns the Fifth Third Center, called the time-traveling newspaper box "curious.''

He theorized that when work began on expansion of the Fifth Third Center in December 1996, the box was shielded by a construction wall.

Then, when the wall came down last summer, no one thought to refill the boxes.

-- Steven Cook

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