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and respite care, and the operation of the Cardinal Hill Specialty Hospital. Cardinal Hill has achieved many firsts within the commonwealth of Kentucky. It offered the first special education classes for children and the only classes for children with physical disabilities (in the Opportunity School) in Northern Kentucky. It was the first facility in Northern Kentucky to provide (in the 1950s) audiology (hearing) ser vices to children, adults, and newborn infants. Cardinal Hill provided the first orthopedic care and the first physical, occupational, and speech therapy for children and adults; its adult day care center was the first to offer daily care and nursing ser vices for young adults as well as persons older than 60; and it established the first preschool for special-needs children. The Cardinal Hill Specialty Hospital is a 33bed long-term acute-care hospital located on the third floor of St. Luke Hospital East in Fort Thomas, Ky. (see St. Luke Hospitals Inc.). A “hospital within a hospital,” the Cardinal Hill unit is recognized by Medicare as a facility providing specialized acute hospital care for patients who are critically ill, have multisystem complications or failure (or both), or other conditions requiring a stay of 25 or more days. Typically, patients at this facility are unable to be discharged to a nursing home or a rehabilitation facility or to go home. Examples are ventilator-dependent patients, brain injury or stroke patients, or people with postsurgical complications of many types. The relationship between the Cardinal Hill Specialty Hospital and St. Luke Hospital is one of synergy. Cardinal Hill of Northern Kentucky is a part of the Cardinal Hill Healthcare System, which includes its 108-bed postacute rehabilitation hospital in Lexington, four outpatient centers (one is in Covington, and one in Florence, Ky.), and a camp for adults and children in Carrollton, Camp KYSOC. Kreimer, Peggy. “Balancing Act,” KP, July 25, 2003, 1K. ———. “A Hospital within a Hospital,” KP, August 26, 2003, 1K.
Sarah Caruso
CARINCI, TITO (b. December 15, 1928, Steubenville, Ohio; d. November 12, 2006, Torrance, Calif.). Mayfield Road Gang member Peter Tito Carinci was born in the bustling southeastern Ohio steel-mill town of Steubenville. He was the son of August and Mary Porreca Carinci. His mother’s family had family ties with the family of entertainer Dean Martin, Steubenville’s most famous prodigy. He was educated in that city’s Catholic school system, graduating in 1947 from Steubenville Central Catholic High School, where he was a star football player. The Roman Catholic bishop of Steubenville during the late 1940s was John King Mussio, who often sent his top athletes to his alma mater, Xavier University in Cincinnati. Tito Carinci was one of these. Carinci excelled in football at Xavier University, and Xavier paid
him its highest honor, inducting him into the institution’s Legion of Honor. He was a “little AllAmerican” linebacker, playing in Xavier’s victory over Arizona State in the 1951 Salad Bowl (the predecessor to today’s Fiesta Bowl). While living in Cincinnati, Carinci frequently enjoyed the nightlife of Newport. After graduation in 1951, and following a brief stay in the Green Bay Packers training camp and a stint in the U.S. Army,, he returned to Northern Kentucky in 1957 and went to work for the Cleveland, Ohio, crime syndicate (the Mayfield Road Gang) that was operating in Newport. By 1960 Carinci had attained essentially the general managership of the Levinson Brothers’ Glenn Rendezvous Hotel at 928 Monmouth St in Newport. It was at that location, within its bar, the Tropicana Club, in the early morning hours of May 9, 1961, where Carinci and his 26-year-old stripper friend April Flowers (Juanita Hodges) tried to frame Campbell Co. sheriff candidate and Committee of 500 (see Newport Reform Groups) member George W. Ratterman, another former football player. The future sheriff had been slipped a “mickey” by Carinci earlier that evening in Cincinnati, and later at the Glenn Rendezvous Hotel was found in bed partially unclothed lying next to Carinci’s stripper friend. The subsequent trial and proceedings made national headlines, as Carinci’s name was intimately and forever linked to Newport’s sordid past. In 1963 Carinci unsuccessfully ran for mayor of Newport; he then moved to Miami, Fla., where he served two prison terms for tax evasion and bookmaking. Carinci spent another period in New York City, dressed like a hippie and running a credit card scam. He died at age 77 in 2006 in Torrance, Calif., near where he had operated a nightclub, the Pitcher House. He was cremated and was survived by his wife Barbara. Obituary. Steubenville (Ohio) Herald-Star, November 19, 2006, 3B. Wecker, David. “Old Newport—New Twist,” KP, October 2, 2002, 1K.
Michael R. Sweeney
CARL BROTHERS. The stonemasons Joseph Carl (1862–1937) and John Carl (1865–1942) emigrated from their native Alsace, France, during the 1880s to escape the economic instability brought on by the German occupation of the province following the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871. Alsace, once described by Joseph’s wife, Mary “Marie” Schmitt (1863–1939), to her sons as having one farm better than the other and one stone house on top of another, provided these German-speaking immigrants with their special vocational calling, stonemasonry. Upon arrival in the United States, Joseph and John Carl immediately made their way to Covington, settling in the Lewisburg neighborhood. They found instant opportunity in the stone trade in and around the burgeoning city of Covington. The brothers quickly developed a reputation for skilled masonry craftsmanship, a strong work ethic, and perfection down to the finest detail.
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Working as stonemasons in conjunction with the Covington Stone and Marble Company, Joseph and John Carl contributed their talents during the construction of Covington’s Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption. The Carl Brothers fi rm subsequently was selected as the contractor in charge and orchestrated the second phase of the cathedral’s construction, its facade, from 1908 to 1910. Upon completion of that phase, Joseph Carl, on behalf of the Carl Brothers fi rm, presented the gargoyles and akroteria that adorn the top of the cathedral. In 1934 Carl Brothers constructed the Cathedral’s baptistery, a small chapel located in the south transept under the organ balcony. The Carls formed Carl Brothers, also known as the Carl Construction Company, around the beginning of the 20th century. For many years Carl Brothers was the pioneer firm of its kind in Northern Kentucky. Originally the firm’s office was located on the second floor of Joseph Carl’s residence, a yellow brick house that still stands at the northwest corner of Lewis and Baker Sts. in Covington. The horses and the construction carriages used by the firm were kept along Baker St., behind the office-residence. Eventually, trucks replaced the horses and carriages. The firm maintained a large stone yard on the north side of the Fedders Feed and Seed lot along Russell St. in Covington. The stone yard kept a stock of the various types of materials and construction equipment. Upon the death of Joseph Carl in 1937, at age 74, the office moved to the Russell St. site. During World War II the company relocated the stone yard and office to the opposite side of Fedders Feed and Seed, where it remained until the stone company’s closing in August 1982. The sons of Joseph and John Carl began working with the firm during the building of the Cathedral Basilica. Each of the sons subsequently participated in World War I. Joseph’s sons, Joseph G. (1891–1930) and John W. (1896–1973), encountered front-line action in France. Both men were injured during the war, Joseph critically. Neither returned to the Carl Brothers firm after their military ser vice. John’s son, Al Carl (1896–1964), who also briefly participated in World War I, returned to the company. During the 1920s and 1930s, Joseph Carl handled the firm’s primary business affairs, bidding on jobs, negotiating, and visiting job sites. John Carl conducted the skilled operations of the business and oversaw on-site construction. With the deaths of Joseph in 1937 and John in 1942, Al Carl took over the full operation of the company. Al’s only son, Paul Carl Sr. (b. 1923), joined the firm permanently following his return from ser vice in the Pacific during World War II. Al and Paul Carl jointly operated the company until Al’s death in June 1964. Paul Carl continued the business until his retirement in August 1982, and the assets of the firm were sold to the Tate Building Supply Company in Erlanger. In addition to the Cathedral Basilica, noted churches built, renovated, or reconstructed by Carl