Unscheduled Talks Amid Wider Coal Strike Strife
United Mine Workers and coal industry negotiators met briefly over health benefit funds as a nationwide strike idled 160,000 miners. Reports note violence at nonunion mines, a bomb scare in Utah, and shuttered Western Pennsylvania operations while talks progress with unclear prospects.
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Associated Press
United Mine Workers Union
Harrison Combs
UMW
Kentucky
Davies County
Price
Utah
Pennsylvania
Daryl Lauffer
Chernicky Coal Co
Clarion
Ohio Farmers Push Nonstrike Protest Across Northwest
In Ohio the only formal observance of the national farmers strike began in the northwest with a tractorcade from Rising Sun, Wood County, toward Fostoria Findlay and Bowling Green. Leaders said the protest targets low prices, not organized strike participation. C William Swank of the Ohio Farm Bureau and Charlie Nash of Ottawa explain Ohio farmers seek parity and outside work alternatives, not a mass strike.
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Associated Press
Ohio
Rising Sun
Wood County
Fostoria
Findlay
Bowling Green
C. William Swank
Ohio Farm Bureau Federation
Ohio Farmer's Union
Charlie Nash
Ottawa
Farm Bureau
Nash
Freeze urged on Ohio industrial loan program probe
James Duerk urged a suspension of the Ohio Development Financing Commission program while a probe reviews loans, including a Crown Hill Industries Inc. loan in Urbana. An audit cited $680,000 of the loan used for payrolls taxes and inventories, raising concerns over fund use.
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James Duerk
Ohio Ee Sion En Coethen Mentee
Commission
Columbus, Ohio
J. Thomas Walker
Pee Ae Ae
Winters National Bank
Financing Commission
Stephen L. Baker
the Plain Dealer
Ohio
Ohio Development Financing Commission
Evansville Plane Crash Kills Evansville University Team
A DC-3 charter carrying 29 people including the Evansville University basketball team crashed in rain and fog while attempting to return to the airport. All aboard died, two bodies still missing. victims were taken to a temporary morgue and area funeral homes.
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Evansville
Ind
Evansville University
National Jet Service Inc
Indianapolis
Dress
Nashville
Tenn
Bill Phipps
Vanderburgh County
Patrick Alvey
Metro Beechcraft Corp
Alvey
Louisville & Nashville Railroad
John Ed Washington
Walter Thomas
Washington
Murray City Council Rejects All Bids on Municipal Building
The Murray City Village Council held a special session Tuesday night and rejected all three general contract bids for the municipal building as they exceeded the project estimate. Weather calls for cloudy cool conditions with rain ending tonight and partial clearing Thursday. lows in the upper 30s with highs around 50 and a 60 percent rain chance tonight dropping to 20 percent Thursday.
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Murray City
Becomes Law as Rhodes Sekes Reins of Energy Agency
Ohio Gov. Rhodes lets ERDA bill become law, creating the Ohio Department of Energy. Robert S. Ryan remains in charge, expanding duties to include conservation and coal development amid a $10 million to $12 million annual coal tax program to fund technology for burning high sulfur Ohio coal within EPA standards.
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Columbus
Ohio
Robert S. Ryan
Ohio Energy and Resource Development Agency
Ohio Department of Energy
James A. Rhodes
Ryan
Energy Commission
Rhodes
ERDA
Askied Etabane Geena
Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
Penalty Leaves Farmer Broke in Carlisle
Robert Bear, 48, faces sheriff sale of his 400 acre potato farm after years of excommunication by the Reformed Mennonite Church and shunning by relatives, follows wife and six children leaving home in 1972 under church doctrine. He had earlier sought court relief to ease church rules that hurt his business.
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Carlisle
Robert Bear
Bear
Gale
Glenn Gross
Gross
Colleges in Trouble Prompt Ohio College Crisis
A governor’s report warns Ohio colleges face declines in enrollment and rising costs, signaling a troubled outlook. The article notes broader issues beyond finance, with statewide implications for higher education.
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Ohio
Holiday Blues in Family Medicine by Dr Lamar Miller
Dr Lamar C Miller addresses holiday blues in his Family Medicine column on page 5. He outlines common emotional strains during holidays and practical coping strategies for individuals and families.
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Lamar C. Miller
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Houston
Texas
Board of Direct
Mark Sandy
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale
Ill
Sandy
Community Center
Murray
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Energy Agency
Brown
Ted W. Brown
Athens County Elections Board
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