Medina Board votes to close all six schools for year
Medina Ohio. The Board of Education held an emergency meeting at 6 30 a m and voted to shut down six schools for the rest of the year due to a 500000 deficit. Four days extra vacation will be added and must be made up next year. State authorization was received to close. Payroll of 170000 for today will be met. Voters approved 8 7 mill operating levy but defeated 4 5 mill additional levy.
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Medina
Ohio
Medina Board of Education
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Franklin Walter
Jeanne Veverka
Marysville prison fence urged after 11th escape this year
Union County grand jury criticized the lack of a fence around the Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville. It urged the state to fund a fence and to reimburse mounting prosecution costs after 11 escapes this year. Indicted for escape were Margo Davies and Mary Jane Ashford who vanished November 9 and were found nearby. George Lehner said the fence idea has long been under consideration but not financed. The department will not reimburse the county for prosecuting escapees.
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Marysville
Ohio
Ohio Reformatory
Union County Grand Jury
Margo Davies
Mary Jane Ashford
George Lehner
Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction
Lehner
FDA scraps substitute additive plan for ice cream
In a reversal, the FDA will not allow sodium caseinate to replace non fat dry milk in the nation's 800 million gallons of ice cream. The move reflects dairy industry pressure and concerns it would reduce farmer income and raise dairy supports costs while possibly lowering ice cream nutrition. Cardinal John Krol and a former bitten boy Ronnie shared a humorous moment at St. Edmond's Home Christmas party as Ronnie joked about biting the archbishop's finger again.
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Washington
Food and Drug Administration
FDA
Agriculture Department
America
Philadelphia
John Krol
Ronnie
St. Edmond’s
Krol
Castro invites fishermen to return for deep sea fishing
Cuban President Fidel Castro invited U S Reps Richard Nolan and Fred Richmond to Cuba for deep sea fishing. Nolan, who just returned from Havana, said no arrangements were set yet but noted Castro only makes such invitations if he truly intends them.
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Washington
Fidel Castro
U.S
Richard Nolan
D-Minn
Fred Richmond
D-N.y
Cuba
Nolan
Havana
Castro
Cyprus President Hints Kidnapped Son May Be Released
Government sources say 19 year old Achilleas Kyprianou could be freed by early afternoon. There is no official confirmation or sign of amnesty for political offenders. MPs and diplomats show eased tension as Kyprianou appears weary but hopeful, thanking students demanding the boy's release.
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Nicosia
Cyprus
Spyros Kyprianou
Achilleas Kyprianou
Kyprianou
Japan Accepts U S Ground Force Withdrawal From Korea
Ambassador Mansfield says Japan has accepted the Carter plan to reduce U S ground forces in Korea while ensuring existing security treaties with Korea and Japan remain in force. He notes the move is phased from 1969 Nixon reductions and that South Korea can compensate with increased armaments and allied support.
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Tokyo
Mike Mansfield
Japan
Carter
U.S
South Korea
Korea
Mansfield
Associated Press
North Korea
Nixon
Judge Reverses Own Dayton School Desegregation Ruling
U S District Judge Carl B Rubin struck down his own five year old court ordered busing plan in Dayton Ohio citing a lack of evidence that current racial imbalance justifies a system wide remedy The ruling leaves desegregation efforts to the Dayton board of education and NAACP appeals.
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Dayton
Ohio
Board of Education
Cincinnati
U.S Supreme Court
Rubin
NAACP
Appeals Court
William Goodwin
Goodwin
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
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Tony
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Athens
Sony Betamax
Sony
Bzaz
Nate
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