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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1975
Page
4
GM selects Cincinnati for a multimillion dollar public transit test program with phase one funding of 1 million dollars by GM and 250000 by the city. The plan includes data gathering, experiments, and possible construction to test exclusive bus lanes traffic devices and park-and-ride concepts.
Cleveland led Ohio cities with 294 tuberculosis cases in 1974 per Northern Ohio Lung Association. Youngstown topped 100k–250k towns. Cincinnati led over 250k, followed by Akron Columbus and Toledo. Dr Vander Kuyp cites blacks and poverty as key factors.
Rep. Robert E. Jones announces plans to reconcile House Senate differences on the Appalachian Regional Development Act. He cites past gains in incomes health care education and jobs and urges quick action to avoid lapse. The measure would fund health programs vocational education libraries highways sewage treatment and development.
Bartlett plans a meeting on November 20 at 7 30 p.m. in the Bartlett school cafeteria to form an emergency medical squad with the Fire Department. Attendance invited for discussions on the 60 hour class program and registration. Paul Hale will explain the course. James Vuksic will discuss a government grant for the Emergency Unit.
In a Lake Superior search tale, Captain McSorley radioed about a big sea and 70 knot winds as the ore carrier Edmund Fitzgerald disappeared after requesting help near Whitefish Point. Captain Woodard of the Avatars recalled the captain's voice and the failing radio beacon moments before the loss.
The chief Great Lakes marine inspector said the exact cause of the Edmund Fitzgerald disappearance may never be known. He noted theories are speculation and eyewitnesses are unlikely. one idea is that hatch covers failed and water flooded holds, sinking the ore carrier with 29 aboard amid freakish 80 knot winds on Lake Superior.
The Ohio Supreme Court temporarily restrains Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge Stanley S. Phillips from barring the public from pretrial hearings in the Lester C. Emoff murder kidnapping case in Dayton. The decision follows a news media appeal of the judge’s order and allows hearings to open or be postponed.
Common Pleas Judge Paul Martin dismissed a restraining order blocking So ciete Imeral from taking over Copperweld Corp. under a consent decree to comply with state law. Copperweld plants in Shelby and Warren will be affected as Ohio workers protections apply and pretrial hearings proceed in a related murder case.
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