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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1977
Page
2
Ken Bernard won the mayoral race in Oxford Ohio and was sworn in at a council meeting Monday. He succeeds John Sheard as mayor while Caroline Hollis becomes vice mayor.
Montgomery County officials in Hamilton join Butler County in fighting the 20 percent state mandated rise in local support for welfare programs. The letter warns the increase would exhaust county general funds. Montgomery becomes the 36th county to oppose the mandate.
Cincinnati schools propose phasing out junior high seven and eight to form six to eight middle schools. Elementary schools would run kindergarten to five and high schools nine to twelve. Middle schools would offer multi subject instruction. The plan could take up to ten years to finish.
A December 8 meeting, organized by Warren County Regional Planning Commission and Little Miami Inc, will explore developing the abandoned Penn Central line as a recreational corridor. Ohio has $1 million set aside for a scenic railroad from Morrow past Kings Island to Greene County, with efforts to secure $3 million from the federal government to support the project.
U S scientists track a tagged pregnant polar bear that left Barrow Alaska in June and moved west across the Bering Sea into Siberia. Radio readings reach U S researchers via satellite, and project leader Jack Lentfer says he has requested Soviet assistance to follow or recover the transmitter.
Massachusetts Senate rejects repeal of a 280 year old blasphemy statute. Senators debate punishment up to 300 fine or one year in prison and warn about undermining the Ten Commandments. The bill had won initial approval in August before this vote.
Southgate Mayor Ken Paul hailed a Campbell County circuit judge’s ruling that the city could not be a party in circuit court suits tied to the Beverly Hills fire that killed 164. The decision limits liability to the city’s level, though federal cases over sovereign immunity remain, and a $200 million class action was filed in Covington seeking damages from 21 defendants.
Ex mental home attendant Larry M. Ralston 28, of Norwood, indicted by Clermont County grand jury on four counts of murder in a string of unsolved killings of women and girls dating back two years. Bodies of 11 females found in the Cincinnati Clermont County area since 1975. Ralston arrested in Mount Prospect, Illinois, and held on kidnapping and rape charges with a $43 000 bond, awaiting arraignment. Evidence ties him to the slayings of Linda Harmon 16, Mt. Washington Nancy Grigsby 23 Williamsville Elaina Bear 15 Cincinnati and Diane McCrobie 17 Springfield Township. Miss Bear's body found in Clinton County creekbed. others in Clermont County.
U S District Judge Johnson withdraws from nomination citing health limits. Attorney General Bell drafts replacement options for Carter with a January return to Congress. Johnson cites slow recovery from surgery. Kelley asked to delay retirement as search widens to four named candidates including Van de Kamp Welch Irwin and Lucas.
CADIZ Ohio AP Nelms Portal No 1 coal mine to be sealed next year ending a 37 year nightmare for survivor Alex McNab and others of the Nelms explosion that killed 31 men. McNab recalled the fiery blast caused by methane gas and a lack of ventilation. Francis Wood, a mine inspector, recalls his late father warned of danger. An official inquiry blamed the Ohio and Pennsylvania Coal Co whose pursuit of profits preceded reforms. the company later went broke.
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