Toledo to seek 6.1 mill emergency levy for schools
Toledo voters will decide on November 8 whether to approve a 6.1 mill emergency operating levy to bridge the city school system’s financial gap. The levy could shorten a planned two month fall shutdown by allowing borrowing against expected revenues while the Citizens Committee for Effective Government outlined cost saving recommendations.
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Toledo, Ohio
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Teachers May Work Without Pay to Avert Closures
Cleveland teachers may work without pay to keep schools open after next week. Delegates at a union meeting agreed to give the school board extra time to raise funds. The district has funds to pay through next Friday, with a $19.1 million deficit cited by State Auditor Ferguson that could force closures by Oct. 17.
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Cleveland
James O'Meara
Cleveland Teachers Union
Thomas E. Ferguson
Lance Forced Out Says Press Attacked Him
Theodore C. Sorenson, a former Kennedy aide, contends Bert Lance was ousted by press pressure over charges that were not violations at the time. Sorenson spoke before a Xavier University lecture about CIA openness and directions in foreign intelligence.
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Bert Lance
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CIA
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Georgia Bank
Gas Purchases Possible Under Emergency Act
The Senate backed an amendment to the Public Utilities Regulatory Policy Act allowing the Energy Department to require conversions from natural gas to oil so surplus gas can be redirected to gas-poor states during a declared emergency. Sen. John Glenn said the plan aims to prevent job losses like last winter’s Ohio layoffs and ensure gas reaches states most in need during a crisis.
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Ohio
Congress
Public Utilities Regulatory Policy Act
Senate
John Glenn
Department of Energy
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Hearings Set on Beverly Hills Supper Club Fire
A Kentucky legislative committee will hold hearings October 24 and 25 at the state Capitol on the Beverly Hills Supper Club fire that killed 164 people. The session will review fire laws and the state fire marshal's office with testimony from law professor Dr. Ovid Lewis and State Police Commissioner Ken Brandenburgh, who led the investigation.
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Kentucky Legislative Committee
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Northern Kentucky University
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Fighting in Indochina Shifts to Ground Once Held by US
U S intelligence says Communist Vietnamese and Cambodian forces clash over territory near Tay Ninh and Dalat provinces, with battalion sized engagements forcing fleeing peasants. Vietnamese reportedly deploy divisions and fighter bombers in a flareup of the border dispute. casualties unconfirmed. Neither country confirms the fighting publicly.
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U.S
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Dalat
Vietnam
Cambodia
Government spends seventy million on dull nutrition tips
Two studies from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and the Library of Congress fault 11 federal agencies for operating about 30 nutrition education programs. Publications account for much of the 70 million annual cost and are deemed too simple or too complex. One study notes infant feeding pamphlets miss breastfeeding concerns and new products.
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County hires dog license enforcer for door to door checks
An animal control officer, Jack Davis, will go through Athens County including Athens city to verify dog licenses. Unlicensed dogs bring a three day window to buy a tag. after that, citations are issued. The fund behind licenses is low and may trigger higher fees without increasing tag sales. Davis begins next week.
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Clyde Bronson
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Bronson
Davis
Residents forms SORE to oppose new strip mine in Bern Two
SORE will petition the Ohio EPA to deny Miami Springs Properties Inc. a discharge permit for a Bern Two strip mining project. An Oct. 20 EPA hearing will hear concerns on environmental, economic, and social impacts including water, air, noise, and traffic effects.
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Miami Springs
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Division of Reclamation
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EPA Asked to Check Impact on Hocking Basin Mining
The Hocking River basin water quality committee plans a letter to the state EPA questioning the impact of Miami Coal Co mining near Bern Township. Dr. James Tong urges data on surface and subsurface water before a permit is issued for Miami Springs discharge. The panel works to aid EPA in a basin wide water management plan and suggested EPA collect samples for the Oct. 20 hearing.
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EPA
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James Tong
Miami Coal Co
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Miami Springs
Hocking River
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Federal Creek
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