Dayton launches 24 hour prayer vigil for busing desegregation plan
Dayton Ohio plans a 24 hour prayer vigil involving over 70 congregations as the city prepares for Ohio's first court ordered busing. Students from 41 schools will be bused to achieve a roughly 52 48 racial mix with a 15 variance, as open houses begin ahead of the new school schedule. Rev Robert E Kolze coordinates the effort aiming to ease community attitudes toward desegregation.
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Dayton
Ohio
U.S. District Court
Robert E. Kolze
Metropolitan Churches United
Louisville
John Nevin
Cleveland School Board to Appeal Ruling on Integration Plan
The Cleveland school board will appeal Judge Frank Battisti's ruling to the Sixth Circuit within 90 days and seek a plan to integrate city schools. The NAACP had charged unconstitutional segregation, with Battisti noting most black students attend predominantly one-race schools.
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Cleveland
U.S. District Court
Frank Battisti
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Cincinnati
NAACP
Battisti
Louisville busing protests turn violent as tear gas used
Police dispersed a crowd of 1 150 antibusing demonstrators in Louisville after rocks bottles and bricks were thrown at officers during a march near Southern High School. Six people were arrested for disorderly conduct driving while intoxicated and criminal mischief as authorities warned of further action.
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Jefferson County
Louisville
Dallas
Boston
Russell McDaniel
McDaniel
Middletown To Hold Two Swine Flu Immunization Clinics
Health Commissioner Paul Asmussen announced two mass immunization clinics in Middletown on Thursday Oct 14 and Sunday Oct 17. Nurses and Red Cross volunteers will vaccinate up to 1 000 people per hour with monovalent swine flu shots at selected sites.
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Middletown
Paul Asmussen
Public Health Nursing Bureau
American Red Cross
Ohio
New Jersey
Senior Citizens Center
S. Main Street
Lottery Commission Fires Five Over Criminal Records
The Ohio Lottery Commission dismissed five employees for failing to report prior convictions and called for fingerprinting all new applicants. Among those fired is Bernard Oakar, brother of Cleveland Councilwoman Mary Rose Oakar. The panel ordered rapid guideline creation for screening applicants with police records and required disclosure of arrests and convictions plus fingerprints and social security numbers. The commission noted the instant game generated 51.2 million dollars in ticket sales, boosting Ohio to the top state lottery in sales.
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Cleveland
Ohio Lottery Commission
Bernard Oakar
Mary Rose
New York
Marcellino
Papalardo
Presser
Commission
David Leahy
Sherman
Ohio
Alabama man breeds unlikely fowl forest full of ostriches and rarities
On a Mobile County farm Cliff Fauver raises red neck ostriches and other exotic birds including emus pheasants geese swans and 300 peacocks. He sells chicks to zoos private collectors and bird fanciers with prices around 1200 for a pair of emus and 100 for a pair of rheas. Eggs sell for 12 to 15 dollars each. The operation supported by his wife and children blends hobby and business amid a rural setting backed by variable Alabama weather.
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America
Fauver
Mobile
Ala
Cliff Fauver
Alabama
Tennessee
Africa
Pat
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Dunbar
State Board
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Hamilton
Lottery Commission
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Sam Papalardo
Cleveland Heights
Anthony Marcellino
Fairview Park
Harry Presser
Novelty
Martin Kilbane
Kilbane
Dakar
Lawrence Sherman
Alabaman
South
Ann Landers
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