County firemen learn radiation detection training
Huron County fire departments will study radiation detection next month with a 16 hour Geiger counter course funded and maintained by state disaster officials. Willard and Huron County Disaster Center already own counters. Firemen also attend a June 9 hazardous materials seminar at Willard hosted by Chessie System with instructor David Frank. Tornado preparedness briefings were provided by the National Weather Service in Cleveland.
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Huron County Firefighters Association
State Disaster Agency
Willard Fire Department
Huron County Disaster Center
Norwalk
Elmer McGuckin
Toledo
Cleveland
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Willard
Chessie System Railroad
Chessie System
David Frank
Catonsville College
Baltimore
National Weather Service
Cleveland Hopkins Airport
Ohio farmers eligible for water quality grants
Under an Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service program farmers in Seneca Crawford and Huron counties may apply for 65,000 in grants to improve water quality in the Honey Creek watershed feeding Lake Erie. Grants cover 80 percent federal funds and 20 percent participant share and fund conservation tillage seedings animal waste facilities and pasture improvement. Senators John Glenn and Howard Metzenbaum announce the program.
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API
Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service
Ohio
Seneca, Crawford and
Huron
Honey Creek
Lake Erie
Sens
John Glenn
Howard Metzenbaum
D-Ohio
Ohio Supreme Court to allow cameras in courtrooms
The Ohio Supreme Court ruled to permit broadcasting and photographing courtroom proceedings starting June 1 for one year. The decision, part of amendments to the Code of Judicial Conduct and Rules of Superintendence, comes with strict guidelines and will be reevaluated after the period.
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Columbus
UPI
Supreme Court of Ohio Today
Ohio
Tornadoes sweep South and Midwest injure and kill
United Press International reports a second day of tornado activity across the South and Midwest. One death occurred in Indiana when a mobile home was overturned near Boonville. Flash floods were feared in Arkansas with two persons missing in Little Rock. Tornadoes damaged property in Missouri, Louisiana, Arkansas, Kentucky, Kansas and Nebraska amid large hail and heavy rainfall.
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Mississippi Valley
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Ark
Lula B. Lynn
Boonville
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Arkansas
Kentucky
Kansas
Nebraska
Texas
Oklahoma
Ohio
Illinois
Sohio raises gasoline prices again amid pipeline controversy
Standard Oil of Ohio boosts all grades by a penny a gallon marking a six cent rise in a month. Company self service pumps now show 73.9 cents regular, 77.9 cents unleaded, 80.9 cents premium. Full service pumps add two cents to each grade.
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UPI
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Weather and Local Life in Brief for Norwalk Area
Cloudy skies with scattered showers and thunderstorms through Friday. Highs in the mid to upper 60s, lows around 50s, 90 percent chance of rain. Winds southeast 10 to 20 mph with stronger gusts near storms. Also listed are marriage license applications in Willard, births in Norwalk, and the death of Marian C. Kramer, 78, Norwalk. A note recalls Norma Talmadge’s Grauman’s imprint incident from 1927.
DEA accuses hospital of illegal methadone storage in 1975
Cleveland Press reports a confidential DEA file accusing New London Hospital in Huron County of storing methadone without registration as a narcotic treatment program. The piece ties findings to Doctor's Clinic run by Dr. Leonard Faymore and James Bender, noting security gaps and incomplete records amid broader clinic investigations. It cites statements by a DEA officer and by Faymore and details past legal actions and clinic history in Ohio.
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UPI
New London Hospital
Cleveland Press
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration
Huron County
DEA
Elyria-based
Doctor’s Clinic
Leonard Faymore
James Bender
Ohio
Ohio Department of Health
Doctor's Clinic
Department of Mental Health and Retardation
New London
James King
Bender
Faymore
Grand jury indicts Strader for jail fire
A Huron County grand jury returned 13 indictments from aggravated arson to intimidating a public official. Robert Strader of Berlin Heights was secretly indicted for aggravated arson after allegedly setting a mattress on fire in the Huron County Jail Monday night. Strader pleaded innocent and a pre trial conference is set for May 11. He was transported to the Ohio State Reformatory after arraignment. Two other men face charges in theft cases from Greenwich and Bellevue. One man faces an intimidation charge against a South Central High School principal. Additional indictments include breaking and entering and vehicle theft related to a Pontiac Trans Am recovered from Billy Inmon Ford.
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Huron County Grand Jury
Robert Strader
Berlin Heights
Strader
Huron County
Sheriff's
Ohio State Reformatory
Mansfield
Billy Inmon Ford
Greenwich
Philip Clemons
South Central High School
William Toney
Clemons
Toney
Robert Ty Stokes
Bellevue
Easter meditation on prayer in crisis from a neighbor’s witness
Marilyn Kocher writes a personal Easter series opener about waiting at a hospital bedside, feeling God's silence, and turning to prayer. She recalls childhood faith, the strain of fear, and the Our Father as a lifelong lifeline while facing life and possible death for a loved one.
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Marilyn Kocher
William
E. Main St
Christ
God
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