New Walk Signal System Aids Norwalk Children
Norwalk elementary students will cross League Street and Whittlesey Avenue using new pedestrian signals installed Monday afternoon at four corners. Additional sites planned across town aim to replace aging signals and meet state specifications. City electrician James Wiggins guides children on button use as Sgt. John Short educates on crossing.
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Norwalk
League Street
Whittlesey Avenue
City
James Wiggins
John Short
Wiggins
Woodlawn
Milan Avenues
East Main Street
Benedict Avenue
Elm Street
Walnut Street
Milan Avenue
Pleasant
West Main Streets
Main Street
Wayne Goodsite
Columbus
Kim Bores
FBI Pleads Innocent in Wiretap Case Amid Mass Agent Protest
In Washington nearly 1,000 FBI agents demonstrated outside as former FBI head L Patrick Gray and two aides pled not guilty to federal charges over alleged illegal wiretaps and mail openings in the Weatherman probe. Also reported are voter disenfranchisement concerns in Ohio, a coal mine memorial decision in West Virginia, U.S.-Soviet talks in Moscow, a dramatic embassy fence incident, and a fatal truck crash in Ohio.
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Washington
Parents Seek New Trial in Fatal Ohio Crash Case
In Cincinnati, parents of five Marion teens killed in a 1973 crash ask the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reopen their $1 million damages case against a truck driver and Elcona Homes. They contend a revised police report and cross examination were barred at trial. The court will decide in coming weeks if a new jury trial should proceed.
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UPI
Marion
Ohio
6Th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
U.S. 20
Ohio 4
Huron County
Cindy Baker
John J. McCarthy
Joseph L. Slabach
Elcona Homes Corp
McCarthy
John W. Hackett, Jr
Te Tenn
Hackett
Albert Engel
Damon Keith
Edward Johnstone
Fire forces evacuation of eighty families near Fairfield subdivision
In Fairfield Ohio during pre-dawn hours a fire in a storm drainage pipe under construction forced eighty families from homes in a Cincinnati suburb. They were housed at a firehouse and two churches until smoke cleared and gas explosion risk subsided, after which all residents returned home.
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Fairfield, Ohio
UPI
Cincinnati
Weather and notices from The Record April 20 1978
Showers tonight and Friday with light snow flurries. Lows near 35 and highs in the 40s. Precip 60 percent tonight, 30 percent Friday. NW winds 10 to 20 mph. Wednesday temps 67 to 39 with 0.39 inch precipitation. Year ago 82 to 60. Sunrise 5 41 am, sunset 7 13 pm. Marriage license Fritz R Kuenzel Wakeman filter operator and Carole A Johnson Wakeman teacher. Birth Robert and Rita VonKamp Norwalk a boy. Death Myr W Stuckey 65 Bucyrus. United Press International reports world’s largest cow statue at New Salem NC 38 feet high 50 feet long marking Holstein history.
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Fritz R. Kuenzel
Wakeman
Carole A. Johnson
Robert and
Rita VonKamp
Norwalk
Myr W. Stuckey
Bucyrus
Did I Write That Mental Health Document Stirs Huron County
A draft document critiques the 648 Board of Mental Health and Retardation and questions why an outside state evaluation was not ordered. The piece, written by Bruce McCrillis, circulated at the Norwalk center, drawing Palm’s ire and prompting a public meeting with Ohio Department of Mental Health officials. Local commissioners plan to meet state representatives to discuss the issue.
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648 Board
Ohio Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation
Mental Health Society
648
County Commissioners
Huron County
Columbus
Roy Palm
Huron County Board of Mental Health and Retardation
Bruce McCrillis
Norwalk
McCrillis
Ohio Department of Mental Health and Retardation
Owens
Huron County Mental Health Society Board of Trustees
Palm
Henry Young
Thomas Carabin
Dan Miller
Dr. Moritz
Harold Guggenheim
District 5 Mental Health
Society
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