Rain Dampens Huron County Fair Despite Evening Show
Persistent rain steadies over the Huron County Fairgrounds slowing concession sales and risking the parimutuel harness race. Towne and Country Players were to perform America, A Joyful Noise at 8 30 p m while attendance Thursday rose to about 4500 with Senior Citizens Day attracting free entrants. The fair reports excellent livestock quality ahead of Saturday's 9 a m auction featuring about 300 steers sheep and pigs.
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Kevin Tanzillo
Huron County Fair
Fairgrounds
Tom Secor
Secor
America
Tommy Cash and
the Tomcats
Hirohito marks 30th WW II surrender anniversary
Emperor Hirohito interrupted his summer vacation to attend a memorial for about three million Japanese soldiers and civilians who died in World War II. He spoke of grief over the losses as Japan observes the surrender anniversary. In Ohio a bus carrying senior citizens skidded on rain and flipped, injuring 33 people and sending them to local hospitals.
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UPI
Hirohito
Japan
United States
Tiffin, Ohio
Akron
Carey
Ohio
Jury Still Out In Murder Trial
After 11 hours of deliberation jurors in the Robinson murder case requested repeated transcripts of witness testimony. Judge Bozarth warned against undue emphasis and planned readbacks if necessary as the trial continues for the April 6 1973 death of Alice White Womack.
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Robinson
Gwendora Ward Cheshire
Lonnie Westbrook
Cheshire
Kathy Moore
Glenn Seiple
Willard Police
Harry Bozarth
Weather forecast warm with showers and thundershowers likely
Tonight and Saturday expect warm temperatures with showers and thundershowers. Highs reach 75 to 80 tomorrow, with tonight’s lows in the lower 60s. Rain probability is zero tonight and Saturday. Winds easterly to southeasterly 10 to 20 mph tonight. Humidity minimum around 55 percent this afternoon. total rainfall about a quarter inch today. Temperatures Thursday 78 and 47. Humidity readings: 8 am 73 percent, 2 pm 60 percent, 8 pm 62 percent. Total precipitation .07 inches. Sunrise 6:36 am, sunset 8:27 pm, moonrise 4:03 pm, moonset 1:01 am. Marriage license applications listed for Daniel R. Angelo and Jeanette S. Samples. Births reported for Towornik and Westmoreland families. Death noted for Fred Meyer, 93, of Tampa.
Monroeville council votes to extend juvenile curfew
Voters weigh in after Monroeville approves tougher juvenile curfew amid vandalism worries. Residents offer mixed views on enforcement and police state concerns while others call for parental responsibility. Noise complaints surface about a tractor pull lasting past 3:30 a.m. at the fairgrounds and fair officials urge tolerance. Vote lines list phone numbers and a midnight deadline.
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Monroeville
Quiet Elyria Spared as 60 State Police Patrol Streets
In Elyria Ohio patrols from the city and about 60 state troopers patrolled the south and southwest areas after a fatal police shooting sparked earlier unrest. Officials reported a small firebombing at a bar and several nonfatal gunshots with no injuries. Leaders urged youths to go home and avoid trouble.
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Elyria
Ohio
UPI
Here
Putting On A Fair Is Like A Game Of Chance
Affable Tom Secor leads the Huron County Fair touting a strong farm machinery exhibit and a standout tractor pull drawing crowds. He notes the two night event creates noise and complaints but says Pinkerton security and sheriff relations are solid while stressing a fair should be a place for all to enjoy.
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Kevin Tanzillo
Tom Secor
Secor
National Tractor Pullers Association
Huron County
Pinkerton
Sheriff's Department
The
Fair Board
Huron County Sheriff
George Ryerson
George
Jury acquits Joan Little in ice pick murder case
A Superior Court jury in Raleigh acquitted Joan Little, a black woman, of murdering her white jailer during a claimed sexual assault in her cell. The white and black jurors deliberated 1 hour 21 minutes before delivering the verdict. The judge had left the case to the jury at 10 34 a m EDT.
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Raleigh, N.C
UPI
Joan Little
Pick
Hobgood
Defense witness charged with perjury in Robinson trial
Charles Ray Jones 29 of Willard indicted by Huron County Grand Jury on perjury, among seven named in open indictments. Jones testified about the 1973 Womack murder and has been jailed since July for drunken driving and resisting arrest.
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Charles Ray Jones
Larry Robinson
Huron County Grand Jury
Jones
Willard
Robinson
Alice Womack
Victory Inn
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