City seeks to sweeten sale terms with Edison for municipal electric
Norwalk officials plan to press Ohio Edison to improve its 6 096 199 offer. The negotiating committee will seek back up power interconnections employment assurances and street lighting concessions while addressing trailer park lawsuits and city finance. A final deal would go to City Council for approval, possibly at a special session before March 6.
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Ohio Edison Co
Wayne Goodsite
Ohio Edison
Goodsite
Willard
Ohio Power Co
Norwalk
Playboys model opts for faith over centerfold money
Debbie Hanlon of Royal Oak Michigan revoked her Playboy April centerfold after choosing religious convictions and family feelings over the estimated five thousand dollars. UPI via telephoto.
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Debbie. Hanlon
Royal Oak
Mich
Playboy
Hugh Hefner
UPI
Northbrook Olympic speedskaters return amid traffic jam
Anne Henning and Dianne Holum returned to Northbrook after winning Olympic gold and bronze medals. Crowds filled Meadow Hill Park in a February thaw as honking cars lined the streets to greet the athletes and celebrate Northbrook's speed skating fame.
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Northbrook
Ill
UPI
Anne Henning
Dianne Holum
Chicago
Meadow Hill Park
Miss Henning
Miss Holum
Sapporo
Japan
United States
Henning
U.S
Richard Daley
Norwalk to Host All-Day Independence Day Celebration
Norwalk will stage an all-day Independence Day event at the Huron County Fairgrounds with multiple local groups invited to participate. Donald Wise is named coordinator, with Lions Club organizing the parade and other entities urged to sponsor food and entertainment under a Wise-led committee. Mayor Wayne Goodsite said city involvement is limited to outreach and representation.
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Norwalk
Huron County Fairgrounds
Lions and Veterans of Foreign Wars
Wayne Goodsite
Donald Wise
Goodsite
Wise
Lions Club
Nader questions pollution cleanup costs for GM profits
Consumer crusader Ralph Nader argued that the cost of not cleaning up pollution dwarfs small abatements. He noted General Motors earned 28 billion dollars last year with a 2 billion net profit and said a few million dollars for pollution controls would do little harm to big industry.
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Cincinnati
UPI
Ralph Nader
General Motors
Nader
Weather Mix Turns to Snow Then Cold Brave Norwalk Area
Occasional rain today shifts to light snow this morning and ends this afternoon. Skies partly cloudy tonight with colder air and low temperatures in the upper teens to low 20s. Wednesday remains cold with highs in the upper 20s to low 30s. Precipitation chance drops from 40 to 10 percent across periods. Winds shift from southwest to northwest at 10 to 25 mph. Norwalk highs near 45 and low near 28. Birth notices list five families with newborns and marriages and death of Mrs Ella K McConnell, 92, Milan.
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Norwalk
Open burning ban in Ohio county takes effect today
Huron County adopts air pollution law ending outdoor burning of household refuse with a grace period likely in rural areas. Health Commissioner Dr. George F. Linn says enforcement details are pending while counties review a Sandusky Air Quality Control Region to oversee pollution functions. Residents urged to haul refuse to landfills.
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Campbell, Ohio
UPI
William Halase
Julius Torok
Ohio
Halase
Mahoning County
Sheriff’s Office
Torok
Huron County Health
George F. Linn
Linn
Huron County
Huron County Board of Health
Huron
Erie
Seneca
Sandusky
Ottawa
Health Department
Britain Faces Worst Crisis as Power Blockade Persists
Prime Minister Edward Heath urged unions to end the electric power blockade that idled 1.5 million workers in Britain’s deepest crisis in 46 years. Miner leader Joe Gormeley of 280,000 miners refused to call off strikes, saying the battle is won and coal shortages keep power stations short.
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London
UPI
Edward Heath
Britain
Joe Gormeley
Birth Rate Declines in Huron County in Late 1960s and 1970
Marilyn Collier of the Huron County Health Department notes a steady birth decline with 791 births last year down from 906 in 1965. The 1970 total dropped to 723 while 1971 rose amid osteopaths practicing at Fisher-Titus Memorial Hospital. Dr Stockwell cautions on mixed signals for a potential baby boom or stabilization.
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Virginia Patton
Huron County
Marilyn Collier
Huron County Health Department
Fisher- Titus Memorial Hospital
Sandusky
Erie County
Willard Area
New London Hospital
Ohio
Edward Grant Stockwell
Bowling Green State University
Dr. Stockwell
US Census Bureau
America
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