Norwalk Schools Eye January Break To Save Gas
Norwalk public schools may shift spring vacation to January to reduce fuel use as Supt. Rubright warns the system could exhaust its natural gas allocation by March. Possible consolidation of two elementary schools and earlier fall start are considered to conserve energy.
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Board of Education
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Bronson Elementary School
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William Meese
Rhodes vows balanced Ohio budget with no new taxes
Governor James A. Rhodes announced a balanced two year budget for Ohio with no new taxes and challenged the Democratic led General Assembly to price all spending bills as he urged cooperation between the branches. In Kinshasa officials report nearly two thousand dead from the Nyragongo eruption in eastern Zaire with two new volcanoes erupting near Lake Kivu.
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Ohio General Assembly
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General Assembly
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Man dies of exposure after power shutoff in Ohio home
Eugene J. Kuhn, 70, was found dead Tuesday in Mansfield due to exposure. Coroner Dr. Raymond Thabet said his unheated home lacked electricity from nonpayment, with unopened mail including a welfare letter that might have helped secure emergency utility funds.
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UPI
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Raymond Thabet
Richland County
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Great Soda Pop War Drives Prices Back Up in Illinois
In Mattoon and nearby cities prices for eight packs of Pepsi-Cola and Coca Cola rose to 99 cents per carton after a brief dip to 39 and 49 cents. The price hike followed Pepsi's Dec. 20 move, triggering a regional soda war that unsettled grocers and led to bottlers briefly running out of bottles.
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Ill
UPI
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Shelbyville
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Illinois
Norm Schuchman
Denver firm to profit from canned cracker disposal plan
Denver businessman Bill Whitt of Three Way Enterprises said the firm won a $20,000 contract to remove and dispose of more than 53 million crackers and other items stored in 400 bomb shelters since the 1960s. About 500 tons of crackers will be sold as cattle feed to livestock producers. Disposal should take three to five months.
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Three Way Enterprises
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January 12 1977 Weather and Marriage License Notice
Increasing cloudiness and cold with lows near zero then snow possible Thursday with highs around 25. Precipitation near zero tonight, 40 percent Thursday. Winds southerly around 10 mph. Temperatures Tuesday about 14 with humidity ranging from 59 to 79 percent. Marriage license applied for by Toby G Wiswell of Bellevue and Rachel Robinson of Castalia.
Elderly woman dies in cold after shed fire on farm
The frozen body of Sophia Zielinski, aged about 77 to 84, was found near a burned shed on her Peru Center Road farm. Coroner Dr. William B. Holman said burns were not fatal, suggesting she froze while attempting to reach help. Neighbors recall her moving from a trailer to a small shed heated by kerosene heaters. authorities speculate a flash fire while refueling may have trapped her. The body, found 25 feet from the shed, was later identified and sent to Drake Funeral Home for arrangements.
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Monroeville
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Mills Road Church of God
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Huron County
William B. Holman
Holman
Miss Zielinski
Urban J. Wise
Hettle Road
Wise
Huron County Sheriff's Department
Zielinski
Cleveland
Florida
Drake
George Drake
Norwalk Schools Face Cash Crunch In 1977 Budget Shortfall
Norwalk City Schools plan to borrow to meet payroll as income falls short of last year. Supt Rubright says tax bills delayed and 30 day payment windows will delay funds. A $760000 general fund appropriation is approved to cover January salaries, with $200000 needed. United Fund reaches 74 percent of its $94740 goal.
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Brooks
William Holman
Rubright
Norwalk United Fund
Wayne Goodsite
Goodsite
Ohio governor inundated as residents respond to Write Your Governor
Ohio Governor James A. Rhodes received hundreds of letters after his Write Your Governor invitation. A Troy seventh grader asked what skills are needed to be governor, a writer questioned Rhodes’s pension, and a corporate president complained about delayed payments. One Columbus reader urged resignation and Florida retirement with a biting postscript.
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Florida
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