County Faces CETA Cuts as Officials Mull Firing List
Huron County officials race to decide which 49 CETA workers will lose positions under a nine month Title VI budget cut totaling 312,856. Edward Still and Elenore Beck coordinate with Ohio officials as a Thursday release looms, while towns weigh which staff to retain amid mandatory training funds and potential layoffs.
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Huron County
Edward Still
Larry Monday
Ohio Office of Manpower Development
Elenore Beck
Still
Beck
CETA
Title VI
Thomas Carabin
Congress
New London Village
Greg Barnes
Malfunction Causes Norfolk and Western Train Derailment
A mechanical failure derailed 18 Norfolk and Western cars on Saturday when a wheel bearing overheated and locked. Eight cars slid into a pond, causing $90,000 damage. Detectors exist at various locations. hot box malfunction results from lubrication failure. Traffic halted briefly. main line restored by 8 p.m. Monday.
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Avery
Norfolk and Western
Norfolk and Western Railroad
N&w
Roanoke
Snowmobiles plunge through Lake Erie ice near Sandusky
A man in his 30s, George Carrender of Lakeside, is missing and presumed drowned after two snowmobiles went through the ice on Lake Erie near Sandusky Monday night. Two others, Nancy Kristensen and her son David, were rescued by two Lakeside youths, Jim Minmear and Robert Sedlak. Divers searched at 10 a.m. for Carrender as witnesses described his brief resurfacing before he disappeared.
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Cleveland
UPS
Lake Erie
Sandusky
Coast Guard
George Carrender
Lakeside
Nancy Kristensen
David
Jim Minmear
Robert
Scott Sedlak
Carrender
Ohio Edison accused of sabotaging off peak plan in Ohio
Akron based report says consumers and advocates charge Ohio Edison deliberately set off peak hours to inconvenient times and discouraged inquiries about peak time of day service. State official Spratley plans to file a complaint with the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio. Edison opposes the plan while defending the rate as fair. The schedule sets off peak from 9 p.m. to 8 a.m. weekdays with special timing meters for weekdays peak demand.
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Akron, Ohio
UPI
Ohio Edison Co
Ohio Edison
William A. Spratley
Public Utilities Commission of Ohio
Weather winds and wintry mix with snow risk tonight
Windy, breezy and rain or snow tonight with a low in the lower 30s and a 90 percent chance of precipitation. Snow is likely Wednesday with cooling temperatures and southeast winds 15 to 25 mph. Monday highs around 30 and a trace of precipitation, snow depth near 1 inch by midnight. Births in Vermilion and Plymouth note two newborn girls. deaths listed for three residents. brief Socrates anecdote included.
Fire levels target of old arson try in Willard area
A Sept 3 arson attempt was followed by a fire that leveled a one story wooden house on Weis Road in Richmond Township. Firefighters battled the blaze from 11 16 p m to 1 05 a m with 19 men and four vehicles at the scene. State fire marshal to inspect. no arrests announced. Nearby house undamaged. Damage estimated at 8000 dollars. Previous residents and suspects in related arson cases connected to Dennis Ohls and his wife, charged with hiring two men to set the house fire for insurance. Ohls and accomplices pleaded guilty in separate deals. one man received probation and fines. the other faces ongoing charges. A microwave was seized and given to a county youth home.
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Willard
Weis Road
Richmond Township
The
Willard Fire Department
Richard Sutherland
Huron County Sheriff's Department
Greenwich
Marty Collins
Rural
Shelby
King
Robert W. Smith
Collins
Will Borgia Run Again Sheriff of Huron County?
John Borgia as Huron County sheriff for 18 years says no decision yet on seeking re election in November 1980. He hints a definite choice by June 1979 while remaining a Rhodes ally and serving on the Ohio Private Investigator Advisory Commission.
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John Borgia
Huron County
Borgia
James A. Rhodes
Rhodes
Ohio Private Investigator Advisory Commission
Norwalk
Jeffery P. Laycock
Wayne Goodsite
Richland County
Thomas Weikel
Weikel
Norwalk Mayor rejects blackmail over annexing GTE land
Norwalk Mayor Wayne Goodsite denounces annexation as blackmail amid a water drainage dispute tied to the General Telephone Co. property on Townsend Avenue. Trustees Homer Bumgard Ronald Linder and Melvin Ott oppose the plan, citing tax base concerns, while discussions consider pooling city county and township resources to install drainage improvements.
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Norwalk
Wayne Goodsite
General Telephone Co
GTE
Charles Effinger
Telephone Company
Townsend Avenue
Huron County Commissioners
Homer Bumgard
Ronald Linder
Melvin Ott
Thomas Carabin
Carabin
County Soil and Water Conservation
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Title 1
Viceta
Roy Palm
Palm
Paul Cappelle
Norwalk Safety Service
Mel Shipley
Milan
Robert Bickley
Wakeman
Virgil Valentine
Helsinki
Finland
Virrat
EL Centro
Calif
Imperial Valley
Cesar Chavez
United Farmworkers of America Union
Edison
Richard and
Holly Dvorscak
Vermilion
Fisher-Titus
Ronald and
Altha Geller
Plymouth
Willard Area Hospital
Gladys B. Heyman
Monroeville
George C. Spaulding
James W. McAfee
Socrates
Charles Sage
Dennis Ohls
Ohio Reformatory
Man
Richard Hauser
Shady Lane
Jane Fitzwater
Will Borgia
This County
Scribner Fauver
Ronald Nabokowsk
Goodsite
Bumgard
Old State
Gibbs Roads
Effinger
M.K. Crouser
Gibbs and
Old State Roads
Ott
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