Woman who escaped hospital to become Malone student to teach
Nellie Zimmerman a 72 year old blind and deaf former Massillon State Hospital patient will leave Malone College to take a part time career position teaching arts and crafts and cooking to legally blind boys through the Ohio Commission on Aging. Supported by interpreter Emily Street and Canton Goodwill staff, she plans to work 20 hours weekly while pursuing lecturing and gerontology work. Financial aid gaps persist as she receives only 177 monthly SSI and is denied assistance from Ohio Services for the Blind Stark County Welfare and the state mental health board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canton, Ohio
UPI
Nellie Zimmerman
Massillon State Hospital
Miss Zimmerman
Malone College
Emily Street
Ohio Services For
Stark County Welfare Authority
Miss Street
Ohio Board of Mental Health and Retardation
Massillon
Ralph Regula
Canton
Canton Goodwill
Linda Owens
Plane vanish in dense fog near Chemung County Airport
A private Cherokee 6 from Youngstown, Ohio disappeared in fog while approaching Chemung County Airport near Painted Post at about 4 am. Radio contact was lost and officials could not confirm aboard count. State police began searches in a wooded area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Painted Post
N.Y
UPI
Youngstown
Ohio
Chemung County
Tate
Brooke and wife granted immediate divorce in campaign move
UPI report notes Senator Edward W. Brooke and his wife obtain a fast divorce after a probate judge revises a December property settlement amid Brooke's sworn misstatements. Separately, ethics and perjury probes loom as authorities scrutinize the senator's financial disclosures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cambridge, Mass
UPI
Edward W. Brooke
R-Mass
Middlesex County
Lawrence Perera
Brooke
Suffolk County
Garrett Byrne
Senate Ethics Committee
Weather and notices from a local paper
Partly cloudy tonight with thunderstorms likely a 30 percent chance. Highs in the 80s, lows 60s. Sunday forenoon thundershowers, highs upper 70s to low 80s. Marriage license applications list four couples. Births report a girl at Willard Area Hospital. Deaths noted for Herman L. Schuly, Elsie Burgett, and Jeffrey D. Beckham. Fossil finds mention lenses, nails, chains, a screw, a cube and a battery in ancient geological deposits.
Skeleton found near 330 W Main St stirs local dig fever
Steve Betschman unearthed a near surface skeleton while digging at 330 West Main Street. The full skeleton, likely 500 to 1000 years old, was fragile with ribs and jaw damaged. bones stored in baskets at his home basement awaiting age verification from the Ohio Archaeological Society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steve Betschman
W. Main St
Steve
Ohio Archeological Society
Cleveland Police Back On The Job After 19 Hour Strike
Cleveland Mayor Dennis Kucinich and about 2000 police return to work after a 19 hour strike over firings. Judge Corrigan stayed the 13 firings for 14 days, imposed heavy fines, and ordered arbitration for the fired officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
UPI
Dennis Kucinich
Cleveland Police Patrolmen’s Association
Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court
Daniel O. Corrigan
Common Pleas
Leo Spellacy
Corrigan
Patrolmen's Association
Fraternal Order of Police
CPPA
William McNea
FDP
William Gallagher
Kucinich
McNea
Linn Corp Accepts Offer to Use Mental Health Center
Linn Corp accepts county offer to use the Mental Health Center building at 86 W Main St starting Aug 1. Officers Hadley and Wineman tentatively accept, pending third officer Woodworth’s approval. Records transfer costs will be paid by the Huron County 648 Board and a psychiatrist will visit Linn clients twice weekly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George F. Linn Corp
W. Main St
Linn Corp
Linn
Larry Hadley
Reese Wineman
Helen Woodworth
North Fairfield
Huron County
Milan Avenue
Huron County Mental Health Center
Linn Center
Huron County 648 Board
Efrain Pali
Bowling Green
Three Arrested In Bellevue Downtown melee
About 75 people fought at multiple downtown Bellevue locations around 2:45 AM. Police from Huron County Sheriff Castalia Monroeville Norwalk Fremont and Bellevue agencies assisted. Three arrests were made Keith Dahms Frederick Woodruff and Richard Peak all 21 to 29. injuries minor. no weapons disclosed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bellevue
Bedlam
Huron County Sheriff's Department
Castalia
Monroeville
Norwalk
Fremont
Huron County
Keith Dahms
Clyde
Frederick Woodruff
Richard Peak
Teen Faces Life Term For Rape Murder in Ohio
In Steubenville, 16-year-old James A Burns of Weston West Virginia was found guilty of rape and murder in the October killing of 86 year old Lillian Ryan. The jury deliberated about three hours and Burns will face a possible life term after a pre sentence probate court review. Burns testified that he and his cousin Rodney Burns were passing Miss Ryan’s apartment when he entered the unit and the police later found him beating the woman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marietta, Ohio
UPI
James A. Burns
Wierton
W.va
Lillian Ryan
Steubenville
Jefferson County Common Pleas Court
Burns
Rodney Burns
Dominick Olivito
Miss Ryan
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By Rosemary Armac
Brookes
State
Walter
Battisti
Parma
Cincinnati
Charles Burdsall
Clifton
David Mellon
Burdsall
Paul J. Roeder
Denise M. Bragg
Steven N. Rockwell
Kim A. Shively
Berlin Heights
David
Karen Urie
Willard
Willard Area Hospital
Herman L. Schuly
New Washington
Elsie Burgett
Oberlin
Jeffrey D. Beckham
By Jan Rogosch
By John Spetz
Dennis
Sandy Kucinich
Teamsters
Tice
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