Hilson Threatens Fight Over Civil Service Change
Police Chief L C Hilson warned the Charter Review Commission on Tuesday that removing police and fire chiefs from the civil service would spark a fight. The proposal is the commission’s most controversial issue to date, with Mayor Goodsite and top officials previously favoring mayoral appointment. The FOP plans to present objections. Both chiefs defend the civil service testing system while noting room for improvement in chief testing. See CHIEF Page 2.
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Civil Service
L.C. Hilson
Charter Review Commission
Commission
Ningham
Hilson
Fraternal Order of Police
Thomas Lendrum
Elmer McGuckin
Lendrum
Jack Fynes
Goodsite
Civil Service Board
Measles outbreak prompts vaccine drive in Huron County
An outbreak traced to Berlin-Milan Middle School in Berlin Heights prompts Huron County to bar non immunized students starting April 17. Fifteen students at the middle school are sick with rubeola, boosting immunization clinics on Milan Avenue in Norwalk March 22 23 and 30. Health officials cite improper or ineffective past vaccinations and urge compliance with state law for DPT polio MMR and tetanus vaccines.
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Berlin-Milan
Huron County
Milan
Norwalk
Berlin Heights
Huron County Health Department
Imelda Lodermeier
Ohio Department of Health
Lodermeier
James Rubright
Board of Education
Milan Avenue
Reflector Night Lope Bus To Celtics Game
Basketball fans are reminded of the Reflector Night Lope to the Coliseum on Thursday. Buses depart Reflector parking lot at 5 30 p m sharp with receipts checked for ticket holders. Game vs Boston Celtics starts at 8 p m.
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John Havlicek
Boston Celtics
Weather and notices from Norwalk area
Weather report notes highs 35 to 40 today and 30 to 35 Thursday with 50 percent precipitation chances tonight and Thursday. West to northwest winds 10 to 20 mph tonight. Tuesday total precipitation 0.06 inch. Sunrise 6:40 am, sunset 6:34 pm. Birth notices list two twin girls for Drinkwine and Gutowicz families. Deaths include Opal J. Shields 54 Plymouth Glenna Pittenger 17 Bucyrus Mildred Morgan 85 Oberlin.
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Jack
Susan Drinkwine
Norwalk
Matthew and
Alice Gutowicz
Opal J. Shields
Plymouth
Glenna Jean Pittenger
Bucyrus
Mildred Morgan
Oberlin
Officials Must Pay For Picnics
State auditor found $2,521 in improper expenditures of tax money on city picnics and safety patrol outings from 1972 to 1974 in Norwalk. Mayor Wayne Goodsite and former Finance Director Douglas Colvin must repay equal shares. bonding company may cover if unreturned. Expenditures ranged from dinners and beer to prizes and a dunking tank. findings hinge on whether spending served a public purpose.
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Wayne Goodsite
Douglas Colvin
Thomas Ferguson
Goodsite
Colvin
Denny Gilbert
Gilbert
Columbus
Norwalk
Ferguson
Ronald Freeman
Westfield Insurance Co
Vernis George
George
One Student in Cavalier Choir At Scott High School
Ohio House Finance Committee learned that Scott High School Toledo offers a music course Cavalier's Choir with only one pupil enrolled. Acting superintendent John M Parsons said some students dropped out and a teacher now works with the remaining student on voice lessons. The chair, Rep Myrle Shoemaker, quipped the teacher must be doing a heck of a good job.
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Columbus
UPI
Ohio House Finance Committee
Scott High School
Toledo
Cavalier’s Choir
John M. Parsons
Rep. Myrle
Israeli offensive widens strike on Lebanon targets
Israeli air land and sea assault expands across southern Lebanon. Beiru t reports say at least 100 killed as refugees camps Sabra Chaula are hit by Phantom jets. Phalangist radio claims east Lebanon fallen to Israeli control and route to Syria secured.
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Israel
Lebanon
Beirut
Mediterranean Sea
Mount Hermon
Phalangist
Syria
Menachem Begin
Sabra
Chaula
UPI
Miracle toll in Steubenville chlorine blasts disaster
Mayor William Crabbe called it a miracle that no one was killed after three explosions at National Colloid Co unleashed chlorine gas over Steubenville Ohio. More than 200 people, including many firefighters and police officers, were treated and 3000 residents evacuated as the city declared a disaster area.
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Steubenville, Ohio
UPI
William Crabbe
Ohio River
Hangel
George Taylor
National Colloid Co
Crabbed
Steubenville
Crabbe
Taylor
Frank Seierra
Steubenville Water Department
Seierra
Coal negotiators optimistic on new UMW contract in review
Washington negotiators urged optimism that the 100 day coal strike may end as the UMW bargaining council reviews a new contract. Rank and file miners expressed mixed views with some predicting solid endorsement while others pledged to reject it. In Castlewood Virginia three miners burned press reports in protest as 150000 striking members kept mines shut amid Carter Taft Hartley order.
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Washington
UMW
West Virginia
Roger Hammack
Arnold Miller
Ohio
Rick Stitler
Castlewood
Carter
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Richard Cun
McGuckin
Reflector
Reflector Sports Department
Arlene Sieck
Craig
Cook County
Loyola University Hospital
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