Committees seek solutions to juvenile problems in county
Huron County Juvenile Judge Thomas E Heydinger formed three task forces with public officials and citizens Tuesday to study detention shelter and probation services. About 60 people attended as he urged monthly meetings through September to assess needs and plan actions. George Jeffries of Richland County stressed coordinated planning and avoiding service duplication while noting funding limits and state mandates for youth coordinating councils.
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Fitch takes Celtics top job after Cavs exit
Boston press conference at the Boston Garden announced Bill Fitch as the new Celtics head coach replacing nine seasons with Cleveland. Red Auerbach introduced the move amid a reshaped Celtics staff as expectations rise. Richland County voters approve a 0.5 percent piggyback sales tax to close a projected half-million to two million dollar deficit and protect jobs and services. Ohio Senate passes welfare public service bill enabling recipients to work 20 hours weekly in government while holding private sector jobs. Gary Lewingdon testifies in his murder trial saying he would likely repeat the shootings if given the chance, noting uncertainty about when killings would have stopped.
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Prom Night Sparks Gay Rights Debate at Lincoln High
In Sioux Falls a 17 year old student and his male date attended Lincoln High School's senior prom in powder blue tuxedos. Activists called it a step out of the closet while the principal sanctioned the event. The student paid for his friend's supper at a restaurant and escorted him to the downtown hotel prom without incident.
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Cloudy weather with showers possible tonight into Thursday
Forecast calls for a 40 percent chance of precipitation through Thursday as conditions remain cloudy. Tonight highs reach 55 to 60, with southeast winds 10 to 15 mph shifting to northerly tonight. Low temperatures range from 45 to 50 tonight, and Tuesday’s temperatures run 63 down to 41. Births, marriages, and local notices appear alongside weather data and a note on the House speaker’s constitutional reference.
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David M. Felder
Willard
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Norwalk
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Thomas E. Schmidt
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Wakeman
Michael S. Phillips
New Haven
Deborah L. Dufur
Lawrence F Komosinski
City unveils plan for new 14.7 acre park with sports and play areas
Mayor Wayne Goodsite announced a 14.7 acre park next to the sewage plant near Plank Road featuring two softball diamonds, a baseball diamond, a jogging track with bike lane, a playground, shelter, picnic areas, an announcer stand and a 165 space lot. The project aims to serve growing city needs, with funding talks showing potential state aid and possible annexation of the land outside city limits.
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Wayne Goodsite
Florida killer spared as two federal stays halt execution
Convicted killer John Spenkelink, due to die in Florida's electric chair, received two federal stays hours before his scheduled 7 a.m. execution, a surprise after multiple Supreme Court rejections. Stay orders came from a federal appeals judge and Justice Marshall, while protesters gathered outside the prison as officials weighed a potential permanent halt. Spenkelink had been on Death Row since 1973 for the killing of parole violator Joseph J. Szymankiewicz, claiming self defense.
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Feamster
Willie Darden
Atlanta
Elbert Tuttle
Sth
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
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Tuttle
Supreme Court
Thurgood Marshall
Washington
Robert Graham
Steve Hull
Unscheduled stop saves congressmen from assassination
Four congressmen on a narcotics fact finding tour in Burma narrowly avoided an assassination trap set by opium mercenary Chang Chi-fu on January 8. The group led by Rep Lester Wolff and including Henry Hyde Stephen Neal and Robert Dornan learned of the failed plot only at the tour's end.
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D-N.y
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R-Calif
Wiring blamed in fatal fire that killed Pansy Raymore
Fire officials cited an electrical outlet next to the bed as the likely cause of a fatal mobile home fire that claimed 62 year old Pansy Raymore of 381 Gibbs Road. The blaze destroyed the trailer and damaged two rooms of the adjacent house. Bed appeared to be against the outlet and wiring showed a short circuit.
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Pansy Raymore
Gibbs Road
AandP Stores to Reopen Under Six Chains in Ohio
A Meatcutters Union official said 20 to 24 Northeast Ohio A&P stores slated for closing will reopen under six chains including Stop-n-Shop Sparkle Markets Buy-rite Eagle SaveMore and Value King. The Norwalk A&P will not reopen per union president Frank Cimino who cited Ohio State Properties as owner. Norwalk store was leased to A&P and not sold. Former A&P workers are promised first crack at jobs in the reopened outlets in Cleveland Akron and Youngstown.
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