Ohio teachers press lawmakers on school financing in Norwalk
About 60 to 70 teachers, administrators, and PTA members from four counties met at Norwalk Junior High School with Ohio legislators to discuss funding. The group, organized by the Ohio Education Association, contrasted calls for a one percent income tax with proposals for broader tax reform to increase education funding, noting state support lags behind neighboring states and highlighting inequities in distributing funds.
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Norwalk
Norwalk Junior High School
Ohio Education Association
OEA
Parent Teacher Association
Ohio
DEA
Charles Kurfess
Donald Pease
Lorain County
Richard M. Christiansen
Richland County
Robert J. Corts
Elyria
Legislator debates income tax for education and constitutionality
Corts has not read the Pease bill but hears a constitutional question on one point. Pease notes lawyers flag a constitutional issue and stresses selling an income tax for schools to the public, urging teachers to lead public support amid school closures and strikes.
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Corts
Pease
OEA
Elyria considers 1 percent income tax to fund raises for strikers
Elyria City Council weighs a one per cent income tax to fund pay raises for striking municipal workers. Fire and police departments run well below strength as many workers call in sick. The finance committee urged passage after a Saturday vote.
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Elyria, Ohio
UPI
Elyria City
Fire and Police
Rhodes Endorsed For Senate By Ohio Republican
UPI reports Governor James A. Rhodes has at least one Republican ally ready to back a 1970 Senate bid. U.S. Rep. Clarence Miller told Young Republicans that the race is starting now and he will back Rhodes all the way.
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Lancaster
Ohio
Weather and life events from Norwalk daily note
Mostly sunny today with highs in the 60s, clear cool tonight. Tuesday’s highs reach upper 60s to lower 70s, with a warm Wednesday and light easterly winds. Norwalk temperatures show a high of 68 and a low of 33 with trace precipitation. Births, marriages, and deaths listed for Norwalk area residents include Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gregory’s daughter, several marriage license actions, and obituaries for Layard Miller and others.
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Norwalk
Green Springs Beauty captures Miss Firelands title
Valerie Sue Dearsman of Green Springs won the Miss Firelands crown Saturday night after taking first in talent bathing suit and evening gown. She has 350 baton twirling awards and once twirled three batons at once. She studies elementary education at Bowling Green State University Firelands.
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Valerie Sue Dearsman
Green Springs
Firelands
Miss Dearsman
Bowling Green State University
Firelands Branch
Sandusky Valley
Huron
Erie
Apollo 10 achieves 110 percent success mission homeward
Apollo 10 astronauts Thomas Stafford Eugene Cernan and John Young completed eight days in space after orbiting the Moon 31 times and mapping a landing site for Apollo 11. They flew within 9.5 miles of the lunar surface and returned to Earth in the Pacific amid celebratory tributes and a final color TV transmission.
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Edward K. Delong
UPI
Space Winter Space Center
Houston
South Pacific
Thomas P. Stafford
Eugene A. Cernan
John W. Young
America
Cape Kennedy
Moon
Stafford
Cernan
Lunar
Neil A. Armstrong
Edwin E
Buzz
Aldrin
John F. Kennedy
Congress
United States
Faye Stafford
Barbara Cernan
Barbara Young
Pacific
Glynn Lunney
Armstrong
Michael Collins
Young
Long Burning Light Bulb Haunts Fort Worth Opera House
In Fort Worth Texas the Byers Opera House stage bulb lit on September 21 1908 and has burned ever since. Barry Burke a stagehand installed it and died over five years ago. Experts note the bulb lights without interruption and a heavy carbon filament may explain its longevity.
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Fort Worth
Tex
UPI
Burke
Byers Opera House
Palace Theater
Bank Street property sells at sheriff sale for 8500
Home Savings and Loan Co. of Norwalk sued Clifford Ellis and others leading to a sheriff sale of a house and lot at 6 Bank St. The winning bid of 8500 was placed by Louis and Rachel Kovacs of rural Norwalk. Appraised value was 7500 with minimum bid 5000.
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Bank St
Louis
Rachel Kovacs
Norwalk
Clifford Ellis
Home Savings and Loan Co
Parsons Wins 700 In St Thomas Drag Race
Parson s wins 700 in Street Eliminator at the St Thomas Dragway Ltd in Ontario Canada. Jim Parsons and his High and Mighty Crew drove a National Hot Rod Association record holder to a 9.72 second quarter mile to beat all rivals in the second annual International Drag Sweepstakes. Parsons qualified in trials driving at 144 miles an hour with 16 entrants.
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Norwalk
Jim Parsons
High and Mighty
St. Thomas
Ontario
Canada
Parsons
National
Hot Rod Association
St. Thomas Dragway Ltd
Manlowe Family Sells Its Stock Move on United Buckingham Deal
Denver trucking firm Rigsby Truck Lines bids to gain controlling interest in United Buckingham Freight Lines and Norwalk Truck Lines after negotiating to buy 58.9 percent of the common stock. ICC approval required. The deal follows Manlowe family control with John Manlowe as chair and Donald Manlowe as president. United Buckingham operates in 24 states and four Canadian provinces with revenue of 83 million dollars last year.
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Denver
United Buckingham Freight Lines, Inc
Norwalk Truck Lines
Interstate Commerce Commission
Gail Crawford
Rigsby Truck Lines
United Buckingham
Norwalk
ICC
J.W. Rigsby
Rigsby
John B. Manlowe
John Manlowe
Donald
Crawford
Manlowe
Rigsby System
Lendrum Chairs Huron County Board of Visitors
John T. Lendrum of Norwalk was elected chairman of the Huron County Board of Visitors on Saturday morning. The panel oversees inspections of public and penal institutions including jails and the county home, with appointments by Judge Russell T. Antrim. Other members include Phillis Bailey New London Frances Carpenter North Fairfield Kevin F. Doyle Norwalk Helen Ellis Willard and Walter Staph Bellevue.
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John T. Lendrum
Norwalk
Huron County Board of Visitors
Phillis Bailey
New London
Frances Carpenter
North Fairfield
Kevin F. Doyle
Helen Ellis
Willard
Walter Staph
Bellevue
Russell T. Antrim
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Manhattan
UPI Telephoto
Rhodes
Senate
Robert Gregory
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Dennis T. Connolly
Glen Rock N.J
U.S. Army
Cynthia L. Browning
Norman Hills Jr
Berlin Heights
Donna Sizemore
Franklin Ousley
Linda Bernard
David E. George
Sharon L. Cann
Thomas D. Robinson
Sharon L. Klepper
Layard Miller
A. Colonel Knight
Olena
Park M. Yost
Rocky River
Gary H. Lambertson, Jr
South Amboy
N.J
William Hensley
Collins
Beauty
New Miss Firelands
Paulette Breen
Susan Ricci
Diana Izzard
Apollo
O.C. Carlson
Texas Electric Service
Bank Street Property
Manlowe Family
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