Dr Abe Silverstein Honored In Rockefeller Public Service Awards
Dr Abe Silverstein of Cleveland is one of six national winners of the 1968 Rockefeller Public Service Awards for work in aeronautics jet engine propulsion for aircraft and rocket propulsion for spacecraft. He has 40 years in government service and will be honored at a Washington luncheon on Dec 4. He is recovering from a heart attack.
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Cleveland
UPS
Abe Silverstein
Silverstein
Washington
Two Held In Theft Of Area Farm Crops
Clyde men Larry Jenkins and Kenneth Beekman are jailed by Sandusky County for alleged crop thefts in Huron and Sandusky Counties. They face three counts apiece of breaking and entering and grand larceny after allegedly stealing 300 bushels of soybeans 5770 pounds of corn and 3350 pounds of oats and selling them to area elevators.
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Clyde
Sandusky County
Huron
Sandusky
Larry Jenkins
Kenneth Beekman
Huron County
Richard Andres
Beekman
Erie County
Andres
Lyle Smith
Steuben
Wayne Murphy
Peru Center Road
Howard Smith
Snyder Road
Dan Siesel
Ford to co-direct Nixon inauguration with Dirksen
Washington announces House Republican Leader Gerald R. Ford will join Senate rival Everett M. Dirksen as co-directors of the Nixon inauguration. Speaker McCormack relinquishes his chairmanship to allow Ford’s role. In Columbus John Gilligan weakens chances for DNC chair, dismissing Newsweek’s Nov 18 report as unfounded.
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Washington
Dfi
House
Gerald R. Ford
Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
Richard M. Nixon
John W. McCormack
Joint Inauguration Committee
Ford
Columbus
UPI
John J. Gilligan
Newsweek Magazine
Gilligan
Kenneth O'Donnel
John F. Kennedy
Lawrence O’brien
Antioch College Students Petition For Mustache Cups
Twenty Antioch College students petition the administration to provide mustache cups in the cafeteria to avoid soggy mustaches and gummed up mugs. They argue ordinary mugs hinder those with facial hair during meals.
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Yellow Springs, Ohio
UPI
Antioch College
Batchelder to Leave Army for Ohio General Assembly
Medina Ohio William G Batchelder III will be discharged from the Army to take his seat in the Ohio General Assembly He was elected to the 23rd District on November 5 after a four man race and defeated Democrat John Adamsky in last weeks general election The 25 year old representative elect filed petitions to run in the May primary and was drafted last April for military service.
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Medina
Ohio
UPI
William G. Batchelder III
Ohio General Assembly
Batchelder
General Assembly
John Adamsky
Weather outlook with rain risk and mild temperatures
Cloudy and warmer today with a chance of rain by evening. Highs in the upper 40s to lower 50s. Tonight and Friday cloudy with rain likely and warmer. Lows in the lower 40s. Wednesday high in Norwalk 40 and low 26 with trace precipitation. Humidity 59-72 percent. sunrise 7 14 a.m. sunset 5 09 p.m. Births and deaths listed for local area.
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Norwalk
Airport May Get 50000 State Grant For Huron County
Huron County may receive a 50000 state grant from Issue No 1 approved by Ohio voters for airport improvements including hangars taxiways ramps and lighting. The Airport Authority and County Commissioners discussed needs to justify funding and potential leasing offers while delaying cost estimates until after January legislative action.
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Huron County
Ohio
Huron County Airport Authority
T.L. Paffenbarger
Authority
Ethel Swanbeck
Paffenbarger
Schools To Close If 2 Levies Fail
Monroeville and Western Reserve schools would close next fall if their levies fail in the Dec. 10 special elections. Officials say bank accounts will run dry early next year. Monroeville would close in October and Western Reserve in November. South Central also faces a levy vote Dec. 10 to raise 3.5 mills, alongside Monroeville's 7 mills and Western Reserve's five mills.
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Monroeville
Western Reserve
South Central
Huron County Board of Elections
Board of Elections
Western Reserve Board
Car Spins On Bridge Injuring Monroeville Motorist
A Monroeville woman, 21, is treated at Fisher-Titus Hospital after her convertible rolled over on a bridge at 8 a.m. Frost made the surface slippery, causing the crash on Milan Avenue.
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Monroeville
Fisher-Titus Hospital
Diana Koch
Milan Avenue
Celeryville
Sheller Globe Nears Purchase of Superior Coach
Sheller Globe Corp of Toledo has agreed in principle to acquire Superior Coach Corp, already holding 36 percent. The $20 million stock transfer would make Superior Coach a Sheller Globe subsidiary after ratification at early 1969 stockholders meetings. Superior Coach, with plants in Norwalk Lima and Kosciusko Miss, makes school buses and related vehicles and posted 1967 sales around $57 million with $2.8 million net income and about 2,000 employees. Sheller Globe seeks diverse auto parts and office furniture lines with 1968 year estimates of $140 million sales and $6.2 million net income.
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Sheller Globe Corp
Toledo
Superior Coach Corp
Sheller Globe
Superior Coach
Superior Coach Today
Norwalk
Lima
Koscinsko
Miss
Boxer Suffering Fatal Disease Given Honors
Former heavyweight champion Ezzard Charles, stricken with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, was honored at a Chicago benefit. About 1,300 attendees helped raise at least 15000 for a trust fund for Charles and his wife, while he spoke from a wheelchair.
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Chicago
UPI
Ezzard Charles
Lou Gherig
Charles
NATO Plans To Beef Up Its Defenses
In Brussels the United States and NATO partners launch a drive to add troops, guns, tanks, planes and money to Western Europe defense after the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia. Key U.S. officials head a three day ministerial gathering urging underarmed allies, especially West Germany, to contribute more to the common defense.
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NATO
Brussels
UPI
United States
Atlantic
Europe
Czechoslovakia
Dean Rusk
Defense
Clark M. Clifford
Treasury
Henry H. Fowler
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Johnson
West Germany
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Honor Silverstein
Mexico City
Bertha Vazquez
Miguel
Vazquez
San Francisco
San Francisco State College
Robert R. Smith
Cleveland State University
Bowling Green State University
CSU
Harold Enarson
Bowling Green
NASA
John Manke
Edwards Air Force Base
Calif
Leonard Foster
Norwood
Sol Tackett
Plymouth
Charles Weatherbie
Greenwich
Dayton A. Williams
Union, Wash
Leonard M. Miller
Deerfield Beach
Fla
Donald Robertson
Aviation Columbus
Airport Authority
Western
Clarence E. Koon, Jr
Wiers Road
Jeffrey A. Minich
New Washington
Koon
Wilfred Feichaber
Minich
Leota A. Haupricht
White House
UPI Telephoto
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