Portraits at Norwalk High Moved After Study Hall Change
Portraits of Norwalk High School’s first graduate Sarah Wilkinson Dunbar and many former students and teachers were removed from the study hall after its conversion into a library. Some portraits are in storage, others re hung in classrooms or the band and custodians rooms. The portraits, some possibly by Charles C Curran, include figures such as R Paul Laycock and Walter Thomas, with Sarah Wilkinson Dunbar slated for possible display in the administration board room.
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Sarah Wilkinson Dunbar
Sarah
Norwalk High School
James Rubright
Rubright
Rlbright
R. Paul Laycock
Charles C. Curran
Curran
Grace M. Wickham
Norwalk
Charles P. Wickham
Huron County Common Pleas
Edward Cripps
Cripps
H. L. Oviatt
Walter Thomas
P. J. Garcia
Carl Seibel
David E. Stewart
Homer Ellis
Madge Mossman
James E. Cole
Charles C. Patterson
Clinton N. Stevenson
Burton Chandler
James N. Ross
James H. McBride
Tobias R. Storer
Huron County voters to face eight tenths mill levy for roads
County commissioners unanimously approved a five year 0.8 mill levy to fund road and bridge work in Huron County and filed it with the elections board for November. If approved the levy would raise about 240000, but funds may not be used on township roads.
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Huron County
Board of Elections
Richard Hauser
Robinson seeks habeas relief in second Willard murder case
Lawrence D. Robinson, convicted in 1975 of murder and murder during a robbery in the 1973 death of Alice White Womack, petitions the Huron County Common Pleas Court for a writ of habeas corpus claiming due process denial. He alleges prosecution witness Lonnie Westbrook was coerced and had pending charges, with Westbrook saying he was pressured by then county prosecutor William Owens. Judge Harry Bozarth oversaw the second trial in Huron County. Robinson is serving two consecutive life terms at Lucasville.
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Lawrence D. Robinson
Willard
Huron County Common Pleas Court
Robinson
Lonnie Westbrook
Westbrook
William Owens
Alice White Womack
Seneca County
Harry Bozarth
Huron County Pleas Court
Ohio
Lucasville
County ends CETA administrator contract for Leveritt
Huron County Commissioners will not renew Ed Leveritt’s CETA program administrator contract as of Sept 30, though he remains North Star Council of Governments director. Eleanor Beck stays as CETA director, paid by North Star, while the pay shift to direct CETA funding is considered. In separate Ohio Lottery news, William Kinninger wins 150000, bringing his week total to 300000. Other winners and the night’s winning numbers are listed.
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Huron County
Ed Leveritt
Leveritt
North Star Council of Governments
Edward Still
Still
North Star
Cleveland
UPI
William Kinninger
Kinninger
Katherine Meyer
Canton
Herman Wearsch
North Olmsted
Renee Dean
Cincinnati
Laura Nichols
Fairborn
Ohio
Weather and notices from LC and local births deaths
Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday with a 30 percent chance of showers or thundershowers. Lows in the low 60s tonight. highs in the low 60s Saturday. winds light and variable. Births: Larry and Vickey Classen Plymouth girl Fisher-Titus. David and Rebecca Hite Norwalk boy Fisher-Titus. Kenneth and Wendy Reiderman Plymouth girl Fisher-Titus. Deaths: Louis Strum 84 Berlin Heights. Maxwell I. Carpenter 63 Norwalk. A tadpole with thyroid tissue removed will stay a tadpole unless thyroid extract is added to the water, then it becomes a smaller frog.
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Larry and
Vickey Classen
Plymouth
Fisher-Titus
David and
Rebecca Hite
Norwalk
Kenneth and
Wendy Reiderman
Louis Strum
Berlin Heights
Maxwell I. Carpenter
Norwalk Teachers Seek Talks To Reopen Master Agreement
The Norwalk Teachers Association plans to renegotiate several items in the master agreement adopted last spring. Four to five major issues and 20 to 25 minor wording changes are sought, with no salary schedule changes planned. The base pay for starting teachers remains 9325 this year, rising to 9900 on Jan 1, 1979. The district aims to resume talks Sept 15, 1979, amid questions about contract expiry. Szabo cites agreement terms and awaiting the board’s official position.
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Norwalk Teachers Association
NTA
School Board
Lynn Szabo
Szabo
James Rubright
Rubright
CAC to rent Rheba Bennett School in Willard for Head Start
The Erie Huron County Community Action Commission voted 9 to 1 with two abstentions to rent Rheba Bennett School in Willard for the Head Start Program and Neighborhood Opportunity Center. The move comes after Willard residents opposed leasing amid the district's class cuts at the site.
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Sandusky
Erie
Huron County Community Action Commission
Rheba Bennett School
Willard
CAC
Mideast Summit Talks Reaching Core Issues
At Camp David Egypt and Israel edge toward core Middle East issues as talks intensify. Sadat and Begin direct, Carter mildly mediates, while Palestinians and Arab leaders call for rights and end to occupation amid ongoing negotiations through the weekend.
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Camp David, Md
UPI
Camp David
Middle East
Anwar Sadat
Egypt
Menachem Begin
Israel
Carter
White House
Cyrus Vance
Defense
Harold Brown
Sadat
Begin
Marine Corps
Vance
National Security
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Walter Mondale
Income Tax Cut Almost Certain
Washington UPI reports the Senate Finance Committee moved to draft a broad income tax cut ahead of business taxes and capital gains cuts. Chair Russell Long proposes expanding the earned income credit with a plan to raise the maximum to 600 dollars, while Senator Bob Dole suggests a new exemption for the totally disabled.
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Washington
UPI
Senate Finance Committee
House
Russell Long
D-La
Bob Dole
R-yan
Long
Dole
Senate
Disease Expert Sent To New York
The CDC sent its top Legionnaires disease expert, Dr. David Fraser, to New York City to trace the outbreak in the garment district where two deaths occurred and cases have appeared in Washington DC Rochester NY and Memphis TN. Four CDC specialists are on the scene. Improved lab techniques can identify the bacterium within three days. The move aims to locate the source and prevent further spread.
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National Center For Disease Control
New York City
Washington D.C
Rochester
Memphis
Tenn
David Fraser
CDC
Fraser
Philadelphia
George Morris
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Reflector
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Andy
Melvin Shipley
Roth Construction
Norfolk and Western Railroad
CETA
Ohio Lottery
Board of Education
Ohio Education Association
OFA
Rheba Bennett
Margo Shirk
Willard Board of Education
Mideast
Poole
Mark Brouwer
Rheta Bennett
Mary Rather
New York
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