Police unveil portable Speedgun to nab speeders
City police introduced a new $1000 Speedgun from CMI Inc of Minturn Colorado. Weighing under two pounds it clips to a car cigarette lighter and exposes speed at the rear. Officers say it offers quick readings from several hundred feet away and may improve accuracy over older radar systems. A walking officer could carry a unit with a radio link to a cruiser for instant reports.
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CMI, Incorporated
Minturn
Colo
L.C. Hilson
Hilson
West Main Street
Vinewood
Vascar
Western Reserve Board Cannot Pay Salary Increments
The Western Reserve Board of Education cannot fund increments in the current salary schedule due to the wage price freeze. A letter from State Superintendent Martin Essex clarified that increments cannot be paid for contracts starting September 1 or 7, while July-starting vocational agriculture and home economics teachers remain eligible.
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Wakeman
Western Reserve Board of Education
State
Martin Essex
Evelyn Radcliffe
Euclid Accused of Dumping Sewage into Lake Erie
EPA charges Euclid Willoughby and Eastlake pollute Lake Erie with four million gallons of raw sewage monthly from Euclid and 42 industrial discharges via storm sewers. Hearings in Wickliffe on water quality violations proceed as EPA names the three cities.
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Cleveland
UPS
Federal Environmental Protection Agency
Euclid
Lake Erie
Wickliffe
Willoughby
Eastlake
James McDonald
EPA
Hurricane Fern Threats Texas Coast In 300 Mile Span
Hurricane Fern with 90 mph winds lingered offshore off the Texas coast. The storm’s fringes sent squalls inland and whitecaps flooded beaches from Corpus Christie to Mexico. Coastal residents boarded up and waited by radios for updates on potential landfall.
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Brownsville
Tex
UPI
Texas
Corpus Christie
Mexico
Agriculture plan to end 49 cent food stamp change
Washington officials announced a policy cancellation in response to criticism from a Congressional conference committee on Agriculture Department appropriations. The change would remove the 49 cent change given to needy shoppers using food stamps. In Cleveland, Sara Krasnoff 74 died after a brief illness following reports of transatlantic flights with her grandson Mitchell Gelfand 14 to shield him from psychiatric treatment.
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Washington
UPI
Agriculture Department
Richard E. Lyng
Congressional Conference Committee On Agriculture Department
Cleveland
University Heights
Sara Krasnoff
Holland
Mitchell Gelfand
Orange
Ohio
U S Japan Hold High Level Talks Over Friction
Washington reports that the United States and Japan began top level talks on economic and political issues. Japanese Foreign Minister Takeo Fukuda warned that economic friction could strain friendship and noted Nixon exposing Japan to China created political shock at home.
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Washington
UPI
United States
Japan
Takeo Fukuda
Nixon
China
Weather and notices from Norwalk area
Considerable cloudiness cooler today with highs 75 to 80. Partly cloudy tonight and Friday with a low in the 60s and highs around 80 to 85. Precipitation 20 percent. Winds NE 10 to 15 mph today, then variable tonight and S near 10 mph Friday. Norwalk temperatures show 91 high and 60 low with humidity at 8 am 90 percent and 2 pm 88. Births in Monroeville and Norwalk. death of George F. Johnson, 74, Berlin Heights.
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Norwalk
Nixon Declines to Extend Wage Price Freeze
President Nixon announced the 90 day wage price rent freeze will not be extended beyond November 13 and urged a stabilization system afterward. He spoke to Congress proposing a national goal of 100 million extra jobs in 10 years and urged tax cuts totaling 5.9 billion to spur hiring amid shifting global economic power. Some labor leaders dispute the job projections.
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Washington
America
House
Nixon
Congress
Executive
Legislative
Mayor Vetoes City Council's Sewer Action
Mayor Harold Finch vetoed the council resolution to hire Toledo firm Finkbeiner Pettis and Strout for the sewer separation project. He cited indefiniteness and urged a Norwalk firm, citing home‑grown fees up to 200000. Council had voted 5 to 2 to award the contract to the Toledo firm.
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Harold Finch
Toledo
Finch
Norwalk
Finance Committee
Richard Cunningham
Finkbeiner, Pettis and Strout
Allen Hakes
Domenic Coletta
Richard E. Mutz
Jones
Cunningham
Ohio Water Pollution Control Board
Herbert Krogh
Kennedy Center opening shines with massy reception
Mrs Rose Kennedy in the Presidential box praised Bernstein Mass at the $70 million John F Kennedy Center opening. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis stayed abroad. Not all approved with Alice Roosevelt Longworth calling it maudlin while Rev Hartke questioned the rite's Catholic fidelity. Bernstein is Jewish.
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Washington
UPI
Rose Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
Kennedy
Gilbert Hartke
Catholic University
Father Hartke
Bernstein
Connally Forecasts 27 to 28 Billion Budget Deficit
Treasury chief Connally and OMB director Shultz warned the 1972 deficit would reach 27 to 28 billion dollars, up from prior estimates, with corporate tax receipts dropping due to weaker profits. The forecast follows a 23.2 billion deficit last year and ahead of Nixon's Capitol Hill address on tax proposals.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
George P. Shultz
Office of Management and Budget
Treasury
John B. Connally
Shultz
House
Ways and Means Committee
Capitol Hill
Congress
Connally
House Ways and Means Committee
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George F. Johnson
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Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
Joan
John F. Kennedy Center For the Performing Arts
Ecstatic
Leonard Bernstein
UPI Telephoto
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