County Ready For Severe Winter, Officials Say
Huron County officials told about 50 people at a disaster meeting that the county is in 95 percent better shape than last year and ready to handle another severe winter storm. The Emergency Operations Center will have new contact numbers, citizen bands, amateur radios, and a state system for county wide coordination. Officials cited past communication problems between county and townships during the February blizzard and said upgrades will address radio shortages and dispatch plans.
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Huron County
Edward Still
Robert
Hauser
Marvin Miller
United States Weather Service Office
Cleveland
Miller
Robert Sutherland
National Guard
Dale Liebenthal
Willard Oktoberfest Begins Tonight Top Of The News
Nine people face prosecutions on attempted looting charges tied to the wreckage of the worst U.S. plane crash, which killed 150. Police reported 26 arrests, many juveniles, with some facing federal theft charges for stealing from victims and aircraft parts.
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San Diego
UPI
U.S
Cincinnati boards suit Ohio school financing case
Cincinnati Board of Education filed a federal suit claiming Ohio’s method of financing public schools violates the U.S. Constitution. The action is part of a wave of similar Ohio suits over two years challenging state school funding. Milk price rises foreseen in Ohio and surrounding states. In Bristol, Tenn., humane officer resigns and two officers suspended after reports of dog killings. five carcasses found, ruling names officials and sanctions.
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Columbus
UPI
Cincinnati Board of Education
U.S
Ohio
Cleveland
Bristol, Tenn
Bristol Humane Society
M.A. Godsey
Beaver Creek
Godsey
Mike Schaeffer
Tom McDaniels
Jerry Rotenberry
Weather and notices from The Record September 28 1978
Weather forecast clear and cool tonight with lows 35 to 40. Mostly sunny and cool Friday with highs mid to upper 60s and near zero to 10 percent chance of rain. North winds around five mph tonight. Wednesday temperatures about 79 to 44 with 0.01 inch precipitation. Births Eric Heyman Norwalk boy Fisher Titus Anthony Pyanowski Norwalk boy Fisher Titus. Marriage license applicants Duane Graffice Norwalk mill hand and Barbara Corrigan Norwalk secretary Nathaniel Maggard Plymouth factory worker and Sharon Waddles Plymouth clerk. Deaths James Sigler 62 formerly Norwalk Sandusky Elizabeth Allender 13 Marietta formerly Norwalk. First two car accident believed in 1900 Kansas City there were two cars.
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Duane H. Graffice
Norwalk
Barbara J. Corrigan
Nathaniel Maggard
Plymouth
Sharon D. Waddles
James Sigler
Sandusky
Elizabeth Ann Allender
Marietta
County Nearing Landfill Agreement
Huron County Commissioners, with Sanitary Engineer Richard Mutz, negotiate using 50 acres to extend the county landfill. Plan requires Ohio EPA approval. purchase from Joyce Claus for 30,000 with a 31 acre land swap in Peru Township. Payment funded from landfill revenues. Claus resisted until a court power to appropriate public land for landfills was enacted.
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Huron County Commissioners
Richard Mutz
Ohio Environmental Protection Agency
Joyce Claus
Mrs. Claus
Peru Township
Townline 131
Israel Approves Camp David Accord to Seek Egypt Peace
Israel’s Knesset votes 84 to 19 to approve the Camp David framework and withdraw 20 Sinai settlements. Defense Minister Ezer Weizman will travel to Egypt after Yom Kippur to begin talks on new Israeli lines, base handovers, Suez passage, and US intelligence cooperation as a historic peace effort with an Arab nation.
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Jerusalem
UPI
Ezer Weizman
Egypt
Camp David
Knesset
Sinai
Menachem Begin
Weizman
Middle East
Suez Canal
Golan Heights
Mohammed Gamassy
United States
Begin
Carter
Israel
Warning System Alarm Failed In PSA Flight Collision
About 40 seconds before a Pacific Southwest Airlines Boeing 727 collided with a single engine Cessna, a computerized warning sounded at Miramar but could not be heard by Lindbergh Field controllers. Efforts to relay the warning were too late as the jetliner and small plane crashed killing about 150 people.
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San Diego
UPS
U.S
Miramar
Lindbergh Field
Pacific Southwest Airlines
Phillip Hogue
National Transportation Safety Board
Lindbergh
PSA
Hogue
Sommers Reappointed To 648 Board In Huron County
David Sommers was reappointed to the Huron County Mental Health and Mental Retardation Board six officials noted. His four year term runs to Oct 10, 1982 following a recommendation by 648 Board Director Robert Klenk. The commissioners interviewed six candidates and planned another interview. Carrol Jean Timman was hired as courthouse building attendant effective Oct 12.
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David Sommers
Huron County Mental Health and Mental Retardation Board
Robert Klenk
Carrol Jean Timman
Woodlawn Ave
Caroline Spoerr Named New Welfare Director
Caroline Spoerr was unanimously named acting director of the Huron County Welfare Department by the county commissioners. She will take the post October 1 with a six month probation, replacing Grant Walls who resigned after heading the department since 1968. Spoerr traces her rise from clerk typist to administrative assistant and notes expanded services including food stamps, child support, and home health care under state and federal mandates. She plans slow, careful changes and cites ongoing certification of all foster and receiving homes amid past criticisms of standards.
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Caroline Spoerr
Huron County Commissioners
Grant Walls
Walls
Spoerr
Benedict Ave
Huron County
Thomas Heydinger
Cinevue Flap Over Channel Plans Sparks City Tug
Continental Cablevision area manager Joe Helms called the Cinevue dispute a difference of interpretation with Norwalk officials while pledging to abide by the 1970 franchise. Mayor Wayne Goodsite says Cinevue would breach the contract by replacing channel 7 educational service, leaving 11 channels. Helms noted other cities’ usage and said legal review will guide final company decision.
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Joe Helms
Continental Cablevision
Cinevue
Helms
Wayne Goodsite
Norwalk
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Washington
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Stockholm
Sweden
Billy Graham
Scandinavia
Graham
Raps School Financing
Eric and
Diane Heyman
Fisher-Titus
Anthony and
Janine Pyanowski
Kansas City
West Main Street
Paul Stafford
Sommers
Huron County Welfare Department
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