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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1968
Page
5
Elyria educators face mounting costs and morale issues as they seek passage of a 6 mill operating levy. Margaret Strohm notes Elyria ranks seventh in county salaries and lags in starting pay for special staff, while district growth and aging buildings strain funds.
A union of Elyria non teaching school employees formed last October opposes the May six mill levy for local schools. Local 567 president Robert Bungard says the Lorain County Federation of Labor also opposes the levy while the board remains anti labor. The union seeks wage, benefit, and recognition demands contingent on levy passage, and wants bargaining rights for all non teaching staff. Public school employees, including 103 certified members, support the levy, with local groups split on backing it.
Ohio Attorney General William B. Saxbe called for strengthening state and local police after King’s assassination. He proposed a intercounty crime agency a statewide subsidy for counties and towns a career system and a state academy to train officers. He warned against indiscriminate shooting and noted low officer salaries and rising organized crime and racial tensions strain the system.
Representative Henry Schriver urged local officials at a Lorain County regional planning meeting to press state highway officials for action on road corridors. The group discussed the L-71 connector to Lorain and the Lorain County Airport, with possible routes awaiting Seven-County study data.
Amherst Ohio. The Amherst Exempted Village Board of Education approved the resignations of five athletic coaches last night while they remain teachers for the current year. Norris Smith was named baseball coach with a $459 annual coaching salary added to his teaching pay. Resigning were Arthur Thomas Russell Kepler Ronald Camp and John Durig. Thomas would consider another athletics post. Crile cited emotional climate and pursuit of a new coaching position elsewhere.
Lorain County Commissioner Laxiwig M. Pincura and Jerry Keron were reapointed to committees of the Ohio County Commissioners Association. Pincura stays on the taxation committee to be called in the early session by chairman Charles F. Madden Jr. of Summit County. Keron remains on the highway committee appointed by Guy Neeper of Lucas County.
Russ Davies reports the Lorain Rotary District Conference will be held at Admiral King High School with 8:30 a.m. Saturday registration and a governor’s banquet Saturday evening. The program includes Rotary Annes on both days, and John Corogin of Lorain/ Lake Erie Electric spoke at Elyria Rotary. Lorain County has six clubs including Elyria Lorain Avon Avon Lake Oberlin Amherst Vermilion.
An Avon Lake session from 1 to 4 p.m. at Ben Lupe Chevrolet informs Sheffield Lake and Amherst Jaycees area boys and dads about the Lorain County Soap Box Derby. Derby director Robert Pallante will answer questions and show a film while displaying a winning racer by Robert Nickols of Elyria.
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