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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1969
Page
9
Avon Lake school administrators and Avon Lake Teachers Association representatives reported progress after weekend talks. Supt. Robert J. Robinson and association president Richard Turner issued statements while a public meeting on the walkout was postponed.
Russell Davies recalls pens mailed by Frances Mottola and lists local New Mexico firms. He notes Mottola’s Navy career, his wife’s state employment, and his parents’ Elyria visit, then answers three reader inquiries about the Browns schedule, Kentucky Derby tickets, and Cleveland Indians home attendance. The column ends with a quip about losing a cent.
President Rene Barrientos Ortuno died at 49 when his helicopter crashed in flames during a visit to peasants in the interior. Two aides perished, the helicopter struck a power line, and Vice President Luis Adolfo Siles assumed the presidency. Barrientos was famed for surviving multiple assassination attempts and enjoying public adulation.
New London School Superintendent Joseph Hurley states he has no knowledge of teen drug use in the New London area. The report in yesterday's Chronicle Telegraph had claimed youths were using drugs locally, but Hurley says the assertion was an error.
131 bills face House committees as Speaker Kurfess shifts focus from floor votes to hearings. Measures include education funding via local income taxes, while others seek job restrictions for inmates and longer council terms in noncharter cities. Senate actions cover day care licensing and housing divisions in municipal court.
A federal survey found wide gaps in state meat inspection programs but notes significant improvements in 1968 under the Wholesome Meat Act. The Agriculture Department reports progress toward federal standards, with 15,925 intrastate plants surveyed and only 6,271 under formal inspection in 1967 rising to 6,899 by 1968 end.
The Vermilion river swelling each spring may force relocation of Gore Orphanage Road in Herrietta Township. Lorain County official Charles Waryn says a future relocation is likely after trustees requested guard rail repairs in a washed out stretch north of Route 113. Two guard rail posts were washed out. river bank depth is about 60 feet. Posts to be replaced by the county engineering department.
Erie County deputies investigate after a badly decomposed thigh fragment was found Saturday on the south side of Kelleys Island. The county coroner is examining the remains and no identification has yet been made.
Phi Delta Theta members from Miami-Dade Junior College ran a 13 mile miniature freedom torch relay through downtown Miami. Commissioner Earl Starnes presented the group with a key, stressing the display was not pro or anti war but a show of backing for American servicemen in Vietnam. President Tom Wrenn noted his stepbrother was killed in Vietnam and said the fraternity stands behind the troops.
Todd Quester, five, of Amherst, remained in a coma at Cleveland's Babies and Children's Hospital with a suspected brown recluse spider bite. He received anti venom from Brazil, worsened after a delay, and was placed on a respirator with tube feeding and antibiotics. his father teaches at Vermilion Junior High.
Sanitation crews with the street department began rubbish collection after a city employee walkout. Work resumed following a Friday meeting ending with an agreement. Council plans a vote on recognizing the Employees Association and negotiating a 10 percent pay rise and other contract terms.
Forty-six of forty-eight Oberlin College students found guilty of taking part in a disruptive demonstration against US Marine Corps information officers have chosen their punishment. They could accept a one week suspension or a two week probationary period with no further demonstrations through the next school year. Twenty-three picked the suspensions, twenty-three chose probation, one student is unaccounted, and William Hedges was suspended indefinitely.
In Lorain youth protesters circled Lakeview Park with signs mocking war critics while hecklers from about 200 onlookers jeered and clapped. William Hedges, suspended from Gberlin College for interfering with routines, attacked local media and urged a free press.
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