Oberlin youths escape as Big Thompson flood swallows car
Two Oberlin High School students John Wood and Tim Bean barely survived when their car was swept into the Big Thompson River near Estes Park Colorado. They climbed a floating car and then a tree before rescue. Relatives in Amherst Lorain and Sheffield Lake await word on others believed near the flood. Police say the toll reaches 99 with more expected.
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Big Thompson
Loveland
Colo
Oberlin High School
John Wood
Tim Bean
Rae Jacob
Franklin Ave
Amherst
Johanna Tilbury
Oberlin
Wood
E. College St
Bean
Leavitt Rd
Colorado
Estes Park
Legion disease cases rise in PA three-state outbreak
Medical researchers pursue cause of the legionnaire's disease that has killed 21 in Pennsylvania and sent over 140 to hospitals across three states. Officials note ongoing rise, with extensive federal and state mobilization. Victims attended a state American Legion convention in Philadelphia. No confirmed secondary spread yet, but not ruled out. The article also mentions cultures from Victims at CDC in Atlanta and broader legislative action amid the outbreak.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Leonard Bachman
Federal Center For Disease Control
Atlanta
Walter Dowdle
New Jersey
New York
American Legion
Philadelphia
Bachman
State Health Department
Bob Costello
Tall ship Erawan opens in Cleveland during Bicentennial
The tall ship Erawan, part of New York Operation Sail 76, visits Cleveland and will be open to visitors today and tomorrow from 2 to 5 p.m. at Pier 4, first pier west of East 9th Street. Built in Sweden in 1947, it became a luxury charter vessel in 1972 sailing the Caribbean and Mediterranean.
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Cleveland
New York City
Pier 4
East 9Th
Erawan
Sweden
Caribbean
Mediterranean
Gene Krebs
Medina County Fair opens with Youth Day and events
Cindy Berner of LaGrange sampled fair treats on opening day at Medina County Fair grounds in Medina. Highlights include Youth Day today senior citizens day tomorrow and the Bee Queen pageant Friday. Photo credits note C-T shot by George Hadnutt. Barred by copyright.
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Cindy
Medina Fair
Cindy Berner
LaGrange
Medina County
Medina
Edwin Berner
Diagonal Rd
George Hadnutt
Death of Cleveland TV newsman Murray Stewart
Veteran Cleveland television newscaster Murray Stewart, 53, was found dead in a motel room. An autopsy was planned to determine the cause. Police found no empty Nembetal pills. Stewart had reported for work earlier and asked his coanchor Jim Finerty to fill in.
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Cleveland
Murray Stewart
Stewart
Jim Finerty
Channel 8
Weather Outlook Mixed Clouds and Warm Temps Ahead
Partly cloudy tonight with lows around 56 and no low record. Cloudy and warm tomorrow with highs in the mids. Rain chances 18 percent tonight and 16 percent tomorrow. Last night's low tied a date record at 52 and yesterday's high reached 74.
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High
Low
Netaile
Missouri vote winner dies in Kansas City plane crash
UPI reports Rep. Jerry Litton won the Democratic nomination for senator in Missouri but perished in a crash near Chillicothe after takeoff for a celebratory rally in Kansas City. Also killed were his wife Sharon, their two children, the pilot and his son.
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ST. Louis
UPI
Jerry Litton
Missouri
Litton
Kansas City
Sharon
Scott
Linda
Paul Rupp Jr
James W. Symington
Stuart Symington
Warren E. Hearnes
Sharon Litton
Gallatin sentenced to prison for theft
Kenneth Gallatin, 29, former Oberlin teacher convicted on theft by deception and receiving stolen property, was sentenced to an indeterminate 4 to 10 years in Mansfield Reformatory and fined 5000 dollars plus court costs. Judge Mikus stayed the Mansfield sentence pending appeal, with the fine due immediately. Gallatin was jailed for nonpayment and had been free on a 10000 dollar bond posted by Natalie Gallatin of Massillon.
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Kenneth Gallatin
Oberlin
Mansfield Reformatory
Common Pleas
Paul J. Mikus
Gallatin
Elyria
Anthony J. Marsico
Mikus
Mansfield
Natalie Gallatin
Massillon
Leg trap ban on Ohio ballot caution in ballot bid
Ohio voters may face a measure to ban leg-hold traps as the Ohio Committee for Humane Trapping races to file 307,201 signatures with the Secretary of State. As of yesterday the group reported between 200,000 and 200,000 signatures, with counting ongoing to decide if the measure advances to November or next June’s primary.
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Columbus
Ohio
Secretary of State
Ohio Committee For Humane Trapping
Bruce Rouch
Rouch
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Miss Tilbury
Laura Page
Wooster College
Jacob
Big Thompson Canyon
Lorain
Sheffield Lake
Patty Pearce
Arthur D. Pearce
Shadylawn Dr
California
Pearce
Toledo
Lorain County
American Red Cross
Tim
Kim Tonry
Congress
Tall Ship
Cincinnati
Carol Limdzer
Alver
Sergei Nemeanov
Montreal
Ft. Lauderdale
Sergei
Barbara Loreno
Oshawa
Canada
Niagara River
Youngstown
N.Y
Lake Ontario
Toronto
Ontario Place
C-T
Livingston County
Kelsey Reeter
Chillicothe
U.S. 36
Lock Springs
Symington
Hearne
Jerry
Plaza Hilton
Carolyn Ashford
Washington
Walter A. Godfrey
Cuyahoga
Paul Schroeder
Columbus Bureau
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