09 Aug 1970
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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1970
Page
1
Eight Lorain County communities confront distinct issues from crime in Lorain to flooding in Vermilion and pollution in Avon Lake while Oberlin focuses on human relations. Citizens demand proactive leadership to maintain and improve city services.
The Chronicle Telegram asked city officials how city services have improved recently amid budget limits and council disagreements. Officials say government has taken definite steps forward to enhance life in their communities, despite funding and political challenges.
Elyria boosts night safety with 400 mercury vapor street lights and more police, firemen, and new equipment. Roads widen through TOPICS funds, water works expand to 32 million gallons daily, sewers pave 32 streets, and urban renewal advances. Lorain, Oberlin, Vermilion, Amherst, Sheffield Lake, Avon Lake, North Ridgeville report new police, parks, pools, sewers, roads, and a shift toward modernization.
Witnesses describe the 1965 San Rafael standoff in which Judge Harold J. Haley was killed when a roadblock stopped the fleeing gunmen. The critically wounded Gary Thomas gave a private account through his wife, recalling seizing a gun and firing at the assailants as hostages were released.
Witnesses recount a dramatic escape from the Marin County Civic Center in which judge Haley was fatally shot during a van ambush. Four kidnapers died in the gunfight as about 100 officers pursued the fleeing vehicle. Witnesses and investigators cite shots from inside the van and later police fire, with captors capturing jurors and taking hostages before the deadly confrontation.
UN Middle East envoy Gunnar V. Jarring held 20 minute talks with Egypt Egypt Ambassador Abdullah El-Erian Jordan Ambassador Muhammad H El-Farra and Israel Ambassador Yosef Tekoah about when where and who should join new peace discussions Thant indicated the three governments would be contacted for approval Analysts foresee talks possibly in Nico sia Cyprus or Geneva with ministerial talks to follow the General Assembly in September The ceasefire on the Suez Canal entered its first full day with limited incidents reported and Israeli forces granting journalists a tour of the canal while Arab guerrillas attacked near the Dead Sea and during the same period the plan advanced toward a broader peace accord
Czechoslovak border guards detained 20 American high school students their guide and three West Germans after crossing into Czechoslovakia near Furth im Wald. Police said the youths aged 14 to 18 climbed a wire fence thinking it on the West German side. A consular official hoped for release by today as Pilsen police questioned the group.
Warm weather with highs around 86 and clear to partly cloudy skies continues. A U S Consulate spokesman in Munich hopes the seven girls, 13 boys, and tour leader Bryce Jackson of Denver will be released today as is normal in such cases, a West German spokesman said.
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