Suffrage at 60 highlights slow gains in political power
Sixty years after the 19th Amendment, Lorain and nearby counties show women still underrepresented in office. In Lorain County 5 to 1 men outnumber women among 365 officials. 11 of 65 women hold clerk treasurer posts with no voting power. Cleveland and western suburbs show similar gaps. Nationally, women remain underrepresented in Congress, state legislatures, and federal courts. Former Elyria mayor Marguerite Bowman says lack of political ambition, not discrimination, hinders progress.
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Bowman
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Polish regime yields backs right to strike at Lenin Shipyard
Government negotiators at the Lenin Shipyard told strike leaders that Poland recognizes their right to strike as part of the 13 day Baltic Coast walkout. First Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Jagielski promised a new labor unions law while the strikers pressed for free unions and full telephone service restored nationwide. The talks followed the purge in Warsaw and a dispute over trade union independence.
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Baltic
Mieczyslaw Jagielski
Communist Party
Warsaw
Jagielski
Josef Pinkowski
Soviet Tass Concedes Economic Policies Failed
Tass, the official Soviet news agency, for the first time admits socialist economic policies have failed and blames economic policy errors and objective factors. It defends Warsaw leadership over Poland’s unrest while criticising Western media for inflating the crisis and ignoring US recession and unemployment.
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Warsaw
Poland
Baltic
United States
Welfare benefit interviews run five weeks behind Lorain County
Welfare interviews in Lorain County are at least five weeks behind as applications surge. Lois Floyd of the welfare department cites only two screeners in Elyria and Lorain, overtime work, and insufficient state funds to hire more staff. Overall relief is up 25 percent since January, with 90 percent of applicants seeking emergency aid such as utilities or eviction relief.
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Lorain
Elyria
Robbery suspects surrender after hostage escapes at motel
Two suspects Reginald Cameron and 22 year old from Powell Ohio surrendered to police after Tammy Stephens 23 Vermilion escaped an unlocked door during a Knights Inn robbery. Stephens had been held at gunpoint an hour while officers surrounded the motel and secured the scene.
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Vermilion
Reginald Cameron
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Powell, Ohio
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Knights Inn
Griswold Road
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David Gill
Gill
Michael Adkins
Lucas
Donald Warner
Adkins
Paraphernalia missing as car hits dumpster. Thompson injured
Police said Thompson suffered head injuries after stepping from his car to inspect a trash dumpster that rolled away from a wall when a parcel of debris moved. The incident followed a driver moving his vehicle between parking lots.
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Lee Thompson
Brimfield
Peoria
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