Legal Aid Society helps Lorain County poor seek justice
The Legal Aid Society of Lorain County helps low income residents access legal redress. Director James Tassie notes 1969 saw about 2,000 clients while stressing public relations work and community education to overcome the view of lawyers as enemies. The society, incorporated 1966 and operating since 1967, has achieved cases such as halting a Garden Street landfill fire and reuniting a teenage mother with her children.
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Legal Aid Society of Lorain County, Inc
James Tassie
Society
Tassie
Cook Road
Olmsted Township
The
Chronicle-Telegram
Elyria
Garden Street
Westway Gardens
Legal Aid Society
the Legal Aid Society
Middle Avenue
Sea hunt hampered by heavy seas and winds near Midway
In a mid Pacific search 25 crewmen from the bomb laden Badger State remain unaccounted as rescuers including the Greek freighter Khian Star and Coast Guard and Air Force planes battled 30 knot winds and 20 foot seas. The ship burned after abandoning the 459 foot vessel carrying 8900 rockets and bombs up to 2000 pounds. The Khian Star rescued 14 including Captain Charles Wilson. no injuries reported.
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SEAL
Coast Guard
Air Force
Bruns Tor
Antar
Flying Dragon
Midway Island
Navy
Abnaki
Honolulu
Badger State
Military Sea Transport Service
Bangor
Seattle
Wash
da Nang
Lake Erie Slightly Warmer with Clouds and Snow Risk
Weather update notes not so cold conditions with highs in the upper 20s to low 30s. Cloudy skies bring a chance of snow tonight and tomorrow. tonight's lows in the mid to upper 20s. Easterly winds 10 to 18 knots today on Lake Erie.
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Lake Erie
Elyria City Workers Agree Longevity Pay Plan Termed “Foot in the Door”
City service employees and the Finance Committee reached a two part deal offering 0.75 percent annual longevity pay plus a 2 percent across the board raise in 1969 with a $47 800 cap on longevity. The plan awaits full council approval and union ratification by the 175 member Local 277. The compromise aims to limit annual costs while preserving gains from a lengthy bargaining process.
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Elyria
Kenneth Warwood
American Federation of State
Kenneth A Krueck
D-2
Worwood
Cleveland
277
William Harbert
Council
Battle near Cambodia Ends Christmas Truce with 79 NVA Killed
U S forces shattered the post Christmas lull near Cambodia in the war’s largest battle since November. Eight hours of fighting north of Saigon left 79 North Vietnamese dead and 40 bunkers destroyed as artillery, helicopters, and jets dominated the action. US losses were one killed and one wounded. South Vietnamese reinforcements suffered light casualties.
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Saigon
Cambodia
U.S
Proxmire Calls for $10 Billion Defense Cut Across Pentagon
Sen. William Proxmire argues U S military spending should align with Soviet capacity, proposing a $10 billion cut in fiscal 1971 from 1969 levels. He asserts Russia's threat is far smaller, estimating the U S at six feet and rivals at three feet, with China at six inches. Republican dissenters challenge the figure, while Pentagon projections for 1971 run about $73 to $75 billion.
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Washington
William Proxmire
U.S
United States
Wisconsin Democrat
Senate
House Joint Economic Committee
Proxmire
Nixon
Pentagon
Charles H. Percy
Sen Jordan
Idaho
Clarence J. Brown
Ohio
Barber B. Conable
New York
Consumer Contact debuts in The Chronicle Telegram
Arthur E. Rowse, consumer affairs expert, launches a twice weekly column in The Chronicle Telegram titled Consumer Contact. Former Washington Post assistant city editor and former executive director of the President's Committee on Consumer Interests, Rowse plans to help readers protect their pocketbooks in a complex marketplace.
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Arthur E. Rowse
Rowse
Consumer Contact
Chronicle-Telegram
Washington Post
White House
President's Committee On
The
Chronicle’ Etegram
Zodiac appeals for help in Christmas message
The Zodiac killer sends attorney Melvin Belli a Christmas plea with a bloody shirt fragment from taxi driver Paul Stine found dead Oct 11. The note says the killer cannot stay in control much longer and asks for help, claiming he is drowning and unable to reach out.
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San Francisco
UPI
Melvin Belli
Paul Stine
Zodiac
Holiday fires claim 23 lives across nation
Fire toll rose to twenty three after Christmas season blazes killed families in Montreal Md and Mo. A basement oil stove blast in a three story Montreal building killed six including four children. In Maryland a mother and five of nine children died in a condemned Army barracks fire. In Maplewood Missouri five perished in a three story apartment fire. A Buffalo funeral home fire killed a director and three children. Two toddlers died in Merrill Iowa from a blaze started by wrapping paper.
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Montreal
Perkeley Township
Alfreda Small
St. Louis
Subur
Buffalo
N.Y
Sherman L. Walker
Richard
Gregory Cunningham
Maurie Walker
Walker
Shermantha Cunningham
Mauria
Merrill
Iowa
Paula Diane Williams
Robert L Olson
Writing not his, dad says of POW envelope address
The letter from Marine Maj. Harlan P. Chapman, a Hanoi prisoner since 1965, was mailed to his Fresno wife but remailed to another address after being routed via San Francisco. The Chapmans reported the handwriting did not match their son’s, though the letter was unopened.
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Harlan T. Chapman
Harlan P. Chapman
Hanoi
Chapman
Fresno
Calif
Elyria Chapmans
Buzzie
North Vietnam
Chapmans
Grafton Rd
San Francisco
Nixon at retreat weighing tax bill at Camp David
President Nixon flew to Camp David amid heavy snow to study the tax reform bill and budget plans. He expected to decide early this week whether to sign or veto as the measure neared year end, with deadlines looming for surcharges and excises.
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Thurmont
Nixon
Camp David
Maryland
Catoctin Mountains
Ronald L. Ziegler
Agnew Told McCain Vietnamization On Track In Pacific
Vice President Spiro Agnew received a two hour briefing at Camp Smith Hawaii from Adm. John McCain on the Vietnamization program and pacification efforts as Agnew prepares a Pacific tour. McCain said Vietnamization is on track and the North Vietnamese Tet offensive date was discussed.
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Pacific
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Vietnam
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McCain
Agnew
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Asia
Philippines
Michael Davidson
Pacific Command
Camp Smith
Nixon
Hawaii
Pearl Harbor
Eugene Cernan
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Clara
Widdicombe
William
Jack HE. Lancaster
Alma Noles
Jerry Bush
S. Viets
Thompson
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Western Pacific
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Manila
Formosa
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