Former spy speaks to Lorain County Community College audience
Former Soviet spy and U.S. double agent Kaarlo R. Tuomi told students and faculty at Lorain County Community College that an international spy can determine a nation’s fate. Tuomi, born in Ishpeming Michigan in 1916 to Finnish parents, traced his family’s move to the Karelo SSR in 1933 and noted the large emigration of Finnish Americans to the Soviet Union.
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Kaarlo R. Tuomi
U.S
Lorain County Community College
Tuomi
Ishpeming
Mich
Karelo S.S.R
Finland
Soviet Union
Kaarlo Tuomi
C-T
Carl Skalak Jr
United States
Stalin
Autopsy Sought For Graves Nursing Home Death In Oberlin
Lorain County Prosecutor Joseph Grunda authorized a family requested autopsy of Eugene Graves 63 who died December 3 at an Oberlin nursing home. The body buried under Aid for the Aged rules will be exhumed by the Cuyahoga County Coroner after thawing. Graves was not embalmed and the nursing home logs limited visitor access. The family will pay for the autopsy. officials say no foul play indicated.
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Lorain County
Joseph R. Grunda
Oberlin
Cuyahoga County
Grunda
Eugene Graves
Aid For
Mildred Whitmore
Graves
Vivian Northcott
Wiggins
Richard Cowling
Cowling Funeral Home
Whitmore
Northcott Graves
Cleveland
Cowling
Obertin
Granda Granda
Elyria approves water pollution control ordinance
Elyria city council passed a water pollution control ordinance aimed at limiting industrial waste in the sanitary sewer system. The measure creates a monitoring board, sets discharge standards, and imposes fines up to 500 dollars and possible jail time for violators, with penalties applying to households only in limited cases.
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Elyria
Ernest Bartha
Council
Industrial Waste Disposal Council
Public Safety and Environment Committee
Bartha
Industrial Association of North Central Ohio
Jack Gray
Garrett Murray
Gray
Robert E Kleineeder
Areften
Kleimoeder
Norwalk Disbands Mayor's Human Relations Committee
Mayor Wayne Goodsite announced the deactivation of the 12 member Human Relations Committee citing few resident problems. He praised the group as dedicated citizens and left open the possibility of reactivation if issues arise after a 1965 formed panel conducted a county health care survey with only 30 responses.
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Norwalk
Wayne Goodsite
Goodsite
One-way Lorain traffic proposal to streamline downtown flow
The Greater Lorain Chamber of Commerce proposes making Reid and Washington avenues one way in downtown Lorain. Washington Avenue would run south from West Erie to 33rd Street, Reid into the heart of downtown from 35th to 5th, while Broadway stays two-way. Signals would be synchronized to speed traffic and aid emergency units. The plan awaits study by the police fire committee as part of the downtown renewal project.
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Lorain
Reid and
Washington Avenues
Greater
Reid Avenue
35Th Street
5Th Street
Broadway
Chamber Transportation Committee
Luis Sanchez
Wich
Washington and
Reid Avenues
Wth
Washington Avenue
West Erie Avenue
Greater Lorain
Lorain County Airport Posts 1972 Net Income First Time
The 1972 financial report shows Lorain County Regional Airport with a $5,719 net income after $12,507 gross and $6,788 expenses. Income came from Airport Management Inc, with payments to the airport authority for rent and commissions. Ongoing deficits include $57,708 prior-year deficit, a $25,000 note, and $7,400 past-due bills, including roughly $5,000 to Cutler-Hammer for environmental study.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lorain County
Russia Road
Airport Management Inc
Vermilion
Loram County
Cutler-Hammer, Inc
Raymond Mulliza
Amherst
Fran, Seringer and Chaney
Cutler-Hammer Inc
Wellington workers to receive 15 cent hourly pay raise
Wellington village council approved a 15 cent per hour wage increase for all village employees effective March 1 and ordered a pay raise ordinance drafted for February 19 adoption. The changes raise starting pay from 2.50 to 2.65 per hour and adjust others to new annual salaries.
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Wellington
Herman Norton
Board of Public Affairs
Safety Committee of Council
Lethel Edwards
Payne
Robert Botsford
Lorain approves more fire and police personnel and equipment
Lorain council voted to hire six more firefighters and four more police officers increasing fire strength to 104 and police force to 89. The city will acquire a 100 foot aerial ladder truck and a pumper not to exceed 135000, plus three police cruisers.
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Lorain
Fire Department
Henry Peirce
John Malinovsky
City Council Approves Land Purchase Near Landfill
The council voted to buy 38.26 acres for 66000 dollars south and west of the Elyraa landfill. The purchase includes a right of way and two parcels from the Vanco and Pavienda families. Engineering for landfill use must meet EPA guidelines, with seven years of maximum utility anticipated.
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Murray Ridge Road
Johm P
Claire M Vanco
Vassar Ave
Andrew and Mary Pavienda
Bell Ct
Ohio Environmental
Robert E Kleinoeder
Safety Service
James T Traces
Scribner L. Faaver
Margeerite E Bowman
Tracey
Leonard P. Reichlin
Turner
Berchim
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LCCC
Oris Graves
Rob Modic
FBI
East Coast
New York Waterfront
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Russia
Ece Union
KGB
Secret Ice
CIA
Military
Chronicle-Telegram
By Frank Finegold
Norma Jones
Lorain Fire, Police Depts
Elyraa
Reichlin
Fauver
Tracey Berchlin
Klemoeder
EPA
John V Bara
Community Development Committee
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