Ohio speed skater Jenny Fish earns Olympic silver
Jenny Fish of Strongsville wins a silver medal in the Winter Olympics at Grenoble in the first speed skating final. The 18 year old Baldwin Wallace College freshman majors in physical education and is supported by her parents Mr and Mrs Malcolm Fish and 15 year old sister Debbie who accompanied her to France.
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Jenny Fish
Strongsville
Grenoble
France
Cleveland
Jenny
Baldwin-Wallace College
Malcolm Fish
Debbie
Fish
Strongsville Chamber Funds Family Trip to See Olympian Jenny
The Strongsville Chamber of Commerce raised $3,000 from residents and businesspeople to send Jenny Fish the first Ohio woman speed skater to reach the Olympics, with the Fish family receiving an all expense paid trip to France to watch her compete. Jenny has won over 150 speed skating championships and held national indoor and outdoor titles seven times. Her father serves as superintendent of buildings and grounds for the Strongsville school system.
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Strongsville
Mayor rejects garbage truce in costly strike
New York Mayor John V Lindsay rejects a proposed one year contract as too costly to end the week long garbage collectors strike. He again appeals for the National Guard to clear waste while Gov Rockefeller mediates with sanitation union officials, as refuse piles up at about 10 000 tons daily.
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New York
UPI
John V Lindsay
Lindsay
National Guard
Ives
Uniformed Sanitation Men's Association
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
National
Black Angus chuck roast and ham deal posted in ad
Readable ad fragment lists 20 BLACK ANGUS chuck roast 1st cut 3 percent 1 Morrell chopped ham shared at 69 cents per pound. Mentions Meyer Goldberg and a 57 acrom from jd in ad text.
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Morrell
Meyer Goldberg
Marines crush tanks and hit Khe Sanh in heavy battle
UPI reports Marine jets bombed a Communist tank column near Khe Sanh while ground forces fended off probing attacks. Four tanks sighted near Lang Vei were destroyed, as North Vietnamese troops launched a major assault and U S Marines suffered 21 dead and 27 wounded.
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Saigon
UPI
U.S
Khe Sanh
North Vietnam
Lang Vei
Fort U
South Vietnam
Elyrian held in two Lorain robberies
Leroy Burns 30 of 414 Lodi St Elyria was arrested by Elyria police on two counts of armed robbery. He is accused of the January 22 W T Gram store robbery at Westgate Shopping Center and the January 12 Gastown filling station robbery, during which a Grant employee was shot at. Burns reportedly obtained 20 dollars from Grant’s and seven dollars from Gastown. He is free on 500 dollar bond from U S District Court in Cleveland awaiting trial on narcotics charges. Three others from Elyria and Cleveland were arrested with Burns last year in a major drug expose.
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Lorain
Leroy Burns
Lodi St
Elyria
Burns
W. T. Gram
Westgate
Gastown
Broadway
Elyria Ave
Grant
Grant's
U.S District Court
Cleveland
Ohio
Elyna
Elyria 5-year-old dies in basement fire
A five year old Elyria boy Louis Ball of 616 Mussey Ave died after becoming trapped in a basement fire at his home. Firemen rescued him but he died at Elyria Memorial Hospital from carbon monoxide poisoning. Autopsy planned. The fire was blamed on the boy playing with matches.
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Elyria
Mussey Avenue
Louis Ball
Mussey Ave
Elyria Memorial Hospital
Lorain County
R G. Thomas
Louis
Robert Curtis
Curtis
Weather summary with cold, windy, and snow flurries
Fractured forecast notes blustery conditions with cold air moving in. Scattered flurries rise to widespread snow in the afternoon and persist tonight as temperatures drop to the upper teens then near 14 by morning. Saturday stays cloudy and windy with more flurries. high was 29, low 28 yesterday/today.
Marine hijack attempt thwarted on Pan American flight
A US Marine private wearing a leather jacket attempted to hijack a Pan American DC6 in Da Nang with a cocked 45 pistol. After 2 hours of negotiation and tear gas, Air Force police stormed the cockpit and detained Marine William Lee Clark of the 1st Field Artillery Group while authorities investigate.
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DA Nang AP
Pan American Airlines
Hong Kong
Air Force
Watson
Hanoi
Archer
William C Westmoreland
Vietnam
Don
Clark
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