Students chase world records during Right-to-Read week
Ohio pupils in Mrs. Smith's class pursue Guinness style feats to boost reading skills while teachers note lessons may fade as feats go unfinished. Keith Libbey writes the Lord's Prayer tiny, Tony McDonald blows an eight and a half inch gum bubble, Craig Leonard flips 38 coins, with Ricky Boros failing on a 21st try.
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Dennis
Russell Crick
James Tolley
Tony McDonald
Craig Leonard
Ricky Boros
Leonard
Boros
Riverside mother charged in beating of 9 year old daughter
Mary Kathleen Crewl 41 of Pedley arraigned on four counts of felony child neglect and one count of felony child beating after her 9 year old daughter Tracy escaped and sought help. Deputy DA says child was rarely allowed outside a filthy home. Tracy remains in Riverside General Hospital in stable condition.
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Riverside
Calif
Mary Kathleen Crewl
Crews
Pedley
Tracy
William
Thomas Hollenhorst
Riverside General Hospital
Senate opens campaign for exemption-free draft plan
Sen. John Stennis declares the six-year all volunteer draft a failure and urges Congress to study a new style selective service with exemptions only for physically or mentally unqualified individuals. He warns without a registration machinery the nation cannot rapidly mobilize millions in a wide-scale war.
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Washington
UPI
U.S
John Stennis
D-Miss
Stennis
Senate
Congress
Urban League seeks funds for Lorain County branch
Area civic leaders aim to raise 26 000 dollars for the newly formed Lorain County Urban League to supplement 13 000 from United Way. A breakfast Tuesday at 7 30 at DeLuca's Place in the Park will brief area corporations and solicit donations. The group offers job counseling education and post employment services and plans economic development and housing counseling programs.
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Lorain County
The
Urban League
United Way of
Greater Lorain County
Dorothy Anderson
DeLuca’s Place In the Park
Herrick Court
Sheffield
Regional study urged on Ohio regional government
State Rep. Marie Tansey and 29 co-sponsors introduced four joint resolutions calling for an investigation of regional government and its effects on Ohio. She cited letters and petitions from townships and counties upset by encroachment on local jurisdictions and noted that Ohio’s placement in a federal district since 1972 has brought bureaucratic managers and loss of federal funds to local governments.
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Columbus
Marie Tansey
R-Vermilion
Ohio
Tansey
Polio Victim Spurs Vaccination Campaigns Across States
A 22 year old Amish woman in Franklin County Pennsylvania contracted paralytic polio. Health officials report over 4100 people in Pennsylvania and Maryland vaccinated in two days. Authorities in Ohio Vermont New York and Ontario were advised to widen surveillance. Vaccine associated polio cases are discussed with seven paralytic cases last year and twenty in 1977.
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Atlanta
UPI
Mid Atlantic
Franklin County
Maryland
Schonberger
Ohio
Vermont
New York
Ontario
Canada
Dan
United States
Bonehead of the Year winner drawn from Dallas event
Andrea Weitman 13 of Wantagh New York won the Bonehead of the Year award at a Dallas gala. Runners up included Cleveland Mayor Dennis Kucinich and football figure Jimmy Snyder. Weitman toured the city stayed in a hotel and received gifts and honorary citizenship.
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Dallas
UPI
Andrea Weitman
Wantagh
N.Y
Boneheads of
Paul
Helen Weitman
Texas
Cleveland
Dennis Kucinich
Davenport
Jimmy
Snyder
Dallas Cowboys
Hermuda
Lamar Hunt
Kansas City Chiefs
Weitman
American Agriculture Movement
Jim
Marshall
Texas A&m University
al Hirt
Richard Nixon
Kucinich battles CEI over Cleveland rate hikes
Cleveland Mayor Dennis Kucinich declares a two front war against Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co. seeking a 12 percent residential rate rise and a 25 percent wholesale power hike. He says CEI profits rose 122 percent since 1970 and warns the city may be “bleeding” residents. The PUCO hearing precedes a Feb. 27 city vote on selling the municipal light system and raising the city income tax.
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Cleveland
Dennis Kucinich
PUCO
CET
UPI
Cleveland Electric Duminating Co
CEI
Kucinich
Public Utilities Commission of Ohio
Chi
Washington
Justice Department
PACO
Cleveland Trust Co
Ohio
Cleveland Trust
Congress
Securities and Exchange Commission
Federal Reserve Board
Bank and Utility Company
Karl Rudolph
Rudolph
Ex British PM warns of appeasement echoed by Macmillan
On the eve of his 85th birthday Harold Macmillan, once a steady foe of appeasement, urges Britain toward unity in Europe while warning that the United States is weak and may not shield allies. He criticizes Soviet conduct and SALT terms, recalling World War I wounds and calling appeasement a haunting danger.
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London
UPI
Winston Churchill
Hitler
Germany
Harold Macmillan
Macmillan
10 Downing Street
Europe
Churchill
United States
Soviet Russia
Vietnam
America
Soviet Union
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Riverside County
Midview Middle School
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Larry Schonberger
National Center For Disease Control
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Sogieberger
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Boneheads
Miss Weitman
President Carter
James R. Davenport
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Chuck Berry
Berry
Savile Row
Eton
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