Lorain council rejects apartment zoning plan
Lorain City Council rejected an ordinance to rezone Skyline Park subdivision from R-1-B to R-3 for a 48 unit apartment complex. Residents opposed, citing lower property values higher taxes and added traffic, while the developer David Towner argued similar projects exist in nearby towns.
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Contractors, Inc
Skyline Park
West 40Th Street
Leavitt Road
Miami Avenue
David Towner
West River Rd
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Huron
Sandusky
Avon Lake to hire assistant for utilities director
Avon Lake officials expect an assistant to join the utilities department soon. Eight applications were submitted for the newly created post paying 622 dollars monthly. Four candidates will receive formal requests for complete applications, with interviews to follow and a board decision after Underhill’s recommendation. Candidates hail from Connersville Indiana and Aurora Canfield and Sharon Ohio.
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Avon Lake Utilities
Avon Lake
Robert Underhill
Board of Municipal Utilities
Department
Underhill
Utilities
Connersville
Ind
Aurora
Canfield
Sharon
Ohio
Ohioan named deputy director of Peace Corps in Dahomey
Samuel Longsworth, 26, a Duke graduate from Canton Ohio, is named deputy director of American Peace Corps volunteers in Dahomey West Africa. Twenty five volunteers arrive Tuesday as the first group assigned to Dahomey. Their main task will be agriculture.
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Peace Corps
Washington
Samuel Longsworth
Duke University
Canton
Ohio
American Peace Corps
Dahomey
Dahome
Oberlin council eyes income tax re evaluation
Oberlin City Council will re evaluate use of the one percent income tax mid summer after discussion of possible real estate tax cuts. Auditor Plotner reaffirmed the Chronicle Telegram figure of about 215000 annually based on July 1 to Feb 2 collections. Council planned to wait at least a year of collections before action and favored delaying any re allocation to August or later in the year.
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Oberlin
Douglas R. Johnson
Albert Plotner
Chronicle-Telegram
Council
Arthur P. Hess
Tokyo birds on high rise roof attract chirping in megalopolis
One thousand sand trees are being planted on a nine story Tokyo building in hopes of luring wild birds to the city roof. Yukei Kudo, president of the owning company, says the project will give Tokyo residents a chance to hear birdsong amid the urban sprawl.
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Tokyo
UPI
Yukei Kudo
Deaf Man Perfects Midget Transistor Hearing Aid
An advertisement describes an extremely small hearing aid using a tiny energized ant, perfected by a hard of hearing man for over ten years. The ad invites readers to write A. W. Newell at 2616 W 8th St, Erie, Pennsylvania, for full information at no cost or obligation.
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A. W. Newell
8Th St
Erie
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