Adoptions slow as unwed mothers keep babies in Lorain
Lorain County adoption staff report a nationwide trend where unwed mothers increasingly keep their babies. Demand for healthy white infants remains high while fewer unwed mothers seek adoption, causing lengthy wait times of about two years through county services and about one year through Catholic Social Services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Lorain County
Northwestern National Life Insurance Co
Florence Crittenden Home
Marjorie Gyuru
Catholic Social Services
Miss Gyuru
Miss Farley
Marian Gordon
Two Men Arrested in Lorain Gambling Probe
Lorain County deputies arrested Willie Watson of Oberlin and Theron Burnett of Elyria on secret indictments by a special Lorain County Grand Jury probing gamblers bribe attempts to Oberlin Police. A third suspect remains at large as the panel wraps up its two sessions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lorain County
Special Grand Jury
Mm. Watson
Burnett
Watson
Lorain County Common Pleas
John D. Pincura
Oberlin
Justine Lumley
Joseph R. Grunda
Lawrence Nowery
Robert K Jones
Michael Kelly
Elyria
Bolita
Lorain
Weather and federal grand jury notes in Ohio
Weather dispatch reports cold and cloudy conditions with scattered snow flurries in the north and fair cold weather in the south. A federal grand jury in Cleveland questioned Lorain County residents about gambling expansion and heard from Alex Birns who refused to testify. No report of indictments yet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S. Asst
Robert Gray
Cleveland
Lorain County
Federal Grand Jury
Alex
Shondor) Birns
Birns
Feder
Nixon spends night in Guam before his flight to Peking
President Nixon arrives on Guam for a final rest stop before becoming the first American chief executive to visit China. He will fly next to Shanghai to pick up a navigator and then proceed to Peking for summit talks with Mao Tse-tung and Chou En Lai.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guam
Nixon
China
Peking
Shanghai
Gerald W. Johnson
Ronald L. Ziegler
Nixons
Hawaii
Mao Tse-tung
Chou En-Lai
Ziegler
Pat
Kaneohe Marine Air Station
Hawai
Washington
Communist Party
Mao
Nikita
Khrushchev
Longshoremen End 134-Day Dock Strike With Pact
In San Francisco, 71 percent of ILWU members voted to accept an 18 month contract with the shipping industry ending a 134 day strike. The deal includes a $1.12 hourly raise and a $52 million annual package securing a minimum weekly wage for 15 000 dock workers in California Oregon and Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
UPI
International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union
California
Oregon
Washington
Also Mentioned on This Page
Florence Crittenden
Loretta Farley
Lorain County Children Services
Col
C-T
John Kenney
al Grand Jury
Grand Jury
Gate OF Heavenly Peace
the People
Tnn
Zanal
Forbidden City
Tien An Men Square
Great Hall of the People
Peking ‘Hotel
United States
America
NBC
ABC
CBS
Davcee
Hanoi
Warsaw
Ralph William Galati
William Ralph Schwertfeger
Kenneth James Fraser
U.S
Quang Binh Province
Vinh Linh
North Vietnam
Galati
Schwertfeger
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!