Maintenance bridge high on city's list
Elyria Mayor Leonard P. Reichlin told city council that widening the Lodi Street bridge and the construction of a central maintenance garage should rank highly among the 1971 capital improvements. He urged architec plans and outlined funding by selling city lands to fund the motor pool and garage. The bridge project aims to ease three lane congestion and replace a damaged railing with full reconstruction, with current cost estimates rising from the 1961 study of about 86 000 to roughly 150 000.
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Lodi Street
Elyria
Leonard P. Reichlin
Council
Reichlin
Koehring talks set Friday in Lorain strike
Koehring Co Lorain Division management and United Steelworkers Local 1242 plan a Friday meeting to review a union modified proposal. Local 4849 salaried workers also strike. Negotiator Stith and mediator Mesereau will attend at the Aquamarine Ramada Inn Avon Lake starting 10 a.m. The dispute risks shutting Lorain County’s key industry if unresolved.
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Lorain
Koehring Co
United Steelworkers of America
William Socotch
Richard A. Stith
Stith & Daley
Letter timely but a bit late
MIAMI AP A Post Office note shows six days to move a mile as letters mailed December 29 1970 and postmarked December 30 inform media the post office would be closed New Year’s Day but return to normal service on Saturday January 2 1971. The message from Postmaster Eugene M Dunlap explains the holiday schedule.
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Miami
Eugene M. Dunlap
Dunlap
Lorain Thompson Seeks City Auditor Post
J Norman Thompson a longtime Lorain County political figure circulates petitions for the Democratic nomination for Lorain city auditor challenging incumbent Wanda Tully. The filing deadline is 4 p.m. Feb 3. The auditor’s post pays $14.0% a year.
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J. Norman Thompson
Lorain County
Thompson
Lorain
Wanda Tully
Antone Ushelyi
Lorain City
Nuclear plant hearing to resume in Port Clinton
The Atomic Energy Commission Safety and Licensing Board planned to resume the public hearing today on the Davis Besse nuclear power plant in Port Clinton. Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co. and Toledo Edison would present their case while the Coalition for Safe Nuclear Power, based in Cleveland, sought a delay, joining the hearing as allowed but opposing construction on safety grounds.
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Port Clinton
UPI
Atomic Energy Commission
Safety and Licensing Board
Davis - Besse
Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co
Toledo Edison
Coalition For Safe Nuclear Power
Cleveland
Security fight accompanies Angela Davis arraignment
Police sealed Marin County Hall of Justice with double checkpoints for the arraignment of Angela Y. Davis accused of murder kidnapping and conspiracy in the Aug 7 Hall of Justice shootout that killed Superior Court Judge Harold J. Haley and three others. Davis arrived with New York attorneys not admitted in Marin.
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San Rafael
Calif
UPI
Marin County Hall of Justice
Angela Davis
UCLA
Miss Davis
California
New York
Marin County
Superior Court
Harold J. Haley
San Quentin
FBI
Magee
James B McClain
William J. Christmas
Angela Y. Davis
Jonathan P. Jackson
Hall of Justice
Jackson
Haley
Oberlin board reelected Hoover and Scott at meeting
Oberlin officials reelected Dr. George C. Hoover as president and Burrell L. Scott as vice president of the Oberlin school board during the organizational meeting. The board agreed to take pay of 5 dollars per meeting, below the state law maximum of 20 dollars.
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Oberlin
George C. Hoover
Burrell L. Scott
Oberlin School Board
Father and son miss Rose Bowl date after Vietnam loss
Russ Davies and his son Rob ert Cameron once planned to attend the 1971 Rose Bowl together. Bo Cameron, a former Elyria Catholic standout, was killed in Vietnam on June 26, 1969. The article recalls a father and son trip with friends Roy Gregg and Frank Jones, all Ohio State fans, to Pasadena for the Ohio State Stanford game. The piece notes Cynthia Ann Ferguson’s upcoming 32nd birthday and Christmas memories of the Bush family in Elyria.
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Frank Cameron
Pasadena Aves
Robert
Bo) Cameron
Elyria Catholic High
Vietnam
Cameron
Bendix-Westinghouse Air Brake Co
Ohio State
Annual Yule tree burning Thursday in Elyria
Elyria holds its annual Christmas tree burning at Cascade Park on Thursday at 7 30 p m. The event lasts about an hour and a half with Jaycees sponsorship and William Grant as chairman. City crews collect trees across the city with up to 10 000 trees expected despite limited manpower and road salt duties.
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Elyria
Cascade Park
Leonard P. Reichlin
Elyria Jaycees
Jaycee
William Grant
James T. Tracey
Tracey
League of Women Voters urges tax reform for Ohio
The League of Women Voters of Ohio sent a letter to the Ohio General Assembly urging an improved state local tax system. President Mrs James Dall Elyria chapter says six years of study backs a more equitable flexible system. The group backs funding for public assistance health care housing and mental health without shortchanging schools. Signed by Mrs Thomas Ludlum president of the Ohio League.
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League of Women Voters of Ohio
Ohio General Assembly
James Dall
Elyria League
League
Ohio
Assembly
League of Women Voters
General Assembly
Thomas Ludlum
Ohio League
Midview graduate will head board in Grafton
Donald Binnie, 32, a member of Midview High School’s first graduating class, was elected president of the Midview district board of education. He attended Baldwin Wallace College and works in insurance while finishing his first term on the board. Dean Morse was chosen vice president.
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Grafton
Midview High School
Board of Education
Donald Binnie
Midview
Binnie
Grafton Rd
Elyria
Baldwin - Wallace College
Dean Morse
Lorain Joint Vocational School Board of Education
Midview Board
Vocational Board
Charles Sheldon
Wooster’s Las Vegas DA term opens with accidental gun incident
In Las Vegas Nevada UPI reports District Attorney Roy Wooster began his first term with an incident as county investigator Luke Wills inspected a revolver and it misfired into the ceiling creating a dime sized hole. Wooster ruled the firing accidental and closed the case.
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Las Vegas
Nev
UPI
Roy Wooster
Wooster
Luke Wills
Ormsby to lead combined Ridgeville service posts
North Ridgeville names Paul W. Ormsby as full time director of public safety public services and properties to run the new department created by the council. He will retire from B F Goodrich Avon Lake plant after 19 years and previously served 15 years with the Salem Police Department. Ormsby, 64, will receive 10800 this year, equal to his prior part time and mayoral portions combined.
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North Ridgeville
Council
Paul W. Ormsby
Ridge Plaza Drive
Marcellus B. Diederich
Diederich
Ormsby
Avon Lake
B. F. Goodrich Chemical Co
Salem
Noll
Thelma
Marriet
Elyria Reports Slight Debt Rise and Safe Standing
City Auditor Dale C. Kellogg told Elyria City Council that the debt totals 14,344,590 dollars, up from 14,301,050 a year earlier, with 13,459,590 on hand and 895,000 pending from the Northwest Sanitary Sewer Project. He noted debt remains within state limits though near the Supreme Court repayment schedule. The latest note sale of 279,200 dollars for street improvements yielded 3.92 percent interest, reflecting lower rates.
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Dale C. Kellogg
Elyria
Northwest Sanitary Sewer Project
Kellogg
Ohio Supreme Court
Scribner L. Fauver
Finance Committee
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Harriet) Bush
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