Fire destroys Spencer Screw Machine Co plant
Fire gutted Spencer Screw Machine Products Co with ten workers in the building escaping unharmed. Firefighters faced frozen hydrants but drew water from a nearby pond as they battled the blaze in two joined buildings linked by a breezeway. Damages and cause are undetermined with prior wiring incident in 1985 noted by owners.
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Spencer
Spencer Screw Machine Products Co
Bulding
Marvin Gift
Clinton Carpenter
Allen Lundquist
Peg Dalgleish
The Kent settlement centers on Florence Schroeder’s press briefing
Florence Schroeder of Loramn stood at the podium with microphones as she addressed reporters after presiding over news conferences since May 4, 1970, the day her son William and three others were involved in the Kent incident.
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Cleveland
Florence Schroeder
Loramn
William
Louis
Florence
Louis Schroeder
Lorain
Kent State
UPI
Kent State settlement labeled adequate by plaintiffs
Victims and families at a press conference celebrated a $675,000 settlement for Kent State shootings victims. They read a five page statement asserting admission of guilt by the state and opposed police excessive force. The Schroeders received $15,000. others spoke of accountability and closure as tears flowed.
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Chick .Canfora
Alan
Kent
Schroeders
Mrs. Schroeder
Bill
Record sport catch of 475000 walleyes on Lake Erie
The 1978 Lake Erie walleye sport catch reached 475000, a new record. Forecasters predict about a million walleyes for 1979 for Ohio anglers. Details on outlook and Division of Wildlife changes appear in Afloat and Afield on page B-10.
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Lake Erie
Ohio
Ohio Division of Wildlife
Elyria panel urges sweeping cost cuts and school levy
A special advisory committee to the Elyria Board of Education calls for major cost reductions including closing two to five elementary schools and transferring Franklin Junior High students. It urges a moderate levy to balance the budget and fund teacher pay raises, with others to cut staff and limit English and social studies courses as last resorts.
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Elyria Board of Education
Franklin Junior High
Hamilton
Franklin
Thoreday Night
Eastern Heights Junior High School
Twesdy
Hamilton Elementary
Weather Forecast Flurries and Snow in Snow Belt
Flurries and occasional snow flurries tonight with little accumulation one to three inches in the Snow Belt east of Cleveland. Low tonight five to ten above zero. Mostly cloudy Saturday with highs in the low 20s. Chance of precipitation 50 percent tonight and 20 percent Saturday. Details on page Bd.
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Cleveland
Trucker narrowly escapes brick attack by strikers in Pa
Larry Miller a 33 year old Amherst ex Marine sergeant and Larry Wozniak of Vermilion were hit by bricks rocks and ball bearings hurled from behind parked cars as they drove through Glenshaw Pennsylvania on Route 8. The attack blamed on striking Fraternal Association of Steel Haulers caused about 2000 dollars in truck damage. Both drivers treated and released. Police have no suspects. Miller said his glasses saved his sight and warned the strike activity could have killed bystanders if the trucks had swerved.
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Amherst
Vietnam
Larry Miller
Pennsylvania
Fraternal Association of Steel Haulers
Miller
Wozniak
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Neysa Stroup
C-T
Gift
Dave Zapotosky
Kent Settlement
Kent Plaintiffs
del Corso
Ohio National Guardsmen
Kent State University
Martin Scheuer
Youngstown
Ings
Scheuer
Sandra Lee
Kathy Byla
Larry Miller Ao
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