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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1978
Page
4
A firebomb was hurled through a window at the Downing Enterprises building at 13th and Long Avenue in Lorain causing little damage after employees extinguished the blaze. Police later received a bomb threat. no device was found and staff were sent home.
Francelia Butler, a former Elyria High School graduate and University of Connecticut English professor, has a new work Sharing Literature with Children named a Book of the Month Club selection. Published by Longman, the thematic anthology spans tales and essays for children and adults, organized around five themes. Butler is the daughter of late Elyria residents R.W. and Mrs. McWilliams.
A 1977 bridge operations report by Supervisor Donald V. Myers shows the Erie Ave bascule bridge opened 442 times for sailboats and 403 times for loaded ships, 430 for light ships, plus 285 openings for tugs and barges and other categories. Since 1940 it has opened 92,868 times, with a prior incident causing a $6,643 damage claim against US Steel Corp. by the freighter Irving Olds. In Sullivan, State Senator Thomas A. Van Meter will address Sullivan Elementary students about politics Monday at 10 am as part of a community relations project.
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