Avon boy Kevin Krall promotes Heart Month
Kevin J. Krall, a 10 year old Avon resident, has become known as the Lorain County Prince of the American Heart Association. He underwent open heart surgery at Babies and Children Hospital in Cleveland three years ago to correct a congenital defect and now volunteers to raise funds for the Heart Fund Drive. He attends St Mary School in Avon and played in Avon Little League and for St. Mary’s Wildcat Football.
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Lorain County
Prince of the American Heart Association
Kevin J. Krall
Joseph P. Krall
Bauerdale Dr
Avon
Kevin
Babies and Children Hospital
Cleveland
Mrs. Krall
St. Mary’s Wildcat
St. Mary School
Gene Krebs
Destructive window vandalism hits Elyria West High
Damage at Elyria West High School amounts to 120+ broken windows, totaling about 12000 in uninsured losses. Deputies reported 14 windows broken yesterday and 100 more early today, with footprints and tire tracks guiding investigators. Adjacent schools safe. classes resumed as maintenance boarded up the openings.
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Elyria West High School
Lorain County
Griswold
Ray Richard
Elyria Schools
Richards
Westwood Junior High
Crestwood Elementary
James Fitzwater
FBI spied on JFK Nixon sex lives
Time magazine reports the FBI kept files on the supposed sex lives of public officials including John F Kennedy and Robert Kennedy and that Richard Nixon had a liaison in Hong Kong. J Edgar Hoover allegedly kept such material in his private office and shared salacious tidbits with presidents and others.
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New York
UPI
FBI
John F.kennedy
Richard Nixon
Time Magazine
Weekly News Magazine
Kennedy
Robert Kennedy
D-N. Y
Nixon
Hong Kong
Time
J. Edgar Hoover
Voter turnout in 1974 falls to 45 percent nationwide
Census Bureau data show less than half of eligible voters cast ballots in the November 5 congressional elections. Turnout lagged 10 percent behind off year 1966 and 1970, 18 percent below 1972, with only 21 percent of 18 to 20 year olds voting. Registration also declined to 62 percent, and about 2 million registered voters did not vote.
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Washington
UPI
Census Bureau
Bureau
Ohio dentist uses laughing gas anxiety relief machine
Columbus UPI reports Dr. Joel Weaver of Ohio State University dentistry uses nitrous oxide and oxygen via a nasal mask to calm patients before drilling. The machine induces euphoria, allows conscious anesthesia, and helps reduce dental fear, with effects fading within minutes after turning off the gas.
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Columbus
UPI
Ohio State University
Joel Weaver
Weaver
Snow and Rain Ahead With Temperatures in the 30s
A weather forecast calls for a chance of snow late this afternoon and tonight with a low in the mid to upper 20s. Snow is likely tomorrow then changing to rain with a high in the mid to upper 30s. Precipitation chances are about 40 percent tonight and 0 percent tomorrow. Winds show southeast at 10 to 15 mph tonight. Sunset today is 5 37 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow at 7 44 a.m.
Oil Price Surge Deepens U S Trade Deficit in 1974
The Commerce Department reports the United States ran a 1974 trade deficit of 3.065 billion dollars, the second largest of the century, as imports rose to 101 billion while exports reached 97.9 billion. Oil costs surged from 7.8 billion in 1973 to 24.6 billion in 1974, despite lower oil imports, and December alone posted a 606 million deficit driven by coal wheat soybeans and machinery value declines.
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Washington
UPI
U.S
Commerce Department
Commerce
United States
Imachinery
Unemployment Up in Ohio and Lorain County in December
Ohio's unemployment rate rose to 6.7 percent in December, the highest since 1971, with about 323000 jobless out of a 4.793 million civilian labor force. Manufacturing employment fell 2.1 percent, while nonmanufacturing jobs hit a new all time high. In Lorain County 9000 were unemployed, 2400 more than November, with autos layoffs cited and a high rate expected for the next 90 days.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ani
Lorain County
Donald Pawlczak
Bureau
Lorain
Pawlczak
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