Cleveland approves Battista school desegregation plan
The Cleveland Board of Education approves one plan from U.S. District Judge Frank Battisti and seeks to implement a fourth plan over nine months. The approved plan uses about 65 buses in a John Marshall High John F. Kennedy High cluster, desegregating most schools by September 1980, with junior high desegregation starting February 1980. A court stay on busing remains, awaiting the Circuit Court ruling after the Supreme Court decision.
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Cleveland
UPI
Cleveland Board of Education
U.S
Frank Battisti
Battisti
John E. Gallagher Jr
John Marshall High School
John F. Kennedy High
Collinwood Area
Gallagher
Marshal King
Marshall
Kennedy High Schools
Emmett Moore
6Th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Cincinnati
U.S. Supreme Court
Columbus
Dayton
Circuit Court
Smile You Have a Library Day Planned in Olmsted Falls
Olmsted Falls residents will observe Smile You Have a Library Day on August 1 at the library at Columbia Road and Main Street. Colleen Neary a Bay Village clown will perform and children are urged to wear clown outfits for a parade with the high school band. Afterward the movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory will play in the meeting room starting at 1 pm. North Olmsted hosts a 4 21 mile metroparks bike hike August 3 with riders meeting at City Hall at 9 am a 45 minute rest stop at Memorial Baseball Diamonds and refreshments provided by Family Cycle Center. Registration is 12 30 to 4 30 pm at the recreation department office 5206 Dover Center Rd by Aug 1. Also contact the North Olmsted Chamber of Commerce at 777 2268 for July gas station hours.
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Olmsted Falls
Columbia Road
Main Street
Colleen Neary
Bay Village
City Hall
Memorial Baseball Diamonds
Family Cycle Center
North Olmsted
Dover Center Rd
The
Chamber of Commerce
Olmsted extends union contract talks in NORTH OLMTST
Negotiations between NORTH OLwST city officials and service workers were extended to midnight after an all night bargaining session ending at 2 a.m. Thursday. City Law Director Michael Gareau declined to reveal details while saying talks remain close and progress is being made. The extension keeps workers on the job as talks continue.
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North Olmsted
Michael Garean
Gareau
Ohio Senate Defers Tax Classification Amendment Vote
The Ohio Senate Ways and Means Committee postponed a constitutional amendment proposal to set separate property tax classifications. A subcommittee added language to bar county auditors from giving greater tax relief to residential and agricultural properties than to commercial and industrial properties, delaying Tuesday’s expected vote.
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Columbus
UPI
Ohio Senate Ways and Means
Senate
Recreation center managers quit over salary dispute
NORTH OLMSTED The recreation complex manager Richard Browder and his assistant Bob Whidden resigned after failing to secure 10 percent raises. Browder left for Pittsburg Paint and Glass Co. Whidden, earning 17 000 a year, said five percent raises offered by the city were insufficient. Budgetary restraints cited as the cause, with acting managers Petre and Fattler preparing a major administrative reorganization.
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North Olmsted
C-T
Richard Browder
Pittsburg Paint and Glass Co
Bob Whidden
Whidden
Browder
Petre
Tom Fattler
Lewis research center helped moon landings and Apollo 11 work
The article credits NASA Lewis Research Center with pivotal steps toward the July 20 1969 moon landing. It notes advances in propulsion restart tests for the service module and weightlessness studies in wind tunnels. It also mentions research on lunar module ascent engines and propulsion choices evolving since 1945, driven by Kennedy era goals.
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Neil Armstrong
NASA
Lewis Research Center
Space
Lewis
Kennedy
Walter E. Russell
Strongsville Board approves staff moves and new hires
Strongsville Board of Education finalized several administrative changes. Harald Shingler moves from Whitney Elementary to Chapman Elementary as principal with a $1000 raise. William Hunger becomes Director of Elementary Education at $30,006. Sara Burneson named Whitney principal at $26,012. Patsy Edwards named Coordinator of Records Management at $12,627. Board seeks replacement by August with a new member due within 30 days.
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Steve Fogarty
C-T
Strongsville
Strongsville Board of Education
Whitney
Harald Shinglee
Chapman
William Hunger
Hunger
Olmsted Falls
Sara Burneson
Harold Shingler
Westlake
Patsy Edwards
Edwards
Forbes bodyguard acquitted in carnival forgery case
A Cuyahoga Common Pleas Court jury found Curtis Watkins innocent of nine forgery counts amid ongoing carnival kickback trials tied to Cleveland City Council President George Forbes. Judge Tyack dismissed remaining charges against Watkins and Forbes. prosecutors criticized the ruling while vowing to pursue other defendants in upcoming trials.
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Cleveland
UPI
Cuyahoga
Tyack
Watkins, Forbes
Watkins
Donald C. Nugent
Nugent
Forbes
Carnival
George Ladd
Forbes-Watkins
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Bat Board
George Dobrea
Chronicle - Telegram
N. O. Oxcart Library
Ohio
Butternut Ridge Road
Janet Salinger
Ronald M. Mottl
D-Parma
Olmsted Library Party
City Recreation Department
Metroparks
N. Olmsted
Recreation Center
Judy Johnson
City Safety
Eugene Petre
Great Northern
Ohio Bell Phone Company
Brook Park Research Center
Melvin J. Hartmann
Ambrose Ginsberg
Richard J. Priem
James Draper
Draper
Ralph Sperli
Sperli
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