Probation officer with a past finds a new path
Tom Ring, 28, a Norwalk Huron County Adult Probation officer, is an ex con who beat heroin addiction after two years at Mansfield Reformatory. Convicted in 1970 for armed robbery that left a store owner shot, Ring recounts his time in prison, his shift in attitude, and his turn to studying psychology while seeking to stay clean.
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Norwalk
Tom Ring
Tom
Huron County
Ring
Cleveland
West Side
Lexington
Kentucky
Mansfield Reformatory
Narcotics Anonymous
Reformatory
Mansfield
Psychology Today
Rolling Stone
Grafton Prison Farm
Lorain
Striking AmShip carpenters accept on table offer
In Lorain 850 boilermakers still strike as union votes 42 to 1 to accept an on the table wage offer from American Ship Building Co chairman George Steinbrenner II. Steinbrenner withdrew the offer after unions failed to unanimously back recommending it. boiler makers question the move while the company weighs closing its Lorain shipyard and shifts to Erie, Pa.
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Lorain
American Ship Building Company
George Steinbrenner II
James Conley
Carpenters Local
Steinbrenner
Conley
Carpenters
Boilermakers
Paul Blanchette
Boilermakers Local 358
George Steinbenner
Blanchette
American Ship Building Co
Aiship
Lorain Shipyard
Erie, Pa
Litton Corp
Truckers shut down Southington station to protest gas prices
A convoy of about 200 independent and company rigs blocked pumps at the Union 76 American Eagle truck stop off Interstate 84 in Southington, closing the pumps for over 12 hours. By noon only 10 trucks remained as many drivers left under threat of job loss, and all rigs eventually departed. Truckers sought lower diesel prices, blaming oil companies for price spirals while arguing higher fuel costs threaten their livelihoods.
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Southington
Ruppard
North Carolina
Oklahoma
Macon
Texas
Pan Am 747 Drops From 35000 Feet After Loss of Cabin Pressure
Pan American World Airways flight 841 carrying 316 passengers diverted from 35000 feet, dropping to 10000 feet in four minutes after a cabin pressure malfunction. Thirty six passengers were hospitalized for nausea and chest pains. Captain Raymond A. Steele steered the jetliner toward Manila, near Guam.
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Agana
Guam
Pan American World Airways
Pan Am
Manila
Raymond A. Steele
Sunny to partly sunny day with mild highs
Today will be sunny with partly cloudy skies and a high in the mid to upper 70s. Partly cloudy tonight with a low near the mid 50s and a 10 percent chance of rain. Details on Page B-6.
Reunion of youth and ancient artifacts at North Olmsted
The very young meet the extremely old as 9,520 year old artifacts teach the youngsters at North Olmsted Junior High. Accent notes June reunions and the joys and misgivings of reconnecting with long lost friends. Sunday Scene highlights a Great Smoky Mountain vacation spot affordable for all and a treasure hunting twist adding excitement to travel.
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North Olmsted
June
Great Smoky Mountain
Surgical separation of Siamese twins in Utah hospital
Twenty neurosurgeons and plastic surgeons in Salt Lake City performed a highly delicate separation of Lisa and Elisa Hansen, conjoined at the skulls, after 164 hours of surgery. The babies, born premature in October 1977 to David and Patricia Hansen, survived the operation and were recovering in critical condition, with doctors hopeful for a normal future.
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Salt Lake City
UPI
Lisa
Elisa Hansen
John Ewan
David and
Patricia Hansen
Ogden
Utah
Hansen
Hansens
Elisa
Erika Forte
Hansen's Home
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Free World
AmShip
Glen Miller
C-T
Charlie
BS Televisiom
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