Local notes and council actions across Lorain County
A collection of brief items: Oberlin clerk jokes about needing arrest to sit in air conditioning, Milan council approves a bid for 1515 feet of Indian Acres sewer line, Avon Lake school board parcels land for a junior high, Wellington high school seeks alternate to color games, Sheffield Lake teens help clean recreation areas, Lorain Port Authority rejects Ohio Edison power line over Black River, and an Elyria Vietnam veteran recalls Da Nang duty.
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Milan
Indian Acres
Lorain
Weather heats then cools county with storms and outages
Lorain County saw 91 degree heat and a 5 PM tornado watch that ended by 11 PM as localized storms cooled the area. Ohio Edison logged outages in Homewood and North Fairfield, with about 1,500 customers affected in one 33 minute outage. other towns reported shorter outages. Cooler, drier weather is forecast with a low in the 50s and light chances of rain.
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Lorain
Lorain County
Homewood
North Fairfield
Ohio Edison
Variable clouds and warm spell forecast with cooler nights
Weather bulletin notes variable clouds and sunshine with not quite so warm conditions and lower humidity. Daytime high reaches 79 to 86 degrees, tonight partly cloudy and in the 50s, tomorrow mostly sunny with a touch cooler. Sunrise today 5:53 a.m. Sunset 4:01 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 5:53 a.m. Details on page 32.
Advice to Shaggy Gentlemen: Get a Haircut
A brief civic style note urging men with shaggy hair to tidy up as a step toward keeping America beautiful. The call emphasizes grooming as a simple civic virtue and public appearance.
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America
France bans demonstrations as crisis deepens and protests rise
Paris reports police clash with students as tear gas and Molotovs spark violence. Government bans all demonstrations and dissolves several leftist groups and private militias through June 30 election period. Dozens jailed, hundreds hurt or arrested. five dead. President de Gaulle convenes cabinet.
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Paris
UPI
France
Charles de Gaulle
Yves Guena
Four convicts surrender after 21 hostages freed
Four armed inmates barricaded in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary for more than 26 hours released 21 hostages and surrendered. They had demanded nine grievances, many of which were published by the Atlanta Journal. The hostages, 16 men and five women, were freed unharmed as negotiations continued.
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Atlanta
API
Atlanta Federal Penitentiary
Atlanta Federal Prison
Atlanta Journal
Journal
William B. Williams
David Norden
Olin Blackwell
The
Samuel McCallister
Hahs
Bedlam
Olin G. Blackwell
William C. King
Bureau of Prisons From
Washington
King
Chair bid for Wellington auditorium chairs tested collapse
Wellington school board tested a sample chair from a bidder and part of the chair collapsed. J Corbett Walker sat in it as members joked about weighing in before seating. The board voted to advertise for bids to supply 526 chairs.
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Wellington
J. Corbett Walker
USW expands talks with major steel producers in Pittsburgh
The United Steelworkers broadened company level contract talks to include all major Illinois producers as the union moves toward a single bargaining date for an economic package, now set for under two weeks away in Pittsburgh.
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Pittsburgh
UPI
United Steelworkers
USW
Elyria Outlines 20 Year Urban Renewal Plan
Elyria City Council heard a detailed 20 year plan from City Planning Associates for housing conservation and rehabilitation. The plan maps 16 areas for treatment with four clearance zones and includes federally assisted code enforcement funding potential.
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Elyrias
Elyria
City Planning Associates
T. Brooks Brademas
City Planning
Charles Ball
Brademas
Mishawaka, Ind
Meister hearing postponed in bankruptcy case
A federal bankruptcy court hearing in Cleveland postponed until Tuesday at 2 p m. two Elyria lawyers James Christie and Kenneth C Hamister were ordered to testify about transactions with H and J Development Co tied to Herbert H Meister. Meister’s May 7 personal petition lists debts of 718224 and assets of 85650.
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Elyria
Herbert H. Meister
James Christie
Kenneth C. Hamister
Cleveland
Maurice M. Weltman
Meister
H & J Development Co
H & J Development
Christie
Hamister
J H Land Co
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Oberlin
Avon Lake
Parphynes
Sheffield Lake
Amherst
Luke Black
Ohio Edison Co
Rt. 60
Wakeman
Vermilion
Olena
Fields Corners
North Ridgeville
U.S. Weather Bureau
Cleveland Hopkins
Phowe
Ates
Grafton
Weaernetnee
Joseph W. Grigg
Guena
Communist Workers Youth
Workers Voice Movement
Revolt
Federation of Revolutionary Students
Liaison Committee of Revolutionary Students
March 22
Union of
D. H. Hahs
Saigon
U.S
Tan Son Nhut
North Vietnam
Khe Sanh
Cholor
USW Steel
George Kuebler
Ball
Elyria Central Business District
Route 113
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