Pathways of the Pioneers recalls 1850 Elyria transport debates
In 1850 Elyria saw two railroad pushes to serve the area. One Norwalk group resisted entry via Elyria, building a road through Grafton, while an Elyria faction failed to launch. The year also featured a quarry riot, toll-plank roads, robberies, a town clock and fountain, floods, and grain grinding disruption, all detailed in Esther Sayles’s Pathways of the Pioneers.
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Esther Sayles
Olympic Preview Signals Rome Games Attract Interest
Olympic competition in 18 sports at Rome aims to heighten interest in the quadrennial series that began in 1896. Momentum from Squaw Valley winter games carries into the summer event with Ketchum's preview by Jim Ketchum on page 24.
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Squaw Valley
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Ketch
Jim Ketchum
Tax levies to be placed on ballot by county commissioners
Two proposed tax levies are set for the ballot to address the 1961 fund situation as Lorain County considers its finances. The county switchboard system will be activated in Lorain County offices on Monday to improve phone service.
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Eye For Eye Castro Warns U S On Sugar War
In a televised address Castro vows an eye for an eye policy to seize private American holdings in Cuba if the U S cuts its sugar quota. He demands oils refined in Cuba process Soviet crude and criticizes the Eisenhower era as indecisive while predicting a new U S government by next year.
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Weather Outlook for Northwest and Northeast Ohio
Sunny and cool with highs near 75 today and Sunday. Clear tonight, low 52 to 57. Friday temperatures 55 to 73, with trace precipitation in the last 24 hours ending 8 p.m. edt. Humidity readings at 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. show rising levels. moonrise 7:34 a.m. and moonset 10:00 p.m.
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Intruder Kills Man In His Bed in New Jersey Home
In Parsippany Troy Hills a intruder entered a Lake Hiawatha house and shot 38 year old Joseph Lupoli as he lay in bed. Lupoli pushed his wife Ann from the bed before the fatal shot. A .22 rifle lay outside the home. The couple’s three children were unharmed.
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Lake Hiawatha
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Ann
Arthur Denny
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Morris County
Denny
Venezuela under emergency after assassination attempt on Betancourt
Venezuela declared a near state of emergency after a Friday bombing aimed at President Romulo Betancourt injured him and killed a military aide. Public freedoms were suspended, liquor sales banned, airports shut, and a curfew imposed as the government sought to quell unrest and determine if a coup attempt followed the Caracas attack. Betancourt, recovering at home, predicted a return within 12 days though doctors cautioned at least three weeks.
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Jose Lopez
Rio Harbor Plane Crash Kills 45 on Board
An airliner from Brasilia crashed in Rio Harbor late Friday, killing all 45 aboard. The Real Aerovias craft carried several foreigners and 14 MPs, with two Americans among the listed passengers. Weather prevented an immediate landing, and wreckage was found near Jurubaiba Island with no bodies recovered at once.
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A. Fabricio Belloc
Monkey Breaks Jail At Pet Shop In St Louis
In St Louis police foil a pet shop jailbreak by a brainy brown monkey who frees three companions and then liberates puppies and alligators. The leader allegedly steals two dimes from a cash register before officers and shop owners recapture the simians after about an hour.
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Boy With Egg Hits Mayors In Niagara Falls Photo Incident
A youth, said to be Lithuanian, threw an egg at Moscow official Boodraviisov and TV star Hugh O'Brian and Niagara Falls Mayor George Nelms as they posed for photographs outside a restaurant. Police detained him briefly and released him on bail after the incident disrupted the gathering.
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Tornadoes Smash Through Northeast Leaving Homes Hit
A series of powerful tornadoes ripped through the Midlands and Northeast on Friday night. They flattened homes in Rotterdam New York and damaged hotels in Berkley and Kirbyville while trapping families in wreckage and causing injuries. Vermont and Pennsylvania communities reported major damage with high winds exceeding 100 mph and heavy rain across the region.
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Albany
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Hill
Mary Popolizio
Reading
Berkley
Kirbyville
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Chinese Hit Back at Soviets in Sino-Soviet Clash
In London the Chinese delegation led by Vice Premiers Chen Yi and Hsi Chung-hsun and NPC leaders rally in Peiping denounces Moscow as whitewashing US imperialism. General Ji Chih-min condemns revisionists and stresses peace as a cover for aggression, amid rising Sino-Soviet tensions after Khrushchev’s Bucharest critique.
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Ji Chih-min
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Reds Oust Allies From Korea Anniversary Tension
In Panmunjom on the 19th anniversary of the invasion, Communists demand Allied forces leave Korea while the Allies pledge to stay until a democratic reunification. Reds charge buildup south of the 38th Parallel. Maj. Gen. Marion L. Rawson calls it propaganda. A UN-Korea truce commission meeting follows amid tensions.
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Guitarist Nabbed In Slayings
MEMPHIS Tenn UPD FBI agents arrested jazz guitarist Melvin Davis Tees 31 for questioning in unsolved killings in Maryland and Virginia. He is charged with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution in the 1957 shooting of Mrs. Margaret Harold between Baltimore and Annapolis and was sought for questioning in the 18 month old Carroll Vernon Jackson family murder near Mineral Virginia.
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Ex-Mate Kills Ex-Wife in Broad Daylight in Hospital Park
In Rensselaer Indiana ex husband Dr Lawrence Bowman shot Betty Jean Bowman a 32 year old mother after threatening her for years Witnesses say Bowman waited outside Jasper County Hospital where she worked as a nurse He fired a shotgun then an axe assault and a final pistol shot as she sat in her car Bowman a WWII veteran and OSU graduate was arrested and charged with first degree murder McCracken described him as calm and unrepentant
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