Elyria mayor faces ethics charges over airport appointment
Two Republican councilmen accuse Mayor Leonard Reichlin of bypassing the rules committee in naming a successor to Jean Arnold on the Spain County Regional Airport Authority. The council failed to pass the appointment as an emergency measure, giving it only first reading. Dr. Paul J. Minnillo was recommended. Reichlin blamed newspapers and radio for the controversy.
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Leonard P. Reichlin
City Council
Jean W. Arnold
Elyria
Spain County
Reichlin
Council
Paul J. Minnillo
Minnillo
Arnold
J. William McCray
Edward A. Rob
Inson
Authority
Rules Committee
Malcolm D. McDonald
Ted
McDonald
Ward
Three boys top JA sales contest in Lorain County
Jeff Schilling of Elyria High School earns a $106 scholarship and a shot at the JA regional contest in Columbus April 7 8. Larry St Hilaire also of EHS and Ted Robinson of Elyria Catholic High School split top places as junior achievers from five companies in the event run by the Lorain County Sales and Marketing Executives Club.
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Jeff Schilling
Carl Deeds
Ted Robinson
Larry St. Hilair
Lorain County
Sales and Marketing Executives Club
Timmsco
Timms Spring Co
Elyria High School
Sopho
More
Executives Club
Columbus
Jeff
Vernon Schilling
Garford Ave
Larry St. Hilaire
EHS
A. J. St. Hilaire
West
River St
Elyria District
Harald Robinson
Cornell Ave
Ted
JABEX
Abex Corp
Electra Alloys Division
James Callihan
LE. Deetz
Thomas Haywood
Dale Helwick
James Johnson
Lorain approves $122000 pay raise for police and firemen
Lorain city council unanimously approves a 12 percent average raise for 169 safety division personnel from March 11 through December 31. The package adds $800 across the board plus an $8 increase to a $60 longevity bonus, with new base salaries listed for police and fire departments.
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Lorain
Ordnance
Police Department of
Police Department
Fire Department
Council
Federal grant funds expansion of Sheffield Lake water system
A $328 000 federal HEW grant approves expansion of Sheffield Lake water distribution, including two new water towers. Project cost is about $760 000 with $225 000 bond issue approved last November and the remaining $107 000 to be assessed to property owners on streets lacking mains. Initial planning began in 1964.
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Sheffield Lake
U.S
Charles Mosher
Earl E. Barnhart
Mosher
Barnhart
Washington, D.C
Tor
Swanker
Oberlin tax limits urged by former city official
Lysle K. Butler, ex city council chair and Oberlin College professor, urges a 1 percent income tax limited to capital improvements only and collected only as long as needed. He asks a separate bond issue for a fire engine and house funded by real estate tax, noting the college’s tax-exempt property should share costs.
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Butler
Council
Oberlin College
Deniston University
Granville
Litton weighs Erie as site for a new shipyard
Litton Industries Inc. considers Erie Pennsylvania along with other Great Lakes ports for a multi million dollar shipyard. A Litton official said Erie does not eliminate Lorain as a potential site and noted earlier reports about Lorain as an automated shipyard location.
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Erie, Pa
Lorain
Litton Industries Inc
Great Lakes
Beverly Hills
Calif
Chronicle-Telegram
Erie
C-T
U.S
Oberlin names new city auditor to start April
Albert Plotner of Bethel Ohio, 52, will assume Oberlin city auditor duties April 3 replacing Wallace Smith who retires after more than 20 years. Councilman James F. Long said Smith will stay through April to aid the transition. Plotner has eight years experience with the state auditor and three with the Claremont County auditor.
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Oberlin
Albert Plotner
Bethel
Ohio
Wallace Smith
James F. Long
Smith
Plotner
Claremont County
Mayor seeks change to Edison underground wiring pact
Elyria Mayor Leonard Reichlin asks city council to revise the Ohio Edison contract section on underground wiring to align with Cleveland Electric Illuminating. He notes developers trench and backfill for primary and secondary lines while the city debates who pays for underground street lighting costs and overhead wiring.
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Ohio Edison Co
Elyria
Leonard P. Reichlin
Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co
Reichlin
Red Cross building cost dispute and underground wiring proposal
The utilities committee rejected passing the extra last year cost to city residents citing fairness McDonald warned the city cannot bear the expense Reichlin urged council to study requiring underground wiring in all new allotments The matter was referred to utilities building and lands committees for study
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Reichlin
Council
Chronicle- Telegram
Utilities and Building and Lands Committees
Oberlin councilmen eye FAA careers abroad
Two Oberlin city councilmen who work for the Federal Aviation Administration plan to leave next November. Earl Ginyard has applied for an FAA administrative post in Washington while Preston Twyman expects to move to Ghana and start a photographic business.
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Oberlin
Federal Aviation Authority
Earl D. Ginyard
Shipherd Circle
FAA
Washington
Preston R. Twyman
Ghana
Gold Coast
Africa
George C. Campbell
East Lorain St
Ginyard
Twyman
North Prospect St
Campbell
New York
Alaska
Mansfield GM wildcat strike ends
A wildcat strike at the General Motors parts plant in Mansfield Ohio appears to have ended with a GM spokesman saying all employees should report to their shifts. Pickets were removed and gates opened as the plant resumed operations after the stoppage that began on the first shift.
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Mansfield
Ohio
UPI
General Motors Co
Fisher Body Co
Red China orders youth back to school for revolution
Red China orders revolutionary youth to return to classrooms to study the gospel of Mao Tse-Tung, reinforcing party line and ideological education in the wake of ongoing campaigns.
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Red
China
Hong Kong
UPI
Red China
Revolutionary
Mao Tse-Tung
Bill would add college trustees
COLUMBUS The House Education Committee will conduct hearings on a bill to expand community college boards from seven to nine members. Three trustees would be appointed by the governor and six by county commissioners, with terms of five years. The measure, sponsored by Rep. Kenneth Creasy, would also allow two adjacent counties to form a community college district.
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Columbus
House Education Committee
Kenneth Creasy
Delaware
House
Powell's seat election set for April in 18th District
New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller set a special election for April 11 to fill the vacant 18th Congressional District seat after the ouster of Democrat Adam Clayton Powell. No further comment was provided.
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New York
Adam Clayton Powell
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Fund drive planned for retarded school project at Oberlin Inn
A campaign to raise 100000 by private contribution for the School for Mentally Retarded Children will launch at Oberlin Inn March 16. Walter G. Nord chairs the finance committee and invites county prominent citizens to attend the dinner and aid in fundraising. The project cost rose from 1505200 to 1605200 due to federal funding and added services. A $5000 unsolicited pledge and Jaycees volunteers to raise 1500 are noted in the invitation.
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Oberlin Inn
Walter G. Nord
Oberlin
Nord
Jaycees
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