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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1970
Page
7
The 197 Ohio plates, scarlet and gray for OSU's 100th anniversary, go on sale at 17 Lorain County locations. Plates cost 10 dollars plus a 50 cent registrar fee. Buyers must present car title and 1969 registration card, and the owner on the title must sign the application.
Twenty Lorain County men were named Men of the Year by their Holy Name Societies at a banquet at Elyria Catholic High School. Awards honored members from Immaculate Conception Grafton to St. Stanislaus Lorain with special recognitions for county Holy Name work. Reverend Claude Gaebelein and Louis D Orazio presented the honors. Father Eugene Kane offered a diocesan message.
At Elyria High School 23 of 74 science exhibitors won prizes and trips to Ashland College Mohican District Fair next month. Top winners include Ken Butcher mathematics, Robert Hubbard physics, Tim Youngless chemistry, Vanessa Yukasz biology, Carol Frederick medical, and John Gouse general science. Jeffrey Coutre received a special award for Study Habits. Top winners earned $50 bonds and gold rosettes. runners-up received $25 bonds and blue rosettes.
Mrs. Harry C. Chase Jr. head of a seven member committee promoting the 7.5 mill Elyria schools levy on the May primary ballot. She cites quality teachers as key to quality education and notes her long service in school activities. Also reported is Lorain coach Jack Wilhelm in critical condition after a hit skip crash on Schwartz Road Avon while training for the Boston Marathon.
Elyria Catholic star Mark Straka and Elyria High center Chris Reinhardt draw dozens of offers from major programs including Purdue Duke Ohio State Michigan State and Yale. Straka weighs Purdue and Ohio State debates after Duke visit while Reinhardt favors Duke with engineering and medical interests. Both players are noted as sons of local residents with strong Edison and Reinhardt connections.
A Lorain fire yesterday gutted an East 20th Street apartment house killing a child and leaving attic debris in South Lorain. Firemen worked through the night to extinguish the remaining stubborn flames as investigators surveyed the charred scene.
Airborne Israeli units penetrated into Syria for the first time since 1967, shelling an army camp 35 miles inside and blowing up a 60,000 volt power line tower near Damascus. The raid also targeted a bridge and two gun positions south of the city, with jets striking targets on the Egyptian front near the Suez Canal. Egyptian guerrillas claimed a rail line blow at Rafah, while Rabin returned to Washington amid talks over more warplanes.
School officials said the Elyria Catholic High School marching band will join the St Patrick's Day Parade in Cleveland if weather allows tomorrow. If the parade is delayed to later this week, the band likely will not march due to other school events.
The New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam launches a week long antidraft protest with non violent sit ins in about 70 cities aimed at clogging draft operations by filing paperwork and pressuring draft boards. Women may register by mail using initials to disguise sex. The action coincides with Senate hearings on Curtis Tarr for Selective Service director.
Ten people died in weekend traffic crashes in Ohio with six victims aged 21 or younger. The fatalities began 6 p.m. Friday and ended at midnight Sunday, including one fatality Friday, seven on Saturday, and two on Sunday, highlighted by a double death crash on Ohio 14 near Canfield by Youngstown.
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