Cleveland deseg held up by lack of buses
UPI reports a bus shortage delays Phase II of Cleveland’s desegregation plan. Judge Battisti postponed start to Monday due to unsafe buses, as the district races to acquire 125 new units, lease used buses, and meet safety and color standards amid white flight scrutiny and a Supreme Court ruling upholding desegregation.
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Cleveland
UPI
Frank J. Battisti
Cleveland Board of Education
International Harvester Corp
Ohio
Board of Education
John Gallagher
A. William Perry
Stevens
U.S. Supreme Court
Supreme Court
Washington
Columbus
Dayton
Leonard K. Stevens
Court
Police cruiser struck in high speed chase shocks Strongsville
An 18 year old North Olmsted man, Michael Miller, was charged by Strongsville and Middleburg Heights police after a 1:30 am chase that ended when his 1970 Monte Carlo struck a Strongsville cruiser. Miller faced charges of drag racing and fleeing. no injuries were reported.
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Strongsville
Middlebury Heights
Michael Miller
Columbia Road
Middleburg Heights
Miller
Bagley Road
Fry Road
Pearl Road
Rt. 82
Howe’ Road
Berea council stalls housing conservation handbook changes
Berea’s city council tabled a third reading of changes to the Housing Conservation Program handbook. Council members debated timing and urged action or delay as the program faces funding shifts and tighter rules. Whipple and Thompson favored April 7, others pressed for earlier review.
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John Whipple
R-2
Wally Rogers
Whipple
Rogers
Mary Ashbrook
D-1
Thompson
John Hauff
Council
Pat Dorr
Douglas Thompson
R-5
Winter Weather Pack Hits Lorain County Roads
Swirling winds and snow disrupted Monday in Lorain County with poor visibility at intersections including R451 and Ht. 303 in Carden Township. A Nash Avenue youth leaves zig-zag tracks in fresh snow as night falls. Images credit John Kenney and Mark Madere.
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Lorain County
Carden Township
Nash Avenue
C-T
John Kenney
Mark Madere
Portage man to face grand jury in motel fire case
Gerald G. Willey 20 of Randolph bound over for grand jury action April 1 on a deravated arson charge for a Holiday Inn blaze that killed 10 and injured 82. A key witness Kenneth Dorenkott testified Willey claimed to set the fire after an argument with motel management.
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Portage
Cambridge
UPI
Portage County
Holiday Inn
Gerald G. Willey
Randolph
Guernsey County
Willey
Kenneth Dorenkoti
Hudson
Thast
Dorenkott
James St. Scott
Columbus
Scott
William Sanders
Ohio Blue Ribbon
Sohio Sater
Pamela Renee Ricketts
North Olmsted bus chief fired. two retirements
North Olmsted Municipal Bus Line general manager Ernie Zoldesy was fired effective March 15 after 40 years with the system. Kenneth Muse replaces him as operations head, Cliff DiNunzio takes Muse’s former job. Also retired is bus supervisor Robert Dunham after 32 years, with 10 new bases recently added and no replacement named.
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North Olmsted
Ernie Zoldesy
North Olmsted Municipal Bus Line
Joseph Corrigan
Zoldesy
Corrigan
Kenneth Muse
Cliff DiNunzio
Muse
Robert Dunham
Dunham
Dunaham
North Ridgeville
U S Steel defends Youngstown mills in court
U S Steel executives William Roesch and David Roderick testify as the firm fights workers claims of a verbal contract to keep the Youngstown mills open while profitable. Judges had ruled the mills must stay open temporarily during the lawsuit amid shutdowns of Ohio and McDonald works affecting 3,500 workers.
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Youngstown
UPI
U.S. Steel Corp
William Roesch
David Roderick
U.S. Steel
Ohio
McDonald Works
Mahoning
U.S. District Court
Thomas Lambros
Moon drug trial opens in Lorain court
Opening statements begin in the drug case against Dr Tony Wook Moon at Common Pleas Court in Elyria. A seven-woman five-man jury with one alternate sits before Judge Robert J. Corts. Moon is represented by James Willis. Prosecution notes October 1978 raid yielded 11 pounds marijuana hashish oil and 36 drug items. Moon’s son Paul, 19, serves 3 to 10 years for hashish oil possession. Moon’s wife Kung Ok Moon had charges dropped last year.
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Elyria
Tony Wook Moon
Canterbury Court
Lorain
Common Pleas Court
Robert J. Corts
Moon
James KR. Willis
Cleveland
Paul
Manafield Reformatory
Kung Ok Moon
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Berea
Chronicle - Telegram
Cuyahoga
Charles Clarke
Clarke
US. Steel
Youngstown-area
Lorain Road
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