Zap riot tears through tiny 300-pop town with 2000 revelers
National guardsmen and police cleared Zap of 2000 to 3000 students after an overnight spree on Main Street. Merchants’ interiors were looted and damaged, with a large bonfire residue and shattered windows. Town under martial law as guardsmen and officers restrained the unrest. Local tavern operators faced destruction of property while residents hunkered down.
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APN
Mercer County
Ivan Stickel
Main Street
Pilot of converted bomber averts playground tragedy
A converted twin engine World War 1 bomber on a test flight skimmed a playground crowd and crashed into an apartment house in Segundo California. Four aboard died but the pilot likely saved many children by aborting a planned emergency landing on a baseball field. Residents and police recovered two bodies and searched for others as wreckage burned.
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SEGUNDO
Calif
UPDA
Debbie Ryerson
Iucalyptus Playground
Phil Near
UPT
Jeff Worrell
Wurzell
Andre Nedelome
England
Pike crash kills Lorainite
A one car crash on the Ohio Turnpike yesterday killed 2 year old Lorain resident Paul F. Finerd and sent two others to hospital. Finerd, 4, died at Elyria Memorial Hospital at 4 10 p.m. Passenger Myra Marker, 40, and another passenger, George F. Griest, 4, were listed in poor and fair condition respectively. Finerd was reportedly speeding on a wet road while attempting to pass a truck on a bridge near Exit 9.
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LORAIN
Paul F. Finerd
Eas 3rd St
Elyria Memorial Hospital
Myra Marker
Tacoma Ave
Finerd
anoth
Ezekial Edwards
Oberlin
Ronald Edward Nutt
Grant
Berea
Turnpike
North Olmsted
Erie County to dedicate plaque marking Huron Iron Works site
Erie County Historical Society plans a June 14 dedication at the intersection of Route 60 and Darrow Road Vermilion for a plaque marking the Huron Iron Co furnace site erected in 1830 and active through the Civil War. weitere plaques will honor sites in Sandusky Huron Castalia and Jay Cooke birthplace.
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Erie County
Huron Iron Works
VERMILION
Huron Iron Co
Erie County Historical Society
T. D. Wakefield
Firelands Community Bank
Wakefield Museum
Rt. 60
Darrow Rd
Wakefield
Sandusky
Huron
Castalia
GORDON WENDT
Huron County
Jay Cooke
Johnson's Island
Sandusky Bay
John Baptiste Flemmond
EN CASTALIA
Wahkefiell
Snow
John Rhinemiller
Charles &. Frohman
Karl Shi Inansky
45 youths arrested in Florida drug raid
Jacksonville police say 45 youths, mostly students 25 or younger, were arrested for possession and sale of LSD and marijuana in Florida's largest raid of its kind. The roundup began at six high schools and continued at residences. Bonds ranged from 2,500 to 25,000 with ongoing undercover groundwork.
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JACKSONVILLE
Fla
WPI
Narcostics
Florida
James L. Pfeiffer
Pfeiffer
Duval County
Sirhan's mother seeks Belli for appeal visit
Beverly Hills Calif The mother of Sirhan B Sirhan condemned for Kennedy’s death conferred with attorney Melvin Belli about the possibility Belli would take over Sirhan’s appeal. An associate said Mary Sirhan would arrange for Belli to visit in his San Quentin cell within a week.
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BEVERLY HILLS
Calif
Sirhan
B. Sirhan
Robert F. Kennedy
Melvin Belli
San Franciscan
San Quentin
Kennedy
Belli
Mary Sirhan
Weather Outlook With Cloudy Cool Skies
Cloudy and cool today with scattered showers and windy conditions. High near 34 Sunday. Mostly cloudy tonight with a lingering cool tone and a few showers mainly in the north.
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timorrow
Tornadoes Rip Through Southwestern Ohio Hurting Five Plus
Violent weather lashed Hamilton and Butler County as two tornadoes and severe hail cut a 30 mile swath, destroying homes and knocking out power. At least five people were hospitalized, with authorities cautioning the toll may rise due to debris. The Lemon Monroe High School suffered damage while several villages including Maud Maustown and Monroe faced significant destruction. Local officials dispatched ambulances and equipment as power and phone lines stayed down.
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HAMILTON
UPT
Ohio
WYISTERS
Buller County
Maud
Ross
Maustown
Monroe
Lees
Butler County Civil Defense
John McElroy
James A. Rhodes
governors’ office
Michael Lawhorn
here
Gaston Bowling
Mitiwanga Man Killed in Vietnam While Serving One Month
MITIWANGA The first Vietnam War casualty from this lake front resort is Sgt. Theodore Davison Ward, son of Mr and Mrs DeForest Ward. He died this week in Vietnam while on patrol as an airborne ranger in the First Cavalry Division. The Ward family received word Friday night at their Wild Waves Mole home on Lake Erie. Further details will be on page A-5 column 5.
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MITIWANGA
lake front
Theodore Davison Ward
DeForest
William
Bill) Ward
Ward
Wild Waves Mole complex
Lake Eirie
TED
Vietnam
émly
Wives and Fishermen: a wry comparison on settling
A humorous musing contrasts wives with fishermen, noting wives boast about the ones who eluded capture and grumble about the one who stayed. The quip hints at marriage tensions and social humor in concise, breezy language.
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LARLY PIUCINST
Emanuel Sandau
Zap
Sandau
Paul Renner
Autonelics Division
North American Rockwell Aviation Company
Pike
George F. Griest
John Fazio
RAIE
Ep Veteran's Hospita
Elyria Municipal Court
Wurst
SEGHY
Broad Street
city building inspection department
Lake Theater
Lorain County Vacuum Cleaners
Seedy’s Candies
adjutant general
National Guard
McEElroy
Fort Hamilton Hospital
Mercy Hospital
Lemon-Monroe High School
THEODORE D. WARD
Newena T
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