Search for Stars contest lights up Elyria High stage
Lorain County Shrine Club hosts a talent show at Elyria High School auditorium with acts from Lear Wood Junior High Avon Lake and Longfellow and Admiral King schools Lorain. Winners advance to a June 19 competition at Masonic Auditorium Cleveland against other area winners.
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Elyria High School
James Vogt
Michael Halbert
Jeff Gabele
Craig Webster
Clarence Cram
Bruce Clarke
Lear Wood
Avon Lake
Colette Suskind
Fat Jakubec
Longfellow
Admiral King
Lorain
EBS
Masonic
Clevelad
Ohio lawmaker seeks bipartisan probe of state loan irregularities
House Democratic floor leader John C McDonald will introduce a resolution to form a bipartisan committee to investigate apparent irregularities involving millions in state loans. He criticizes Auditor Cloud and cites the state’s overrun of a 50 million limit, resignations, and political reactions from Edwin Lawton and Rex Haecker.
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UPI
House
John C. McDonald
Newark
Board of Deposit
McDonald
Edwin Lawton
American Independent Party
Cloud
H Cloud
Lawton
Rhodes declines meeting with college presidents over unrest
Gambier Ohio UPI report states Governor Rhodes refused to meet 18 college presidents to discuss campus unrest. A letter from John McElroy cited lack of specific subject matter and said the governor would aid their image but would not act until the Kent State University investigation concludes.
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Rhodes
Kent State
Kent State University
Caples
Accuser weighs withdrawing civil rights charge against Oberlin chief
Beatrice Miller said she is considering dropping the civil rights and assault complaint against Oberlin Police Chief Robert K. Ferber after a meeting with attorney Jerry Gordon. A decision is expected by Monday. The case stems from an altercation May 8 involving Ferber Sgt. Eugene Barlow and several youths at South Main and Grove Land Streets.
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Oberlin
Robert K. Ferber
Cleveland
Jerry Gordon
Beatrice Miller
Ferber
Eugene Barlow
South Main
Groveland Streets
Edward C. Smith
Suez air battles widen as Israel downs two more Egyptian jets
Israeli command in Tel Aviv says it shot down two MIG19 aircraft in fresh clashes over the Suez Canal. The tally rises to seven Egyptian planes downed in three days, with ongoing artillery duels and aerial activity along the waterway. Casualties include nine Israeli soldiers wounded in ground fighting.
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Middle East
Tel Aviv
Canal
West Bank
Cairo
Gabasat Cam Elshat
Port Tewfik
Student calls OU invaders freaks during campus disorders
Ohio University seniors and town marshal Ron Sarstedt described the campus disturbances as the work of freaks seeking to close the campus. Rodney Kitchen, a pizza shop owner, alleged vandalism in downtown Athens as students protested world issues.
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Athens, Ohio
UPI
Ohio University
Ron Sarstedt
Euclid
Sarstedt
Rodney Kitchen
Cleveland Weather Bureau Begins Continuous Forecasts
People listening on 162.55 marine band radio hear the first continuous weather forecasts from the Cleveland Weather Bureau. The service follows a congressional inquiry into severe storm warnings after a July Lake Erie storm that caused 43 deaths and millions in damage. Transmitters in Chesterland Akron and Castalia provide 24 hour coverage for northern Ohio.
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Cleveland Weather Bureau
Ohio
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Akron
Castalia
Moral leadership critiqued at Baptist convention by Mrs King
Mrs Martin Luther King Jr told the American Baptist Convention in Cincinnati that the Nixon Administration worsens violence and moral leadership is lacking. She urged full school integration, noted budget imbalances, and called for peace monuments. Frederikson elected president. Croster first VP. Campolo second VP.
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Cincinnati
UPI
Martin Luther King Jr
American Baptist Convention
Nixon
Roger L. Frederikson
Lux Falls, Sr
Lois Croster
Colembus
Anthony Campolo
St. Davids, Pa
Six Slain in Augusta Riot Killed by Buckshot in Back
Six African American men in Augusta were shot in the back during racial rioting. State Crime Laboratory head Dr. Larry Howard and coroner Dr. Irvine Phinizy confirmed all bullets were double-ought buckshot. Funerals planned. 1,500 National Guardsmen on duty. Ralph Abernathy to arrive. Two cellmates testified about the death of Charles Oatman, a 16-year-old held on a murder charge.
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Mrs King
Augusta
State Crime Laboratory
Atlanta
Larry Howard
Richmond County
Irvine Phinizy
Howard
Ralph Abernathy
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Charles Oatman
Oatman
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Forrest W. Hornbeck
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