Housing costs surge as new home price tops 52 thousand
Maureen Santini reports that the average new single family home now costs 52 300, up from 24 600 in 1967, marking a 100 percent rise in a decade. Census data show a 5.3 percent quarterly gain in early 1977, with higher construction costs and demand cited as factors amidst a recovery. The government housing index notes regional price disparities, with the West and Northeast most expensive, the South least. The 52 300 home is about 2 000 more than its earlier value.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Census Bureau
Adren Cooper
Cooper
Ohio Senate moves fast on voter registration bill
Ohio Democrats in the Senate plan to quickly ratify House changes to a landmark voter registration bill and send it to Governor Rhodes. The measure would require universal registration in 88 counties, make it permanent, allow election day registration, and fund changes with 2.3 million dollars. The process aims to avoid a possible public referendum and push the policy ahead for the 1978 elections.
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Columbus
UPI
Ohio
Senate
House
James A. Rhodes
Ohio Democratic Party
Organized Labor
Rhodes
Oliver Ocasek
Akron
Don S. Maddux
Lancaster
Begin victory celebration becomes family affair in Tel Aviv
Israel's rightist leader Menahem Begin posed with two daughters Chasia and Lea, son-in-law Matti, wife Aliza, and grandchild Orit during a Tel Aviv gathering after his stunning Labor Party upset. Begin urged the United States not to impose a Mideast peace plan.
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Menahem Begin
Labor Party
Israel
Tel Aviv
Chasia
Lea
Matti
Aliza
Orit
Begin
U.S
UPI
Vermilion Rotary Wins Plaque For Weather Alert Radios
The Vermilion Rotary Club receives a plaque from the National Weather Service for its 1974-75 project selling early warning radios. Clarence Wolf and Art Stearns accepted on behalf of the club with Bill Kennedy from Cleveland Weather Service involvement. The program aims to alert homes and boats to approaching storms at about $30 per radio.
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Vermilion Rotary Club
Vermilion Rotarians
National Weather Service
Rotary Club
Service Club
Clarence Wolf
Art Stearns
Bill Kennedy
Cleveland
Kennedy
Sheffield Lake
Wolf
Brookside High School
Brookside
Chicago Display Council
Area legislators split on voter registration measure
Area lawmakers largely parried party lines on a voter registration bill. Fauver of Elyria Betts of Rocky River Tansey of Vermilion and Batchelder of Medina opposed it while Camera of Lorain and Colonna of Brook Park supported. Batchelder and Fauver criticized the measure as a sham and warned Democrats could gain from liberalized rules, urging waiting for federal action. Fauver noted shifts in party allegiance and questioned potential gains by unregistered voters and party identification losses.
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Scribner L. Fauver
Elyria
James Betts
Rocky River
Marie Tansey
Vermilion
William G. Batchelder
Medina
J. Leonard Camera
D-Lorain
Rocco-Colonna
D-Brook Park
Dog catcher nets dog and owner at Austin pound
Grant Thomas joined his dog Layla in the pound cage to protest a $10 fine for the first offense. He insisted the dog was law abiding and not a criminal, and performed tricks to show Layla’s good behavior before ultimately paying the fine and leaving with her.
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Austin
Tex
UPI
Grant Thomas
Layla
Thomas
Westerday
Homase Society
National syndicate OKd Nardi hit says paper
Cleveland report says a local top organized crime figure had the national syndicate's consent for John Nardi's killing. Daniel Greene, once targets of a bombing, told city editor Tony Tucci the hit was not connected to earlier bombings. Greene and FBI/police were asked for information, but he offered no opinion on motive.
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Cleveland
UPI
National Crime Syndicate
John Nardi
Cleveland Press
Daniel J
Danny) Greene
Tony Tucci
Greene
Tucci Nardi
Eugene
Ciasuilo
Scripps-Howard
Nardi
FBI
Tucci
Weather Status Quo Clears Tonight With 8 Degree Low
The forecast calls for a clear night with a low near 8 and mostly cloudy conditions tomorrow with highs up to 85. A 20 percent chance of rain is noted for tonight and tomorrow. Yesterday’s high reached 5 at 3:45 p.m. and the low was 38 at 6:28 a.m. Details on Page D2.
New jail opening urged as delay blamed on officials
Lorain County Sheriff Vernon M. Smith pledged the new jail would open within a month after years of delay blamed on the building committee architect and commissioners.Council president William E. Foster urged local leaders to speed the move citing business deadlines and likening it to building a plant in six months. Special guests at the Sheriff Affairs dinner included Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice C William ONeill and Jacksonville Florida Sheriff Dale Carson. Carson urged Ohio to pursue city county consolidation to reduce costs and improve cooperation.
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Lorain County
Vernon M. Smith
Tve
Foster
Tim
Smith
National Police
Ttyria
James Oster
Dale Carson
Jacksonville
Duval County
Florida
Ohio
Carson
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Cathy Eckhart
Gene Krebs
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Begin Family
Alice Luddington
Vermilies Rotary Project
Wolf and Stearns
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Tearns
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Fauver
Okd Nardi
Dashassineh
Sam
Wellington
Mom
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