Lorain County jobless rate hits 6.6 percent
Lorain County unemployment dropped to 6.6 percent last month, the lowest in over 17 months, with 108,325 employed of a 116,000 labor force. Ohio overall eased to 7.4 percent for April, while manufacturing and nonmanufacturing sectors saw mixed gains and minor losses. Labor official Don Pawlczak said the job market appears stable and set for modest continued gains. The county trends cover a 13 month period from April 1975.
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Lorain County
Bureau of Employment Services
Don Pawlczak
Lorain
Bureau
Ohio
Carter Campaign Stops planned in Elyria and Lorain
Famous smile headline as Democratic frontrunner Jimmy Carter plans a swift Lorain County swing. He will land at Cleveland Hopkins Airport after 1 p.m. pass through the Holiday Inn in Elyria at 2 and speak at Sacred Heart Chapel in Lorain around 3.
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Jimmy Carter
Lorain County
Elyria Holiday Inn
Sacred Heart Chapel
Lorain
Carter
Cleve
Land Hopkins Airport
Holiday Inn
Sacred Heart
Cleveland City Club
Jeff Bishop
Ford visit here still possible for Lorain County
Local Republicans press for a Ford campaign stop in Lorain County as President Ford plans a Cleveland address on June 6. Campaign officials express cautious optimism about a fly-in visit to Elyria, with mayor Marguerite Bowman and county committee chair Jack Ryba noting talks in Columbus and potential local events.
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Ford
Lorain County
Cleveland
National Conference of Christians
Ews
Columbus
Ohio
Jack Ryba
Ryba
Marguerite E. Bowman
Elyria
Expansion plan eyed for Lorain port
Lorain port officials and private groups near a sweeping plan to rebuild the port including a possible $40 million motorist tunnel under the Black River and expanded docks. A June 7 meeting at port authority headquarters will discuss the plan with state, federal and industry representatives. The project could replace the Ene Avenue bridge with a tunnel or high level bridge to handle larger vessels and traffic, with the tunnel favored for lower maintenance and shorter approaches.
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Lorain
Black River
TTES
Ene Avenue
Brohl
Brdge
Weather and political scandal swirl around Flushing
Weather forecast calls for clear, mild conditions with lows in the 40s and highs in the 70s, with minimal precipitation. In local politics, former wife Martha Judkins Hays, 58, and daughter Martha Steiner, 22, discuss the divorced congressman as Elizabeth Ray re-enters the spotlight with interviews.
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Flushing
Martha Judkins Hays
Martha Brigitta Hays Steiner
Wood Street
Steiner
Geeta
Washington
Elizabeth Ray
Hays
Washington Post
Associated Press
Paris
Beebe retrial set for June 30 in Cleveland ordination issue
The Rev L Peter Beebe of Oberlin faces a criminal retrial June 30 at Trinity Cathedral Cleveland on charges stemming from a service conducted by two women ordained July 1974. The case centers on women's ordination and could influence the Episcopal General Convention’s September vote.
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Oberlin
Trinity Cathedral
Cleveland
Episcopal Diocesan
Church Appeals
Diocesan Church Court
Beebe
John Rea
Ming
Christ Church
Episcopal Diocese of
Ohio
Episcopal Church
Hays resignation urged over mistress scandal
Rep. Romano L. Mazzoli urged Rep. Wayne L. Hays to quit as chairman of the Administration Committee and resign from Congress to restore prestige. The clash followed revelations that Elizabeth Ray, paid $14,000 a year, worked as Hays' secretary while claiming to be his mistress, prompting ethics and justice inquiries and a possible grand jury probe.
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Ohio
Wayne L. Hays
Hays
Seven County
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Hay
Pat Peck Hays
Washington Area
Bays
Elizabeth Ray
Washington
Wayne Hays
House Today
Chamber
Romano L. Mazzoli
D-Ky
Ethica Committee
Martin A. Russo
D-Il
Mazzoli
Miss Ray
Administration
Washington Post
Federal Grand Jury
Hays Committee
Justice Department
Grand Jury
John J. Flynt
D-Gay
House
Flynt
House Ethics Committee
Department
Congress
Ethics Committee
Pat
Steubenville
Joe DiMaggio
St. Clairsville
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