Jaycees organize giant Christmas box train for Viet Nam aid
The national Jaycees launch Yes ACTT efforts to assemble a 100 car freight box packed with food, medical supplies, clothes, and toys. Trains from Philadelphia to Chicago and Spokane to help collect and ship gifts to Vietnam, with Lorain County host sites coordinating donations.
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Ee Saaig
Jaycees
Viet Nam
Philadelphia
Dallas
Chicago
Texas
New
Viet Nams
Mexico
Arizona
Los Angeles
Pacific Coast
Young Democrats
Orleans
Spokane
YES the
Young Republicans
Mississippi Valley
People of the United
United States
United
Tacoma
Viet
America
Rebotas
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Andigon
California
Nam
San Fran Freedom
Chamber of Box
Cisco
Lo 1
Twin Advance
Rain County
Sea
Bangorja
Pearl Hart
Maine
New London school aid request and Viet Nam relief efforts
The New London School Board seeks 750000 in state aid for building projects as superintendent W R Burton notes. Local collection points will be set up with a train delivering goods to a Lorain warehouse for transport to Vietnam. The box includes necessities and some luxuries to aid war torn civilians, while other items cover personal hygiene, clothing, and basic tools.
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Ridgeville
Sheffield Lake
Lorain
Beetle Air
Lolumdus
StaAwan
Viet Nam
Santa
Fire fund for two Lorain families tops 1700 dollars
The Local 425 United Auto Workers relief effort for the Clark and Flaczynski families has gathered over 1700 dollars. Maurice Kolb, bargaining committee member, said clothing and furniture are pouring in at the union headquarters on Baumhart Road. The Clark home on Gifford Road Oberlin suffered three of nine children fatalities, while a four year old perished from fumes in the Flaczynski home on Reid Avenue. Sam Carr, UAW local president, aims to secure a three bedroom home in the Fairless School District for the families, who have school needs in that district. District committeemen from Lorain Vermilion Sheffield Lake are named as local aid volunteers.
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Local 425
UAW
Lorain Ford Plant
Lorain
United Auto Workers
Maurice Kolb
Clarence Clark
Dennis Flacyzinski
Chronicle-Telegram Today
Union
Baumhart Rd
Clark
Gifford Rd
Oberlin
Flaczynski
Reid Ave
Sam Carr
Fairless
UAW Aid Committee
Pearl Flowers
Frank Telakowicz
William Burnette
Glenn Hall
Wiliam Hunter
Lloyd Webb
John Hunter
Vermilion
Stan Holder
Don Livingston
Sheffield Lake
Two Injured When Brink's Truck Crashes in Oberlin
A Brink's armored truck collision on U S Rt 511 at the Rt 20 intersection yesterday injured two men. Brahn 61 of Cleveland and Del Vecchio 17 of Wakeman were hospitalized with injuries. another guard and a car occupant also treated. Authorities say the truck carried about 500000. Ronald Del Vecchio 18 of Wakeman and Howard Nylen 53 of Parma were involved. vehicle contents and truck were moved to another Brink's unit. The incident remains under Oberlin Municipal Court review.
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Oberlin
Brahn
West 32Nd St
Allen Memorial
Cleveland
Lowell Hornbeck
Gore Brink
U.s.orphanage
Wellington
Rt. 511
Elyria Post
Highway Patrol
Ronald W. del
Vecchio
Gore Orphanage
Christopher Rd
Wakeman
Orphanage Rd
Howard
N. Nylen
Magdalaj
Parma
Ronald del Veeright
W Chip
George Janat
Kas
Burke Ave
Brink
Joseph del Vecchio
Gorei
Winds lash Lorain County as camper blown from truck bed
High winds kept some residents awake but Lorain County escaped major damage while nearby states and Indiana Michigan saw alerts. A camper was blown from a pickup on the Ohio Turnpike near Fremont, injuring a man slightly. Another tree down blocked Rt. 250 near Norwalk and Rt. 547 Lorain St. blocked temporarily. Minor injuries reported, no tornadoes confirmed locally.
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Lorain County
Ohio
Indiana
Michigan
Lorain County Civil Defense Organization
Ohio Turnpike
Fremont
Avon Lake
Earl Hassel
Walker Rd
Norwalk
Highway Patrol
Lorain St. Joseph Hospital
Monroeville
Twin engine airliner crashes near Salt Lake City
A twin engine airliner carrying 13 aboard crashed two miles south of Salt Lake City amid a moonlit storm, according to the Utah Highway Patrol.
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Salt Lake City
UPI
Here
Todav
Utal Highway Patrol
Postmaster Urges Early Mailing for Christmas Mail
Correct address and early mailing encouraged as Lotke Jr urges area residents. He says this year’s Christmas mail volume may exceed last year’s record, with first class postage to be waived on greeting cards to ensure forwarding. Even amid heavy volume, 99 percent reached destinations before Christmas Eve as operation efficiency improves.
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Michael J. Lotke Jr
Lotke
Lotko
Letke
Cottman
Ube Woot
Lethe
Letters From Home Lighten Distances For Military Families
A Elyria family and other service members abroad exchange holiday letters to ease separation. Names include T/Sgt Roger C Hans in Vietnam and his wife Takeko in Tokyo, with several Marines and sailors listed for corrective or updated addresses to receive messages.
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Roger C. lMans
South Viet Nam
Roger
Takeko
Tokyo
Japan
Hans
Air Force
Elyrians
Toni
T/Set
Viet Nam
Flag pins back men in Viet show their colors in Ohio
COLUMBUS, UP I S A unique American Legion project will ask thousands of Ohioans to show their colors in support of U S fighting men. Legionnaires will pass out American flag lapel pins and patriotic cards free of charge in dozens of Ohio communities. Nearly half of Ohio's 708 posts planned to participate in the effort as a counter move to a Washington march by anti Viet Nam demonstrators today.
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Columbus
UPI
American Legion
Three car crash injures Sheffield Village man
A 45 year-old Sheffield Village man, Anthony Kopa, suffered a fractured leg, facial cuts and bruises in a three car collision on Route 301. His vehicle first sideswiped a southbound car driven by 15 year-old Kevin Archer, sending Archer into a ditch, then struck Robert Bechtel’s car before crashing into a ditch and a utility pole. He was treated at Lorain St Joseph Hospital in fair condition. police continue investigation.
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Sheffield
Sheffield Village
Lorain St. Joseph Hospital
Anthony Kopa
Colorado Ave
Kopa
Kevin M. Archer
North
Pasadena Ave
Elyria
Archer
Robert Bechtel
Lafayette Ave
Bist St
Elyria Man Prepares as Army Adviser to Thai Ambassador
Maj Hastings, an Elyria native and West Point graduate, is preparing for a new military assignment as adviser to the U.S. Ambassador to Thailand. He studies at the Army Language School in Monterey and attends Benedict? Presidio College. Hastings, a WWII and Korea veteran, has served in Japan and Germany, and taught ROTC at Dickinson College. He is married to Gail Cornell of Ithaca New York.
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Elyria
U.S
Thailand
Thomas H. Hastings
Thomas E. Hastings
Monroe St
Presidio College
Army Language School
Monterey
Calif
Penttagon
Maj
Hastings
U. S. Military Academy
West Point
Tennessee Military School
Sweetwater, Tenn
Sullivan Preparatory School
Washington May
Gail Cornell
Ithaca, NY
Elyrian
Pork Chop Hill
Heartbreak Ridge
Korea
Japan
Augsburg
Germany
United States
Dickinson College
Carlisle
Ft. Benning
War era aid drive seeks school supplies and relief items
Communities mobilize for ACTT campaign to ship items to soldiers and war zones. Collect pencils tablets razors and small toys plus food staples like rice beans flour sugar dried milk eggs and soups. Donations coordinate by area Jaycee presidents in Amherst Avon Avon Lake Elyria Lorain North Ridgeville Sheffield Lake with Earl Hawkins Jr. as county coordinator. Sponsors include ACTT with CARE Dooley Foundation Project Concern and United Service Organization. dissolution upon ship sail to Vietnam.
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Jaycee
Amherst
Jeff Joyce
North Ridge Rd
Avon
John Eldred
Mapleridge Blvd
Avon Lake
Art Nehrenz
Englewood St. Elyria
William Standen
Whitman Blvd
Lorain
Tom Gabriel
Fifth St
North Ridgeville
Jim Hurst
Bainbridge Rd
Sheffield Lake
Jack Aiernes
Knickerbocker
Ohio
ACTT
The
American Trucking Association
American Association of Railroads
Voting machine report irks Zieba in Lorain County
Lorain County Commissioners and the board of elections discussed new voting machines after a Fulton County tour. Joseph Zieba criticized the public meeting timing while Victo r Stewart and Lila Black attended. They consider 25 new machines and weigh replacing the Jamestown Automatic with IBM units at lower cost.
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Lorain County
Zieba
Victor Stewart
Elyria
Lila Black
Thompsson
Chronicle-Telegram
Fulton County
Thompson
New York State
Board of Elections
Armory blast toll rises to ten in Keokuk tragedy
Keokuk Iowa death toll from Thanksgiving eve armory explosion climbs to ten as three more victims die from burns. Carl Goodrich of Carthage Illinois is named among the dead, dying at University Hospital Iowa City, with another victim identified as Mrs Marguerite of Keokuk who passed away at Graham Hospital following the incident.
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Keokuk, Iowa
UPI
Keokuk
Carl Goodrich
Carthage
Ill
University Hospital
Iowa City
Marguerite Was
Graham Hospital
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