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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1970
Page
7
Forty seven seniors at Elyria High School earned the Scholastic E for outstanding study records. The largest group to date received 32 girls and 15 boys after meeting a 3.75 GPA by end of junior year. Letters were presented by Don McDonough and colleagues during an assembly.
Chronicle Telegram urges readers to send gifts letters and cards to soldiers in South Vietnam to ease Thanksgiving and Christmas loneliness. Final listing for the Mail for Morale program will be made around December 5. Names and addresses of service members are provided for donor use.
North Ridgeville residents must register by December 4 to vote in a December 14 special election on a 4.3 mill operating levy. The Lorain County Board of Elections will open an extra Saturday session from 8:30 a.m. to noon for those unable to register on weekdays. Absentee ballots available tomorrow for four school issues including Avon 2.0 mills, Black River 4.0 mills, and Columbia 4.6 mills.
Burglars shot a watch dog at Tecker's Sohio Station Ats S11 and 30 and looted tires tools and supplies valued at about 4000. Tommy Tecker owner told deputies he opened the station at 7 am yesterday and burglars entered through a rear window and garage door. They opened a safe with an acetylene torch before fleeing.
FBI Director J Edgar Hoover testified before a Senate subcommittee that militants named the East Coast Conspiracy to Save Lives planned to kidnap a high level government official and demand an end to U S bombings in Southeast Asia. He linked the group to Philip and Daniel Berrigan and said details were provided in closed session.
Thomas R. Cole 22 earns Bronze Star for meritorious service in Vietnam with Co D 1st Battalion 20th Infantry Americal Division 11th Infantry Brigade He also received the Army Commendation Medal and holds the Combat Infantryman Badge Cole a 1966 Marion Steele High School graduate and Lorain County Community College student is son of Richard H and wife. He entered the Army in 1969 and will finish his two year obligation in February at Knox Ky.
A fire at a Lorain home led firefighters to report a stolen Thanksgiving turkey from Station No. 1 on Fourth Street. The Red Cross told a radio station, sparking nationwide coverage and public offers of birds to aid the bereaved family.
Readers correspond about counting sea gulls at Catholic High Field and shelter cats, with a practical joke by local firemen. Also notes on Lorain County residents relocating to Utah, long service at CEI Avon Lake Plant, and a turkey prank that turned into a steak and crow correction.
Lorain resident Larry Hicks reports a counterfeit twenty after the ink smeared on a bill given as change at a Sheffield Township service station. The incident occurred after a customer pumped two dollars and Hicks handed eighteen dollars in change, with the car leaving the lot multiple times. Authorities later described the suspect vehicle and issued a watch for the driver.
The recount of 283 precincts in Cuyahoga County will run Thursday and Friday for state Senate District 25. Democratic candidate John E. Corrigan seeks to overturn a 683 vote margin over Republican Paul R. Matia. Corrigan and Matia, both 33 or 34, are attorneys from Fairview Park and Rocky River.
A brief public service note urges drivers to stay off the list and drive safely.
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