Honda to Build 25 Million Motorcycle Plant in Ohio
Honda Motor Co. will build a 217 acre motorcycle assembly plant in Union County Ohio, employing up to 500 workers, with capacity for 60,000 bikes a year starting spring 1979. Construction should begin soon after year end, with potential auto plant expansion later. Governor Rhodes and executive vice president Kawashima announced the joint venture aided by state funds and TRC support.
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UPI
Honda Motor Co. Ltd
Union County
K. Kawashima
James A. Rhodes
Honda
Kawashima
Department of Economic and Community Development
Honda Motor Co
United States
Ohio Transportation Research Center
Ohio
Rhodes
Quota system backed by civil rights panel
The U S Commission on Civil Rights endorsed affirmative action in professional schools including numerically based admissions. It tied private sector remedies to university policies, arguing such programs affect expectations of nonminorities and support Bakke’s case framing. The panel urged continued progress toward true equality before whites bear greater losses.
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UPL
U.S. Commission On Civil Rights
Supreme Court
Bakke
Commission
Arthur Flemming
Oaes
Alan Bakke
University of California Medical School At
Davis
California Supreme Court
Carter
Davis Medical School
Yankees and Dodgers Set for World Series Opener in New York
The article previews Game One of baseballs World Series in New York between the Yankees and the Los Angeles Dodgers. It notes owner George Steinbrenner visiting the scene. he once lived in Bay Village and ran Lorain Amship operations and is now Amship Board chairman, adding local interest to the event.
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Los Angeles Dodgers
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Amship
Amship Board
UPI
Lawyer Court Reverses Obscene Gesture Conviction
HARTFORD Conn UPI says a Connecticut Superior Court reversed a youthful offender conviction for making an obscene gesture with the middle finger on a school bus toward a state trooper. The court ruled the act did not meet the prurient obscenity standard, noting ancient origins of the gesture and its nonsexual nature. In Ohio, lawmakers plan a special House Senate panel to draft a bill aiding financially strapped schools, expanding borrowing powers for districts with revenue shortfalls. The measure follows recent emergency law actions affecting districts with levies. Oberlin arrest report notes James Gilliam, 74, charged on felonious assault stemming from a April incident during his son’s arrest on arson charges.
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Connecticut Law Journal
Columbus
Ohio General Assembly
House
Senate
Oberlin
James FE. Gilliam
Sheriff's Deputies
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Set
Eugene Barlow
James F
Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Two Americans and a Briton
The 1977 Nobel physics prize goes to Philip W. Anderson of Bell Labs, John M. Van Vleck of Harvard, and Sir Nevill F. Mott of Cambridge University for solid state research. The award highlights advances in crystallic materials with potential to lower solar heating system costs. Van Vleck calls the win a surprise.
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Stockholm
Sweden
UPT
Royal Academy of Sciences
Philip W. Anderson
Bell Telephone Laboratories
Murray Hill
N.d
John M. van Vieck
Harvard University
Cambridge Mass
Sir Nevill F. Mott
Cambridge University
England
Swedish Academy
van Vleck
Anderson
Harvard
Mott
Lundqvist
Cambridge
First Snow Douses Minnesota as Winter Returns
A Minneapolis photo captures the season's first snowfall, dumping over an inch as it slides eastward from the Rockies. The system may not reach Ohio, but it signals that winter has no intention of staying away.
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Weather forecast for tonight and tomorrow
A chilly windy trend continues with cool conditions and showers likely tonight and tomorrow. Lows dip to the upper 30s to low 40s, with tomorrow’s highs reaching the tower. Seventy percent chance of rain tonight and tomorrow. Details on Page 13.
Amtrak plan eyes two Ohio train routes
Amtrak's five year plan released to White House and Congress seeks more than 4.5 billion dollars for new railcars locomotives and station modernization with a full system restudy. It flags two possible routes Pittsburgh to Cleveland via Youngstown and Cincinnati to Dayton and Columbus not passing Lorain County.
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Youngstown
Cincinnati
Dayton
Columbus
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