Reapportion plan may force Lorain reps to move
State apportionment board unveils a plan making single member districts and places Lorain County representatives Maurice Brown and Ed DeChant in the same district. Either DeChant or Brown must move within 15 days to seek reelection or they could face a party primary. Senatorial maps redraw Lorain County to join Erie Huron and northern Richland with Lorain.
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Lorain County
State
Rey
William Saxbe
House
Senate
Federal District Court
Cincin
Saxbe
Maurice Brown
Lorain
Ed DeChant
Avon Lake
DeChant
Brown
Apportionment Board
Lorain Cuunty I
Cuyahoga County
Erie County
Huron County
Richland County
Mansfield
Donald J
Lesh Trial Hearings Explore Triangle Slaying Motives
Mrs. Oralia Lesh testified as State’s first witness in the first degree murder trial of her husband Alexander Lesh. She denied a love affair with Norbert Thomas and described their limited relationship, while noting past divorce filings and occasional dinners.
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Oralia Lesh
Alexander Lesh
Lesh
John D. Pincura
Norbert
Court to rule on plan for Ohio legislature
Ohio submits a 99 member House and 33 member Senate reapportionment plan to a three judge federal panel in Cincinnati. Atty Gen Saxbe and the apportionment board present the administration’s answer to the court order with single member districts. The court has not yet ordered Senate reapportionment but may review the method of upper house apportionment.
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Pease
Oberlin
Elsina
Lorain County
Lorain City
Saxbe
Apportionment Board
Robert Nolan
Cleveland
Leonard Sive
Cincinnati
Robert Tenenbaum Collmbus
UPI
Senate
State
Atty
William B. Saxbe
Vietnam says 218 Viet Cong killed in Saigon area
Vietnamese military commanders claim government forces killed 218 Viet Cong in fighting near Saigon over two days. US officials could not confirm the figures but said six UH-1D helicopters from the 1st Cavalry Division were downed in the Soui La Tinh Valley campaign. Casualties were light for crews, with 45 Viet Cong killed, 46 captured, 36 detained, and equipment and rice seized.
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Saigon
UPI
Soui la Tinh
U.S
1St Cavalry
Viet Cong recruit at bayonet point swells ranks
Viet Cong leaders have drafted an estimated 30,000 to 40,000 men within the past month to match the U S military buildup in Vietnam. The recruitment push raises total Viet Cong strength to about 226,000 full and part‑time soldiers.
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UPI
Viet Nam
Defense Secreta
Park Rangers Find Extensive Walnut Tree Destruction
Lorain County Metropolitan Park reports damage from felled walnut trees plus a damaged nature rail and picnic table after sawyers cut on park property. A Pickway buyer is linked to the lumber. the William Sabo property near Vermilion River is involved. damaged Riverside trail area is east of North Ridge and Vermilion Roads.
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Lorain County
Ently
Pickway
Sawyers
William Sabo
Sabo
Vermilion River
North Ridge
Vermilion Rds
Parker Miller
Labor shortage hits Lorain County farms with apple and potato crops
Lorain County farmers face a worsening labor shortage say Ohio State Employment Service official Ted Wickens. He notes reduced seasonal workers from Puerto Rico and Mexico due to immigration controls and poverty programs, with students filling some roles but housing limits keep migrants scarce.
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Lorain County
Ted Wickens
Ohio State Employment Service
Wickens
Lora County
Draft call to 45 23 men boosts December Viet effort
The Army and Marines will draft 45 23 men in December, the highest monthly total since Korea. December calls push Army to 40 200 draftees and Marines to 5 02, part of a 340 000 man buildup to support U S Viet Nam commitments, with total U S troops expected above three million.
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Washington
UPI
Army
Marines
Gested
Johnson
Marine Corps
Viet Nam
U.S
Air Force
Soviet Novelist Sholokhov Wins 1965 Nobel Prize
Stockholm announces Mikhail Sholokhov as the 1965 Nobel Prize in literature laureate for his epic four volume work And Quiet Flows the Don. He is 60 and a close Khrushchev associate. The 856400 prize cited his great epic writing.
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Stockholm
UPI
Mikhail Sholokhov
Sholokhov
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Swedish Academy of Letters
Weather outlook with showers and clearing by evening
Weather forecast notes showers and scattered thundershowers ending this evening then clearing. Saturday should be mostly sunny with a cooler night ahead. High around 65 to 70 degrees, low 46 to 50.
Woman Believed Killed In Car Train Crash
A woman was believed killed shortly after 1 p.m. today in a car train collision on Webster Rd. Lorain County sheriff's office reported little information at press time. The New York Central System crossing lies midway between LaGrange and Willizon.
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Webster Rd
Lorain County
Lorain faces new rules for sewage permit renewal
Ohio pollution officials set ground rules tied to Lorain's sewage permit renewal while Lorain County Community College trustees consider a possible state aid increase up to 37.5 percent in 1967. The piece also notes mayoral candidate debates on discrimination and local council coverage.
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Lorain
Lorain County Community College
Pace
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