Dinis testifies autopsy sought in Kopechne case
Wilkes Barre prosecutors assert autopsy was ordered within hours of Mary Jo Kopechne's death after her body was recovered from Chappaquiddick Island. Dinis disputes earlier testimony and details police handling as exhumation hearing continues.
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Wilkes-Barre
Edmund Dinis
Dinis
Mary Jo Kopechne
Edward M. Kennedy
Chappaquiddick Island
Miss Kopechne
Pennsylvania
Larksville
Bernard C. Brominski
Common Pleas Court
Mills
Dini
Joseph F. Flanagan
Joseph A. Kopechne
Berkeley Heights
N.J
Armand Fernandes Jr
Massachusetts
Flanagan
United Fund reaches 23 percent of goal in Lorain County
The United Fund of Greater Lorain County reports 23 percent of its $1 465 000 target after an audit meeting in the Red Cross Building Elyria. Audit division chair Kenneth A Krueck announced $327 028 85 raised to date while noting a rise from last year’s 15 8 percent. Paul A Mongerson and Luis T Lanse serve as vice chairs for the current figure.
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United Fund of
Kenneth A. Krueck
Krueck
Red Cross
Elyria
Paul A. Mongerson
Luis T. Lanshe
Nordson Co
Woodpecker Rival In Love Dares Sleep In Washington
Robert Neilson battles a rambling woodpecker that pecks and peers at his wife Diana. The bird follows the family through three homes near Seattle and Tukwila, ignoring scare methods while police note it is a protected songbird seeking a mate.
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Diana Neilson
Tukwila
Wash
Mrs. Neilson
UPI
Robert Neilson
Diana
Neilsons
Neilson
Kent
Duwamish
Scarecrow
Lorain Draft Office Ransacked and Burned in Morning Fire
Lorain police reported a break in at the Selective Service Board office at 4th Street and Reid Avenue. Intruders entered through a south side window, pulled records from filing cabinets, and started a fire that destroyed many draft records. FBI and Selective Service officials and Lorain police investigated. the fire was spotted about 3 30 a.m. by officers Katrincsak and Denicola. The building also housed a U S Treasury office with only smoke damage. duplicate records and replacement plans were noted. The next draft call is scheduled for the 28th.
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Lorain
Selective Service Board
FBI
Selective Service Department
Columbus
Selective Service Office
William Klare
Selective Service System
Klare
Sheffield
Sheffield Lake
Avon
Avon Lake
U.S. Treasury Department
Treasury Office
Nicholas Barbaresso
David Gary
Kolbe Rd
Elyria Selective Service Office
Accord on mental health fund spend in Lorain County
Agreement set for using part of a 1.2 million Lorain County mental health and mental retardation grant. A $233,000 addition to the Murray Ridge School for the Retarded will create a day care unit for preschool and other mentally retarded children not served in the current building. Funds come from the Ohio Department of Mental Hygiene and Correction through the county planning boards and the project was one of four priorities in a prior state proposal.
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Lorain County
Murray Ridge Road
Roy West
West
648 Board
Ohio State Department of Mental Hygiene and Correction
Bureau of Planning and
Torn
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Weather Outlook Shifts To Snow Possible Tonight
Variable cloudiness and wind bring cooler conditions with highs in the mid to upper 50s. Tonight and tomorrow see a mix of showers and snow flurries with lows in the low 40s and highs near 50. Sunset at 6 39 pm and sunrise at 7 44 am noted. yesterday’s high reached 69 and low 45.
Butterfly helps a monarch fly to California
A Maryland second grade class at George Cromwell Elementary arranged for a monarch butterfly to travel to California after the butterfly emerged in class. United Airlines carried the insect from Friendship International Airport to San Francisco, then Monterey, to escape Maryland weather.
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Annapolis
California
Maryland
Jane Chapman
George Cromwell
Friendship International
San Francisco
Monterey
Trudeau weighs first Canadian PM visit to USSR in 1970
In Ottawa reports, informed sources say Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau plans a tentative trip to the Soviet Union in 1970. It would mark the first such visit by a Canadian prime minister. Old golfers never die they just get tee d off and putt away.
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Ottawa
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Soviet Union
Ussr
Ridgeville water transfer to city delayed by county action
North Ridgeville had hoped to take control of the county built water system on Nov 20 but county commissioners failed to meet the deadline. The delay forces renegotiation of the water contract with Elyria and postpones the transfer to at least next year amid political concerns and disputes over rates.
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NEW London — School Board
Fitchville
Ewee Wellingt
Rulngg
Huntington
Seine
North Ridgeville
Elyria
Cleve
Squire Sanders and Dempsey
Electric blanket aids gym floor drying in Wellington
Wellington Recreation Board explains why an electric blanket was used to dry a waterlogged town hall gym floor after a teak roof leak. Clyde Hazlett says sanding was planned, the blanket provided near natural drying, and the device has since been sold for three-fifths of its original cost.
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Wellington
Wellington Recreation Board
Clyde Hazlett
Recreation Board
Hazlett
Thousands Flee as Laurie Breezes Inland Along Louisiana Gulf
Gale force winds accompany Laurie as it moves inland near the Mississippi River, with the storm tracking slowly and erratically about 230 miles south of New Orleans. Officials urge evacuations and shelter plans as parishes from Plaquemines to St. Bernard brace for possible impact.
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New Orleans
UPI
Laurie
Mississippi River
Gulf Coast
Weather Bureau
Louisiana
Mississippi Civil Defense
Wade Guice
Camille
Betsy
Audrey
Plaquemines Parish
Cameron Parish
LaFourche Parish
Vermilion
Lafayette Iberia
St. Bernard Parish
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Kopechne
Donald R. Mills
Dukes County
Mass
George Killen
Philadelphia
Joseph W. Spelman
United Fund
Greater Lorain County
By Leroy Denslow
Pat Geisler
Ridgeville
Bob Eisenbarth
Richard Noll
Noll
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