Cheryl Yourkvitch named Miss America 1974
Rebecca Ann King of Colorado crowned Miss America 1974 at Convention Hall Atlantic City. Cheryl Ann Yourkvitch of Lorain Ohio won a 1500 talent scholarship for singing and plans to attend Lorain County Community College. The pageant awarded 1 million in scholarships this year with eight other 1500 talent awards.
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Atlantic City
N.J
Colorado
Rebecca Ann King
Cheryl Yourkvitch
Miss Ohio
Pennsylvania
Cheryl Ann Yourkvitch
Lorain
Cheryl
Lorain County
Florida
Massachusetts
Montana
New Hampshire
Utah
Vermont
Cheryl Ann
Nancy Yourkvitch
Willie Nemeth
Terry Anne Meeuwsen
Wisconsin
UPI
Park hires first female naturalists for summer program
Three women staff the Bacon Woods Mill Hollow Reservation nature center and museum coding displays and leading tours in Lorain County Metropolitan Parks. Carol Fuhrman Allyn Baron and Beth Fetterman assisted with care for animals and construction of trail guides, marking the first time the district hired women as naturalists.
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Raquel
Rocky
Woodswomen
Bacon-Woods Mill Hollow Reservation
Lorain County
Carol Fuhrman
West Ave
Allyn Baron
Forest St
Oberlin
Beth Fetterman
Edgewood Dr
Grafton
Metropolitan Park District
Dale Thompson
Nixon unveils eight point energy plan to ease oil threat
President Nixon outlined an eight point energy development program to reduce U.S. reliance on oil from Mideast producers. He urged liberalizing oil sulfur standards to boost heating fuel and endorsed rapid Alaska pipeline, deep water ports, deregulation of gas, and broad coal mining. He cautioned a winter shortage but stressed long term energy self sufficiency and continued imports where needed. Nixon also announced a national radio address ahead of a State of the Union message.
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Washington
Nixon
United States
Israel
Alaska
Est
Elk Hills Naval Oil Reserve
California
John A. Love
White House
Mideast
Venezuela
Canada
UPI
Congress
Pat
Camp David
Miss America pageant faced picket lines and overtime placings
The new Miss America praised farm life for independence while five runners up were named from Oklahoma Illinois California Washington and Texas. Firefighters protested outside Convention Hall in a contract dispute, with a court order restricting pickets that led pageant officials to offer overtime pay meals to keep the show running.
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Convention Hall
Weather Outlook With Chance of Showers Today
Cloudy with a 40 percent rain chance today and 20 percent tonight. Highs near 70 to 75, with variable cloudiness tonight. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a high in the 70s and lows in the 30s.
Westlake Dominates Elyria West 51-0 in Grid Clash
Westlake shuts out Elyria West 51-0 as Elyria West falls behind early and never recovers. In the other match Elyria Catholic defeats Clearview 19-6 to claim a decisive win. Giants beat the Browns 21-10 in a tight NFL showcase.
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Westlake
Elyria West
Elyria Catholic
Clearview
Giants
Browns
Divorced Lives in Lorain County From One Woman's View
In Lorain County three women and three men share divorce stories across work finances child raising and personal life. This first profile follows Joan a 27-year-old mother of two who rebuilt life after an 18 to 21 marriage. She moves from part time magazine sales to data processing work earning 188 dollars biweekly plus overtime while facing alimony and irregular child support in early years.
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Mikie Sherman
Lorain County
John
Good Housekeeping
Joan
Cleveland
Arab gunmen yield after hijack drama in Kuwait
Four Saudi diplomats held at the Saudi Embassy in Paris were freed as 12 Arab guerrillas surrendered on a Kuwait Airlines jetliner runway. Hostages walked off with hands raised as troops surrounded the Boeing 707. Guerrillas claimed to release the diplomat Yehia Baha Eddin and said they sought Abou Daoud in Jordan.
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Kuwait
Paris
Middle East
Baha Eddin
Abdul Harmd
Pars
Abou Daoud
Jordan
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Colorado Women’s College
Sterling, Colo
Denver
Judy Hicke
New Jersey
Suzanne Plummer
Louisiana
Debbie Ward
Louise Thomas
Park ‘Woodswomen
Radio
Oklahoma
Andrea Jean Hanson
Mlinois
Colleen Ann Metternich
Susan Kaye Shipley
Leslie Ann Mays
Texas
Judy Malett
Elyria
Lorain County Community College
Yehia
Niles
Saad Al-Abdallah
Radi
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