Midview District to Build Outdoor Living Biology Classroom
GRAFTON The Midview School District plans an outdoor classroom at Brush Elementary to support a living biology curriculum. Supervisor Glen R Dennis and Soil Conservation Service expert Richard Keep designed the project on roughly two acres, with seven more acres used for facilities and seven more for farming. The area will host a wildlife friendly plantscape with trees including elm maple red oak ash tulip poplar beech sycamore sassafras dogwood white oak walnut buckeye and conifers such as white pine and Austrian pine. The space will feature clover patches shrubs and perch wire for birds and will include a ditch and natural banking for maintenance.
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Grafton
Midview
Brush
Glen R. Dennis
Soil Conservation Service
Richard Keep
Board of Education
Ship firm wins pac
The American Ship Building Co. won an 8.399 million dollar Navy contract to convert the World War II Furman Victory into a submarine tender. Engineering work will be done in Lorain, with construction in Toledo. The project is a four year development effort with a focus on hands on biology education at Midview, guided by local officials and Oberlin College input.
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Washington
American Ship Building Co
Navy Department
Lorain Yard
Toledo
ASB
Furman Victory
National Science Foundation
Low Rent Housing Backed for Elyria
The Citizens Committee of the Lorain Welfare Department will propose to Elyria city council a plan for low cost public rental units. Welfare Director Gerard Prinz announced the recommendation after a committee meeting with Lorain Metropolitan Housing Authority director Clayton Ashley and council members John Katko Harold West and Leonard Reichlin present.
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Elyria
Citizens Committee
Lorain
Health and Welfare Committee of Council
Prinz
Council
Saxbe Rules Parochial Pupils Cannot Ride Public Buses
Ohio Attorney General William B. Saxbe holds that parochial school students cannot be transported in public school district buses without legislative action. He suggests either granting discretionary bus-use powers to boards of education or authorizing service as proposed by the Medina School Board.
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Medina School Board
Sys
Lorain County districts transport private school students
The Ohio Department of Education lists five Lorain County districts transporting parochial or private students last year. Avon moved 871 students, North Ridgeville 325, Sheffield Lake 278, Elyria seven, and Amherst 166.
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Lorain County
Ohio Department of Education
Avon
North Ridgeville
Sheffield Lake
Elyria
Amherst
Medina Board Approves School Bus Leasing Move
Medina Board of Education, by a 2-1 vote, ordered transportation for parochial pupils of St. Francis Xavier School on Aug. 12. Board member Richard Longacre, who made the motion, said it did not specify leasing versus free transport. Payment for the service, which began Monday, has not yet been received.
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Medina Board of Education
Saxbe
James Foreman
Medina
St. Francis Xavier School
Richard Longacre
Lorain seeks boundary in Rt 254 area for exclusive service
Lorain Telephone Co presented evidence to Ohio Public Utilities Commission to claim exclusive rights to serve customers near Rt. 254. It argues its 744 lines exceed Elyria's 134 and local demand supports a boundary between Abbe Road and Middle Ridge Road, extending 500 feet north and south for about 5 miles.
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Lorain Telephone Co
The
Public Utilities Commission of Ohio
Rt. 254
R. E. Trinter
Lorain Company
Elyria
Lorain
Trinter
Baxter H. Case
Elyria Telephone Co
Elyria Company
Columbus
Negro denied union membership over race in Cleveland
Sheet Metal Workers Union Local 174 refused Gilbert Foster a 37 year old Negro membership after the examining board found he did not pass recent tests. The United Freedom Movement threatened pickets if Negroes are not hired in trades. The report also notes regional telecom competition and ongoing legal hearings in Columbus on Sept 25.
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Cleveland
UPI
Sheet Metal Workers Union
Gilbert Foster
Foster
United Freedom Movement
Major thoroughfare plan presented for North Ridgeville
Lorain County Commissioners and North Ridgeville officials heard a plan outlining three major road projects to ease growth traffic. Proposals include Mills Road extension to Rt 254 and Barton Road with an I 80 tie, Sugar Ridge Road east extension, and a new north south link using Race Road partly.
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Lorain County
North Ridgeville
Donald E. Patterson
Commission
Mills Rd
Barton Rd
Cuyahoga County
Sugar Ridge I
Broad St
North Ridgeville West Corporation
Sprague Rd
M.ajs
Sugar Ridge
Race Rd
Jere Hinton
Hinton
Shaffer, Parrett and Associates
Mansfield
Survey to curb indecent books in Elyria considered
Elyria mayor Charles V Neeson proposes a newsstand survey to gauge indecent literature. He will confer with Police Chief Maurice C Flood after receiving CDL materials from a Cleveland meeting attended by 71 area mayors. A local committee from PTA and church groups may be formed depending on results.
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Elyria
Charles V. Neeson
Maurice C. Flood
Cleveland
Committee For Decent Literature of Greater Cleveland, Inc
CDL
Neeson
Parent Teachers Association
Cleveland CDL
Woodrow W. Mathna
Lorain
Mathna
Pamphlets Distributed Abroad by US Information Agency
Overseas distribution of more than 18 million copies of US Information Agency pamphlets in dozens of languages explains United States policies to international audiences.
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Washington
United States Information Agency
Pempheris
United Sates
Keys, aide injured in car crash
Medina city police report J Grant Keys 46, Grain County treasurer, and deputy treasurer James Tracey were hospitalized after a mid afternoon crash on Route 162 two miles south of Medina. Genevieve Vellenoweth 37 of Medina was cited for failure to yield. Keys was treated and released. Tracey and Vellenoweth also released.
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Medina
J. Grant Keys
Grain County
State of Ohio
State Highway Patrol
Keys
Elyria
Rt. 162
Here
James T. Tracey
Olivet
Genevieve Vellenoweth
Cardinal
Vellenoweth
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Picnte Ares
Durkee Rd
Dennis
Warren Walker
Oberlin College
Chronicle-Telegram
Sec
Vince J. Fillippelli
Fourth St
St. Mary School
Fillippelli
Vince
N. Ridgeville
Turnpike
Board of Zoning Appeals
Elyria Township
Rt. 113
West Ridge Rd
Murray Ridge Rd
New York Central System
Uke Park
Sherod Park
Vermilion
Shrine Club
Rey Grotto Park
Rt. 58
Dick Popp
Andy Johnston
Shriners’ Crippled Children’s Fund
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