Ford plant lays off 900 in Batavia over holidays
Batavia transmission plant shuts 900 hourly workers on down time due to weak Ford automatic transmission sales. Most will return Jan 10 while 400 to 600 stay on other duties. several hundred remain permanently laid off. New models Topez and Tempo aim to revive demand. plant employs 1368 hourly workers during down time.
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Fran Schwiermann
Lonnie Lewis
Ford Motor Co
Batavia
Lewis
United Auto Workers
Ford
Mercury
Weston's murder trial defense fights evidence and lineup issues
Public Defender R Daniel Hannon and Carl Zugelter argued to suppress key physical evidence and testimony in the Weston four count aggravated murder case set for January 10. They challenged the gym bag search without a warrant, the waiver of counsel in taped FBI interviews, and the lineup photos used to identify Weston, urging the judge to exclude the bag’s contents, the statements, and certain photographs as prejudicial.
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Richard Weston
Indiana
Weston
FBI
Indianapolis
William Erbecker
Jeffrey Jenkins
Carol Thompson
R. Daniel Hannon
Carl Zugelter
John L. Watson
Hannon
Greg Chapman
David Feldhaus
Watson
Common Pleas Court
Billy F. Stevenson Sr
Lynda
Billy Lynn
Edward L. Dowell
Stevenson
Zugester
Chapman
Milacron furloughs 600 at Cincinnati plant during holidays
Milacron will close its Afton plant in Cincinnati for three weeks around Christmas with about 600 workers furloughed for one week before Christmas and the first week of January, plus maintenance staff. An additional 300 employees remain on indefinite layoff from Afton and Mt. Crab plants since 1982, with returns planned when conditions improve.
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Fran Schwiermann
Cincinnati
Milacron
Afton
John Reading
Oakley
Mt. Crab
Reading
County eyes modular jail plan to add 64 beds by 1985
Commissioner Dale Romohr outlined a plan for 64 additional jail beds using a 40,300 square foot metal modular addition behind the Batavia Service Center. The $3.7 million project could begin within five to six months and meet the July 1985 federal space guidelines, with ten extra beds for women and potential future wings.
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Fran Schwiermann
Dale Romohr
SR 222
Batavia
Romohr
Sheriff's Department
Columbus
Cooper Snyder
Jerry Carlier
Carlier
Robert E. Shaeffer
Bauer Road
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Bethel
Billy Stevenson
Clermont Common Pleas
John Watson
Mark Bowen
By Jo Kemp
John Gray
Gray
Erbecker
Drucilla Merida
Jenkins
Thompson
Clermont County Chamber of Commerce
Clermont College
Main Steet
Board of Commissioners
Thomas Cole
Cole
Thomas Blust
George Pattison
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