Wadsworth considers 0.75% city income tax rise
The Second Section Wadsworth Council moves a three-fourths per cent income tax hike to first reading. If approved, the city would reach 1.75% and become the county’s highest. A vote is expected Aug. 15 under suspension of the rules, with a Sept. 8 deadline to place the measure on the November ballot. The increase is estimated to yield about $688,000.
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Jenni Laidman
Wadsworth
Council
John Hanna
Service
City Council Drops Tax Credit Reduction For Fourth-Percent Tax Hike
Citizens group opposed a two-tier plan earlier this year that would raise revenue with a one-fourth percent increase and a tax credit cut. The credit cut will not appear on the November ballot as the council rescinded it in favor of a three-fourths percent increase for residents who work in town. Mike Tehi said his group will not oppose any reasonable increase.
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Citizens
Mike Tehi
Citizens Group
Tehi
Wadsworth
Akron
Barber
Ton Or Rittman
Brunswick girl, 4, begins professional modeling career
Betsy Kowalek, age four, daughter of Tim and Mrs. Kowalek of 1400 Beverly Hills Drive, signs with a Cleveland agency after an early audition. Her father urged the move and she already posed for an amusement park ad with a man portraying her father. Betsy enjoys dolls and fishing with her dad, and her agency plans no formal lessons, preferring natural modeling.
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Cheryl Geschke
Brunswick
Betsy Kowalek
Tim Kowalek
Beverly Hills Dr
Betsy
Cleveland
Goodyear to spend 75 million on Akron technical center
Goodyear announces a 75 million dollar, three to five year project to convert Plant 2 in Akron into a 700000 square foot technical center. The plan creates about 1200 jobs, modernizes offices and labs, and redevelops surrounding blocks and riverfront with parks and landscaping.
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Goodyear
Akron
UPI
Goodyear Corp
Plant 2
Fices
East Akron
Cuyahoga River
Ouncee
Warrensville man linked to Cleveland bombing probe
A Warrensville Heights man was arrested after a Beachwood Fairmount Elementary School bombing. Police say he resembles a suspect sought for 14 pipe bombings at Cleveland schools and adult venues. No injuries. blast damaged brick walls and windows, heard as far as Bainbridge Two.
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Beachwood
UPI
Warrensville
Fairmount
Cleveland
John J. Joyce
Bainbridge Two
Geauga County
All Adult Book
Near West Side
Congress lifts arms embargo and weighs Korea troop withdrawal
Congress delivered a mixed foreign policy report to President Carter. The House and Senate lifted the three year Turkish arms embargo with conditions and pushed for step by step plans to draw down the 32,000 U S troops from South Korea over four to five years while approving other measures including a private bill to honor World War II hero Casamento and a three year extension of anti poverty programs. The Senate backed a large anti poverty package as well. Debate continued on the debt ceiling as Treasury measures prepared to keep spending under the limit.
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UPI
Congress
Carter
South Korea
House
Senate
Turkey
Donald Pease
Oberlin
Ralph Regula
Navarre
Cpl
Anthony Casamento
Treasury Department
Gary Bowdach
Senate panel considers ERA extension and murder admission
The champ ions subcommittee admitted Tuesday that he murdered one man and tried to kill two other gangland enemies. Sen Birch Bayh opens three days of hearings on extending the ratification period for the Equal Rights Amendment. He aims to move the measure swiftly to secure action before Congress adjourns in October.
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Ions Subcommittee
Birch Bayh
D-Ind
Mayor Is Kicked In Colorado City Meeting Fallout
In Lochbuse Colorado 88 year old Inn Norstrom Zimmerhackel recounts kicking Mayor Joe Leurquin after a heated council meeting. She describes striking him twice as the crowd left and says the mayor adjourned the hastily called session over a dissenting complaint from a citizen about the meeting being hush hush.
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Lochbuse
Colo
UPI
Norstrom Zimmerhackel
Joe Leurquin
Zimmerbackel
Zimmerhackel
Netherlands uses more fertilizer per area than South America
The article notes that the Netherlands, with only 13 000 square miles of area, uses as much fertilizer as all of South America which spans nearly 7 million square miles. This contrast highlights agricultural intensity and environmental concerns.
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Netherlands
South America
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