Red Cross Director Back From Flood Areas
Medina County Red Cross executive director Jo Becks returned from two weeks of disaster duty in Maryland and Virginia where she assessed needs and issued aid. She praised evacuees as honest and cooperative, and recalled a dramatic Hyattsville evacuation where a father carried his daughter through waist-deep floodwaters. The piece notes severe flood damage and strained water supplies.
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Doris Kilbane Medina
Jo Becks
Medina County
The
American Red Cross
Gazette
Maryland
Virginia
Twin Calves Born on Praislers Farm Tour Show
The Praislers farm tour shows twin calves born to a cow named Tootsie amid the farm activity. James' mother notes twin births occur about once in 90 births, while a Gazette photo by Ted Graham captures the moment.
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James
Tootsie
Praislers
Gazette
Ted Graham
James Praisler
Larry
Vera Praisler
Weymouth
Gail
Three Girls Injured In Wadsworth Bicycle Crash
Police report three girls riding one bicycle were injured when their bicycle collided with a car driven by James Dearth at the SR 57 Seville road corner. The Cox, Masse and Hazalette girls were hospitalized in fair condition with separate transfers to Akron hospitals.
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Wadsworth
SR 57
Seville Road
James Dearth
Warner Street
Seville
Lori Cox
Darling Street
Tina Masse
Gail Hazalette
Mennonite Road
Wadsworth-Rittman
Fire damages Sealy Mattress plant in Medina
Medina Fire Chief Thurston Berry reported a Wednesday evening fire at the Sealy Mattress Co plant on Lake Road starting in a storage room with bales of cotton. Firefighters worked from about 7 40 p m to 12 45 a m and contained the blaze by 9 30 p m with 20 firefighters and two trucks on scene. Damage was mainly to the store room with possible smoke and water damage elsewhere. losses were not yet estimated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Medina
Sealy Mattress Co
Lake Road
Thurston Berry
Berry
Brunswick Board OKs Conservative Budget for 1973
Brunswick Board of Education approved a 1973 budget of 5.018 million with a conservative revenue forecast. State foundation funds of 2.8 million and local real estate taxes of 1.85 million fund salaries, operations, and facilities. Western Ohio meeting notes show staff changes including principal moves and resignations, with Elm Farm Dairy and Standard Oil bids approved for supplies.
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Brunswick
Board of Education
Ray Cassell
State Foundation Fund
NOACA Director Re-Hired After County Voted No
NOACA four county members opposed rehiring Bob Brown as head of the seven-county agency overseeing federal funds in Medina Lake Geauga Portage Summit Cuyahoga Lorain. The steering committee had proposed a new Illinois planner at 35000 dollars plus fringes, but the full body reinstated Brown to a 22000 salary, drawing sharp criticism from Medina County officials and others who feared loss of HUD support and regional cohesion.
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Medina
Northeast Ohio
Bob Brown
Portage County
Medina, Lake, Geauga
Portage, Summit
Cuyahoga
Lorain Counties
Brown
Illinois
Don Simmons
Sharon Township
Plans Taking Shape For Chatham Festival
Chatham plans a July 23 festival behind the VFW Hall on Rt 76 from 10 am to dark. Proceeds will fund a new fire truck as the volunteer fire department coordinates flea market antique car show tractor pull muzzle-loading rifle shoot tomahawk throw and community groups participation.
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Chatham
VFW
Rt. 76
Frannie Grim
Chatham Chuggers Tractor Club
Weather Outlook With Warm Humid Conditions
Partly cloudy and warm humid today tonight and Friday with thundershowers likely today and a chance of thundershowers tonight and Friday. Highs upper 80s today, low to mid 80s Friday. Precip chances 60 percent today, 50 tonight, 30 Friday. South winds 10 to 18 mph today diminishing to 6 to 12 mph tonight.
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Red Cross
Becks
Highland Board of Education
Washington D.C
Washington
Hyattsville, Md
Joseph Ream
Pearl Road
Sheriff’s Deputies
Ream
Bennett Home & Lumber
E. Smith Rd
Brunswick Board
Sam’ Boyer
Cassell
Hickory Ridge
John Breese
Art Clevidence
Louis Tosi
Tosi
Clevidence
Phillip Ginebaugh
James Hodge
Sharron Knapp
Clark Morgan
Joan Riley
Stanley Sczurek
Sczurek
Cleveland Brown
Cleveland
Janet Arthur
Desmond Brannan
Russell Cashin
Joanne Golitko
Mary Ann Hall
N. Thomas Lischer
Robert Maibauer
Charles McHugh
David Moenich
David Safran
Janice Skinner
James Stevens
Stefanie Varrato
Sharon Young
Luciana Culter
Melinda Jeffers
Geraldine McGill
John Musat
Linda Walters
Elm Farm Dairy
Elm Farm
Standard Oil
Jack Willetts
Northern Ohio
Kiwanis Club
NOACA
AL Thomas
Simmons
Charles Clark
John Oberholtzer
Kenneth Indoe
Chatham Volunteer Fire Department
Chuck Klein
Grim
Grange, Congregational Church
United Methodist Church
Firemen’s Auxiliary
Chatham Fire Department
Grim, Klein
Bob Taylor
Dave Nagel
Chuck Aungst
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