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Newspaper
The Gazette
Location
Medina, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1971
Page
3
Mrs. Nixon told newswomen she urged President Nixon to appoint a woman to the Supreme Court. She cited candidates Cornelia Kennedy Sylvia Bacon and Normalie Holloway Johnson and said she has passed suggestions to her husband after Justice Black retired.
A news note introduces a first in a series about Medina County candidates. It explains information comes from Gazette biographical data sheets returned by the candidates and will cover villages townships cities and school boards where forms were submitted.
Cloverleaf District begins adult evening classes at Cloverleaf Senior High School lobby on Oct 5 from 6 30 to 8 30 p m with two hour sessions once weekly for 10 weeks. Courses include cake decorating sewing typing accounting welding and art with fees 15 or 10 depending on enrollment.
The 17th annual Medina County Bandorama will be at Medina High School Stadium at 8 p.m. Saturday Oct. 2 with Ashland College Marching Band directed by Martin D. Pachey as guest. More than 700 bandsmen and majorettes perform in a finale sequence ending with America The Beautiful and The Star Spangled Banner. Co chairs are Terry Puehler and Delmar Graff. Noted marching band authority A R Casavant of Chattanooga Tenn will attend and may feature the event in a future magazine. Rehearsal is Sept. 29 at 9 45 a.m. in the stadium.
Wendell Garman longtime Briarwood Beach Village mayor since its incorporation in 1955 runs again for re election. A resident since 1952 he worked 22 years in Cleveland before becoming personnel manager at Gone Printing Co in April 1971. He and wife Dorothy live at 461 Beachside Blvd with daughter Mrs Terry Brockett and three grandchildren.
Briarwood Beach voters face a mayoral contest between Bert Humbel and incumbent Wendell Garman. Humbel, 44, Lafayette Township police chief and truck driver, advocates a town hall without a tax levy and village amalgamation. he and wife Roberta live at 381 Craggy Creek Drive with three children. Council candidates include Richard Lett and George Ralph, with Edward L. Funai as the third contender. Lett, a barber and longtime Montpelier zoning board member, lives with wife Ethel at 358 Briarwood Blvd and has one son. Ralph, a 67-year-old dentist and Briarwood Beach Village founder, resides at 507 Beachside Blvd with wife Mercedes and son George.
Briarwood Beach Village voters see two candidates in the clerk treasurer race Myron E McGuire and Barney B Komar. McGuire 54 is current village clerk treasurer and long time Medina County resident employed as maintenance supervisor for Permold He attends Jerusalem Lutheran Church in Seville and lives with his wife Mildred at 155 Brookshore Drive with four children. Komar 59 drives a semi trailer for Wolverine Express Inc and has lived in Medina County four years after moving from Cleveland He lists hobbies including sports and reading and will retire next year He and his wife Mary have four married children and Komar belongs to the Chippewa Lake Lions Club.
The Ohio House approved a Batchelder bill to simplify absentee voting for service members. The measure lets a career serviceman and his wife vote from their last Ohio residence rather than from the first military residence, and it moves to the Governor for approval.
Medina residents receive support as the United Community Chest of Medina grants 1000 to the Kidney Foundation of Ohio chapter 500 to the Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation 200 to the Multiple Sclerosis Society. Local aid funds medicine and services for kidney patients and those with chronic ailments in Medina and surrounding counties.
The caption incorrectly identified individuals in the drug workshop story image. The people shown are Mrs. Carol McLachlan and Don Beevar of the Drug Action Committee.
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