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14 JOURNAL-TRIBUNE, Marysville Ohio Friday, Feb. 21, 1997 STATEAREA 'No cure for common birthday5 Sen. John Glenn announces retirement at 75 out their country. "It's nice to hear someone who still sees hope with young people today he said. the Senate.

Glenn spent much of his hourlong speech urging students not to lose faith in America. "Don't tune out, cop out or drop out," Glenn said. "Don't give in to complacency and cynicism. Don't take America and the values reflected in our form of government for granted." There were tears in the eyes of Glenn and his wife, Annie, after his hourlong speech. He declined to answer reporter's questions as he headed to a private reception across campus in the eastern Ohio city where he grew up.

The location Glenn selected for his announcement is a place where he's made major life decisions before. He was heading to Brown Chapel on Dec. 7, 194 1, to see his future wife perform in an organ recital, when he heard the news that Pearl Harbor had been bombed. They decided that night that he would enlist in the Marine Corps. "The decisions we made that day were indeed fateful and constituted one of the major turning points in our lives," he said.

Glenn also announced his 1984 presidential campaign in the chapel. Student Kyle Snow, 21, said he could identify with Glenn's message for young people not to be cynical ab NEW CONCORD, Ohio (AP) As U.S. Sen. John Glenn announced plans to leave the public life behind him, he urged a new generation to step up and take his place. The 75-year-old Democrat on Thursday told a largely student audience at his alma mater Muskingum College, that he had decided against seeking a fifth tams While many of his congressional colleagues have retired recently because of what they perceived as a growing cynicism toward Washington, Glenn said his sole reason was age.

He would be 83 at the end of a fifth term. "If today 8 politics lack civility, my reaction is not to run away but to work harder until we make it better," Glenn said. "But for all the advances in science and medicine that I have supported and that have occurred in the 35 years since my orbital flight, one immutable fact remains: there is still no cure for the common birthday." Glenn returned to his hometown to make his announcement 35 years to the day after he became the first American to orbit the earth. The decision ended months of speculation about Glenn's political future and sent Democrats scrambling to find a replacement for the war hero, astronaut and only Ohioan to serve four terms in Lie imitates art Ohio State freshman Ray DeBolt looks at a photograph by Thomas Struth of Germany Wednesday in Columbus. The photo shows people looking at artwork at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Struth's photo Is part of an art exhibit at the Wexner Center for the Arts, called "Evidence: Photography and Site." The exhibit runds until April 13. Struth, according to the Wexner program, has taken a series of pictures inside museums, showing people caught in the act of viewing art in precisely determined architectural settings. (AP photo) Betting proposal doesn't even leave the starting gate in Findlay Paint scrapings from old Akron buildings help lead standards ground it into batches of powder and got manageable samples with extremely high concentrations of lead exactly what they expected. The government scientists blended any older city. In fact, for soil samples we went to the Boston area, but I won't tell you where." The Akron samples came to be through a quirk of timing and one of FINDLAY, Ohio AP) Don't gamble on horse race betting in City leaders say it's out of the question even though some people say it's a good idea.

Raceway Park in Toledo wants to set up a horse betting parlor in Find-lay. City Council members all but shot down the proposal Tuesday. "I think the City Council should have a more open Tim Martin, 28, said Thursday. "I don't think it will attract a bad crowd. In fact, it may attract more people and more money to the city." Jim Barnett, 23, agreed.

"It's the people's money. If they want to blow it, it's up to them," he Under a 1994 state law, each of Ohio's seven horse tracks is allowed to set up two satellite betting stations places where people can watch and bet on horse races that are broadcast from all over the state and nation. No tracks have yet set up a satellite station, said Sam Zonak of the Ohio State Racing Commission. Raceway Park recently sent Find-lay's City Council a letter, asking for permission to establish one in the city of 35,700 people. The city and racing commission must approve a station.

The council on Tuesday night wanted to reject the idea immediately. But it decided to postpone action until the city's law department can review the proposal and the law. Assistant City Law Director Don Rasmussen John Glenn, never known for colorful, witty made a few remarks that touched some funny bones during his speech Thursday at Muskingum College: On his history-making flight around the globe in orbit in 1962: "I guess the question I'm asked the most often is: 'When you were sitting in that capsule listening to the countdown, how did you "Well, the answer to that one is easy. I felt exactly how you would feel if you were getting ready to launch and knew you were sitting oh top of 2 million parts all built by the lowest bidder on a government contract." "In fact, I even learned that my flight had put to rest a few lingering doubts about whether the Earth was round. "A few days afterward, I received a telegram from a tongue-in-cheek British organization called the Flat Earth Society.

Their wire read: 'Dear CoL Glenn: OK, wise guy, but we're making you an honorary member anyway." said he wants to make sure that the city acts properly. "We're just a. very conservative community," Councilman Robert Schuck said Thursday. "This wouldn't sit well in our community." Raceway Park Manager White said he was surprised that Find-lay "took this kind of action without hearing us out first" This is our initial sounding out. It's exploratory in nature, and we would like to sit down and talk with people about this before we decided to do anything," White said.

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