Norwalk Reflector (Newspaper) - June 6, 2002, Norwalk, Ohio Nor walk Reflector Serving the since 1830 OHIO JUNE 2002 CLYDESDALES IN TOWN LOU Zak of Sharon pets Clydesdale as his looks The two were in Lorain visiting family and stopped by to see the The Clydesdales were in Lorain Wednesday for a parade kicking off the citys summer The Huron County Fairgrounds hosts an open house from 3 to 5 today to allow area residents a chance to view the Clydesdales up The horses will appear at PutinBay at Cedar Point Saturday and in Mansfield Sunday as part of the Miss Ohio Todays Reflections page features the Please see Page Israeli troops storm Arafat headquarters Park district chief calling it quits Mary Clemens and her husband plan to move to leaving the district without a director By SCOTT SEITZ Reflector Staff Wriler The Huron County Park which is quickly running out of will also lose its director sometime in the near Mary since early said Wednesday her house in south Norwalk is for and once she and her Clemens are moving to My husband and I dont really have any ties to this Clemens Our three children are scattered around the We figured if we lived close to a our children would come and whos from said she plans to be with the park district through the summer at the very It could be as long as a she Clemens said the decision to move became clear when her who was formerly president of Citizens National lost his job when it merged with Citizens Banking Company of Its been a ball so Clemens said of her time with the park The levy was the because I dont like A proposed property tax levy placed on the May 7 ballot was soundly defeated by Huron County That levy was crit ical to the funding and future of the park Clemens is unsure of who might carry on the torch for This is a job as well as she It really requires someone 20 to 30 years younger than me who is looking for a career in park man Thats what happens in park Please see PARK A5 West Bank AP Israeli troops stormed Yasser headquarters early blew up three buildings in the sprawling compound and shelled the Palestinian leaders living area in response to a Palestinian suicide attack on an Israeli bus that killed 17 Six hours the troops left the compound and the rest of the city of Later in the tanks rolled into the suburb of and surrounded a large apartment where troops arrested six including a sus member of the extremist Islamic group During the troops came under fire and responded with machine gun fire from tanks and In the assault on head a shell or rocket hit about five feet from the Palestinian leaders punch ing a hole into the wall dividing his bedroom and an adjacent Pointing to his broken bedroom mirror and shattered bathroom Arafat later suggested Israel was trying to harm I was supposed to sleep here last night but I had some work he Of course they the Israelis knew where I Everybody knows this is my An Israeli army Jacob said Arafat was not the target of the opera If there had been any inten tion of harming it would not have been a Dallal The assault with bulldozers and tanks came just a month after troops withdrew from the com pound after a 34day siege that confined Arafat to several Though Israels said then it want ed to isolate the house arrest gave him hero status in the eyes of Palestinians and much of the Arab Arafat Sharon There was speculation that another major Palestinian terror attack would prompt Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to expel Sharon adviser Raanan Gissin ouster was not contemplated for His expulsion would not solve the The security services do not recommend this as the most effective We will oper ate in accordance with the recom of the security ser he The Palestinian leader shrugged off such a scenario Expel me he I will die The Israeli daily wrote in an editorial today that the spectacle of the people who were burned to death in a bus needs to bring us very close to a decision to rid the region of other prominent Israelis warn that expelling Arafat might lead to The attack on com pound was in response to Wednesdays suicide bombing in which a member of the Islamic Jihad group drove a car packed with 154 pounds of explosives alongside a moving bus and deto the igniting a huge Seventeen Israelis and the assailant were Among the dead were 13 sol diers in their late teens and early Forever read the head line in the daily alongside the pictures of the FBI chief Agency needs more money and time Mueller WASHINGTON AP FBI Director Robert Mueller HT told Congress today his agency needs to devote additional money and time as it works to meet its para mount mission of prevention in an age of The need for change was apparent even before It has become more urgent since he told the Senate Judiciary Committee hi a nationally televised I believe our culture must change as The FBI chief spoke as President Bush readied a prime time speech to announce changes in the system he establish last fall in response to the attacks that killed thousands in New Washington and Bowing to persistent calls from officials said Bush would propose creation of a new Cabinet agency to act as a clearinghouse for terrorism These officials described the pro posal as one of the biggest turing efforts since World War In members of the House and Senate intelligence committees were meeting behind closed doors to continue their own review of the unprecedented 11 attacks that shattered the nations complacency about as well as thousands of Patrick Leahy gavelled the Senate committee hearing to order in a cavernous committee The Vermont Democrat complimented Mueller for his candor in the months since the terrorist particular ly for conceding that it is impossible to say if the 11 attacks might have been prevented if all the dots had been connected and all the leads had been At the same Leahy expressed unhappiness that Congress had not been informed about the existence of a memo alerting FBI officials that sever al Arabs were suspiciously training at a aviation school in Mueller had previously announced plans to reorganize the FBI to devote greater resources to including the need to improve its ability to analyze available intelli This Congress is all too familiar with the analytical he subject area expertise or developing an awareness of the potential value of an isolated piece of information does not occur he It is developed over Mueller said the need for FBI reform is urgent because those who want to hurt us remain highly moti and spread throughout the Thursdays hearing follows recent news reports that the FBI and CIA failed to respond adequately to warning signs of possible terrorist activity before Excavation uncovers remnants of largest military fort in Northwest Territory GREENVILLE AP Remnants of largest military fort of the old Northwest Territory have been found in a jwest of archeologists I Volunteers using metal detectors and a soldiers map from 1793 found stains left by two 50foot logs in the clay said Tony of The stains and hundreds of arti mostly iron bolts and musket balls convinced searchers that they found the remains of Blockhouse 8 of Fort Greene the wilderness headquarters of Anthony From the Wayne waged his campaign against the Delaware and other tribes fighting to protect their homeland from white set After winning the Battle of Fallen Timbers hi 1794 near pre Wayne returned to Fort Greene Ville and signed a peace treaty with Miami Chief Little Turtle and representatives of 12 DeRegnaucourt said last weeks find was the first architectural rem nant of the 55acre fort to turn The site fits Waynes description of a blockhouse erected 300 yards west of his main said David one of the You can see the shadows of the several inches Cox The structure was about 50 feet long and about 35 feet with two he A 10foot tall picket fence with holes to shoot through surrounded During the the fort would have housed about Cox The blockhouse would have been home to about the same area was the site of Prophets a Shawnee encampment led by Chief the most famous of native and his brother known as The During the 1795 treaty negotia Blockhouse 8 was used as an Indian council Cox We found prehistoric Indian Cox Its possible there may also be artifacts from Prophets from DeRegnaucourt said volunteers plan to photograph and map what theyve they do not have a way to preserve the The Miami now of will be notified if any Indian remains are he For the trenching is covered with and the group is trying to find a way to pay for finishing the which Cox esti mated will cost about WEATHER INSIDE TODAYS REFLECTOR See Page A3 Deaths See Page A5 Mildred Willard Arda Norwalk Index Classified Health Home For the Movie Television 171st 133 SPORTS Indians rebound from loss by defeating Twins COMMENTARY Food is the common language for parents and Debbie Leffler says A4 MISS OHIO TVo represent Huron B4
