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Newspaper
Norwalk Reflector
Location
Norwalk, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1965
Page
1
A Bloodmobile will be at Eagles Hall Norwalk from 1130 AM to 530 PM Monday aiming to collect 125 pints. North Fairfield Lions Club volunteers canvass for donors and handle registration typing and lunch. appointments may be made by calling the Red Cross office.
Firefighters were called Saturday to extinguish a grass fire at the rear of Henry Hersha’s home 118 Newton Street started by a cigarette. Fire Chief Kenneth Link notes open fire permits are required for all burns and are free at the fire station for the year. Permit holders must notify the department before burning and approval is given if conditions seem controlled. Eighty seven permits have been issued so far in 1965.
Partly cloudy and warmer with highs near 50s 55. Showers tonight and Tuesday with little temperature change. Low tonight 42 to 47. Norwalk low 25 high 52 no precipitation. Five day forecast shows near normal temps, minor cool midweek, then warming. Rainfall expected around 0.3 inches with showers Tuesday and late Friday and Saturday. Marriage license: Thomas L Brown Norwalk and Linda R Hill Collins. Births: a son to Bert Fannin and wife Collins and a son to David Warner and wife Grove Ave. Deaths: Warren Holloway 82 Monroeville Fronta Esther Merry 81 rural Milan Martha Garrett 8 Willard Elden C Reed 52 Willard Beulah Mae Yenni 69 New London Amelia Hofacker 92 Monroeville Clarence Frank Hartman 59 Spring St.
Captain Albert J. Caprara announced that Company A of the local National Guard achieved a superior rating at the annual 1.6 inspection conducted by a Second Army officer at Ft. Meade. The unit cleaned the armory in two days and credited First Sergeant Edwin P. Riedy for key efforts. a commendation letter is now on file.
Communist forces harassed West Berlin road traffic from East Germany choking chaos with roadblocks as Russian East German maneuvers used to justify the action. Allied convoys moved freely on highways to West Germany while civilians faced delays.
U S Air Force F105s bomb rail and highway targets 120 miles south of Hanoi while 69 Navy bombers hit radar sites north of the 17th parallel. A helicopter crash kills an American in South Viet Nam and two advisers are wounded in Binh Dinh Province as Ambassador Taylor returns to Saigon with stronger plans. No enemy opposition faced by the jet fighters.
Sam Arthur and Kevin Conry of Norwalk High and David Coovert and Ron Frater of Willard High School won state superior ratings at Heidelberg College district science fair. Donna Snyder of New London High School spoke at the Ohio Academy of Science meeting, with other Norwalk Willard and area students earning superior ratings among 1,300 entries.
Phil May purchases Business Sold Consumer Sales from Ralph Coolidge at 58 E Monroe St. The firm will keep the same lines of electrical appliances television sets and phonographs. May is a Norwalk High School and Oberlin School of Commerce graduate who lives with his wife at 25 Marion Drive.
A New London area car was total loss after a fire at 9 10 p m Sunday. Fire coverage failed when the nearest department could not respond to the Ashland County line area. Mrs Lu Ella Lewis Hunter 1181 2 N Main St drove south on Ohio 60 smelled smoke and flagged a motorist with a Citizens Band radio who called the New London fire department six miles away. By the time Nova volunteer fire department arrived the car was subdued to prevent a gas tank explosion. Traffic backed up for about two hours as onlookers gathered.
Timothy R. Warline of Swanton 22 was unhurt after a Piper Colt flipped on landing at the closed Norwalk Airport. He had about 19 hours of flying time. The accident damaged the wings engine and frame of the two passenger plane as the nose wheel struck an eight inch rut and mud clogged the fender.
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