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Newspaper
Norwalk Reflector
Location
Norwalk, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1966
Page
1
Bowling Green State University cites spring fever for campus disturbances. A water fight erupted between fraternities and non-fraternity men. university police restored order. A separate crowd of about 300 roamed streets, barring a roadway and causing windowbreaks after a panty raid. No arrests or damage estimates reported.
Mrs. Gerald Kirkman mails pre packed pizza to Army Spec. 5 Gerald Bubba Kirkman in Nha Trang Vietnam. He prepares the meals to lift morale, but his wife jokes he may be getting chunky. SWINE group to show no political favorites on University of Oregon campus backed by cartoonist Al Capp. Dirksen seeks Senate passage on one man one vote amendment with filibuster risk and two thirds required.
Washington reports 21 377 miles of the interstate dual lane open as of March 31 with 17 068 miles under construction or study. Alan S Boyd testified before a House subcommittee that progress covers engineering studies and right of way acquisitions across the vast network. The total 41 000 mile system began in 1956 and remains only partly finished.
New York State Supreme Court Justice Samuel J. Silverman dismissed Nobel laureate Linus Pauling’s $1 million libel suit against William F Buckley Jr editor of National Review. The two articles described Pauling with the term fellow traveler. Paris cites painful misunderstanding over memorial services ban at France’s major military shrine for an American GI killed in the liberation.
Variable clouds bring showers and scattered thunderstorms through tonight. High in the 70s and a low around 58 to 65. Showers end and cooler air arrives Thursday. Also reported are a marriage license application for Gerald J Walliser and Ernestine M Ruffing, a marriage license granted for Randall L Van Scoy and Brenda J, and births and deaths including Lloyd Case and Frank Transens.
The FBI arrested 11 Chicago area men and one in Staten Island ending a two-year probe into a road gang that hijacked silver shipments totaling over 1 million dollars. Indictments name 18 suspects for kidnapping theft and conspiracy in bold thefts across Indiana and Illinois.
A sonic boom around 9 30 a m shattered a Kroger store’s large front glass pane in Norwalk. The incident followed an executive session where the City Council Finance Committee approved a 200 000 investment in short term government securities with 85 000 from state license plate fees and 125 000 in local taxes. The move aims to bolster the general fund as the city awaits six months of expenditures and potential future state license plate revenue.
Norwalk Public Schools announce a five week summer program beginning June 13 with about 200 children from parochial and public schools. Eight teachers will staff sites at Maplehurst Pleasant League and Pleasant streets plus migrant worker children program and library buildings funded by federal grants.
In Saigon a news conference by six American antiwar activists was disrupted by angry Vietnamese youths. Eggs were thrown at leaders including Rev. A. J. Muste of the Committee for Non Violent Action as tables were overturned and banners torn. Police watched as the Americans were allowed to leave.
Norwalk City Council approved the third reading of a no left turn ordinance at Monroe Street and Whittlesey Avenue declaring an emergency to take effect immediately. Morley Price notes signs may take about ten days to install as the rule aims to reduce long traffic delays caused by left turn backups.
A Cleveland man and another passenger were hospitalized after a collision with a semitrailer on the Ohio Turnpike near the Norwalk Sandusky Interchange. Lennis Jenkins, 32, suffered a concussion while Warder Barker, 40, was treated for a head cut. Barker was cited for reckless operation and no driver’s license. Nearby, a separate wreck knocked down power wires along Route 113 east of Bellevue after a jackknifed truck struck a pole, blocking traffic for 45 minutes.
Leon Lodermeier of Lodermeier's Garage Linwood reported to police he found a crate of beer left near a former garage building. All but five bottles were unopened. he stored the crate Saturday morning in case someone would claim it and turned it over to authorities after no claim was made.
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