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Newspaper
Norwalk Reflector
Location
Norwalk, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1973
Page
1
The Christian Crusade of evangelist Billy James Hargis told the UPI that it has sometimes shown preference for a candidate but never endorsed one. The statement was made in a petition to the Supreme Court seeking review of an appeals court ruling lifting the group's tax-exempt status.
Senator William Proxmire accuses the Nixon administration of allowing executives to raise pay by as much as 215 percent in a year while workers face 5.5 percent limits. He urges Dr John Dunlop to apply cost of living guidelines equally to big business pay raises and bonuses. He says what is sauce for the goose should be sauce for the gander.
Thousands of Christians walk the Via Dolorosa retracing Jesus steps from judgment to crucifixion. They sing at each of the 14 Stations amid sunny spring skies in the old walled city.
Dr. Ronald Riviere of Columbus received the largest welfare payment to an individual in 1972, totaling 266 622 dollars. His group practice, Dr. Ronald Riviere DDS Inc, earned 64 331 dollars. The Welfare Department said total health care payments reached 203 million dollars to 19 949 vendors, up 46.8 million from 1971.
Harold Smith of Forgan Oklahoma claims the world cowchip toss record at 161.9 feet while Carl Engel of Odessa Texas claims 219 feet. The contest gathers regional winners from Arkansas Indiana Iowa Tennessee to determine the world record in Beaver Oklahoma.
Variable cloudiness with a chance of showers tonight and Saturday. Highs in the 70s, lows near 56. Norwalk temps 74/56 with 50 40 50 percent precipitation probabilities. Marriage license issued for Graves and Dalton of Monroeville. Death notices for Brehm Andrews Horton Dalton Long Allingham.
UPI reports former Illinois Governor Otto Kerner was sentenced to three years and fined 50 000 for bribery conspiracy mail fraud and income tax evasion. Judge Robert Taylor reduced counts claiming insufficient evidence in parts of the charges. The judge noted Kerner and co defendant Theodore Isaacs profited nearly 300 000 from the scheme.
Former Attorney General John N. Mitchell said he attended meetings last year where bugging and political espionage against the Democrats were discussed but he had no prior knowledge of the Watergate break in. He testified he did not know about the June 17 break in and bugging at Democratic headquarters.
Darrell M. Trent, director of the office of emergency preparedness, warned at the American Statistical Association Forecasting conference that the United States will face a tight gasoline situation this summer. He noted a 3.8 percent drop in gasoline production in the first 14 weeks of 1973 versus late 1972, with inventories at their lowest since 1967 as demand continues to rise.
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat reports former senator Edward V. Long believed he had been poisoned shortly before his Nov. 6, 1972 death at his Clarksville estate. Secretary Helen Dunlop says Long spoke of a fatal dose in candy minutes prior, four months after the event with no autopsy performed.
Guns coins and a television were among items valued at 1000 dollars taken from the Royal Downing residence on Old State Road north of Norwalk. Four Milan area youths aged 14 to 17 will be charged after most loot was recovered by the Huron County Sheriff's Department.
Findlay officials fear their city income tax could lose more than 1 million dollars due to a clause exempting income taxed by the state. Norwalk faced the same issue with a 295 391 dollar revenue in 1972. City officers consider retroactive amendments if needed.
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