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Newspaper
Norwalk Reflector
Location
Norwalk, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1971
Page
1
Daylight Saving Time begins at 2 a.m. Sunday in all but four states. Clocks move forward one hour except in Arizona Hawaii Michigan and Indiana where legislatures opted to stay on Standard Time under the Uniform Time Act of 1966. DST ends October 31 for those observing.
John Carroll University researchers report a newly developed vaccine reduces tumor growth in mice to about one fifth of untreated controls. Dr. Michael J. Phillip notes the vaccine's impact as a principal researcher.
Washington reports the White House closed to the public due to a major antiwar rally. President Nixon and his family moved to Camp David in Maryland for the weekend while public tours are suspended because Metropolitan Police restrict access near the building.
Mostly cloudy and cold today through Sunday with a 40 percent chance of showers or flurries today and tonight and 30 percent Sunday. Winds northerly to northwesterly 15 to 30 mph. Highs in the 40s, lows around 30. Norwalk highs 62 and lows 34. Births marriages and deaths listed for local families.
Vancouver shopkeeper David Samis sparked protest by a sign claiming Women s Lib is much ado about nothing. A university student, Mrs. Carol Sayre, removed letters and warned of potential boycott as women complain the message is obscene and provocative. Samis plans to keep changing signs for attention and business.
Thousands of demonstrators gathered on the Ellipse near the White House for a three hour protest against U S involvement in Vietnam. The rally featured harmonicas banners and caricatures of Nixon Agnew and led to a march down Pennsylvania Avenue toward Capitol Hill.
Norwalk still owes 148000 of a 225000 revenue bond issued in 1962 to finance two large downtown parking lots. The city receives meter revenue to cover interest and principal while other uses were shifted to city funds. By end of 1970 the 3 1 8 percent bonds near maturity around 1980 remained partly unpaid.
The U S Supreme Court briefly continued bond for Robert Summerlin owner of Bob's Grocery and News after he filed a certiorari appeal of a February 1970 Common Pleas conviction for selling an obscene book. The sentence ranges one to seven years and the case awaits high court action.
Bids were opened at noon for a fire truck a sewage plant pickup and a service director car plus insurance for the Municipal Light Plant. Local dealers Bob Meyer Chevrolet George Manyak Ford and Ebert and Son Motor Sales bid the pickup and service vehicle while Mack Mack McCoy’s Mead submitted for the fire truck. Fire equipment reps from Sutphen Columbus Ward LaFrance Elmira N Y will be present to submit bids and insurance bids came from Mack Insurance and Bache-Furey Myers Inc.
The Soviet Soyuz 10 crewmembers maneuvered to the unmanned Salute platform, docking and testing communications as preparation for the first orbiting space station.
The IRS has seized comedian Frank Fontaine’s Winchester home for a tax debt of 450800. The 12 room house on three acres is to be auctioned with bids opening May 25. It is unclear if Fontaine’s 11 children still reside there.
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