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Newspaper
Norwalk Reflector
Location
Norwalk, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1972
Page
1
The proposed charter would create a full time mayor with power to hire and fire all aides if approved on May 2. First term salary would be 15000 dollars annually with no outside compensated work. After term, salary set by city council. Former and current mayors show differing office hours.
Veteran city hall reporter Janet Conway outlines four installments on Norwalk’s charter. The first focuses on establishing a full time mayor with real authority as the charter’s keystone. The series then covers City Council powers, board and commission reforms, and how the city could spend money.
A proposed charter would make the mayor the city boss with power to appoint promote fire or discipline any official within charter and civil service rules. It creates finance and law directors replaces auditor and treasurer with a finance director and a law director and adds safety and service departments. The mayor would attend council meetings introduce legislation veto measures and appoint heads while residency and term limits tighten. If absent the council president acts as mayor.
Cloudy cool conditions with a chance of showers and possible snow flurries tonight. Highs upper 40s to 50s, lows around 30s. Tuesday cooler with partly cloudy skies and 40 percent precipitation today and tonight, 20 percent Tuesday. Norwalk high 59 low 37. Marital licenses for Thomas E Asberry and Carmelinda Stanziose. Births include Krupp Willard Slone and others. Deaths listed: Wilkinson, Biddinger, Myers, Shira.
Humphrey and Muskie, long time allies, duel in the Pennsylvania primary as McGovern narrows margins. The race centers on securing delegates with Muskie aiming for delegate-heavy outcomes and Humphrey insisting on a victory in the state that tests their White House bids.
Clarence Hooker narrates how his son Ron Hooker became Newcomerstown’s mayor and how the family supported his bid. Hooker senior recalls his own college effort at 28 and how encouragement helped Ron win 70 percent of the vote. He accompanies Ron at events and often handles chauffeur duties.
Lee S. Hudson a former Huron County recorder and deputy sheriff died on arrival at Elkhart General Hospital after a heart attack. He was 79 born February 1, 1892 in Max Meadows Virginia. He served as county recorder from 1945 to July 1963 and was survived by sister Lola Meyers and nieces Lois Newton and June Spaulding among others. Funeral services were to be held at 1 pm Tuesday at William Stemm Funeral Home with burial in Elkhart.
Norwalk Township plans a new attempt to place a zoning code on the November ballot, the fifth vote in 16 years. Two petitions circulate as trustees may appoint a zoning committee to revise last year’s 51 page proposal and address objections. A separate fire call from 1042 Bank St reported an overheated furnace with no damage and sparking wires on Laylin Road prompted bystanders to contact the electric department.
A benefit concert for Senator George McGovern, in Cleveland at the Cleveland Arena, features Joni Mitchell Paul Simon and James Taylor. Celebrities Warren Beatty Jack Nicholson Julie Christie Goldie Hawn and Peggy Lipton will usher. McGovern will campaign in Ohio with stops in Cleveland Columbus Springfield Dayton and Cincinnati and later in Toledo Fremont Sandusky Elyria and Lorain.
At the 48th annual FFA judging contest in Columbus two thousand five hundred vocational agriculture students competed. Vanguard Joint Vocational School Fremont led the single cylinder engines division.
Seven sailors jumped from the USS Nitro as it set sail for Vietnam. Coast Guard cutters rescued them in Sandy Hook Bay and returned them to the ship. A protest flotilla of 16 canoes formed near the pier with 19 arrests at the Earle depot amid charges of trespass and unlawful assembly.
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