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Newspaper
Norwalk Reflector
Location
Norwalk, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1971
Page
1
Helen Hayes age 70 was reported resting well at Providence Hospital after a weekend admission for a respiratory infection. She had been rehearsing for Long Day's Journey Into Night at Catholic University beginning May 7.
Drought stricken Florida stayed dry though scientists used cloud seeding with silver iodide on a four hour flight over a 15 mile cloud strip north of Miami. Western states faced winterlike weather while Wyoming and northeast Colorado remained under stockmen warnings for dry conditions and fire risk.
Viet Cong launched a new series of attacks across South Vietnam ending a battlefield lull. Six miles from Saigon a regional force post was hit early today by 10 sappers, causing light casualties. Communist losses were not known.
T. V. Soong former acting premier and wartime foreign minister of Nationalist China collapsed and died at a dinner hosted by Edward Eu, Bank of Canton chairman. He was 77. An autopsy was set for later.
Mostly cloudy today tonight and Tuesday with little temperature change. Highs in the mid to lower 50s, lows 35 to 40. 10 percent precipitation. Winds NW 10 to 15 mph today, N to NW tonight and Tuesday. Norwalk highs 58 lows 36. Humidity 55 percent at 8 am, 50 at 2 pm, 48 at 8 pm. Precipitation none. Sunrise 6 32 am Sunset 8 19 pm Moonrise 7 12 am Moonset 10 48 pm. Births two Norwalk boys to Auerhamer and Wolcott. marriage licenses for Doughty Fay and Legg Baker. Deaths Hanson Reed Plue Gage.
Hollywood UPI report notes NBC TV loses money on Sunday baseball despite viewers’ support. Executives say weekly games lack prestige versus World Series and All Star Game, and appeal mainly to a young adult audience sponsors seek less. Football and basketball are viewed as more desirable audiences.
More than 1,000 antiwar demonstrators blocked traffic on the New Jersey Turnpike for five hours in Swedesboro and Mt. Laurel. Police arrested 80 for disorderly conduct as the crowd was dispersed after a 15 mile march. Most detainees held on $50 bail.
Bids opened at City Hall show Ward LaFrance of Elmira Heights offering a $47,899 fire truck and Ebert and Son Motor Sales plus Mead Motor Sales bidding for service director’s car and pickup. Local Mack Insurance Agency and others submitted identical $1,523 insurance bids for the electric generating station. Protests and traffic disruptions marred a March on Washington anniversary protest nearby with toll road sit ins and a diverted caravan. Greenwich official George R. Fetter announced a bid for mayor next November.
Nearly 200 student volunteers led by Sue Zeller and Jack Lolla canvass Norwalk Tuesday night to raise funds for Scholarships. They assemble at St Paul Elementary School and go door to door from 5 30 to 8 30 p m with badges designed by Chuck Egle.
Albert Hobson an East Cleveland man with eight years in Ohio prisons claims seven Hobsonian concepts simplify multiplication by adding during the process. He learned algebra and calculus in prison and, though unemployed, seeks a market for his ideas and additional copyrights.
Six people died when a two story seven room house burned in Bidwell Ohio. Fire officials suspect gasoline was tossed into a coal stove by Burt Yost causing the blaze. Victims include Burt Yost his wife Luella their daughter Thelma and sons Bobby and Cecil plus neighbors Jeff Dobbins and Paul Kent Jr. Mrs Yost died in a Gallipolis hospital. Cecil Yost was critically burned and hospitalized in Gallipolis.
Signatures totaling 2641 were collected in Norwalk Sandusky Lorain and Fremont on behalf of Lt. William Calley. The petitions were sent to National VFW Commander Herbert Rainwater for delivery to President Nixon as part of a nationwide effort coordinated by Firelands Post 2743.
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