Sub-standard housing hardships in Huron County families
Mrs. Minnie Opsal, twice divorced with three children, lives in a deteriorating Norwalk home with a leaking roof and rotting foundation. Welfare barriers and landlord neglect trap families in temporary housing while a Negro couple, Mr. and Mrs. Brown, struggle to find a decent place and end up in a DIY house. Desperate residents occupy chicken coops, shacks, or drafty trailers to escape the elements.
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Minnie Opsal
Opsal
George Hayduk
Huron County
Kentucky
West Virginia
Norwalk
George Brown
Ohio
Brown
South
Weather outlook and local notices dated period
Increasing cloudiness tonight with a low in the 60s. Wednesday will have variable clouds and warmer temperatures with scattered thundershowers. Marriage license applications list Johnnie Hicks and Cora Hicks, Gregory McKown, Susan Fulton. Births note a girl for Douglas and Mrs Barman and a girl for Gene and Mrs Dilton. Deaths list Enid Zeller and Lotta Cadwell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnnie Hicks
Shiloh
Cora F. Hicks
Willard
Gregory S. McKown
Plymouth
Susan M. Fulton
Douglas Barman
Christie
Gene Dilton
W. League
Hope Wanes For Hiring School Psychologist
Norwalk City School faces a tough year with a high school guidance counselor vacancy and slim chances of obtaining a psychologist. Supt. Dr. Alban V. Gotaas will recommend eleven teachers to the board tonight, leaving seven vacancies including three at the high school and one senior high guidance post.
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Norwalk City
Board of Education
Alban V. Gotaas
Gotaas
Village mayoral filings stir North Fairfield Greenwich races
The deadline for village candidate filings looms 4 p.m. Wednesday with races in North Fairfield and Greenwich. Incumbents Zeiter and Burns among those seeking re election while Keith Sparks and Donald Kochis clash in Greenwich and Monroeville seeks a new mayor. Additional filings announced for Wakeman New London and area boards of public affairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Fairfield
Greenwich
Charles R. Zeiter
Joanne Maerkisch
Zeiter
Huron County Board of Elections
Keith R. Sparks
Donald D. Kochis
Kenneth G. Salisbury
Monroeville
Paul C. Burns
Wakeman
Preston Golding
New London
Board of Elections
Ralph Jackson
Wakeman Council
Ray Wallrabensten
North Fairfield Board of Public Affairs
Clyde Reed
Vaughn Baker
Gordon D. Oney
North Fairfield Council
Earl G. la Ronde
William R. Beamer
Roger L. June
Greenwich Township
Downtown sketches shown for Norwalk improvement plan
Planners will display architect sketches by Harvey Moskowitz and Laurence Alexander to downtown merchants at 6 30 p m at Elkis Country Club. Financing talks follow closed session with the Downtown Survey Committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norwalk
Harvey Moskowitz
New York
Alexander and Moskowitz, Inc
Elkis Country Club
Laurence Alexander
Norwalk Youth Dies In Backing Stone Spreader Accident
Alan Burton 19, a Ohio State University summer helper with the County Highway Department, was crushed when the stone spreader backed over him on Town line Road. Leroy Shample 26 rode the spreader. Albert Blankenship 60 operated it. Burton died en route to Fisher Titus Hospital. investigation ongoing by State Highway Patrol. Burdened by multiple survivors and funeral set for Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norwalk
Townline Road
U.S
Rve
Alan David Burton
North West St
Fisher- Titus Hospital
Burton
Ohio State University
County Highway Department
Niles G. Wheeler
Peru Center Road
Monroeville
Myron Sweet
Huron County
Leroy Shample
South West St
Albert B. Blankenship
Willard
Alan Burton
Norwalk High School
the Signal
Highway Department
Lorain Community College
Ohio State
Federal funds sought for Norwalk retirement center plan
A group seeking federal funds aims to develop a 170 acre tract on Norwalk west side into a retirement center with possible nursing home boarding school hospital shopping center professional building and housing. The Albert Metz farm site is under consideration with no deed recorded yet and principals remain unidentified.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norwalk
Dennis Fedor
Cleveland
Albert Metz
Leland Schmidt
Schmidt
The
Reflector
Ohio
Fedor
Metz
Huron County
Meanest Vandals Drown Kill Cats at Huron Fairgrounds
A spate of vandalism at the Huron County fairgrounds Sunday night flooded horse barns and killed several cats. Water taps were turned on to flood pens, with cats drowned or crushed. Humane Society executive manager Mrs Norman Ward offered a 15 reward for information identifying the culprits.
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Huron County Fairgrounds
Norman Ward
Huron County Humane Society
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Friendly Corners
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Police Department
Firelands
Bowling Green State University
Firelands Branch
First Methodist Church
Methodist Youth Fellowship of the Church
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John D. Fell
Clifford J. Burton
Mary K. Burton
Robert Meesig
Robert Kennedy
California
Raymond Burton
Kenneth Fell
Kubach- Smith Funeral Home
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Woodlawn Cemetery
Alan D. Burton
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