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Newspaper
Norwalk Reflector
Location
Norwalk, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1974
Page
3
North Fairfield firemen reported a lightning hit the eaves of the Gordon Beck home on Jenning Road about 6 am. The strike ripped the spouting and siding. a smoking television prompted a call to the fire department. No fire or damage estimate was available.
Mrs. Robert H. Stang found a hole and broken glass in a window facing Vinewood Drive while cleaning Saturday. Police tie the damage to a Thursday BB shooting at three boys. a 21 year old man admitted firing BBs but was not charged. City resurfacing work in Norwalk was near completion.
Barbara G. Bishop, 26, of 5 E. Elm St., Norwalk, pleaded guilty to keeping a house where hallucinogens are kept used or sold. She was sentenced to one to five years in the Marysville Ohio Reformatory, and was taken there Wednesday to begin serving the term.
Three individuals were arrested Saturday on forgery and shoplifting charges from secret indictments returned last Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Junior Porter of 29B Bouscau Ave. face forgery and related counts, Avis C. Porter of 22 is charged with forging a Social Security check, and Elizabeth A. Griffin of Monroeville is charged with shoplifting from Morrow's Foodland.
London reports the end of the miniskirt after a decade as C and A, Britain's largest clothes retailer, announces no new stock and that existing stock will be sold out. The chain sold 18,000 miniskirts daily at peak. Other British stores had already shifted to knee-length or longer styles.
More than 20 youngsters competed in the Jaycee Bicycle Safety Rodeo at the Junior High School parking lot. Shaun Kirk, 12, topped the boys with 201 points and Ann Ritzenthaler, 12, led the girls with 195 points. Other winners included Jeff Hackbush 7, Ann Nestor 7, Patricia Nestor 8, Aaron Kirk 9, Tom Hawes 11, and Randy Witter 14. The event featured bike safety inspection, a written rules test, and age-group skill rounds.
Huron County commissioners approve purchasing 25 used voting machines from Automatic Voting Machine Co. for about 900 dollars each after a state ruling requiring two machines per precinct. Officials debate need for extra machines and plan rotating ballot slates to meet requirements.
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