St Luke Hospital Offers 2000 Reward for Violent Acts
St Luke Hospital in Cleveland offers a $2,000 reward for information leading to arrest and conviction of anyone who commits violence against nonstriking hospital employees their families or property. The move follows fire bombings at three nonstriking employees homes. damage described as minor. Standard Oil of Ohio cites a rupture of a vessel carrying a volatile liquid during reactivation as cause of a $2 million fire and explosion at the Oregon refinery last week. Gerald E King says repairs will take two to three months and production is about 85 percent of normal with 33 injured and one hospitalized.
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Cleveland
UPI
St. Luke Hospital
Standard Oil of Ohio
Sohio
Oregon
Gerald E. King
Ohio House to vote on school tax plan for 300 million
Ohio Senate backed a proposal to raise about 300 million for education in the current biennium and will be voted on in the House on Wednesday after the Finance Committee recommended passage. The measure was split into three sections for hearings.
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Columbus
UPI
Senate
Ohio
Finance Committee
Canal to Stay Closed Over Israeli Withdrawal
Al Ahram reports Egypt will keep the Suez Canal closed until Israeli troops withdraw from occupied Arab territory. Hassan Abbas Zaky told the Baghdad Arab economic ministers conference that Cairo will maintain the shutdown until Israeli aggression losses are wiped out and consequences addressed.
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United Press International
Egypt
Suez Canal
Cairo
al Ahram
Hassan Abbas Zaky
Baghdad
Police chief orders on the spot shooting for sabotage
National police chief Brig. Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan said his force was ordered to shoot on sight any person committing sabotage during the South Vietnamese presidential election.
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Saigon
UPI
Nguyen Ngoc Loan
Weather and Local Marriage and Birth Notices
Tonight clears and cooler with a low in the low 50s. Wednesday remains fair and cool. Monday temperatures range from 57 to 78 with humidity around 87 percent in the morning, dropping to 50 percent and 57 percent later. No precipitation. Sunrise 6 43 a m, sunset 8 17 p m. Moonrise 9 47 p m, moonset 9 11 a m. Marriage license applications list Harry John Kilgore and Carrie Risner of Willard at home, Thomas Richard Parish and Donna Irene Theisen of Norwalk. Birth announced for Mr and Mrs Frank Duncan of 72 N Prospect a girl.
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Harry John Kilgore
Willard
Welder
Carrie Risner
Thomas Richard Parish
Norwalk
Donna Irene Theisen
China Claims U.S. Vietnam War Escalation Links to Soviet Plot
Peking Radio quotes Peoples Daily charging that American bombing and air intrusions near China prove a new U.S.-Soviet plot. The comments follow two US Navy AG Intruder jets shot down in Communist China and tie the issue to Glassboro talks between Johnson and Kosygin.
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Saigon
UPS
Hanoi
U.S
China
Hong Kong
UPI
America
Soviet Russia
Glassboro
N.J
Johnson
Alexei N. Kosygin
Kosygin
Fires Hit New Haven Jackson As Nightly Rioting Surges
Gangs of Negro youths set fires in New Haven Connecticut and Jackson Michigan for a third night. Police in Baton Rouge Louisiana arrested a black power leader tied to firebombing. About 200 state troopers joined New Haven officers enforcing an eight o clock curfew in Negro neighborhoods. Tear gas dispersed a jeering crowd. At least 38 fires and looting incidents reported. 115 arrests Monday, 345 in three days. Fire damage in Jackson light due to quick firefighting response. Most blazes targeted stores and construction plants in Negro areas. Louisiana troopers reinforced patrols with orders to shoot arsonists on sight. Police arrested Walter Leon Jenkins alias Billy Brooks for inciting a felony in Sunday night firebombings.
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New Haven
Conn
Jackson
Mich
Baton Rouge
Walter Leon Jenkins
Billy Brooks
Norwalk considers 1968 budget with spending drop but finance gap remains
City Auditor Charles J. Hipp warns the 1968 budget, set to be presented to the council, shows lower spending than 1966 and 1967 due to one time items not planned for 1968. The general fund faces a $20 000 shortfall as interest earnings fall and pension costs rise. Options include spreading pension payments over 60 years or raising revenue. Tonight's discussion also includes land purchase for Marshall Street and a liquor permit application from James Zuber.
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Norwalk
Charles J. Hipp
Hipp
Marshall Street
Washington
James Zuber
2000 Acres Annexed To Monroeville District
The Huron County Board of Education annexed about 2000 acres from Seneca to the Monroeville Local School District in a brief special session. The transfer, effective April 30 1968, follows a July 29 handoff and involves Sherman Township lands previously in the Seneca-Huron district.
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Monroeville
Huron County Board of Education
Seneca County Board
Huron County
Sherman Township
Seneca-Huron
Ralph Brown
Second suit filed in Common Pleas Court over 1963 Betschman crash
Charles P. Jones seeks $65,000 alleging Sharon L. Betschman negligent when the Betschman Greenhouse truck hit his five year old daughter Susan. The action follows a earlier $250,000 claim from the same accident. Susan, now eight, suffered a skull fracture and brain injuries. Jones seeks recovery of expenses and contends Betschman allowed Sharon to drive. Attorneys listed from Cleveland and Norwalk represent both sides.
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Common Pleas Court
Willard N. Betschman
Betschman
Charles P. Jones
Sharon L. Betschman
Jones
Susan
Peti
Valle F. O’donnell
Cleveland
May Not Need Fire Levy In Hipp City
City auditor Charles J. Hipp said Norwalk might last the next year without a one mill fire levy tabled earlier by the city council. The levy followed a Spring house fire and a grass fire that destroyed a home. Fire committee member William Saladin questioned the need for extra funds next year. If filed, the levy must be submitted by Sept 15.
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Charles J. Hipp
Norwalk
William Saladin
Hipp
New Patrolman Assigned Here
Another new patrolman was assigned to the Norwalk Highway Patrol post. Herman K. Pickworth, 25, a Shiloh native and State Highway Patrol Academy graduate in Columbus, completed the 14 week course August 18 and began duties at the Norwalk post Monday, starting a 40 day break in period.
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Norwalk
Herman K. Pickworth
Shiloh
State Highway Patrol Academy
Columbus
Pickworth
Norwalk Post
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Peking
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