Inur Wala Roflouivur Readies Event The 49 Pound Sum
A cryptic note in mixed characters lists the value £ 49 and the date 1707. The fragment hints at an auction or price tag but provides no clear participants or location.
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Newspaper
Norwalk Reflector
Location
Norwalk, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1969
Page
2
A cryptic note in mixed characters lists the value £ 49 and the date 1707. The fragment hints at an auction or price tag but provides no clear participants or location.
State troopers Hollis Dixon and Raymond Curtis joined a spontaneous posse to corral six horses that bolted from a pasture four miles away and galloped along the Maine Turnpike median. Three horses were captured crossing southbound lanes, while the rest escaped back to their pasture with pursuing officers.
After eight years as a key ally to Democratic presidents, Everett Dirksen adjusts to life under a Republican White House. Once able to sway votes and shape agendas, he now mainly conveys Nixon’s moves at informal news briefings and weighs in on nominations, with mixed success. He remains influential within the GOP inner circle, though his choices sometimes meet White House resistance or are overridden.
Life Magazine quotes director Roman Polanski about their Hollywood home tragedy on Aug 8. Polanski notes Tate was asleep that night and awakened by noise as the killer struck, with friends Jay Sebring Voityck Frokowsky Abigail Folger and visitor Steven Parent among the victims.
Apollo 11 crew members Edwin Aldrin and Michael Collins were cheered by fans at a bullfight in Acapulco where police escorted them from the ring after the crowd grew rowdy. Johnson and his wife also arrived in Acapulco with Secret Service agents.
Fire Chief Kenneth Link urges riders to renew bicycle licenses before school starts. Licenses are sold at the firehouse rear on Whittlesey Avenue from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. A red rear reflector is the sole requirement. Unlicensed bikes will be tagged at registration and riders should not remove old tags before renewal.
Norwalk firemen answered two calls to extinguish minor brush fires along railroad right of ways on Sunday. Fires were started by passing locomotives near Norfolk and Western tracks at Gallup Avenue and near Route 18 and the reservoir. The reservoir blaze burned in three areas. water and paddles were used to extinguish them.
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