Next Norwalk Safety Service Director Named?
Rumors swirl on Norwalk with three or four leading candidates for safety service director. Domenic Coletta, a councilman and former charter chair, is favored by some though he won’t apply. Other contenders include a major-industry executive with law enforcement ties, Charles Sweet of the sewage plant, and Arthur Leak, a defeated county commissioner. Mayor Finch plans to appoint two councilmen and have Auditor Hipp screen applicants. The mayor hasn’t named finalists.
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Janet Conway
Norwalk
Main Street
Harold Finch
Domenic Coletta
Coletta
William V. Mount
Charles Sweet
Morley Price
Mount
Sweet
Chuck
Arthur Leak
Republican
Leak
GOP
Finch
Columbus
Heinie Finch
Charles Hipp
No Wig Please A St. Louis Reservist Appeals Over Hair
Allen B. Markovitz a 24 year old St. Louis insurance salesman and five year Army reserve member says he was ordered to cut his hair at the last meeting He wore a short wig to his office on December 2 and claims the Army disapproved He appealed to Senator Stuart Symington regarding the complaint about his long hair.
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Symington
Army
Allen B. Markovitz
Army Reserve Corp
Markovitz
UPI
Soldier testifies on My Lai killings in Calley court trial
Charles W. Hall of Columbus Ohio testified at Lt William L Calley Jr court martial about hearing automatic weapons fire on March 16 and seeing civilians including old people and mothers lying dead in a My Lai ditch Hall was the sixth former platoon member to testify and the first to report bodies.
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Fort Benning
UPI
Charles W. Hall
Columbus
Ohio
My Lai
Hall
William L. Calley Jr
Calley
UAW Rejects Ford Contract Extension Threatens Nationwide Strike
United Auto Workers will not extend the Ford contract past the Monday midnight deadline. The union cites a real strike threat unless a new three year agreement is reached, after a bargaining session led by Ford Department director Ken Bannon.
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Detroit
UPI
United Auto Workers
Ford Motor Co
Ken Bannon
Ford Department
Jail escape attempt thwarted by Ashland deputies
Ashland County deputies stopped an escape plan by seven inmates. Officials confiscated six hacksaw blades a file and a homemade key. Three jail cell bars were saved but not removed as investigators probe the incident.
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Ashland, Ohio
UPI
Ashland County Sheriff's Deputies
Norwalk Weather And Life Events Brief
Increasing cloudiness this morning with showers likely late this afternoon and tonight. Highs upper 40s to 50s, lows upper 30s to low 40s. Friday cloudy and colder, highs 40 to 45. Births reported in Norwalk with two new girls, a wedding license applications list, and deaths including four residents.
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Norwalk
Ex-GIs Propose City Charter Reconsideration For Norwalk
Norwalk councilman Hakes urges forming a new charter commission to revisit a city manager government idea. He references the 1967 charter bid, which voters rejected 3 170 to 1 468 amid police and fire union opposition, and notes a new commission would be needed. Washington veterans recount U S war crimes in Vietnam including torture and killings of Viet Cong prisoners. They describe dehumanization and direct abuses during helicopter air operations.
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Allen Hakes
Norwalk
Hakes
Frederick F. Waugh
Chamber of Commerce
Washington
UPI
National Veterans
U.S
Gordon Livingston
Vietnam
Johns Hopkins University
Livingston
Kenneth B. Osborne
Song by local writer lands on record after sale
Norman Caris of Toledo discovers his ballad No More Heartaches No More Tears has been recorded by Grand Recording Co. He sold the song earlier this year and learned of the deal on his 57th birthday. Caris has a decades long music background with past groups.
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Norman Caris
Paul Weidinger
Caris
Grand Recording Co
Eleanor
Weidinger
Louis Parrott
Carl Schott
Skyliners
Toledo
Elmore
Ceiling Caves In On City Bar
The Glass Bar on 45 East Main St saw its ceiling collapse Tuesday night when an air duct loosened the ceiling panels. Debris narrowly missed patrons. one patron cut a finger diving under a table. Co owner Tom Berry said the bar reopened after repairs and called it dumb luck no one was hit.
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Tom Berry
East Main St
Berry
VC reject prisoner exchange in Paris talks
The Viet Cong and North Vietnam rejected U.S. proposals to swap 36,000 Communist prisoners for 5,000 American and allied captives. They warned of intensified war if the peace package is not accepted. Hanoi and Viet Cong officials called the issue a Nixon administration ploy to prolong the conflict.
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Paris
UPI
North Vietnam
U.S
Hanoi
Viet Cong
Indochina
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