Willard Stock Windfall Transforms Quiet Ohio Town
The Wall Street Journal highlights Willard Ohio residents benefiting from Pioneer Rubber Co sale for $8 million. Most stockholders held shares bought over 20 years at about $10 to $20, yielding $52.92 a share. Garish luxuries are avoided as even new riches fail to alter local behavior. concerns linger about ownership and plant longevity while the Willard United Bank sees asset growth.
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Pioneer Rubber Co
Wall Street Journal
Willard United Bank
Journal
Bob Harwood
Pioneer Rubber
Harwood
Sherwood Medical Industries
Pioneer
Jack Gibson
The
Gibson
Willard Country Club
Pope Paul VI urges charity amid Yuletide selfishness
In St. Peter's Square Pope Paul VI warned that Christmas often fuels a giant collective selfishness as he urged Christians to help the poor and meet basic needs amid the season of giving.
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Rome
UPI
Paul VI
St. Peter’s Square
Mike Berry Loses Muddy Pass Punt and Kick in Cleveland
Cleveland Norwalk eight year old Mike Berry failed to win the Ford sponsored divisional Pass Punt and Kick contest at Cleveland Municipal Stadium. He slipped in mud on the punt and finished with 72 42 feet compared to Brad Apple 120 percent. He kept his Browns uniform and a Ford parka despite the setback.
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Cleveland
Norwalk
Mike Berry
Cleveland Municipal Stadium
William Berry
Mike
Ford Motor Co
Cleveland Browns
Dallas Cowboys
Browns
George Manyak
Ford
Marshall Street
Brad Apple
Brad
Apple
Don Cockroft
Ohio Senator asks Rhodes for Vietnam bonus panel
State Sen. Ronald Mottl of Parma urged Gov. Rhodes to form a special committee to set a Vietnam bonus for Ohio servicemen. In his letter Mottl recalled the Feb 9 1967 appointment of Carl B. Stokes and himself to an Ad Hoc Committee to determine eligibility and bonus amounts.
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Columbus
UPI
Ronald Mottl
Dparma
James A. Rhodes
Ohio
Mottl
Carl B. Stokes
Cleveland
Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver Says H Rap Brown Is Alive
Cleaver reports in a Philadelphia Bulletin interview that H Rap Brown is alive and active in the United States. Brown, under FBI search, did not appear in Bel Air Maryland on May 4 for an inciting riot trial and has not been seen since.
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Philadelphia
UPI
H. Rap Brown
United States
Eldridge Cleaver
Philadelphia Bulletin
Cleaver
Black Panthers
Brown
Algiers
FBI
Bel Air
Weather forecast for Norwalk and area
Partly cloudy and cool today and tonight with highs mid to upper 30s and lows in the 20s. Tuesday brings little temperature change with highs in the upper 30s. Wednesday expects cloud cover with 20 percent rain or snow. Northwest winds tonight and Tuesday. Norwalk high 36 low 26. Precip unknown .03 inches. Moon phases and sunrise sunset listed. Marriage licenses issued for four couples. Births include a boy and two girls. Deaths listed for four residents with ages.
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Norwalk
Hughes Feared Corruption Probe Drives Hughes to Bahamas
Time magazine reports a federal probe into Hughes operations in Nevada led Howard Hughes to a Bahamas retreat and spurred firing of several aides. It alleges kickbacks and skimming at Nevada properties, scrutiny by Hughes Tool Co. and private investigators on Robert Maheu, with agencies in Nevada and Las Vegas also examining Hughes businesses.
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UPI
Hughes
Nevada
Howard Hughes
Bahamas
Time Magazine
Las Vegas
Air West
Robert Maheu
Hughes Tool Co
Maheu
Prisoner Sends Fan Letter to Huron County Sheriff
Robert A Faunt a 19 year old prisoner at Wakeman jail writes Sheriff John Borgia praising department men. He was sent back from Albuquerque New Mexico Sept 22 on a bad check charge and indicted in November and pleads not guilty. He says he may be out by Christmas and notes a felony on his record while wishing Borgia reelection.
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Huron County Sheriff's Department
Wakeman
Robert A. Faut
John Borgia
Faut
Albuquerque
N. Mex
Holman Jewelers
Borgia
Connally Replaces Kennedy in Nixon Cabinet
President Nixon named Democrat John B. Connally to be Treasury secretary replacing David M. Kennedy. Kennedy will stay as ambassador at large in finance policy until Feb 1, while Connally’s confirmation will wait until after the new Congress convenes. Connally, a former Texas governor and Navy secretary, is Nixon’s first Democratic appointee.
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UPI
Nixon
John B. Connally
Texas
David M. Kennedy
Treasury
Kennedy
Connally
Senate
Congress
Walter J. Hickel
Rogers C.B. Morton
Lyndon B. Johnson
Navy
John F. Kennedy
Monroeville Votes Today on 2.2 Mill Tax Levy
Monroeville voters in the local school district cast ballots in a special election on a 2.2 mill additional tax levy aimed at trimming a projected 1971 deficit. The earlier 5.4 mill proposal failed in May and November. polls close at 6 30 p m.
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Monroeville
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