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Newspaper
Norwalk Reflector
Location
Norwalk, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1972
Page
2
The Norwalk city council meets at 7 30 p m Tuesday with prayer pledge of allegiance and roll call. The agenda includes approval of minutes reading of communications and petitions committee and official reports and recognition of those appearing before the council. Unfinished business includes a second reading of ordinances creating a capital improvement reserve fund and a capital investment trust fund.
Agenda lists an ordinance authorizing the Director of Public Service and Safety to buy fire hydrants. It also proposes changing police department composition and a contract with Robert Meyer of Milan Avenue for sewer line construction. Aimed at hospital and medical program premium payments. Adjournment.
Huntington and Rice of Mountain View California announced it will be the first distributor of premium Chinese beverages including Chefoo wine Shantung brandy and other liqueurs and gin. The products from Shantung Province will be sold in the United States under the Sunflower label.
Ice and snow kept many relatives from attending a Quality Care Nursing Home event for 24 patients who opened gifts and ate treats. Manager Curt Springer said postponing the party would be too close to Christmas, though many residents seemed sad. Relatives arrived later, and plans for a larger 50-bed new home were announced behind the present 30-bed facility.
In Cordoba the brakes failed on a truck carrying 30,000 bottles of Argentine wine. Wine spilled into gutters and neighborhood dogs lapped it up, becoming too drunk to walk. The driver escaped with light injuries after the crash near railway tracks.
In Kansas City Harry S Truman slept well and woke saying he felt all right though still very serious. Doctors noted kidney failure and a weak heart, with renal dialysis deemed unlikely. vital signs shown as BP 130/56, pulse 74, respiration 24, temp 98.4 as he remains in hospital under close observation.
Jack Newton edged Bob Tuohy by one stroke to win the Auckland Golf Classic with a course record tying 64 in the final round for a 277 total. George Archer finished third in the field.
The State Highway Patrol logged seven weekend accidents across the area. A stalled car on Ohio 598 north of New Haven was rear ended by a vehicle that could not stop on snow. Eddie A. Francis, 25, Shiloh, was cited for DUI. Two cars collided east of Steuben on Ohio 61 as a third vehicle forced them off the road. Jerry L. Armitage, 18, New Haven, hit George G. Ferguson, 54, Willard. Walter R. Ostheimer, Sandusky, saw his car struck while stuck on Ohio 4 east of Bellevue. Robert D. Walters, 54, Bellevue, struck Ostheimer as he could not stop. Robert M. Seidel, 68, Greenwich, backed into Loren F. Baker, 29, Greenwich, mistaken that Baker’s car had been towed. Three additional crashes involved cars stuck in drifts hit by unknown drivers. Gordon L. Ebinger, 19, Greenwich, on Greenwich Angling Road. Ostheimer’s car on Ohio 4 east of Bellevue. Robert D. Cesare, 18, rural Norwalk, had left rear corner damaged on Old State Road east of North Fairfield by an unknown vehicle.
The 562 foot cement barge Medusa Challenger, based in Detroit, froze the Michigan Avenue Bridge for five hours in below zero weather. City crews labored to free the bridge while officials called the incident coincidental and not a failure of the vessel.
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