Norwalk Electric System Sale Faces Delays and Deliberations
The Norwalk City Council is unlikely to vote Tuesday or this year on selling the electric system. Two bids from Yankee-Dixie Power and Ohio Edison are close, at 6.20 million and 6.10 million, with negotiations possible over stores and supplies. Alternate offers include leases or phased ownership changes, plus a repurchase option with city renewal of ownership after a notice period.
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Janet Conway
Norwalk
Yankee-Dixie Power, Inc
Ohio Edison Co
Yankee-Dixie
Tony Gorant
Sandusky
Ohio Edison
Joe Botto
Yankee Dixie
Herbert Krogh
Wallace Duncan
Washington, D.C
Richard Popham
New York City
Norwalk Electric
Polite bandits steal 1.13 million in Canada
Four masked bandits pulled off a swift bank heist at the Royal Bank of Canada in Windsor on a Saturday morning. They fled in a green station wagon, leaving police with a 90 minute head start and a 15 minute operation window.
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Windsor, Ont
UPI
Canada
U.S
Royal Bank of Canada
Christmas Lights Vandalized Home of Disabled Man in Belfast
In Belfast Northern Ireland vandals damaged Jack Larry’s Christmas lights outside his home injuring little others. He is nearly 70 with limited mobility and salvaged a single string while fearing to replace them. Meanwhile a series of explosions in downtown Belfast injured three and damaged multiple businesses as police tied the blasts to the IRA.
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Jack Larry
Minard PI
Larry
Belfast
Northern Ireland
UPI
Joseph Cairns
Linenhall Street
Sun Alliance
Antrim Road
William Fitzsimmons
Irish Republican Army
IRA
Ohio cigarette tax cap limits price hike to three cents
Cincinnati dispatch reports the IRS rules retailers in Ohio cannot raise cigarette prices by more than three cents under the new budget tax package. Machine vend packs once 40 cents cannot jump to 45 cents at signing unless retailers prove extra operating costs tied to the tax increase.
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Cincinnati
UPI
Internal Revenue Service
Ohio
John McGraw
IRS
Rafer Johnson Marries Elizabeth Thomsen in Newport Beach
Olympic decathlon champion Rafer Johnson, 36, wed Elizabeth Ann Thomsen, a Fountain Valley schoolteacher, in a weekend Newport Beach ceremony. Johnson, noted for carrying the American flag at the Olympic parade, honeymooning with his bride.
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Newport Beach
Calif
UPI
Rafer Johnson
California
Johnson
Elizabeth Ann Thomsen
Fountain Valley
Weather Brings Warmer Cloudy Day With Light Rain Likely
Cloudy and warmer today with light rain or drizzle ending by late afternoon. Highs in the low to mid 40s, tonight's lows mid 30s. Tuesday mostly cloudy with a chance of rain or snow. precipitation prob 100% this morning, down to 20-30% later. Norwalk highs 39, lows 26. sunrise 7:50, sunset 5:00. Marriage licenses issued to several local couples amid births and deaths reported in Willard and Norwalk.
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Norwalk
State Aid Up 86 A Student
In Columbus the Norwalk City Schools could gain up to 86 dollars per pupil in state foundation funds under the new budget. The State Department of Education cautions that the figures released by the Ohio Education Association may exceed the bill’s final authorization. Rep. Paul E. Pfiefer has circulated the OFA figures to local media.
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Columbus
Norwalk
State Department of Education
Ohio Education Association
OFA
Paul E. Pfiefer
Crawford
Seneca
OEA
Willard
Bellevue
South Central
New London
Western Reserve
Monroeville
Huron County
Pfiefer
Yahya Resigns and Bhutto Takes Power in Pakistan Turmoil
President Yahya Khan resigns amid protests over East Pakistan loss and unrest in Karachi and Rawalpindi. Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto becomes president and martial law administrator, signaling continued military influence as crowds clash with symbols of state.
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Karachi
UPI
Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan
East Pakistan
India
Indian High Commission
Rawalpindi
Yahya Khan
Pakistan
Bhutto
United States
Intelsat 4 Satellite In Orbit From Cape Kennedy
A new communications satellite, Intelsat 4, was launched from Cape Kennedy on Sunday night. It entered an egg shaped initial orbit to 22,300 miles high and awaits final orbital insertion. The $9.5 million mission aims to add thousands of Trans Atlantic telephone circuits. Comsat Corp controls the satellite with 80 partner nations in Intelsat. Controllers monitored engineering data before firing a motor to place it in a stationary orbit above Ecuador.
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Cape Kennedy
UPS
Earth
Cape
George P. Sampson
Comsat Corp
Intelsat
Reflector Launches Daily Futures Market for Farmers
The Reflector starts a new market service publishing Chicago futures prices five days a week. The initial report covers eight commodities including wheat corn oats soybeans cattle eggs pork bellies and hogs with the first edition on Page 2.
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Reflector
Chicago
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Peter B. Peterson
Nixon
International Economic Affairs
Donald Rumsfeld
Cost of Living Council
Peterson
Cleveland
Invalid
Joseph C. Ritorto, Jr
Levittown
Carol A. Dillon
Wakeman
Walter J. Loconsole
Vickie L. Codeluppi
Roger E. Clark
Ill
Barbara J. Columbus
Jeffrey N. Ketcham
U.S. Army
Paula J. Miller
Collins
Lewis Addison
Ronald Shirey
North Fairfield
Ada B. Bleck
Willard Clarence L. Fields
Martha I. Trimner
Yahya
U.S. Security Council
Pakistan People’s Party
Goodsite
Wayne Goodsite
Phillip M. White
Ethel Kennedy
Ted
Rockefeller Center
New York
Bedford-Stuyvesant
Brooklyn
Ethel
Robert
UPI Telephoto
Ecuador
Futures Market Report
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