24 Dec 1976
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Newspaper
Norwalk Reflector
Location
Norwalk, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1976
Page
1
Ohio lottery results reveal Pot O Gold numbers for this week with a three digit 185 and 674, a five digit 32925, a Double Play three digit 870, a five digit 02018, and a six digit 297244. The winning color is red.
In Walton Delaware County, a newborn boy nearly nine pounds was left on a car seat while the owner shopped. Hazel O'Dell found the infant wrapped in a blanket and alerted police. The baby was born less than two hours earlier and the umbilical cord was clipped with a clothes pin.
Up to 200 teenage church group members were hospitalized in Colorado and neighboring state with stomach illnesses as they returned home. Dr. Tom Vernon, Colorado state epidemiologist, identified the ailment as winter vomiting disease.
Increasing cloudiness tonight with lows near 25 and a 70 percent chance of snow Saturday. Highs around 32 with 20 percent tonight and 70 percent Saturday. Also lists births in Bellevue New Washington Norwalk and deaths in Monroeville Willard Norwalk with names and ages.
The column presents a Thursday query asking if surplus funds in county salary accounts should be distributed to county employees as year end bonuses. It notes reader reactions and reflects on budgetary fairness and departmental needs.
Voters split 52.3 to 47.7 percent on extra pay for Sunday and holiday work and county office irregularities. Pro and anti positions cite salary funds, taxpayer money, and potential graft while urging or opposing increased rural night patrols. Calls to vote by phone with midnight Sunday deadline.
Jeffrey Spradlin, Edison High School senior and basketball co captain, died when his car skidded left of center on Ohio 113 near Milan. Berlin Heights resident Donald Hicks, 23, survived with injuries. The accident also left a County Highway employee critically hurt at the garage and a Norwalk home fire causing $2,000 damage. Parish funeral arrangements were set for Milan.
Annie Barber a five year old riding in a Norwalk furniture driver’s semi truck was gravely injured. The car driver Roland J Koch thirty four from Wapakoneta died in the collision on US 6 west of Fremont. Investigators say ice and slide caused the jackknife and left the truck in the path of Koch’s vehicle. The incident remains under investigation.
Raymond L Ross 98 N Pleasant St was critically injured in a head on crash on Ohio 61 three miles east of Norwalk Elyria Memorial Hospital said he spent a fair night but remains critical. Five members of the Lawrence Ross family were injured and treated at Fisher-Titus Memorial Hospital before being released.
A county mechanic, Donald L. Baker, 52, was pinned against a workbench by a county truck at the Huron County Highway Garage. He is in critical condition at Fisher-Titus Memorial Hospital with crushed ribs and a dislocated hip. Witness James J. Smith said the truck moved forward instead of backing up. County officials expressed shock at the incident.
A candle left burning in a bedroom of Shirley Carroll’s home at 13 Rose Ave ignited a couch and spread to the attic. Firemen extinguished the blaze after 10:20 p.m. Eleven firefighters and two engines responded. The fire caused about 2000 dollars in damage and smoke and water damaged the first floor.
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