Embargo Imposed Amid Longshoremen Strike At Atlantic Ports
Due to a strike by longshoremen at Atlantic and Gulf ports an embargo is placed on certain mail, halting acceptance of international surface mail to Europe Africa and the Middle East and domestic surface mail to the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. Airmail and first class to the Virgin Islands remain accepted. Military mail is exempt.
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Atlantic
Gulf
Europe
Africa
Middle East
Caribbean Islands
Virgin Islands
Puerto Rico
Yale Lighting Winners Named
North Fairfield Lions and Civic Clubs hosted a Christmas home decoration contest with cash prizes. First prizes went to the Burras for nativity and the Deebles for decorative. runners-up and other placers included Hoyt Fife Wallrabenstein and Underwood, all receiving awards.
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North Fairfield
Gilbert Burras
Donald Deeble
North Fairfield Lions and Civic Clubs
Burras
Deebles
Elmon Hoyt
Gerald Fife
Ray
Taxi driver kills family then surrenders in Marseille
In Marseille on Wednesday taxi driver George Daury aged 37 shot and killed his wife and three daughters as they finished their Christmas dinner. He then told passersby to call police who arrested him at the scene.
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Marseille
France
UPI
George Daury
Norwalk Landfill Bid Placed by Riley. Council to Study
Riley Excavating Co. of Norwalk submitted the sole bid to operate the city landfill on Plank Road and manage garbage collection. The City Council Landfill Committee will review the proposal after health department findings noted violations and questioned dual operation. Deputy Health Commissioner Clarence Ellett urged separate contracts and state-plan submissions. Councilman G Ira Liedorff leads the committee.
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Norwalk
City Council
Leon Riley
Ellett
State Board of Health
G. Ira Liedorff
Accidents mark busy holiday for Ohio State Patrol
Thirteen accidents were logged with multiple injuries as State Patrol records a holiday busy period. A Willard woman and her 10 month old son were treated after a Route 124 crash near Greenwich. Police cited failures to yield and driving with expired licenses among several drivers involved. The thirteenth crash occurred at 7 45 p m on Christmas Eve with details continued on page 1.
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Willard
Greenwich
Willard Hospital
Wesley C. Walters
Justin
Thomas Enright
Lodi
Lulu F. Nicholas
Wakeman
Peru-Olena
Monroe
Mich
Terrence J. McCrobie
Fitchville
State Patrol
Vicki Lynn McCrobie
Michael E. Murray
Norwalk
Old State Road
Betty F. Webster
Indian Terrace
Sheila A. Jesberger
Milan
Coletta M. Darbey
Firelands Blvd
Bellevue
John L. J. Jasinski
Prairie Road
Jasinski
Kenneth L. Bores
Monroeville
Larry L. Sears
New London
Bellevue and Willard Districts Moved to Norwalk Area
Northern Ohio Telephone restructures 12 districts into seven with new headquarters in Ashland Bowling Green Delaware Medina Norwalk Oberlin and Port Clinton. Bellevue and Willard join Norwalk district while Galion Delaware Genoa and Wadsworth realign to other districts. Jan 1 effective. new commercial managers and plant superintendents named for each district.
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Bellevue
Northern Ohio Telephone Co
Robert M. Wopat
Ashland
Bowling Green
Delaware
Medina
Norwalk
Oberlin
Port Clinton
Willard
Galion
Genoa
Wadsworth
Allen W. Hughes
John L. Anderson
Robert Ryland
Ralph Fisher
John Lahr
Charles T. Winn
Eugene
Richard Dumm
Thomas Uhler
William Anderson
Charles Tyler
Emerson Jonas
Robert Pickeral
Robert Lemke
Wopat
Northern Ohio Telephone
Central
North
Ohio
General Telephone & Electronics Corp
New York
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Willard Man
Richard L. Barnett
Barnett
Huron County
David DeWitt
DeWitt
Paul R. Hall
Common Pleas
Hall
New Haven
Henry Case
North West Street
N. West
Case
Fisher- Titus Memorial Hospital
Derby
Kan
William Ross
Ross
Wichita
Reflector
E. Monroe
Reflector-Herald
UPI News Service
Audit Bureau of Circulation and
Ohio Newspaper Association
Huron
Erie
U.S
Magic Chef
Tappan Electric Range
Tappan Gas
Tappan Gallery
Admiral Refrigerator
Admiral
Carl
Benedict
Yale
Riley
Gallo
Akron
Walters
Richard Lutz
Cleveland
Oak
Wickes
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