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Newspaper
Norwalk Reflector
Location
Norwalk, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1973
Page
1
A royal source denies reports that Queen Elizabeth plans abdication in favor of Prince Charles. Labour MP William Hamilton speculated that her remodel of Sandringham might signal an early abdication to position Charles on the throne with a royal wedding.
The U S Postal Service will push back planned rate increases to March 2 after a Cost of Living Council order cutting the rise. First class stamps would rise from 8 to 10 cents and airmail from 11 to 13 cents with other categories also higher, per Postmaster General E T Klassen. In Saigon the Viet Cong charged the U S set up a secret command in Thailand to run Indochina operations under USSAG replacing MACV which was dissolved after the 28 January cease-fire.
Ohio layoffs total 1560 of 38000 from General Motors due to weak large car sales. Fisher Body Elyria to shed 530 workers, Mansfield 470, Cleveland 350, Euclid 200, Parma plants to announce further cuts at transmission pressed metal and propeller shaft units.
Coleman A Young, former state senator, was sworn in Friday with few witnesses as Detroit's first black mayor. He will take a public oath next Wednesday, stressing the ceremonial nature of the early ceremony due to the city charter.
Generalissimo Francisco Franco has chosen Interior Minister Carlos Arias Navarro as the likely successor to assassinated Prime Minister Luis Carrero Blanco. Government sources confirm no official official announcement yet.
Nobel Prize winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn published a thorough documentary exposing the Soviet secret police prison camp and terror system in The Gulag Archipelago 1918 1956 smuggled from the USSR. He asserts no other nation has seen such government suffering.
Weather Mostly cloudy and colder with light snow possible highs in the upper 30s tonight and Sunday. Temperatures Norwalk 41/32 with 60 percent today 30 tonight and Sunday. BIRTHS Mr and Mrs Donald Sprunk Norwalk son FT Hospital Mr and Mrs Gary Greene Norwalk daughter FT Hospital DEATHS Mrs May Cherry 90 North Fairfield Mrs Clara A Myers 83 Willard Mrs Clara Mae Perry 84 Norwalk Mr Eugene Buesser 85 Collins Sunrise 7 54 Sunset 5 05 Moonrise 10 32 Moonset 10 18.
Kelvin McCall of Lorain, 18, picked up two hitchhikers on Lorain’s Henderson Drive. A gun and a knife were used to force him to drive to Blue Bridge where he was tied to a tree with rawhide and later handcuffed. They stole $80 and fled in his 1974 Oldsmobile. A passerby heard cries, called rescue, and McCall was freed by Monroeville Rescue Squad. Huron County deputies investigated.
Washington reports say motorists flood the Federal Energy Office with complaints of gas station price gouging from 10 to 25 cents a gallon and unposted prices. Attorney General Bork orders action against excessive charges as new fuel allocations bite. Jet fuel up 10 percent for airlines. residual fuel may face a 6 percent cutback.
Norwalk to test unlimited city trash collection for two months starting Wednesday. Mayor Wayne Goodsite says households may place any quantity of refuse curbside while a study assesses impact before deciding on continuing the service or enforcing the existing two 30 gallon limit and brush rules.
Industry sources say Venezuela plans to double petroleum prices starting New Yearto raise the cost of gasoline and home heating oil for the U S East Coast. The new price of 14 08 per barrel would be the highest rate in the world.
Local clubs host New Year's Eve events with varied hours. Pewter Mug offers a public party till 2 30 a.m., TJ's keeps regular hours, and several venues close early. VFW event is sold out with roast beef dinner, $7 50 per person, includes music by Country Four. Elks Club and Moose Lodge host late dances with breakfast options and member guest limits. Knights of Columbus public dance charges $8 per couple with music into 2 a.m.
In Guernsey County two men uncovered a walnut wooden water line buried about two and a half feet deep. Historians estimate the pipe dates to 169 years ago when the town of Frankfort was founded. water flowed through it from a spring to a distant spigot.
Wilford Hackbush 75 Eastwood Dr. was appointed to the Norwalk Planning Commission by Mayor Wayne Goodsite to fill a seat created by a city charter amendment. Hackbush 30, previously an unsuccessful Democratic at large candidate in 1971, comes from Defiance and works as an industrial engineer for Norwalk Furniture Corp with his wife Donna and two sons.
Norwalk mayor Wayne Goodsite schedules a Wednesday meeting with Continental Cablevision of Ohio Inc and Law Director Ronald Freeman to discuss a rate increase from 4.85 to 5.85 monthly. The city franchise pays 1,000 yearly. officials cite cost of living factors and citizen complaints as reasons for the hike.
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