15 Feb 1968
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Newspaper
Norwalk Reflector
Location
Norwalk, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1968
Page
1
Actress Katy Jurado 40 is reported in serious condition after swallowing more than sixty sleeping pills at her West Los Angeles apartment. Police were called after a note implied a suicide attempt. Jurado told her agent she had taken 67 pills and requested fur items be given to her children.
A seven month old boy was found in an unheated car outside an Akron restaurant after five hours in 13 to 18 degree weather. The mother Leetta Ridler said she left the child because she could not pay for a babysitter. The infant was taken to a foster home with discolored skin.
UPI reports 16 GIs killed in the week ending Feb 10, 1,494 wounded with 936 hospitalized. In two weeks to Feb 10 totals 816 killed and 4,251 wounded, the costliest period. Overall American deaths in South Vietnam reach 17,696 since 1960 with 109,922 wounded and 1,169 missing or captured.
Gen Earle Wheeler testifies that nuclear arms are not required to defend the Marine base at Khe Sanh against a probable North Vietnamese attack. He declined to speculate on scenarios if Khe Sanh’s fall seemed imminent.
Increasing cloudiness and wind with cold high in the low 30s. Chance of light snow Friday with teens to low 20s tonight. Norwalk temps 32 to 16. births listed for multiple couples in Collins Monroeville Willard and Greenwich. Deaths include Mrs Orra Stevens age 77 Willard Frank Nelson 61 12 Olive St and John H Obringer 63 Monroeville.
The Huron County Medical Society debated a October policy statement on medical service for welfare recipients. Dr. E R McLoney said the group referred a critic to the policy and declined Grassroots meeting talks, while noting welfare payments cover only 60 percent of physician fees and impose a 40 percent burden on doctors.
Harry F. Green, 40, of North Fairfield, is serving ten days in the Huron County jail on a charge of failure to identify himself after a car rammed a building. He was fined $100 and costs in Mayor's Court and faces a pending Juvenile Court charge of contributing to the neglect of his child.
Illinois Congressman John Anderson will address the Huron County McKinley Club banquet announced by club president Arthur Leak. The event is scheduled for March 18 at Norwalk Junior High School.
The body of Norwalk soldier Specialist Fourth Class Lauren Heydinger killed in Vietnam has been returned to the United States and funeral arrangements are pending. The father Frank Heydinger says details of the action in which he died are unavailable while the escort from Oakland arrives and the family is notified. Heydinger had served in Vietnam since last October and the barber shop he ran on East Main Street remains closed until next Thursday.
Two days of testimony in a Perrysburg chemical dispute concluded in Huron County Common Pleas Court. Master Chemical Co. accuses former employee Robert Dean of Willard of breaching a two year nondisclosure and noncompete agreement and seeking damages while he works for a rival, Ohio Industrial Research Corp. of Canton. Dean now works for the Canton firm, which serves metal cutting and working industries.
Kathy Emory of Willard competed this week at the Miss Miami Pageant held on the university campus. She did not reach the finalists but earned 44 of 50 points in the talent contest. Also reported a separate item: Huron County commissioners awarded the insurance contract for county vehicles to Bache Furey and Myers with the lowest bid of 2183 dollars.
UPI reports Allied dive bombers and U S ships bombarded Hue fortress where a Communist unit held ground. Marines and South Vietnamese troops pushed through rubble in street to street fighting leaving heavy casualties on both sides as naval bombardment precedes ground assault.
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