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Newspaper
Norwalk Reflector
Location
Norwalk, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1970
Page
1
In a special election in Cuyahoga Falls Ohio voters rejected a proposal to form a three person fair housing commission to hear discrimination complaints. Unofficial totals show 2866 in favor and 5430 against. The measure failed amid strong turnout.
Ohio temperatures will run well below normal from Thursday to Monday with daytime highs in the 20s and overnights near zero to 10. Snow flurries expected almost daily, most frequent in the northeast and southwest, with precipitation light overall. In Saigon, U S headquarters report four American helicopter losses to ground fire and 250 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese deaths in renewed fighting. U S casualties totaled one dead and 24 wounded. On the northern coastal plain 45 North Vietnamese were killed while 18 U S soldiers were wounded.
John Hall of the Ohio Federation of Teachers testified that voter refusal to approve financing has slowed Ohio vocational and technical education expansion. The state teachers group had blamed bond-hostility for school closures.
Lawrence Hensen of Detroit and Carl Olson of Bloomfield plead innocent to defrauding the U S government. Olson was Shelby Corp president and Hensen vice president. They were freed on 5000 personal bond after being indicted for selling defective carbine ammunition clips to the Army after government rejection.
John Gilligan, a Democrat candidate for Ohio governor, argues progress requires tax funding. He warns education must be paid for and warns a price of a half educated future and aMalformed society if not improved.
Weather outlook shows cold temperatures with highs in the teens and lows near zero to 10 below. Chance of snow flurries 30 percent today tonight and Thursday. Norwalk highs 23, lows 2. Sunrise 7 53 a m sunset 5 12 p m. Marriage license issued Jerold L Earl Carolyn F Parsons. Births Martin Johnson. Deaths Martin L Sprankel Berlin H St John Louisa M Wise
UMW District 31 urged no return to work as thousands walked out in sympathy after the killings of Joseph A. Yablonski and his family. About 6,000 miners left Pennsylvania jobs while West Virginia and Ohio saw over 1,000 walkouts as district leaders predicted a nationwide spread by noon.
State Senator Robert J. Corts of Elyria announced his candidacy for re election in the 13th district covering parts of Lorain Richland and Erie and all of Huron Counties. A WWII veteran and attorney he has served on multiple committees and authored bills including a proposal for a Highway Transportation and Research Center.
City plans for a new Linwood Avenue bridge may come in 1970 or 1971 with $500,000 state funds. State approval also touches Gallup Avenue and Old State Road, per Service Director William Mount. Linwood topped county priorities after a long bridge scare linked to the Silver Bridge collapse.
In Edgartown mass the inquest heard Sen Edward M Kennedy told his two close friends Gargan and Markham he would report Miss Kopechne s death but did not. The July 18 accident on Chappaquiddick Island left Kopechne 28 drowned after a car plunged into a tidal pond.
Mayor Harold Finch announced 1970 priorities including a new Department of Ambulance Service staffed by paid volunteers with round the clock crews and rates set by council. A long term storm sewer separation project and resurfacing of Gallup and Old State avenues were proposed with estimated costs of 340000 and 620000.
Huron County residents should bundle up as temperatures may dip to 15 degrees below zero with snow flurries forecast for tonight and Thursday. Norwalk noon reading was five above zero, recorded by Charles Sweet at the city sewage plant weather station.
Rozwell Bynum, 25, of Dayton received a life prison term after being found guilty of second degree murder in the May 1969 stabbing death of his one-year-old daughter Cecelia Bynum was convicted in December of the same charge.
Two people were treated at Fisher-Titus Memorial Hospital after a 2:30 p.m. crash on State Route 18 near Fitchville River Road. Ruth N. Thomas led the westbound line, slowing to turn when an unidentified semi-trailer struck her car. Fred Zenda and Marian Zenda, both of Bradenton, Fla, were later treated, while Thomas and her passenger Winifred Sherwood reported injuries but were not treated.
Patrolman Charles Strimple helped subdue a 41 year old Yugoslavian hijacker aboard a 58 passenger Delta flight en route to Columbus Ohio. Strimple said he simply did his job while neighbors praise a hometown officer who aided in preventing the hijacking during the January incident.
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