Bumper Beat Late Morning Storm Turns Roads To Ice
A freezing drizzle iced roads across Huron County causing hazardous driving conditions. Norwalk patrol reports numerous accidents with minor injuries possible. Milan Gallup crash injured two drivers and a passenger. Poland and Nickols incidents cited left of center and DUI. Authorities urge caution and light braking on slick streets. Local cases involve Steven Ziemke 16 and Roald Poland II 18, with Marcia Heckelman injured in the Poland vehicle. Kathryn Woodward 55 sustained severe damage to her car. Charles Abbott 29 cited for DUI on West Main Street.
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Huron County
Norwalk
Ohio State Patrol
Huron County Sheriff’s Department
Milan and
Gallup Avenues
Steven Ziemke
Rosedale Blvd
Gallup Avenue
Milan Avenue
Roald J. Poland II
Cortland St
Poland
Marcia Heckelman
Benedict Avenue
William J. Nickols
Welton Ave
Kathryn Woodward
Woodward Drive
Nickols
Mansfield
Charles J. Abbott
West Main Street
Unhurt Barry Sadler in Interstate Truck Flip in Atlanta
Barry Sadler, famed for The Ballad of the Green Berets, escaped serious injury when his truck overturned on an Atlanta interstate Friday. The incident occurred as he was driving, with a 1966 UPI Telephoto image accompanying the report.
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Barry Sadler
Green Berets
Atlanta
Burglary at 68 Old State Road South Reported
Police report a Friday night burglary at an apartment on 68 Old State Road South. Suspects stole 32 dollars in cash from the location, 12 from a roommate Patty Watt's purse, and 20 from a bedroom drawer while no one was home. Susan Klein reported the losses.
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Old State Road South
Susan Klein
Patty Watt
Gary L. Roberts
Key Estates
Dwight
Sohio Station
Milan Avenue
School Lunch Menus and Police Reports Snapshot
Multiple school meal plans listed for Willard Berlin Milan Monroeville Norwalk Norwalk Seneca East South Central Western Reserve and Norwalk day care center with no school days noted for MLK. Police report burglary theft and vandalism notes include smashed door glass theft of cash tire and rim loss of lanterns and BB gun incident nearby.
Ambulance Log Details Friday Runs in Norwalk
Norwalk ambulances responded to five calls Friday. David Leitz traveled from a Fast Foods store on Jefferson Street to his parents on North West Street for a medical incident at 10:15 a.m. John Metarko went from Fisher-Titus to his home at 11:10 a.m. Bruce Derby moved from Fisher-Titus to Twilight Gardens at 12:35 p.m. Kenneth Baker was transported to Fisher-Titus at 2:50 p.m. Deborah Lane, rural Norwalk, traveled from U.S. 20 West to Fisher-Titus at 7 p.m. for a medical call.
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Norwalk
David Leitz
Key Estates
Fast Foods
Jefferson Street
North West Street
John Metarko
Bouscau Ave
Fisher-Titus
Bruce Derby
N. West St
Fisher- Titus
Twilight Gardens
Kenneth Baker
Spine St
Medical
Deborah Lane
U.S. 20
Market report cattle hogs calves sheep January sale
Markets note large sales figures with hogs rising three dollars to 43 53.30 per cwt and sows 39 47.80. Cattle trend higher with steers 4.50 up and heifers 4.50 up. steers mostly 58 66.50, calves 77 and down, veal 96 107 top, lambs up 75 cents, feeder lambs 80 and down, aged slaughter sheep 34 and down.
Leader Dies Ends Tax Protest Yet Keeps Fight Alive
Wilmington Ohio UPI reports 52 year old Jay Eubank who launched a long cross country tax protest with a horse and wagon died Wednesday in a barn near Wilmington after illnesses slowed his trek. He planned to reach Boston to dump tea bags into the harbor. Eubank collapsed from a heart attack. Brian Mountjoy, 21, who farms nearby Midland, vows to continue the protest by taking up Eubank’s wagon and horse Hobo toward Boston. Eubank had traveled 12 000 miles through 42 states since Thanksgiving 1976 collecting tea bags as part of his anti tax campaign. He had become known as an honorary sheriff wherever he went and kept a suitcase of celebrity pictures.
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Wilmington
Ohio
UPI
Brian Mountjoy
Jay Eubank
Boston
Mountjoy
Eubank
Texas
Cincinnati
Hobo
Clinton County
Edwin Hiatt
Midland
Obituary Mary E Hiltz 94 longtime Norwalk resident
Mary E. Hiltz 94 of 74 S Linwood Ave Norwalk died Friday at Gaumont Nursing Home She was born in Norwalk the last of 11 children and the last grandchild of the original Hiltz settlers She was Norwalks first telephone switchboard operator later a supervisor at the phone company A member of St Paul Catholic Church and the Altar and Rosary Society Survived by two nieces Sister Mary Faith SND and a grand nephew Rev John T Hiltz Funeral services are set at Heaston Gerber and St Paul Church Burial in St Paul Cemetery Memorials to Sister Mary Faiths Indian mission charity are suggested The article also notes Mildred Gordon Haney former New London resident died in Lakewood Hospital in Cleveland with Eastman Funeral Home handling arrangements
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Mary E. (Mae) Hiltz
S. Linwood Ave
Gaumont
Helen Link
Norwalk
Mary Faith S.N.D
Bangalore
India
John T. Hiltz
Toledo
Edward F. Hiltz Sr
Frank J
Heaston-Gerber Funeral Home
St. Paul Catholic Church
St. Paul Cemetery
Sister Mary Faith
Lakewood
Mildred
Gordon) Haney
Cleveland
New London
Lakewood Hospital
Eastman Funeral Home
Norwalk Recreation Center Gym Closed for Week of Jan 14
The Norwalk Recreation Center gym will be closed during daytime hours the week of January 14 due to ongoing work. No public programs will run in the gym space while renovations continue.
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Norwalk Recreation Center
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Martin Luther King
ST. Paul
Berlin
Milan
Monroeville
Norwalk Day Care Center
Willard Jr. High & Elementary
Martin Luther King Day
Seneca East
Harvard
South Central
Bermuda
Western Reserve
Johnny Marzetti
Victoria Linder
Ray P. Wetzel
Pitt St
Alfred Heald
Bucyrus Auction
Dan River
Ashe
Ly VE
Seasons Discount Department Stores
Sale
Masons & Save
DuPont Dacron
Nea Aga
TIER
Valance
RT. 20
WEST
Fabric Sale
Ito
Custon
Mary E. Hiltz
Mildred Haney
Dave
Terry
Kette
Milan Town Hall
The
Milan Jaycee
T Eastman
Benedict Ave
Clancy's
Milan Ave
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