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Newspaper
Norwalk Reflector
Location
Norwalk, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1969
Page
1
Willie Shorts aged 12 from Milwaukee played his clarinet with intense focus as the conductor guided a Thursday school concert. The UPI telephoto shot captures the young musician in mid performance.
Four Negro members of the Wittenberg basketball team were reinstated after being suspended for missing a scheduled practice. They walked off campus with 34 other Negroes leading to the punishment, as stated by coach Eldon Miller. Theodore Sorensen urged Americans to accept a settlement in Vietnam that would include Communist participation in the South Vietnamese government at Xavier University.
UPI reports in New York that Judge Steele asserts a test indicates he was not involved in the case. The wire service notes this amid coverage of related legal proceedings and public statements.
Friction in equipment at the Janesville Cotton Mill on 56 St. Marys Street sparked a blaze Thursday about 1 p.m. Three machines suffered extensive damage as workers were on break. Firefighters controlled the flames in about 45 minutes and extensive smoke damage occurred. No loss estimate was available.
Domenic E. Coletta 41 said he will seek a seat on city council and picked up candidacy petitions for councilman at large. He chaired the City Charter Commission that drafted a manager mayor council plan defeated by voters in November. He owns Coletta's TV and Radio at 10 Townsend Ave.
The Huron County Banking Co. elected J. Raymond Gerken as president at Thursday’s meeting. Wilbur C. Edwards became executive vice president and CEO, Lewis C. McLaughlin as vice president, and Ralph E. Both as cashier and assistant vice president.
Wilberforce College officials were scheduled to meet student leaders today to discuss 45 demands including the alleged illegal suspension of seven students. Fire investigators sifted through the burned student union building ruins from Thursday’s blaze.
Communist diplomats said the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong delegations will press for U.S. troop withdrawal as the first item on the agenda of expanded Vietnam War talks starting Saturday.
Occasional light rain or drizzle today with rain tonight and Saturday, temperatures in the upper 30s to 40s. Snow flurries and colder Sunday. Winds shift from west to east. Norwalk Thursday highs around 41 and lows 29. Births listed for Milan Willard New London and more. Deaths include Handshoe Erf Diebert Ernst Wilson aged 10 to 89.
A secret panel of four doctors reviewed X rays autopsy photos and clothing from John F Kennedy and found two bullets from back to front as he rode in Dallas on November 22, 1963. The panel aligned with the Warren Commission and opposed front‑firing theories.
Columbus couple Mr and Mrs James R Crane learn three of their sons Ronald Dennis and Michael Crane serve on the U S aircraft carrier Enterprise off Hawaii amid fires and explosions They report all three uninjured and express faith in their sons safety and God's protection.
A fatal accident on Route 224 two miles west of Greenwich occurred late this morning. State Patrolmen were called to the scene at 11 45 a.m. The crash reportedly involved a car and a semi trailer truck. Further details were unavailable at press time.
Three Soviet cosmonauts landed near Karaganda in Kazakhstan after a landmark spaceflight. Soyuz 4 carried Vladimir Shatalov and linked with Soyuz 5 which carried Boris Volynov and two spacewalkers Yevgeny Khrunov and Alexei Yeliseyev.
Yeliseyev and two other cosmonauts praised the frosty air as they boarded a helicopter to Karaganda. They were housed at the Chaika Hotel while reviewing newspaper comments from their cosmic mail bag and reporting Volynov in Soyuz 5 is carrying out planned operations.
Deshler Ohio teen Vicki Lynn Cole 15 who gave Nixon the theme Bring Us Together Again will ride on a special float in the Washington inauguration parade Nixon’s whistle stop tour last fall brought her hometown to national attention with the sigh she held at that event.
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