Post Office to automate most services to speed deliveries
Washington reports the Post Office Depart ment plans broad automation to cut mail delays, excluding mail carriers. The move aims to handle rising volume and deliver letters faster as stated by Postmaster General Lawrence F. O'Brien. In other brief items, a three year old boy dubbed little boy blue, beaten to death, awaits burial in Monroe Michigan, while Ohio Governor Rhodes eyes a trade mission with 200 businessmen to Southeast Asia, Japan, and Central America with dates undisclosed.
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Washington
UPI
Post Office Department
Lawrence F. O’brien
Monroe
Mich
Michigan
Columbus
James A. Rhodes
Ohio
Southeast Asia
Europe
Japan
Central America
Ohio Supreme Court declines appeal in fatal traffic case
The Ohio Supreme Court refused to hear Harold C. Johnston's appeal of an Erie County ruling that ordered him to pay $22,000 in damages to the widow of Richard G. Ferguson after Johnston's vehicle caused a coworker's death. The Appeals Court had affirmed.
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Columbus
UPI
Ohio Supreme Court
Harold C. Johnston
Erie County
Richard G. Ferguson
Kennedy aide O'Donnell to seek Massachusetts governorship
Kenneth P. O'Donnell, a former special assistant to President Kennedy, said he would announce his candidacy for governor of Massachusetts within two weeks. In Texas, Paul Pena found his rental home stripped of doors windows and roof, prompting a police report.
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Boston
UPI
Kenneth P. O’donnell
Kennedy
Massachusetts
San Antonio
Tex
Paul Pena
Jury questions probe adultery motive in Mossler Foreman case
In Miami the defense pressed prospective jurors on whether evidence of adultery fornication and incestuous relations would affect verdicts in Candace Mossler and Percy Foreman murder trial. Prosecutors reportedly focus on a romance between Candace Mossler and Melvin Lane Powers as the motive behind Jacques Messier's death. In Washington the Johnson administration moves to raise interest on government savings bonds to fund the Vietnam War and combat inflation.
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Miami
UPI
Candace Mossler
Percy Foreman
Candace
Melvin Lane Powers
Jacques Messier
Candy
Washington
Viet Nam
Johnson Administration
Weather and Local Births and Deaths Report
Mostly cloudy and cold with a few snow flurries today high 21 to 26. Lake Erie area remains cloudy tonight with little temperature change low 12 to 17. Thursday partly cloudy and still cold. Sunrise 7 49 a m Sunset 5 27 p m. Births Mr and Mrs Donald Champney 103 Jefferson daughter F T. Deaths Mrs Flora Weyrick 87 Willard.
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Lake Erie
Local drive set to raise 600000 for Bowling Green University branch
Huron Erie and Ottawa Counties must raise 600000 to obtain 1.8 million from the Ohio Board of Regents for a Bowling Green University campus. Huron County quota is 215000 with Erie 300000, Ottawa 100000. Dead line is March 1 to secure land and utilities funding. failure shifts funds to other areas.
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Bowling Green University
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Erie
Ottawa
Ohio Board of Regents
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Sandusky
Ottawa County
Norwalk
Bellevue
Willard
Monroeville
New London
Wakeman Village
Townsend Township
W.D. Conway
State
Board of Regents
Conway
Indira Gandhi elected India’s prime minister in secret ballot
In New Delhi Indira Nehru Gandhi, a frail widow and daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, was elected prime minister by 526 Congress MPs. She won 355 votes over Morarji Desai, addressed supporters in Hindi, and pledged to uphold Lal Bahadur Shastri’s peaceful legacy.
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Updmr
Indira Nehru Gandhi
India
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
Congress Party
Morarji Desai
Desai
Mrs. Gandhi
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Finch Seeks Purchase of Masonic Property in City Plan
Mayor Harold Finch outlined a 1966 program proposing seven municipal reforms and the possible purchase of the Masonic Park lot at West Main and Church Streets. The plan includes a $300,000 sewage plant bond, two new patrolmen, two cruisers, and retaining a current car, with action expected from the new council. The Masonic lot has been leased for over a decade and once eyed for purchase at about $40,000.
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Harold Finch
Ohio
Bers
Norwalk
Masonic Lodge
Finch
West Main
Church Streets
Norwalk Police Improve Burglaries Solved Rate in 1965
Norwalk police raised the burglary solution rate by over 23 percent in 1965. Chief Ray A. Chapin cites extended night patrols reducing burglaries from 41 in 1964 to 26 in 1965 and notes high arrests and convictions in solved cases. Night patrols began April 22 with two patrol cars and a third foot officer.
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Norwalk
Ray A. Chapin
Engineer guns down scientists at Brookhaven Lab
A nuclear engineer, Michael Maresca, 34, shot three scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton New York then fatally shot himself Police described him as quiet and friendly a day earlier he complained of being followed and spied upon A doctor had advised psychiatric help.
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Upton
N.Y
UPS
Atomic Energy Commission
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Michael Maresca
Scandal Shakes De Gaulle's Hold
Paris reports claim complicity by French secret agents in the Mehdi Ben Barka kidnapping and probable murder. The cabinet blamed abroad operatives and police officers, replaced the secret service head Gen. Paul Jacquiert, and placed the agency under the Army Ministry.
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Paris
UPI
Charles de Gaulle
Mehdi Ben Barka
France
de Gaulle
Secret Service
Paul Jacquiert
Army Ministry
Outdoor Sports Film Draws Standing Room Crowds
A large crowd at Maplehurst School packed the hall for Jack Van Coevering’s outdoor film program. The former Detroit Free Press wildlife editor narrated a two hour color film on hunting and fishing across Michigan Montana Alaska and Florida with scenic backdrops. Norwalk Reflector sponsored the event and staff hosted.
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van Coevering
Detroit Free Press
Michigan
Montana
Alaska
Florida
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