19 Jan 1971
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Newspaper
Norwalk Reflector
Location
Norwalk, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1971
Page
1
A C-124 transport from the 911th Military Airlift Group sat outside a hangar at Greater Pittsburgh Airport as mechanics worked inside. The crippled plane required a custom hole for outsize parts during a check up.
Mostly cloudy and cold with snow flurries today with a high in the mid teens and snow chances. Tonight clears and lowers to near zero to 10 below with a 50 percent daytime, 20 percent tonight, 10 percent Wednesday precipitation risk. Norwalk highs near 27 and lows around 7 below, winds shifting from north to southwest. Births include a daughter to Mr and Mrs Wayne Spencer Wakeman. Marriage license applications list Harvey Whitt and Donna McNelly and Earl Robison and Anna Barnthouse.
Betty Grissom filed two $5 million suits in Titusville charging North American Rockwell and allied firms hid safety flaws in the Apollo command capsule that burned on a 1967 test killing Virgil I. Grissom Edward White and Roger Chaffee. Co defendants include Rockwell entities. suits seek jury trial and allege willful concealment and fraud.
Dr. Russell Fisher joins at large council petitions on the Republican ticket alongside incumbent and other candidates while Domenic Coletta files for mayor. Incumbents mostly avoid re election as Feb 3 filing date looms. The area endures 7 below zero frost as Maple City reports its coldest night.
The Huron County Board of Elections warns Norwalk Willard and Bellevue to reapportion wards by year end under one man one vote rulings. Ohio law allows redraw anytime but requires population based lines no later than 90 days after October 1 following the decennial census, risking wards without councilmen if not done. Mrs Hackett notes cities should reapportion before 1971 elections but aren’t required to.
Fourteen Huron County men left Norwalk at 6 30 this morning for induction in the first 1971 draft call. Leona Weisenberger of board 61 said many left with goodbye witnesses as the group headed to Cleveland for tests and physicals before assignment to duty stations. The next call is February 2 for 13 inductees.
Final 1970 totals from the U S Census Bureau indicate Norwalk population reached 13 369, up 472 since 1960 but short of the projected 15 000. County figures show Huron up 2 261 to 49 587, Erie up 7 909 to 75 909, with Milan Village portions shifting between counties and shifts in Berlin Township. Local officials discuss ward reapportionment and election line changes ahead of upcoming votes, with the city using water meters to estimate population. Apollo 14 dress rehearsal at Cape Kennedy highlights moon launch preparations with astronauts Shepard Roosa and Mitchell.
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