Shoplifter Testimony Ties Mayor’s Wife To Conspiracy Case
Linda Jones, a convicted shoplifter and key state witness, testified she carried a concealed bug into the home of Marguerite Lightner wife of Raleigh’s mayor Clarence Lightner. Jones described thefts including meat and a Butterball turkey while outlining a heroin habit costing up to 175 dollars daily.
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Dan Schwasser
Raleigh, N.C
UPI
Marguerite Lightner
Mrs. Jones
Lightner
Mrs. Lightner
City Folk Bid Up Farmland Prices
Washington based report by the Agriculture Department says city investors are buying productive farmland as an alternative to weak urban land and stock markets. It projects farm land prices to average about 15 percent higher in the year ending March 1, 1975, after a 25 percent rise the prior year. Prices were rising roughly 1 percent per month.
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Washington
UPI
Agriculture Department
Car Catapults Off Pike Injuring Elderly Couple
An 80 year old man and his 70 year old wife were injured when their car launched over a guardrail on the Ohio Turnpike near Norwalk. The vehicle, driven by Carl Bell Sr, struck a nail causing loss of control and crossing the median before landing on its top. Mrs Bell suffered facial and leg injuries. both remained hospitalized in fair to satisfactory condition. No citation was issued. A separate East Main Street crash left 20 year old William Fell blaming sun in his eyes after a three car collision with Thomas Myers autre.
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Castalia
Ohio Turnpike
Norwalk
Carl Bell
St. Albans
N.Y
Anna Clay Bell
Bell
Fisher-Titus Memorial Hospital
East Main Street
William S. Fell
N. West St
East Main
North Garden Street
Thomas W. Myers
E. Main St
Grain Futures Prices Reprinted by Wall Street Journal
Futures prices for grains are shown with open high low and close figures. The listing notes changes and season’s high and low, indicating market activity from the Chicago grain market reported by the Wall Street Journal.
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Wall Street Journal
Chicago
Norwalk Schools Change to Regular Day for Make Up
Norwalk City Schools will hold a regular session Monday to make up a day lost due to the state football championship. In other notes, a Jackson Michigan oil firm received a drilling permit for Clarksfield Township near Zenobia and Vesta Roads.
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Norwalk
Newark
Jackson, Mich
Clarksfield Township
Zenobia
Vesta Roads
Phil E
Josephine Finch
Half of real estate tax unpaid with one week left
Huron county treasurer John M. Arthur reports nearly 50 percent of first half real estate tax remains unpaid with one week to avoid penalties. Taxpayers are urged to mail payments or visit to prevent long lines. USPS now sends insufficiently stamped payments to the dead letter office if no return address is provided.
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John M. Arthur
Huron County
United States Postal Service
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North Star Rockers
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Richland Mall
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Comfort
Lexington
Springmill RD
Ohio Oil and Gas Assn
Patrick Petroleum Co
North West Street
Richard H. Opper
Perkins Township
Hergatt
Erie County Sheriff’s Deputies
James A. Johnson
Dennis A. Palmer
Huron
Sandusky
Hergatt’s
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Pier 1
Beltone
Norwalk Senior Center
W. Main
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Bestone
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