25 Jan 1968
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Newspaper
Norwalk Reflector
Location
Norwalk, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1968
Page
1
In New Orleans on Wednesday District Attorney Jim Garrison subpoenaed Marina Oswald Porter widow of Lee Harvey Oswald to testify in the Kennedy assassination inquiry. Porter said she doubted she could help.
Military officials reported 218 U S soldiers killed in the Vietnam war in the past week, bringing total U S battle deaths to 16 667. Injuries climbed to 2 216 from 1 796 the previous week with 949 hospitalized.
Negro comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory finished a two day Ohio tour with talks at Ohio State University in Columbus Wright State University in Dayton and Wittenberg University. He recalled his father killed by a German soldier twenty six years ago and contrasted it with a German born resident living in an American neighborhood.
The Defense Department listed 81 of 83 crew aboard the hijacked USS Pueblo and withheld home towns to avoid aiding captors. Names and details are treated as for those missing in Vietnam. The move aims to protect relatives and ensure consistent treatment across cases.
Gov James A Rhodes criticized archaic high school curriculums that prepare youth for college in the 1850s while dedicating the engineering and science building at Youngstown State University and addressing a luncheon of area industrial leaders.
Sunny today with high in the 20s and increasing clouds. Tonight and Wednesday warmer with a 6 to 20 degree range in Norwalk. Humidity 7 am 67 percent, 1 pm 56, 7 pm 67. 0.1 inch precipitation in the last 24 hours. Births include three girls for Studer, Thornsberry and Beebe families. Marriage licenses for Willie Barnett Jr and Diana Lynn Howard. Deaths: George D. Stewart, 87.
North Korea broadcast a confessional message alleging Cmdr Lloyd Bucher on a spy mission when his ship Pueblo was seized. UPI notes Pyongyang radio aired the same text as the agency and the Pentagon calls the statement a travesty and not written by an American.
The Pentagon released a list showing more than 14 600 Air Force and Navy air reservists called up by President Johnson to back U S demands for the return of the USS Pueblo and its 83 men. An Army and Marine Corps reserve mobilization was also under consideration. The action includes 372 fighters and personnel.
Kenneth Putt of Greenwich files in Huron County Common Pleas Court claiming hogs owned by Leman A Hopkins and Frank Hopkins roamed onto his cornfields, causing $15,000 in damage after he asked them to keep the swine on their property. The suit names the Hopkinses as defendants.
Sixty one area trades and industry workers joined a workshop at EHOVE Vocational School to qualify as high school teachers. The program run with Toledo State University formed three classes with sessions nightly through May. Participants covered cosmetologists draftsmen auto mechanics printers welders and more.
Dr. Richard L. Blackann of Berlin Heights was re-elected chief of the medical staff at Sandusky Memorial Hospital. The executive committee includes Dr. John H. Chauvin, Dr. Wilbert P. Cole, Dr. William P. Williams, and Dr. Paul L. Riemann Jr. Additional staff reappointments from Norwalk, North Fairfield and New London are listed along with emeritus status for Dr. Lester R. Mylander.
Six directors were re elected and a seventh added to the Farmers and Citizens Bank board at the annual meeting. Adolph Stieber of Norwalk, an implement dealer, was elected as a new director. Re elected were Waldo Mauch A F Henry Dr J M Hindley Thomas Zipfel J C Cramer and Wilfred Myers.
Sp4 William F. Laing 26, son of Mr and Mrs William S Laing of Norwalk, was wounded near Chu Lai on January 6. He suffers a head wound, ear drum, arm fractures, multiple mortar injuries and a shoulder gunshot. Survived by Viet Cong after being left for dead, he was rescued and is to be brought to a military hospital near Ravenna Ohio within 10 days. He was drafted in 1966 and previously stationed at Ft Benning and Okinawa.
Sp4 William Laing describes being wounded in battle with Viet Cong after a lieutenant led a small group into a rice paddies fight. He was shot in the head and arm, ears and elbows injured, left in a paddy for three days before rescue, with both arms in traction and multiple injuries.
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