Eight-Year-Old Clown Delights Norwalk on Whittlesey Ave
Eight-year-old Jimmie Viars dresses as a clown and a witch to entertain crowds outside the Colonial Hotel on Whittlesey Avenue. Residents slow traffic and laugh as the League third grader performs homegrown acts dreamed up by the boy and his mother, hotel manager Mable Viars.
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Don Hohler
Jimmie Viars
Colonial Hotel
Whittlesey Avenue
Mable Viars
The
Colonial
Supreme Court rules minors need not parental consent for abortion
The Supreme Court holds that an unwed minor and a married woman do not require parental or spousal consent for abortion. Justice Blackmun states constitutional rights do not depend on reaching the age of majority, affirming protection for minors and adults.
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Washington
UPI
Supreme Court
Harry A. Blackmun
Missouri
California heroin seizure tops history at border crossing
Immigration inspectors halted a car carrying two housewives at San Ysidro on the U S Mexico line and found 26 bags of brown heroin weighing 30.75 pounds with a value of about 11 million dollars. Customs official Albert G. Bergeson said the rear seat was packed and a narcotics dog was used to locate the contraband.
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Los Angeles
UPI
California
Albert G. Bergeson
Customs Service
United States
San Ysidro
Tijuana
Mexico
Bergeson
Gasoline Prices Rise 2 Cents Across U S In June
The American Automobile Association reports a 2 cent rise in U S gasoline prices for June. The national average for premium is 61.1 cents a gallon from a survey of 3 671 stations. Memorial Day prices were about two cents lower. California's Inyo National Forest records the highest price with regular at 75 9 cents.
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Washington
Weather outlook and death notice for Milton H. Dietz
Partly cloudy and cool tonight with lows around 50. Friday sunny and warmer with highs mid 70s and a 20 percent rain chance. Winds NW 10 to 15 mph. Temperatures around 75 today with high humidity. Death: Milton H. Dietz, 53, of North Olmsted.
Senate votes on throwaway can ban and abortion rights noted
Public survey cites mixed views on a ban of throwaway containers with strong calls for recycling and energy savings. The same day the Supreme Court upheld an unwed minor and a married woman's right to abortion against parental and spousal override.
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Supreme Court
Balloonist Karl Thomas Rescued by Soviet Vessel
Soviet merchant ship picks up Karl Thomas 310 miles northeast of Bermuda in the Atlantic in good condition. Coast Guard ends a wide search as Thomas’ solo balloon mission ends with his rescue before Rotterdam bound vessel sails July 8. Thomas, 27, German-born, attempted the first Atlantic balloon crossing from Lakehurst with wife Michelle in Troy, Michigan.
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New York
UPI
Karl Thomas
Atlantic Ocean
Bermuda
Coast Guard
Thomas
Atlantic
Rotterdam
Netherlands
CPO
Paul Scotti
Michelle
Troy
Mich
Lakehurst
N.J
Naval Air Station
Grand Jury to consider negligent homicide in Willard drowning
A grand jury will decide whether to charge Francis Pflieger with negligent homicide over the drowning of 16 year old Thomas Shepherd on the VFW Lake in Willard. Prosecutor Richard Hauser said he will present evidence after testing Pflieger’s 14 foot metal boat and noting a defective forward air pocket.
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Willard
Richard Hauser
Francis Pflieger
VFW
Thomas Shepherd
Crags
Shepherd
Hauser
Grand Jury
Pflieger
Willard Reservoir
Maslar Faces Death Penalty In Pa Businessman Killing
Michael Maslar of Meriden Conn faces aggravated murder charges with specifications after the May strangulation of Harlan Anderson 56 of Grove City Pa. A grand jury indicted Maslar for murder kidnapping and aggravated robbery. Anderson’s body was found May 26 bound to a tree in Milan township. Maslar was arrested May 27 in Lincoln Neb driving the victim’s car.
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Erie County
Michael Maslar
Meriden
Conn
Maslar
Harlan Anderson
Grove City
Anderson
Hoover Road
Milan
Lincoln
Neb
Harold Gladwell
Erie County Common Pleas Court
Larry Abner
Abner
John Over
Mediator Mum On Talks In Candy Strike
Federal mediator Donald Power from Toledo refused to comment on progress toward settlement in the Fanny Farmer Candy Shops strike. No further meetings were scheduled until he calls them back. The 336 Teamsters Local 20 workers began striking at midnight May 31 over a three year contract demand of a 40 percent raise, rejecting the 26 percent offer.
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Fanny Farmer Candy Shops Inc
Donald Power
Toledo
Teamsters
Fanny Farmer
Power
Teamster Local 20
Kitten Cream Puff Saves Family Then Missing in Fire
In Niles Michigan a six week old kitten jumped on Edwin Butts and alarmed the family as smoke filled their Howard Township home. The four children escaped by window while Dawn Boetcher and her foster parents were hospitalized with burns after the fire and the cat was never found. Butts said the kitten saved their lives and vowed to keep a cat in the house.
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Niles, Mich
UPI
Edwin Butts
Butts
Dawn Boetcher
Verlene
Dawn
Niles
Howard Township
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Jimmie
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Tam
Ey Tne
Milton H. Dietz
North Olmsted
U. S. Senate
Alitalia
Paul Johnson
Johnson
Ground Control
Governor's Island
Newfoundland
New York City
New Jersey Senate
Assembly
Edward Hughes
Senate Chamber
UPI Telephoto
Arnold Shepherd
Washington St. Willard
Mike Trushel
Linda Warren
Larry Niver
Shepherd Boy
Connecticut
Kitten
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