Not Exactly Traditional Independence Day Protests and Escapes
From Stockholm to Cleveland multiple incidents mark the day. In Stockholm twenty deserters shouted antiwar slogans at an American Independence Day garden party. In Chicago five prisoners overpowered guards at Cook County Jail, triggering a gunbattle and injuries. On Middle Bass Island wineZuzzing students toppled bottles at Lenz’s Winery during a holiday ritual. Coast Guard searched for an overdue cabin cruiser near Cedar Point. In London Arthur Hanes met James Earl Ray and discussed insanity as a possible defense. In Columbus Ohio a license tag fee ruling offered counties a second chance to charge the extra five dollars.
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Chicago
UPI
Cook County
Cook County Hospital
Put-In-Bay
Ohio
Middle Bass Island
Lenz
Cleveland
Ninth District Coast Guard
Cedar Point
Chagrin Lagoon
Norman Pouker
Edward Winer
Beechwood
Deanne
Wendy
Columbus
Fred Rice
Rice
Bureau of Motor Vehicles
Huron County
Thant to Visit Paris as Vietnam Talks Stall
UN Secretary General Thant will make a brief one day trip to Paris for a luncheon with Michel Debre amid stalled Vietnam talks and questions about meeting American and North Vietnamese negotiators. Hanoi pledges economic aid and asserts a hard line on bombing. The next session is set for next week.
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Paris
Hanoi
Thant
Michel Debre
U.N
Geneva
Moscow
United States
North Vietnam
South Vietnam
Thailand
South Korea
U.S
Foreign Ministry
Tokyo
Fourth Of July Parade Brings Sunny Celebration To Norwalk
Norwalk’s annual Independence Day event drew an estimated 12 000 to 15 000 people as hundreds lined the downtown parade route to the fairgrounds. A 120 unit parade, drill team events, horse show and evening fireworks capped the day. Officials plan to tally receipts and set dates for an expense report later this month.
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Norwalk
Fairgrounds
Joseph Langjahr
Langjahr
Laver Beats Roche to Win Wimbledon Championship
Rod Laver of Australia defeated Tony Roche to win his third Wimbledon singles title and become the first professional to hold the crown.
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Wimbledon
England
Rod Laver
Australia
Tony Roche
Child Believes Big Snake In Yard Described In Cincinnati
Seven year old Theresa Martin convinces neighbors a large snake is in a front yard. A man checks and fatally shoots a 12 foot python weighing 104 pounds. The pet, owned elsewhere in the city, had escaped three days earlier. The owner planned to keep it until it grew to over 30 feet and 600 pounds.
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Cincinnati
UPI
Theresa Martin
Weather update and local life events
Partly cloudy and warmer with scattered thundershowers today ending late tonight. Highs near 75 to 78 and lows in the 50s. Saturday cooler with fair skies. Norwalk highs 78 Thursday lows 54. No rainfall. Births include Mr and Mrs Missler son at 12 West Elm and three other births. Marriage license applications list James H Close and Karen Powers. Deaths noted for Sophie Craft Paul Woller and Blanche Becker.
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Norwalk
Ralph Missler
West Elm St
James Rushin
E. Main St
Alfred Weithman
New Washington
Harold Gahr
Willard
James H. Close
Bellevue
Karen K. Powers
Fourth of July in Moscow a curious bash for U S ties
UPI reports in Moscow 1 200 guests attended a July Fourth party at the U S ambassador’s Spasso House. Russians mixed with American guests including a Red Army general and the mayor. Poet Andrei Voznesensky wrote a Kennedy tribute. Izvestia warned of a new Communist push on Saigon as Hanoi noted the rainy season.
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Moscow
U.S
John Phillip Sousa
Llewellyn E. Thompson
Tra
Vasili Kuznetsov
Vladimir Peomyslov
Ivan Koesnikov
Andrei Voznesesnky
Khrushchev
John F. Kennedy
Robert F. Kennedy
Thompson
Izvestia
Saigon
Hanoi
Massillon Sniper Wounds 9-Year-Old at Beach
Nine-year-old boy sitting on a bench near Crystal Lake beach was shot by a sniper with a .22 rifle. The victim underwent emergency surgery at Massillon City Hospital in critical condition as authorities search for two suspects in a white Pontiac. Four spent cartridges were found at the scene.
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Massillon, Ohio
UPI
Crystal Lake Beach
Mike Stano
Massillon City
Stark County
George Papadopulos
Siege Ends Not Yet As Gunman Threatens Bride
In Sidney a gunman Wallace Mellish holds his teenage bride Beryl Muddle and her infant son Leslie as police block his siege after four days. Officers move to feed only the baby while seeking peaceful surrender and promise no prosecution.
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Sidney
Australia
UPI
Wallace Mellish
Beryl Muddle
Leslie
Norman Allan
Allan
Miss Muddle
Mellish
Don Fergusson
Sydney
Wakeman Mayor Fires Policeman
Mayor Paul Burns fired Police Chief David Ortner and appointed Al Van Fossen as the new chief in Wakeman. The three-man police committee was disbanded and councilmen formed a new committee with Burns as chairman. A full-time officer will be hired and a police auxiliary planned. Ortner, who had offered resignation, disputes the reason for dismissal.
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Wakeman
Paul Burns
David Ortner
Burns
al van Fossen
van Fossen
Ortner
No Council Member Present, City's Beer Objection Fails
In Columbus Ohio the Liquor Control Board will recommend overruling Norwalk’s church objection to a T A Saveway beer and wine permit due to the city’s absence of a testifying council member The First United Presbyterian Church objection was dated but lacked evidence of area crime or disorder The hearing chair may contact the Calvary Baptist pastor before final recommendations to Director Donald D Cook and the board’s ruling.
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Columbus
Ohio Department of Liquor Control
Norwalk
T & A Saveway
First United Presbyterian Church
Case
Park
Cants
Calvary Baptist Church
Donald D. Cook
Liquor Control
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Ray May
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Tenn
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Birmingham
Ala
Wandsworth
Miami
Independence Day
Daliborka Stojsic
Yugoslavia
Gale Byron
Amherst
Monroeville
Sophie Craft
Tucson
Ariz
Paul Woller
Parma Heights
Blanche Becker
Corwin St
Henry Shapiro
America
Nyet
Kremlin
Massillon
F. M. Park
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