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Newspaper
Norwalk Reflector
Location
Norwalk, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1964
Page
1
Ohio Governor James A. Rhodes said he is seriously considering freeing Ohio's 58 delegates from the Republican National Convention pledge. A release would boost Barry Goldwater's first ballot vote total by about 35 to 40 Ohio votes.
Norwalk delegate John R. Gerken predicts Goldwater wins the GOP nomination on the first ballot and Gerald Ford or William Miller as running mate. He heads the Huron County Republican Central Committee and will vote with Ohio's 58 delegates pledged to Rhodes. Gerken plans to vote as district wishes and notes strong support for both Goldwater and Scranton. He anticipates Rhodes may release Ohio delegates before balloting begins and suggests Ford as a compatible running mate due to Ford's Michigan influence.
New Orleans reports the Cotton Exchange ends 93 years of trading with a minute of silence and a gavel blast. President C Layton Merritt says government programs have taken over its function as exchanges nationwide plan tributes to the passing. An advertisement targets President Johnson over free enterprise and future fields may follow.
Considerable cloudiness with a few showers this afternoon. Fair and cooler in the north and east, then fair and warmer Friday. Tonight’s low 55 to 60 in the north and east. Friday’s high in the 80s. Births include a Willard boy to Mr. and Mrs. James Bailey and two more families from Willard, New Washington, and Plymouth. Deaths include Mary Julia Mellein, 81, Milan, and Jessie Eccles, 76, New London.
In a playful yet serious altercation outside a Senate hearing room, Sen. Strom Thurmond and Sen. Ralph Yarborough grappled on the marble floor for about ten minutes as they argued over moving to a Commerce Committee session to approve Leroy Collins for head of the Civil Rights Law Mediation Agency.
A family of four escaped a house fire on Route 61 near Norwalk after the blaze broke out around 2:20 a.m. The Opper family, awakened by their children crying, crawled from bedroom windows with two young kids ages 3 and two months. The fire caused total loss though cause remains undetermined and the Oppers stayed with Richard’s parents in Peru.
Aberdeen South Dakota reports Mrs Mary Ann Fischer mother of the nation’s only surviving quintuplets confirms she is expecting another child. She notes no public announcement and adds the family of ten plans to move into a new 20 room farm home within about three months once construction finishes.
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