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Newspaper
Norwalk Reflector
Location
Norwalk, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1967
Page
1
Las Vegas oddsmaker Jimmy Snyder favors the St. Louis Cardinals 7-5 to win the National League and the Chicago White Sox 11-5 to claim the American League pennants.
Gen. William C. Westmoreland, commanding U S forces in Vietnam, plans to return home this week to attend his mother’s funeral. A Pentagon spokesman said he might depart Saigon today and travel via Hawaii to South Carolina to pick up his wife before joining family observances.
Jacqueline Kennedy flies from Dublin to Rome for a five day Italy visit. An Aer Lingus plane carrying 60 passengers waits 30 minutes for her arrival as she drives in from Waterford where her children stay during the trip.
American pilots attacked two North Vietnamese fuel oil dumps on the Haiphong outskirts amid heavy anti aircraft fire. Two planes were shot down and pilots lost. Other raiders joined three U.S. Navy cruisers to bombard artillery positions inside the Demilitarized Zone where about 1,000 Communists have been killed in eight days.
Cleveland officials ask for a permanent injunction to prevent Mrs. Katherine Shawetz from feeding pigeons and other wild birds in her yard citing large bird gatherings and disruptive behavior in the yard.
Clarence Rhyan and Jerry Donley Swetnam were charged with trespassing after officials found them at the Columbus Air Port Golf Course on Saturday wearing wet swim trunks and gathering 215 golf balls from a water hazard. They are to appear in Municipal Court July 13.
United Press International reports turning cooler midweek with less humidity across Ohio. Highs hover in the upper 70s to mid 80s, lows near the 60s, and a shower average around one half inch.
Variable cloudiness and warmth with scattered showers through Tuesday. Lake Erie winds mainly south to southwest 7 to 14 knots, then northeast 8 to 12 knots later. Sunday temps 71 to 93, humidity rising to 82 percent, precipitation 1.15 inches. Also includes marriage license applications for Robertson Walton and Moore Hahler, births and deaths listings for Motolik Ward Krebs Ryerson Bartow Timman Murdock Peckham Kistler.
Huron County agencies seek 553,386 more for 1968 than 1967. General fund receipts projected at 1,007,462, with 881,954 in 1967 expenditures for six months plus estimates for the second half. Budget hearing attended by none. Commissioners pledge careful review of requests, noting rising needs and a 221,262 carryover into 1968 aided by 175,000 state support for Norwalk by-pass.
Local youths from Huron join a ground breaking ceremony for the Firelands Branch of Bowling Green, turning the first spade of dirt alongside officials. The event marks the project kickoff and community involvement in the new facility.
Governor Rhodes led a ground breaking near Huron for a campus branch as 200 locals from Erie, Huron, and Ottawa counties gathered. He urged higher education as key to the state's future while noting rising sales tax in Ohio and mixed auto trade results.
Huron County officials move to place a 200000 bond on the fall ballot to finance a training school for retard ed children. Prosecutor Bernard Freeman prepares legal documents at the request of county commissioners who plan a site cost of 1000, construction at 185000, and furnishings at 14000 with a tax levy for operating funds.
Two blind women, Donna Clifford aged 17 and Genevieve Ryncart aged 22, died after falling down an elevator shaft at the Central YWCA in Akron. Police say the Goodwill Inc. employees from Cleveland rang the elevator bell on the seventh floor to return to their rooms on the tenth floor.
A three year old girl, Mary Beth Kistler, daughter of William and Diane Kistler, ran into the street chasing a dog and was struck by a car driven by Mrs. John Strayer. The driver was not charged. The child died on arrival at the hospital two blocks away. The body was held at Harris Funeral Home in Bellevue.
The Peking Daily claims a Vietnam-type rebellion is underway in Burma, promising full support to a Burmese Communist party led uprising against Gen Ne Wins regime. It labels the government fascist and pro imperial powers, predicting destruction by armed revolution as anti-imperialist Burmese unite under Communist leadership.
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