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Newspaper
Norwalk Reflector
Location
Norwalk, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1977
Page
1
Cairo reports Yasser Arafat met with Anwar Sadat and planned talks with Muammar Khadafy to calm a potential Egyptian Libyan border war after an eight hour aerial and tank battle. He returned to Libya then to Egypt for talks.
Chicago police offer free plastic mittens to dog owners to deposit droppings in nearby trash cans and avoid public objection. The program costs about one cent per mitten and is not to be enforced despite an old 1945 law’s intent.
Riverfront Stadium hosts the 16th annual Ohio Valley Jazz Festival for a two night run. The event features soul leaning acts including Aretha Franklin Lou Rawls The Sylvers The Dramatics and The Mighty Clouds of Joy in a major stadium concert setting tonight and Saturday.
Clear cool night with mid 50s lows and sunny Saturday highs around 85. NE winds 5 to 10 mph. Thursday temperatures 89 and 56 with humidity around 87 percent at 8 am and 73 percent at 8 pm. Marriage licenses issued for Richard R. Rogers and Pamela J. Jackson and James M. Ziegelhofer and Patricia A. Wiers. Birth announcements list Terry and Jean Hartley with a girl and Hargus Gracie Dials a boy, plus David and Jill Wasiniak with a girl.
Betty Ahnberg, head of the Ohio Adventists Community Federation, urged Oregon Adventists to involve churches more in welfare due to a flawed government system. She cited heavy paperwork and stressed church workers provide personal, compassionate support, often housing those in need and advocating overhaul of welfare with more self-help programs.
Andrew Yanai, a 56 year old forklift operator from Newcomerstown, claimed a $1 million Ohio Lottery prize becoming the 12th winner. He will receive $50,000 annually for 20 years and plans early retirement after using five weeks of vacation. He joked about celebrating with beer and warned against gambling addiction. The ceremony also awarded $100,000 to Rose Teras of Cleveland and $50,000 to Bert Linderman of Rocky River.
In Prospect Connecticut a mother Cheryl Beaudoin and eight children plus a cousin died in a house fire described as possibly the state’s largest multiple homicide. Father Fred Beaudoin worked at Pratt and Whitney. Firemen fought the blaze after arriving to a locked six room home sheltered by pines. Autopsies and investigation into homicide or arson continue.
A Norwalk youth Roy S. Castle was ambushed by three men while cycling home from the Whittlesey Avenue A P at about 10 45 p m He said one attacker scratched his face and a knife was displayed before the trio fled Castle who did not know the assailants was shaken but unharmed in the incident
New London resident Jane Wood won $10,000 in the Ohio Lottery Millionaire Drawing held Thursday in Columbus. Her coworker Joe Andrews won $2,000. Wood plans to save or pay bills and may buy a car later.
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