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Newspaper
Norwalk Reflector
Location
Norwalk, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1965
Page
1
The House approved a 6.5 billion compromise measure to expand welfare benefits and establish a medical care program for people aged 65 and older. The bill moves to the Senate for consideration.
Cletus Sexton was released from Huron County jail after paying fines for malice destruction of property and given a 60 day suspended sentence with two years probation. He must avoid Peek-A-Boo Tavern for two years. In Geneva, the Soviet Union opened a 17 nation disarmament conference accusing the U.S. of aggression in Vietnam, the Congo and Latin America. In Columbus, a finance subcommittee heard a bill on public school transport to private and parochial schools as opponents urge defeat on church-state grounds. In Washington, President Johnson signed a health hazard warning bill for cigarette packages, effective next January 1, to warn that smoking may be hazardous to health.
A crowd of about 10 000 workers and students surged through Athens criticizing the government after plans for a nationwide protest strike were thwarted by threats to draft strikers. The government labeled most demonstrators as Communists but no major rioting occurred. In Americus Georgia and Greensboro Alabama two civil rights groups joined a showdown with city leaders promising a fight for equality.
Backers predicted the measure would pass the House by a comfortable margin with 220 votes. Rep. Frank Thompson Jr. said the bill would secure 220 of 435 seats, a fairly safe majority. A procedural test vote Thursday stood 248-171, but some who backed that vote might oppose final passage.
Mr and Mrs Donald Fuller of 13 St Marys Street welcome a baby boy, first child, reported in the births column.
President Johnson named Anthony J. Celebrezze HEW secretary to the U S sixth circuit Court of Appeals with jurisdiction in Ohio Michigan Tennessee and Kentucky. Celebrezze 54 will replace Judge Cecil Dayton who retired.
Columbus Ohio finance chief Richard L. Krabach said Governor Rhodes will veto the $634 million school financing bill if the Senate added $9 million to the House version is not removed. He warned districts would face higher taxes or fewer teachers.
In 24 hours end noted, U S forces reported about 195 guerrillas killed. American planes dropped bombs on a Thanh Hoa power plant and conducted 242 sorties against Viet Cong targets. Six Skyhawk jets flew 38 sorties in Da Nang area with six structures destroyed.
President Johnson meets with congressional leaders today or Wednesday in what may be the final strategy conference before public decisions on U S involvement in Viet Nam. The session with Republican and Democratic lawmakers signals the end of the broad review begun last Wednesday.
A new school district formed from Milan and Berlin Heights districts will come into being Wednesday if no petitions opposing it are filed.
R J Parron 71 Baker St indicates candidacy for Monroeville mayor after taking out nominating petitions at the Huron County Board of Elections. Other candidates include William Darling Jr for village council Norwalk and E J Farnsworth James E Wiles filing for Greenwich council. Petition activity also centers on Erie County district reshaping with Dr W E Weagley outlining board appointment rules for the new Milan Berlin Heights district.
Charles Burrows former Ambassador to Honduras and his family are visiting his mother in Willard Ohio after leaving the post to direct the Office of Central American Affairs. Burrows recalls 26 years in the foreign service and notes his children Joan and James attend Connecticut College and Harvard respectively.
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