How That Man Could Talk Senator Dirksen Memoir Highlights
The widow Louella Dirksen discussed her husband Everett Dirksen in NBC TV and in her book The Honorable Mr Marigold. The 1968 Dirksen TV special and a Pekin Illinois hometown memory show his talkative style and quotable phrases.
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Rick DU Brow
Hollywood
UPI
Everett Dirksen
Nbc-Tv
Dinah Shore
Abc-Tv
Capital
Washington
Louella
Mr. Marigold
Norma Lee Browning
Howard K. Smith
Dirksen
America
Breed
Pekin
Ill
Everett
Louella Dirksen
Woman Walks 450 Miles to Urge Action on Missing Americans
Mrs. Frederick Helwig began a 450 mile walk to the United Nations to highlight the fate of more than 1,300 Americans missing in Indochina. She plans 15 miles daily to reach New York City in about a month. Her son, Gregory J. Harris, has been missing seven years with unconfirmed reports of capture.
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Buffalo. N.Y
UPI
Frederick Helwig
United Nations
Gregory J. Harris
Helwig
Three New Patrolmen Added to Norwalk Ohio Post
The Norwalk post of the Ohio Highway Patrol welcomes Mike Roth Clarence Nieset and Robert Adkins as three new patrolmen. Roth and Nieset are May 194? academy graduates joining two weeks ago. Adkins 34, a twelve year veteran, began duties May 31 transferring from Lebanon patrol. The post now has 14 personnel, restoring normal strength. Rodrigues moved to Lorain.
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Norwalk
Ohio Highway Patrol
Mike Roth
Clarence Nieset
Robert Adkins
Roth
Nieset
Ohio Highway Patrol Academy
Columbus
Toledo
Cynthia
Peru Center Road
Monroeville
Carolyn
Lucy
Craig
Fremont
Adkins
Lebanon
Huntington
W. Va
Jean
Bobbie
Ann
Morrow
Walter E. Rodrigues
Lorain
Pilot may have aimed to spare crowds in Paris SST crash
In Paris a Tupolev 144 exploded after a steep climb at the air show. Pilot Mikhail Koslov steered away from the spectator stands to avoid a crash, with six crew and eight villagers killed. officials cite possible technical failure and debate the move as a life‑saving maneuver rather than a stunt.
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Paris
Aps
Goussainville
Mikhail Koslov
le Bourget Air
Koslov
Fitchville Hostesses Meet on Fashion Directions Demonstration
The Fitchville Hostesses gathered May 30 at Jennifer Hainline's home with slides on Fashion Directions. Roll call used a cooking utensil as prompt. Hainline demonstrated Hem Stitching and members collected accident records for the safety project until next meeting.
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Fitchville
Jennifer Hainline
a_ safety project
Guards Pursue Unloaded Armored Car Down Nottingham Hill
In Nottingham England two security guards chasing an armored car carrying thousands of dollars failed brakes causing the vehicle to roll down a hill. Police said the guards stopped the car and recovered the cash.
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Nottingham
England
UPI
Nottingham Hill
Stormy night brings heavy rain and scattered damage
Storms moved through the area producing heavy rain and strong winds with minimal property damage. Funnel cloud sightings were unconfirmed and a downed tree along Huron Avenue caused the only reported damage. Power outages affected 47 customers in New London as limbs felled lines.
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Erie County
Firelands Electric Cooperative
New London
Norwalk
Woodlawn Cemetery
Walnut Street
Mayor's Court Dispositions in Norwalk
Norwalk Mayor's Court lists multiple dispositions. Richard C. Conrad fined ten dollars for reckless driving. Carol J. Cardman bonded forfeitures for speeding. Marleta A. Gilbert seeks jury trial on tampering with vehicle and provoking fight. Russel P. Hetrick and Marilyn A. Boepple fined for speeding. Dennis C. Schaffer for excessive noise and unsafe vehicle requests jury. John Rupp Jr. fined for failure to file city income tax with partial suspension. Stephen M. Rahrig fined for swimming in lower reservoir with suspension.
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Norwalk
Richard C. Conrad
Corwin St
Carol J. Cardman
W. League St
Marleta A. Gilbert
Berlin Heights
Russel P. Hetrick
Milan Ave
Marilyn A. Boepple
Indian Terrace
David E. Kean
Wellington
Dennis C. Schaffer
Betty Downing
John Rupp, Jr
Stephen M. Rahrig
Whittlesey Ave
Lower Reservoir
Monroeville man fined for marijuana possession in county court
Kenneth R. Green 24 of rural Monroeville was fined 200 dollars and costs after a Saturday arrest by the Huron County Sheriff and a Friday search found marijuana material at his home. He received a suspended six month jail term and three years probation.
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Kenneth R. Green
Monroeville
Green
Huron County Sheriff's Department
John Borgia
Huron County
Mt. Prospect man changes plea on drug charge to guilty
David E. Anderson 23 of Mt. Prospect Illinois pleaded guilty on a drug possession charge in Common Pleas Court. He was fined 500 dollars plus costs after Monroeville police arrested him late Thursday night for marijuana possession.
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David E. Anderson
Mt. Prospect
Ill
Anderson
Common Pleas Court
Monroeville
Red Cross Elects Officers At Holiday Inn Meeting
The Firelands Chapter of the American Red Cross elected officers at its annual meeting held at the Holiday Inn in Sandusky. New officers include Wallace C. Glenwright as chairman and Dr Shan Mohammed as first vice chairman, with Richard C. Dickey, Robert R. Young, Howard H. French Sr., and Mary Lee Wood filling other key posts.
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Sandusky
Firelands
The
American Red Cross
Holiday Inn
Wallace C. Glenwright
Shan Mohammed
Richard C. Dickey
Robert R. Young
Howard H. French
Mary Lee Wood
Death ruled suicide in Jenkins shooting case
Milan Erie County Coroner Dr. Joseph A. Butler ruled the shooting death of 34 year old Gary Pete Jenkins as a death by own action. He said the cause was a single .22 caliber gunshot wound to the head. Jenkins was found in his station wagon behind a power substation on Shawmill Road Sunday evening with a .22 caliber single shot rifle in his hand.
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Milan
Erie County
Joseph A. Butler
Gary Pete Jenkins
Butler
Jenkins
Shawmill Road
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Wefon Moody
Olivia Red
Reed
Harry
Ej Ais Ags
E. Main St
Donald Ray Jones
Nineveh Road
U.S. 224
Jones
Billie A. Godfrey
Rural
Collins
Alsport, Inc
Robert J. Vetter
Alsport
Glenn T. Krebs
Rural Wakeman
Thomas P. Mundy
Washington St
Norwalk High School
James Loughridge III
Board of Education
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Red Cross
Harold Lewis
Grove St
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