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Newspaper
Norwalk Reflector
Location
Norwalk, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1970
Page
1
Heavy rain, twisters, and hail disrupted northern Ohio with flash flood warnings in several counties. A tornado touched down briefly in Parma near Cleveland, uprooting two trees and lifting roof fragments. Twelve northeastern counties received tornado warnings as twisters were spotted in multiple locations.
Brian Piccolo running back for the Chicago Bears died early today at New York Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases. Piccolo, 26, had missed most of the prior NFL season due to illness.
In Cincinnati a 21 year old Detroit man Peter Schwartz was shot in the back by Officer Larry Handorf after fleeing during a narcotics check near the bus station. Schwartz was in serious condition at General Hospital.
Ohio Board of Regents official says up to 1.5 million dollars in state undergraduate grants may go unused this year as eligible students fail to apply. An instructional grants officer notes only about seven million of eight and a half million available will likely be claimed. Freshmen enrolling this fall have first priority for funds.
A semi-trailer jackknifed into a car on U.S. 250 ten miles south of New London near Bailey Lakes, killing Pamela E. Coombs 22 and her daughter Rhonda 4. Driver Harry Halsted 46 and passengers in the car were injured. rain and slippery pavement contributed. Rhonda’s mother Priscilla Evege 22 and Twana Coombs 2 were listed as injured.
Partly cloudy warm humid with a chance of showers and thundershowers mainly today and Wednesday. Highs in the 80s and upper 80s to 90s, lows in the 60s. Precipitation 40 percent. southerly winds 5 to 15 mph. Norwalk highs 86, low 61. Births include a Bellevue girl and several other area newborns. deaths note Walter W. Boehler, 79, Monroeville.
Ohio State Auditor Roger Cloud calls to end or tightly regulate public money invested in short term loans. He proposes removing treasurer authority to invest in commercial paper unless the Board of Deposits approves each deal, with interest earmarked to debt service.
Vice President Spiro T. Agnew urged Joseph Rhodes Jr., a 22 year old Harvard student, to quit the Presidential Commission to Investigate Campus Unrest. He accused Rhodes of seeking national notoriety and misusing his post.
Rumor says Norwalk City Council will adopt a resolution to put a ballot question on selling the city electrical system. The move supposedly requires citizen initiative due to plant improvement investments. A Raike study cites two price points with a top of 30000 and a value under 5.8 million offered by Ohio Edison.
A Toledo lawyer said the Supreme Court reversal of Donald Walker of Alliance has no relation to the Robert Summerlin case aside from possible Court leniency. Summerlin received one to seven years for selling an obscene book and appeals are pending.
A New London area family faced two emergencies Sunday when a barn burned after a lightning strike and a neighbor died of a heart attack. Poor telephone service delayed calling help and ambulance access as the Northern Ohio Telephone Co pursues extended area service to improve local dialing.
Chief Justice C William O'Neill of the Ohio Supreme Court, hospitalized in Knoxville since May 22 after a heart attack, is expected to go home to Columbus next weekend possibly earlier following a judicial conference in Gatlinburg.
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