Record Fox Bounties In Huron County
Huron County fox bounty payments reached a new high in February with 119 foxes paid at $2 each by the Sheriff’s Department. Sheriff John Borgia notes it may be the highest in years while 105 red foxes and 14 gray foxes are listed. County commissioners set a $1,000 annual bounty fund and may provide more if needed. Hunters must provide all four feet and sign an affidavit naming the killing township.
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Huron County
Sheriff’s Department
John Borgia
Borgia
Roof Fire Strikes Grabler Manufacturing Near Tiffin
Fire crews from the Tiffin area battled an early morning blaze at the unfinished Grabler Manufacturing Co. site, about a half mile east of town, for over an hour. A spark, dormant overnight, reignited in the morning wind and destroyed about 150 feet of roofing.
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Tiffin
Grabler Manufacturing Co
Here
George Koehl
Sudden Epidemic Spring Fever Forecast Spreads
The forecast calls for spring fever Thursday with a low near 45 and a high around 58. It notes last year’s high was 48 and mentions past records of 64 on March 3, 1955 and 65 in 1951.
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Mercury
Pledges surpass million for campus branch of Bowling Green University
Officials announced final pledges reached 1,146,455.01 surpassing the 600,000 goal to unlock 1.8 million in state funds. Brown favored naming the project Everybody's University highlighting community support and lifelike education for tri county residents. Local banks pledged loans while Huron Erie and Ottawa counties posted their totals.
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Bowling Green University
Committee On Educational Development
COED
Brown
Tri-County
Norwalk Jaycees pick 78 year old P J Garcia as Man of the Year
Norwalk Ohio community honors 78 year old P J Garcia at Bosses Night as the first Man of the Year after discontinuing the Outstanding Young Man award. Garcia, longtime Norwalk High teacher, coach and church minister, reflected on service to the city and his gradual retirement.
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Norwalk
Mr. Garcia
Garcia
Norwalk High
Willard Auto Crash Injures Father and Daughter
A father and his daughter were admitted to Willard Hospital after a Thursday crash on Peru Center Road three miles east of Willard. Mrs Janet Potts 21 of Willard drove southbound and was hit as she turned into a private drive. Clarence Winemiller 42 of Wapakoneka was the passing driver cited for failure to signal.
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Willard Hospital
Peru Center Road
Willard
Janet Potts
Clarence Winemiller
Wapakoneka
Furnace Fire At Norwalk Home Causes Smoke
Norwalk firemen were called to the Edward Brutsche home at 15 St Marys Street at 4 10 this morning when a furnace motor caught fire. Firemen said damage was limited to the motor and the house was filled with smoke.
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Norwalk
Edward Brutsche
St Mary’s St
Killer Twisters Rake Mississippi and Alabama
A severe tornado outbreak across Mississippi and Alabama leaves at least 57 dead and about 450 injured. In Jackson a Candlestick Park shopping center crowd is hit, and a Leesburg home is destroyed. Rescue teams work under floodlights as the toll rises. A girl asks for her parents amid the wreckage.
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Leesburg
Candlestick Park
Jackson
London
Man Defrauds Willard Minister Then Vanishes
Willard police traced a tall tale artist to Salisbury Pennsylvania where a man calling himself Renoire Paul Conauxe and his wife and son were found. The fraud victim Rev Clayton C Wilson pastor of the Willard Nazarene Church had co signed an $80 note for the man who fled two days after obtaining the money and claiming exploits such as being a world champion ski jumper.
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Willard
Salisbury, Pa
Renoire Paul Conauxe
Clayton C. Wilson
Willard Nazarene Church
Wilson
Conauxe
Huron County Moves Toward Bragg Road Vacation
County commissioners set 10 a.m. for damage-claim hearings and filed a land appropriation suit to facilitate vacating 1,377 feet of Bragg Road. No claimants appeared at the hearing. The suit targets unknown parties named as John Doe and Mary Roe to bar future damage claims.
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Bragg Road
Huron County Commissioners
John Doe
Mary Roe
Witnesses Gather in Norwalk for Three Day Convention
About 1,200 Jehovahs Witnesses from Ohio Circuit 11 are expected to assemble at Norwalk Junior High School for a three day convention. Delegates and families from a 15 county area will attend, with visitors from Mt. Vernon Tiffin and Ashland. Harold P. Sandeen will give the welcome address Make Disciples of Peoples of All the Nations based on the convention theme. Two training programs will follow the talk.
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Ohio
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Norwalk Junior High School
Mt. Vernon
Tiffin
Ashland
Harold P. Sandeen
Rail unions blocked from forcing rehiring in landmark ruling
U.S. District Judge Alexander Holtzoff ruled that unions cannot call a nationwide strike to compel railroads to rehire 22,500 workers who lost jobs two years ago under a federal arbitration award. The decision effectively halts a potential coast to coast disruption.
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Washington
UPI
U.S
Alexander Holtzoff
Wallet thieved after car-to-station kiss at Texas service center
Willie Wilson, a Texas service station owner, began with a dramatic kiss from a woman who pulled in for fuel. The moment of affection ended with Wilson discovering his wallet missing, prompting a theft investigation.
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San Antonio
Tex
UPI
Willie Wilson
Weather and Life Briefs for the Day
Variable cloudiness and wind give way to a few showers with a high near 59. Tonight clears and turns colder with possible snow flurries. low around 28. Sunrise 6 58 Sunset 6 21. Marriage license applications list eight individuals from Norwalk Wakeman Willard and New London. Births report five area newborns. Deaths note five residents including Glenn Schamp Mary Heyman and Beatrice Holden.
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Terry Allen Hilaman
Norwalk
U.S. Army
Lois M. Dalton
Wakeman
Bank Teller
Arthur L. Kutch
Willard
Marian L. Kilgore
Dan James Soboslai, Jr
Diane Claire Schoville
New London
Glenn A. Schamp, Jr
Davenport
Iowa
Mary L. Heyman
Old State Road
Howard W. Worcester
East Main
Beatrice Holden
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State Board of Regents
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Rev. Garcia
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Thompson
Li ‘Els
Congress
House Commerce Committee
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Saigon
Communist
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Red River Valley
Veterans Administration
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Edsie Gayheart
Henry Hale
Greenwich
Mrs. Wilford Stover
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