Auditor Refuses Davis Convention Refund in City Budget Rift
City Auditor Charles Hipp refuses reimbursement of 598.57 for Donald Davis travel to an American Public Power Association meeting in New Orleans citing a 400 travel budget and cost saving advice. Davis says expenses were approved in the annual budget and policy supports attendance by city officials at national meetings.
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Charles Hipp
Donald Davis
American Public Power Association
New Orleans
Davis
WLKR
Office of Service
Herbert Krogh
Hipp
Ohio Municipal Electric Association
Dible Enters Race for City Charter Commission Seat
With 14 announced candidates for a 15 member charter commission, Harlan F. Dible joined after picking up petitions. He is a plant superintendent at Boxboard Packaging Co. and brother-in-law of former service director Adam Brickner. The filing deadline is March 13, with May election on the charter question and candidates.
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City Charter Commission
Harlan F. Dible
St. Mary’s St
Board of Elections
Boxboard Packaging Co
Irene
Adam Brickner
Elections Board
Charter Commission
Turks Kidnap 4 GIs Demanding 400000 Ransom
A group calling itself the Turkish Peoples Liberation Army abducted four U.S. airmen near Ankara and demanded 400000 dollars within 36 hours. Police held one suspect, Mete Ertekin, while three kidnappers remained at large. The victims were Jimmy Sexton James Chelson Larry Heaver and Richard Caraszi.
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Ankara
API
Turkish Peoples Liberation Army
U.S
Mete Ertekin
Middle East Technical University
Jimmy J. Sexton
San Angelo
Tex
James M. Chelson
Alexandria
Larry J. Heaver
Denver
Colo
Richard Caraszi
Stamford
Kepekli
Witness testifies on My Lai order during Calley court martial
Maj. Charles C. Calhoun testified that My Lai task force commander ordered Capt. Ernest L. Medina to prevent civilian harm and unnecessary hut burning during the March 16, 1968 operation. The remark followed an infantry sweep near its end around 11:30 to 12 that morning.
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FT. Benning, Ga
UPI
My Lai
Ernest L. Medina
William L. Calley
Charles C. Calhoun
South Vietnamese Troops Claim Major Hill 31 Victory in Laos
Allied forces report 383 enemy killed near Hill 31 in Laos in the largest success of the operation and say spearheads advanced 242 miles toward Sepone as part of the Laotian incursion against the Ho Chi Minh Trail. A spokesman cites a claimed 100 percent victory at Hill 31, with three South Vietnamese wounded reported.
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Saigon
API
South Vietnam
Hill 31
Laos
Sepone
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Ohio Snowstorm Drops Inches Across State
A late winter snow storm swept through Ohio with up to eight inches in the north, four to six inches in the east from Youngstown to Ironton, two to four inches elsewhere, and traces in the northwest. Police dispatcher called the weather “Terrible” across the state.
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United Press International
Chardon
Ohio
Youngstown
Ironton
China launches second satellite into egg shaped Earth orbit
NORAD reports Communist China's second satellite now the 5,007th object in space since Sputnik. It entered an egg shaped orbit at 7 15 a m Wednesday. The first Chinese satellite remains in orbit after broadcasting a revolutionary song The East is Red during its April launch.
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Washington
UPI
China
Soviet Union
U.S
North American Defense Command
NORAD
Red China
Apollo 16 crew named for lunar landing mission
UPI reports NASA selected John W. Young to command Apollo 16 with rookies Thomas K. Mattingly and Charles M. Duke for a March 1972 lunar landing. Duke to land with Young, Mattingly to remain in orbit and perform a spacewalk. Fred Haise named backup commander.
Weather and notices for Norwalk and Monroeville
Partly cloudy and cold with a chance of snow flurries. highs in the 20s and 30s. Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph today, diminishing tonight, then west to southwest Friday. Norwalk records show 0 chill factor with 2 inches of snow. births and deaths listed: Mr and Mrs Weldon Whiley welcome a daughter in rural Monroeville and Catherine M Klingelsmith, 54, Willard, deceased.
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Norwalk
Mrs. Weldon Whiley
Monroeville
Selective Service Plans Office Closures Across Six Counties
The Selective Service will close offices in Huron Lorain Seneca Erie Sandusky and Ottawa counties within 90 days and consolidate in Sandusky. Local board 63 in the Citizens National Bank basement faces staff moves with official word due after March 18.
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Huron County
Sandusky
Leona Weisenberger
Huron County Board
Thomas S. Farrell
Ohio
Selective Service
Miss Weisenberger
Lorain
Seneca
Erie
Ottawa
Local Board 63
Citizens National Bank
Weisenberger
Kenneth Baker
Winter wanes as gas company cites 72 percent benchmark
The Columbia Gas Company reports Huron County now has about 1801 degree days left in winter, with 6493 degree days yearly on average. Manager Chuck Sneddon explains degree days measure cold impact on gas use and bills, noting individual home variation and sun exposure affect consumption.
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Huron County
Columbia Gas Company
Chuck Sneddon
Sneddon
Ohio
Youth Charged In Bowling Ball Death
An 18 year old, Michael Edwin Wildfong, is charged with first degree murder in the death of a Detroit woman when a bowling ball fell from an overpass onto her windshield on Interstate 75 near Bay City. Prosecutor Eugene Penzien said witnesses say he deliberately dropped the ball.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
UPI
Earl Gibson Denson
Earl Eugene Denson
Denson
Bay City
Mich
Detroit
Michael Edwin Wildfong
Bay County
Eugene Penzien
Penzien
Wildfong
Interstate 75
Here
Court Won't Hear Summerlin Appeal in Obscenity Case
The Ohio Supreme Court refused to review Robert Summerlin of Norwalk in the 1969 obscenity conviction for selling a book titled 69 Potion. He faces a 1 to 7 year sentence and has been free on bond. his attorney argued First Amendment protection, with options to petition the state or US Supreme Court.
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Ohio Supreme Court
Robert Summerlin
Norwalk
Ohio State Penitentiary
Summerlin
Bob
E. Main St
Ted Iorio
Iorio
Supreme Court
State Supreme Court
U.S. Supreme Court
Huron County Common Pleas Court
Sixth District Court of Appeals
Common Pleas
Robert J. Vetter
Huron County
Robert Gabel
Sandusky County
Russell Kear
Wyandot County
Ronald H. Freeman
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