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Newspaper
Norwalk Reflector
Location
Norwalk, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1973
Page
1
Funeral services will be held in Birmingham for T Eugene Bull Connor 75 a former police commissioner who ordered dogs and fire hoses used on civil rights demonstrators in 1963 Connor died Saturday at a nursing home in the city upi
Baseball Hall of Famer Frankie Frisch died at Delaware Medical Center after a February 8 Interstate 95 crash near Elkton Maryland. He had been listed in critical condition throughout hospitalization and was pronounced dead at 7 25 this morning.
In Buenos Aires exiled former President Juan D Peron supporters win sweeping victories as military rulers suspend vote counting for four hours. Hector J Campora aged 63, chosen by Peron, leads a nine candidate field in Argentina’s first presidential election in a decade.
Police with Scotland Yard detained several persons for questioning in the murder of Bermuda Governor Sir Richard Sharples and his aide Capt Hugh Sayers. Authorities believe two gunmen carried out the assassination in Government House gardens after a dinner party. Sharples and Sayers were shot, and their dog Horsa was killed.
Saigon reports a list of 170 military prisoners and one civilian POW to be released Wednesday in Hanoi. The United States says troop withdrawals halt until the release is completed and all American POWs names and release details are provided.
Princeton reports three of five Americans name rising prices as the nation's most important problem. The Gallup poll surveyed 1,517 adults between February 16 and 19, finding drugs crime race relations unemployment and pollution trailing the price issue in a list of concerns.
Former GOP congressmen who switched to the Democrats describe the party as a country club under one-man rule. Rep. Donald W. Riegle of Michigan, who joined the Democrats on February 27, criticizes top executives for purge of dissent and questioning of patriotism.
Clear and cooler tonight with upper 30s to lower 40s. Tuesday mostly sunny and warmer with highs near 60. Norwalk highs 72 and low 46. humidity rising through day. Marriage licenses issued for Folk Moore Brown Laferty Andres White. Births report a girl for Kiefer of Norwalk. Deaths include Phyllis Flynn of Greenwich and infant son Jeremy Plumb of Berlin Heights.
AIM leaders declare Wounded Knee an independent nation on the Oglala Sioux reservation. An FBI agent was wounded in a gunfight as 400 supporters gathered, six white men including four federal agents were arrested and disarmed, and federal marshals were placed on standby. Means and AIM call for foreign recognition.
City officials may raise all downtown parking meter rates to 10 cents per hour and limit parking to two hours. A report on a study of this and other rate changes will be released later this week. The study followed a survey of the John F. Ernsthausen lot at West Main and South Hester Streets showing 43 to 45 percent occupancy of 72 spaces.
City officials consider raising downtown parking to 10 cents an hour while five cent rates remain elsewhere. A $115000 revenue bond funded Ernsthausen and first $3000 payment due in October, with future payments from meters to pay bonds. Strict two hour limit and marked tires to enforce time.
John T. Downey an American CIA employee freed from a Chinese prison after more than 20 years arrived in the Philippines and boarded a mercy jet toward his sick mother in Connecticut. He thanked President Nixon and Kissinger and praised Chinese officials as he left Hong Kong for Clark Air Base.
Clarence Feeman of Mansfield is named new manager of the Elks Country Club dining room which reopens at 11 a.m. Tuesday with nine staff. He comes from Findlay Country Club where he led the kitchen for three years and has worked at Riverview Inn in Tiffin and in Mansfield family restaurants. The dining room operates 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 5 to 9 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday, closed Mondays.
Two Oklahoma State University seniors lasted a week on a budget of 3 dollars feeding only Gravy Train, Skippy, Hi Vi, and Alpo to protest food prices. They plan to celebrate with a steak using the saved money after finishing the experiment.
The Federal Trade Commission accuses makers of Bufferin Excedrin Excedrin PM Anacin and related brands of false aspirin claims. It seeks two years of corrective ads covering 25 percent of ad spend and FTC approved messaging unless surveys show consumer truth has sunk in.
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