Local court fines and jail for DUI and hit run incident
Jay P. Osborn, 58, Willard, pleaded guilty in Common Pleas Court to driving under the influence. He was fined 200 dollars and costs and sentenced to three days in jail with a six month license suspension. He previously pleaded not guilty to leaving the scene of an accident, later changing to guilty, with six months in jail and all but ten days suspended and 18.10 dollars in court costs. A Marietta driver who fell ill died four hours after being taken to Fisher-Titus Memorial Hospital from a Route 250 incident. The death was ruled a heart attack. James W. Hughes, 39, pulled off the road after feeling ill and was taken to the hospital. Erie County deputy coroner Dr. Richard Blackann ruled death due to carbon monoxide poisoning in the case of Leonard Husted, 19, Route 1 Wakeman, found in his car off Route 299 and Scheid Road. Husted, in the Air Force at McConnell, Kansas, rests at Wheland Funeral Home in Huron. Sydney report: South Vietnamese official says three intellectuals were pushed from a plane with no parachutes over North Vietnam last Monday for backing a peace movement. Nguyen Xuan Oanh, acting premier on two occasions last year, said the plane departed from Da Nang air base after a farewell ceremony with three ministers onboard.
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Jay P. Osborn
Willard
Common Pleas
Marietta
Fisher-Titus Memorial Hospital
State Highway Patrol
James W. Hughes
Erie County
Richard Blackann
Leonard Husted
Wakeman
Route
Scheid Road
Husted
Air Force
McConnell
Kaw
Wheland Funeral Home
Huron
Sydney
UPI
Sydney Mirror
North Viet Nam
Nguyen Xuan Oanh
South Viet Nam
Oanh
da Nang
Senate panel backs Sunday liquor sales bill
The Senate Liquor Committee recommended passage of a bill allowing Sunday liquor sales from 1 pm to midnight under a D-6 permit costing 500 dollars annually.
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Columbus
UPI
Senate Liquor Committee
Weather and Local Births and Deaths Report
Rain mixed with snow and sleet today with wind. Tonight turning colder with showers and possible thunder showers and occasional snow flurries. Thursday windy with more snow flurries and slightly cooler. Norwalk high 47 low 24.03 inches precipitation sunrise 6 38 sunset 6 35 Births Charles D Cable Berlin Heights RD 1 a girl. Deaths Laura Pratt Spencer 1 Willard Elsie M Bickel 69 Wakeman.
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Norwalk
Local truck firms invest heavily in license tags
Three trucking firms in Norwalk spent 275563 for license tags by March 15 with remaining potential increases. Norwalk Truck Line led with 208234.15, followed by Interstate Motor Freight 37581.95 and Ww. L. Mead 29747.15. Fees fund road maintenance and city services, with 1964 distributions showing 61 percent to county and 34 percent to municipalities.
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Huron County Automobile Club
Norwalk Truck Line, Inc
Ww. L. Mead, Inc
Interstate Motor Freight
Norwalk
Huron County
King to Lead March on Montgomery Court House
Dr Martin Luther King Jr plans a march on the Montgomery court house to demand another apology for violence against civil rights demonstrators by mounted officers and to push Negro voter registration. A parallel protest was set for Selma. Clergymen faced police barriers during a prayer vigil but later prayed on the sidewalk.
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Montgomery
Ala
UPI
Martin Luther King Jr
Selma
Norwalk OKs sewage plant planning and zoning steps
Norwalk City Council approved an emergency ordinance to hire engineers for enlarging the sewage disposal plant using a federal grant under the public works program. A bond issue for construction is anticipated this year. Rose Foss named clerk of planning and zoning board with raise. meetings set for the second Tuesday monthly.
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Norwalk
Morley K. Price
U.S. Public Works and Sanitation
Louis G. Frey
Rose Foss
City Council
Planning and Zoning Board
Youth Pleads Guilty To Shotgun Assault
A 17 year old New London boy pleaded guilty in Juvenile Court to assault with a deadly weapon after firing a 12 gauge shotgun at a car on High St. The gun fire left a three inch hole in the door and a slug lodged in a passenger’s leg. He was released to his mother for psychiatric treatment. A friend charged in the incident was also released to his father.
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New London
Huron County
High St
New London Police
Kenneth Marr
New London Hospital
City Council Rejects Second Reading Then Adopts Benedict Heights Ordinance
The council defeated a motion to place the Benedict Heights subdivision plat on second reading but approved the ordinance as an emergency. Six of seven members supported suspending rules to adopt immediately after first reading despite Councilman Liedorff’s opposition.
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Ford Ave
Bank St
G. Ira Liedorff
Benedict Heights
Allen Hakes
Liedorff
St Patrick’s Day sermon disputes legends about Ireland’s patron saint
In a St Patrick’s Day sermon Msgr George Higgins challenges myths about St Patrick. He cites Patrick’s limited surviving records and notes the saint was likely British born, enslaved in Ireland, later freed, and active as a missionary who became a bishop before dying in 461 AD. Archbishop O’Boyle attended.
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St. Patrick
Ireland
Msgr
George ©. Higgins
St. Patrick’s Church
Patrick Aloysius O’ Boyle
Seiis
Irelane
St Patrick
France
Msgr. Higgins
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Binh Minh Province
Charles D. Cable
Berlin Heights RD
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Plastic Models Supply Co
Milan Steel Co
Jan Conway
Coun
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Council
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Price
Frey
King of
Tom Paffenbarger
Central Securities Co
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Washington
Higgins
Patrick
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Scotland
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