25 Mar 1967
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Newspaper
Norwalk Reflector
Location
Norwalk, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1967
Page
1
Editor notes this Holy Week reflection by Norwalk church lay members. The piece discusses humility before God, the cycle from clay to dust, the soul’s destiny, and spiritual renewal through generosity, kindness, self denial, and prayer leading to Easter peace.
The Norwalk Board of Control Mayor Harold Finch and Service Director Morley Price announced civil service examinations will be held in May for new police sergeant and fire department assistant battalion chief positions plus patrolmen firemen sewage disposal plant operators and filtration plant operators. The new salaries are $6750 vs $6500 for regular roles.
A Norwalk man Kenneth Plue aged 20 was treated for cuts and bruises after slipping off the back of a motorcycle driven by Ronald Ray Grinold 20 of Sandusky. Grinold said he was leaving a driveway on Townsend Avenue when Plue lost balance and fell. A rural Milan man suffered a hurt right arm when his car hit a tree on Spring Street and Wayne Albert Smith 39 Milan was cited for failure to drive on the right.
Considerable cloudiness and warmer with scattered showers tonight and Sunday with possible thundershowers. Sunrise 6 23 a m Sunset 6 46 p m High 48 Low 32. Deaths D H Shepler, 60, of 146 Whittlesey Ave.
Sciota County Cooperative Milk Producers Association with 153 members halted operations citing acts of interference and violence against trucks and board members. The move aims to cut milk supplies to processors in southern Ohio while dairies elsewhere report ample stocks.
U S Marines report repelling a dozen Communist assaults along the DMZ in savage close fighting. They suffer 25 dead and 154 wounded while claiming 146 enemy fatalities. Farther south near Da Nang Viet Cong ambushed three convoys, killing and wounding several Marines and South Vietnamese.
Huron County Common Pleas Court orders public sale of New London Equity Inc. assets to satisfy a 62059 dollar claim. Owner Preston Golding, mayor of New London, faces a judgment against the grain elevator firm by Ohio Equity Inc. of Lima after a prior bill dispute. Attorneys Freeman and Thornton lead the case.
A loose stone from a truck on U.S. 224 west of Greenwich led to a citation for driver Louie H. Stackhouse 57 Ashland. The stone shattered a windshield but no injuries occurred to Tucker L. South 20 Goshen Ind. Stackhouse was cited for insecure load.
Norwalk officials and Jaycees unveil an 800 pound yellow cement turtle at Memorial Lake Park off Old State Road. The project, two years in the making, adds a caterpillar climbing bar and merry go round with plans for fencing and more equipment if well received. The turtle, funded largely by the Jaycees wives Bicycle Raffle, joins other park residents as preparations continue for a May park opening.
Norwalk insurance agent D H Shepler 60 a longtime Motorist’s Mutual and Businessman’s Insurance figure died Friday at Sandusky Memorial Hospital after a lingering illness. Born April 21 1906 in Kingston he lived in Norwalk 25 years and will be buried in Oakdale Cemetery Marysville. He is survived by wife Helen daughter Connie Fischer granddaughter three brothers Virgil Arden and Lloyd. Funeral services are planned 1 30 p m Tuesday at Heaston Hile Funeral Home with two ministers officiating. Friends may call Sunday and Monday.
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