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Newspaper
Norwalk Reflector
Location
Norwalk, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1967
Page
1
The Norwalk High School Student Council offers a $25 reward for information leading to arrests of vandals at the school this past week. Principal Ervin Ulti can announced the measure in a Monday afternoon resolution urging student cooperation and condemning the act while stating it does not reflect the majority of students.
In Lorain Ohio authorities ask parents to beware seven dangerous dynamite blasting caps stolen from an island on the Black River. Coast Guardsmen found 47 caps buried on the island and seven fuses without the caps. In England RAF jets bombed the Torrey Canyon turning its oil cargo into a burning mass after running aground on the Seven Stones Reef with eight Buccaneer planes involved.
Vatican City Pope Paul VI approved government promotion of birth control while stressing married couples freedom and adherence to moral law. No indication of approval for methods beyond the Church sanctioned rhythm system. Athens Ohio burglars shift target from drugstore to Athens National Bank after failed entry. Police report no theft despite cash in drawer.
Pickets grew thinner today around Ohio dairies as the National Farmers Organization pressed for a two cent hike in wholesale milk prices. The NFO awaited a federal judge decision in Nashville on whether sympathetic Teamsters must cross the lines. earlier they were ordered to do so.
The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals denied Cassius Clay a temporary restraining order to delay his April 11 Army induction and rejected his appeal to the Sixth Circuit direct on draft status.
New Orleans Dist. Atty Jim Garrison expands the Kennedy assassination inquiry to Virginia and Nebraska. Arrest warrants issued for Sandra Moffit Lilly McMaines of Omaha and Gordon Novel, a Virginia lounge operator who claims to have passed a lie detector test.
U S Navy pilots hit oil storage tanks at Haiphong port and American Marines reported killing 100 Communist fighters in South Vietnam. Lt J G Nick Carpenter of Cincinnati described heavy anti aircraft fire as bombs struck the Haiphong oil depot and created a massive orange fireball.
Cloudy cooler with intermittent rain and local fog. high in the 50s. Tonight drizzle and temperature near 40s. Sunrise 6 18 a.m. Sunset 6 47 p.m. Monday highs around 68 and 55 low. Births announce a Bohland boy and a Ritchie girl. a Winck boy born. Death: Nicholas Smith, 73, Berlin Heights.
William Manchester’s new book argues the Kennedy assassination exposed a two hour Washington telephone blackout that could have changed outcomes if Russia planned nuclear use. Harper & Row will publish the 710 page work April 6 at $10. The Look magazine series drew criticism for omitting Manchester’s thesis of national vulnerability.
Norwalk High School announces Tony Zuppe will resign as football coach and Jerry Druppel will not be rehired as basketball coach. Supt. S R Corbin cites coaching situation woes and states both teachable roles will stay with the district, while no replacements are yet named.
Norwalk firemen battled a car fire in a Reflector parking lot owned by Clarence Legg and a grass fire on Route 18 within nine minutes. Damages were about 300 dollars. Fire origin undetermined. Floyd Purdy reported the Route 18 blaze started from a trash fire during demolition. A prior staffing issue drew criticism after an earlier March 19 call to a rural fire.
A $750000 suit against Reflector Herald Inc and former Reflector reporter Dedaimin Whitney was dismissed by Huron County Common Pleas Judge Robert J. Vetter on a motion by plaintiff Edwin W. Price. The case, filed Oct 13 1965, claimed entrapment by the May 27 1965 Reflector article about underage liquor purchases.
Luther Sexton of Shiloh hit a deer on U S 224 westbound around 7 am Monday. The deer was fatally injured but Sexton was uninjured, with minor car damage. Game Warden James Rhome allowed Sexton to keep the deer after investigation.
Druppel confirms he would repeat his actions building for the future after his dismissal as Norwalk High School basketball coach. He faced a citizens petition targeting coaching changes while a 29 win 26 loss record over two seasons spurred controversy and a prior football coach dismissal and rehiring in 1966.
Druppel explains he replaced older players to push development and better fit his philosophy. He regrets the backlash and says he will seek another coaching position while continuing his Norwalk district economics sociology and health classes.
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