Runaway Boy Held in Rape Slayings of Two Sisters
A 14 year old runaway boy is held on charges linked to the rape and slayings of Deborah Crowther 8 and Kimberly Crowther 6 in Westland Michigan. Police press on questioning the boy's friends from a suspected glue sniffing gang. Prosecutor Cahalan says the youth cannot be tried as an adult but the investigation continues.
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Westland, Mich
UPI
Deborah Louis Crowther
Kimberly Faith
Wayne County
William Cahalan
Cahalan
Weather and births and deaths in Norwalk area
Showers end and cooler tonight with a low around 50. Tuesday will be gradually clearer and cooler with a high near 73 and a low around 51. Sunrise 6 25 a.m. Sunset 8 25 p.m. Births list two families: Mingus girl in Norwalk and Kidd boy in New London. Deaths include Hill, Fairchild infant, Wolfe, and Croft with residences noted.
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Ronald Mingus
Ford Ave
Norwalk
Henry Kidd
Sherman St
New London
Full Mail Bag Found In Woods Near North Fairfield
William Carnahan of North Fairfield found a U S Mail Bag under a car seat on the Elton Woodworth farm near North Fairfield. Deputies traced the sack to a Shelby mail list dated July 1966 and turned it over to the postal inspector.
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Huron County Sheriff’s Department
William Carnahan
North Fairfield
Sheriff’s Department
U.S
Elton Woodworth
Edwards Road
Woodworth
Shelby
Ohio Voters Set Decision on OBC and Reapportionment
Ohioans head to the polls Tuesday to vote on two constitutional amendments. The Ohio Bond Commission proposal backed by Gov. Rhodes aims to bypass debt limits for long term capital projects, while Issue No. 2 redraws legislative districts with four year Senate terms. The outcome is expected to favor approval of reapportionment.
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Ohio
Rhodes
Senate
House
Grove to Help Honor Late Cy Young in Centennial Observance
Lefty Grove named national honorary chairman of the Cy Young Centennial to be held July 14 15 near New Philadelphia Ohio. The event honors baseball great Denton Cy Young, who died in 1955 at age 88 and posted 511 career wins. Grove, Hall of Fame southpaw, recalls Young from early games and will promote the observance with Desmond Cooper and Tom Eakin.
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Las Vegas
Nev
UPI
Elvis Presley
Phyllis Anne Beaulida
Presley
Miss Beaulida
Clark County Court House
Memphis
Tenn
Lefty Grove
Cy Young
Robert
Lefty) Grove
Denton T
Cy) Young
Young
Grove
Baseball
Hall of Fame
Cooperstown N.Y
Norwalk
Parsons St
Old
Philadelphia Athletics
Boston
Philadelphia
Kansas City
New York
New Philadelphia
Peoli
Desmond Cooper
Dover
Ohio
Cooper
Cleveland
Tom Eakin
Port Chicago powder keg prompts Navy plan
The Navy warns Port Chicago California sits atop a massive ammunition shipment hub and fears a blast far larger than the 1944 tragedy. With 70 percent of Vietnam bound ammo loaded there and 100000 tons monthly, relocation of piers or town is debated. Congress is asked for 20 million to buy and move residents and close the school unless piers are moved, a plan the Pentagon says could take two to three years.
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Washington
UPI
Navy
Port Chicago
Calif
Vietnam
Congress
Jerome R. Waldie
D-Calif
Rowe Island
San Francisco Bay
Concord
Vallejo
Pentagon
Defense Department
Shoestring Players stage Un sinking Molly Brown draws 2100
Ses quicentennial Chairman Paul Tucker reported the Shoestring Players production attracted about 2100 attendees across four performances. He noted roughly 500 on Friday and Sunday, and over 900 on Saturday, with the auditorium seating 971. No finances are reported yet and he mentioned no official word on a state fair run.
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Sesquicentennial
Paul Tucker
Just Concluded
Molly Brown
Tucker
Fourteen Boys Detained At Girl Scout Camp Singing River
Huron County deputies picked up fourteen mainly juvenile boys from Norwalk early Saturday for bothering Girl Scouts at Singing River camp near Fourteen. They were found talking to the campers about 3:45 a m Sunday and were taken to the sheriff s department where parents were contacted.
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Singing River
North Fairfield
Norwalk
Huron County Sheriff’s Deputies
Sheriff's Department
Signal wins top prize for Northeastern Ohio high school paper
Norwalk High School's Signal earned best newspaper honors among 53 participating schools at Journalism Day hosted by the Northeastern Ohio Scholastic Press Association and Kent State University's School of Journalism. Editor Margaret Yingling and business manager Debby Pohlis led the staff. Ted Cady earned two second place awards for sports writing.
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Norwalk High School
Signal
Northeastern Ohio
Northeastern Ohio Scholastic Press Association
Kent State University
Margaret Yingling
Debby Pohlis
Ted Cady
Norwalk Reflector
Ted
Norwalk Republican primary polls set Tuesday morning
Four Norwalk races appear in the Republican column with polls open 6 30 a m to 6 30 p m on primary day Voters will decide mayor solicitor and Second Ward councilman races while three councilman at large seats are nominated Also voters face two state issues the Ohio Bond Commission and reapportionment
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Norwalk
Harold E. Finch
Newton Ave
Joe E. Dudley
W. Main
Sell E. Cunningham
Mead
Grant W. Walls
South
Garfield
G. Ira Liedorff
Benedict
William C. Saladin, Jr
West Main
Allen W. Hakes
Fairbell
Ohio Bond Commission
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Minn
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David Littlefield
John Truman Rodden
New Bedford
Mass
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New Jersey
Clara Elizabeth Hill
Starkey’s Nursing Home
Harold D. Fairchild, Jr
Rochester
Frank Wolfe
Rural
Vermilion
Rachel Emeline Croft
Milan
OBC
Albert Lea
Iowa
Minnesota
Owatonna
Alden
Freeborn
Clark Grove
Lake Superior
Duluth
Coast
Dean Nardecchia
E.R. McLoney
Dean
California
Frederick F. Waugh
Hawthorne Ave
Henry E. Young
Domenic E. Coletta
Townsend
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