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Newspaper
Norwalk Reflector
Location
Norwalk, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1978
Page
1
In Chicago UPI reports the nation’s Roman Catholic bishops reaffirm Humanae Vitae urging peers not to disown the 1968 encyclical. Archbishop John R. Quinn leads the National Conference of Catholic Bishops as it holds its semiannual session.
Kent State will begin with a candlelight procession and all night vigil to honor the eighth anniversary of the May 4 1970 Kent State shootings. For the first time since 1970 classes will be canceled on May 4 and officials urge calm amid protests. A conservative student group warns of potential legal action if rights are violated by demonstrations. Cleveland lawyer David R Harbarger named director of the Ohio lottery succeeding Gerald Patronite who will resign by June 1.
A four carat diamond ring valued at about 35000 dollars was found in the stomach of Michigan prison inmate Peter Lazarus during autopsy. The ring, seized from Lazarus who died in Pontiac jail, was returned to Dannes Ltd. of Fifth Avenue.
Ilse Fairall, eight year Buckingham Palace laundry worker, was found dead by overdose in her room at the palace. She was set to retire at 60 at month’s end. Inquest ruled suicide despite retirement approaching.
Weather outlook clear tonight with lows near 38 to 40. Thursday mostly sunny breezy with highs near 60. Precipitation chances near zero tonight and about 20 percent Thursday. Winds easterly to northeasterly 10 to 15 mph tonight. Marriage license notices list four couples from Norwalk and surrounding areas. Birth announcements include two local families with hospital details. Obituaries note two Norwalk area deaths. Also a UPI summary recalls Krakatoa eruption of 1883 and its global seismic and tidal effects.
Two Norwalk parents George Moehlman and Carole Schnellinger circulate petitions to push the 1978 79 school calendar from August 22 to September 5 or after Labor Day. About two hundred signatures gathered as the group eyes a school board meeting Tuesday night.
A major fire in Mansfield unfolds as on strike firefighters, police, and city officials contest a stalled wage dispute. Two houses and a supermarket risk collapse while a priest's residence is evacuated after a gas line incident near a farmers market. National Guard help considered as crews fight the blaze.
17 high school seniors took over Norwalk city hall for Student Government Day. At a noon luncheon they drafted an agenda for the council including bids to build tennis courts at Memorial Lake Park. Debate over funding split opinions. one proposal favors courts, another would repurpose a reservoir into a beach. Cathy Oliva suggested polling residents, then the meeting adjourned.
Plymouth police and deputies from Huron and Richland counties searched today for Carl Wilford 60 a Plymouth East Road resident missing since 8 am Tuesday. A shotgun reportedly missing fueled concern he harmed himself. Police used a helicopter and a search dog but found no trace.
Former CBS correspondent Eric Sevareid told the American Newspaper Publishers Association that top broadcast journalists are paid extravagantly only because newspapers portray them as celebrities. He warned editors to stop the double standard and to curb excessive coverage of rival broadcasts.
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