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Newspaper
Norwalk Reflector
Location
Norwalk, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1978
Page
1
Dr Edward W P Schafer unveils a brain wave monitoring method to gauge viewer interest in TV pilots potentially replacing audience protests. The approach aims to measure engagement and satisfaction in programming choices.
The Cleveland City Club will send about 150 members to Cuba to hear Premier Fidel Castro. President Robert Bry announced the trip will occur in the fourth or fifth weekend in June after earlier February plans stalled by Cuban red tape.
The U S Postal Service plans to print enough 15 cent stamps by next week to cover the anticipated rate increase in about a month. The final decision rests with the Board of Governors meeting May 19, a body that has rarely rejected a commission recommendation.
UPI reports the United States will end sex discrimination in hurricane naming. Starting this season, storms will carry alternating male and female names, breaking 25 years of tradition and marking a shift declared by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Pope Paul VI joins Italian leaders and foreign dignitaries for a memorial service honoring Aldo Moro amid heavy security to deter potential Red Brigades attacks. U.S. official Joseph Califano among many guests, as tensions linger after Moro's assassination four days earlier.
Showers or thundershowers with heavy bursts possible today and tonight. Lows in the lower 50s. Cooler Sunday with highs around 58. Precipitation chances near 100 percent tonight and 70 percent Sunday. Winds southerly to southwest 10 to 20 mph tonight. Friday temperatures 65 to 96. Total precipitation Friday 71. Births include Dale and Teresa Brooks twins at Willard area hospital. Marriages listed for Gonzalez Pearce Fulton Branham Kenny Williams. Death: Miss Carolyn Wynn, 27, Tempe formerly Milan.
Phillip Reis in Germany devised a crude telephone fifteen years before Alexander Graham Bell achieved success. The historic note credits Reis with an early sound transmission device, influencing later telephony development.
Norwalk will adopt an ordinance to limit local Columbia Gas of Ohio profits to 9.7 percent annually, arguing the city can influence 25 percent of residential bills. The proposal would itemize charges at 3 dollars monthly per customer and 4.05 cents per hundred cubic feet, while PUCO guidelines and supplier costs remain outside city control.
Columbus Ohio State Rep Charles Kurfess Republican governor candidate hires private investigator Richard Cotner to probe alleged irregularities in Governor James Rhodes administration including the Department of Transportation and Department of Insurance. Campaign coordinator says no personal life scrutiny. Kurfess seeks Highway Patrol probe of 11 DOT employees tied to Rhodes campaign and potential referrals to Franklin County prosecutor. Rhodes says DOT investigation ongoing and Patrol may be called if serious.
About 600 delegates from the Ohio Education Association protested Gov. James A Rhodes at the Statehouse steps in Columbus amid heavy rain, denouncing him as anti-teacher and anti education. Rhodes blamed OEA for its own mistakes and noted education is set by the legislature and state board, while demonstrators urged vetoes on education bills. The event followed vetoes of collective bargaining and teacher tenure bills and incidents involving striking teachers. A separate briefing notes the Towne and Country Theater final shows of Shenandoah and the Norwalk Business Exhibition at Huron County Fairgrounds, with free admission. In Shippingport Pennsylvania, three Florida men escaped injury after ditching a twin-engine plane in the Ohio River near the Bruce Mansfield power plant due to engine trouble.
GEORGETOWN Ohio UPI seventy year old Milda Wilburn fights a $38 fine she says was unfair for allowing her 15 year old granddaughter to be out after curfew. She will return any donations and wants to serve a two day jail sentence to protest the charge. Police say they will drop the jail term if the fine is paid. Local and distant supporters debate the justice of the punishment and her motive.
Norwalk Municipal Court Judge Donald Derby issued a judgment entry detailing how warrants will be served by the sheriff and police. Sheriff John Borgia backs the order, which covers criminal and quasi criminal state law violations, local ordinance warrants, and highway patrol cases, with costs to be billed to the court and potential future clarifications sought from state authorities.
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