Norwalk Plant Expansion Hints and $20,000 Add-on
Norwalk Furniture Corp signs a 40 acre option west of the bypass near Route 18 for a new plant to be tested for suitability with a decision expected after analysis. If built production would rise 50 percent and jobs would double. The firm’s Newton Street plant is one of two, the other in Cookeville Tennessee. A $20,000 warehouse addition of 40 by 120 feet is planned for Plastic Molders Supply Co. east side at 80 North West Street and is to be done by Milan Steel Co this summer.
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Norwalk
John R. Gerken, Jr
Norwalk Furniture Corp
Route 18
Fred
Paul Linder
Contractors Realty
A Gerken
Newton
League Streets
Cookeville
Tenn
Footers
Plastic Molders Supply Co
N. West St
Milan Steel Co
Union Believes UAW Loss At Bellevue Factory Open Shop
About 411 Johnson Corporation employees in Bellevue voted 64 percent against unionization in a National Labor Relations Board election. Roy Phillips announced the results, with ballots cast between 1 and 4 45 p m. The company did not release the vote tally.
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Bellevue
Johnson Corporation
United Auto Workers
UAW
Roy Phillips
National Labor Relations Board
Phillips
Weather Outlook and Local Births and Deaths
Mostly sunny and warmer today with a high in the 70s to low 80s. Fair tonight with lows in the 50s to 60s and a warm Saturday with possible showers. Sunday brings showers and cooler air. Norwalk highs 69, lows 47. humidity morning 66 percent, afternoon 45 percent, evening 46 percent. No precipitation. Births Mr and Mrs Louis Dennis Berlin Heights greet a daughter. Deaths Mrs Josephine Cole 85 North Fairfield Gerald D Kramb 49 Willard.
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Norwalk
Josephine Cole
North Fairfield
Gerald D. Kramb
Willard
Naughty Robot Incident and Fatal Shooting Report
A wrenching Wyandot County case reports the death of 10 year old Julia Renee Karg from gunshot wounds in Upper Sandusky Ohio with deputies launching an investigation. In London a robot named Fred allegedly touched actress Margaret Courtenay during filming, causing alarm despite crew amusement and the actress noting the frightful incident.
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Upper Sandusky, Ohio
UPI
Julia Renee Karg
Carey
Wyandot County Sheriff’s Deputies
London
Fred
Margaret Courtenay
Miss Courtenay
Communists call Nixon peace plan absurd at Vietnam talks
At Paris talks the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong dismissed Nixon eight point plan as absurd while rejecting only parts of it. Xuan Thuy and Tran Buu Kiem urged U.S. withdrawal with no conditions, criticizing U.S. and allied troops in South Vietnam and stressing their own 10 point terms.
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Paris
UPI
Vietnam
Nixon
Henry Cabot Lodge
U.S
Lodge
Xuan Thuy
South Vietnam
National Liberation Front
United States
Laos
Cambodia
Kiem
City to bid for low cost housing in Huron authority plan
Three Norwalk representatives will attend a Columbus hearing on the citys bid to join the Huron Metropolitan Housing Authority. Mayor Harold Finch Service Director William Mount and John R Gerken Jr lead the delegation. Gerken urged other Human Relations members to attend. County Commissioner Arthur Herner plans to attend the afternoon session.
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Norwalk
Columbus
Huron Metropolitan Housing Authority
Harold Finch
William Mount
John R. Gerken, Jr
Gerken
Arthur Herner
Legislative Committee
The
Ohio County Commissioners Association
Ohio Departments
S. Front St
State Housing Board
Huron County
Sherman Township
Housing Authority
New London
Willard
State Board
Trial In Willard Death Set June 24
Patricia Lawrence of Willard 28 will face trial June 24 for the 1967 slaying of her 32 year old daughter. Indicted for first degree murder she remains at Tiffin State Hospital pending trial. A new Grand Jury is to be convened June 19 with possible murder indictments including John W. Brown in the William Famulare case.
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Patricia Lawrence
Willard
Tiffin State Hospital
Tiffin Hospital
Lawrence
Joseph Dush
William Famulare
Bellevue
John W. Brown
Brown
Huron County
Glenn Damron
New London
James Roosevelt stabbed by wife in Geneva incident
James Roosevelt son of Franklin D. Roosevelt was stabbed Thursday near his villa in Vesenz Geneva. He was treated at Country Hospital and said to be out of danger. His wife Gladys Irene Owens 52 was taken for observation at Bel Air clinic. Roosevelt, a former California congressman, later identified the assailant as his wife.
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Geneva
UPI
James Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Country Hospital
Roosevelt
Vesenaz
George Bergeaud
Bel- Air
Gladys Irene Owens
California
Demand New Trial Protest at Case Western Reserve Campus
About 300 student supporters of condemned killer Fred Ahmed Evans occupy Haydn Hall on the Case Western Reserve University campus demanding a new trial. President Robert Morse rejects the demands as fighting with two fraternities ends. Evans, 37, was convicted of first degree murder for July 23 deaths and faces an electric chair sentence on September 22.
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Case
Robert Morse
Evans
Glenville
Ohio State Penitentiary
Norwalk Rats Alarm Health Official Notes Frequent Complaints
Huron County Deputy Health Commissioner Clarence Ellett reports about 50 rat complaints yearly in Norwalk Ohio. A recent incident involved an 18-year-old man, Roger Miller, bitten on the ankle by a sewer rat while attempting to kick it. He was treated at Fisher Titus Hospital. Ellett urges cleanliness and tight rat-proof garbage containers to prevent infestations.
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Norwalk
Huron County
Clarence Ellett
Roger Miller
Fisher- Titus Hospital
Ohio
Ellett
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Huron County Common Pleas Court
Christopher S. McKinney
Marie Androcec
E. Main St
Sam Spinello
Spinello
Clarence Ward
Monroeville
United States Supreme Court
Kenneth Salisbury
Ward
Sixth District Court of Appeals
Common Pleas Court
Louis Dennis
Berlin Heights
F-T
Naughty Robot
University of California, Berkeley
Callif
Jackie Savage
Ed Gerken
Norwalk High School
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