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Newspaper
Norwalk Reflector
Location
Norwalk, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1970
Page
1
Ohio Adjutant General S. T. Del Corso reports that 6,669 letters were received in 10 days praising the guardsmen’s conduct during Kent State campus disorders in which four students were killed.
Ohio State University accounted for 205700 of the charge with Kent State 63500 and Miami University 13800. The patrol expects to bill 71107 hours of regular time and 114503 hours of overtime totaling about 216000 dollars.
President Nixon will name a prestigious blue ribbon commission this week to probe the Kent State tragedy. White House aide Herbert Klein, in a CBS Face the Nation interview, said the panel will be able to review all the facts with an unquestionable investigative mind.
Weather overview for West Lake Erie Shore with chances of thundershowers and cooling trends through Tuesday. Highs in 80s today, 60s tonight and Tuesday. 40 percent today, 70 percent tonight, 50 percent Tuesday precip. Norwalk high 81, low 51. Births listed for several area families. Obituaries for Coackley, Frate, Cagle, Wallrabenstein.
A circus lion tamer and a jail prisoner were crowned king and queen of the Norwalk Pep and Pup Parade. Jacquie Livengood 5 dressed as a lion tamer and carried a cat was queen. Robert Perry 6 dressed as a prisoner and with his poodle was king. Runners up were Natalie Hutton and Russell Larson. Nearly 1,000 children participated in the Pet and Pup Parade Saturday morning.
Mary Ann Vecchio, 14, sobbed as she hugged her parents after fleeing Indianapolis to Kent State University amid the shooting death of a student. She said police provoked her escape to avoid arrest for missing school and that she traveled to help people. She plans to resume school, and her parents will not press punishment.
Early today a fire heavily damaged the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Thompson at 40 Corwin Street while they were visiting friends in Martins Ferry. The blaze was reported at 5 49 AM by Joseph Missler and Dan Bauer who alerted nearby occupants and called the fire department.
South Vietnam reported thousands of troops pulled back from Cambodia while about 13 000 pressed up the Mekong to link with Cambodian forces who seized Tonle Bet. Yem Sambaur urged President Nixon to keep American troops in Cambodia beyond the June 30 deadline, near the end of the war.
Break ins at the North Fairfield Post Office and Minniear and Simmons Plumbing and Heating Shop are under investigation. Postmaster Jean Ebinger said preliminary indications show nothing missing at the post office. Losses include $15 in cash and a portable radio at the plumbing shop, with tires and rims stolen from a used car at Norwalk Motor Sales.
Robert Abel age 20 of rural Norwalk was burned Sunday when a burner exploded. He is in satisfactory condition at Fisher Titus Memorial Hospital. Abel said he had been placing rags soaked with gasoline in the burner when it blew up.
Marian Leah Osborne of Greenwich sues Ronald C. Krueger of Monroeville for damages from a Willard traffic collision in 1965. Twelve jurors and one alternate were sworn in to hear the civil case filed in 1966.
Rattlesnake Island Corp puts up 65 acres in Lake Erie for sale 10 miles from Port Clinton with its own postal system stamps at five ten and 25 cents. A Ford tri motor airplane delivers mail to the island learned from 1920s airmail routes.
James A Leimeister 40, foreman for Leon Riley Excavating Co., died after his pickup slid on rain slick road and overturned on Hartland Center Road near his home. His son John 4 and son Mark 10 were in the truck. John was treated and discharged. Survived by wife Marjory and ten daughters and four sons. Funeral arrangements are at Gerber Funeral Home Wakeman with mass at St Mary Church.
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