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Newspaper
Norwalk Reflector
Location
Norwalk, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1970
Page
1
Stocks rise as the Dow gains 18 points in early trading and marketwide gains reach 2.49 percent. Nixon promotes economic optimism at a White House dinner with business leaders amid talk of Cambodia progress and a June troop withdrawal pledge.
A National Institute of Health report shows teens smoke more now despite anti smoking drives. Dr Dan Horn notes boys 14 7 to 18 5 percent and girls 21 3 to 27 8 percent. The biggest jump occurs among 18 year olds.
The Police and Firemen's Disability and Pension Board of Ohio lowers municipal pension contributions after an actuarial study. The 1971 rate drops to 12.81 percent for police payrolls and 12.96 percent for firemen payrolls from the 1970 levels of 15.52 percent.
In Venice California a fourth fire believed set destroyed the Aragon Ballroom located beneath Pacific Ocean Park on Lick Pier. The venue once hosted marathon dances in the 1930s and later hosted Benny Goodman and Lawrence Welk bands before the blaze Wednesday near Los Angeles.
The surviving sisters Cecile Yvonne and Annette Dionne mark their 36th birthday in Montreal with a quiet day together after the death of Marie last February. Cecile Langlois says there will be no fuss just a dinner for the three. Marie died reportedly from a cerebral hemorrhage.
The Kent State University board votes to hold spring commencement on June 13 and tentatively reopen June 22 following the May 4 closure after four students were shot. President White recommended keeping the June date after consulting campus police.
Sen. William B. Saxbe of Ohio and Sen. Birch Bayh of Indiana will co chair two political workshops for college students at Wooster College. The programs run from June 28 to July 12 and are open to eligible students.
Partly cloudy and warmer with highs in the upper 60s to low 70s and lows in the 50s. Winds shift from east to southeast tonight then south Friday. Norwalk highs 67 lows 41 with no precipitation. Births include a son to Donel and wife in New Haven and a daughter to Troy Noble in Willard. Deaths note Marie Oberkirsch, 82, of 5042 State.
President Nixon travels to Knoxville to address Billy Graham at the University of Tennessee stadium amid prior campus unrest. The White House denies using the hot line to alert the Kremlin about Cambodia troop deployment. Bonnie Luft named Air Force Wife of the Year at Wright Patterson AFB.
Doug Colvin commander of AMVETS Post 1965 fears few veterans will join the Memorial Day parade Saturday morning. He cites lack of advance planning to contact veterans groups as a possible cause. Four area organizations rotate planning duties. this year VFW and others fell through. Colvin urged veterans to meet at 9 a.m. at Case Ave and West Main St to march.
Carole Lockwood of Shaker Heights Ohio says she was dismissed from her engineering firm job after moonlighting as a witch in the off Broadway play Dark of the Moon. She claimed two New Jersey businessmen sparked the action by reacting to her stage appearance.
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