Norwalk Charter Battle Shapes City Government Change
Norwalk voters defeated the charter proposal that would replace the mayor with a city manager and shift key offices to appointed officials. Mayor Harold Finch criticized the charter but credited the people for the outcome while signaling support for certain provisions, including a new accounting system. The income tax study committee’s future remains unresolved as it weighs recommendations due in December.
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Charter Commission
Harold Finch
Norwalk
Finch
Service
Morley Price
Citizens Income Tax Study Committee
Subscriptions Rates by Carrier and Mail for Ohio Areas
UPI News Service lists subscription terms for the Audit Bureau of Circulation and Ohio Newspaper Association. Carrier delivery covers Norwalk Milan Monroeville Wakeman North Fairfield Greenwich New London Willard and nearby rural areas. Mail rates 45 per week in Huron and Erie counties and 1500 per year elsewhere in the US with 2340 per year for mail subs payable in advance.
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UPI News Service
Audit Bureau of Circulation and
Ohio Newspaper Association
Norwalk
Milan
Monroeville
Wakeman
North Fairfield
Greenwich
New London
Willard
Huron
Erie
Surprising Loss Shocks Norwalk County Clerk Race
In county elections Dana Call defeated Gerald Simon 8 275 to 6 175 with about a 2 000 vote margin. Simon, 25, a Norwalk barber, carried Norwalk but faltered countywide. Call gained strength in southern areas as Reynolds comments from both campaigns reflect upbeat views on the result.
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Gerald Simon
Dana Call
Call
Simon
Norwalk
Huron County Republicans Coast To Victory In Local Races
Huron County voters backed Ethel Swanbeck for state representative and Jackson Betts for US representative, routing opponents in county totals. Nixon over Humphrey and Saxbe over Gilligan also dominant with strong GOP margins. Swanbeck and Betts praised county supporters after a long campaign.
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Huron County
Ethel Swanbeck
Jackson Betts
William Saxbe
U.S
Richard Nixon
Swanbeck
Edward Schenk
Huron
Erie
Hancock
Richland
Marie Baker
Seneca
Wyandot
Betts
Nixon
Humphrey
Wallace
John Gilligan
New School Bond Issue For Mentally Retarded Passes
A $200000 bond issue to build a combined school and workshop for mentally retarded children and adults won approval Tuesday by a little more than two to one. Unofficial totals: 9703 yes and 4269 no. The project will be on a county donated site near the county office on Benedict Avenue in Norwalk.
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Benedict Avenue
Norwalk
Sewell Cameron
Pistols reported stolen from Walter Ebinger home
Two guns were reported missing from the chest in Walter Ebinger's bedroom at 15 State Street. A Colt .45 valued at 110 dollars and a German .32 caliber pistol were possibly taken any time in the past week after a prowler scare reported by Ebinger's daughter. Police later detained two juvenile suspects for vandalism on Garden Street.
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Walter Ebinger
State Street
Ebinger
Garden Street
John N. Reed
Garden
Howard Wheeler
S. Garden
EHOVE Board Meeting Moves Up To 7 30 Pm
The EHOVE Board of Education will meet at district administrative offices at 7 30 p m tonight. The meeting was advanced one week to avoid overlapping with the Ohio School Boards Association gathering in Columbus next week. The start time was moved from 8 to 7 30 p m for the winter months.
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Milan
Ehove Board of Education
Ohio School Boards Association
Columbus
Federal Doctors Probe Illnesses at Bronson School
Four medical detectives work in Norwalk to determine the cause of a mysterious illness affecting about 75 Bronson School students last week. The team includes two doctors from the U S Public Health Communicable Disease Center in Atlanta and two Ohio Health Department officials who visited earlier. Huron County Health Department Sanitarian Roger Dixon says local agents found no probable cause on Monday.
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Norwalk
Bronson School
U.S. Public Health Communicable Disease Center
Atlanta, Ga
Ohio Department of Health
State Health Department
Huron County Health Department
Roger Dixon
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Bernard Freeman
Jay Thomas
Urban Livengood
William B. Holman
Phillip M. White, Jr
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Jackson Street
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Levy
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